Windows Utility Alternatives

Now the first screen on under install, you can see all your different apps here, which is just great so the idea behind this is on a fresh install you would go through click all the apps that you want to install go boom and then once that's done hit install the funny thing is the alternative to this is when get UI that's actually in my application and on all new installs I install it because I do use it on going through the system because it's great for managing applications in your system.

So I highly recommend installing Winget UI alongside of your suite on an initial install.

So that's what the install section of my utility does, and I'll get to Winget UI.

It's really neat here in a minute.

Now, as far as the tweaks go, I just recommend doing the standard tweaks.

There's one extra tweak we just added in the last couple months, given all the exploits on Windows around...

Windows Platform Binary Table, which is just a fancy way of saying manufacturers load a bunch of executables and run them at elevated privileges before your system boots in Windows.

Got to love Windows and how secure it is.

But let's say you have an Asus motherboard with Armory Crate.

There was a bunch of exploits that came out earlier in the system, and your system was pretty much wide open for about six months there.

If you want to learn more about those exploits, Low Level TV has a really good rundown of WPBT.

MSI and other manufacturers do utilize this as well.

It's a pretty big gap in Windows, but one we can easily close by just disabling the platform binary table.

And also, if you have those tools, I would uninstall them and also go into your BIOS and disable them.

They aren't good.

They don't give you any extra performance.

They're going to blow up your system and cause more vulnerability.

So definitely disable WPBT.

Now, past that, we have config, these are just ease of access to get like the old printer panel, like this is disappeared.

It's a certain shell command to get to it.

And then other ease of access things like if I want to install NFS, this is just like a one click install where there's a lot of reg edits and other things that has to happen to install.

uh, NFS or auto login and other things here.

Now, as far as updates, I usually just do security updates.

All this does is push out security updates.

So any like feature updates won't get installed immediately, but you will get security updates.