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Applications and extensions that are handy to install in different operating systems and browsers
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Useful programs.md

Windows

Program Category Notes
7+ Taskbar Tweaker Tweaking Adjust taskbar behavior.
AltSnap Window management Easily move windows with mouse.
Autoruns Startup management Turn off startup processes.
CCleaner System cleanup Upsells are a little annoying.
dBpoweramp Audio encoder Transcode music batches in parallel.
DisplayFusion Tweaking Plethora of multi-monitor, desktop, and shell tweaks.
Driver Store Explorer System cleanup Uninstall unused drivers.
Firefox Web browser Very customizable, pro-user.
IrfanView Image viewer Can be customized for minimal photo viewing.
KeePass Password management Passwords not as a service.
KMS_VL_ALL Activation Supports Windows 10 and Office 2019.
Launchy Program launcher Easily start applications.
Lupas Rename File management Complex path renaming.
MainType Fonts Install and uninstall fonts, group them into folders, load them temporarily.
Mongoose Web server Lightweight, portable HTTP server if you just need to serve a directory temporarily.
NetPerSec Bandwidth monitor Very old and still the best.
Notepad2 Text editor Very simple editor for small tasks.
Process Explorer Task management Best in the business.
Process Monitor Tracing Log filesystem, registry, and process operations.
PS Tray Factory Tweaking Clean up notification area icons (not just hide them in a menu, actually remove them while leaving their programs still running).
Recuva Undeletion Works well. Doesn't support ReFS.
SharpKeys Keyboard Remap keys without a background process.
Sublime Text Text editor More complex editor that can handle sophisticated text manipulations, very customizable and extensible.
TagScanner Audio metadata editor Much better Discogs API client than Mp3tag.
Total Commander File management Great keyboard shortcuts.
TreeSize File management Analyze disk space usage with tables and graphs.
UltraMon Tweaking A few multi-monitor, desktop, and shell tweaks.
VirtuaWin Virtual desktops Lightweight, straightforward.
Vivaldi Web browser Innovation, control, and respect.
VLC Video playback Superior UI, hotkeys, and customization to Windows Media Player.
Winaero Tweaker Tweaking GUI for lots of registry changes to make Windows better behaved.
Winamp Music playback Still the best after all these years.
WinRAR Archiving Reads plenty of formats, straightforward.

Mac OS

Program Category Notes
Bartender Tweaking Clean up menu bar icons. Not free.
Contexts Tweaking Window switching is more useful than application switching. High performance, easy to read window titles. Not free.
ExactMouse Tweaking Disable mouse acceleration.
KeePassXC Password management Passwords not as a service.
Remote Desktop Remote control Like VNC on steroids.
ShiftIt Window management Not as customizable as it could be, but has good defaults and is unobtrusive.
VLC Video playback More compatible than QuickTime, but not as customizable on Mac OS as it is on Windows.

Linux and Unix

Program Category Notes
Emacs Text editor The second-hardest-to-figure-out text editor.
htop Process management Better than top.
Screen Window management For tiling terminals or preventing processes from being killed when SSH disconnects.

Web browsers

Program Category Notes
Stylus Userstyles Modify the stylesheets on pages.
Tampermonkey Userscripts Modify the scripts on pages.
uBlock Origin Content blocker Works great out-of-the-box, and dynamic filters are incredible.
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