Full disk Windows 10 install for Macbook Pro

After booting Windows Installer and creating a windows 10 disk:

Software to download:

• Apple Bootcamp Windows Support Installer (apple hardware drivers): https://archive.org/details/WindowsSupport
• rEFInd Boot Manager (useful for enabling cpu virtualization): https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind
• Explorer++ File Manager (for configuring rEFInd): https://explorerplusplus.com/
• Privatezilla (windows setup scripts for removing microsoft bloatware and improving privacy/ security): https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla

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Apple Bootcamp drivers:

open powershell as administrator and run Bootcamp.msi

C:\Users\...\WindowsSupport\WindowsSupport\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\Bootcamp.msi

Later open Apple Software Update and update Bootcamp software for system.

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EFI Boot setup

Download rEFInd .zip files and extract.

Mount EFI partition for configuration as admin run: mountvol B: /s

Download Explorer++ and open as admin, go to B: volume

.
├── EFI
|   ├── Boot
|   |   └─── bootx64.efi
|   ├── Microsoft
|   |   ├─── Boot
|   |   └─── Recovery

Copy the following files within your_extract_location\refind-bin\refind\ to B:\EFI\refind

refind_x64.efi
refind.conf-sample

rename refind.conf-sample to refind.conf

Type bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" path \EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi to set rEFInd as the default EFI boot program. Note that "{bootmgr}" is entered as such, including both the quotes and braces ({}).

If you like, type bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" description "rEFInd description" to set a description (change rEFInd description as you see fit).

open refind.conf in notepad and change the following settings inside:

# boot straight to windows
timeout -1 

# enable virtualization (hyper-v)
enable_and_lock_vmx true 

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Windows Debloat

Download Privatezilla: https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla/releases

Download Community Packages: https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla#community-package

• Extract the package to Privatezilla installation directory (the extracted package must have the name scripts)

.
├── privatezilla
|   ├── scripts <---- Here
|   ├── packages
|   ├── privatezilla.exe

Open privatezilla

Select Windows 10 checkbox at the top and hit Apply Selected to run.

Click the Scripts button at the top of the window to open community scripts.

• Disable Services
• Block Telemetry by Hosts
• Remove OneDrive
• Windows10Debloater
• Unpin Startmenu

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Dev Tools:

from Microsoft Store: Install Windows Terminal App Installer

run winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget

run wsl --install -d Debian