Great Software for Microsoft Windows

This page lists great software for Windows that i personally use. Most are also available for Mac and Linux.

Anti-Virus Software

See: Windows: Best Anti-virus Software.

Image Viewer

• Windows → Irfanview
• Mac → GraphicConverter
• Linux: Image Viewers

Image Editor, Bitmap Drawing

• krita
• Gimp

Vector Graphics Drawing

• Inkscape

Video

• VLC media player
• OBS. for sreaming.
• DVD-ripper. HandBrake → Can't really rip encripted DVD. But good for converting DVD format to some video format as a file.
• Convert Video from Different Formats

Screen Video Capture, Screencasting, Softwares

Audio

• VLC media player

See: Audio Recorder, Synthesizers, MIDI Software.

Office (WordProcessor, Spread Sheet, etc)

• OpenOffice

Mail

Gmail, Yahoo Mail, HotMail

Windows, Mac, Linux: Mozilla Thunderbird

• Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Confusion Ball

{Voice, Video} Chat

• Skype. [see Skype Chat Encryption and Screen Sharing]

Video Chat, Conference

• https://meet.jit.si/ → just go to the site, copy url, send it to friend, then you can chat audio or video.
• https://zoom.us/ → great software for video conference.
• discord → video chat and streaming

Text Chat, IRC

old time instant messaging

• Mac: Adium
• Mac: Colloquy (IRC client)
• Windows: Pidgin (sucks major.)

ebook file Reader

• Calibre (software) (epub)
• FBReader fbreader {.epub, .chm}

Microsoft Help File (.chm)

• XCHM xchm {.chm}

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

Practical Emacs Tutorial

Keyboard Macros and Launchers

• Windows Keyboard Software Guide
• Mac Keyboard Tools
• Linux: Keyboard Software Guide

File Secure Deletion

See: How to Secure Delete Files, Shred Files, Wipe Drive.

Math

• Great Math Software

3D Modeling Software

List of 3D Modeling Software.

Unix utils

Mac: build-in. But to install extra, use Fink or MacPorts.

Windows: Cygwin. [see Installing Cygwin Tutorial]

VirtualBox. Best tool for running linux on Windows. [see How to Install Linux on VirtualBox]

text terminal

• ssh in cygwin
• MinTTY
• PuTTY

Windows Tools for Programer, Sys Admin

• PowerShell Basics

• Process Explorer At http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653
• FTP client. FileZilla
• FTP client, Firefox add-on: FireFTP.
• 7-zip (zip, unzip, gzip, extracting installer exe etc.)

• Microsoft Log Parser 2.2. Source www.microsoft.com
• Cacls Command line tool to view or set file permissions.

• Wireshark (a packet sniffer)
• 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)

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.

For tools i use on linux, see: Xah Linux Setup.