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Folcolor(TM): Windows folder color utility
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Best Free Softwares for Windows
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Very impressed with how light and fluid Phoxee is (maybe the lightest out there). But it's slower than XnView MP to process & load HEIF files. It's also pretty barebones.Fast image viewer, very fast:Folcolor(TM): Windows folder color utility
www.folcolor.com
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LocalSend - this is my top favorite now in Device File Transfer for sending files wirelessly without internet across Mac, Linux, Windows, Android and iOS. It has no limits and also supports sending folders, which I've rarely seen in free file sharing utilities wirelessly without internet.
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Best Free backup & recovery and ramdisk and partitin manager
Qiling Disk Master Free is an award-winning and easy-to-use free data backup software and free partition manager software for windows PC.
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- Apr 1, 2017
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NocoDB Cloud alternative to air table for project Management.
- Mar 1, 2024
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OneCommander - Modern files manager for Windows 11 and Windows 10
Windows 11 file manager with dual-pane view, tabs, themes, columns view, built-in preview, and much more.
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@jackuars is it possible to update this list once a year?After an insanely positive response to my earlier thread in 2014, I have decided to create a new thread as per @Jack 's recommendation.
This is still a partial list, and more categories will be added soon. Sadly I had to limit to 1 software per category. Also included only desktop software's no browser extensions etc. Do give your recommendations and alternatives and hopefully you like the list.
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List Updates:
*Project Management- Added Taskade (Sep 15 2021
*Sandboxing Software- Added Sandboxie Plus (Mar 14 2021)
*Font Management- Added FontBase (Mar 14 2021)
*Graphic Card Manager - Added MSI Afterburner (Mar 07 2021)
*Duplicate File finder - Added Auslogics Duplicate File Finder (Jan 06 2021)
*IM Client - Replaced Pidgin with All-in-One Messenger (Sep 24 2020)
*Antimalware - Replaced Zemana Antimalware with Emsisoft Emergency Kit (Jun 11 2020)
*Archiver- Replaced Bandizip with 7-zip (Apr 26 2020)
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- Ad-blocker - StopAd
- Antivirus - Kaspersky Security Cloud Free
- Antispyware - Emsisoft Emergency Kit
- Calender - Vueminder Lite
- CD-DVD Burner - cdrtfe
- Copy utility - FastCopy
- Desktop Search - UltraSearch
- Device File Transfer - Zapya
- Dictionary - TheSage
- Disk/File Cleaner - Wise Disk Cleaner
- Disk Defrag - Auslogics Disk Defrag (portable)
- Disk Imaging - AOMEI Backupper Standard
- Disk Partitioning - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard
- Download Manager - Xtreme Download Manager
- Driver Backup/Update - IOBit Driver Booster
- Duplicate File Finder - Auslogics Duplicate File Finder
- E-Mail Client - eM Client
- Eye Protection - Iris mini
- File Archiver - 7-zip
- File Manager - FreeCommander
- File Recovery - Recuva Free
- Firewall - Comodo Firewall
- Folder Lock - Wise Folder Hider
- Font Management - FontBase
- FTP Client - Cyberduck
- Graphic Card Manager - MSI Afterburner
- IM Client - All-in-One Messenger
- Image Editor - GIMP
- Image Viewer - FastStone Viewer
- Lyrics Viewer - Minilyrics Free
- Media Player - PotPlayer
- Music Manager - MusicBee
- Network Monitor -
- Office Suite - WPS Office Free
- Parental Control - Qustodio
- Password Manager - Bitwarden
- PDF Reader - Foxit Reader
- Program Launcher - Executor
- Project Management - Taskade
- Radio Player - Audials
- Registry Cleaner - Wise Registry Cleaner Free
- Remote PC Viewer - Anydesk
- Rescue Disk - Ultimate Boot CD
- Sandboxing Software - Sandboxie Plus
- Screen Capture - ShareX
- Screen Recording - Active Presenter Free
- Software Repository - DDownloads
- Software Updater - SuMo Portable
- System Information Tool - HWiNFO
- System Monitor - Process Explorer
- System Recovery - Toolwiz Time Freeze
- Task Manager - Process Hacker
- Torrent Client - Tixati
- Tune-up Suite - Glary Utilities Free
- Uninstaller - HiBit Uninstaller
- USB Protection - MCShield
- Vector Image Creation - Inkscape
- Video Chat - Need suggestions for clean Group video chat softwares
- Video Converter - XMediaRecode
- Video Editor - DaVinci Resolve
- Virtual Drive - Winarchiver Virtual Drive
- Video Recording/Streaming - Open Broadcaster Software
- Virtualization(hw/sw) - Oracle VirtualBox
- Web Browser - Vivaldi
- Website Ripper - Darcy Ripper
- Windows Anti-Spy - O&O ShutUp 10
- Apr 1, 2017
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NeoHtop - Blazing-fast system monitoring for your desktop
A beautiful, efficient system monitor built with Rust and Svelte. Monitor processes, CPU, and memory usage in real-time.
