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Win 8.1 Visual Studio 2013
Disable-UAC
Update-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowFileExtensions -EnableShowFullPathInTitleBar
Set-StartScreenOptions -EnableBootToDesktop -EnableDesktopBackgroundOnStart -EnableShowStartOnActiveScreen -EnableShowAppsViewOnStartScreen -EnableSearchEverywhereInAppsView -EnableListDesktopAppsFirst
Set-TaskbarOptions -Lock -Dock Left
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Windows power plan to $preferredPlan"
$guid = (Get-WmiObject -Class win32_powerplan -Namespace root\cimv2\power -Filter "ElementName='High performance'").InstanceID.tostring()
$regex = [regex]"{(.*?)}$"
$newpowerVal = $regex.Match($guid).groups[1].value
powercfg -S $newpowerVal
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Standby Timeout to Never"
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-dc 0
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Monitor Timeout to Never"
powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-dc 0
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Disk Timeout to Never"
powercfg -change -disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -disk-timeout-dc 0
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Turning off Windows Hibernation"
powercfg -h off
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting time zone to Central Standard Time"
& C:\Windows\system32\tzutil /s "Central Standard Time"
cinst 7zip
# cinst SublimeText3
# cinst SublimeText3.PackageControl
# cinst sublimetext3-contextmenu
cinst SourceCodePro
cinst wizmouse
# cinst visualstudiocommunity2013 -InstallArguments "/Features:'Blend WebTools Win8SDK SQL WindowsPhone80 SilverLight_Developer_Kit'"
# cinst VSColorOutput
# cinst resharper
# cinst ncrunch2.vs2013
# cinst editorconfig.vs
cinst NuGet.CommandLine
cinst msbuild.communitytasks
# cinst wpfinspector
# cinst wincommandpaste
# Memory disk apps
cinst imdisk
# cinst autoit #required by freefilesync
# cinst freefilesync
# This should be a search for CasPol.exe and then loop over all results
& C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework64\v4.0.30319\CasPol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1.2 -url file:///Z:/Projects/* FullTrust
& C:\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v4.0.30319\CasPol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1.2 -url file:///Z:/Projects/* FullTrust
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