How to make Windows 7 usable

Classic software

• web browser: Firefox (​http://www.mozilla.org/)

Usability

• Typical X11 behaviour focus-follows-mouse, no-raise, right-click-sends-back and middle-click-pastes: TXmouse (​http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/); download binary and copy it in Startup folder (possibly for all users)
• compose key: AllChars (​http://sourceforge.net/projects/allchars/files/); unzip and copy .exe to Startup folder (possibly for all users) and *.dll to c:\Windows\system32.

MSYS

• Download installer from ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst/
• Run the installer and optionally select all proposed packages