Windows 10 workstation setup

Drivers

Intel
- Intel Driver and Support Assistant
Lenovo
- Lenovo Service Bridge
- Lenovo System Update
- Lenovo Vantage
NETGEAR
- NETGEAR Switch Discovery Tool (NSDT)
NVIDIA
- NVIDIA Control Panel
- NVIDIA RTX Desktop Manager

Windows features

Containers

Hyper-V

Enable from a PowerShell terminal:

Get-WindowsFeature -Name Hyper-V
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Review and configure WSL from the command line

REM displays installed linux systems
wsl -l -v

REM sets default to version 2
wsl --set-default-version 2

REM updates the system (can fix start errors)
wsl.exe --update

Configure the access to WSL from Windows

REM adds a firewall rule to enable inbound from WSL
New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "WSL" -Direction Inbound -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (WSL)" -Action Allow

Look at the available options to configure

strings "/mnt/c/Program Files/WSL/wslservice.exe" | egrep "^wsl2\.|^experimental\."

Configure WSL in C:\Users\<username>\.wslconfig (create the file and restart WSL afterwards)

[wsl2]
memory=12GB
swap=0GB
debugConsole=false
localhostforwarding=true
# nestedVirtualization=true doesn't work
nestedVirtualization=false
vmIdleTimeout=60000
safeMode=false
# options: NAT (default), mirrored, bridged
networkingMode=NAT
# networkingMode=bridged
# vmSwitch="Internet"

[experimental]
# default: true
autoMemoryReclaim=dropcache
# default: false
sparseVhd=true
# ignoredPorts=
# default: false
hostAddressLoopback=true

Configure Visual Studio Code (see StackOverflow)

# assuming Visual Studio Code has been installed on Windows 10 in "C:\Programs\Microsoft VS Code"
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:"/mnt/c/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec "$SHELL"
code .

Windows optional features

AV1 Video Extension
HEIC Image Viewer, Converter
HEIF Image Extensions
HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer
OpenSSH
Raw Image Extension
Web Media Extensions
Web Image Extensions
Windows Package Manager Source (winget) V2

Windows configuration

Multiple GPU

Windows Settings > System > Display > Graphics settings > Graphics performance preference
- Select an application and explicitely set it to run on High performance
Powershell
- Open <Path_to_Documents>\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 in Visual Studio Code
```
code $PROFILE
```

Windows store

Microsoft Photos
Microsoft Clipchamp
Raw Image Extension
- Can be downloaded from apps.microsoft.com
Ubuntu on Windows
- Once installed, look at Ubuntu setup
- Open a shell in Ubuntu and create or update /etc/wsl.conf file to enable chmod (required for SSH) and avoid issues with npm commands (see Advanced settings configuration in WSL)
```
# /etc/wsl.conf
[automount]
options = "metadata"

[interop]
appendWindowsPath = false
```
- Restart WSL from Windows
```
wsl --shutdown
```
- Copy SSH key (must be generated before in Windows with Git Bash for example) and review permissions (see Sharing SSH keys between Windows and WSL 2)
```
cp -r /mnt/c/Users/<myusername>/.ssh/id_rsa* ~/.ssh/
chmod 700 ~/.ssh/
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/*.pub
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
```
Windows Terminal
- Download the msixbundle file from the latest release
- Execute in PowerShell Add-AppxPackage .\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_Win10_xxx.msixbundle
Winget (docs)
- Download the msixbundle file and licence from the latest release
- Execute in PowerShell Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -PackagePath .\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_xxx.msixbundle -LicensePath .\xxx_License1.xml
- Double check it works with winget list
- If needed, you can look at the package with Get-AppxPackage microsoft.desktopappinstaller and uninstall it with Remove-AppxPackage -Package Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_xxx

Applications

Inventory

7-Zip
- Unzip all files from a folder: "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" e *.zip
Acrobat Reader
Azure CLI
Balena Etcher (cross-platform)
- Alternative to create a bootable USD drive: Rufus (more functionalities)
  - Create a bootable USB stick with Rufus on Windows
CPU-Z

Docker Desktop

Fix permission error (see Issue #1156)

sudo groupadd docker
sudo adduser $USER docker
sudo chown root:docker /var/run/docker.sock
sudo chmod g+w /var/run/docker.sock
newgrp docker

Alternative: Rancher Desktop (docs, GitHub)

Docker Engine

Install from a Powershell terminal (Prepare Windows for containers):

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Windows-Containers/Main/helpful_tools/Install-DockerCE/install-docker-ce.ps1" -o install-docker-ce.ps1
.\install-docker-ce.ps1

Review Docker configuration: C:\ProgramData\docker\config\daemon.json
Start Docker

"C:\Programs\docker-20.10.19\docker\dockerd.exe" -H npipe:////./pipe/docker_windows

Create Docker context from the original terminal

docker context create win --docker host=npipe:////./pipe/docker_windows

Use Docker context from another terminal as an Administrator

docker -c win ps

Draw Desktop
FileZilla

Git for Windows

SSH key creation in Git Bash (see Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account)

  # ED25519
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "firstname.lastname@email.com"

# RSA
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "firstname.lastname@email.com"

Configure git (can be viewed & edited in %userprofile%\.gitconfig)

