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Windows Postinstall

March 27, 2024

Things to do after Windows install.

See also The Ultimate Windows Development Environment Guide

Enable MS store and winget

For Windows LTSC versions

Run the following command with admin rights and ignore the error. MS store will be installed after a few minutes.

wsreset -i

Install software via MS store

Packages in MS store: https://apps.microsoft.com/search

Install software via 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 starship obsidian nerd-fonts-firacode nerd-fonts-hack github-desktop zotero handbrake cpu-z gpu-z
choco uninstall -n --skipautouninstaller vscode qbittorrent telegram github-desktop brave firefox

See also the  🍫 Chocolatey package list for more packages.

Tweaks

  • [[WSL2|Set up WSL2]]
  • [[environment-variables| Set environment variables]]
  • [[developement/julia|Setup Julia]]

CTT Windows Utility

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

irm christitus.com/win | iex

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

Fix Chromium rendering issue

From this reddit thread.

Some people may have noticed after the windows 11 24H2 update that they began to experience issues with electron/chromium based apps(Discord, VSCode, Chrome itself) when being alt-tabbed out of a game. Frequently, it will appear as if only parts of the interface are being updated, maybe you scrolling down a chat, but only a third of it is scrolling and the rest appears frozen in place.

Save and double click this registry file.

dwm_mpo_fix.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm]
"OverlayMinFPS"=dword:00000000

Windows LTSC fixes

Run the following command with admin rights to restore MS store.

wsreset -i

Apply the following registry to fix OneDrive in the Explorer. 1

fix-onedrive.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A52BBA46-E9E1-435f-B3D9-28DAA648C0F6}]
"Attributes"=dword:00000001
"Category"=dword:00000004
"DefinitionFlags"=dword:00000040
"Icon"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
  00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,69,00,\
  6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,72,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,\
  00,31,00,30,00,34,00,30,00,00,00
"LocalizedName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,\
  6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,65,00,74,00,74,00,69,00,6e,00,67,00,53,00,79,00,6e,00,63,00,\
  43,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,30,00,32,\
  00,34,00,00,00
"LocalRedirectOnly"=dword:00000001
"Name"="OneDrive"
"ParentFolder"="{5E6C858F-0E22-4760-9AFE-EA3317B67173}"
"ParsingName"="shell:::{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}"
"RelativePath"="OneDrive"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions\{A52BBA46-E9E1-435f-B3D9-28DAA648C0F6}]
"Attributes"=dword:00000001
"Category"=dword:00000004
"DefinitionFlags"=dword:00000040
"Icon"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
  00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,69,00,\
  00,31,00,30,00,34,00,30,00,00,00
"LocalizedName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,\
  6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,\
  00,5c,00,53,00,65,00,74,00,74,00,69,00,6e,00,67,00,53,00,79,00,6e,00,63,00,\
  43,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,2d,00,31,00,30,00,32,\
  00,34,00,00,00
"LocalRedirectOnly"=dword:00000001
"Name"="OneDrive"
"ParentFolder"="{5E6C858F-0E22-4760-9AFE-EA3317B67173}"
"ParsingName"="shell:::{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}"
"RelativePath"="OneDrive"

  1. https://ibug.io/blog/2025/04/windows-10-ltsc-onedrive-explorer-sidebar-fix/ ↩︎

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