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[Win11 Setup] Windows 11 Setup and Tools #windows #setup
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Windows Setup

Basic setup for windows 11 (will be mostly the same for windows 10 too).

Windows Tools

Tools that i installed immediately

  • 7-Zip
  • Windows Powershell 9 (default is 7)
  • Windows Powertoys
  • ohmyposh (Configure Command Prompt for windows terminal)

Capture Screenshots

The Snipping Tool can be launched by WIN + SHIFT + S but it is quite limited in the image editing features. Therefore i installed ShareX. With ShareX you can take a screenshot by pressing CTRL + Print

WSL2 Setup

Prior to WSL installation the CPU virtualization must be enabled in the bios! Also hyper-v must be installes - as well as wsl components ;) To install extra windows features you search for windows-features and open Windows-Features aktivieren oder deaktivieren which is part of the Systemsteuerung

Troubleshooting

The wsl2 network speed could be really slow. This might be caused by windows defender or firewall settings or by settings in the ethernet device. In my case it was related to the settings in the ethernet device. The bottom line is to disable all settings that "offload" something.

ethernet_offload

To test the network speed you can install speedtest-cli via apt install speedtest-cli and then simply run speedtest-cli.

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