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Saturday, December 6, 2025

Best way to quickly install most of your favorite apps on Windows 11

Let's say you install Windows 11 from scratch and need to install a bunch of apps. Tedious, and takes a long time to do.
Well, here's a simple install script to get you up and running in one go. You will need to run it from the built-in Windows Powershell v5.x, running as admin.
You can copy the script directly to the console, or save it as Install_All_Apps.ps1 and run it like that.
Feel free to comment (add # before the line) or uncomment any app you like.



$IDs = @(
"Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.8"
"Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.9"
"Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.10"
"Microsoft.VCLibs.Desktop.14"		# MS Visual C++ 2015 Desktop v14.x
"Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64"		# MS Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redist x64
"Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.8"
"Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.1.8"
"Microsoft.PowerShell"
"Microsoft.WindowsTerminal"
# "Microsoft.Edge"
"Microsoft.Powertoys"
"Microsoft.VisualStudioCode"
# "Google.Antigravity"			# Similar to VisualStudioCode IDE
"WhatsApp.WhatsApp"
"Telegram.TelegramDesktop"
"Google.Chrome"
"Mozilla.Firefox"
"eloston.ungoogled-chromium"
"Notepad++.Notepad++"
"7zip.7zip"
# "M2Team.NanaZip"
# "Giorgiotani.Peazip"
# "RARLab.WinRAR"
"LesFerch.WinSetView"
"Gyan.FFmpeg"
"Audacity.Audacity"
"Buanzo.FFmpegforAudacity"		# FFmpeg for Audacity
# "MPC-BE.MPC-BE"
# "VideoLAN.VLC"			# VLC media player
"clsid2.mpc-hc"
"qBittorrent.qBittorrent"
"HermannSchinagl.LinkShellExtension"
"activescott.lessmsi"
"Meltytech.Shotcut"			# Shotcut Video editor NLE
"9N5LW3JBCXKF"				# MSIX Packaging Tool
"NirSoft.WirelessNetworkWatcher"
"NirSoft.FullEventLogView"
"NirSoft.ManageWirelessNetworks"	# Options > Show Wireless Keys
"NirSoft.MobileFileSearch"		# Search files inside a mobile device connected via USB MTP
"Fastfetch-cli.Fastfetch"
"Henry++.simplewall"			# Check afterwards if there's a newer version
# "Open-Shell.Open-Shell-Menu"
# "Ollama.Ollama"			# Ollama LLM AI Gen
# "Alibaba.Qwen"			# Qwen LLM AI Gen
# "Anthropic.ClaudeCode"		# Claude Code LLM
# "Anthropic.Claude"			# Claude LLM AI Gen
# "Comfy.ComfyUI-Desktop"		# desktop app for ComfyUI 
# "Git.Git"				## --source winget
# "Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit"
# "VSCodium.VSCodium"
# "TheDocumentFoundation.LibreOffice"
# "ONLYOFFICE.DesktopEditors"
# "XPDDT99J9GKB5C"			# Samsung Magician SSD Toolkit
# "Kingston.SSDManager"
)

foreach ($ID in $IDs) {
    Write-Host "Installing: $ID"
    winget install $ID -e --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements
}