Chocolatey Software

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Chocolatey Software, a package manager for Windows which can be used as a standalone package by individuals, and businesses via packages such as puppet and Ansible.

Standalone Install

Open PowerShell as an administrator, enter the following and press return:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Chocolatey GUI

chocolateygui chocolatey-core.extension

To Install A Package

Open PowerShell as an administrator, enter the following and press return:

choco install <PackageName>

Prevent Desktop Icons From Being Added During Package Installations

Open PowerShell as an administrator, enter the following and press return:

choco install cleanup-desktop-shortcuts.hook --pre

Package Parameters

Log File Location

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs

Upgrade Via The PowerShell

choco upgrade chocolatey

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