utilities

Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows
that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike!.

A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.

A personal booru-style media tagger that can import files and tags from your hard drive and popular websites. Content can be shared with other users via user-run servers.

When you need to organize files, DropIt can eliminate much of the drudgery of searching and manually opening folders and moving files around.

You can configure DropIt to perform 17 different actions on your files and folders, filtering files by name, directory, size, date, properties, content or regular expressions. You can even save sets of associations in profiles and associate a profile to each desired folder, to scan monitored folders at a defined time interval.

Drop a group of different files and folders on the floating DropIt image and it sorts them to defined destination folders, compresses or extracts them, opens them with associated programs or performs other defined actions.

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats and codecs. It will convert between MP3, MP4/M4A, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, WAV, WMA and other formats.

With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to FLAC or MP3 files for use with your mobile player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.

The integrated CD ripper supports the freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Portable version: https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/freac_portable

File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu in Windows Explorer.

It supports a lot of different file formats:

Audio
From: 3gp, aiff, ape, avi, bik, cda, flac, flv, m4a, mkv, mov, mp3, mp4, oga, ogg, wav, webm, wma, wmv
To: flac, aac, ogg, mp3, wav

Video:
From: 3gp, avi, bik, flv, gif, m4v, mkv, mp4, mpeg, mov, ogv, webm, wmv
To: webm, mkv, mp4, avi, gif

Image & Document:
From: bmp, exr, ico, jpg, jpeg, png, psd, svg, tiff, tga, pdf
To: png, jpg, ico, gif

Document:
From: bmp, exr, ico, jpg, jpeg, png, psd, svg, tiff, tga
To: pdf

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

Open Shell is a fork of the Classic Shell project for Windows that getting back the classic start menu to modern versions of Microsoft 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/

Total Commander is a shareware Orthodox File Manager (OFM) for Windows.
Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a multi-rename tool with regular expression support.

Features include:

• Two file windows side by side
• Multiple language and Unicode support
• Enhanced search function
• Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories
• Quick View panel with bitmap display
• ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins
• Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
• Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
• Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons
• Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search
• Compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog etc.
• Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), password manager for ftp and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64 bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl+S)
• USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl+Shift+B), and many improvements to ftp, synchronizing and other functions
• And many more!

Total Commander-inspired file manager that features two side-by-side panels for navigation.

A free utility designed to copy files faster and more secure. It can verify copied files to ensure they are identical. It skips bad files during copy, not terminating the entire transfer. Seamless integration with Windows Explorer.

The paid version of the program (TeraCopy Pro) includes the following features:

Copy/move to your favorite folders.
Save reports as HTML and CSV files.
Select files with the same extension/folder.
Remove the selected files from the copy queue.
More features coming soon!

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.

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.

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

Identify the data vacuums on your hard drive with pinpoint precision very, very quickly.

Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

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

Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Snappy Driver Installer Origin is a portable Windows tool to install and update device drivers. It can be used offline to install drivers where Internet isn't available. No more searching for drivers after a clean install, just let Snappy Driver Installer Origin do it's thing and your job will be done in no time. The perfect technician's tool.

Features:

State of the art driver matching algorithm.
Portable, run it from a USB flash drive, no installation necessary.
Built in application and driver pack updates.
Can be fully automated using the built in scripting engine.
Multilingual interface.
Built-in and custom themes.
Supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10.

Snappy Driver Installer Origin remains a free, open source project. Free means it costs you nothing to download and use. Free means it is free of adware, malware, backdoors, unwanted third party software or other dodgy stuff.

Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.

Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. A "show non-Microsoft only" option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically. Language only english.

It is a free tool to delete files blocked by something you do not know. LockHunter is useful for fighting against malware, and other programs that are blocking files without a reason. Unlike other similar tools it deletes files into the recycle bin so you may restore them if deleted by mistake. Integrates into Explorer menu. At the moment LockHunter is in beta stage. So use it with care!

Key Features:
- Shows processes locking a file or folder.
- Gives you detailed information on the process.
- Allows to unlock, delete, copy or rename a locked file.
- Can delete a file at next OS restart.
- Allows to kill locking process.
- Allows to remove locking processes from hard drive.
- Can unload DLLs from processes.
- Integrates in to Explorer menu.
- It deletes files into the recycle bin, so you may restore them if deleted by mistake.

Free and open source program uninstaller. Can remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly. .

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk.

Rid your system of old clutter including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts.

Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean Adobe Acrobat Reader, APT, Bash, Beagle, Chromium, Epiphany, Mozilla Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Chrome, Google Earth, Internet Explorer, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, Safari, Second Life viewer, Skype, VIM, XChat, Yum, and more.

BleachBit has never bundled any junk like browser toolbars.

Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008.

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

Rescuezilla is a free, easy-to-use hard drive disk cloning and imaging application that boots as a live USB. Rescuezilla is fully interoperable with Clonezilla. This means that backups created by Clonezilla, can be restored with Rescuezilla (and vice versa).

Rescuezilla can mount and explore backup images to extract individual files. Rescuezilla is an extremely easy-to-use graphical environment for system rescue, including full system backup, bare metal recovery, partition editing, undeleting files, web browsing, and more.

Rescuezilla is a fork of Redo Backup and Recovery (now known as Redo Rescue) after that application didn't have an update for 7 years.

Rescuezilla can be booted on any PC or Mac from a USB stick, or CD, and uses the exact same reliable, battle-tested image format Clonezilla uses.

Features

Easy graphical user interface boots from USB in seconds
No installation needed; runs from a USB stick or a CD-ROM
Saves and restores Windows, Mac and Linux machines
Fully interoperable with Clonezilla, the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions
Also supports virtual machine images: VirtualBox (VDI), VMWare (VMDK), Hyper-V (VHDx), Qemu (QCOW2), raw (.dd, .img) and many more
Access your files even if you can't log in
Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files
Internet access with a full-featured browser to download drivers

Ninite is the easiest way to install software. Pick the apps you want, and the Ninite installer will download and install all of your selected apps at once, automatically. It is 100% hands-free; Ninite automatically rejects browser toolbars and other prepackaged junk.

International: Ninite installs apps in your PCs language.

32 or 64-bit: Ninite installs the best version of an app for your PC.

SpeedCrunch is a free, fast, high precision open source algebraic calculator with an intuitive interface and a extensive list of features, including:
Unlimited Variables,
Syntax Highlighting,
Functions, with 'Automagic' Completion,
50 Decimal Precision,
Input History
and more...

Powerful, fast and reliable Windows terminal that can run any console WinAPI or Unix PTY app.

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

Redshift adjusts the color temperature according to the position of the sun. A different color temperature is set during night and daytime.

During twilight and early morning, the color temperature transitions smoothly from night to daytime temperature to allow your eyes to slowly adapt. At night the color temperature should be set to match the lamps in your room. This is typically a low temperature at around 3000K-4000K. During the day, the color temperature should match the light from outside, typically around 5500K-6500K. The light has a higher temperature on an overcast day.