Enable Windows 10 Developer Mode programmatically

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David Gardiner picture David Gardiner · Oct 14, 2016 · Viewed 16.2k times · Source

I know you can enable Windows 10 Developer mode interactively by going to Settings | For developers, selecting 'Developer mode' and then rebooting.

Is there a way to enable this programmatically? (eg. via PowerShell or similar so that I can include it as a step in a Boxstarter script when refreshing my developer workstation)

Answer

David Gardiner picture David Gardiner · Oct 14, 2016

Turns out Nickolaj Andersen has written an article which includes just such a PowerShell script..

http://www.scconfigmgr.com/2016/09/11/enable-ubuntu-in-windows-10-during-osd-with-configmgr/

Here are the relevant lines extracted from his post:

# Create AppModelUnlock if it doesn't exist, required for enabling Developer Mode
$RegistryKeyPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModelUnlock"
if (-not(Test-Path -Path $RegistryKeyPath)) {
    New-Item -Path $RegistryKeyPath -ItemType Directory -Force
}

# Add registry value to enable Developer Mode
New-ItemProperty -Path $RegistryKeyPath -Name AllowDevelopmentWithoutDevLicense -PropertyType DWORD -Value 1

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