This gist demonstrates boxstarter building a new windows 8.1 box.
Enable-RemoteDesktop
Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -enableshowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -enableshowProtectedOSFiles -enableshowFileExtensions
cinst VisualStudio2013Ultimate -InstallArguments WebTools
cinst fiddler4
cinst mssqlserver2012express
cinst console-devel
cinst sublimetext2
cinst poshgit
cinst googlechrome
cinst windirstat
cinst sysinternals
cinst IIS-WebServerRole -source windowsfeatures
Install-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem "$env:programfiles\console\console.exe"
Install-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem "$($Boxstarter.programFiles86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
Install-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem "$($Boxstarter.programFiles86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation ".txt" "$env:programfiles\Sublime Text 2\sublime_text.exe"
Install-ChocolateyVsixPackage xunit http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/463c5987-f82b-46c8-a97e-b1cde42b9099/file/66837/1/xunit.runner.visualstudio.vsix
Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptEula