What application can you not do without on a fresh Windows install?

[PCftw]

I thought I'd start off this list to help people discover software they might not otherwise. I'll start it off.

1) Bittorrent software - Qbittorrent

2) Clipboard manager - Ditto (the new update has made the UI much nicer)

3) LAN music streaming - Subsonic (Koel is nice too but it's not as polished as Subsonic at this point)

4) Download manager - Free download manager

5) Local file search - Listary (I find listary much better than "Everything" for daily use, but Everything is superior when searching for a specific file among many similar files, since you can sort them by size, modified date etc.)

6) Web server - WAMPServer (I've always had some niggles with XAMPP and AMPPS, but WAMP works every time)

7) Music player - Musicbee hands down. Nothing else comes close.

8) Video player - PotPlayer. I used to use MPC-HC black in Kawaii Codec Pack which was nice too, but PotPlayer just works AND has more advanced features when you need them.

9) Text editor - Notepad++. Very ugly but definitely a great text editor. Atom is good too if you're running an SSD because it has a much nicer interface, but it lacks some features that Notepad++ has out of the box.

10) SSH client - mRemoteNG. Tabbed sessions and WinSCP integration. Liked it better than Kitty.

11) Basic video editing - Shotcut and Kdenlive

12) Comparing videos - Kinovea

13) Text search many files - AstroGrep. One of the prettiest apps I've used on windows and VERY fast.

14) Bulk renamer - Bulk Rename Utility

Also, some things I'm running on a tiny VPS that are REALLY useful:

1) Polr - Self-hosted URL shortener. You can hook up a .bat script to a shortcut like Alt+Shift+S that brings up a cmd prompt where you just paste your URL and you get a shortened URL. Very handy.

2) Jirafeu - Simple file-hosting

That's all I can come up with for now. If anyone's using a piece of software they feel is helpful, please do share.

 

[divitorobert]

SSH client - mRemoteNG. Tabbed sessions and WinSCP integration. Liked it better than Kitty always problem with this ???

 

[Thugnificent]

Everything - yes, that's the name of the program. Basically it indexes your HDD and let you search anything in real time. I cannot function with out this software.

Everything FAQ

 

[ahmedbatty]

• VLC Media Player - No nonsense media player
• Mozilla Firefox
• Notepad++
• Atom Text Editor
• XAMPP
• uTorrent
• Oracle VirtualBox
• Microsoft Office

 

[PCftw]

Everything - yes, that's the name of the program. Basically it indexes your HDD and let you search anything in real time. I cannot function with out this software.

Everything FAQ

Do try Listary. Everything has its place when searching for a specific file by sorting them by size and such, but Listary integrates itself much better into Windows.

 

[xShareef]

I suggest ninite.com if you do happen to reinstall windows. A lot of software can be downloaded without any bloatware for free from their site in one installer.

 

[Thugnificent]

Do try Listary. Everything has its place when searching for a specific file by sorting them by size and such, but Listary integrates itself much better into Windows.

Thanks, will try it out.

 

[gamertwo1]

VMware or VirtualBox

 

[ssaz]

• Chrome
• utorrent
• 7zip - to handle all zips and rars. I am surprised no one mentioned it yet. Its free and handles almost everything. Its also very light and fast.
• VLC player
• IDM
• Nomacs - nomacs is a fast and small image viewer. It has a lot of features over standard photo viewer from MS.
• MS office