Windows: Applications, Shortcuts, and Workflows
Software
Logitech Remove Options+ popup
Use REGEDIT to delete DLL that autostarts Logitech Options+ Dialog Box.
Windows+R
then regedit
Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Name = Logitech Download Assistant
Data = C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\LogiLDA.dll,LogiFetch
Source: Reddit Comment
Zen Browser
https://zen-browser.app/download/
Mods list:
- TBR with content from what I have found.
Shortcuts List (Keyboard Shortcuts)
- ADD PICTURE.
VS Code
https://code.visualstudio.com/
GitHub Desktop
https://desktop.github.com/download/
Git for Windows
https://git-scm.com/downloads/win
Docker Desktop and WSL
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/basic-commands#set-default-linux-distribution
wsl --set-default <Distribution Name>
wsl --set-default Ubuntu
or wsl --set-default Ubuntu24.04
or whatever.
WSL 2 Networking and VPNs
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/
Windows Home directory > C:\Users\username\.wslconfig
[experimental]
networkingMode=mirrored
dnsTunneling=true
sqlite
https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases/
PowerToys
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install
Use your Company Portal if version is up to date
Greenshot
https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/
View Mate
Download without registering from: https://downloads.pentalogix.com/
Licecap
https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Used to make animated screen captures (.GIF
format, in addition)
LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below).
LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.
LICEcap is easy to use: view a demo (output is here).
In addition to .GIF, LICEcap supports its own native lossless .LCF file format, which allows for higher compression ratios than .GIF, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping. If you record to .LCF, you can play back the .LCF files within REAPER (and/or use it to convert to .gif or another video format).
LICEcap is GPL free software, each download package includes the source.
Node Version Manager: Node, NPM, and Bun
- Bun (via npm)
- NPM via nvm-windows
nvm on
nvm install lts
nvm use 22.14.0
or whatever version numbernode --version
npm --version
npm
to see if there is a version to upgrade tonpm install -g bun
npm install -g bun@1.2.4
(to upgrade or use a specific version ofbun
)npm install -g npm@11.2.0
(to upgrade or use a specific version ofnpm
)
bun --version
Rust
The tools below are listed in the recommended installation order (as rust requires the Microsoft C++ Build Tools).
- Microsoft C++ Build Tools
- Rust, using Rustup
rustup default stable-msvc
rustup update
Install both of those and then restart your computer.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Shift+Del
(verbosely Shift+Delete
) in File Explorer deletes directly (as opposed to copying to the recycle bin) and is MUCH faster.
In terms of file system, deleting to Recycle Bin is more or less like moving. The files you delete are put into a special protected Windows directory, and potentially the whole data needs to be read and written in a other place.
On the other hand, deleting with
Shift+Del
, the file is simply erased from the file system. This is mush faster, as it's not about changing the whole file, but only removing the few bytes telling that a file is there.Source: Stack Exchange
Startup Apps
- Open the Run dialog box, enter
shell:startup
, then right-click inside the Startup folder and selectNew > Shortcut
to add a program. - If you can't find the app, enter
shell:appsfolder
in the Run dialog box, then drag apps from that folder into the Startup folder.
Some apps offer a 'run at startup' option, which is an easier way to add a program to startup in Windows 10.