Here are my favorite apps at the moment, I highly recommend all of them:
- Directory Opus - file manager
- Beyond Compare - file comparison
- Sandboxie-Plus - app sandbox
- Portmaster - firewall
- KeePass - password manager
- Vivaldi - browser
- VMware Workstation - virtual machine hypervisor
- Houdini - 3D modelling, animation and tool development
- Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher) - photo editing etc.
- Visual Studio Code - coding
- Joplin - note taking
- PowerShell - command-line shell and scripting language
- PowerToys - various utilities
What are your favorite apps? Let me know in the comments! :)
KeePassXC is a in place alternative for keepass ( they are interchangable )
Sandboxie-Plus only helps with “specific” malware. I recommend you the optional windows sandbox feature. ( Optional Features => “Sandbox” )
For those who dont want to get probably spied on. As Vivaldi is chromium and that is controlled from google. Go use Firefox, or rather Librefox its a real alternative to chromium. ( Its less creepier )
Codium as an de-microsofted Visual Studio Code alternative.
Great tips, I’ll check those out, thanks!
I absolutely couldn’t be without SnagIt, especially the Editor for Screenshots makes my live so much easier.
Notepad++ - lightweight feature rich tabbed notepad
Wireshark - packet capture. Note for you programmers, it’s not the network. Your app just has shit performance.
HyperV - general compute virtualisation free* with windows 10/11
GNS3/eve-ng - networking specific virtualisation
Putty - ssh to stuff
Winscp - SCP to servers for file transfer.
Windows subsystem for Linux - run a Linux kernel in windows for testing Linux stuff like Ansible.
Python - multiplatform scripting and the base for so many automation tools.
Those are just off the top of my head
Also Firefox. Because chromium based web browsers/webapps are basically spyware.
All great ones here! PuTTY is a real classic. :)
- ACDSee 3.1 - old so non-unicode, but fastest picture explorer, viewer
- Audacity - audio, sound editor
- Avidemux - video editor
- Console Emulator | ConEmu - cmd
- ExifTool - mass picture tagger
- FastCopy - batch file copier
- FFmpeg - video, audio encoder
- FileAssassin - unlocker
- Firefox, add-ons (ex. uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, FoxyTab, etc.)
- Icaros - file explorer thumbnailing
- IObitUnlocker - unlocker
- KickassUndelete - undelete, very fast scanning
- MKVToolNix - for Matroska / MKV
- Mp3tag - mass media file tagger with undo history, supports Matroska / MKV
- MPC-HC - media player, supports auto-rotation of MKV during playback
- MyDefrag - fastest defrag
- OpenShell - successor to ClassicShell
- ProcessHacker - powerful, very fast Task Manager alternative
- RegCool - Registry editor with copy, cut, paste of actual whole Keys and Values
- ReNamer (den4b) - mass renamer with undo history, presets
- simplewall - firewall with outbound
- Tixati - torrent
- uGet - downloader
- UltraEdit - text/code editor
- WordWeb - offline dictionary, thesaurus
- yt-dlp - downloader