GitHub - GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️♂️
Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️♂️. Contribute to GyulyVGC/sniffnet development by creating an account on GitHub.
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GitHub - eythaann/Seelen-UI: The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11.
The Fully Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11. - eythaann/Seelen-UI
github.com
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Everything.
I didn't know about Everything until I read this thread. Very quick searches, it does a wonderful job.
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I didn't know about Everything until I read this thread. Very quick searches, it does a wonderful job.
Battle - Everything vs UltraSearch
I like Everything because it has fast indexing with instant results. What will you choose and why?
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- Apr 16, 2017
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Phoxee is blazing fast and UI is beautiful. I just replaced Pictureflect Photo Viewer with it.Fast image viewer, very fast:Folcolor(TM): Windows folder color utility
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GitHub - RusNor/StartWine-Launcher
Contribute to RusNor/StartWine-Launcher development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
GitHub - VSCodium/vscodium: binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing - VSCodium/vscodium
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GitHub - soimort/you-get: :arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
:arrow_double_down: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web - soimort/you-get
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Graphite
editor.graphite.rs
GitHub - DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook: Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages!
Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages! - DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
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- Mar 1, 2024
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You can try WizFile too, I knew about it recently, and it is interesting so far, thanks for @partha_roy.Everything.
I didn't know about Everything until I read this thread. Very quick searches, it does a wonderful job.
Battle - Everything vs UltraSearch
I like Everything because it has fast indexing with instant results. What will you choose and why?
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Blazingly fast is right, I just tried it, and immediately replaced XnView with PhoXoSee.
- Apr 1, 2017
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XnView lags when opening high-resolution images and cannot open them quickly. There is another program called ImageEye that is fast.
- High quality dithering: Floyd-Steinberg dithering is used for superior perceived image quality when displaying high bit-depth images.
- Asynchronous file I/O: Images are decompressed at the same time as data is being read - i.e. it doesn't wait for file reads to finish before starting to decode.
- Speculative decoding & caching of images: While you view a file, the next file in the folder is invisibly being decoded, so that it can be brought up very quickly. When you move to a new image, the old one is cached, so that there's little delay if you toggle back and forth between images.
- Data parallelism exploitation: Many heavy computational tasks are considerably sped up by using SEE instructions. These SIMD instructions work on 4, 8 or even 16 numbers in parallel.
"The king of all image viewers is Photo Mechanic, but it's not free.
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Isn't IrfanView the fastest image viewer when it comes to speed? It relies on memory completely rather than caching like other image viewers, but the downside is its logo, icons, and default settings.
- Apr 1, 2017
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Cap — Beautiful screen recordings, owned by you.
Cap is the open source alternative to Loom. Lightweight, powerful, and stunning. Record and share in seconds.
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- Apr 1, 2017
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GitHub - zufuliu/notepad4: Notepad4 (Notepad2⨯2, Notepad2++) is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and documents, bundled with fil
Notepad4 (Notepad2⨯2, Notepad2++) is a light-weight Scintilla based text editor for Windows with syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and API list for many programming languages and d...
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GitHub - xifangczy/cat-catch: 猫抓 浏览器资源嗅探扩展 / cat-catch Browser Resource Sniffing Extension
猫抓 浏览器资源嗅探扩展 / cat-catch Browser Resource Sniffing Extension - xifangczy/cat-catch
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- Apr 1, 2017
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9xbuddy Desktop (Windows / Mac / Linux)
Your favorite online video download helper now available on the desktop. A better experience with more features, more control, and of course faster downloads
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