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.

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/

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.

An integrated workspace environment, Winstep Xtreme is a powerful suite of desktop enhancement utilities that merge incredible usability and performance with breathtaking eye candy. The Winstep Xtreme suite includes the following applications: Nexus Ultimate, Workshelf, NextSTART, Modules and Winstep Start Menu Organizer Pro.
A superb collection of utilities and desktop enhancements, Winstep Xtreme will change the way you work with Windows forever.

Clipboard manager with searchable and editable history.

It's possible to save plain text, images, HTML and other formats, use plugins, filter out content by text, data format or window from which it is copied, use multiple tabs, control application using command-line interface and scripting, assign system-wide shortcuts, paste item into application just by selecting it in tray menu and more.

Volume2 is an advanced Windows audio mixer, a complete replacement for the standard Volume Control. This application lets you easily change the sound volume just by rotating the mouse wheel or by using keyboard hot keys or just mouse move on screen border. It includes an audio mixer with advanced volume controls support, a scheduler, an on-screen display, command line support, the ability to store and recall different unlimited presets via one mouse click or system-wide hot keys. Support many languages such as: English, Russian, Greek, Armenian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, German, Serbian, Portuguese, Armenian, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish, Slovak, French, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Chines(trad), Chines(sim), Arabic.

DeskPins can be used to make any application topmost, that is, to keep it above all other windows. Just grab a pin from the DeskPins icon in the system notification area (a.k.a. taskbar tray) and click on any window. This functionality is identical to the "Always on Top" setting found in some programs. With DeskPins you can add this feature to any program!

Adapt the taskbar to your workflow, not the other way around.

Designed for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10.

(Most of the configuration options it provides can’t be tweaked using the taskbar properties or the registry.)

The tweaks are divided into three sections:

TASKBAR ITEMS
Controls taskbar items related stuff, like middle/right clicking, hovering, and dropping.

GROUPING & COMBINING
Disables grouping, allows to drag taskbar buttons between groups, forces or disables combining, and more.

OTHER TASKBAR OPTIONS
Provides mouse wheel options, taskbar empty space clicking options, and some other options.

Easy to use GIF animator

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

AntiMicro is a program used to map keyboard and mouse actions to gamepad/joystick buttons. It is useful for playing games with poor or no gamepad support.

Its graphical interface uses a combination of the Qt and SDL toolkits.

It is open source and released under the GNU General Public License version 3.0

Extensible, cross-platform text editor with a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes.

Snappy Driver Installer is an application for installing/updating drivers on PCs running Microsoft Windows using driverpacks or included folders with drivers.

Free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files.

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.

PS Tray Factory allows you to take a full control over icons in the system tray area of the taskbar. With PS Tray Factory you can: hide icons from system tray into menu, change the order of icons in the system tray (sort tray), restore tray icons after Explorer.exe crash and use custom icons.

Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint, yet powerful program to monitor processor temperature and other vital information. .

Batch rename files and folders in a snap. Perfect for any kind of file renaming including music and photo files. Preview your files before renaming and undo erroneous renaming jobs.

Selected features :

Preview new names in real time
Tag based renaming
Rename with MP3/ID3 information
Use Regular expressions and Wildcards
Image renaming with EXIF support
Display thumbnails of images
Supports for both files and folders
Undo previous batch
Several renaming methods
Use multiple methods at once
Batch modes: Rename, copy, move
Set file timestamps and file attributes

Renaming methods :

New name with Tags
Change case of filename
Remove / Delete part of filename
Remove pattern from filename
Replace part of filename
Add / Insert text into filename
Move part of filename
New names based on a list of names
Change file attributes
Change file timestamp

More examples of use :

Change the case of a filename to uppercase or lowercase, or change the case of the first letter in every word.
Replace a part of a filename based on a search pattern.
Change readonly attribute of files.
Add incrementing numbers with leading zeros to filenames.
Change file extensions.
Cleanup file names and remove spaces and underscores.
Add a prefix or surfix to filenames.
Copy or move files to other folders. New folder names can be constructed from file tags and patterns.
Revert names to original names if renaming batch goes wrong.
Organize music files based on ID3 tags.
Use EXIF information to sort image files and organize them in folders.
Save batch presets for later use or them with friends and colleagues.
Use Perl Regular Expressions and wildcards to replace parts of file and folder names.
Add date taken to the file name of jpg/jpeg files taken with digital cameras.

Languages :

English, Danish, Chinese (Simplified), German, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Turkish

RStudio™ is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio combines an intuitive user interface with powerful coding tools to help you get the most out of R.

RStudio brings together everything you need to be productive with R in a single, customizable environment. Its intuitive interface and powerful coding tools help you get work done faster.

RStudio is available for all major platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It can even run alongside R on a server, enabling multiple users to access the RStudio IDE using a web browser.

Like R, RStudio is available under an open source license that guarantees the freedom to share and change the software, and to make sure it remains free software for all its users.

Cleaner tool for your system - protects your privacy, makes your computer faster and more secure.

Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

An IDE with all the features a developer need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms.

Built around a plugin framework, Code::Blocks can be extended with plugins. Any kind of functionality can be added by installing/coding a plugin. For instance, compiling and debugging functionality is already provided by plugins!

Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS. Kodi is designed to be the perfect companion to a home theater PC - it supports an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful (and highly "skinnable") interface, Kodi feels very natural to use from the couch.

