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+# Gitea Runner on Windows 10
+
+## Setup
+1. Download `.exe` from https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/releases
+2. Register runner
+3. Move `.exe` and `.runner` to `C:\Program Files\gitea\`
+4. Add `C:\Program Files\gitea\runner.bat`
+    ```bat
+    cd "C:\Program Files\gitea"
+    act_runner-0.2.6-windows-amd64.exe daemon
+    ```
+5. Add startup task with task scheduler.
+    Program: `C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe`
+    Arguments: `/k "C:\Program Files\gitea\runner.bat"`
+    - Disable auto-stop after 3 days
+    - Run whether user is logged in or not
+6. From admin powershell change the execution policy
+    `Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine`
+7. Download `nvm-setup.exe` from https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases and install
+    - Verify installation with `nvm ls` which should say `No installations recognized.`
+8. `nvm list available` to determine the latest LTS version
+9. Install the latest LTS version `nvm install 20.11.1` (replace version)
+10. `nvm use 20.11.1` to select what was just installed
+11. Download and install git (64b) from https://git-scm.com/download/win (default settings are fine)
+
+## Updating
+Just download a new `.exe` and update the path in `runner.bat`

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+# Windows 10
+
+## Virtual Machine
+
+- virtio drivers are required during the installation process. They can be found here: https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts/blob/master/README.md
+- Enable remote desktop
+- Hide all the random crap in the start menu and taskbar (weather, news, giant grid of apps)
+
+### To do
+- [ ] Fix shutdown command from PVE
+
+## Guest agent
+https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent
+
+> First you have to download the virtio-win driver iso (see Windows VirtIO Drivers).
+>
+> Then install the virtio-serial driver:
+> - Attach the ISO to your windows VM (virtio-*.iso)
+> - Go to the windows Device Manager
+> - Look for "PCI Simple Communications Controller"
+> - Right Click -> Update Driver and select on the mounted iso in DRIVE:\vioserial\<OSVERSION>\ where <OSVERSION> is your Windows Version (e.g. 2k12R2 for Windows 2012 R2)
+>
+> After that, you have to install the qemu-guest-agent:
+> - Go to the mounted ISO in explorer
+> - The guest agent installer is in the directory guest-agent
+> - Execute the installer with double click (either qemu-ga-x86_64.msi (64-bit) or qemu-ga-i386.msi (32-bit)
+
+## Basic software
+
+### Terminal
+
+You can try doing it through the windows store but that was giving me issues if I didn't log into a microsoft account.
+Instead just use this command from powershell
+
+```powershell
+winget install --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e
+```
+
+### Downloads
+
+- [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html)
+- [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/download/thanks/)
+- [7-zip](https://www.7-zip.org/)
+- [git](https://git-scm.com/download/win)
+- [Tortoise Git](https://tortoisegit.org/download/)
+- [WinDirStat](https://windirstat.net/download.html)
+- [Greenshot](https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/)
+- [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
+
+### Resize Boot Disk
+
+The boot disk includes a recovery partion after the `C:` partition so increasing the partition size after resizing the virtual disk is problematic.
+
+From admin powershell:
+
+```powershell
+reagentc /info
+reagentc /disable
+reagentc /info
+```
+
+This should now report `Disabled`
+
+Now it's time to remove the recovery partition
+
+```powershell
+diskpart
+```
+
+From within `diskpart` run the following (changing the disk and partition numbers of course)
+
+```
+list disk
+select disk 0
+list partition
+select partition 3
+delete partition override
+exit
+```
+
+Then from the disk management GUI, extend the `C:` partition to fill the disk.