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Windows Postinstall

Things to do after Windows install.

See also The Ultimate Windows Development Environment Guide

CTT Windows Utility

The Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility provides APP installs, fixes and tweaks.

irm christitus.com/win | iex

Enable MS store and winget in Windows 10 LTSC 2021

Run the following command and ignore the error. MS store will be installed.

wsreset -i

Click Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller to install winget.

Chocolatey package manager

Install Chocolatey 🍫, a command-line interface (CLI) package manager for Windows.

Open the powershell prompt with admin privilege (e.g. via the Windows + X menu):

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Install packages

choco feature enable -n=useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades
choco install -y git.install --params "'/NoShellIntegration'"

choco install -y vscode qbittorrent firefox brave telegram bandizip nanazip honeyview potplayer lavfilters yt-dlp ffmpeg crystaldiskinfo crystaldiskmark directx vcredist-all sudo starship obsidian nerd-fonts-firacode nerd-fonts-hack github-desktop
choco uninstall -n --skipautouninstaller vscode qbittorrent telegram github-desktop brave

See also the  🍫 Chocolatey package list for more packages.

Disable hibernation

Disabling hibernation saves a lot of disk space (No more C:\hiberfile.sys). Run this in powershell with admin rights:

powercfg -h off

(Optional) Compress OS files for a smaller disk space footprint

Compact.exe /CompactOS:always

Install nvidia GPU driver

You can use nvcleaninstall to install Nvidia driver without bloat.

Afterward

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