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

[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

[kirenida@social.linux.pizza]

@aeva @thomholwerda

WizTree - The Fastest Disk Space Analyzer

Official WizTree web site. WizTree is the fastest disk space analyzer available for Windows. It reads the Master File Table (MFT) directly from the disk, bypassing Windows and gaining a huge performance boost.

(www.diskanalyzer.com)

"46x faster than WinDirStat!"

[kirenida@social.linux.pizza]

@FritzAdalis
@catsalad

...and https://github.com/Devolutions/UniGetUI

@thomholwerda I can't wait for your opinions on winget and the current state of "package managers" on Windows

[aianhanma@toot.community]

@thomholwerda Portals desktop organizer, Open-Shell, Pegasus Mail, Double Commander, WinRAR.

[seq@infosec.exchange]

@thomholwerda If you want a proper file explorer, Directory Opus. I've been daily running Linux for about three years now, and not a day goes by where I don't mourn the loss. I still renew my software license just to support them. https://www.gpsoft.com.au/

Also Voidtools' Everything, but I see others have already mentioned it. I sorely miss that one too...