Scott’s Ultimate Tools via Winget

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!

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