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WindowsOS Development setup & Tools

Welcome to the WindowsOS Development Setup & Tools. An ongoing curated list of Microsoft Windows best applications, libraries, learning tutorials, software and tools for Windows.

windowsOS

Contents

Applications

Audio

  • AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • AudioNodes - Modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, and more. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • CDex - CD Ripper (French site, English program). ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Dopamine - An audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Exact Audio Copy - Transfer files from your CDs to your PC in almost every format.Comes with some pretty nifty features too.
  • Foobar2000 - Free audio player for Windows, supports a wide range of audio formats and has a lot of cool features. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Musicbee - Like iTunes but better than iTunes.
  • MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that looks up and rewrite metadata tags. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Reaper - Lightweight application with deep feature set and $60 for individual, non-profit, or small business use.
  • Resonic - Fast and free audio player.
  • WACUP - An extension/improvement to Winamp, providing bugfixes and more features such as a better MOD player and YouTube support. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files. ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]

Chat Clients

Compression

  • 7-Zip - Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Bandizip - A lightweight, fast and free All-In-One Zip Archiver. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • PeaZip - Archiver and file compressor. Extract 7Z CAB ISO RAR TAR ZIP archive files. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Riot - Compress images either by file size or by many other image attributes. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • WinRAR - A powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files.

Customization

Data Recovery

  • Data Rescue - Comprehensive and professional Hard drive recovery software that can recover your photos, videos, documents.
  • Ontrach EasyRecovery - Has filtering tools to help sort the large amount of data the software can recover.
  • PartitionGuru ｜ Eassos Recovery - Data recovery with partition recovery. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Recuva - Recover your deleted files quickly and easily.
  • Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Remote recovery option to recover data from another computer over a network.
  • TestDisk - Powerful free data recovery software primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.

Developer Tools

Documents

E-Book Utilities

  • Bookviser - Awesome application for Windows 8 devices to read eBooks in a simple way. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Calibre - Powerful software for e-book management and conversion. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • kobo - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Email

Games

  • 0 A.D. - A free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Awesome Games - List of games hosted on Github. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Freeciv - A Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Godot Engine - Free and open source game engine. Easy to get started and flexible for intermediate users. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • GOG - DRM-free game store with a lot of old games but also has a rich collection of new games.
  • Itch.io - Install, update and play indie games. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • LuaStudio - Free game development tool/engine. Create games and other graphic focused apps on Windows using Lua/LuaJIT programming language. Export them to many platforms including iOS, Android and Mac.
  • Origin - Like Steam, but for EA.
  • Steam - Largest online video game retailer. Desktop app allows you to organise your library of games and play them at any time. But you already knew that.
  • Unity - Free game engine. Easy to pick up and use with a number of tutorials.
  • Unreal Engine - Another free game engine. Lots of documentation and easier to pick up, but you pay 5% royalties to Unreal when you make money from UE-based games.
  • Warsow - Free & fast-paced FPS game for Windows. ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Graphics

Text Editors

IDEs

Online Storage

  • Box - Ability to sync more than 100,000 files and supporting both special characters in file names and file paths longer than 256 characters.
  • Dropbox -Simple, elegant and versatile (PC, Macs, Android...) cloud storage solution.
  • Google Drive - Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
  • pCloud - A swiss based privacy first cloud provider. Also offers one time payment lifetime plans.
  • Sync - Encrypted file storage that stores all files in canadian datacenters
  • Mega - Encrypted file storage.
  • Mozy
  • OneDrive - Best cloud storage solution for Windows users.

Backup

  • Arq - Backs up your files to your own cloud account (Amazon Cloud Drive, AWS, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, OneDrive, and SFTP).
  • Bvckup 2 - Light, versatile data replication software.
  • Duplicati - Free backup software to store encrypted backups online For Windows, macOS and Linux. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Productivity

  • Aperture Control - Windows environment automation tool with a number of premade recipes and examples available. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • AutoHotkey - The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Chocolatey - A package manager for Windows.
  • Cold Turkey - The only blocker for distracting websites that actually works. (even doesn't let you uninstall it when blocking is active).
  • CommandTrayHost - A Command Line program monitor systray for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Ditto - Clipboard manager.
  • Easy Window Switcher - Switch between application instances, fast.
  • Everything - The fastest file/folder search tool by name.
  • Executor.dk - A free multi purpose customizable and light-weight launcher. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • File Juggler - Organize files automatically. Monitor folders and execute actions like rename, delete, unzip and more. Finds dates in PDFs and much more.
  • Inkdrop - The note-taking app for Markdown lovers.
  • KatMouse - Utility that enables "universal scrolling" in Windows: scrolling does not need the window to be active/clicked first (i.e. how it works in macOS and Linux) ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Keypirinha - A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows. You can think of Keypirinha as an alternative to Launchy and a cousin of Alfred. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Launchy - The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Listary - Keep files at your fingertips. An unique search utility.
  • Luna - Automatic dark mode for Windows 10.
  • MultiCommander - File Manager for Professionals. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Ninite - The easiest, fastest way to update or install software. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • One Commander - File manager featuring miller columns and dual-pane views. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Simplenote - Simple cross-platform note taking app with cloud-based syncing. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Taskade - Smart task lists with real-time cross-platform syncing and team collaboration. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Total Commander - The best file manager for Windows.
  • WordWeb - A very good English dictionary for windows. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Wox - An effective launcher for windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]

