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Each PowerShell script downloads and installs some software for Windows.Each downloaded software is either open source or free to use or is abuiltin feature of Windows.

These scripts are useful to automate the setup of a software environment,typically in a CI/CD pipeline.

Eachinstall-*.ps1 script only depends oninstall-common.ps1.Both files can be individually extracted for reuse in another project(liberal BSD-2-Clause license).

By default, when a script is run from the Windows explorer, it pops upa PowerShell window, performs the download and installation and finallywaits for the user to press before closing the window. Whenused in an automated scripted environment, use option-NoPause toavoid the final interaction.

Each installation script accepts the following options.

Note on executing PowerShell scripts from the Windows Explorer:The default action for double-click on a.ps1 file in Windows Explorer is toedit the script file using notepad. This is not very convenient. The registryfileWindowsPowerShell.reg changes this to execute the PowerShell scripton double-click. This is more consistent with.exe files which are executed.

Additionally, a fewset-*.ps1 scripts are provided to setup typicalconfigurations such as autologin or wallpaper. These scripts require optionsand, unlike theinstall-*.ps1 scripts, they must be run from a PowerShellwindow or script, not from the Windows Explorer.