Windows Postinstall
Things to do after Windows install.
See also The Ultimate Windows Development Environment Guide
System setup¶
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 vivaldi telegram bandizip honeyview potplayer lavfilters yt-dlp ffmpeg crystaldiskinfo crystaldiskmark directx vcredist-all sudo starship obsidian nerd-fonts-firacode nerd-fonts-hack github-desktop tabby winscp
How to install winget in Windows 10 LTSC
choco install -y winget-cli
See also the 🍫 Chocolatey package list for more packages.
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
Compress OS files for a smaller disk space footprint¶
Compact.exe /CompactOS:always