What kind of cool softwares / utilities should I install on windows?

they still make powertoys

>>105627469 (OP)
Everything (it's the name of the program) is practically mandatory for file search

Scoop is the best way to install and update CLI software, and speaking of, you should use it to install yt-dlp and ffmpeg

GitBash

Gentoo

I remember when I was a kid that I used to customize Windows to look like MacOS, or Windows 7, etc. I don't remember how I themed it, but I used external programs to bring back the old start menu, and I also used Rainmeter for cool looking widgets and maybe other stuff.

HWinfo64
ZenTimings
y-cruncher
cinebench
unigine benchmarks

>>105627469 (OP)
Bulk Crap Uninstaller

>>105627846
Rainmeter, more like RAMeater ha

>>105627469 (OP)
Dopus, Sharex, flux, PotPlayer

how do you lock your OS and all drives/partitions on windows? prevent viewing/tampering if someone has access to the pc

>>105627553
scoop to a secondary non-windows partition

>>105627469 (OP)
WinDirStat for cleanup assistant/visualisation of storage
OpenShell for changing the godawful start menu and taskbar
MSI Afterburner for overclocking and setting fan speeds
Speccy or HWinfo64 for monitoring temps and viewing system info
qBittorrent for torrents
LibreOffice for office suite
VLC or MPC for viewing media
ExplorerPatcher for improving File Explorer functionality

>>105629327
>WinDirStat

>>105630888
>25GB HDD on Acer Laptop running Windows XP

>>105627469 (OP)
Steam, you can play games on it which I think is cool.
Overall a pretty good application.

>>105627469 (OP)
Bonzi buddy

>>105631067
What a great restaurant

>>105627469 (OP)
WSL2. Anything useful you'll do on winshit will be inferior to WSL2.
Pretty much all you need is pwsh, because powershell.exe is worse in every way.

>>105627553
If your shitty corporation hasn't disabled windows store, just use winget. Scoop does stupid shit like create temporary executables to work around %PATH% bloating because winshit in its inferior design encourages disorganized software installation.

audiotrumpet is a necessity

>>105631426
>audiotrumpet
Did you make that up? I thought it was some Audacity fork or something.

>>105631568
eartrumpet

every single time i try to write that program's name i end up writing audiotrumpet

>>105631067
That's on your linux drive.

Ignore the freetard's post

>>105631067
Thanks I'll make sure to check out this Steam app, it sounds really cool.

>>105627469 (OP)
simplewall, VLC, handbrake, rufus

check out https://windhawk.net/
It has a lot of various shit to modify windoze. I found a mod to make vertical taskbar in w11 over there