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Revision as of 17:43, 11 February 2023

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>

Package Parameters

Log File Location

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs

Upgrade Via The PowerShell

choco upgrade chocolatey

IT Support Software/Utilities

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

Popular Third Party Software

  • 7zip.install
  • adobereader
  • calibre
  • cdburnerxp
  • desktopok - DesktopOK is a tool to save and restore the positions of icons
  • enpass.install
  • filezilla
  • googleearthpro
  • jre8

Customization

  • elevenclock - Windows 11 only, customizes the standard inbuilt clock
  • everythingtoolbar - Replace Windows Search

Office Productivity

  • freeoffice
  • grammarly-for-windows
  • libreoffice libreoffice-help
  • joplin
  • notepadplusplus npppluginmanager
  • office-online-chrome
  • pandoc - A universal document converter
  • wps-office-free

Audio/Visual

  • audacity audacity-ffmpeg audacity-lame
  • fsviewer
  • getiplayer
  • gimp
  • imagemagick
  • jpegview - similar to fsviewer & not just for jpeg files
  • kdenlive
  • makemkv
  • lossless-cut
  • obs-studio.install
  • paint.net
  • reaper
  • spotify
  • vlc

Communications

  • discord.install
  • microsoft-teams.install
  • signal
  • skype
  • telegram.install
  • thunderbird
  • twitch
  • zoom

Gaming

  • bsnes - SNES emulator
  • ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator
  • steamdeck
  • zsnes - SNES emulator

Remote Desktop Tools

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

Web Browsers

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

Useful Links