Terminal

Utilities

  • A-Z of Windows Terminal Commands
  • Acrosync - The only native rsync client for Windows (no cygwin required). It supports automatic uploads on file changes and incremental hourly backups.
  • AddToSendTo - This script lets you add your favorite Folder to Send To option, when you right-click. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • Advanced Renamer - Advanced batch renaming program, with support for renaming based on GPS data from images, ID3 tags from music files, TV show data and regular expressions. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Bandicam - Recording software allowing easy video recording of both desktop and 3D apps simultaneously.
  • Carnac - The easiest way to record keystrokes during any screen recording.
  • CleanMyPC - A clean computer in no time.
  • CPU-Z - A free all-in-one CPU monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Econap - Prevent sleep mode while your system is busy. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Ext2Fsd - Open source ext3/4 file system driver for Windows. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • ExifCleaner - Remove exif metadata from images and videos with drag and drop. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Far - File and Archive manager. Clone of the Norton Commander. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • FileOptimizer - A lossless file size optimizer supporting a wide array of formats.
  • Fraps- Video game capture screen recorder that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology.
  • FreeFileSync - An easy backup solution for files and folders, It supports mirroring/two way sync/update between source and destination.
  • fselect - Command-line tool to search files with SQL-like queries.
  • Glary Utilities - Provides many more advanced features which are non existent in ccleaner.
  • GPU-Z - A free all-in-one GPU monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Greenshot - Take and crop screenshots directly on the screen. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • HTTrack- Offline browser utility, allowing you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • HWMonitor - A hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
  • IrfanView - A very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows.
  • LICEcap - Animated screen captures and save them directly to .GIF
  • LightBulb - Reduces eyestrain by adjusting gamma based on the current time
  • Link Shell Extension - Create symlinks from Explorer.
  • PowerPlanSwitcher - Provides a quick UI for switching power schemas & automatic switch on AC-plug-in on Windows10. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • Process Explorer - Discover which program has a particular file or directory open. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
  • qBittorrent - Free and reliable P2P Bittorrent client.
  • Retroshare - A platform for secure communications and file sharing between friends. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • rimraf - A deep deletion module for node. Help to delete files and folders with very long paths
  • Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way.
  • SDelete - A command line utility that can securely delete a file, or clean the slack space.
  • SetToStartup - This script will help you to add your favorite programs or self made scripts/folders to startup. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
  • ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Snipping Tool / Snip & Sketch - Windows 10 utility to easily capture and edit selected area in screen.
  • SDelete - A command line utility that can securely delete a file, or clean the slack space.
  • SetToStartup - This script will help you to add your favorite programs or self made scripts/folders to startup. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • ShareX- Lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • SpaceMonger - A graphical utility to display folders and files in blocks relative to their disk usage.
  • Speccy -Detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer.
  • SpeedCrunch - The best and only calculator you'll need, completely stripped down of unnecessary UI clutter. ![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][Freeware Icon]
  • Sysinternals Suite - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity etc.
  • ueli - A powerful keystroke launcher for Windows.
  • Universal Media Server - A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(S) Media Server
  • SpeedCrunch - The best and only calculator you'll need, completely stripped down of unnecessary UI clutter. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Sysinternals Suite - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity etc.
  • Unlocker - Unlock files Windows won't let you delete
  • Waltr - Transfer any movie or music file to your iPhone w/o iTunes.
  • WinDirStat - It is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup too.
  • Windows 10 Login Screen Changer - Changes the Windows 10 Login Screen Background. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • winreg-cli - Command line tool with a fluent API for modifying Windows registry. [Open-Source Software][OSS Icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • WizTree - Excellent, small utility application allows users to quickly find large files on a hard drive. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Yacy - A general search engine by corporations of people, including the search web page, general crawlers, indexing, and ranking functions.![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • ZeroNet - A decentralized web. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • ZoomIt - It is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations. It runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image.

Proxy and VPN Tools

  • Algo - Personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud.

Video

Setup

Windows 10 Setup

Windows 8.1 Setup

Security

  • Acrylic DNS Proxy - A local DNS proxy which caches the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you fight unwanted ads through a custom HOSTS file. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • AdwCleaner - Free removal tool for adware, PUP/LPI, Toolbars and Hijacker. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Bitdefender - Best outright protection against malware.
  • Cryptomator - Free client-side encryption for your cloud files. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Disable Data Logging - Make Windows 10 more private and safe. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • ENCRYPTO - Encrypt your files in an elegant way. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • GlassWire - Network security monitoring tool and analyzer that visualizes your network activity.
  • IIS Crypto - A utility for configuring encryption protocols, cyphers, hashing methods, and key exchanges for Windows components (eg TLS/AES/SHA for Remote Desktop)
  • KeePass - Free, open-source, easy-to-use password manager. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Malwarebytes - protects from dangerous threats that antivirus doesn't. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • NetLimiter - Internet traffic control and monitoring tool. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • SpyBot - Search and destroy malware, spyware and viruses. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • System Explorer - An enhanced task manager with support for monitoring and modifying system processes, start-up programs, system services, drivers, shell extensions, and more.
  • Tor Project - Enable anonymous communication. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon] ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • UnChecky - automatically unchecks unrelated offers from installers.
  • VeraCrypt - VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. ![Open-Source Software][oss icon]
  • Viscosity - Fully-featured OpenVPN client, ready for enterprise deployment. ![Freeware][freeware icon]
  • Windows 10 Paranoid's Guide

Miscellaneous

Discussion Forums

Windows

IRC channels

Reddit

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