The Big Useful List Of Free Useful Programs To Use Usually For Free

[lorraine walsh]

Props for hilariously awesome thread title.

Yes the thread title is hilarious in a weird way.

 

[Frick]

AirDroid. Seriously, it is GLORIOUS!

 

[natr0n]

https://www.maxon.net/en/products/cinebench/
New/updated version CINEBENCH R15.038_RC184115

 

[Frick]

http://www.digicamsoft.com/softnamexif.html

Renames .jpg files. Works like a charm. I kinda wish it did NEF too, but alas.

 

[Chubfish]

http://www.subnet-calculator.com/

I found this useful from time to time

 

[Frick]

Not sure if I posted it before:

Microsoft Mathematics provides a graphing calculator that plots in 2D and 3D, step-by-step equation solving, and useful tools to help students with math and science studies.

This is a very nice little program. Microsoft seriously should make a site dedicated to all these little tools they have (Synctoy, Mouse without borders, etc). I wonder how much excellence I've missed.

 

[droopyRO]

Don`t know where to ask, is there a program like MSI Afterburner or FRAPS, that instead of showing framerate shows bit rate and sample rate of audio in games ? Thanks.

 

[P4-630]

Don`t know where to ask, is there a program like MSI Afterburner or FRAPS, that instead of showing framerate shows bit rate and sample rate of audio in games ? Thanks.

Just curious but why would you want that?

 

[droopyRO]

Well i`m curious what the quality of audio files are while gaming, i find audio very important in games. I`m replaying Dawn of War 2 and it has excellent sounds, 44.1Khz, i`m curious about the bitrate. Noticed that games based on Frostbyte have very good audio and games like Call of Duty have lower quality one. Also it would help setting up your audio device while gaming.

 

[AsRock]

This is a very nice little program. Microsoft seriously should make a site dedicated to all these little tools they have (Synctoy, Mouse without borders, etc). I wonder how much excellence I've missed.

I put up SyncToy up some time ago, buried by now and good to see it pop up again. Works in Win10 too.

 

[nomdeplume]

I know very little about gaming but suspect you are talking about streaming audio. If that is not the case all you would have to do is navigate to where the audio files are stored within the game folder on your hard drive and look at them in something like Spek. Here are four files to illustrate poor quality through excellent quality.

128kbps mp3

320kbps mp3

16-44 FLAC

24-192 FLAC

 

[Chubfish]

Need some CMD tinkering and tips? check out http://cmd.to or straight to http://cmd.to/help

 

[P4-630]

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Today for FREE:
Black&White projects 4 elements

 

[Frick]

http://www.contexteditor.org/index.php

My txt editor of choice. Simpler than the common ones (Notepad++, Editpad Lite, Vim and so on), yet still slightly powerful. Perfect for me.

https://defaultprogramseditor.com

Default programs editor. Can change a bunch of settings for various things.

 

[MrGenius]

I used to think Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.3 was the "ultimate" tweak tool for customizing Windows 10. Then I found Winaero Tweaker yesterday, which I now think is better. It's easier to use and does cool stuff that UWT 4.3 doesn't. Honestly though...you kinda need to have both of them for maximum tweakage possibilities. They both do things the other doesn't. But if I could only have one it would have to be Winaero Tweaker. There's also a ton of other cool freeware and customization stuff for Windows Vista/7/8/10 on Winaero.com and The Windows Club.com.

EDIT: I went back through the thread and didn't see any mention of any/all the cool free tools and utilities from Windows Sysinternals. Maybe I missed it...but just in case...there it is.

I also used a really cool free bootable desktop utility the other day that I'd recommend. It's called Active@ Boot Disk. It lets you boot to a usable desktop(Windows PE GUI type environment) from removable media(USB drive, CD/DVD, etc.). I used it to replace some files in the System32 folder that you can't normally mess with while Windows 10 is running. Worked great and was really easy to use.

 

[entropy13]

I'm looking to UPDATE this soon, and I'm gonna need some help. Here's a bump to this post so that you can make suggestions.

And yes, this is my first post in TPU for years. LOL

 

[ne6togadno]

my first post in TPU for years

yap sooner you quite grinding in wot, more time you will have to enjoy other hobbies

for your browsers list
vivaldi -> vivaldi.com

 

[yesyesloud]

I'm looking to UPDATE this soon, and I'm gonna need some help. Here's a bump to this post so that you can make suggestions.

And yes, this is my first post in TPU for years. LOL

I still think Productivity Suites is missing WPS

 

[RejZoR]

There is a lot more free security stuff available. Good stuff.
https://rejzor.wordpress.com/free-security-software/

 

[entropy13]

yap sooner you quite grinding in wot, more time you will have to enjoy other hobbies

for your browsers list
vivaldi -> vivaldi.net

I lost my PC last 2016 (mobo actually, and not too fussed to get a new board for my Sandy lol) so I actually haven't played any PC game since then...LOL

 

[ne6togadno]

I lost my PC last 2016 (mobo actually, and not too fussed to get a new board for my Sandy lol) so I actually haven't played any PC game since then...LOL

you havent missed much at all.
wot didnt get any better. it even went to more obviouse "give us all your money" mode but till there are ppl that can double hit "2" faster then they can transport simple observations from 1 brain cell to another there will be "kind devs" to get those money so they can "imporve players experiance" even further

 

[Vayra86]

This is how I install for any new rig, custom tailored and all folded into this work of brilliance

https://ninite.com/

Make your own custom setup, save the Ninite file to a USB Windows bootable: plug and play. The website also offers an exhaustive list of free and almost free applications. Have a look... it covers almost everything.

This basically enables you to set up any rig by clicking one button after you install the OS.

 

[Splinterdog]

I used to think Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.3 was the "ultimate" tweak tool for customizing Windows 10. Then I found Winaero Tweaker yesterday, which I now think is better. It's easier to use and does cool stuff that UWT 4.3 doesn't. Honestly though...you kinda need to have both of them for maximum tweakage possibilities. They both do things the other doesn't. But if I could only have one it would have to be Winaero Tweaker. There's also a ton of other cool freeware and customization stuff for Windows Vista/7/8/10 on Winaero.com and The Windows Club.com.

EDIT: I went back through the thread and didn't see any mention of any/all the cool free tools and utilities from Windows Sysinternals. Maybe I missed it...but just in case...there it is.

I also used a really cool free bootable desktop utility the other day that I'd recommend. It's called Active@ Boot Disk. It lets you boot to a usable desktop(Windows PE GUI type environment) from removable media(USB drive, CD/DVD, etc.). I used it to replace some files in the System32 folder that you can't normally mess with while Windows 10 is running. Worked great and was really easy to use.

All hail the bootable pendive!
I've used WinPESE a few times now and it's most useful for getting around the permissions as you say.

 

[Voluman]

FastStone Image Viewer, you can sort, setting order, rename photos, pics
XnView, photo viewer, image resizer, batch image converter and more

VidCoder, DVD, Blu-ray and any video file to MP4/MKV video converter, based on HandBrake

Edit: gPodder, is a simple, open source podcast client written in Python using GTK+

 

[Echmanoid]

There is a very good browser, a copy of Google Chrome But it is easier and has more functions
Cent Browser official site centbrowser.com