What are the cool tools to install for windows ?

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

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  • Open-Shell-Menu

    Classic Shell Reborn.

  • Open-Shell. The one thing that I cannot live without, even on Windows 7 lol. It replaces the Start menu with a heavily customizable one, down to the Start button logo itself. Sure, the Windows 10 Start menu (and Windows 11 for that matter) has some pretty slick animations and isn't unusable at all, but I feel more at home (and more productive) with something like Open-Shell.

  • mpv

    🎥 Command line video player

  • mpv - with a bit of configuration the player and the played file look great and with one single button you can install a suitable subtitle, in the age of online streaming this is all I need from a video player.

  • InfluxDB

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  • QuickLook

    Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows

  • Quicklook is great! Just press space to preview images, movies etc.

  • videoduplicatefinder

    Video Duplicate Finder - Crossplatform

  • Video Duplicate Finder: Before I used antitwin to search for duplicate videos but lately it did not work only in the videos for the rest of the files, yes, that's why I switch to Video Duplicate Finder which is a really powerful open source tool, to find all duplicates of videos, it really does it and is fast in its search.

  • streamdeck-tools

    The Stream Deck Tools library wraps all the communication with the Stream Deck app, allowing you to focus on actually writing the Plugin's logic

  • https://barraider.com/ mostly stream deck apps

  • qBittorrent

    qBittorrent BitTorrent client

  • qBittorrent

  • 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

  • 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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  • AutoEq

    Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses

  • Equalizer APO + Peace - now you have a systemwide parametric EQ in Windows. If you have headphones, look into the AutoEQ presets as well.

  • Ditto

    Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.

  • Nobody suggested a clipboard manager. I use Ditto Even though you can see clipboard history now with windows, ditto is still more efficient.

  • AltSnap

    Maintained continuation of Stefan Sundin's AltDrag

  • This fork by Ramon Unch is a bit newer Link

  • ScreenToGif

    🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  • I use ScreenToGIF. Works really well, and you can edit the frame rate, trim out unneeded frames, etc. https://www.screentogif.com/

  • lossless-cut

    The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

  • LosslessCut: "The main feature is lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files, which is great for saving space by rough-cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality."

  • freac

    The fre:ac audio converter project

  • free:ac: "free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey's Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats."

  • nbfc

    NoteBook FanControl

  • NoteBook Fan Control: It can control the speed of a laptop fan, if you have one that tends to get hot just crank it to 100% and have an airport in your room, but hey, at least it won't catch fire 🤷🏻‍♂️, if yours is cool enough but have noisy fans, you can even shut them off completely, they will still start if it gets too hot.

  • simplewall

    Discontinued Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.

  • simplewall - Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform WFP, it blocks connections by default and asks you at the same time if you want to allow the connection, set a timer or block it. Great way to see what is really happening with your PC when you are online.

  • FanControl.Releases

    This is the release repository for Fan Control, a highly customizable fan controlling software for Windows.

  • Fancontrol - Just like the name says, it is an open source program that lets you control your PC's fans, I use it to control 1 System fan, 2 PC fans and 2 GPU fans with curves.

  • qView

    Practical and minimal image viewer

  • qView - Fast, lightweight and minimal image viewer, exactly what the default windows app should have been, if I want to edit a photo I would use something else...

  • 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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