Rebuild Windows PC - 20220526win

[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] Set machine hostname

  Instructions

  This can come in handy for all services that have recorded the machines hostname for security verification. The timestamp in the name and other metadata can make future auditing a bit easier.

  The convention is YYYYMMDD-something meta.

  Test if this can be done in powershell.

• [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

[x] Turn off all Windows notification sounds

[x] 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] Install and configure Samsung Magician

Instructions

Download the installer and run it. Enable the performance profile.

• [x] Run Novabench

  Instructions

  Score should be around:

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

[x] Run WSL

Instructions

• Install Ubuntu
• Clone this repository
• Run coalesce this machine script

[x] Make this template slightly better

[scottmuc]

Novabench

CPU 1666 RAM 270 GPU 1091 DISK 321

[scottmuc]

Skipping WSL and using the WSL repaving template instead.

So far, the repave is complete!