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Well, as you know I upgraded my laptop to shiny Lenovo Yoga 900. Compared to my old Samsung… it is quite a bit of trouble and at the same time sooo fast.

In the last month since I’ve had it, I had to reinstall it completely a few times…

• The first time was to try to get ride of all the crapware that comes preinstalled. Turns out using the “clean” option of Windows 10 just reinstalls with the crapware… I had to download the ISO and install from that in order to get windows up and running. The other reason I had to that is I found a bug (declared on Connect) where is you upgrade from the Home edition to Professional (so I can run HyperV) using an inplace update, then the “hyper-v administrators group” doesn’t get created which stops me from using hyperv correctly. The only thing I installed from Lenovo was the touchpad driver to make it less sensitive. Oh yeah, let’s not forget about the flickering screen issues which got fixed when a new video driver got pushed to windows update (but you have to try to update the drivers yourself, it doesn’t show up in windows update itself).
• The second time was because I had a couple bugs remaining which I could not explain. Issues with sleep mode, couldn’t open documents from Outlook and couldn’t debug xamarin apps in an android vm. So I reinstalled everything once again. Turns out the outlook problems are caused by a bug in the DisplayLink drivers I use to drive my docking station (fix supposedly coming soon). The xamarin debugging bug with android VMs turns out to be a bug somewhere in hyper-v on skylake or something. I declared the bug to Microsoft and the workaround is to “limit processor capability” in the vm’s settings.

This said, the last problem with this new laptop seems to be power management, some times it doesn’t sleep correctly, wakes up and freezes, or when it goes to sleep with usb stuff plugged in, doesn’t recognize those when it wakes up. Anyways, let’s hope something fixes this in the next few days…

Back to the title of the post though, one big question that remains and was never really answered is what steps do you use to reinstall all the apps.

1. Windows, play with the settings and get onedrive downloading
2. 7zip, flux and a few more utilities. some drivers, update apps, update windows
3. Office 2016 (64 bits) from my office subscription
4. Lync (64 bits) from my office365 subscription
5. SQL Server developer 2014 update 1
6. Visual Studio 2015 update 1, ALL options
7. Xamarin

My misunderstanding though is with Xamarin. The installer doesn’t seem to work well when you install if after installing Visual Studio 2015. Should I not install Xamarin as part of VS ? should I uninstall xamarin before installing it with the Xamarin installer ?

Anyways, I will be a bit smarter when I figure out these isntall steps and how it can affect my work afterwards…

Hope this post will help someone…