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Here are some utilities I love and use all-the-time on windows. Would love to hear about your tools in the replies. * Everything: https://www.voidtools.com/ ht
by zubspace 7y ago
Here are some utilities I love and use all-the-time on windows. Would love to hear about your tools in the replies.
* Everything: https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
An awesome and terribly fast file finder. You can add a global Shortcut, like WIN+<something>. I use it all the time.
* Licecap: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
A gif recorder. Useful to spice up your bug reports!
* WinDirStat: https://windirstat.net/ https://windirstat.net/
Low on Diskspace? Find out, where it's gone!
* Bulk Rename Utility: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk
It's a bit arcane, but it renames everything in every format you can think of with a bit of practice.
* Text Crawler: https://www.filepuma.com/download/textcrawler_3.0.3-9304/ https://www.filepuma.com/download/textcrawler_3.0.3-9304/
Grep everything in a directory. Use it for complex Regex searches on windows. Unfortunately new versions are limited by a trial.
* Greenshot: https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/
The better snipping tool.
* CurrPorts: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
The better TCPView
* Process Explorer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
You know it already.
- busfahrer 7y agoInstead of TextCrawler, I use grepWin: https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html Edit: Forgot to mention TinyTask, a macro recorder in 30kb or so: https://www.tinytask.net https://www.tinytask.net
- ZoomStop 7y agoIf you like WinDirStat, try WizTree sometime. Not open source but free from antibody-software. Many times faster in operation that WinDirStat. For file renaming lately ReNamer Lite by den4b has been great. It seems to have all the power of other rename tools with a GUI that makes it very easy to accomplish what you are trying to do.
- phit_ 7y ago* Licecap * Greenshot can be both replaced by the IMO far superior ShareX https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ - Text Crawler you can do the same thing with notepad++ and it's free
- chronolitus 7y agoA utility similar to windirstat which I use all the time : * spacesniffer: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
- philliphaydon 7y agoAfter using spacesniffer every other alternative seems terrible. I love spacesniffer.
- Lukesys 7y agoI've always used Treesize Free myself, used it once it did the job so kept using it lol
- Multicomp 7y ago* WinDirStat -> WizTree . Same idea as WDS/Space Monger but uses Everything-style disk tree reading to be much faster scanning * Licecap -> Gifcam . Similar functionality, slightly more modern UI * Greenshot -> Jing . Mostly because I'm used to Jing and have it mapped to Ctrl + Print Screen * Open Hardware Monitor . My Sandy Bridge laptop likes to go into Jet Engine mode and this gives me details as to what the hardware is doing. Combined with procexp and I have a clear view that svchost.exe has gotten away from itself again and its time for a reboot
- basch 7y agoEveryone is going to have their own WinDirStat suggestion, because theres about 50 million variants on the market, but WizTree is fastest.
- ozzmotik 7y agoit's always nice to see someone bring up Everything. it's almost terrifying how fast it can find basically anything.
- thefz 7y agoShareX is also very good screen grabber/snipper. https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX
- BlueGh0st 7y agoSeconding ShareX. This is an extremely powerful tool, but only if you want it to be. I was using it as a basic lightweight snipping tool for over a year before diving deeper into it's macro, automatic uploading, screen recording, and screenshot organization tools. Among it's other features is built in QR and OCR tools. Cool stuff!
- rdiddly 7y agoHow'bout Instant Eyedropper? Sits in the system tray and you can drag it onto any pixel onscreen & get the color mapping in a variety of spaces. http://instant-eyedropper.com http://instant-eyedropper.com