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New MS Windows System
Original written for 32-bit XP installs, now being used for 64-bit Windows7
I use these notes as a guide both for home and work machines
in rough order of importance:
- Avira - anti-virus
- Spybot Search & Destroy - malware remover/blocker
- Avira claims a conflict with Spybot, and it must be uninstalled?
- not necessarily sez Spybot
- steps to avoid incompatibility
- ProcessExplorer
- Fire Fox
- TODO: fresh install config notes
- TODO: these notes should be under Firefox, and referenced or included, here
- Sync notes
- maximize display (not just for netbooks)
about:config-browser.search.openintab(etc)
- Drop Box
- Executor (launcher)
- Auto Hotkey
- Gnu Win 32 tools
- EmacsW32
- install package
- get cygwin running first [hrm. not so sure I need this anymore]
- config dropbox-awareness
- point to shared lisp files in dropbox
- confirm bulk of .emacs file loads
- TODO: redo .emacs file into sub-files, so can be more easily included/excluded on ceratin systems (say, when Cygwin, Perl, etc. is not [yet] installed)
- Screenshot tool
- Cyg Win
- TODO: rxvt installation notes, misc packages to install, etc)
- packages: rxvt, zip
- update .bashrc and add curr dir to PATH
- Conkeror [via Xul Runner] - Cygwin is often a pre-requistite, if using git to pull the project
- Pdf Reader (foxit)
(the below are not in order)
Associate apps with 7zFM.exe - the 7zip File Manager (GUI)
How to split a large file using 7zip
- WinSplit revolution
- PureText strips formatted text to plaintext.
- InstallPerl
- TODO: misc packages to install via PPM
- OpenSSL - for FF extension-dev
- uh, which I’m not currently doing
Misc set-up tasks:
swap-caps-lock & Ctrl (on a per-user basis)
create shortcuts/”shorts” folder & create PATH entry
update win-shell w/ decent properties
Visual Studio
Install express, or whatever you’ve got
Export settings, and import on target machine
Export and import Visual Studio 2010 extensions
- Copy
%localappdata%\microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensionsto the same directory on the new machine.- it may be a different folder, if you changed default install settings
- on one machine, I found it @
d:\dev\Microsoft_Visual_Studio_10.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions- uh, this note may be incorrect. I think I was looking in the wrong area. try
localappdataFIRST
- uh, this note may be incorrect. I think I was looking in the wrong area. try
- Open VS on the new machine, go to the extension manager, and Enable all the extensions.
- By default, VS disables extensions that just appear in that directory but it didn’t put there.
Shortcuts
lists of default shortcuts
http://www.shortcutworld.com/en/win/Visual-Studio_2010.html(approve sites)
(I need to keep a list of these, as I keep forgetting them. Didn’t I have some bookmarked, somewhere ?!?!?)
next/previous bookmark in this document
make Ctrl + K, Ctrl + N (next bookmark) stay within the same file
Previous Bookmark In Document
Next Bookmark In Document
You'll see them if you go to the Edit->Bookmarks menu. You can bind them to a shortcut if you go to Options->Preferences->Environment->Keyboard and look them up as Edit.PreviousBookmarkInDocument and Edit.NextBookmarkInDocument.
Getting Cygwin shells to use normal Perl
L—d knows how I got this working, because it ain’t on my netbook. Cygwin Perl isn’t even installed, but something weird happens there.
So, look at my main-install Path settings? which looks like crap....
C:/Perl/bin;
c:/cygwin/bin;
C:\Documents and Settings\OtherMichael\shortcuts;
C:\Emacs\EmacsW32;
C:\Emacs\EmacsW32\gnuwin32\bin;
C:\Program Files\RCS\bin\win32;
C:\Emacs\EmacsW32\gnuwin32\GnuPG\pub;
C:\PROGRA~1\GNU\WINCVS~1.3\CVSNT;
C:\Emacs\emacs\bin;
C:\Perl\site\bin;
C:\Perl\bin;
C:\WINDOWS\system32;
C:\WINDOWS;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin;
C:\Program Files\FileZilla;
C:\Program Files\Putty\;
C:\Program Files\lispbox-0.7i;
c:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox;
C:\Program Files\7-Zip;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_01\bin;;
Using AS Perl with Cygwin — has a bash-script intermediary....
Misc dev apps
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