windows software

Windows Software

Application Manager

Programs to quickly install and update

• Recommendation. These are the most useful of them all!
• PortableApps ~ A portable-application framework.
• Ninite ~ Create a customized exe installer for various popular applications and driver.
• Chocolatey ~ A command line installer, like apt-get or yum. It calls the Chocolatey repo to download and install. The binaries are installed to either Program Files or %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey path. By the way, check out ChocolateyGUI for GUI installer.
• Meh. Good ideas, but failed to impress. :(
• LiberKey ~ A portable-application framework for USB.

Browser

• Obvious: Chrome, Firefox, IE
• Alternative: Tor, Opera, PaleMoon, Waterfox, Maxthon, Vivaldi

Desktop

• Wow
• Desktop Restore ~ If you hate how your icons arrangement get messed up after changing your resolution, this is your holy grail by Jamie O'Connell.
• Dexpot ~ Add expose and space to your Windows.
• Okay
• BetterDesktopTool ~ Similar to Dexpot. It adds virtual windows, space, and expose!
• Power Menu 1.5.1 ~ A little tool to minimize any windows to your tray icon. FYI, Dexpot also has these features.
• Virtual Win ~ Simpler than Dexpot. If you just need multiple virtual desktop, this is it.

Files and Navigation

• Clover3 ~ Add tabs to your File Explorer.
• Application Launcher
• Launchy ~ A great simple tool for launching applications.
• Keybreeze ~ Another great launcher, and it is open source.
• Executor ~ Look decent, but no longer in development.
• Link Shell Extension ~ A tool for adding softlink, hardlink, and junction point for Windows OS. Softlink will work under UNIX also!
• Listary ~ List files as you type in File Explorer. Best of all, there is a fuzzy matcher!
• LockHunter ~ Unlock those files that prevent deleting
• VistaSwitcher ~ Change the visualization of application switcher (ALT+TAB).

Hardware Utility

• AutoHotKey ~ Remap your mouse and keyboard to be more useful.
  • Script Showcase.
• ForceBindIP ~ Force an application to use a specific network interface (ex: Wifi card over Ethernet wire).
  • Tutorial
• KatMouse ~ Scroll without clicking on the item.
• PowerOff ~ Schedule turning off OS.
• StrokesPlus ~ A mouse gesture utility. Work with any application.
• USBDiskEjector ~ A quick click to eject your USB memory drive.
• VirtualCloneDrive ~ Emulate CD/DVD for your ISO.
• WizMouse ~ Scroll without clicking!

Information Management

• Evernote ~ A note taking software.
• KeePass Password Safe ~ A password manager.
• Microsoft Todo ~ A todo list webapp

Network

• fiddler ~ View HTTP/HTTPS traffic on your computer.
• inSSIDer ~ Show Wifi information.
• WireShark ~ TCP/UDP network capturer.

Security

• CryptSync ~ Local encryption and syncing using 7-zip.
• Sandboxie ~ Sandbox a running application.

Command Line

Windows

• Powershell ~ Just in case you need it

Linux

• Awesome way to use Linux
  • Cygwin ~ As always and will be de facto for Linux on Win.
    • apt-cyg ~ Add a command-line package manager control inside cygwin!
  • msysGit ~ A light-weight of Unix tools (bash, git, etc) for Windows. Mainly for git.
  • Scoop ~ It adds a ton of basic command-line binaries.
• Obsolete projects. Either dead or on a life-support.
  • CoLinux ~ Linux on your Windows! Only works on 32-bit WinOS though.
  • CygwinPortable by CybeSystems.
  • GnuWin ~ A toolbox of Unix commands for Windows.
  • GOW(GNU on Windows) ~ Another Unix tools on Windows.
  • road bash ~ A cross-platform bash and Unix tools.
  • Win-Bash ~ Another collection of Unix tools for Windows.

Linux Terminal

• Cmder ~ A console emulator for Windows.
• ConEmu ~ Another console emulator.
• ConsoleZ ~ A fork of Console2. A terminal wrapper. Add tabbing to your various command line tools (cygwin, cmd, powershell).
  • http://devtidbits.com/2014/05/21/create-a-better-windows-command-line-prompt/
• Mintty ~ A more modern terminal for BASH. Come with cygwin.
• MobaXTerm ~ Various protocols connection manager.
• Mosh shell ~ A better remote-connection protocol to tolerate disconnections. Need to install mosh-server (in addition to SSH), and mosh-client on a client machine.
• XShell5 ~ Various protocols connection manager.

Multimedia

• Atomi ActivePresenter ~ Capture and record your desktop for presentation.
• AVIAddXSub ~ An excellent tool to combine your AVI with subtitle file to create a divx file.
• FastStone Image Viewer ~ An image viewer with batch editor (resize, rename, downsize, crop, etc). A perfect companion to Paint.
• FontForge ~ Create and edit fonts.
• Handbrake ~ An open source video converter. Specifically convert to AVI, MP4, or MKV.
• Merge MP3 ~ Merge multiple MP3 files into one.
• MP3Gain ~ A program to level out the volume of MP3 files.
• Mp3Tag ~ A free program to tag mp3 files.
• Paint.NET ~ A simple image editor.
• Subtitle Workshop ~ An excellent program for editing subtitle.
• VirtualDub ~ A simple editor for performing cut, filters, resize, etc. No longer in development.
  • ffInputDriver ~ [http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=7&t=20025 Full description] ~ VirtualDub plugins for loading more recent CODEC and format (asf, flv, mp4, wmv, vob, and more!!!).
  • Don Salva's Post ~ He posts a link for aac and ac3 sound filter.

Development Tools

Office

• Microsoft Office's alternative
  • FreeOffice(by SoftMaker)
  • LibreOffice

Editor

• SublimeText2 and SublimeText3 ~ A powerful and extensible editor. Available on Mac and PC
  • http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-text-2-tips-and-tricks/
  • Package Control -- List various plugin packages.
  • CTags -- Adding CTags for easier navigation. More useful for Ruby code.
  • IndentXML -- Indent XML.
  • orgmode -- Create a document in org-mode.
  • Print-to-HTML -- The editor does not support print, so this is a workaround.
  • SublimeHighlight -- Copy text/string with highlight and line numbers. Export to RTF/HTML.
• Diff/Merge -- KDiff3, Meld, WinMerge
• Visual Studio Code

Servers

• WAMP ~ Windows' Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
• Z-WAMP ~ Portable version of WAMP.
• Uniform Server ~ A lightweight (portable) server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS.

Virtualization

• Vagrant ~ A deployment tool to install and setup an OS using VirtualBox.
• VirtualBox and VMWare ~ Two software to create virtualized OS.

Windows Dev

• CMake ~ A tool to create build files for multiple platforms
• Visual Studio Plugins
  • DPack plugin - Used to locate the file in Solution Explorer
  • Color Printing - Add color printing to VS10
  • Highlighter for Visual C++ 2010
• VMs for Internet Explorer: IE6 to IE11
  • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/