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CASE - NZXT H7 FLOW (2022)

MOBO - NZXT N7 Z790

CPU - i7-13700K

RAM - 32GB G.Skill Flare X5

GPU - RTX 5060ti 16GB

PSU - Corsair RM850e

FANS - Noctua NH-D15, 3x Corsair ARGB RS120 daisy-chainable 

            
            
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Windows 11 Pro
Rufus to install via USB with pre-made local account, data collection questions denied, BitLocker disabled
MAS to activate

Winhance -- https://winhance.net/
removing Microsoft junk software

O&O ShutUp -- https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
disabling telemetry and other nuisances

Open-Shell -- https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
for more useful Start menu

ExplorerPatcher -- https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
for centered task icons but left-aligned Start button

RegEdits to disable "show more options," leftover File Explorer menu bar, add Take Ownership etc.

Group Policy edits to disable Microsoft Defender, notifications, etc.



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Firefox -- https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ / https://i.bloomworldwi.de/sZehrh
browser with custom userChrome and userContent for top-left menu and Vivaldi-style tab muting

RevoUninstaller -- https://www.revouninstaller.com/
fully remove software down to the registry keys

Notepad++ -- https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
text editing, saving non-text filetypes

WinRAR -- https://www.win-rar.com/download.html?&L=0
extraction tool of choice

Private Internet Access -- https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
VPN of choice, good customer support

qBittorrent -- https://www.qbittorrent.org/download
P2P client of choice

Lightshot -- https://app.prntscr.com/en/download.html
screenshot tool of choice

IrfanView -- https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
lightweight image viewer with basic editing tools

VLC -- https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
media player 

Search Everything -- https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
system-wide file search

WizTree -- https://diskanalyzer.com/download
efficient drive space analyzer 

FileConverter -- https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter/releases/
quick context menu file converter

Avidemux -- https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
fast basic video editing without re-encoding

DJV -- https://github.com/darbyjohnston/DJV
.exr image sequence viewer

ZoomIt -- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit
zoom in with a keybind

ShareX -- https://getsharex.com/downloads
gif recording and file uploading to custom host

Malwarebytes -- https://www.malwarebytes.com/
virus scanner tool, all real-time protection disabled