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Would be interested to see this for win 11. I recently got a new machine and was surprised how may little things i must have done to my last. Turning off file grouping, basically every option for the start menu. Actually now that i think about it its mostly just find every option that can be turned off and turn it off.

[jwells89]

Don’t have a full guide, but winget is your friend for quickly setting up Windows and has come installed by default for a while now. Lets you install most popular software through the command line, which is much nicer than wandering around the internet downloading installers.

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To be honest, would be interested in seeing this for any OS

[Unfrozen0688]

Note, all this may not be allowed if this is your managed work device. Here is some of my stuff I do.

In general: Turn Windows updates ON!! DO NOT use any "debloater" scripts!!

You can use a local account if you login with [e-mail] and any password or something. https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/11/how-to-set-up-windows-11-w...

In the Windows Settings just dick around a bit and play around with what you like.

There is a Dev section, I turn on everything for EXCEPT RDP incoming connections.

Win11 - This video shows how to restore a lot of stuff from Win10 they removed. And good stuff to disable in settings as you please. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-RTGQ3iQk

"Godmode" folder shows you a lot of hidden settings https://www.howtogeek.com/402458/enable-god-mode-in-windows-...

Verbose login - Shows more detail on login and logoff https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/132125-enable-verbos...

Remove Aero Shake https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-aero-shake...

Mmc.exe - old but good

Sounds - Windows startup sound turn on

Device manager - Turn off network card sleep

Set DNS to Cloudflare for Families or ControlD for filtering

O&O Shutup to turn off a lot of spyware shit https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Applications:

Microsoft Sysinternals Suite - Process Explorer is a way better task manager and psexec to run things as SYSTEM.

Firefox + ublock origin. Can set as defualt browser now when Firefox asks.

Notepad++ and Notepad2

ShareX - screenshots

Eartrumpet - Volume management

ModernFlyouts - Volume, Caps lock notification etc. Just way nicer than default.

Twinkle Tary - Adjust monitor brithness with app

TranclucentTB - Windows 10, adjust taskbar.

Microsoft Powertoys - A tonne of extra programs and settings, program launcher, caffeine to prevent sleep etc.

Mouse without borders - control several PCs with one keyboard and mouse. Works best over wiered network. Microsoft made. Free.

Quicklook - Preview files with Spacebar like MacOS.

CoreTemp - Temp and load monitor, also get hwmonitor and hwinfo

7zip - Zip,RAR etc

Everything - Searches well, everything, way better on a Windows machine.

Also go to Ninite.com and install stuff from there.

No need for antivirus besides Defender unless you already have a paid one you like/company installed.

A lot from here https://www.neowin.net/news/top-11-apps-every-windows-11-use...

Yes, the power of Windows!!