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Better Windows

A nifty tool made for additions to a usual Windows installation.

Purpose

Windows is the most popular OS but setting up a fresh install takes a lot of manual installation/configuration usually and hence this tool was made.

"How the application looks"

Installation

You can download the latest .ps1 through Releases and right-click and select 'Run with Powershell'.

or

You can clone/download zip of the repository.

Usage

Most things are self-explanatory but just make sure to:

  • Install the Prereqs before using most of the things.
  • Right-click and select 'Run with Powershell'.

Contents

1. Tools / FFMpeg

Fetches FFMpeg's latest release from the release repo, extracts the binary, adds it to PATH too.

"ffmpeg"

2. Tools / Remove Bloat

Removes all pre-installed bloatware.

2. Tools / Youtube-Dl + Context

Gets the latest Youtube-Dl release and adds it to PATH and adds a context menu entry to download a video anywhere in the directory.

3. Prereqs / Git+Chocolatey

Installs Git and Chocolatey silently. The entries below require Git and Chocolatey to be installed.

4. Chocolatey / Development Essentials

Fetches and installs:

  • Visual Studio Code
  • NodeJS
  • Notepad++
  • 7Zip

5. Chocolatey / Gaming Essentials

Fetches and installs:

  • Epic Games Launcher
  • RetroArch
  • Steam
  • Discord

6. Chocolatey / Entertainment Essentials

Fetches and installs:

  • VLC
  • Spotify

7 Chocolatey / Satyam Essentials

Fetches and installs: Development and entertainment plus:

  • Android Debug Bridge

8. Why / Rebloat

If for some reason, you would want to rebloat your device in a proper way.

To-Do:

  • Add a Debloater type script too to make it a one-stop solution. (Maybe fork the famous windows10debloater)
  • Reorganize the script a little bit (maybe a more procedural main-function based script)
  • Maybe rework the UI (not really needed as the basic selection menu gets the work done but would be more pleasing)
  • Remove redundant code, maybe have string selections/array selections to fetch chocolatey for example. And, also divide them into functions.

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