Joao Carrasqueira

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Joao Carrasqueira |João Carrasqueira

Windows 11 may be Microsoft's best operating system in many ways, but it's also a downgrade from previous versions in many others. There are numerous tools designed to help restore certain parts of the Windows experience to their former glory, and one that I find myself having to recommend is ExplorerPatcher. I've tried a few paid tools like this in the past, including Start11 and StartAllBack, and while I love them, spending money on some software can be hard to justify.

1 week ago | xda-developers.com | Joao Carrasqueira |João Carrasqueira

Windows 11 has gotten progressively more bloated over the years, on top of more aggressively promoting features users don't actually want. With that, we've also seen an increasingly larger number of tools crop up to help you get rid of all the things you don't want or care about. These days, there are plenty of solutions out there, but a particularly notable one that launched recently is called TidyOS.

2 weeks ago | xda-developers.com | Joao Carrasqueira |João Carrasqueira

Microsoft's PowerToys suite is an incredible collection of tools that level up your productivity in a number of ways. Depending on your use case, there are a ton of tools here that will make things easier for you. Personally, whenever I use a Windows 11 PC, I rely on a few PowerToys tools to make my life that much easier, and sometimes it's easy to forget that things would take a lot longer if I didn't have PowerToys in my arsenal.

2 weeks ago | xda-developers.com | Joao Carrasqueira |João Carrasqueira

In the age of the internet, it's hard to imagine living without it. I can tell you from experience — someone who has no internet (and no power, for that matter) as I'm writing this article — I've seen firsthand how much of a problem it can be to have a slow or non-existent connection. But while some issues are beyond our control, a slow internet connection isn't always an unsolvable mystery.

2 weeks ago | xda-developers.com | Joao Carrasqueira |João Carrasqueira

Package managers are one of the most useful tools you can use on a PC to get things set up quickly. They don't have the same widespread adoption on Windows that they do on Linux, and that's because there wasn't really a standard for a long time. Options like Chocolatey did exist and were great, but most people didn't bother with it. In recent years, though, Microsoft introduced WinGet (or the Windows Package Manager), and it's been evolving ever since.