Windows 11 is a shit OS. Everyone knows it, yet it's the most used (pc) OS in the world! Here's some tweaks and programs to make your Windows 11 experience just a little bit less bad.

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A quick and easy debloat tool to be used right after installing Windows.

Completely removes AI features, telemetry, bloatware, and other garbage. Also optimizes your system for better performance. Can only be used on brand new Windows Home/Professional installs, but Talon Lite works on in-use and non-Home/Professional installs.

This dude swears a LOT btw

This video is old, Talon has come a long way

A catalogue of various open-source Windows mods.

Currently I use the Start Menu + Taskbar + Notif Center stylers, Better file sizes in Explorer details, Taskbar Volume Control, Taskbar auto-hide when maximized, Taskbar auto-hide speed, No Focus Rectangle, Disable Taskbar Thumbnails, Alt+Tab window delayer, and Disk Pie Chart.

Incredibly fast search in explorer and file dialogs.

Can find files and launch apps, it basically replaces windows search entirely.

Always On Top, FancyZones, Text Extractor, and other QoL features for Windows (official Microsoft app btw).

Brings back classic Windows gadgets that Microsoft removed from newer versions.

Microsoft's reason for removing them was because they were a 'security issue,' but really they weren't. The only issue was that some idiot might install some shady gadget off of a 3rd party website.

A lightweight text editor for coding, notes, etc.

Notepad++ is what notepad used to be, simple yet useful. (notepad has fucking copilot in it now lmao)

The Best Media Player™

Reliable, can handle nearly every format in existence, it's even got a mobile app.

Visualizes disk space so you can quickly see which files are eating half of your storage space.

I have a whole lot more tweaks on my laptop (registry edits, task scheduler stuff, etc), I just dont remember them all lol :P