Setup for Windows 10 (and possibly 11 in the future) and my recommended programs (organized in folders)
Since i'm still a current user of Windows 10 this is primarily focused on only Windows 10 setup, programs, and (possibly) miscellaneous tweaks for the OS and programs. If at any time in the future I switch to Windows 11, I will either update sections of this guide to include parts for Windows 11 or create a new guide dedicated to Windows 11.
If you want to go all in, especially for gaming, optimize for latency. A great guide that is constantly being updated (at the time of writing this) is amitxv's PC-Tuning guide.
If the guide has too many comprimises for you (the Physical Setup section is more recommendations than mandatory, but support for various Windows features like UWP may be removed. Some of these features removed can be found here) than you can do a clean Windows 10 install with Microsoft's Windows 10 USB installer or with Ventoy using a Windows ISO from UUP dump (Windows 10 1709+)
**(this is a blatant rip from https://github.com/amitxv/PC-Tuning/blob/main/docs/building.md,
i'm still figuring out Github formatting and will link/give proper credit to that section of his guide if I fix this and
decide not to make my own version of this ISO download tutorial)**
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<summary>Instructions</summary>
- Search for the Windows version you desire and download the latest feature update instance
<img src="/media/uupdump-search-image.png" width="750">
- Choose the desired language and click next
<img src="/media/uupdump-choose-language.png" width="750">
- Uncheck all editions except the professional edition and click next
<img src="/media/uupdump-choose-edition.png" width="750">
- Copy the configuration below, ensure that ``Include updates`` is ticked and click ``Create download package``
<img src="/media/uupdump-download-options.png" width="750">
- Extract the downloaded package and run ``uup_download_windows.cmd``. The final ISO file will be created in the same directory as the script
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- ⭐ - Highly recommended
- ✅ - Open Source
- ❌ - Closed Source/Proprietary
- Storage Management
- Downloading
- iPhone
- Android (this section will come in the near future...)
- Sound/Audio
- Browsers (Includes browser extensions and flags/tweaks)
- Games (Game Launchers, Upscalers, Tools)
- Images
- Video
- Productivity (Office alternatives and Office Service disablers)
- System Modifications
- System Themeing
- VPN & DNS
- Monitoring (Hardware, FPS, Latency)
- SD Card (Formatting and test for fakes
- Mouse/Mice
- Monitor/Display
- Recommended Discord Clients
- Replacements for proprietary laptop/hardware software/bloatware
- Misc programs from fresh install at Went program (to be sorted out into folders after getting back home)
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My 7zip context menu settings
⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
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⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
(Partially taken from SourceForge description) A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, RAID and NVMe. Very useful for looking at drive health, temperature and lots of more information.
⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
(Partially taken from SourceForge description) A simple, yet effective disk benchmark software. Extremely useful for test any sort of drive (including flash storage like USBs and flash drives) to determine it's peak/max read/write speeds to ensure you have aquired a legitmite drive in terms of speed, or if the advertised speeds aren't as advertised.
⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
Follow this guide for proper usage
If you want to find out if your drive or flash storage has the right ammount storage, this should be your go to. Extremely useful when purchasing second hand/used drives and flash storage. Keep in mind this is better off used for checking storage size, not speed, as it can take a VERY long time depending on how much storage you are writing to test. If you want to check the effective speed of your storage, please use CrystalDiskMark.
⭐ - Highly recommended, ❌ - Closed Source/Proprietary
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✅ - Open Source
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- Alternatively, WizFile exists and is practically feature parity, but is ❌ closed source.
⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
An extensive multi-download manager that can manage hoster accounts, bypass download restrictions using dynamic ip (if your router supports it), bypassing captchas, plugins, extensions and more. If your looking for torrenting, scroll down to qBittorent.
⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
(Partially taken from GitHub description) Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. Great for finding those high quality rips without having to search through 15 different websites. Just like if your torrenting, try get some of your own uploads to avoid people banning you for leeching!
✅ - Open Source
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(these programs will all be organized into their proper folder after getting home)
⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
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⭐ - Highly recommended, ✅ - Open Source
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- Alternatively, Pinta exists and is ✅ open source but it's features are limited due to being built upon Paint.net's 3.0 source code.
✅ - Open Source
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- Alternatively (or if you unable to install your own provided uwp/appx files with GetStoreApp), Alt App Installer exists and is ✅ open source.
- Can't install .appx and .msixbundle files? Use "Appx Installer" Installer.
✅ - Open Source
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