Update Windows 10 setup notes

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Michael Campagnaro 2020-02-03 18:03:43 -05:00
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* Disable Win 7 Fault Tolerant Heap
* I don't see why you want to spend large amounts of CPU time to hide application instability.
* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Win7AppQual/fault-tolerant-heap
* Disable on system via regedit: set the REG_DWORD value **HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\FTH\\Enabled** to **0**.
* Disable on system via regedit: set the REG_DWORD value `HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\FTH\\Enabled` to `0`.
## Windows 10 Stuff
* Disable the Windows Customer Experience Improvement program via group policy
https://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/26/turn-off-the-windows-customer-experience-program/
* Install the Windows SDK https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk
## Setting up Visual Studio
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* First install Rusto. See `Setting up Rust` below.
* Setup `ripgrep`:
* Open an `msvc x64` shell and run `cargo install ripgrep`.
* Open an `msvc x64` shell and run `cargo install ripgrep`. **Note** the last time I did this
I got linker errors saying that it was trying to link an x86 exe in a 64-bit env. I had to run
the `msvc x86` shell instead.
* Verify it works by running `rg` in a shell.
### Setting up ctags