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DoctorScientist's avatar
DoctorScientist
Protege
10 years ago

Your essential utility apps, share em.

Utility apps you immediately install upon doing a fresh reinstall, and your sanity depends on them.

A plethora of common ones for most are on ninite, (That site is amazing by the way for reinstalls, use it next time if you never have)

My essentials are Notepad++ for editing .ini's and misc stuff, Take Ownership for circumventing any file permission issue, Handbrake which is a must if you work with video a lot, Bandicam, WebcamMax, 4kVideoDownloader, Puush, and Everything search because screw Windows search. I wish I knew about Everything search a long time ago.

6 Replies

  • kojack's avatar
    kojack
    MVP
    10 years ago
    "Everything" is awesome, I can't live without it.

    My usual tools:
    - Faststone image viewer (has a portable version)
    - Notepad++
    - MediaPlayer Classic HC (for 99% of video watching)
    - VLC (for watching the network stream from my ip security cameras)
    - Inkscape
    - Blender
    - Sketchup
    - Google Earth
    - Paint.Net
    - Source Tree
    - Firefox

    (There's a bunch of bigger things I always have on hand that aren't really "utility apps", such as Visual Studio, Mathematica, Photoshop, etc)
  • Percy1983's avatar
    Percy1983
    Superstar
    10 years ago
    Firefox
    Sony Vegas
    DVD Architect
    Soundforge
    TS Muxer
    Mediaplayer classic
    Realtimesync
    Office 2016
    Synergy
    Spyder4Express
    Photoshop CS6
    Lightroom 6
  • g4c's avatar
    g4c
    Explorer
    10 years ago
    My essentials:

    ShiVa3D
    Cinema4D
    Visual Studio
    Android Studio
    Eclipse
    PhotoShop
    Ultimate unwrap 3d
    TimelineFX
    Goldwave
    Reason
    7Zip
    PhraseExpress
    SageThumbs
    Notepad++
    CygWin
    Ant
    Nusphere PHP IDE
    MySQL workbench
    WinSCP
    PuTTY
    BitDefender
    MalwareBytes
    SpaceSniffer
  • cybereality's avatar
    cybereality
    Grand Champion
    10 years ago
    Programmer's Notepad.

    Seems a lot of you here like Notepad++. I've used it as well, but I guess I'm just more familiar with Programmer's Notepad since I've used it for so long. Personally, I really love the look and functionality of Sublime Text, but I kind of won't spend $70 on a text editor out of principle.
  • onefang's avatar
    onefang
    Explorer
    10 years ago
    Usually the first thing I do on any Linux box I get my hands on is to install Midnight Commander. Enlightenment as well if it's a Linux desktop. Most of the rest of my essential development utilities are likely already installed on a typical Linux system.
  • LKostyra's avatar
    LKostyra
    Protege
    10 years ago
    Before sharing, Ninite looks quite cool. Because I do care (probably way too much) about my SSD, I usually install 95% of my essentials to a HDD. Can anyone specify whether Ninite allows to select a custom installation path per each application?

    EDIT: Nevermind my question - just read about it in Ninite's page. One of the features is "install apps in their default location".

    List is as follows (I probably forgot about something, but this covers most of my needs):

    Casual:
    * Chrome
    * ESET
    * f.lux
    * VLC
    * AIMP
    * iTunes
    * 7Zip
    * Steam
    * Origin
    * Uplay
    * JDownloader
    * IrfanView
    * Foxit Reader
    * Google Drive
    * Dropbox
    * Oculus Runtime (duh)

    Dev:
    * Visual Studio
    * Blender
    * Notepad++
    * Atom
    * Git

    Music:
    * FL Studio
    * Ableton Live
    * VST Plugins (Z3TA2+, Sylenth1, Chimera and effects)
    * Pioneer Rekordbox
    * Audacity
    * MP3Tag