Windows Software Essentials

Chocolatey

• Install chocolatey (run in Windows PowerShell as Administrator)

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

System Basic

choco install 7zip.install notepadplusplus.install microsoft-windows-terminal powertoys wireguard wsl2 

• 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
• Notepad++ - https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• Windows Terminal - Microsoft Store
• PowerToys - Microsoft Store
• Wireguard - https://www.wireguard.com/install/
• WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2) - Microsoft Store

Internet

choco install firefox thunderbird googlechrome

• Firefox - https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/new/
• Thunderbird - https://www.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/
• Chrome - https://www.google.com/chrome/

Office

choco install libreoffice-fresh okular cutepdf

• LibreOffice - https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
• Okular - Microsoft Store (https://okular.kde.org/)
• CutePDF - https://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
• PDF Arranger - https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

• Other

• ScanSnap Manager - http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/software/s1100w-setup.html
• Brother P-touch Editor - https://support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=de&lang=de
• (Adobe Acrobat Reader - https://get.adobe.com/de/reader/)
• (FreePDF - http://freepdfxp.de)
• (PDF split and merge - http://www.pdfsam.org/download-pdfsam-basic/)
• OmniPage - https://www.kofax.com/products/omnipage/omnipage-ultimate-free-trial

Graphics

choco install imageresizerapp lightscreen gimp inkscape drawio paint.net

• ImageResizer - https://github.com/bricelam/ImageResizer/releases
• LightScreen - http://lightscreen.com.ar/
• Gimp - https://www.gimp.org/
• Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/de/
• Draw.io - https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/
• Paint.NET - https://www.getpaint.net/download.html#download

• Other

• Darktable - https://www.darktable.org/install/
• EOS Utility - https://www.canon.de/support/consumer_products/software/eos-utility.html

3D Design&Printing

choco install cura-new autodesk-fusion360

• Cura - https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/tags
• Fusion 360 - https://www.autodesk.de/products/fusion-360/free-trial

Multimedia

choco install mpc-hc-clsid2 foobar2000

• MPC-HC - https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases
• Foobar - https://www.foobar2000.org/

• Other

choco install obs-studio vlc

• OBS-Studio - https://obsproject.com/download
• VLC Media Player - https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
• DaVinci Resolve - https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
• (Gnome Music Player Client)
• (Audacity - https://www.audacityteam.org/)

File Transfer/Sync

choco install nextcloud-client winscp

• nextcloud - https://nextcloud.com/install/#
• WinSCP - https://winscp.net/eng/download.php

• Other

choco install git tortoisegit filezilla 

• Git for Windows - https://git-scm.com/download/win
• TortoiseGIT - https://tortoisegit.org/download/
• FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org/
• OpenVPN - https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html

Software Development

choco install vscode autoit.install arduino

• Visual Studio Code - Windows Store (https://code.visualstudio.com/)
• AutoIt - https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/downloads/
• Arduino - https://www.arduino.cc/en/software

• Other

• (Docker Desktop - https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop)
• (XML Notepad - https://github.com/microsoft/XmlNotepad/releases)

System Advanced

choco install crystaldiskmark treesizefree rufus

• CrystalDiskMark - https://crystalmark.info/en/download/
• TreeSize - https://www.jam-software.de/treesize_free/
• Rufus - https://rufus.ie/

• Other

choco install autologon autoruns tightvnc czkawka scrcpy tightvnc (synergy) winmerge x-mouse-button-control cpu-z everything

• AutoLogon - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon
• Autoruns - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
• Czkawka - https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka/releases Find duplicate files
• ScrCpy - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases Mirror Android screen
• TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php
• Synergy - https://symless.com/synergy Control mouse+keyboard over IP
• WinMerge - https://winmerge.org File diff
• X-Mouse Button Control - https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm Switch Desktops with extra mouse buttons
• CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
• Everything - https://www.voidtools.com/
• (HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/download.html)
• (DesktopOK - https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK) Save/Restore icon positions
• (Putty - https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html)
• (ImageWriter - https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/)

Links

• https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7x639l/what_free_software_is_so_good_you_cant_believe/