1- Prerequisites
1- Ensure the Windows 11 system is activated.
2- winget is a must-have tool in Windows 10/11 system so as to install, maintain the apps. then strongly recommended to have it. While Windows 10 Ent LTSC has no such tool, then download from website: LTSC-Win10-WinGet-Installer or locally from here (downloadable as below). Then Run it as Administrator.
.\install-winget.bat
3- ms store is a good-to-have, but Windows 10/11 Enterprise LTSC has no such product, then download the full package or run the local script (downloadable as below). Then Run it as Administrator.
./Add-MS-Store.cmd
2- Install Windows Terminal, curl, nano, which, 7zip
## Windows Terminal
winget install Microsoft.Windowsterminal
## Install in one shot
winget install cURL.cURL GNU.Nano GnuWin32.Which 7zip.7zip
3- Install Microsoft VC++ Redistributable
## x64
winget install Microsoft.VCRedist.2010.x64 Microsoft.VCRedist.2012.x64 Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64
## x86
winget install Microsoft.VCRedist.2010.x86 Microsoft.VCRedist.2012.x86 Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x86
4- Install Git, Node.js, Java JDK 21, Everything
## Install Git Bash, and Git Credential Manager, Node.js and JDK 21
winget install Git.Git Git.GCM github.cli OpenJS.NodeJS Oracle.JDK.21
winget install voidtools.Everything
5- Install media pack: ffmpeg, VLC and HoneyView
winget install Gyan.FFmpeg
## Command line alias added: "ffmpeg" - the encoding engine
## Command line alias added: "ffplay" - commandline player
## Command line alias added: "ffprobe"
## Add an entry to the "PATH" of User Environment Variable:
## %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Close and re-open the Terminal, then you can play music with ffplay:
ffplay -autoexit -nodisp -loglevel panic E:\WACKIE\Music\m4a\2025-best-portugal-songs-relaxing-and-soft-chill-mix-study-work.m4a
## Video player and image viewer
winget install VideoLAN.VLC Bandisoft.Honeyview
## Even PDF Reader
winget install Foxit.FoxitReader
winget install Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit
6- More installs
## Editors and programming tools
winget install Notepad++.Notepad++ Microsoft.VisualStudioCode Postman.Postman
## Browser: Helium is a Chromium based browser, lighter than Chrome
winget install ImputNet.Helium Google.Chrome.exe mozilla.firefox
## Even MySQL 8.4.x and PostgreSQL
winget install Oracle.MySQL
winget install PostgreSQL.PostgreSQL.17
## Even MiniTool Partition Wizard 13 Free
winget install MiniTool.PartitionWizard.Free
## Python in a specific location
winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.14 --location C:\Python314
## Install uv package manager
winget install astral.uv
## GoLang
winget install GoLang.Go
## Rustlang
winget install Rustlang.Rustup
## If it complains "no link.exe" is available when compiling, do:
rustup default stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
## Benchmark tools
winget install CPUID.CPU-Z TechPowerUp.GPU-Z
## Messengers
winget install Tencent.WeChat Tencent.TencentMeeting
7- Mega Installs
## Microsoft 365 suite
## Install Microsoft 365 manually
## Then activate the product with company subscription or
irm https://get.activated.win | iex
8- Classic Context Menu vs. Modern Context Menu
## Switch back to classic Menu
reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /ve /f
## Re-launch the Windows Explorer
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
## Restore the new context menu
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}" /f
## Re-launch the Windows Explorer
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
9- Clear the Microsoft Defender History
## Clear the Microsoft defender Protection History
Set-MpPreference -ScanPurgeItemsAfterDelay 1
10- More Operations
A) [Create and Boot to a Windows 11 in VHDX](./Create and Boot to a Windows 11 in VHDX.md)
B). [Enable User Switching in Windows 11](./Enable User Switching in Windows 11.md)
C). [Move EFI Partition to Another Drive in Windows 10](./Move EFI Partition to Another Drive in Windows 10.md)
D). Pause_Windows_Updates_to_20_years
E). [QnA- What if your Outlook App not synchnizing emails with Cloud](./QnA- What if your Outlook App not synchnizing emails with Cloud.md)
F). [UEFI Remove Unwanted Boot Entries from BIOS](./UEFI Remove Unwanted Boot Entries from BIOS.md)
