As a developer, what changes do you make to a vanilla Windows install?

Question

When I get a vanilla Windows system, there\'s a bunch of stuff I change to make it more developer-friendly.

Some of it I remember every time, other stuff I only do as an

Answer 1

I generally leave Windows Defender online but I don't use an antivirus so....

I set my start menu to display small icons and to have no "most recently used programs" active. Instead I pin everything to my start menu:

My start menu http://www.robpaveza.net/pub/startmenu.png

I also make sure that all the extension menus are actual menus, not just links, and that my computer and user files icons are shown on the desktop.