chocolatey

Choco

Chocolatey is a package manager for windows and is quite useful in setting up windows quickly.

  1. Ensure Administrative Shell Access

  2. Get-ExecutionPolicy of powershell should not be set to Restricted.

    We can set it to Bypass to install all packages or AllSigned to get packages with quite bit of security

    Execute the following text

    Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

  3. Wait for some time for process to complete

  4. Type choco or choco -? to check the installation.

Usage :

  • Upgrading the chocolatey

    choco upgrade chocolatey

  • Installing a package

    choco install gimp

Downloading basic packages

Minimal
choco install -y googlechrome firefox adobereader 7zip vlc notepadplusplus

Basic :

choco install -y googlechrome firefox hexchat foxitreader mpc-hc k-litecodecpackfull vlc qbittorrent 7zip windirstat teracopy libreoffice-fresh

Tools :

choco install -y notepadplusplus sublimetext3 vscode typora git gimp github-desktop javaruntime jdk11 jdk8 python virtualbox nvm nodejs wget curl dotnet3.5 php openssh microsoft-windows-terminal cmdermini