Windows Postinstall

Things to do after Windows install.

See also The Ultimate Windows Development Environment Guide

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 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 vlc
choco uninstall -n --skipautouninstaller vscode qbittorrent telegram github-desktop brave firefox

See also the  🍫 Chocolatey package list for more packages.

Other packages

• PotPlayer
• PowerShell Core can be installed via MS store.
• Windows terminal can be installed via MS store.

Tweaks

• Fix OneDrive issues

Enable MS store in LTSC

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

wsreset -i

Install the packages via the MS store

• AV1 video extension
• VP9 video extension
• Windows terminal
• Powershell
• winget

CTT Windows Utility

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

irm "https://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.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

Fix ‘ms-gamingoverlay’ link Pop-Up

Save the text below to “fix-gamingoverlay.reg” and double click to apply the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR]
"AudioCaptureEnabled"=dword:00000000
"AppCaptureEnabled"=dword:00000000