# Follow manual pre-setup from intra to install Windows 11 ARM and virtio drivers:
# "How to create a Windows 11 ARM tier1 image using Qemu"

# Configure Windows after pre-setup
* Enable Remote Desktop:
   - Settings - System - Remote Desktop - On
* Resolution set to 1280x800
   - Unfortunately not possible, only 1280x1024 is available
* Coin-setup:
   - Installing Boostrap agent
   - Disabling fast boot
   - Disabling firewall
   - Disabling UAC
   - Enabling autologin
   - Automatic login
   - Disabling windows updates
* Turn off Windows defender:
   - Microsoft Defender Antivirus turned off: Open 'gpedit.msc':  'Computer Configuration' - 'Administrative Templates' - 'Windows Components' - 'Microsoft Defender Antivirus'
      - Edit 'Turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus' > 'Enabled' > 'Apply'
   - Reboot on Safe mode:
      - Open msconfig - Boot tab - enable “Safe boot“ - apply - restart
      - In Safe mode:
         - Take Ownership of Defender:
            - Open properties - Right click "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\Platform" and select 'Properties'
            - Open Security tab - Advanced - Owner: Change - Advanced - Find now - Select Administrators - Ok - Ok
            - Remove all Permissions: Permissions tab - Select 'Disable inheritance' - Remove all entries -Select 'Replace all child object permi…' - Apply
         - Disable Windows defender also from RegEdit:
            - Open regedit - Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services'
            - Change the following folders the key Start to 4
               - Sense (Windows defender advanced threat protection)
               - WdBoot (Windows defender boot)
               - WdFilter (Microsoft antimalware file system filter driver)
               - WdNisDrv (Windows Defender Network Inspection Driver)
               - WdNisSvc (Windows Defender Network Inspection Service)
               - WinDefend (Windows Defender Antivirus Service)
               - mpssvc (Windows Defender Firewall)
   - NOTE! Without these step windows defender can't be disabled!
   - Reboot back to normal mode
* Background defrag disabled: 'Defragment And Optimize Drives' - 'change settings' - unchecked "run on a schedule"
   - Run in terminal: 'schtasks /Delete /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\ScheduledDefrag"'
* Time:
   - Settings - System - Date & time - Time zone: 'Co-ordinated Universal Time'
   - Settings - System - Date & time - "Set the time automatically: Off"
* Regional format:
   - Settings - Time & language - Language and region - regional format - English (United States)
* Power saver:
   - Settings - System - Power - Screen and sleep: set 'When plugged in, turn off my screen after' to 'never'
* Windows search disabled:
   - 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Services' - 'Windows search' - stop & disable
* Sysmain disabled:
   - 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Services' - 'SysMain' - stop & disable
* Windows update:
   - Settings - Windows Update - run available updates (Windows update2023-09 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for arm64-based Systems (KB5030219))
   - After reboot disable windows updates:
      - 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\Services' - 'Windows updates' - stop & disable
* Turn windows features on or off -> Check the "SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support"
* Disable Windows Restore Points: Search 'Create a restore point' -> 'System Protection' tab -> Configure C: drive -> Disable & Delete restore points.
* Disable widgets: Right click the task bar -> 'Taskbar settings' -> toggle off anything related to widgets.
* (Restart Windows)
* Google Chrome installed for RTA
* Virus & threat protection settings:
   * Check that there's no active antivirus providers
* Run .NET runtime optimization service: open terminal and run:
   Start-Process -NoNewWindow -FilePath "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\ngen.exe" -ArgumentList ExecuteQueuedItems -Wait
   - It may be needed to rerun after installing Visual Studio. Just run it until it prints:
      "All compilation targets are up to date."
* Activate Windows

# Next
Proceed to install pre-provisioning scripts manually to Tier1 image
