Cronos

Company laptop 2013-2016 on Windows 7.

Structure

  • C: System Drive (SSD partition 1)
  • D: Data Drive (SSD partition 2)
  • H: Home Drive (USB)
    • PortableApps (all portable apps binaries go here)
    • PortableCustom (all programs which are portable but do not have a PortableApps binary go here)
    • PortableSettings (custom settings to modify PortableApps)

Setup

  1. Netinstall from Durr
  2. Install US English, Swiss (German), Korean, and Thai keyboard. Uninstall UK English and German keyboard. Make US English default.
  3. Run (Win-R) shell:sendto and add notepad.exe (from C:\Windows) and wordpad.exe (from C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories) to the Send to shell command.
  4. Per-user Startmenu: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
  5. All user's Startmenu: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

Installation Permanent

  1. Install Internet Explorer 11 through Windows Update
  2. Connect existing private Outlook .pst files to Outlook. Click File –> Open… to open the .pst file, then add a new Email Account in Account Settings. Select Deliver new messages to: Existing Outlook Data File.
  3. Install TrueCrypt 7.1a. Download it from TCnext (x64).
    1. register a script to mount home drive on system startup in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Task Scheduler
      "C:\Program Files\TrueCrypt\TrueCrypt.exe" /v E:\volume.tc /lh /a /p <password> /q
    2. follow article Tasks and Task Scheduler how to do register
    3. more secure: create a Desktop shortcut to TrueCrypt.exe with the same options as above except the /p option.
  4. Copy all data from drive D: to new drive D:
  5. Install the ownCloud desktop client from the web interface of the ownCloud server, then reestablish all sync folders
  6. Install Snagit 12
  7. Install additional printer drivers and software suites.
    • Seoul Office: HP8600 (already installed)
    • Seoul Home: HP8660
  8. Install the Logitech Harmony Software
  9. Install the current Java JDK (x64)
  10. Install MP4Tools
  11. Install OutlookDAV and follow Outlook to iOS Sync

Todo: Windows Virtual PC, WinImage, iFunbox

Installation Portable

  1. Copy 4NT401 to PortableCustom, then run the branding program. Make sure that the help file extension for older help file versions is installed from Microsoft.
  2. Install Firefox as PortableApp with the following add-ons
  3. Install Google Chrome as PortableApp
  4. Install the Chrome Secure Shell extension. For Chrome PortableApp it does not show up in the list of installed extensions, you need to start it manually. To do so, add a link to Chrome with the following URL to open: chrome-extension://pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo/html/nassh.html. The icon is at H:\PortableApps\GoogleChromePortable\Data\profile\Default\Web Applications\_crx_pnhechapfaindjhompbnflcldabbghjo\Secure Shell.ico. You must then import both the server's public and private key files in any order.
  5. Install VLC as PortableApp
  6. Install FileZilla as PortableApp
  7. Install XnView as PortableApp
  8. Install Xenon File Manager as PortableApp
  9. Click extensions and assign default program manually through Browse…
  10. Install XAMPP and XAMPP Launcher as PortableApp. Install to folder h:\xampp, where h: is your portable drive. If you install a shortcut on the desktop, link it to XAMPP Control Panel in PortableApps, which was created when you installed XAMPP Launcher. Make sure a current JRE is installed.
  11. Install or Copy the Eclipse development environment, which is fully portable, to PortableCustom. Make sure you have Java properly installed, see Eclipse IDE.
  12. Modify the XAMPP Settings, copy the MySQL DBs for the sites you want to develop, and register the MySQL users. Do not assign a root password.
  13. Install OpenOffice as PortableApp
  14. Install RealVNC Viewer as portable. To do so, run the installer, then copy vncviewer.exe to PortableCustom folder, then uninstall RealVNC
  15. Make a shortcut to H:\Batch\icons.bat
  16. Download DesktopOK and copy it to a folder within PortableCustom. Start the program and save the current icon positions and quit, then move to newly created ini file from %APPDATA%\DesktopOK to the folder with the exe file.

Todo: Media Monkey (install portable), RSSOwl