For me, after the browser setup, the very next thing I install is SiteVital AI not because it’s my tool or anything, but because it saves me a lot of time when I’m setting up work environments.

I always run a quick audit on the projects I’ll be working on. It checks everything — SEO, performance, security, accessibility, mobile responsiveness, code quality, even UI/UX — all in one go. And since it’s completely free, I don’t have to juggle multiple tools during setup.

After that, it’s usually:

Brave for browsing

VS Code for development

Notion for organising everything

ShareX (agree with you — absolutely essential!)

EarTrumpet for quick audio control

Curious to see what other people consider “must-install” — always ends up adding a new tool to my stack.

, your tool seems to be a website and not something that someone installs on a Windows machine? Are you just trying to self-promote?

I do the same thing as you, split C into 2 partitions and move programs and data there. If I have to reinstall windows lots of programs will run without reinstall
Item 2 is open shell, I use the old single column style
3 is system properties / advanced tab / performance to best
4 at the bottom of that advanced tab I change environmental variables for TEMP and TMP under both windows to d:\temp

commented: That was done over a decade ago. Today with solid state drives, nope. -4
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