Oh right: Windows people, send me fun, interesting, good, and useful Windows applications and utilities.

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@thomholwerda looking for windows people on fedi is kind of like looking for pagans in a catholic church.

[analogfusion@mastodon.art]

@thomholwerda The Folder Size utility was a handy tool for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It showed the size of any given folder in the details view. https://foldersize.sourceforge.net/

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@thomholwerda windirstat

[thedaemon@snac.9front.club]

Move & resize windows with hotkey + mouse like in X11.

https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap

[firesphere@cloudisland.nz]

@thomholwerda wsl.exe

[ddr@pony.social]

@thomholwerda https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/, find files at the speed of typing

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@thomholwerda @catsalad
Winget.

[jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com]

@thomholwerda

wsl

[ktnjared@corteximplant.com]

@thomholwerda

A few I use at my dayjob.

• Microsoft PowerToys: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
• BetterTrumpet: https://github.com/xammen/BetterTrumpet
• WinAmp (it still runs, or use WACUP https://getwacup.com/)

Almost everything else I use is cross-platform (examples: Espanso, Sublime Text, Krita, CLI utilities, etc), so I don't have much else.

Not sure if you consider WSL cheating for this challenge.

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@thomholwerda Localsend, to quickly squirt a file/clipboard/url to another computer. Or phone.

[gheja@mastodon.social]

@thomholwerda Scanner (scn2) by Steffen Gerlach to show disk usage in a sunburst chart, easy to comprehend chart of directory and file sizes.

Windows Freeware by Steffen Gerlach

(www.steffengerlach.de)

[misterwanko@mastodon.social]

@thomholwerda DeskPins, will stick any window over any other.

TextPad, has no effective limit to file size it will open.

Agent Ransack, great regexp file finder with a match window.

[derek@www.glidden.life]

@thomholwerda Free/Open Source stuff: VLC, anything not Chromium-based, Notepad++, Handbrake, Affinity, Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve, any number of retro emulators

Fee stuff: Glasswire is interesting and has a free tier; some kind of backup software (I use and love/hate Macrium - it has a yearly fee but it works great backing up to a SMB share on my linux server because screw you for wanting to own software); I recently switched to iDrive for cloud backup for important stuff and it seems fine

Snarky stuff: Balena Etcher so you can write that Linux ISO to a USB stick and install Linux

[bunnyinahat@lamp.leemoon.network]

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social sysinternals and powertoys maybe

[jane@smolhaj.social]

@catsalad @thomholwerda ssh.exe

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@thomholwerda https://chocolatey.org/

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@thomholwerda 7-zip, Ditto, WinMerge, WinDirStat

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@rotopenguin @thomholwerda please no more file squirts

[beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @thomholwerda second

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@CinnamonCatYurilover @thomholwerda

minibin - get that ugly trashcan off your desktop

Link Shell Extension - create Junctions, Symlinks, etc. from explorer's context menu.

VoidTool's Everything - super fast file search

LockHunter - find processes locking particular files