Windows Package Manager

Not something you install so much as something you start using: WinGet ships with Windows 11 and modern Windows 10 as part of App Installer. It is the quickest way to put the rest of this list on a new machine, without hunting through download pages that bury the real button among ads. winget search finds a package, winget install fetches it, and winget upgrade --all brings everything current in one pass. The export and import commands matter most when rebuilding: save your app list from the old PC and replay it on the new one. Packages come from a community repository, so read what you are installing before running it from an administrator prompt.