Rawsta's Windows List

There are a lot of tools to create a more productive work enviroment with windows. But it can be quite a task to find really useful tools and sometimes you don't even know what you are missing.

These lists are not meant to be a comprehensive overview of what is available. These are just my own personal choices.

more coming sooner or later

Maintenance

• Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows -> Packetmanager for Windows. Highly recommended!
• SysInternals -> Microsoft tools to handle the Internals
• Process Explorer -> Get more Informations about running processes
• NirLauncher -> Launcher for the whole collection of NirSoft tools.
• Revo UnInstaller -> Solid Uninstaller that removes all traces.
• HostsMan -> Easily manage your Windows HOSTS file.
• Rufus -> Create bootable USB-Sticks for ISO-Images

Hardware Info

• HDD Health -> Check health of your harddrives and failure prediction.
• CrystalDiskInfo
• Speccy -> Read all Hardware Informations.
• HWMonitor
• CPU-Z -> Read all CPU Informations.

ComfortZone

• f.lux -> Adjusts the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day.
• Keypirinha -> Fast launcher for keyboard ninjas, many packages available
• Ditto -> Extensible Clipboard Manager
• ModernFlyouts -> A modern Fluent Design replacement for the old Metro themed flyouts.
• PowerToys -> 10 Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.

DeveloperStuff

• Cmder -> Great portable console emulator for Windows
• Clink -> Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe
• WinSCP -> Popular SFTP client and SCP client
• Resource Hacker -> Resource editor for 32bit/64bit Windows applications.
• ZealDocs -> Offline documentation browser for software developers.

Dev Enviroment

• VirtualBox -> Oracle VM VirtualBox is an open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization
• Vagrant -> Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.
• vvv -> VVV is an open source local development environment focused on WordPress, powered by Vagrant.
• Docker -> Easy Container
• Laragon -> Laragon provides a fast and easy way to spin up an isolated Windows development.

Windows Subsystem for Linux

• GWSL -> Feature-Packed, Highly-Integrated Windows 10 XServer.
• VcXsrv -> XServer for WSL.

Editor

• Visual Studio Code -> Modern Editor (Electron-basiert)
• neoVIM -> hyperextensible Vim-based text editorHighly recommended!
• Space-Vim -> Vim Distrubution for Windows.
• Oni - Modern Modal Editing -> NeoVIM GUI in Windows.
• Boostnote -> Markdown/Snippet Editor with Developer in mind.

Datenbanken

• DB Browser for SQLite -> Einfaches Tool um SQLite DBs zu bearbeiten
• MySQL Workbench -> Umfangreiches Tool um MySQL DBs zu verwalten und zubearbeiten

Dokumentation / Diagramme

• DIA UML Editor -> Tool for UML Diagrams.
• yEd Editor -> Graph Diagram Editor.
• Draw.io -> Online-Tool for Mindmaps,Disgrams and more.

DesignRelated

• Instant Color Picker -> Solider ColorPicker für den Desktop
• SageThumbs -> Ermöglicht PSD, AI, etc Vorschau im Explorer
• ImageGlass -> Schneller und einfacher Bildbetrachter
• IrfanView -> Mächtiger Bildbetrachter mit vielen Funktionen

Font-Management

• Fontbase -> Kann Google Fonts und Fonts aus Ordnern bedarfsweise laden.
• NexusFont -> Font Manager für Übersicht mit guter UI

GIT

• Git for Windows -> Basis um GIT auf Windows zu nutzen. Bringt BASH mit.
• Git Extensions -> Einfache WindowsGUI für GIT
• Git Kraken -> Solide und moderner Git Client

Explorer Enhancements

• TeraCopy -> Better file copy with verification and hash-support.
• QTTabBar -> Extends Explorer by tabs and extra folder views.
• 7+ Taskbar Tweaker -> Customize the Windows taskbar with dozens of exclusive options.
• TranslucentTB -> Makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.
• QuickLook -> Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows.
• Display Fusion -> Multi-monitor enhancements and tools.

E-Mail

• Thunderbird -> Solider E-Mail Client, erweiterbar mit Addons
• ClawsMail -> Einfacher, lightweight E-Mail Client (GTK+ based)
• Mailspring -> Electron-based GMail-clone

Various

• ShareX -> Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool
• iNFekt -> The ultimate best NFO viewer, ever!
• AllDup -> Find and remove duplicate files

Network

• NetSpeedMonitor -> Up/Download in der Taskleiste anzeigen (leider nicht mehr offiziell verfügbar)
• Telerik Fiddler -> Web Debugging Proxy
• Wireshark -> Netzwerk Monitor
• WinPCap -> Window Packet capture library
• NetSpeedMonitor -> Desktop Widget (benötigt Winpcap)

Audio

• Dopamine -> Audio Player with strong windows integration
• Resonic Player -> Audio player, directory player, and sample browser, with big waveform view, frequency analyzer and more. :exclamation: DarkTheme only in Pro
• MusicBee
• Picard -> Cross-platform music tagger written in Python.
• Mp3tag -> Powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

Security

• KeePass Password Safe -> Solider PasswordManager, der fast überall läuft
• LastPass -> CloudPasswordManager der als BrowserExtension lebt

Kommunikation

• Pidgin -> Einfacher, vielseiteiger GTK+ IM Client. Gut für Jabber mit OTR
• HexChat -> Sehr Solider IRC Client. Fork von X-Chat

Office

• LibreOffice -> Alternative zu MS Office
• Fakturama -> Rechnungsprogramm für die Buchhaltung