Xah Microsoft Windows Machine Setup

My personal notes of setting up a Microsoft Windows machine.

essential Microsoft Windows system settings setup

• Set USB drive autoplay to off

• turn off lots telemetry, privacy stuff.

essential install

first, install, in order:

• Good Browser Extensions (2021)
• PowerShell Tutorial
• Practical Emacs Tutorial
• Practical git Tutorial

other to install:

• Windows Chocolatey Package Manager (2025)

# chocolatey, software package manager
choco install zip
choco install unzip
choco install 7z

• Linux: Extract tar zip gzip lzip bzip2 xz rar
• PowerShell: Extract zip tar 7z lz

choco install findutils

choco install rsync
# local drive syntax is
# /cygdrive/c/

• Linux: rsync tutorial

choco install exiftool
choco install oxipng
choco install imagemagick

• ImageMagick Tutorial
• Delete EXIF metadata in image file (exiftool)
• Optimize png, oxipng
• Convert image to webp

• Golang Tutorial
• Deno Tutorial

# 2026-07-30
# python markdown to html
# xah-html-markdown-to-html-by-python

pip install cmarkgfm

# 2026-07-30
# xah-python-format-buffer
# https://pypi.org/project/black/

pip install black