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* Add contents of the hosts file from this directory
* Restart PC
* Change explorer options so that file extensions are always displayed.
* Disable the WinSAT task which is used to figure out your Windows performance score. It eats up
processor time and is generally useless.
* Open task scheduler.
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* Enable clear text
* Disable Win 7 Fault Tolerant Heap
* I don't see why you want to spend large amounts of CPU time to hide application instability.
* I know know why anyone would 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`.
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* 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
* Use an install path with no spaces in it `/x/programs/vs15`
* Select custom install and check off the C++ language support.
* Once installed, open Visual Studio and go to `Tools` -> `Options`. Open `Debugging` -> `Symbols`
and add the path to the cached symbols directory that you set up above under `Setup a symbol server`.
* Open the `Visual Studio Layout` folder in this directory and copy the file to `%LOCALAPPDATA%/Microsoft/VisualStudio/{VisualStudioInstanceID}`.
You can now apply the custom layout in VS: `Window -> Apply Window Layout -> Campo`
* Download [O&O ShutUp10](https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) and disable things.
## Setup up Unix-like Shell
* Install [MSYS2 w/ MinGW-w64](http://www.msys2.org/) to `C:\msys64`
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* 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
* Switch to the shell `C:\msys64\msys2.exe` going forward.
* Use `C:\msys64\mingw64.exe` if you want to compile native binaries and `C:\msys64\msys2.exe` to build msys binaries.
* You can also load the shell with a batch file. This allows you to do some setup work, like run `vcvarsall.bat`, eg.
```batch
REM saved as shell-64.bat
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* Install the latest Universal ctags build: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags-win32/releases
* Place it in `~/bin`.
## Setting up Visual Studio
* Use an install path with no spaces in it `/x/programs/vs15`
* Select custom install and check off the C++ language support.
* Once installed, open Visual Studio and go to `Tools` -> `Options`. Open `Debugging` -> `Symbols`
and add the path to the cached symbols directory that you set up above under `Setup a symbol server`.
* Open the `Visual Studio Layout` folder in this directory and copy the file to `%LOCALAPPDATA%/Microsoft/VisualStudio/{VisualStudioInstanceID}`.
You can now apply the custom layout in VS: `Window -> Apply Window Layout -> Campo`
## Setting up Cygwin
* Can create symlinks to dotfiles using the git bash shell. The cygwin home directory