Things I find very useful on Windows. Last updated June 2025
- ShutUp10++ - Shuts down most telemetry and Windows Store shit on Windows 10/11
- OpenShell - Replacement shell for Windows 10
- StartAllBack 💸 - Replacement shell for Windows 11
- FanControl - Proper fan curves control
- ColorControl - Proper display settings control
- OpenRGB - Proper lighting control
- f.lux - Automatic monitor color temperature adjustment to reduce eyestrain
- Tabby - Modern terminal for Windows
- Nomacs - Pretty fast image viewer with bad resampling
- Keypirinha - A fast launcher "for keyboard ninjas on Windows"
- Everything - Fast file and folder search to replace the dogshit Windows search
- SpeedCrunch - Much better and extremely light calculator
- WinDirStat - Disk/directory statistics
- WizTree - Faster disk/directory statistics via NTFS MFT, but annoying closed donationware
- MediaInfo - Shell integration for fetching precise metadata on all media files
- SageThumbs - Proper thumbnails in Explorer for most media file types
- Process Explorer - Replaces task manager
- Link Shell Extension - Symlinks, hardlinks and junctions for NTFS using Explorer
- WinCDEmu - Image mounting FOSS
- ImgDrive - Better image mounting
- SSHFS-Win - Mounts directories over SSH as network drives
- PureRef - Flexible reference image overlay for creative work
- DisplayFusion 💸 - Partitions displays to multiple subregions + more, req. for ultrawide monitors
- Groupy 💸 - Lets you group any number of windows together with tabs
- LocaleEmulator - Emulates Japanese system locale to run non-Unicode JP executables
- DS4Windows - DualShock & DualSense gamepads to XInput emulation
- HostsMan - Download, merge, update
hostsfiles automatically for blocklisting etc. - MultiHasher - Hasher
- foobar2000 - Plays audio well
- Exact Audio Copy - Rips audio well
- DiscoGS Tagger - Tags audio well
- MPC-HC - Plays video well
- mpv - Leanest and meanest video player, very user-unfriendly
- OBS Studio - Screen capture and stream broadcasting
- Voicemeeter - Virtual audio devices for WASAPI & ASIO + custom routing
- yt-dlp - Command-line video downloads off most big web services
- ffmpeg - Command-line multimedia multitool