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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.

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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.

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

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 no@outlook.com 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!!

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