Freeware Windows Utilities
#20147
dont know an apt title for it.. but i've always had a fascination for little utilities made by independent developers

i've always used nirsoft's bluescreenview and menu editors:
https://www.nirsoft.net/

another site i came by that has potentially useful stuff:
https://cresstone.com/
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#20148
Is it self promotion to post my own tool here? I made topmostfriend to aid in my hectic window management and i wasn't a fan of how other tools functioned. I think PowerToys kind of obsoleted it, but that doesn't work on Windows XP and this does, so I win! I've somewhat changed up my approach to window management (less reliance on maximized windows) which has made me use it a lot less than I used to, but it's still good to have and will definitely be a painpoint in my move to macOS, is my expectation at least.

https://topmostfriend.flash.moe/

Still staying pretty close to home, osk's Kurumi is a great tool for whipping Windows' terrible time syncing back into shape, I probably use it more than topmostfriend at this point LOL

https://kurumi.osk.sh/
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#20149
certainly not flash. how could i forget our own friends... i just used kurumi yesterday! synced the clock in a bid to enter my university's system on the dot, to secure my classes next semester...
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#20150
Whenever I set up a Windows computer for myself, one of the first things I grab is AltDrag because I am too used to competent (Linux) window management. It lets you move and resize windows by holding a key (by default Alt, but i prefer Super) and dragging anywhere on the window, instead of hunting for the titlebar or tiny border.
#20151
you know a tool is solid when it hasn't been updated in 10 years and still doing the job well
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#20152

Feel like on every Windows install I ever do getting OldNewExplorer + OpenShell is essential, or StartAllBack if I'm on Windows 11. Also Everything because Windows Explorer search sucks balls lmao

Also being Macbrained I like QuickLook, it replicates the Finder thing where you press space on a selected file to view its contents. It doesn't beat an actual image viewer/media player/whatever but for quick little things it's nice.

On a sidenote, does anyone know of a stupid simple thing for adding custom context menu shortcuts to run commands? I've found that I'm increasingly using ffmpeg more and more to do stupid things like convert YouTube downloads to .wav because for whatever reason yt-dlp'd .mp3's don't properly import into the old ass version of FL I'm using, also stuff like converting video files to "web safe" .mp4's. I've been so tempted to set up one of those stupid Quake drop-down terminals cuz every 2 seconds I'm finding I have to open up command prompt to run ffmpeg -i ... -c:v h264 -c:a aac -pix_fmt yuv420p .... It's 2025 and the quickest way I can take a fuckin video from my iPhone and convert it to something that'll actually consistently play in chat or whatever is to send it to myself on Discord and download it on my PC and do some ffmpeg voodoo and finally use it. Why is this so cumbersome. Maybe we should move to iMessage and just hit the share button like Tim Apple intended, idfk, shit's cooked

This dumb tangent reminded me that I also kinda have a similar thing going on with GIFs. You know what would be a baller program? Ezgif but not a website

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#20153
hercules is probably the greatest socket testing tool ever made, and it does serial too. every time i have to use ncat on linuxlikes i really miss it
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