Rebuild Windows PC - 20220213win

[scottmuc]

Yay for Repaving!

As much as possible is documented inline in this issue template. In case of problems you may find help by viewing all the previous repave issues. Have fun!

Prep

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

  Instructions

  • Desktop
  • Downloads
  • Documents

[x] prepare USB device with a Windows installer.

Instructions

Here's the latest documentation I followed to make a USB installer.

Repave

• [x] boot to the USB.

  Instructions

  • Hit F12 while machine is rebooting to load boot menu.
  • The drive that is less than 50GB is likely the bootable USB device.

[x] wipe old partitions.

[x] run Windows installer.

Post Paving

• [x] Install Chocolatey

  Instructions

  • https://chocolatey.org/install

[x] Install BoxStarter

Instructions

• choco install Boxstarter

[x] Install my Box Starter Package

Instructions

Thanks Rich Turner for your excellent example!

Launch Powershell with elevated privileges:

Install-BoxstarterPackage -DisableReboots -PackageName https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scottmuc/infrastructure/master/homedirs/windows/boxstarter.ps1

[x] Windows update

[x] Configure Brave

Instructions

Do the following:

• Ensure 1 Password extension works
• Getpocket installed
• Unhook extension is installed (and support the author)
• Set searrch engine to DuckDuckGo

[x] Install and configure Google Drive

[ ] Setup Radeon Software

Instructions

I'm not sure what to do here. Here are a couple helpful links:

• https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/gpu-kb205
• https://raptoreumcalculator.com/blog/radeonsoftware-exe-windows-complaining-about-missing-mfplat-dll-mf-dl-and-mfreadwrite-dll-files/
• https://www.amd.com/en/support

[x] Run Novabench

Instructions

Score should be around:

• CPU 1600
• RAM 260
• GPU 1000
• Disk 340

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After 35 minutes I was able to log into GitHub and post this comment

[scottmuc]

Need to add Samsung Magician link to template: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/

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[scottmuc]

Webcam, microphone and speakers working in gather.town. Going to skip Radeon installer until I experience issues that may warrant its installation. In 1hr I have a working Windows PC with core functionality.

Need to add the following to the template:

• updating the hostname and naming convention spec
• SSD magician install and config

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New template is looking good. May do another repave this weekend.