Windows Software Essentials
Chocolatey
- Install chocolatey (run in Windows PowerShell as Administrator)
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'))
System Basic
choco install 7zip.install notepadplusplus.install microsoft-windows-terminal powertoys
- 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
- Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- Windows Terminal - Microsoft Store
- PowerToys - Microsoft Store
Internet
choco install firefox thunderbird googlechrome
- Firefox - https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/new/
- Thunderbird - https://www.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/
- Chrome - https://www.google.com/chrome/
Office
choco install libreoffice-fresh okular
- LibreOffice - https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
- Okular - Microsoft Store (https://okular.kde.org/)
- PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger
- Other
- ScanSnap Manager - http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/software/s1100w-setup.html
- Brother P-touch Editor - https://support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=de&lang=de
- (Adobe Acrobat Reader - https://get.adobe.com/de/reader/)
- (FreePDF - http://freepdfxp.de)
- (PDF split and merge - http://www.pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-basic/)
Graphics
choco install imageresizerapp lightscreen gimp inkscape drawio
- ImageResizer - https://github.com/bricelam/ImageResizer/releases
- LightScreen - http://lightscreen.com.ar/
- Gimp - https://www.gimp.org/
- Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/de/
- Draw.io - https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/
- Other
- Paint.NET - https://www.getpaint.net/download.html
- Darktable - https://www.darktable.org/install/
- EOS Utility - https://www.canon.de/support/consumer_products/software/eos-utility.html
3D Design&Printing
- Cura - https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/tags
- Fusion 360 - https://www.autodesk.de/products/fusion-360/free-trial
Multimedia
choco install mpc-hc-clsid2 foobar2000
- MPC-HC - https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
- Foobar - https://www.foobar2000.org/
- Other
choco install obs-studio.install
- OBS-Studio - https://obsproject.com/download
- VLC Media Player - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- DaVinci Resolve - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
- (Gnome Music Player Client)
- (Audacity - https://www.audacityteam.org/)
File Transfer/Sync
choco install nextcloud-client winscp
- nextcloud - https://nextcloud.com/install/#
- WinSCP - https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
- Other
- OpenVPN - https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html
- FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org/
- TortoiseGIT - https://tortoisegit.org/download/
- Git for Windows - https://git-scm.com/download/win
Software Development
choco install vscode autoit.install
- Visual Studio Code - Windows Store (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
- AutoIt - https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/
- Arduino - https://www.arduino.cc/en/software
- Other
- (Docker Desktop - https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop)
- (XML Notepad - https://github.com/microsoft/XmlNotepad/releases)
System Advanced
choco install crystaldiskmark treesizefree rufus
- CrystalDiskMark - https://crystalmark.info/en/download/
- TreeSize - https://www.jam-software.de/treesize_free/
- Rufus - https://rufus.ie/
- Other
- AutoLogon - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon
- Autoruns - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
- ImageWriter - https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
- TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php
- Synergy - https://symless.com/synergy
- WinMerge - https://winmerge.org
- X-Mouse Button Control - https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm
- HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/download.html
- CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
- (DesktopOK)
- (WinSplit Revolution v11.04 - https://www.chip.de/downloads/WinSplit-Revolution_28545937.html)
- (Putty - https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html)
- (Bitwarden - https://bitwarden.com/download/)