What programs are "must-haves" on a new pc?

• mpv

  830 25,752 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

I switched to MPV recently, took some getting used to with the config files but it's really nice. Seems to be much more actively developed than the MPC-HC fork.

• Windows10Debloater

  457 17,293 0.0 PowerShell

  Discontinued Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

and at last I like to use Windows 10 Debloater

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• win10script

  62 3,350 7.6 PowerShell

  Discontinued This is the Ultimate Windows 10 Script from a creation from multiple debloat scripts and gists from github.

I've been using this tool just recently that helps a lot with this "debloating" step

• PowerToys

  713 104,153 9.8 C#

  Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

  

I've been enjoying PowerToys recently. Not sure why these tools aren't included in the base installation of Windows. Check out the GitHub page.

• FanControl.Releases

  1,054 12,328 8.0

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

Fan Control is an excellent, highly customizable way to manage all the fans in your PC without resorting to bloaty motherboard software.

• VideoLAN Client (VLC)

  379 12,932 2.3 C

  VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

  

VLC (has support for H.265 videos which Windows doesn't support by default)

• czkawka

  361 17,336 7.9 Rust

  Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

Ditch Ccleaner and use Czkawka instead, I can't recommend this software enough : https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• LuLu

  46 9,116 7.3 Objective-C

  LuLu is the free macOS firewall

LuLu (for Mac)

• hosts

  306 25,413 9.5 Python

  🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

I've heard Steven Black's hosts file reccomended by one or two people.

• NanaZip

  73 6,932 9.1 C++

  The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience

  

• PeaZip

  68 3,548 8.8 Pascal

  Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.

Peazip it’s a nice UI for 7zip. Open source application. It comes with 7zip binaries packaged in the installer and provides file explorer integrations. Full feature set of 7zip with a nice UI

• greenshot

  304 3,771 2.9 C#

  Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:

  

Greenshot (screenshots, free)

• Ditto

  92 3,005 7.3 C

  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.

Ditto (clipboard manager, free)

• mpc-hc

  390 9,966 0.0 C++

  Media Player Classic

hey thanks for the suggestions MPC HC seems cool i never tried it... sadly it has been discontinued so im gonna go ahead and try this active fork: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases/tag/1.9.19

• EverythingToolbar

  59 5,608 7.9 C#

  Discontinued Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar] (by stnkl)

Everything + Everything toolbar is a great combo!

• Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

  210 9,375 7.1 C#

  Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.

It probably has a lot more features that I'm not aware of and probably also some missing features that Revo Uninstaller does have but for me Bulk Crap Uninstaller does everything I need it to do. The website should also have a bit more information about all the features so you can draw your own conclusion.

• obs-studio

  2,361 55,295 9.8 C

  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

And can OBS record only the last 60 seconds so I can just hotkey and record something that just happened, while automatically deleting anything I didn't want to record? OBS has tons of functionality. Start and Stop record are part of the default hotkeys.

• gdu

  37 3,249 8.9 Go

  Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

On Linux, check out gdu. It's like ncdu but faster.

• KeePass2.x

  315 291 2.9 C#

  unofficial mirror of KeePass2.x source code

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

Suggest a related project