Windows¶
Application upgrades with winget¶
See winget documentation.
Show which applications can be upgraded:
winget upgrade
Install all available upgrades:
winget upgrade --all
BetterClearTypeTuner¶
This tool allows to adjust ClearType settings in a better way:
See BetterClearTypeTuner at Github.
God mode for Windows 10/11¶
Create a folder with the name GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.
This will create a symbol without a name, but you can enter the folder and get access to around 200 system settings.
Disable new context menu in Windows 11¶
reg add HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /ve /d "" /f
Disable web search in start menu of Windows 11¶
Open the registry editor (regedit.exe).
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows.
Create a new DWORD value with the name DisableSearchBoxSuggestions and the value 1.
Remove gaming services in game bar in Windows 11¶
Uninstall the Xbox gaming overlay and gaming services in an administrative PowerShell:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage
get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers
Then add the following registry keys to stop the game recorder software which still thinks, that the game bar is present:
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameDVR /f /t REG_DWORD /v "AppCaptureEnabled" /d 0
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\System\GameConfigStore /f /t REG_DWORD /v "GameDVR_Enabled" /d 0
Workaround for explorer menu opening in the wrong direction in Windows 11 24H2¶
Also see this post by Born.
Starting with Windows 11 24H2 a bug was introduced which causes the Explorer menu (the menu which appears when you click the "..." button) to open in the wrong direction. Instead of dropping down it will open upwards making it impossible to use when the Explorer window is not moved down first. Also see
A workaround is to use vivetool in an administrative console to disable feature ID 51960011:
vivetool.exe /disable /id:51960011
After this you need to restart Windows.