Chocolatey Software

Chocolatey Software, a package manager for Windows which can be used as a standalone package by individuals, and businesses via packages such as puppet and Ansible.

Standalone Install

Open PowerShell as an administrator, enter the following and press return:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Chocolatey GUI

choco install chocolateygui chocolatey-core.extension

Prevent Desktop Icons From Being Added During Package Installations

Open PowerShell as an administrator, enter the following and press return:

choco install cleanup-desktop-shortcuts.hook --pre

Install A Package

Open PowerShell as an administrator, enter the following and press return:

choco install <PackageName>

Log File Location

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs

Upgrade Via The PowerShell

choco upgrade chocolatey

IT Support Software/Utilities

• cpu-z
• driverview
• powertoys
• procexp
• procmon
• putty.install
• speedtest
• sysinternals

Popular Third Party Software

• 7zip.install
• adobereader
• cdburnerxp
• desktopok - DesktopOK is a tool to save and restore the positions of icons.
• filezilla
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Office Productivity

• freeoffice
• libreoffice libreoffice-help
• joplin
• notepadplusplus npppluginmanager
• office-online-chrome
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Audio/Visual

• audacity audacity-ffmpeg audacity-lame
• fsviewer
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Communications

• discord.install
• microsoft-teams.install
• signal
• skype
• telegram.install
• thunderbird
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Gaming

• ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator
• steamdeck

Remote Desktop Tools

• anydesk.install
• chrome-remote-desktop-chrome
• rustdesk
• teamviewer

Web Browsers

• brave
• firefox
• googlechrome
• googlechrome-allusers
• opera
• tor-browser

Useful Links

• https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/Windows/Chocolatey/index