Recipes for Aperture Control

This repository is a collection of scripts you might want in your setup of Aperture Control.

See Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct.

Bug reports and improvements

If you find any bugs or have improvement ideas in any of the scripts, please file an issue or create a Pull Request.

List of recipes

Install or update Chocolatey
- recipes/install-chocolatey.ps1
Install a number of Chocolatey and Scoop packages at once
- recipes/install-packages.ps1
Install or update Scoop
- recipes/install-scoop.ps1
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux + Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- recipes/install-wsl.ps1

Windows settings and tweaks

Disable Aero shake to minimize windows
- recipes/disable-aero-shake.reg
Disable automatic reboot for upgrades
- recipes/disable-auto-reboot-for-updates.cmd
- recipes/disable-auto-reboot-for-updates.reg
Disable automatic sleep and monitor timeouts
- recipes/disable-automatic-sleep.cmd
Disable Autoplay dialogs
- recipes/disable-aero-shake.reg
Disable hibernation
- recipes/disable-hibernation.cmd
Disable Share Across Devices
- recipes/disable-share-across-devices.reg
Disable Snap
- recipes/disable-snap.reg
Disable Cortana and Bing searches in Start Menu
- recipes/disable-start-menu-cortana-and-bing.reg
Disable Tablet Mode
- recipes/disable-tablet-mode.reg
Disable Timeline
- recipes/disable-timeline.reg
Allow enabling BitLocker without a TPM module
- recipes/enable-bitlocker-without-tpm.reg
Enable Dark Theme
- recipes/enable-dark-theme.reg
Enable Hyper-V and add user into Hyper-V Administrators
- recipes/enable-hyper-v.ps1
Enhance Windows 10 Privacy by disabling a number of features
- recipes/enhance-windows-10-privacy.cmd
Remove "Keyboard Preload" to try and avoid US English keyboard being added repeatedly
- recipes/remove-keyboard-preload.reg
Set persistent environment variables
- recipes/set-env-variables.ps1
Create file associations from a filetype to given program
- recipes/set-file-associations.ps1
Show file extension of known file types
- recipes/show-file-extension.reg
Show hidden and "protected system files"
- recipes/show-hidden-and-protected-files.reg
Tune Taskbar to remove Cortana, Task View, and Search, and disable showing on all monitors
- recipes/taskbar-tuning.reg
Update "Input Method Tips" to install only desired keyboard layouts
- recipes/update-input-method-tips.ps1
Manipulate PATH - add, remove, and move items to the top/bottom of user and system-wide PATH
- recipes/manipulate-path.ps1

Software configuration

Set up global Git Configuration
- recipes/global-git-config.cmd
Set up pyenv-win
- recipes/setup-pyenv.ps1
Configure ConEmu
- recipes/setup-conemu.ps1

How to make registry patches

One way is figuring out what changes in your registry when you do changes. You can do that by exporting your registry before and after the change and then diffing the changes.

Create e.g. C:\temp for storing registry dumps and then run in a terminal window (and accept UAC dialog):

rem Full path is required even if you are in the folder due to how regedit works
regedit /e c:\temp\export.reg

Try to quickly do your changes (as Windows registry is constantly changed by automated things), and run the command again with a different filename.

rem Full path is required even if you are in the folder due to how regedit works
regedit /e c:\temp\changes.reg

Then open the two files in e.g. WinMerge (tested to be able to deal with a few hundred megabyte diffs easily), and try and identify the relevant bits.

Alternatively you can try to e.g. identify the changes via Process Monitor or other such tools, or check out guides on the internet for how to perform the changes in Regedit, follow them, and then export the relevant keys.

Testing

Trying out your recipes in a clean Windows installation such as on a VM from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ is a good idea.

License

Short answer: The contents of this repository are licensed with the BSD 3-clause -license.

Long answer: The license for this repository is in LICENSE.md, the other pieces of software installed by the recipes have varying other licenses that you need to be separately aware of.

Financial support

This project has been made possible thanks to Cocreators and Lietu. You can help us continue our open source work by supporting us on Buy me a coffee.