# 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.