Looking for essential addons/tweaks for Win10


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Hello!

 

I'm looking for essential addons/tweaks for Win10.

 

After you've completed a fresh installation of Win10, what do you do next? 

 

How do you tweak the UI to YOUR taste?

 

As for me, I'm missing AERO (transparent title bar) for starters. What should I do?

 

 

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(Paid) Software to consider

 

Windows UI Customization

 

Stardock - Object Desktop - https://www.stardock.com/products/odnt/

 

(Free) Software to consider
 

Windows UI Customization

 

Open Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

 

Windows Tweaking

 

O&O Shutup - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

 

Utilities

 

7zip - https://www.7-zip.org/

 

Video Related

 

Handbrake - https://handbrake.fr/

 

Audio Related

 

EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

MP3 Tag - https://www.mp3tag.de/en/

MusicBrainz - https://musicbrainz.org/

 

MultiMedia Players

 

VLC - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

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  • 3 months later...

Disable Fades and Animations

Set the recycle bin to "Display delete confirmation dialog"

Open file explorer to "This PC"

Personalize / color / custom / default window mode / dark

 

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If you want the old Aero Glass on windows 10 I used this previously on 8 and it's rather stable https://www.glass8.eu/ | It's since been updated to 10 but I don't personally use it anymore. I don't mind not having aero glass on 10

 

edit: as for me personally I don't do much for customization on 10 anymore; I don't mind the default look. The most I do is make sure my computer is set to Dark Mode for the color scheme and have the accent set to auto so it changes depending on my wallpaper :)

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One of my preferences is to enable display of file extensions in Explorer. I also disable suggestions in Start and the ink flyout, and turn off the "everything is still fine" notification by Defender.

 

Haven't seen much of a need for tweaking programs since 7.

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