Windows: Xah Windows Machine Setup

My personal notes of setting up a Microsoft Windows machine.

essential pref setup

• Set USB drive autoplay to off

essential install

first, install, in order:

• Firefox
• Good Browser Extensions
• pwsh [see PowerShell Tutorial]
• emacs [see Practical Emacs Tutorial]
• git [see Practical git Tutorial]

other to install:

• chocolatey, software package manager
• choco install zip
• choco install unzip
• choco install 7z
• findutils do not install. use pwsh instead. [see PowerShell vs Bash] choco install findutils (call with fullpath C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\find.exe)
• choco install rsync (local drive syntax is: /cygdrive/c/)
• choco install exiftool
• choco install optipng
• choco install imagemagick (syntax begins by: magick convert)

• golang [see Golang Tutorial]
• deno [see JavaScript in Depth]
• python 3 [see Python Tutorial]
• python 2

See also

• Windows: List of Great Software
• Xah Linux Setup
• Cygwin Essential Install List (2011)