To make it works like a charm, or just works nearly-like a Mac environment, or just an adaptive for a PC 10 years old, instead disable too much features as tweak registry keys, or some tips like Windows 7 optimization.
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Disable activity history, telemetry collecting as much as you can for privacy, and for your network surely
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Disable taskbar thumbnail review (grouping app items like Mac), if your task bar has more than 2 items of app
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Make File Explorer open This PC as default. Remove some Quick Access items which already being in This PC.
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How to change default Edge Browser built-in behaviour by your favorited browser with EdgeDeflector
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Performance Options, only enable following below options
- Enable Peek
- Show thumbnails instead of icons
- Show window contents while dragging
- Slide open combo boxes
- Smooth edges of screen fonts
- Smooth-scroll list boxes
- Scoop - Package manager for Windows, why it better Chocolatey -> https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Comparison
- NirLauncher - Set of tools you need for your Windows https://www.ghacks.net/2017/05/22/nirsoft-net-review-tech-sites-we-love/
- Calibre - Ebook management
- Brave - Privacy-focus Chromium-based browser
- Blender - 3D creation
- Audacity - Sound creation
- Keypirinha - Bring Spotlight feature from MacOS to Windows
- Handbrake - Video transcoder
- Telegram - Privacy-focus OTT
- PowerToys - utility tools from Microsoft
- Visual Studio Code - Dev friendly text editor
- Windows Terminal - Control all shells in one app
- Unikey - Vietnamese-keyboard software
- 7zip - Compress tool
- Powershell - Open source Powershell for every system, friendly for Windows users if we compare to cmd
- Fork - Awesome git tool
- Shutdown Timer Classic - No need to remember shutdown command anymore https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NTDG6C9BTTW
- FalconX - Center taskbar icons
- Affinity Designer - best alternative of Photoshop
- Internet Download Manager
- uBlock for Ad-block, because it's an open-source extension, you can customize by your purpose
- The Great Suspender will helps you to suspend website when forgot to read it, its action will help to reduce CPU and RAM using for those websites
- HTTPS Everywhere help increasing your security and privacy. You could tell it to block all
http:websites if you want.