Configs

Post-install steps

Settings and De-bloating

Personalize

Display scaling: 125% or 100%
Theme: Dark. Disable transparency effects. Set accent color
Desktop Icon settings (which ones to show): Computer, User Folder, Recycle Bin
Background etc
Lock screen disable unnecessary content
Go to System > Rename PC > Set name like lenovo-win11

Settings

Privacy > Disable everything
Taskbar Settings: Hide or turn off all widgets

Edge Browser

Customize look (colors, layout etc)
Disable new tab’s sponsored content
Make Google default search engine
Search on new tab uses: Address Bar

Add/Remove Programs

Uninstall unused applications like: Weather, Xbox, Mcafee, Cortana (maybe OneDrive too)

File Explorer

Click on View > Show > Hidden Items
On left side tab, right click OneDrive. Go to Settings. Select Unlink PC

If you had accidentally saved files there, login to OneDrive from Firefox. Download your files. Delete all files from there. And delete from it’s Bin too

As per this video:

Open Registry Editor
Go to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
Create new Key called Explorer
Double click that Key folder. On the table-side, right click and create new DWORD (32-bit). Name it DisableSearchBoxSuggestions
Double click on the DWORD and set it to 1
Restart computer

Install programs via `winget`

winget usage: search, show, install, list, update

Browse winget packages at: winget.run, winstall.app

My Programs are: Firefox, VS Code, Git, VLC, fastfetch, Notepad++

Installation commands (run Terminal as Admin):

winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox
winget install -e --id Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget
winget install fastfetch
winget install -e --id VideoLAN.VLC
winget install -e --id Notepad++.Notepad++

Updating packages: winget upgrade --all

Windows Terminal setup

Make Git-bash as default
Change color scheme, font settings, default to Git Bash

If Git Bash profile not added within the terminal, refer this article

Git Bash

The home folder ~ is /c/Users/kumar which in Windows Powershell/CMD would translate to C:\Users\kumar
The default existing git-bash global profile file is: /etc/bash.bashrc
You can create an extra one in home folder as: touch ~/.bash_profile. Refer this answer. Paste below lines into that file, save it. Then restart terminal:
```
alias cls=clear
alias gedit=notepad
alias refreshenv="exec $(which $SHELL)"
```