Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
I tried looking and couldn't actually find a thread like this where everyone posts their favorite freeware that they use daily (portable or otherwise), so I'll start one myself.
I'll start
- LosslessCut (lossless video trimming tool)
- Free Download Manager (portable download manager)
- Flameshot (cross-platform screenshot tool)
- BatchEncoder (audio file conversion tool)
- LeoMoon HotKeyz, most recently (assigns system-wide hotkeys for things like folder, programs, text snippets, etc)
I discovered most of these browsing this very forum, so there's probably a lot more super useful one's to uncover!
I'll start
- LosslessCut (lossless video trimming tool)
- Free Download Manager (portable download manager)
- Flameshot (cross-platform screenshot tool)
- BatchEncoder (audio file conversion tool)
- LeoMoon HotKeyz, most recently (assigns system-wide hotkeys for things like folder, programs, text snippets, etc)
I discovered most of these browsing this very forum, so there's probably a lot more super useful one's to uncover!
Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
My list is pretty going to be pretty big:
- Beeftext: Text expansion and snippets
- QuickTextPaste: Text expansion and snippets (Yup, I use this and Beeftext together because each has some unique features I need)
- Ditto: Clipboard manager
- Breaktimer: Break reminders, as the name suggests
- Everything: File search
- Listary: Launcher and file utilities (started recently, after Keypirinha started glitching on my laptop)
- SoundSwitch: Quickly switch between audio input and output devices
- ShareX: Screenshots, screen recordings, image OCR, and a bunch of functions I'm pretty sure I don't know the app has
- PowerToys: Mostly for FancyZones and the color picker
- Caffeinated: One-click toggle to keep laptop awake when needed
- QuickLook: Spacebar file previews ala MacOS
- ClickMonitorDDC: Manage brightness, contrast, etc. for external monitors
- SuMO: Keep apps up-to-date
- SpaceSniffer: Check what's hogging all the hard disk space
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Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Off the top of my head:
- Handbrake
- Notepad++
- Ant Renamer
- Q-Dir
- KeePass
- 1by1
- Thunderbird
- PhotoFiltre (really old version)
- XnView
Will update if anything else comes to mind.
- Handbrake
- Notepad++
- Ant Renamer
- Q-Dir
- KeePass
- 1by1
- Thunderbird
- PhotoFiltre (really old version)
- XnView
Will update if anything else comes to mind.
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Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
My list:
- MemPad. Notes on just about everything; school classes, genealogy, freeware notes and manuals, passwords, thesis notes ... It's my "junk drawer" of information about anything and everything
- Reminder fron Horst. Set to pop up every morning. Not just birthdays and anniversaries, but my next tetanus shot or plate renewals into the future. As I am 'retired', I no longer have email-type appt calendars
- Famulus. I keep 5 icons on the desktop for my spouse's sake; otherwise it's in Famulus and
- Deskbug (one per university class - just easier to organize than Famulus for some things)
- PDF-XChange Editor (it rarely closes, amazingly)
- Portable Firefox (still has the best extensions, despite being a memory hog)
- Everything
- TED Notepad
- MemPad. Notes on just about everything; school classes, genealogy, freeware notes and manuals, passwords, thesis notes ... It's my "junk drawer" of information about anything and everything
- Reminder fron Horst. Set to pop up every morning. Not just birthdays and anniversaries, but my next tetanus shot or plate renewals into the future. As I am 'retired', I no longer have email-type appt calendars
- Famulus. I keep 5 icons on the desktop for my spouse's sake; otherwise it's in Famulus and
- Deskbug (one per university class - just easier to organize than Famulus for some things)
- PDF-XChange Editor (it rarely closes, amazingly)
- Portable Firefox (still has the best extensions, despite being a memory hog)
- Everything
- TED Notepad
Last edited by Cornflower on Mon Dec 27, 2021 1:57 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
A rather incomplete list, in no particular order and across multiple PCs:
- Notepad3
- Sizer
- Process Explorer
- Splat
- Telegram
- UniExtract2
- Primo
- FFmpeg (CLI)
- 3DYouTubeDownloader
- MPC-HC
- Keepass
- SoftMaker Office
- Mem Reduct
- DesktopOK
- ClipDiary
- RecycleBinEx
- Sentinel
- Scoop
- Imagine
- NKV
- Notepad3
- Sizer
- Process Explorer
- Splat
- Telegram
- UniExtract2
- Primo
- FFmpeg (CLI)
- 3DYouTubeDownloader
- MPC-HC
- Keepass
- SoftMaker Office
- Mem Reduct
- DesktopOK
- ClipDiary
- RecycleBinEx
- Sentinel
- Scoop
- Imagine
- NKV
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Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Also check out the top 10 thread: viewtopic.php?t=4446
is it stealth?
