Scott's Ultimate Tools via Winget
Posted on December 29, 2020 • 3 minutes • 482 words
As a nice year-end present for us, he has done it again, visit Scott Hanselman’s 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows .
Someone had left a great comment about compiling a list of all his suggestions as Windows Package Manager (aka winget) or Chocolatey package IDs. I mentioned this to Scott and he thought it was a great idea, too. So I offered to compile the list.
Why is this a wonderful suggestion? You only need to run a quick one-liner command, winget install <id> or choco install <id>, and you have installed the software.
If you’ve never used winget it is a really easy way to install full GUI applications. First, you need to make sure Windows Package Manager (aka winget) is installed, instructions here . The easiest way to do this… 1. Go to the Winget Releases page , 2. Download the latest .appxbundle file, 3. Open that file. Done!
Once installed, open Powershell (or Windows Terminal), and run the winget install command followed by the app’s ID. For example, winget install Microsoft.VisualStudioCode will run a script for you that does ALL of the work to install VS Code!
Here you can see me install Media File Manager app using winget install LancelotSoftware.MediaFileManager
Below is the list of the packages I was able to find. I first searched on winget. If it wasn’t there, then I tried Chocolatey. The source is the 3rd column, just start with that command and then use the ID
Name
Package Id
Source
7Zip
7zip.7zip
winget
Alttab Salamander
salamander
choco
Alt-Tab Terminator
alt-tab-terminator
choco
AutoHotkey
Lexikos.AutoHotkey
winget
Carnac
code52.Carnac
winget
CodeTrack
codetrack
choco
Ditto
ditto.ditto
winget
DOSBox
DOSBox.DOSBox
winget
EarTrumpet
File-New-Project.EarTrumpet
winget
Everything
voidtools.Everything
winget
Fiddler
Telerik.Fiddler
winget
Fiddler Everywhere
Telerik.FiddlerEverywhere
winget
FileSeek
BinaryFortress.FileSeek
winget
GitHub Desktop
GitHub.GitHubDesktop
winget
Greenshot
Greenshot.Greenshot
winget
Insomnia
Insomnia.Insomnia
winget
InsomniaDesigner
Insomnia.InsomniaDesigner
winget
LICEcap
Cockos.LICEcap
winget
Lightshot
lightshot.install
choco
LINQPad
LINQPad.LINQPad6
winget
LINQPad
LINQPad.LINQPad5
winget
Markdown Monster
WestWind.MarkdownMonster
winget
Midnight Commander
GNU.MidnightCommander
winget
Nightingale REST Client
43891JeniusApps.NightingaleRESTAPIClient
msstore (via winget)
NimbleText
nimbletext
choco
NuGet Package Explorer
NugetPackageExplorer
choco
Paint.NET
paint.net
choco
PowerToys
Microsoft.PowerToys
winget
PureText
puretext
choco
QuickLook
QL-Win.QuickLook
winget
RepoZ
repoz
choco
RescueTime
RescueTime.RescueTime
winget
ShareX
ShareX.ShareX
winget
ShellExView
NirSoft.ShellExView
winget
TeraCopy
teracopy
choco
Visual Studio Code
Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
winget
Visual Studio Code - Insiders
Microsoft.VisualStudioCodeInsiders
winget
VLC media player
VideoLAN.VLC
winget
WinDbg Preview
Microsoft.WinDbg
msstore (via winget)
WinDirStat: Windows Directory Statistics
WinDirStat.WinDirStat
winget
Windows Terminal
Microsoft.WindowsTerminal
winget
WinMerge
WinMerge.WinMerge
winget
Wireshark
WiresharkFoundation.Wireshark
winget
Yori
yori
choco
ZoomIT
zoomit
choco
If you need to use any of the choco packages, follow the Chocolatey’s installations instructions here
. Then do the same thing we did with winget! For example, choco install NuGetPackageExplorer.
Here are a few more tools that aren’t in Scott’s list, but I use on certain purpose-specific machines (media servers, devops agents, etc).
choco install mkvtoolnix
choco install mp3tag
choco install FileBot
choco install OpenAudible