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Image viewers and editors Image Glass - Image viewer Multiple tools are available to add/edit/delete entries in your right-click context menu. For example: Customize context menu, permanently disable Windows Update, customize entries in Navigation Pane in File Explorer, Alt+Tab Appearance, etc. Winaero Tweaker is an all-in-one app that comes with dozens of options for fine-grained tuning of various Windows settings and features. You could also configure it to throttle the internet for some applications. Helpful to keep an eye if some application is consuming massive bandwidth (ahem ahem Windows update). NetBalancer shows network traffic in taskbar toolbar. Bing Wallpaper (from Microsoft) is a lightweight app that sets a new high-res beautiful image each day as your desktop wallpaper (same as shown on their Bing search page). Static desktop background can get boring after some time. Supports 2-way live sync.Ĭustomization Bing Wallpaper - Dynamic wallpapers RBTray is a small program that runs in the background and allows windows to be minimized to the system tray by right-clicking its minimize button.Īdvanced Renamer is a batch renamer program that can dynamically rename multiple files and folders at once.įreeFileSync is a free and cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) to synchronize files and folders. See my favorite scripts and how to use them:

Source-code: AutoHotkey - Automation scriptsĪutoHotkey is an open-source scripting software for Windows that is used to automate repetitive tasks, remap keys, build small utility tools, etc.

Remap keys and create your own keyboard shortcuts.

Hotkey to globally mute both your microphone and camera when in a video conference (for those embarrassing zoom call moments when every second adds up to it).

Instantly search and launch any app with a shortcut.

Instantly resize images via right-click.

show SVG icons (.svg), Markdown (.md), and PDF file previews in the preview pane in File Explorer.

PowerToys is an open-source tool from Microsoft that adds multiple useful features like: Stardock Groupy is also a similar (Freemium) app to add tabs to programs: PowerToys Supports images, text transformation on the fly, search, pin items, auto-clear entries, etc. Trigger a hotkey to invoke popup window and paste any of your past clipboard items. Productivity Ditto - Clipboard managerĭitto is a lightweight and feature-rich clipboard manager for Windows. Someday, I’ll probably write a similar list of tools I use on Mac.

PS: I switched to Mac (M1 MBP) at starting of 2022. All tools are free to use (or freemium with a generous free version), and many of them are even open-source (source code links are provided where applicable). In this article, I categorized these tools under their use cases. I’ve been a Windows (power-) user for a decade, and throughout the journey, I found tools and apps which made me work more efficiently on Windows.

OBS Studio - Live streaming and recorder.