I got a new laptop for work, and decided to take the future pain out of setup using WinGet. WinGet comes baked into Windows version 24H2 and above, and is a convenient way to keep all your applications up to date.
WinGet does provide a command line search function, but with over 8,000 packages it can get a little difficult to find exactly what you want. I use winstall.app to make searching for apps a little easier.
This is the list of applications I install by default. I use exact package name matching just to be sure I don’t download something incorrectly.
winget install -id=Google.Chrome -e
winget install -id=Notepad++.Notepad++ -e
winget install -id=Git.Git -e
winget install -id=GitExtensionsTeam.GitExtensions -e
winget install -id=Meld.Meld -e
winget install -id=Mozilla.Firefox -e
winget install -id=dotPDN.PaintDotNet -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.VisualStudioCode -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.Professional -e
winget install --id Microsoft.SQLServerManagementStudio -e
winget install --id=mRemoteNG.mRemoteNG -e
winget install --id=3TSoftwareLabs.Robo3T -e
winget install --id=Notion.Notion -e
winget install --id=Postman.Postman -e
winget install --id=Mythicsoft.AgentRansack -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.WSL -e
winget install --id=Docker.DockerDesktop -e
winget install --id=JGraph.Draw -e
winget install --id=OBSProject.OBSStudio -e
winget install --id=Greenshot.Greenshot -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.AzureCLI -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.Azure.StorageExplorer -e
winget install --id=Microsoft.Azure.FunctionsCoreTools -e
winget install --id=OpenJS.NodeJS -e
Now I can keep all these applications up to date with all the latest security patches with one command:
winget upgrade --all