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Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Before I submit my list, I would like to offer a huge thanks to everyone involved with keeping TPFC up and running. All of the developers, moderators, and contributors provide invaluable feedback and insight. I read the discussion topics daily and have done so for many years. Thank you all for making this site my first stop every morning.
Respectfully submitted, here's my list of favorites:
- QDir
- Notepad++
- Firefox ESR Portable (Portableapps)
- Iron Portable (Portableapps)
- Thunderbird Portable (Portableapps)
- Everything
- BART Backup
- File Optimizer
- Free Shooter
- PopMan
- Microbin
- Caffeine
- ScreenToGif
Happy Holidays to everyone and hope you have an awesome 2022!
Cheers!
Respectfully submitted, here's my list of favorites:
- QDir
- Notepad++
- Firefox ESR Portable (Portableapps)
- Iron Portable (Portableapps)
- Thunderbird Portable (Portableapps)
- Everything
- BART Backup
- File Optimizer
- Free Shooter
- PopMan
- Microbin
- Caffeine
- ScreenToGif
Happy Holidays to everyone and hope you have an awesome 2022!
Cheers!
Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Firefox and Thunderbird have become the only portable applications I use every day.
Digital transformation hit my job hard. So I am ever more forced to use mobile devices running Android or Windows S that rely on their own app stores, or I have to use web services.
From time to time, I use foobar2000, Tags2Folders, VLC, Sumatra PDF, PDF X-Change Editor, FoxitReader, Docfetcher, CCleaner, Autoruns, 7zip, LibreOffice, WinScan2PDF, ZBack, OpenTTD on my private machine. I have always wanted to take a closer look at things like RawTherapee but never really found the time.
Digital transformation hit my job hard. So I am ever more forced to use mobile devices running Android or Windows S that rely on their own app stores, or I have to use web services.
From time to time, I use foobar2000, Tags2Folders, VLC, Sumatra PDF, PDF X-Change Editor, FoxitReader, Docfetcher, CCleaner, Autoruns, 7zip, LibreOffice, WinScan2PDF, ZBack, OpenTTD on my private machine. I have always wanted to take a closer look at things like RawTherapee but never really found the time.
Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Thanks ... that's very nice to hear.nickoftime wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:10 pm ...huge thanks to everyone involved with keeping TPFC up and running. All of the developers, moderators, and contributors provide invaluable feedback and insight. I read the discussion topics daily and have done so for many years. Thank you all for making this site my first stop every morning.
Beat me to it. Still, everytime these come up I catch something I didn't pay attention to before.
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Here's my current list broken up into two categories:
Always on Firefox - Browser of choice LibreOffice - Work files, general notes, project planning, documentation, word lists, etc. Ditto - Clipboard manager Everything - Local file search ShareX - Screen capture Notepad++ - Notes and HTML edits CubicExplorer - File Manager |
Sometimes daily, sometimes not FileOptimizer - Primarily to compress JPEGs DocFetcher - Local content search Photodemon - Image edits Zettlr - Convert buggy rich text to simplified Markdown or pure HTML Foni - Image manager |
Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
My dailies or mostly used but not quite daily would be -->
---> PortableApps
- Firefox
-WinSCP
-Freecommander XE
-7-Zip
-Notepad++
-->Not PortableApps but portable version from devs
-EditPadLite7
-XnConvert
--> Not Portable
-Discord
-Steam
---> PortableApps
- Firefox
-WinSCP
-Freecommander XE
-7-Zip
-Notepad++
-->Not PortableApps but portable version from devs
-EditPadLite7
-XnConvert
--> Not Portable
-Discord
-Steam
Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
Freeware:
* ClickMonitorDDC
* ConEmu
* Everything
* fsekrit
* Greenshot
* Licecap
* Proxomitron
* PDFXEdit
* VeraCrypt
* WinScan2PDF
* PngOptimizer
* Qtranslate
* and Lintalist
Depending on computer:
* Simplewall
* TextAdept
* ClickMonitorDDC
* ConEmu
* Everything
* fsekrit
* Greenshot
* Licecap
* Proxomitron
* PDFXEdit
* VeraCrypt
* WinScan2PDF
* PngOptimizer
* Qtranslate
* and Lintalist
Depending on computer:
* Simplewall
* TextAdept
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Re: Everyone, drop the freeware you use daily down below!
I use all of these several times a week - most I use daily.
All Freeware - most portable.
* Opera
* Freeoffice
* Everything
* XnView classic
* Q-Dir
* SumatraPDF
* GIMP
* pdfarranger
* WinScan2PDF
* CCleaner
* Geek Uninstaller
* Back4sure
* Stalled printer repair
All Freeware - most portable.
* Opera
* Freeoffice
* Everything
* XnView classic
* Q-Dir
* SumatraPDF
* GIMP
* pdfarranger
* WinScan2PDF
* CCleaner
* Geek Uninstaller
* Back4sure
* Stalled printer repair