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# Windows Setup
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* Desktop: turn off hibernation
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* Open admin cmd prompt: `powercfg.exe /hibernate off`
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* Disable power throttling:
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* Start menu, search for `gpedit.msc`.
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* Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management > Power Throttling Settings.
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* Double-click the `Turn off Power Throttling` policy.
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* Select Enabled.
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* Enable ultimate power plan (alternatively make a new plan and set the min/max processor speed to 100%)
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* Open cmd as admin, run `powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61`
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* Can now select the ultimate power plan in power options.
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* Create a power plan for software benchmarking
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* This will disable turbo boost and general lock the frequency to base-ish clock. This can help
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keep cpu temps stable (hot temps affect clock) and it avoids variable clock changes.
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* AFAIK this only works for Intel CPUs; not sure how to do the same thing on AMD.
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* In the power plan set the processor min/max speed to 99%.
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* Disable Windows error reporting dialog so that when stuff crashes you can get to a debugger faster.
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* Open an admin cmd prompt and run the file `disable-windows-error-reporting-dialog.bat` from this directory.
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* Optional: disable Windows Defender real-time protection:
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* This can speed up compilation times since Defender will scan every file written to disk. I was
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able to shave off ~2-5 seconds in a particular project.
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* If you'd rather keep real-time protection active then you can add specific files or
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folders to the Defender exclusion list in the Windows Security settings, however I did
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some testing and didn't see any speedup when excluding a project folder.
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* Go into the Windows security settings and disable `Tamper Protection`.
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* Start menu, search for `gpedit.msc`.
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* Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus -> Real-time Protection
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* Double-click the `Turn off real-time protection` policy.
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* Select Enabled (you may have to restart PC).
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* If you want to re-enable then change the policy to `Not configured` and re-enable tamper protection.
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* Disable `Enhance Pointer Precision`:
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* Mouse Properties -> Pointer Options -> Motion section
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* Disable various Window features:
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* Go to Add/Remove Programs -> Turn Windows features on or off
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* Disable:
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* Internet Explorer 11
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* Legacy Components - DirectPlay
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* Media Features - Windows Media Player
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* Microsoft Print to PDF
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* Microsoft XPS Document Writer (and any other XPS components)
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* Print and Document Services - Internet Printing Client & Windows Fax and Scan
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* Windows PowerShell 2.0 (current version is 5+ as of 2021-03-05)
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* Laptop: change touchpad sensitivity to medium or high in order to prevent mouse movement when palm
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touches the pad while typing.
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* If using a Lenovo then disable touchpad lock in the Lenovo Vantage app.
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* Map caps to left-ctrl using sharpkeys
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* Restore classic Windows Photo Viewer app (the default Win10 photos app is fucking awful):
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* Run photo_viewer.reg from this folder.
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* You'll need to change the default app for the various image extensions. Don't change gif types
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though because photo viewer doesn't support animations.
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* Now run disable-are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-with-the-default-program-dialog.reg to stop it
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from occasionally asking if you still want to use photo viewer.
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* Add custom hosts file
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* Run notepad as administrator
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* Open C:/Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts
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* Add contents of the hosts file from this directory
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* Restart PC
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* Note: POS Windows may periodically reset this file to the default state so you'll want to
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check it every so often.
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* Change explorer options so that file extensions are always displayed.
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* Disable the WinSAT task which is used to figure out your Windows performance score. It eats up
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processor time and is generally useless.
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* Open task scheduler.
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* **note** If you see an error about a selected task {0} no longer existing then you'll need
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to repair the task scheduler. See
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https://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-selected-task-0-no-longer-exists-error-in-task-scheduler
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* Go to `Local` -> `Microsoft` -> `Maintenance` and disable the WinSAT task.
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* Setup a symbol server:
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* Right-click My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced Tab -> Environment Variables
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* Add a new System Variable called `_NT_SYMBOL_PATH`
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* Set the value to `SRV*c:\symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols`, replacing the
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first path to where you want the symbols to live.
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* Configure crash dump storage location for projects via the registry.
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* Increase TDR setting for GPU Driver
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* TDR determines the length of time that a GPU can hang on a computation until the OS restarts
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the driver. By default this is set to a few seconds so you can experience app crashes when
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using GPU intensive software, like 3D modeling or texturing. To increase the duration, follow
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this guide: https://web.archive.org/web/20191107173337/https://docs.substance3d.com/spdoc/gpu-drivers-crash-with-long-computations-128745489.html
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## Windows 7 Stuff
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* Enable clear text
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* Disable Win 7 Fault Tolerant Heap
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* I know know why anyone would want to spend large amounts of CPU time to hide application instability.
