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Documenting resetting up my laptop.

Installed a new hard drive and have put my existing drive into an m.2 usb controller

I get my Windows ISOs, Office, and Activation from https://massgrave.dev/

• Download the ISO for Win10IoT LTSC https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links.html
• Rufus Can make a bootable USB on windows, I use Ventoy to make one with lots of different ISOs to boot
• Install windows
  • keep network off and keep saying skip to create a local account

Install Winget - windows package manager using this github guide

• I use Winstall to find some initial programs I want it generates a script to run in powershell

Here is mine:

winget install --id=Mozilla.Firefox -e  ;
winget install --id=Microsoft.PowerShell -e  ;
winget install --id=Bitwarden.Bitwarden -e  ;
winget install --id=Notepad++.Notepad++ -e  ;
winget install --id=7zip.7zip -e  ;
winget install --id=Rufus.Rufus -e  ;
winget install --id=CrystalDewWorld.CrystalDiskInfo -e  ;
winget install --id=CrystalDewWorld.CrystalDiskMark -e  ;
winget install --id=CPUID.CPU-Z -e ;
winget install --id=Element.Element -e 
winget install --id=WireGuard.WireGuard -e 

Install VM Ware Workstation Pro

• Get Keys from first this github repo first one worked for me
• Backup of his untested keys here vmware17keysdownloads.zip

I used this Guide to convert my old disk into a vm got it to boot but still has some issues, was hoping to be able to keep it as a backup since it has all my tools on it, but just keeping the harddrive around for now should be fine can boot off the usb drive if I need too