Ran “rob_choco_install.ps1” from an administrative Powershell command line.Installed my password manager of choice in Edge so I could get into my accounts.Formatted my system disk and re-installed windows with a bootable windows 10 memory stick.Made sure my backups of my documents folders were up-to-date (which these days is just a matter of making sure your cloud sync tool of choice is working).Well this is now perfectly possible in Windows. Remember having to spend ages downloading and installing applications when you had to reinstall your Windows PC at home? Remember looking at Linux and (whatever other opinions on Linux you might or might not have) being envious of package managers like apt-get?
The easiest part of that was the computer rebuild, with help from Chocolatey. Not to make a fine point of it, between my last post and this one I’ve rebuilt my PC, installing windows from scratch and all my applications, prepared breakfast for my partner and myself, started some laundry, and dealt with the cat pulling the net curtains down in my study. This applies at work when building servers or workstations thanks to tools like SCCM and Fog, and should be in your grasp at home or in even the smallest office, thanks to Chocolatey. One of the things that I’ve always been interested in is automation, and being able to reproduce a ‘known state’ reliably and consistently.
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