My Bare Minimum: Installs & Configs for Linux Mint 16 (Petra) - 64bit Development: Python-IDE (Spyder), Ruby, Universal-IDEs: Geany (lightweight), Eclipse(powerful + heavy) PATH = %PATH% C:\MinGW\bin C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin Installing python without vcversall.bat problems later on:Ģ.) get mingw and install it with base and c++ packagesģ.) goto C:\Python27\Lib\distutils and create a distutils.cfg with the following content:Ĥ.) open a terminal (cmd or whatever) and put: forbid caching of installation updates: reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer /v MaxPatchCacheSize /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /fĪdding sth. delete all *.msp files in c:\Windows\Installer\" delete all files in "c:\Windows\Installer\$PatchCache$\Managed" REAL Windows 7 Space-Cleanup (fighting with a small SSD and Windows7-folder is already > 30GB ?): Sys-path invoke in terminal, e.g.: %systemroot%\Windows\System32\drivers\etc