Must have programs for a fresh Windows 10 install.

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/Windows10

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  • ShareX

    ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  • ShareX - Free and open-source screenshot and GIF program. Use this instead of something like Snipping Tool or Lightshot - lightshot is a privacy nightmare, since every screenshot you upload can be found by others since it uses a very short string of letters and numbers, and there is no way to manually delete a screenshot youโ€™ve uploaded.

  • Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

    Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.

  • Bulk Crap Uninstaller - FOSS program uninstaller. Allows for batch uninstalling programs, and is much more extensive in finding uninstallers than the built-in Windows programs list. Very flexible.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Open-Shell-Menu

    Classic Shell Reborn.

  • Open-Shell - Open-source start menu replacement that can restore a Windows 7-like start menu. Very customizable, too.

  • mpc-hc

    Media Player Classic

  • classic media player home cinima, https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases

  • superf4

    :file_folder: Kill programs instantly with Ctrl+Alt+F4. (Windows)

  • BCUninstaller ShareX SuperF4 I personally would take the time to setup MPV instead of using VLC.

  • OpenHashTab

    ๐Ÿ“ File hashing and checking shell extension

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  • AutoEq

    Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

  • Equaliser APO (and Peace GUI) for EQ โ€“ take a look at the AutoEQ project if you haven't already.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • portmaster

    ๐Ÿ” Love Freedom - โŒ Block Mass Surveillance

  • Portmaster Geek Uninstaller InControl

  • VeraCrypt

    Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

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  • qBittorrent

    qBittorrent BitTorrent client

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  • Sandboxie

    Sandboxie Plus & Classic

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  • mpv.net

    ๐ŸŽž mpv.net is a media player for Windows with a modern GUI.

  • mpv.net - A great open-source lightweight video player based on mpv with support for many formats and extensive configuration. Replaces MPC, VLC, PotPlayer, Windows Media Player, etc. Strongly recommend replacing your current video player with this, since programs like VLC are bloated and can have issues playing back videos and exhibit weird artifacts.

  • openrgb-rs

    Rust client library for OpenRGB SDK.

  • OpenRGB - Lighter and open-source alternative to proprietary RGB software such as Razer Synapse, iCUE, RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light, etc. May not be as versatile as some of their proprietary counterparts but it gets the job done if you donโ€™t care for super elaborate RGB setups.

  • notepad-plus-plus

    Notepad++ official repository

  • Notepad++ - Great open-source feature-rich text/code editor.

  • Bitwarden

    The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  • Bitwarden - Open-source password manager. Has a free tier for personal use which is enough for most people. Allows you to self-host your vault as well, if you like self-hosting everything. Recommended to use this over something like LastPass, even if Bitwardenโ€™s interface is slightly clunkier.

  • SaaSHub

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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