Difference between revisions of "Windows"

Revision as of 22:09, 1 March 2020

Windows 10

I hardly use Windows these days, except to play games on Steam and arrange music in Sibelius. It can be made slightly more bearable by installing the Scoop command line installer, and Chocolatey for bigger GUI apps.

To install Scoop, see the instructions on their site, but last time I checked, in Powershell:

iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

And Chocolatey, seems to want you to type all this in:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Now we can install useful stuff and get on with it:

scoop install wget youtube-dl git 
choco install keepassxc wincompose

Keepass XC password manager, and an X-style compose key with wincompose which makes typing áàâåāčçöµ© much easier.

Remove OneDrive

In a cmd window run these:

%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall
rd "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S
REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f
REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f

Reboot when you're good and ready, and not before

Change the UpdateOrchestrator Reboot task in the Task Scheduler to pop up a message instead of rebooting. See this comment on this Superuser answer.

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 == Windows 10 ==
-I hardly use Windows these days, except to play games on Steam and arrange music in Sibelius. It can be made slightly more bearable by installing these:
+I hardly use Windows these days, except to play games on Steam and arrange music in Sibelius. It can be made slightly more bearable by installing the [https://scoop.sh/ Scoop] command line installer, and [https://chocolatey.org/install Chocolatey] for bigger GUI apps.
-* Yoink nifty things off the web from the command-line with [http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm wget for windows]. See [[Quicktime]] for how to yoink Apple trailers.
+To install Scoop, see the instructions on their site, but last time I checked, in Powershell:
-* Get your X-style compose key with [https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/releases/latest wincompose]. Makes typing áàâåāčçöµ© much easier.
+ iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
+And Chocolatey, seems to want you to type all this in:
+ Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
+Now we can install useful stuff and get on with it:
+ scoop install wget youtube-dl git
+ choco install keepassxc wincompose
+Keepass XC password manager, and an X-style compose key with [https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/releases/latest wincompose] which makes typing áàâåāčçöµ© much easier.
 === Remove OneDrive ===