Installation

SysAdmin

  • Chocolatey:

    @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin
    
choco install Tunnelier
choco install LinkShellExtension f.lux pscx wifi-manager

Browsers

choco install Firefox GoogleChrome  # browsers

Cloud

choco install dropbox googledrive

Devel

choco install Emacs geany nano KickAssVim SublimeText3  # Editors; KickAssVim will pull ctags and vim
choco install consolez git.install meld winmerge  # devel
choco install SourceCodePro  # fonts; this doesn't work it seems

Pinning Emacs to the taskbar

http://superuser.com/questions/259146/why-latest-emacs-version-dont-support-windows-7-taskbar

If you just pin Emacs icon on the taskbar, next time you click it to launch Emacs, it will have a terminal window as well as GUI window. In order to fix this,

  1. Run runemacs.exe with no pre-existing icon on the taskbar.
  2. Right click on the running Emacs icon in the taskbar, and click on “pin this program to taskbar” item.
  3. Close the Emacs
  4. Shift right-click on the pinned Emacs icon on the taskbar, click on Properties, and change the target from emacs.exe to runemacs.exe.

Office

choco install PDFXchangeEditor PDFCreator  # PDF
  • It is better to install Sumatra PDF from the installer so you can install the browser plugins and pdf preview.

Multimedia

choco install foobar2000 mpc-hc

Communications

choco install winscp deluge youtube-dl

Utils

choco install 7zip autohotkey_l dexpot teamviewer  # utils

Chocolatey

choco install IcoFx
choco install SourcePreviewHandler
choco install keepass  # pims
choco install paint.net gimp

choco install pandoc

Libraries

GTK

In both cases, get the all-in-one bundle.

Set PATH:

setx -m PATH "%PATH%;C:\lib\gtk\bin"

Utilities

unison

Aspell

  1. Download Aspell executable (Full installer) and at least one dictionary (aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe) from http://aspell.net/win32/.
  2. Install Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup and then Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.

awk

  • Download and install Gawk for Windows

  • Put C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\ into your Path:

    setx -m PATH "%PATH%;"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin"
    

cURL

  • If you have Chocolatey installed (which I highly recommend):

    $ choco install curl
    
  • Otherwise, follow instructions here.

  • Also, follow the instructions here to add Certficate Authority Public Keys for https.

Multimedia

Preview Handlers

PDF Preview

For PDF Preview in Explorer and Directory Opus, get PDF XChange Viewer and install Shell Extensions. It is by default checked when you install it. Portable version does not have this plugin.

See http://www.tracker-software.com/shell_ext.html for explanations.