Friday, November 07, 2014

Setting up a new Windows 7 machine

When setting up a new Windows 7 box, I do the following:
Set Preferences
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Right-click RecycleBin, select "Properties" and uncheck "Display delete confirmation dialog" box
Right-click on background, select "Personalize" and select "High Contrast Black"
Right-click on bottom toolbar and set to small icons
In the task bar, right-click select properties and set "Taskbar buttons:" to be "Combine when taskbar is full"
Add environmental variable "HOME" and set to C:\home\mfincher so emacs can find me
Add C:\home\mfincher\bin to environmental variable "Path"
Create C:\tmp so ange-ftp can work.
Turn off error reporting, "My Computer"/Properties/Advanced system settings/Advanced/Startup and Recovery/Settings/System failure, set "Write debugging information" to "(none)"

Copy Files From Old Computer
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Copy My Documents, My Pictures, c:\home, c:\opt
copy over all the old databases
Copy over inetpub directories
Copy over old Microsoft Mail archives, *.pst files
Copy root directory of Perforce files, C:\workfiles
Copy the old %AppData%\Launchy\Luanchy.ini config file over to new machine 
Copy Themes from %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes C:\Users\fincherm\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes

Install Utility Programs
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Install Chrome, Opera, and Firefox, set up sync in Firefox to get old bookmarks and addins
Install Launchy 
Install AutoHotKey
Install ConEmu http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
Install Notepad++
Install an alternate file manager XYplorerFree, select "Favorites/Set Box Color..." and set it to black
Install Emacs
Install Mouse drivers
Install visual studio 2013, and p4vs plugin
Install pdf reader sumatra - http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download.html
Install Paint.Net http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Install Mezer Tools https://www.bayden.com/mezer/ Windows-s for capture Windows-c for calipers 
Install 7-zip for zip/tar files from http://www.7-zip.org/
Install Process Explorer  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals
Install cygwin, add c:\cygwin64\bin to "Path" environmental variable so emacs can see "gzip"
Install Nant http://sourceforge.net/projects/nant

Install Microsoft Programs
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Install latest version of powershell (inside Windows Management Framework 4/5) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40855   Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu
set powershell to use unsigned scripts: add  "set-executionpolicy remotesigned" 
Install sql server 2008R2
Install IIS  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725762.aspx?ppud=4
Download SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack to get Invoke-SqlCmd working SqlServerCmdletSnapin100 sqlps
Add-PSSnapin SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=188436&clcid=0x409
What other programs and settings would you recommend?

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