Tinywall - Windows firewall front-end, blocks everything unless you say otherwise, once you know your way around it's very good Windows Defender - Just use the built in one but update If you want to take it a couple of steps further you can setup a PiHole to help out amoungst other things shout-out to r/privacy Avoid malicious site, avoid clicking ads, avoid downloading executable from untrusted sources, even then you can verify the file integrity. You do not need 3rd party AV, use common sense. Speedcrunch - Good calculator with a variety of functions. Libre Office - Free word processes, spreadsheet manager, slideshow editor etc. Night Mode - Built in Windows 10, do your eyes a favor and enable this (disable when doing colour sensitive work/ games) HWINFO64 - Good for seeing what hardware, versions, speed temps etc.Įverything - If you have a lot of files across your PC, everything can search them all instantly, much quicker and provides better results than windows search.

Geek Uninstaller - Better than windows add/remove and has good cleanup functionality

Notepad++ - Notepad replacement with a lot of useful features. It's 2018, you don't need a crazy amount of system applications. Ninite - Another regarded package installer, limited amount of software and install options.Ĭhocolatey - Similar to the above, however less user friendly, but more software PatchmyPC - Prefer this over ninite and chocolatey use this to install programs/update programs - even the ones i've listed if available. I'm not going to include the alternatives as I find these work best for me. I can vouch for the following the majority can be installed as portable versions if that's your thing. This post <- should be the first thing you read and follow.

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