Surviving Windows

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.

Background :
One of the few features I missed from Mac OS X is Quick Look. It allows user peek into a file content in a lightening speed by just pressing the Space key. Windows, on the other hand, does not has this handy feature ... until now.

I am aware that several alternatives are already available on the Internet (e.g. WinQuickLook and Seer). Despite these options, I still decide to craft another one by myself, because they are either not being actively developed, lacks of variety, or asks for a amount of $$$.

Highlights :
Tons of supported file types (full list here)
Fluent design (new in version 0.3)
Touchscreen friendly
HiDPI support
Preview from Open and Save File Dialog
Preview from 3rd-party file managers (see a list here)
Easy extended by plugins
Strict GPL license to keep it free forever

Cmder is an open-source replacement for the Windows command-line. It relies on ConEmu , extending it with the power of clink and some great looking defaults including a Monokai color scheme and custom prompt layout.

Light enough to use as my go-to (non-IDE) editor, has python extensions. What more can you ask for?

QTTabBar is an extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser. It comes with a number of nifty features including a favorites function for launching folders and applications, groupings of folders that can be opened together, tooltip preview functions for a number of file types, and others. It is also highly customizable and hotkey-enabled.

QTTabBar was written by a Japanese developer known as “Quizo” (hence the name QTTabBar) but because of lack of time, he gave the project over to Paul Accisano.
Actually "Quizo" was resumed development.
Open source branch of QTTabBar: http://qttabbar.sourceforge.net/

Firefox is a cross-platform web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is a popular product, used in over 50 languages and available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

The indicator popup/overlay for CapsLock changing is invaluable and is a feature missing in the apps claiming to replace this one. Being able to disable the Insert key is a bonus.

Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification.

The improvements offered by BASH include:

* Command line editing
* Unlimited size command history
* Job Control
* Shell Functions and Aliases
* Indexed arrays of unlimited size
* Integer arithmetic in any base from two to sixty-four

USBTreeView is a Windows graphical user interface application that enables you to browse all USB controllers and connected USB devices on your computer. .

Sends scroll events to the window currently under the cursor regardless of the currently selected window, just like MacOS.
Does not suffer from WizMouse's bug of closing a reply in MS Outlook when the DEL key is pressed.

Many other git clients want you to log-in, use lots of RAM, or other annoyances this clean and lightweight app avoids.

Time-Sync is a freeware software to synchronize the time of your system. The features of the software are:

• Simple self-explanatory software
• Configuration in a few steps
• Runs as a windows service in the background without any tray-icons
• Server & Client version according to RFC standards
• Usable in LAN and/or in Internet
• Uses system resources economically
• Redundant time servers are available
• Quick and clean install/uninstall

Allows you to view the 3 different clipboards of Windows, including the HTML one!

dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File Explorer, and much more.

Features:

• Search across text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives
• Search using text, regular expressions (regex), XPath, and phonetics
• Search-and-replace, including undo
• Whole-file preview
• Right-click to search in File Explorer
• Move/copy/delete result files
• Open line results in a custom editor, like Notepad++
• Bookmark search patterns for later use
• Try out complex searches in the Test window
• Run from USB drive using the stand-alone distribution
• Much more!

Dual Monitor Tools is a software package for Windows users with dual or multiple monitor setups.

All the tools are open source and free, and each tool is independent so you only need to install or run what you want.

Fills the void of Mac's Hex Fiend

Great for being able to clean up the registry mess left by a program

This thing can open PDFs that would crash the likes of Acrobat like a champ!

Good for finding and removing bloatware

WinSCP, a popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows, copies files between a local and remote computer. It supports also FTPS, SCP and WebDAV. It offers easy to use GUI for all common file operations and a powerfull automation with .NET assembly.

Properly stores RTF unlike CopyQ

Excellent powerful tool to edit PDF, annotate PDF, redact, protect and more.

PRO Version includes:
Remove default watermark
Combine PDF files
Lifetime license - Windows
Commercial use
Priority Support.

“Types” is a free and lightweight utility for Windows that allows you to edit program associations, icons, context menus and other properties of various file types displayed in Explorer.

The software licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2. source code avaliable by link: https://github.com/ystr/ystr.github.io/blob/master/types/Types.7z

FileTypesMan is an alternative to the File Types tab in the Folder Options of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer.

Sometimes you just have to view it in Chrome because web developers don't design with any other browser in mind.

The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

WindowGrid is a modern window management program that allows the user to quickly and easily layout their windows on a dynamic grid.
WindowGrid gives functionality to the normally useless right mouse button when moving a window. Doing this will enable the grid snap mode.

FEATURES

• Simple to control
• Portable and Installable
• Works with aerosnap
• Unintrusive
• Grid overlay can be customised (dimensions, opacity and color)
• Can auto update
• Supports Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
• Supports x86 and x64
• Written in C# and C++
• Low memory usage

Software that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

Keyboard Notifier sits in the system tray and notifies the user as to the state of the Caps, Scroll and Num lock keys. Designed for systems with ill-placed or non-existent hardware notification lights.

Zeal is a simple offline API documentation browser inspired by Dash (OS X app), available for Linux and Windows.

• Quickly search documentation using Alt+Space (or customised) hotkey to display Zeal from any place in your workspace.
• Search in multiple sets of documentation at once.
• Don't be dependent on your internet connection.

JPEGView is a lean, fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images with a minimal GUI. Basic on-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing adjusting typical parameters as sharpness, color balance, rotation, perspective, contrast and local under-/overexposure.

Features

• Small and fast, uses SSE2 and up to 4 CPU cores
• High quality resampling filter, preserving sharpness of images
• Basic image processing tools can be applied realtime during viewing
• Movie mode to play folder of JPEGs as movie

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Lightshot - easy screenshot tool, is screen capture tool for Windows and Mac platforms, with the added advantage of automatically uploading it online for sharing or editing.
Available also as Firefox addon, Chrome extension and besides Desktop application. The program has short domain https://prnt.sc/g5g1s5 (or long one http://prntscr.com/g5g1s5 inspite, here they're soft options on this screenshot) where you can see all screenshots you've uploaded before.

Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool, inspired by KDirStat.

Resource Hacker™ is a resource editor for 32bit and 64bit Windows® applications.

It's both a resource compiler (for .rc files), and a decompiler - enabling viewing and editing of resources in executables (.exe; *.dll; .scr; etc) and compiled resource libraries (.res, *.mui).

While Resource Hacker™ is primarily a GUI application, it also provides many options for compiling and decompiling resources from the command-line.

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

The main features of 7-Zip

High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
Self-extracting capability for 7z format
Integration with Windows Shell
Powerful File Manager
Powerful command line version
Plugin for FAR Manager
Localizations for 87 languages

7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix and macOS.

PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects.

DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.

Adds that "Print to PDF" ability that even handles files big enough to crash MS Word's PDF exporter!

Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did. Haroopad gives you same experiences in editing regardless of the platform you are working on. It runs on all three major operating systems—Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.

Good Spotlight-esque tool. Utilizes python, so it may be as extensible as Flashlight (the Spotlight mod platform).