From e433afe98832639e441e0a06ac31162345ff76cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Campagnaro Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:20:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update Windows readme --- windows/readme.md | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/windows/readme.md b/windows/readme.md index 86c707e..3ca3385 100644 --- a/windows/readme.md +++ b/windows/readme.md @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ * 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. @@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ processor time and is generally useless. * 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`. @@ -89,15 +91,7 @@ processor time and is generally useless. * 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` @@ -111,7 +105,7 @@ processor time and is generally useless. * 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 @@ -196,6 +190,15 @@ processor time and is generally useless. * 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