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Software >
https://winaero.com/winaero-tweaker/
Lets you adjust a slew of Windows settings as well as do other useful stuff.
Mandatory.
the kit
All posts tagged the kit
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Software >
(on Microsoft Store)
https://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/solutions/ht505081-lenovo-vantage-using-your-pc-just-got-easier
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/software/vantage
A general tool to update stuff, get software, and adjust settings.
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Software > SVG editors > (SVG viewers) >
(on Wikipedia)
https://inkscape.org/
SVG editor
This is in my toolkit for whenever I need to do anything with SVG files. For just converting them, I use GIMP.
It is meant for image creation and not editing. I've used this for several projects, like my Chinese flash cards.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
(on Microsoft Store)
https://www.whatsapp.com/
A communications app of some sort.
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Has an artificial intelligence you can chat with.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/rbtray/
https://rbtray.sourceforge.net/
right-click to minimize an application to the tray.
A nice feature.
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Chocolatey: naps2
https://www.naps2.com/
A simple little scanner. Does its job and has great auto-naming features.
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Not Another PDF Scanner
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Software >
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Allows one to modify various Windows 11 features.
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This was most notably to get a usable taskbar with full program names, but the feature was added natively to Windows 11 (although often with shorter names)
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Software >
https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU
Allows the creation of custom resolutions and settings for your monitors, notably to overclock a monitor's refresh rate (Hz).
- aka CRU
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Monitor overclocking (custom resolutions)
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Software >
(on Microsoft Store)
http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm
A "Safely Remove Hardware" feature which also works on fixed disks, to dismount and spin them down.
