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General Windows Apps

There will be notes to specific apps setup.

Setup powershell first

Obsidian

The vault specific settings are handled via syncthing. For application data (eg. what vaults are loaded into obsidian), it’s stored in a separate folder at %appdata%/obsidian

Google Chrome

Extensions

Wayback Machine
Setting: General → “Auto Save Page” if not archived “previously”

Firefox

Backup profile link
The profile location, go to about:support. It is under Application Basics and Profile Folder
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
Make sure to close Firefox before backup.
Restore
Copy the profile from the old machine to the new machine in the same location.
Go to the root folder and edit the file profiles.ini

[Install308046B0AF4A39CB]
Default=Profiles/wdqvdbya.default-release
Locked=1
 
[Profile0]
Name=default-release
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/wdqvdbya.default-release
 
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
Version=2

• There should only be 1 profile profile0, delete all other profiles
• Under the InstallXXX[Default] and Profile[Path] it should reference to the profile name of the folder

To create a new profile shortcut, find the location of Firefox shortcut, then edit its target to -p ProfileName
Disable Auto Updates in policies.json

Policies
https://gist.github.com/vttc08/4b2dbf55157a61bb2f92de01c566bc19

mkdir -Force "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\"
wget "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/vttc08/4b2dbf55157a61bb2f92de01c566bc19/raw/8bcebf591b3b4d90897a8c7c8cef5e0bd211a5e5/policies.json" -O "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\distribution\policies.json"

Profiles
https://gist.github.com/jooize/5636b9eb975bde30c38b753e9f301de4
Go to about:profiles to create a new profile. Sign in to Firefox account and everything should sync, there is also option to import from Chrome. Once everything is setup, the profile will be stored in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. Alternative it’s possible to create it via profile.ini.
TODO: figure out what can be deleted in that profile folder for faster transfer
Once the new profile is created and setup. Go to about:config and change these settings

• taskbar.grouping.useprofile create and set to true
• browser.startup.blankwindow set to false

To create a desktop shortcut use the flag --no-remote -P "Profile Name"

• the icon can be changed, the .ico file is located in each of the profile folder
• there is a Firefox Master.psd located at the root profile folder

Microsoft Edge

Fix your browser managed by organization

taskkill /im msedge.exe /f
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge" /f

VSCode

Most of the configuration will be synced if logging in via Microsoft account with exception of SSH settings.
SSH settings on stored in Windows at C:\Users\hubcc\.ssh\config, these settings are global
Once syncthing is setup, run the powershell script located in Documents\ssh\ssh_config\configure.ps1 to restore SSH configs

Internet Download Manager

Make registry edit to prevent auto-update

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DownloadManager]
"LstCheck"="01/08/99"

May need to do it every login
Doesn’t work, alternative method. When update popup, use kidm to force and process of opening and closing and minimizing the app. The kidm script is located in $HOME\scripts\kidm.ps1
IDM may place incomplete and uncancelled downloads in this folder

%APPDATA%\IDM\DwnlData

ThioJoe Explorer App

Reference https://youtu.be/tTo_MSUIHf8
Download https://github.com/ThioJoe/AHK-Scripts/releases the exe file.
Place the exe file into C:\Program Files or any privileged dir.
Add the app to startup

ShareX

winget install sharex.sharex

For all settings and configurations, ShareX