How to make Windows 11 livable

Bring back the old File Explorer right-click menu

Enable the old menu for the explorer shell. The one that had everything on it rather than just 6 or so things! Like this:

To do this, run these from the “cmd” command prompt. (This will close any explorer windows by the way).

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
explorer

Add VSCode to the context menu

Want this? (The bottom option below)

The easiest way to do this is check the 2 options when installing:

If you have already installed VSCode, no problem. Just download the installer and install again!

Install 7z

Install 7z to extract zip, 7z, tar and gz files: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

More to come…

Learning List

This is the stuff I want to read and learn at the moment:

General Learning Stuff

Machine Learning

  • CSC 321 Winter 2018 – Intro to Neural Networks and Machine Learning – https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rgrosse/courses/csc321_2018/ – so I can keep up when studying Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
  • Neural Networks: Zero to Hero – https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero
  • Blog Post: LLM Engineering https://huyenchip.com/2023/04/11/llm-engineering.html
  • https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
  • https://towardsdatascience.com/perplexity-intuition-and-derivation-105dd481c8f3
  • https://towardsdatascience.com/the-intuition-behind-shannons-entropy-e74820fe9800
  • TBC Some course on calculus / linear algebra to brush up
  • TBC Some course on PyTorch

Computers in general

  • cpu.land – a small course about learning how Linux works in more detail

Human-made Content