Currently Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the Internet using practically any protocol available.

EditPad Lite is a compact general-purpose text editor. Use EditPad Lite to easily edit any kind of plain text file. EditPad Lite has all the essential features to make text editing a breeze:

• Large file and long line support.
• Full Unicode support, including complex scripts and right-to-left scripts.
• Direct editing of text files using Windows, UNIX, and mac Mac text encodings (code pages) and line breaks.
• Tabbed interface for working with many files.
• Unlimited undo and redo for all open files, even after saving.
• Automatic backup and working copies prevent data loss.
• Powerful search-and-replace with literal search terms and regular expressions that can span multiple lines.

TeamViewer lets you establish a connection to any PC or server within just a few seconds.

SoundWire lets you send any music or audio ("what you hear now") from your Windows or Linux PC to your Android mobile devices.

MinGW ("Minimalistic GNU for Windows") is a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and GNU Binutils. It provides a complete Open Source programming toolset which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows (x86) applications, which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs.

MinGW compilers provide access to the functionality of the Microsoft C runtime and some language-specific runtimes. MinGW, being Minimalist, does not, and never will, attempt to provide a POSIX runtime environment for POSIX application deployment on MS-Windows. If you want POSIX application deployment on this platform, please consider Cygwin instead.

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

Free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!.

Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java IDE, but it is much more than that- Eclipse actually consists of over 60 different open-source projects, organized into 6 different categories:

*. Enterprise Development
*. Embedded and Device Development
*. Rich Client Platform
*. Rich Internet Applications
*. Application Frameworks
*. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
*. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

DAEMON Tools Lite is an advanced application which provides one of the best optical media emulation in the industry. You can mount *.mdx, .mds/.mdf, *.iso, *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz disc images to a virtual drive. Make .iso, .mds/.mdf and *.mdx images of CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs. Activate Lite once, and use Free License without Internet forever

DAEMON Tools Pro comes with two possible licences (standard & advanced) and enables you to emulate not only CD/DVD drives but also HD DVD and Blu-ray ones. The maximum number of virtual drives that you can mount with images simultaneously is up to 32. DAEMON Tools Pro Advanced has a special feature for advanced users — possibility to emulate up to 4 IDE virtual devices.

DAEMON Tools Ultra combines all the features of Pro series and has additional functions like an ability to create TrueCrypt images, encrypt discs and USB sticks, make and use VHD and RAM disks. Also, DAEMON Tools Ultra works as iSCSI Initiator.

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.

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.

An alternative windows file manager with advanced features similar to total commander.

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

Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time.

Are you tired from many viewers one for each document?
Do you want to have, one program for all your technical documentations, scientific books and so on?
Do you want to have program, which fast opens files, fast loads pages and fast renders page to screen?
And all of this in free software?

STDU Viewer is a document viewer for multiple file formats. The goal of this software is to replace the multiple document viewers with a single simple application. STDU Viewer supports TXT, TIFF, PDF and DjVu documents format. This is most popular formats for scientific and technical documentation.

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books.

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.

Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME - Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.

Some basic features of Geany:

* Syntax highlighting
* Code folding
* Symbol name auto-completion
* Construct completion/snippets
* Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
* Call tips
* Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal

Symbol lists

Code navigation

Build system to compile and execute your code

Simple project management

Plugin interface

Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.

Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note" button, by linking to a non-existing page or by writing a CamelCase name in any note. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, in plain text format with lightweight markup, and can have attachments (stored along the notes).

This tool can be used to keep track of TODO lists or ideas, to take notes during a meeting, to draft any other kind of text (blog entries, important mails, etc.) or to write long texts like lab research notebooks thank's to the headers structure and the table of content navigation.

Zim handles several types of formatting markup, like headings, bullet lists, checkbox, tables and of course bold, italic and highlighted. This markup is saved as a hybrid wiki/markdown text so you can easily edit it with other editors. Because of the autosave feature you can switch between pages and follow links or even close the software anytime while editing without worries. The interface also provides multi-document tabs, and it remembers the cursor position in all notes for quick resuming in your note taking endeavors.

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN.

Open-source, Python-based visual diff and merge tool for comparing files and folders.

GridMove - A window management tool that can quickly arrange your windows into desktop grids.
GridMove is a program that aims at making windows management easier. It helps you with this task by defining a visual grid on your desktop, to which you can easily snap windows. This program comes bundled with some predefined grid templates, that can be easily swaped, but also has ways of creating custom grids or sharing grids made by others.

GridMove makes moving windows, resizing windows, displaying them on cascade or on mosaic, making them on top or anything you can think of as easy as drag and drop.

This tool was made taking in mind those who own big screens and keep organizing their windows. This program is specially useful for anyone that keeps more than 1 window on the screen at one time, because it helps the user to maximize the usable space of the monitor, by resizing the windows in a much easier way than moving and resizing them one by one.

Thanks to its simple interaction methods, GridMove becomes intuitive and fast, helping you to improve your workflow.

The PDF-XChange Viewer has been discontinued and replaced by the PDF-XChange Editor.

Small screenshot tool with support for OCR, Office export, annotations, and more.

Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF/DjVu/EPUB/XPS/CHM/CBR/CBZ/MOBI/FB2 viewer for Windows.
Why another PDF reader?

Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features.

Its small and starts up very fast.

Its designed for portable use: its just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive.

Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, macOS, *BSD, etc.