# git config --global --edit
git config --global core.longpaths true
git config --global core.autocrlf false

GitKraken
Go
Google Chrome
- Extensions: Dark Reader
- Enable experimental features (like dark mode) chrome://flags
Greenshot
Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
JetBrains Toolbox App (JetBrains Licenses)
- GoLand
KeePass
- Plugins: KeePassHttp
- Google extensions: KeePassHttp-Connector
Make (2 options)
- MinGW
- GnuWin
MariaDB Community Server (to get the GUI client)
Microsoft Office
- Outlook
  - Change the temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius
  - Add timezone
minikube
Mockoon
MongoDB Atlas CLI
MongoDB Compass
Mozilla Firefox
MySQL Workbench
Node.js & NPM
- Edit files in nodejs folder to replace "-g" by "--location=global" (see stackoverflow question #72401421)
- Update packages
```
# update packages
npm update -g

## update NPM
npm install npm@latest -g
```
NordVPN
Notepad++
OpenVPN
PDF24 Creator
PeaZip
pgAdmin
Podman
- Download latest stable from GitHub releases page
- Initalize a machine with podman machine init and start it with podman machine start
Postman
Process Explorer
Puppet Agent
Puppet Development Kit

Ruby

# looks for the available versions
winget search RubyInstallerTeam.Ruby

# installs a specific version and restarts the terminal
winget install RubyInstallerTeam.Ruby.3.2

# makes sure ruby is available from the terminal
ruby -v
gem -v

Slack
Vagrant
- Set VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER environment variable to virtualbox or hyperv and restart Windows
- Look at the cheat sheet
VLC
VirtualBox

Visual Studio Code

Extensions:

Angular Language Service, CMake Language Support, CSS Formatter, Debbuger for Firefox, Dev Containers, Docker, EditorConfig for VS Code, ESLint, Excalidraw, Go, HashiCorp Terraform, Kubernetes, Makefile Tools, Markdown Table Pretifier, markdownlint, MongoDB for VS Code, PHP Intelephense, Playwright Test for VSCode, Puppet, Python, Puppet Debugger, Snippets and Syntax Highlight for Gherkin (Cucumber), Tailwind CSS IntelliSense, Vue - Official, WSL, YAML
User > setttings.json (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json):

{
  "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
  "security.workspace.trust.untrustedFiles": "open",
  "redhat.telemetry.enabled": false,
  "[markdown]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "DavidAnson.vscode-markdownlint"
  },
  "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "Ubuntu (WSL)",
  "[python]": {
    "editor.formatOnType": true
  },
  "playwright.reuseBrowser": true,
  "vs-kubernetes": {
    "vs-kubernetes.crd-code-completion": "disabled"
  },
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Visual Studio Dark",
  "typescript.updateImportsOnFileMove.enabled": "always",
  "git.openRepositoryInParentFolders": "never",
  "puppet.installDirectory": "C:\\Programs\\PuppetDevelopmentKit",
  "puppet.installType": "pdk",
  "go.toolsManagement.autoUpdate": true,
  "workbench.editorAssociations": {
    "*.md": "default"
  },
}

Workspace > settings.json:

{
  "folders": [
    ...
  ],
  "settings": {
    ...
    "vs-kubernetes": {
      "disable-linters": ["resource-limits"],
      ...
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio 2022
- Self-generated certificate for .NET (ref. stackoverflow.com/questions/56409580)
  - Execute "certlm.msc" to open the certificate manager
  - Go to Personal/Certificates and locate localhost certificate
  - Move the certificate to "Trusted Root Certification Authorities/Certificates"
VLC
wget
- solution found on GitHub
- as indicated in the faq go to eternallybored.org/misc/wget and download the latest x64 version
- extract the exe file and copy it in your local cmder installation bin directory
WinDirStat
WinMerge
yq
```
winget install --id MikeFarah.yq
```
zoomit

Binaries in PATH

Docker CLI
- Create an environment variable to access Docker engine running on WSL
Key Value
DOCKER_HOST tcp://localhost:2375
- Make a check (the output doesn't display during the run, strange...)
```
docker run --name helloworld hello-world
docker logs helloworld
docker rm helloworld
```
Helm
Kubectl
kubeseal
mongosh
PsExec
- Run as a service account: psexec -i -s cmd.exe
Terraform

Key	Value
DOCKER_HOST	tcp://localhost:2375

Chocolatey packages

Install applications with Chocolatey (package manager for Windows)

# installs Chocolatey
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

# installs Firefox
choco install -y firefox

# installs Windows Terminal
choco install -y microsoft-windows-terminal

# VSCode + Extensions (an example provided here)
choco install -y vscode --params "/NoDesktopIcon"
code --install-extension ms-vscode.powershell

# installs git client
choco install -y git.install --params "/GitOnlyOnPath /NoAutoCrlf /NoShellIntegration"

# installs .NET Framework 4.8 developer pack
choco install -y netfx-4.8-devpack

# installs latest .NET SDK (6.0 in October 2022)
choco install -y dotnet-sdk

# installs Visual Studio 2022 Build tools & NuGet
choco install -y visualstudio2022buildtools nuget.commandline

# installs Notepad++
choco install -y notepadplusplus

Utilities

Hard Drive Backup

Unstoppable Copier

Oldies

ACDSee
CCleaner
ColorPic
DaemonTools
Everest Ultimate
Gadwin PrintScreen
HDGraph
K-Lite Codec Pack
Magic Draw
Partition Magic
PDF Creator
Picasa
QuickTime
TestDisk
Toad
UltraEdit
Unstoppable Copier
VirtualDub
Winace
Winamp
XML Spy

Configuration

Control Panel / User Accounts /Credential Manager

Drivers​

Windows features​

Windows optional features​

Windows configuration​

Multiple GPU​

Windows store​

Applications​

Inventory​

Binaries in PATH​

Chocolatey packages​

Utilities​

Hard Drive Backup​

Oldies​

Configuration​

Drivers

Windows features

Windows optional features

Windows configuration

Multiple GPU

Windows store

Applications

Inventory

Binaries in PATH

Chocolatey packages

Utilities

Hard Drive Backup

Oldies

Configuration