Windows: List of Recommended Great Software
This page lists great software for Windows that i personally use. Most are also available for Mac and Linux.
Image Viewer
- Microsoft Windows
- NeeView https://bitbucket.org/neelabo/neeview/wiki/Home
- IrfanView
- Mac → GraphicConverter, best in 90s. i haven't used since 2009
- Linux: Image Viewers
Image Editor, Paint, Line Drawing
share files between phone and computer
Screenshot Software
- Microsoft Windows → ShareX
- 2023-04-03 greenshot
- 2023-04-03 flameshot https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
Video Player
Video Streaming
- OBS. for sreaming YouTube twitch etc. Open Broadcaster Software
Video editor
2021-04 recommended by friends:
Video Chat, Video Conference
2021-02-08 https://meet.jit.si/
dvd ripper
- HandBrake → Can't really rip encripted DVD. But good for converting DVD format to some video format as a file.
See also: Convert Video from Different Formats
Audio player
- VLC media player
ebook file Reader
- Calibre (software) (epub)
Microsoft Help File (.chm extension)
- XCHM
xchm
File Sharing, BitTorrent
- Transmission (BitTorrent client) (Mac, Linux)
- Deluge (software) (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Vuze (Windows, Mac). Requires Java. I do not recommend.
- Windows: μTorrent
Text Editor
- emacs. 〔see Practical Emacs Tutorial〕
- Visual Studio Code
Keyboard Macros and Launchers
Math
3D Modeling Software
Unix utils
- 2022-09-04 i no use linux stuff on Windows anymore. now just PowerShell
- Windows: Windows Subsystem for Linux
- Microsoft Windows. Old school is Cygwin. 〔see Installing Cygwin Tutorial〕
- VirtualBox. Best tool for running linux on Windows. 〔see How to Install Linux on VirtualBox〕
zip, unzip, gzip, etc
- best 7-zip (zip, unzip, gzip, extracting installer exe etc.)
Text Terminal
- 2022-09-04 best now is Microsoft Windows terminal Windows Terminal
old, getting obsolete:
Graphical tool for showing folder size
have not used any of these
- Ncdu
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- qdirstat https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
- Disk Inventory X Disk Inventory X
- grandPerspective http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
Windows Tools for Programer
- Process Explorer At http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653
- FTP client. FileZilla
- FTP client, Firefox add-on: FireFTP.
- i never used. Microsoft Log Parser 2.2. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24659
- Cacls Command line tool to view or set file permissions.
- Peer gardian (IP blocker)
- ZoneAlarm (full featured firewall)
For monitoring network, see also: tool for monitoring network traffic on Windows 7 Home At http://superuser.com/questions/302559/tool-for-monitoring-network-traffic-on-windows-7-home/
Inno Setup. (create installers)
xah apps on windows 2012 snapshot
This isn't exhaustive list of install software. Though, it contains all apps i use daily.
- Daily: emacs, cygwin, Google Chrome, Firefox, IrfanView, Safari, Opera, Skype.
- Weekly: GIMP, iTunes, Mathematica, VirtualBox, Firestorm/Phoenix (Second Life), Inkscape, Google Earth, Picasa, Thunderbird. (Mathematica should be there)
Just noticed a Walmart Photo Center there. lol. That's one of those
bundled bloatware which somehow escaped my notice.
It's going to trash now.
Also, note that ComboFix.exe. It is supposed to be a rootkit detector or remover, but i haven't researched enough to be sure it's good. It is there temporarily.
misc
- CrystalDiskInfo
- crystalDiskMark
- outdated info How to Secure Delete Files, Shred Files, Wipe Drive