Rebuild Windows PC - First attempt at fleshing out this template

[scottmuc]

Prep

• [x] backup stuff if you think you need it.

  Instructions

  Instructions go here

  1. A numbered
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     • With some
     • Sub bullets

[x] prepare USB device with a Windows installer.

Repave

• [x] boot to the USB.
• [x] wipe old partitions.
• [x] run Windows installer.

Post Paving

• [x] Windows update
• [x] Install Box Starter
• [x] Install my Box Starter Package

[scottmuc]

Need to update the instructions. The BoxStarter installer is old. Now it's better to install Chocolatey first and install Boxstarter through that directly.

[scottmuc]

Installed Radeon and SSD drivers then ran Novabench

Score: 3405 CPU: 1659 RAM: 271 GPU: 1126 Disk: 349

This is similar to the last repave: https://github.com/scottmuc/infrastructure/issues/7#issuecomment-661830490

[scottmuc]

Need to create a config for the Performance Options: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20516428/how-could-i-disable-windows-effects-through-batch/20517527

[scottmuc]

The amount of Windows Updates to download is what really makes repaving Windows a tough grind to do monthly. Will need to look into how I can pre-fetch all the windows updates and apply them immediately after the re-install. This would save several hours.

[scottmuc]

Steps jotted down

• Windows Update
• Use a physical KB (until bluetooth drivers are installed)
• Update TimeZone
• Install Chocolatey
• Install Boxstarter
• Run boxstarter script
• Launch Brave
• Download 1 Password
• Install Graphics drivers
• Install Samsung Magician
• Installed a run Novabench
• Update perf options (remove window animations and stuff)
• Clean the Desktop
• Clean the Taskbar
• Install Google Backup and Sync (for GnuCash files)
• Run GnuCash
• Windows update again (this one takes a while)
• Configure git + ssh GitHub stuff

[scottmuc]

Going to need to repave many more times to flesh this out. I believe repaving once a week should be sufficient to flesh out all the details.