foobar2000
https://www.foobar2000.org/
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player.
WinDirStat
https://windirstat.net/
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup assistant for Microsoft Windows clients and servers.
Sysinternals
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
Utilities for Windows troubleshooting, management, and security analysis.
NirSoft
https://www.nirsoft.net/
NirSoft is a comprehensive suite of lightweight, portable Windows utilities designed for advanced system diagnostics, network monitoring, and password recovery.
Obsidian
https://obsidian.md/
It's a note taking app. It's better than Notion.
Chocolatey
https://chocolatey.org/
Chocolatey is a universal package manager for Windows. (like apt-get but for Windows)
yt-dlp
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file
yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites. The project is a fork of youtube-dl based on the now inactive youtube-dlc.
Everything
https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
"Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows.
OBS Studio
https://obsproject.com/
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
calibre
https://calibre-ebook.com/
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager.
GPXSee
https://www.gpxsee.org/
GPXSee is a GPS log file viewer and analyzer that supports all common GPS log file formats.
Mouse without Borders
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35460
Mouse Without Borders is a product that makes you the captain of your computer fleet by allowing
you to control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard. This means that with Mouse without Borders you can copy text or drag and drop files across computers.
FFmpeg
https://www.ffmpeg.org/
A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
HandBrake
https://handbrake.fr/
HandBrake is a open-source tool, built by volunteers, for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
LosslessCut
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform FFmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files. The main feature is lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files.
FreeMind
https://freemind.sourceforge.io/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.
UMLet
https://umlet.com/
UMLet is a free, open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, create sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, share via exports to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, and develop new, custom UML elements.
mpv
https://mpv.io/
mpv is a free, open-source, and cross-platform media player that is widely considered superior to VLC for users seeking superior out-of-the-box video quality and lower resource overhead.
AutoHotkey
https://www.autohotkey.com/
AutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts for all kinds of tasks such as: form fillers, auto-clicking, macros, etc.
Snipaste
https://www.snipaste.com/
Snipaste is an unreasonably good replacement for the Windows Snipping Tool.