# Chocolatey: A package Manager for Windows



![Chocolatey](/choco.png#centeri)

If you're a Linux user, you must be familiar with package managers such as yum and apt. They're super convenient and allow applications to be downloaded, installed and removed with a single command. They're particulary useful when you want to install a bunch of tools, libraries and utilities and would rather have a script handle it all for you then sit around clicking "Next" buttons all day.

Windows users can enjoy something quite similar with Chocolatey. This is a great package manager that makes the setup of a new Windows system simple and convenient. 

### Installing Chocolatey

You can issue the following command in your command prompt to download and install Chocolatey. Just be sure to run cmd.exe as Administrator!

@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin" 


### Some of my default Installs

* choco install bulk-crap-uninstaller -y 
* choco install irfanview -y 
* choco install treefilesize -y 
* choco install notepadplusplus.install -y 
* choco install vlc -y 
* choco install 7zip.install -y 
* choco install mobaxterm -y 
* choco install ccleaner -y 
* choco install sysinternals -y 
* choco install sublimetext3 -y 
* choco install dosbox -y 
* choco install dbgl -y 
* choco install conemu -y 
* choco install curl -y 
* choco install wget -y 
* choco install mingw -y 
* choco install vnc-viewer -y 
* choco install bginfo -y 
* choco install emacs -y 
* choco install nubasic -y 
* choco install nano –y 

### Other cool tools to install on your Windows system

#### Notepad++ Theme and NP/Emacs Font 

    https://medium.com/@HiSandy/notepad-plus-plus-material-theme-2c3951e65e01 

I've set my default emacs font to Source Code Pro, which is modern and quite readable.

#### Other Apps to Install 

* Python: The Python programming language
* Crystal Disk: Detailed information and diagnostics on your SSDs and hard drives
* CPUz: System information about your CPU, Memory and other system components
* RStudio: A development environment for the R analytics language
* Pycharm: One of my favorite Python IDEs