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Windows 10 Ameliorated first time setup checklist

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Windows 10 first setup

A checklist for a complete first time windows ameliorated setup

Windows 10 Ameliorated (build 1903)

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Excerp from Archive.org's explanation regarding Windows 10 AME

Windows 10 AME aims at delivering a stable, non-intrusive yet fully functional build of Windows 10 to anyone, who requires the Windows operating system natively.

Spyware systems, which are abundant in Windows 10 by default, have not been disabled using group policy, registry entries or various other workarounds – they have been entirely removed and deleted from the system, on an executable-level. This includes Windows Update, and any related services intended to re-patch the system via what is essentially a universal backdoor. Core applications, such as the included Edge web-browser, Windows Media Player, Cortana, as well as any appx applications, have also been successfully eliminated. The total size of removed files is about 2 GB.

Final image file size is 5.35 Gb.

Table of Contents

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Credentials

username password generic key
user malte 2B87N-8KFHP-DKV6R-Y2C8J-PKCKT

Windows system alterations

  • Custom HOST file - Can be found in: Windows: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (due to lag only ~16k entries)
  • Disabled QuickBoot
  • Performance display settings
  • Page file size (both min and max) = ram size + 256
  • in power settings max pci processor state = 99%
  • regedit change for auto login functionality

Program list

Abbreviations:

  • FOSS - Free and Open-Source Software
  • Freeware - software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user
  • Shareware - proprietary software which has trial use at little or no cost with usually limited functionality, but which can be upgraded upon payment

Package managers

  • Chocolatey (FOSS) - software management solution 
    • 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'))
  • Pyhon + pip (FOSS) - python with a software management solution

Browsers

Optional

  • Chrome (Freeware) - made by Google, based on the Chromium engine
  • Tor (FOSS) - browser focused on anonymity and security, based on firefox

Browser extensions

  • UBlock Origin (FOSS) - An efficient (ad) blocker for Chromium and Firefox
  • HTTPS Everywhere (FOSS) - encrypts your communications with many major websites
  • ClearUrls (FOSS) - based on the new WebExtensions technology, automatically removes tracking elements from URLs

Utilities

Optional

  • HWmonitor (Shareware) - general purpose hardware monitoring program
  • Crystalmark (FOSS) - benchmark software that measures the transfer speed of media data storage
  • ffmpeg (FOSS) - command line multimedia framework (a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video) 
    • choco install ffmpeg
  • MKVToolNix (FOSS) - gui for working with Matroska files gitlab
  • Process Monitor (Propriatery) - Microsoft's advanced monitoring tool that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity
  • Process Explorer (Propriatery) - shows information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded
  • Total Commander (Shareware) - tried and true file manager

Optional

  • WireShark (FOSS) - network protocol analyzer
  • Koodo Reader (FOSS) - full-featured ebook manager, albeit slightly impractical
  • Calibre (FOSS) - e-book viewer & manager
  • Sumatra PDF (FOSS) - multi-format (PDF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CHM, XPS, DjVu) reader for Windows

Communication

  • Telegram (Shareware) - unsecure chat app with phone contact synchronisation
  • Discord (Shareware) - unsecure chat app with chat rooms
  • Steam (Shareware) - unsecure app

Programming

  • VirtualBox - x86 AMD64/Intel64 full virtualization
  • NodeJS - a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine
  • XAMPP - Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl
  • Anaconda3 - package / environment manager, Python3 distribution with 1,500+ open source packages
  • Rufus (FOSS) - USB Formatting Utility
  • PuTTY (FOSS ?) - SSH, Telnet, and SFTP client, typically used for remote access to server computers over a network using the SSH protocol along with an xterm terminal emulator

Optional

  • ImDIsk (FOSS) - virtual disk driver

Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

  • IntelliJ Idea - for Java, with assistance for a variety of other languages such as SQL, JPQL, HTML, JavaScript
  • WebStorm - for JavaScript and related technologies
  • Visual Studio Code (FOSS) - JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js (C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, .NET, Unity)

Optional

  • Arduino (FOSS) - Arduino Software IDE
  • Eclipse - mainly for Java Integrated Development Environment

Optional expansion hardware apps

Security / Peer clients

Optional

Documentation

Optional

  • XWiki (FOSS) - WebServer wiki
  • OpenCRX (FOSS) - Customer relationship management software

Image manipulation

  • qimgv (FOSS) - Image viewer

Optional

Optional

  • Paint.net (Freeware) - raster graphics editor, developed on the.NET Framework

Video manipulation

Optional

Optional

  • ScreenToGif (FOSS) - allows recording of a selected area of your screen, as well as edit and save it as a gif or video.

Music playback

  • Clementine (FOSS) - a "winamp" style music player

Testing

  • FogProject (FOSS) - network computer cloning and management solution

Removed

  • Hamachi - due to licensing changes
  • Adobe Reader (Shareware) - Adobe's pdf reader, too much bloat if not necessary
  • Notable (FOSS) - Up to version v1.5.1 FOSS, later Freeware, note taking app, i just dont find it intuitive, nor usefull
  • Claws Mail (FOSS) - secure multiplatform mail client with OpenPGP implementation //while nice takes time to set up

Additional info

Incompatible