As a developer, what changes do you make to a vanilla Windows install?

Question

When I get a vanilla Windows system, there\'s a bunch of stuff I change to make it more developer-friendly.

Some of it I remember every time, other stuff I only do as an

Answer 1

Regarding:

• Show extensions of all file types
• Make hidden and system file visible

I don't like making hidden files visible all the time (it makes two desktop.ini visible on my windows Vista desktop for starters) so I use an explorer extension to make it easy to toggle this on and off. There's also a corresponding one for file extensions:

• HiddenFilesToggle Context-Menu Shell Extension
• FileExtensionToggle Context-Menu Shell Extension