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* 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**.
## Configure Shell
## Setup up Unix-like Shell
* Install [MSYS2 w/ MinGW-w64](http://www.msys2.org/) to `C:\msys64`
* Open `C:\msys64\mingw64.exe`
* Run `pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git bc`
* Use `C:\Users\<user>` as the terminal $HOME by editting `C:\msys64\etc\nsswitch.conf` and
changing the `db_home` value to `windows`.
* You may need to work around an issue with envsubst.exe - you'll know there's a bug if git
displays "': not a valid identifierline 89: export: dashless" or rebase complains about "new_count".
displays `not a valid identifier line 89: export: dashless` or rebase complains about `new_count`.
* To patch, cd into `/mingw64/bin` and run `mv envsubst.exe envsubst.exe_backup`. Now run `pacman -S gettext`
and verify that `which envsubst` reports back `/usr/bin/envsubst`.
* Bug report is at https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/735
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* The most important task is to setup the `c-dev-x64` shortcut for launching a msys shell with appropriate dev environment.
* Add this to your taskbar and use this for launching a shell.
## Setup dev tools
## Setting up dev tools
* Download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit in order to get tools like `list.exe` (command line hex
editor)
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* Full list of tools can be found here
https://www.technlg.net/windows/download-windows-resource-kit-tools/
## Setup Visual Studio
## Setting up Visual Studio
* Use the backed up VS2015 ISO.
* Pick a custom install directory, e.g. /x/programs/VS2015, /c/VS2015, etc.
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`c:\users\michael\.dotfiles\vim`. Be careful when removing symlinks as it will delete the
linked source as well.
**Search Setup**
The vim search setup requires some setup:
### Setting up Custom Search
* First install Rusto. See `Setting up Rust` below.
* Setup `ripgrep`:
* Open an `msvc x64` shell and run `cargo install ripgrep`.
* Verify it works by running `rg` in a shell.
**ctags**
### Setting up ctags
* Install the latest Universal ctags build: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags-win32/releases
* Place it in `~/bin`.
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* Install Lein: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein.bat
## Setup Xbox stuff
## Setting up Xbox stuff
* Install the xbox controller drivers
* Turn off stats collection
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* Inside the sdk dir, run `$ tools/bin/sdkmanager.bat platform-tools`.
* You can now add the platform-tools dir to your path if you want, or just symlink `adb` to `~/bin`.
## Firefox
### Firefox
* If you see jaggy fonts then about `about:config` and check the value of
`gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode`. Mine was -1 by default. Setting it to 5
removed the bad font rendering.