Ansible is well known it the IT operations fields with its fantastic automation abilities.
You can do whatever you want with Windows too if it's a Powershell, bat script or one of the more than the hundreds modules.
I will use it to configure my personal machine and save the hustle every time I step on new one.
It's not a big deal to install a few programs but I'm sure this will repay in the long term. Can be pretty useful for configuring multiple machines too.
Using Ansible to target localhost on Linux is like click-click-go, but It's different when it's comes to Windows.
We need to install WSL on Windows, Ansible on WSL, Enable WinRm on Windows and finally control it from WSL.
And all this happens on your localhost.

Install Ansible on WSL

From within PowerShell run the following commands.
Enable WSL:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Install Ubuntu distribution but you may choose to install whatever distro you want:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/wsl-ubuntu-1604 -OutFile Ubuntu.appx -UseBasicParsing

Start your WSL and update packages:
sudo apt-get update

Install Ansible:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ansible

Install packages for WinRM support:

sudo apt install python-pip
sudo pip install pywinrm
sudo pip install xmltodict

Enable WinRM

By default WinRM works only for Private or Domain networks. You can skip that by providing parameter to Enable-PSRemoting -SkipNetworkProfileCheck but I don't suggest doing that. Instead make your trusted network private.
Then enable WinRM:
Enable-PSRemoting running it in Powershell.

Enable Basic Auth:
Set-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\Service\Auth\Basic -Value $true

Enable Unencrypted connection:
Set-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\Service\AllowUnencrypted -Value $true

Run the playbook

Using ansible-pull run the playbook which install Chocolatey and a few packages from it. Full details can found in the repo. Provide your username and password for your Windows machine.

ansible-pull –U https://github.com/gmarokov/ansible-win-postinstall.git -e ansible-user=your_win_user ansible_password=your_win_user_password

Conclusion

I'm sure you as developer make a lot of tweaks to your os, me too. Having a few more tweaks to add, would be great to share some ideas and extend it even further.
I also created a playbooks for Ubuntu and Fedora, check them out if you are using one of this distros.