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* https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Win7AppQual/fault-tolerant-heap
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* Disable on system via regedit: set the REG_DWORD value `HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\FTH\\Enabled` to `0`.
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## Windows 10 Stuff
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* Disable the Windows Customer Experience Improvement program via group policy
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https://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/26/turn-off-the-windows-customer-experience-program/
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* Install the Windows SDK https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk
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* Download [O&O ShutUp10](https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) and disable things.
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## Setup Terminal
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* Install [MSYS2 w/ MinGW-w64](http://www.msys2.org/) to `C:\msys64`
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* MinGW is intended for developing native Windows applications. MSYS is for developing software
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that runs inside of the MSYS2 posix-like env with FHS style filesystem naming (i.e. MSYS2
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tools/packages).
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* Open `C:\msys64\mingw64.exe`
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* Run `pacman -Syu`, then restart the terminal and run `pacman -Su`.
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* Run `pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git bc`
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* Use `C:\Users\<user>` as the terminal $HOME by editing `C:\msys64\etc\nsswitch.conf` and
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changing the `db_home` value to `windows`.
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* You may need to work around an issue with envsubst.exe - you'll know there's a bug if git
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displays `not a valid identifier line 89: export: dashless` or rebase complains about `new_count`.
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* To patch, cd into `/mingw64/bin` and run `mv envsubst.exe envsubst.exe_backup`. Now run `pacman -S gettext`
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and verify that `which envsubst` reports back `/usr/bin/envsubst`.
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* Bug report is at https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/735
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* Use `C:\msys64\mingw64.exe` if you want to compile native binaries and `C:\msys64\msys2.exe` to build msys binaries.
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* You can also load the shell with a batch file. This allows you to do some setup work, like run `vcvarsall.bat`, eg.
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```batch
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REM saved as shell-64.bat
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@echo off
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REM For VS2015:
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call "drive:\path-to-vs2015\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64
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REM For VS2017:
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REM call "drive:\path-to-vs2017\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
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REM For VS2019:
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REM call "drive:\path-to-vs2019\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
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REM Disable CRT heap debug stuff. See https://preshing.com/20110717/the-windows-heap-is-slow-when-launched-from-the-debugger/
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set _NO_DEBUG_HEAP=1
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call C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64 -use-full-path
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exit
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```
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* This will launch a 64-bit env. If you need 32-bit then replace x64 above with x86.
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* Now you can make a system32 cmd line shortcut that will be used to launch the batch file. e.g.
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* `target:` `%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k drive:\path-to-bat-file\shell-64.bat`
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* `start in:` `drive:\some-path`
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* Setup git completions for bash (note: shouldn't have to do this if you ran the install script):
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* `curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash`
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### 32-bit dev tools
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* Load a 32-bit shell
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* Install toolchain: `pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain`
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## Setting up dev tools
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* Download the Windows 2003 Resource Kit in order to get tools like `list.exe` (command line hex
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editor)
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* URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17657
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* Installer will display a compatibility warning. Ignore it.
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* Full list of tools can be found here
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https://www.technlg.net/windows/download-windows-resource-kit-tools/
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## Setting up Vim
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### Compiling on Windows (optional)
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* Open the shell with `C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd` -- If you don't do this then vim will not compile.
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* Run `pacman -S --needed base-devel msys2-devel gawk perl python2 python3 ruby libiconv ncurses-devel libcrypt-devel`
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* Clone MSYS2 packages: `https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages`
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* cd into the vim package
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* Edit `PKGBUILD` and change the version number to the one you want to build. You can see the available versions at `https://github.com/vim/vim`
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* Run `makepkg`
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* If checksums fail then generate new ones: `makepkg -g -f -p PKGBUILD`, copy the output, edit `PKGBUILD` and replace the checksums array with the new values.
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* Run `makepkg` again
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* If it fails to apply a patch then you'll need to make the fixes yourself:
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* Clone vim (`https://github.com/vim/vim`), cd into `vim/src`.
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* Modify the file(s) that they failed patch was changing and make the correct fixes.
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* Commit the change.
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* Generate a patch file with `git diff commitid1 commitid2 > newpatch.patch`
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* Copy the patch to `MSYS2-packages/vim` and use the same name as the original patch that failed.
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* Regen the pkg checksums and add them to `PKGBUILD`.
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* Run `makepkg` again.
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* Once built, install it with `pacman -U ${package-name}*.pkg.tar.xz`
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### Configuring
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1. Open Vim and run `:PlugInstall` to fetch all plugins.
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2. Create a tmp folder for swap files (i.e. `set directory` and `set backupdir`). Place these
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at `~/.vimrc.private` so that the main vimrc file can source it. We do it this way so that you
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can have a tmp folder path that is specific to your setup.
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### Setting up Custom Search
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* First install Rust. See `Setting up Rust` below.
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* Setup `ripgrep`:
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* Open an `msvc x64` shell and run `cargo install ripgrep`. **Note** the last time I did this
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I got linker errors saying that it was trying to link an x86 exe in a 64-bit env. I had to run
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the `msvc x86` shell instead.
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* Verify it works by running `rg` in a shell.
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### Setting up ctags
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* Install the latest Universal ctags build: https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags-win32/releases
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* Place it in `~/bin`.
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## Setting up Visual Studio
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* Use an install path with no spaces in it `/x/programs/vs15`
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* Select custom install and check off the C++ language support.
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* Once installed, open Visual Studio and go to `Tools` -> `Options`. Open `Debugging` -> `Symbols`
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and add the path to the cached symbols directory that you set up above under `Setup a symbol server`.
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* Open the `Visual Studio Layout` folder in this directory and copy the file to `%LOCALAPPDATA%/Microsoft/VisualStudio/{VisualStudioInstanceID}`.
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You can now apply the custom layout in VS: `Window -> Apply Window Layout -> Campo`
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## Setting up Cygwin
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* Can create symlinks to dotfiles using the git bash shell. The cygwin home directory
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is likely going to be `C:\cygwin\home\<username>`.
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* Build [rlwrap](https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap)
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## Setting up Rust
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* Install `rustup`: https://win.rustup.rs/
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## Setting up Go
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* Installer: https://golang.org/doc/install
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## Setting up Clojure
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* Install Lein: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein.bat
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## Setting up Xbox stuff
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* Install the xbox controller drivers
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* Turn off stats collection
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* cmd-r, msconfig.exe, startup tab, uncheck `Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories`.
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## Turn off various startup processes
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* cmd-r -> msconfig.exe -> startup tab
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## Setting up Wacom tablet
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* Install the shitty Wacom driver.
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* Preemptively deal with future issues in Photoshop by saving the `PSUserConfig.txt` file
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in this directory to `%APPDATA%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop XX\Adobe Photoshop XX Settings` (should take you to AppData/Roaming)
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* In Wacom tablet settings disable anything having to do with Windows Ink.
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* These steps are from [FlippedNormals - Fixing All Issues with Your Wacom Tablet and Photoshop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGi47EWEkuY)
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## Software
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* Install [Desktop Restore](http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm)
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* Install Android platform tools to get adb.exe:
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* Download [Android commandline tools](https://developer.android.com/studio/#downloads)
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* Unzip and place the contents into the folders `cmdline-tools/tools/`
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* Run the sdkmanager.bat script to install the tools: `$ ./cmdline-tools/tools/bin/sdkmanager.bat "platform-tools"`
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* You can now add the platform-tools dir to your path if you want, or just symlink `adb` to `~/bin`.
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### Youtube-DL
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* In order to combine audio and video files you need ffmpeg. Download from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
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and place the exe's in `~/bin`.
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### Firefox
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* Install css tweaks to revert the look of the button-like tabs to the way they were prior v89 https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
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* Go to releases and download Lepton.zip specifically.
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* If you see jaggy fonts then about `about:config` and check the value of
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`gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode`. Mine was -1 by default. Setting it to 5
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removed the bad font rendering.
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### Spotify
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* If you install an older version then you'll need to block the auto updater:
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* Go to `%APPDATA%\Spotify` and create `Spotify_new.exe` and `Spotify_new.exe.sig`
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* Set both as read-only. I did this by denying all permissions to the active user account.
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* Spotify caches song data in `C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Spotify\Data` and this path cannot be
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modified within the app settings. This is an issue if your main drive is an SSD, as you want to
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limit the amount of writes to it and you may not have a lot of free space. The simplest way I
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found to stop this is to change the `Data` folder's permissions (under the Security tab) and deny
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all properties for the user account.
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