Software

Daily use

Any program you wants to use daily /* MUST HAVE */

• Sublime Text, Notepad++ - Text Editor
• Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Iceweasel, Chromium - Web crawler
• Vuze or Leap, µTorrent, BitTorrent - Torrents
• Peerblock - Block malicious website, Hadopi, Botnets, …
• Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
• Malware Byte’s
• 7-zip
• Ccleaner - Can clean the last Windows copy
• Defraggler - Optimise your SSD & defrag your HDD
• DirectX - I always forget DirectX..
• Windows Office

Develop

Apps to develop

• Visual Studio Community
• Python 2 or 3
• Git bash, GitHub or Other GIT GUI
• NodeJS
• MongoDB
• Wamp
• Go
• ConEMU, TMux - Console multiplexer
• Wireshark - Network Listener
• WinSCP - SSH, SFTP, FTP client
• Fiddler - Listen HTTP network

Plugins

Plugins to use with other programs

• Python
  • PIP, Setuptools
• Sublime Text
  • Package control
• Heroku Toolbelt
• Google Chrome
  • AdBlock Plus

Entertainement

Apps to enjoy life

• Skype, Teamspeak, Curse Voice
• Mediamonkey - Music player, lyrics, works well even with 2k+ songs.
• VLC - Media player
• VoiceMeter - Fabulous audio multiplexer, professionnal grade
• Open Broadcaster
• Steam
• XMind - Chart, mindmap creator
• Teamviewer - Help your friends
• Texmaker - If you want to make great documents

CONFIG

What configurations should I remember to do ?

• VPN or Proxy if needed
• Show file extensions
• Update drivers via Ma-config.com

I got an SSD, what should I remember to do ?

• Change the location of music, videos, pictures (in W10 system menu)
• Change Appdata folder location to HDD (I do not, for speed)
• Change Temp folder location to HDD (Environnement variable to D:\Temp\User and D:\Temp\System)
• Enable AHCI
• Enable TRIM (fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0)
• Disable system restore
• Disable indexing on SSD, Move index folder to HDD
• Disable Hibernation ( powercfg -h off )
• Disable Prefetch & Superfetch ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters)
• Disable service for Superfetch ( services.msc )
• Disable ClearPageFileAtShutdown and LargeSystemCache ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Memory Management )

Source

https://www.maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-must-do-when-running-a-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7/