Windows Setup Shouldn’t Be Manual

Reinstalling Windows always feels the same.

You spend hours reinstalling:

• Git
• Python
• VSCode
• Unity
• Blender
• terminal tools
• random utilities you forgot existed

Then later you realize:

“Ah yes… I forgot ffmpeg again.”

So I made a small PowerShell bootstrap tool for myself:

https://github.com/cholushkin/windows-update-software

What it does:

• installs packages using Chocolatey
• updates existing software
• validates package names before install
• supports package groups
• supports dry-run mode
• creates Python virtual environments automatically
• installs Python requirements
• generates logs
• safe to rerun multiple times

Example:

.\install-packages.ps1
.\install-packages.ps1 -Groups gamedev
.\install-packages.ps1 -WhatIf