Surviving Windows

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/

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

A free web browser developed by Google from the open source Chromium project with a focus on speed and minimalism. Chrome offers fast start-up and web page loading, supports a minimalist user interface, automatically updates in the background, and offers syncing of browser bookmarks, extensions, passwords, and history between multiple computers by your Google account.

Additionally, Chrome has Flash and PDF support built into the browser for better speed and security.

Chrome Web Apps and Extensions are available on Chrome Web Store .

Available in more than 50 languages.

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.

Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer.
A free and open source process viewer with powerful process termination and memory searching/editing capabilities.

Key features of Process Hacker:

• A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer.
• Detailed system statistics with graphs.
• Advanced features not found in other programs, such as detaching from debuggers, viewing GDI handles, viewing heaps, injecting and unloading DLLs, and more.
• Powerful process termination that bypasses security software and rootkits.
• View, edit and control services, including those not shown by the Services console.
• View and close network connections.
• Starts up almost instantly, unlike other programs.

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 dependend on your internet connection.

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.

JPEGView is a small and fast viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and TIFF images. On-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing to adjust typical parameters as sharpness, color balance, contrast and local under-/overexposure.

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

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.

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.