{"id":93,"date":"2007-06-26T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T19:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/brain\/software-for-fresh-windows-computer\/"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:48:46","slug":"software-for-fresh-windows-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/software-for-fresh-windows-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Software for fresh Windows computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Programs I install on a new Windows machine:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Chrome with:\n<ul>\n<li>Tamper monkey<\/li>\n<li>uBlock origin<\/li>\n<li>Typio form recovery<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t care about cookies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\">7-Zip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/download.php\">VIM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/download.html\">Putty<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LastPass<\/li>\n<li>Thunderbird<\/li>\n<li>VLC<\/li>\n<li>Signal<\/li>\n<li>Syncovery<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Set-up steps I take:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Clean up taskbar (just right-click it)<\/li>\n<li>Fix touchpad settings<\/li>\n<li>Change power options (esp. power button and lid options)<\/li>\n<li>Fix Windows Explorer options (e.g. stop hiding file extensions)<\/li>\n<li>Recover backup with Syncovery<\/li>\n<li>Restore Putty registry keys<\/li>\n<li>Right-click Desktop &gt; View &gt; Show Desktop Icons<\/li>\n<li>Create a new Windows theme<\/li>\n<li>Use Disk Management to teach Windows my preferred drive letters<\/li>\n<li>Turn off accessibility shortcuts<\/li>\n<li>Add archive PST to Outlook data files, and confirm archive configuration<\/li>\n<li>Go through the Outlook options and change my settings.\u00c2\u00a0 Turn off all Add-Ins except MS Exchange (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msoutlook.info\/question\/751\">reference<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Set default apps<\/li>\n<li>Turn off Windows Spotlight<\/li>\n<li>Go to Display settings and turn off animations (etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programs I install on a new Windows machine: Chrome with: Tamper monkey uBlock origin Typio form recovery I don&#8217;t care about cookies 7-Zip VIM Putty LastPass Thunderbird VLC Signal Syncovery Set-up steps I take: Clean up taskbar (just right-click it) Fix touchpad settings Change power options (esp. power button and lid options) Fix Windows Explorer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tips","category-programming","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}