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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.
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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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Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.
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PrivateBin
A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
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EverythingToolbar
Discontinued Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar] (by stnkl)
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etl2pcapng
Utility that converts an .etl file containing a Windows network packet capture into .pcapng format.
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VideoLAN Client (VLC)
VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
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SuperDelete
SuperDelete is a Windows command line application (.NET) that can be used to delete files and directories with very long paths - longer than 260 characters.
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ShareX, a multi-purpose file/image/text/anything sharing program which supports loads of upload/storage sites, or your own site via FTP.
AutoHotKeys : Create simple or not so simple scripts that you can then compile. Can basically do anything between scripting to RPA (Robotic Process Automation) thanks to its ability to call complex functions. Very easy for script beginners.
Well, for personal use I prefer bitwarden to keepass, but that's just me.
LibreNMS - Handy Network Monitoring Tool supporting SNMP and many other protocols for discovery and monitoring. Lots of integrations into services like Slack, Discord, E-mail, etc for reporting.
sublime text - text editor that has a lot of great functionality! I like it way more than notepad++ which used to be my go to.
VSCode - If you use PowerShell, you should use VSCode for writing your modules and scripts. Especially since PowerShell ISE will be going away at some point in the near future.
One I didn’t see that we use to share code snippets, SQL statements and other coding stuff with notes I CherryTree. We use this on our network drive and each of us can open it up and look at the code and notes that have been stored there. We use it the most for SQL statements that we don’t use often but if it wasn’t written down we would forget about it.
If you're not aware of any search features, I'm not sure we're talking about the same Power Toys. I'm talking about Microsoft's open source Power Toys, more specifically the Run Module, which allows one to search applications and files in the user's directory (among other things, such as quick calculations).
Rufus - I've never found a combination of OS and BIOS that couldn't boot to a USB made with Rufus. I work in a mostly Mac environment but keep a Windows machine handy for when I need to create a bootable USB.
Screen2Gif - https://www.screentogif.com/ - Fantastic lightweight screen recording
Keepass : You password manager. Very easy to use, but also features very powerful overrides and teamwork capabilities. Create shotcuts to instantly open the right protocol / software / webpage to remotely connect anything and send your crendentials.
vaultwarden
I think bitwarden has this built-in. but just in case: https://github.com/jampe/kp2bw
sshuttle Let's you route over ssh tunnels.
pgadmin : free and open source, GUI manager for postgresql
Cyberchef - awesome free data manipulation tool. Can be downloaded and run offline, and includes things like OCR, qr parsing, image rendering, and a boatload of encode/decoders
I can't believe Syncthing isn't somewhere at the top here....
Snipe-IT. https://snipeitapp.com/ say goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to simple easy ITS management you will love.
If you wanna go further and spread love; AWX and Tower.
Screen or tmux
Taken from the VScodium website:
https://testssl.sh for testing for TLS vulnerabilities on your sites.
OPNSense - If you need a powerful Linux-based Firewall, VPN server, and/or UTM.
Portainer - I've got better things to do than remember docker commands
Bashtop - Seriously, I my brain can't follow columns without some kind of order to the madness. Ty bashtop
NodeRed - This what I spend all my saved time on. Trying to fix broken automations.
I also like free shoter for my open-source, simple screenshoting tool. Although I do love greenshot. free shooter is jsut so simple and easy to use. I forget it's not part of Windows.
Not so much an administrative tool, but I just discovered GazeWM as a windows adaptation of i3 Linux Desktop Manager. Makes using Windows a much more pleasant experience.
OnlyOffice - a free Microsoft Office suite, that looks incredibly simmilar to Microsoft Office. It's hard to coax people over to libreoffice because it looks so dated, but managed to convince a bunch of people to go with only office over crazy MSOffice license costs (replaced word, powerpoint an excel - if you need outlook this wont help).
Meld best diff / merge tool i've found - though i do have a soft spot for winmerge
There is always SuperPutty. It is putty with a wrapper that allows for tabbed sessions as well as other features. There are a ton of Putty add-ons too that you can download to get Putty to where you want it.
LDwin Link discovery is the process of ascertaining information from directly connected networking devices, such as network switches. This can be helpful when diagnosing suspected network connectivity issues.
Shell In A Box (though it hasn't been updated in a few years)
Directory Lister - Also requires hosting, but free open source file repository platform that makes it easy to have a repository of tools, downloads, etc within an intranet or publicly if necessary.
PrivateBin - Requires hosting on something, but free open source paste bin for sharing secure credentials, one-time burn after reading links, etc.
add tmuxinator to the list. without it, tmux is pretty much the same as screen for me
Someone has also published an Everything toolbar on GitHub which integrates with Everything.
https://remmina.org/ check it out
https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng - etl2pcapng - converts a netsh trace start/stop trace into something wireshark can read.
SyncMLViewer - https://github.com/okieselbach/SyncMLViewer - View the commands sent by an MDM (Airwatch or Intune) to a Windows PC in real time.
Barrier KVM: FOSS version of Synergy (which I do have a lifetime pro lic for), but I find it easier and less troublsome to install and setup than Synergy (mostly around the Mac version actually working stably as a server or client).
OBS/KDENLive: Screen recorder, free and easy to use. Sometimes dumb user needs video showing them the "do my work" button, or to record that webinar for them they they are supposed to attend live but not doing that is more important for some reason. I have licenses for TechSmith Camtasia, but I'll use OBS like 99% of the time instead.
Notepad++ Windows text editor that actually support unix eols. There is a spellcheck plugin. I pretty much tread it like an IDE since I jump between so many languages.
VLC Ugly interface but pretty much does all formats. Not the Windows Store version which is crippled (Install via. Scoop)
Naps2 Not another PDF scanner, 2. Very quick/simple to use PDF scanning tool, newbie friendly. (Install via. Choco)
Scoop.sh Package Manager for 'portable' apps & apps which auto-update in a user-context (install via. 1-line script on their site)
Chocolatey Package Manager for installable apps (install via. 1-line script on their website)
Temurin8 JRE Free Java 8 which is a drop-in replacement of Oracle Java (Install via Choco Temurin8jre package ... check params to add those reg keys and paths)
Also a new one i have been playing around with. Tabby https://tabby.sh/
SuperDelete - A Windows command-line tool to delete files and folders with paths longer than the MAX_PATH (260), up to the NTFS max path length of 32767 characters. If you're ever had the misfortune of having to deal with extremely long paths in Windows, this is a lifesaver, as every other tool and workaround failed when I had to delete a file with a path 4k characters long.
Scrcpy: Display and control your Android device