The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

I wrote a tiny post about Boxstarter a long time ago, so maybe it is time to look at it again.

By now, there are way more scripts, so here are some links:

• [WayBack] PowerShell script to install Chocolatey and a list of packages – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] User ddieppa – Stack Overflow)
• [WayBack] Accidentally From macOS to Windows and WSL · request / response
• [WayBack] My BoxStarter Scripts · GitHub
• [WayBack] GitHub – microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts: Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box
• [WayBack] chocolatey setup and boxstarter
• [WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | Packages matching WindowsUpdate
  • [WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | Boxstarter.WindowsUpdate 1.1.0
    • [WayBack] boxstarter/Install-WindowsUpdate.ps1 at master · chocolatey/boxstarter · GitHub
  • [WayBack] Chocolatey Gallery | wumgr 0.7
    • [WayBack] GitHub – DavidXanatos/wumgr: Windows update managemetn tool for windows 10
• [WayBack] GitHub – chocolatey/boxstarter: Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages
• [WayBack] GitHub – microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts: Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box
  

  Click link to run	Description
  Full Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, C++, UWP, .NET (WPF and Winforms))
  UWP Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, UWP)
  .NET Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, .NET (WPF and Winforms))
  C++ Desktop App	Windows Desktop App Development (Visual Studio, Windows SDK, C++)
  Web	Web (VS Code, WSL, Multiple Browsers)
  Web NodeJS	Web Dev with NodeJS (Web + NodeJS LTS)¹
  Machine Learning Windows	Machine Learning with only Windows native tools
  Machine Learning Linux	Machine Learning with Linux tools running on WSL
  DevOps Azure	Client setup for DevOps with Azure

• [WayBack] Boxstarter
  • [WayBack] Boxstarter: WebLauncher
  • [WayBack] Boxstarter: Why Boxstarter
  • [WayBack] Boxstarter
    

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    Disable-BingSearch

    Disables the Bing Internet Search when searching from the search field in the Taskbar or Start Menu.

    Enable-RemoteDesktop

    Allows Remote Desktop access to machine and enables Remote Desktop firewall rule.

    Enable-MicrosoftUpdate

    Turns on the Windows Update option to include updates for other Microsoft products installed on the system.

    Enable-UAC

    Enables UAC.

    Install-WindowsUpdate

    Finds, downloads and installs all Windows Updates. By default, only critical updates will be searched. However the command takes a -Criteria argument allowing one to pass a custom Windows Update query.

    For details about the Install-WindowsUpdate command, run:

    Help Install-WindowsUpdate -Full

    Move-LibraryDirectory

    Libraries are special folders that map to a specific location on disk. These are usually found somewhere under $env:userprofile. This function can be used to redirect the library folder to a new location on disk. If the new location does not already exist, the directory will be created. Any content in the former library directory will be moved to the new location unless the DoNotMoveOldContent switch is used. Use Get-LibraryNames to discover the names of different libraries and their current physical directories.

    Move-LibraryDirectory "Personal" "$env:UserProfile\skydrive\documents"
    

    This moves the Personal library (aka Documents) to the documents folder off of the default SkyDrive directory.

    Set-StartScreenOptions

    Sets options for the Start Screen in Windows 8/8.1

    Set-StartScreenOptions -EnableBootToDesktop -EnableDesktopBackgroundOnStart -EnableShowStartOnActiveScreen -EnableShowAppsViewOnStartScreen -EnableSearchEverywhereInAppsView -EnableListDesktopAppsFirst
    

    It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.

    Set-StartScreenOptions -DisableBootToDesktop -DisableDesktopBackgroundOnStart -DisableShowStartOnActiveScreen -DisableShowAppsViewOnStartScreen -DisableSearchEverywhereInAppsView -DisableListDesktopAppsFirst
    

    Set-CornerNavigationOptions

    Sets options for the Windows Corner Navigation in Windows 8/8.1

    Set-CornerNavigationOptions -EnableUpperRightCornerShowCharms -EnableUpperLeftCornerSwitchApps -EnableUsePowerShellOnWinX
    

    It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.

    Set-CornerNavigationOptions -DisableUpperRightCornerShowCharms -DisableUpperLeftCornerSwitchApps -DisableUsePowerShellOnWinX
    

    Set-WindowsExplorerOptions

    Sets options on the Windows Explorer shell

    Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowProtectedOSFiles -EnableShowFileExtensions -EnableShowFullPathInTitleBar -EnableOpenFileExplorerToQuickAccess -EnableShowRecentFilesInQuickAccess -EnableShowFrequentFoldersInQuickAccess -EnableExpandToOpenFolder -EnableShowRibbon
    

    It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.

    Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -DisableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -DisableShowProtectedOSFiles -DisableShowFileExtensions -DisableShowFullPathInTitleBar -DisableOpenFileExplorerToQuickAccess -DisableShowRecentFilesInQuickAccess -DisableShowFrequentFoldersInQuickAccess -DisableExpandToOpenFolder -DisableShowRibbon
    

    Set-TaskbarOptions

    Sets options on the Windows Taskbar

    AlwaysShowIconsOn/AlwaysShowIconsOff allows turning on or off always show all icons in the notification area

    Set-TaskbarOptions -Size Small -Lock -Dock Top -Combine Always -AlwaysShowIconsOn
    

    It is also possible to do the converse actions, if required.

        Set-TaskbarOptions -Size Large -UnLock -Dock Bottom -Combine Never -AlwaysShowIconsOff
    

    Update-ExecutionPolicy

    The execution policy is set in a separate elevated PowerShell process. If running in the Chocolatey runner, the current window cannot be used because its execution policy has been explicitly set.

    If on a 64 bit machine, the policy will be set for both 64 and 32 bit shells.

Related: Boxstarter: quickly setup a machine with just a Gist

–jeroen