Windows

Windows Programs

Ninite installer fetches and installs quite a few common proggies

Scanning searchable PDFs

scribus - DTP

Gimp - bitmap manipulation

inkscape - vector graphics editing

Pencil - wireframes (for websites/UI)

Photopad - collage making software

PDFill - pdf editing

CutePDF - PDF writing

Freemind - Mind mapper

VirtualBox - VMs

Visio Technical / DrawIO desktop (FOSS)

Cyberghost - VPN

Winscp / putty / Teamviewer / TigerVNC / XMing / openvpn - remote access

WinxYoutube Downloader / get_iplayer

Etcher / Rufus / unetbootin - burn iso to sd /usb

Handbrake - video encoder

mp3split / MusicBrainz Picard (get id3 info for mp3s. Use the scan to find automatically. Use ctrl + t to search by title. Don't forget to save after tagging!) / mp3tag (for manually tagging mp3s

screenbloom - hue

Teamspeak / discord - gaming chat

FreeFileSync

Image Deduplicator Tomasz Kapusta

USB Tree View - shows the status of your usb devices

EventGhost - shows when events happen, eg if stuff is plugged in or out of your PC

FXSound - easily set sound presets, better voice sound with movies

Portmaster - view your network connections

WinSize2 - remembers window sizes and positions on multimonitor setups (Guide)

Optical Character Recognition

firefox addons

Absolute Enable Right Click& Copy

bypass paywalls clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

clone window

download helper

Dark Reader

Disconnect

Duplicate Tab Shortcut

(Facebook container)

Facebook Pixel Hunt

Firefox Relay

Ghostery

Google Page Translate

Image Search options

lastpass

LocalCDN

noscript

overbiteWX

Page load time

Privacy Badger

Super Agent - automatic cookie consent

To Google Translate

UBlock Origin

Under New Management

UI.Vision RPA

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-gold/

Other useful proggies

utorrent

3rvx

anydvd

avg

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder - see czkawka https://awesome-duplicate-photo-finder.en.softonic.com/

curse client

czkawka https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/releases finds duplicate images - https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/blob/master/instructions/Instruction.md - For a regex with path select eg: T:\Somewhere\0Iphone\Stuff123 -> /0Iphone/* or c:\users[username]\desktop https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/discussions?page=1

deskscapes 3 (note: wallpaper engine is better)

dupeguru - see czkwaka https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/

digikam - photo management

eventghost - see windows events as they happen in a log (eg usb plugins and plugouts)

fences

foxit reader

gimp

google earth

iconpackager

java

k-light codec pack

lastpass

libreoffice

logitech g940 + g19

logonstudio

lossless cut - ffmpeg wrapper to cut bits off videos without re-encoding

firefox

multimonitor tool nirsoft

notepad ++

nvidia drivers

ppjoy

putty

recon hq

rise of flight

sabnzbd

shutter encoder - perform edits on videos without re-encoding

skype

spacemonger

spotnet

spybot sd

superantispyware

teamspeak

trackir

undelete

ventrilio

virtualclonedrive

vlc

wallpaper engine - logs in D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine

winamp / wacup

Hardware testing

CPU-Z CPUID HWMonitor

Diskinfo64

eventghost - see windows events as they happen in a log (eg usb plugins and plugouts) -> right click and add action (Eventghost - comment). Right click the comment and Add Event -> System.DeviceRemoved add another event System.DeviceAttached. You can then log only assigned and activated events bottom left checkbox to only see the USB connection and disconnection events.

Furmark

Samsung Magician (SDDs)

USBDeview - shows all USB devices plugged in. Will be very very slow and seem like it crashes now and again

USBLogview - shows devices being plugged in and out

Moninfo / Monitor Asset Manager