Useful free windows software

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  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  • Try the new Windows Terminal. It has all those features (resizing, escape sequences).

  • bleachbit

    BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux

  • You could look at bleachBit to replace Ccleaner. it don't look like much but it's really good a this job. Maybe a little to well if you're not carefull enough.

  • 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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  • Waifu2x-Extension-GUI

    Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, RTX Video Super Resolution VSR, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, IFRNet, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.

  • Waifu2x-Extension-GUI - Neural net upscaler that is constantly updated and tweaked with the latest developments in the field (far better results than something like Photoshop).

  • Tabby

    A terminal for a more modern age

  • We can replace both Putty and GIT Bash with Tabby Terminal Tabby.

  • mpc-hc

    Media Player Classic

  • F3D

    Fast and minimalist 3D viewer.

  • F3D: https://f3d-app.github.io/f3d/

  • oh-my-posh2

    Discontinued A prompt theming engine for Powershell

  • It means, that you can use a terminal with any shell underneath. So, Windows Terminal can be used with PowerShell, Bash, CMD, ... whatever you fancy. Colorful prompts and outputs are entirely possible with PowerShell, if you use a decent terminal emulator. Or you use a decent terminal emulator with any other shell.

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    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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  • ImageGlass

    🏞 A lightweight, versatile image viewer

  • Imageglass is a great open-source image viewer.

  • qttabbar

    QTTabBar is a small tool that allows you to use tab multi label function in Windows Explorer. https://www.yuque.com/indiff/qttabbar

  • Qttabar is a file management extension to windows explorer. It allows for tabs and allows the user to view pictures, videos and audio by hovering over the file, without needing to open them or squint at the thumbnail.

  • ThisIsWin11

    Discontinued The real PowerToys for Windows 11

  • On that note, I'd like to recommend ThisIsWin11 and ShutUp10 to debloat your Windows install.

  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • Syncthing is the easier one to use, is open-source, and has easier install on Linux. It can also detect other syncthing devices on the same network, so it's easier to setup.

  • Motrix

    A full-featured download manager.

  • qbittorrent is cool. I've used it for a long time. These days, I just use freedownloadmanager both for faster downloading and to get torrent. Motrix is similar, but I haven't used it as much, though it is open-source.

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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