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Reading this article reminds me how tedious it is to customise Windows. All these manual steps in system dialogs, registry and so on have to be repeated every time you want to re-install Windows.

I wanted to run a command as admin on startup recently and had to create a scheduled task for this, which of course will be lost the next time I reinstall. Same for services, etc.




You must now know about Powershell. For example, scheduled tasks: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/01/...




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