Stuff on top of Windows
Basics
- Firefox. Sync
- Chrome. Sync
- MSOffice / LibreOffice
- GVim / Notepad++
Audio
- Reaper
- Soundcard driver
- Hydrogen Drum machine
Dev
- Android SDK
- Virtualbox. Extension pack?
- Visual Studio, VsVim, Relative Number
- mysysgit
- GitHub for Windows
Untested
http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/ http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/
Utilities
- Deluge
- WinCDEmu
- Gimp
- Inkscape
- WinDjView
- Adobe Reader
- Focus Booster
- VirtuaWin (Multiple Workspaces)
- Greenshot (Screenshot)
- evince (better rendering PDF reader and for djvu, etc)
- BatteryCare (for laptop)
- windirstat
- Wade’s Toolbox
- Cmder (based on ConEmu. May need to replace conemu folder with latest)
- Pandoc to convert markdown to docx or pdf. Converting markdown to word document is as simple as
pandoc "hello.md" -o "hello.docx"
- Xmind (mindmapping utility. Mindmaps are kept here.)
- SUMo. Software Update Monitor. Helps to keep windows software up-to-date. Don’t use the installer; use zip file to avoid crapware.
- PeaZip. A decent archive manager. Alternative to winzip, winrar, and 7z.
Chess
- ChessMaster
- BabasChess
- Fritz & Stockfish – Unzip, Fritz Create UCI Engine, Change Main Engine
Sync
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Evernote
Configuration
Windows
- Theme (Desktop > Personalize > Browse Themes Online)
Disable Hibernation
Saves several GBs of space
powercfg -h off
Disable Automatic Jack Detection (Audio)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000\GlobalSettings\EnableDynamicDevices 00 00 00 00
How to perform a calibration (full discharge)?
The most adequate method to do a full discharge (100% to a minimum of 3%) consists of the following procedure:
- Fully charge the battery to its maximum capacity (100%);
- Let the battery “rest” fully charged for 2 hours or more in order to cool down from the charging process. You may use the computer normally within this period;
- Unplug the power cord and set the computer to hibernate automatically at 5% as described by the image sequence below (click images to enlarge). If you cannot select 5%, then you should use the minimum value allowed, but never below 5%;
- Leave the computer discharging, non-stop, until it hibernates itself. You may use the computer normally within this period;
- When the computer shuts down completely, let it stay in the hibernation state for 5 hours or even more;
- Plug the computer to the A/C power to perform a full charge non-stop until its maximum capacity (100%). You may use the computer normally within this period.
source: http://batterycare.net/en/guide.html#descTot
Authentication Proxy
Reference: http://stormpoopersmith.com/2012/03/20/using-applications-behind-a-corporate-proxy/
- Install cntlm
- Update
cntlm.ini
username and domain - Important step is to add password hash. Run
cntlm -c cntlm.ini -H
orcntlm -H -a NTLMv2 -u user@domain proxy:port
- Update
cntlm.ini
with the NTLMv2 hash from the previous step. - Verify the config with
cntlm -c cntlm.ini -I -M http://www.google.com
. - Start the
cntlm
service from windows services. - For the application that does not work well with windows authentication proxy, provide proxy and port as 127.0.0.1 and 3128 (this could be changed)
- The applications should work fine connecting to internet.
Sync
- Firefox, Chrome, Dropbox