Windows 10 Technical Preview on Antelope

Downloaded on 2015-03-14. Product key NKJFK-GPHP7-G8C3J-P6JXR-HQRJR

Swapped hard drive connections, 2T WD Green HD disconnected, 1T Hatachi HD connected.

Booted from CD, normal installation complete in about 30 minutes.

Device manager shows all OK.

Turned off file indexing. Stopped SuperFetch, disabled in Services. Stopped Defragment and Optimize drives from running in Administrative tools.

Turned OneDrive off, including startup when I log on.

Installed:

Bullzip PDF writer
PDF Redirect
Sumatrapdf viewer
Xplorer2 lite
Winzip 9 and command line interface
Python 2.7.8 64-bit
- C:\Python27 and C:\Python27\Scripts were added to system path
TortoiseHG 3.2
downloaded ez_setup.py and ran to install setuptools 1.42
easy_install pip
easy_install pillow
easy_install virtualenv

Libre Office
malwarebytes.com
Firefox
Chrome
Filezilla
MariaDB 10.0.17
- default character set is utf8
- did not install optimize for transactions feature
- HeidiSQL is bundled
MS Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package x64
Downloaded 64 bit apache 2.2.29 OPENSSL from: http://www.apachelounge.com/download/win64 (is .zip)
Gadwin print screen
HTMLdoc 1.8.27 msi version from packrat
nodejs 0.12.0
copied SciTE 321 from packrat
Gimp 2.8.14
Irfanview and plugins 4.3.3 from packrat - downloads are junkware
PuTTY-0.64-installer.exe
NoteTab Light 7
PsPad 4.5.4 2009 from packrat/antelope download (crapware on official downloads)
7-zip 9.20 without localization files
Pidgin 2.10.11 from SourceForge
Cygwin 1.7.35 using setup-x86_64.exe from Cygwin.com. (required for Unison)
- @@@ is 32bit needed for Unison?
- added 2 libssh modules and "openssh server and client" under net
- must create Cygwin/home/roger/.ssh folder to save known_hosts
Imgburn 2.5.8.0 from mirror 7 imgburn - lots of crap software choices