PC software collection
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This is a list of programs that are the best at their job. Some recommendations and links are out of date.
Windows
Audio and Video
- Music Playback
- foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player (local foobar2000 page)
- Video Playback
- Simplest, most powerful, and best method or CCCP Combined Community Codec Pack (worst option)
- Image Viewer
- Irfanview Windows Graphic Viewer
- Desktop Recorder
- BSR Screen Recorder or CamStudio
- Lossless image functions
- optipng, pngcrush, jpegtran
Bulk Processing
- Bulk file rename
- Bulk Rename Utility (BRU)
- PFrank File Renamer
- Duplicate file search
- [torrent Duplicate File Finder]
- Search Filesystem for Keywords
- File Text Finder or Windows Grep
- Duplicate Image Finder
- VisiPics
Document Editors / Readers
- Comic Viewer / Reader
- CDisplayEx
- Document / File Viewer / Editor
- Notepad2 or Notepad++ and Microsoft Office
- PDF Reader / Viewer
- Sumatra PDF
File Management
- Search
- voidtools Everything Search Engine
- Recovery File (PAR, PAR2) and Hash File (SFV, MD5) Management
- QuickPar
- Quick File Hashing
- HashCheck
- Archiver (RAR, Zip, 7z, etc)
- WinRAR or 7-Zip
- File Splitting and Joining
- HJ-Split
File Transfer, P2P, and SSH
- FTP / SFTP / SCP
- WinSCP
- FXP
- FlashFXP (does anyone use this)
- SSH
- PuTTY
- Torrents
- uTorrent v2.2.1 build 25302
- Newsgroup Downloader
- NewsBin Pro
- p2p
- ApexDC++
- Remote Desktop Control / VNC
- TightVNC / Comparison of remote desktop software
Hardware
- Hardware Information
- CPU-Z or HWiNFO
- Graphics (GPU) Information
- GPU-Z
- Fan Speed Control
- SpeedFan
- Hardware Monitor
- SpeedFan, HWMonitor, and GPU-Z
- Stress Test
- IntelBurnTest, LinX, prime95
Web
- Website Browser
- Vivaldi, Opera Web Browser v12.17 (local Opera page) and Microsoft Internet Explorer
- In-page File Downloader
- Opera's Links panel
Instant Messaging / Chat
- Instant Messaging (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc)
- Pidgin Instant Messenger
- IRC
- mIRC (local mIRC page)
- Voice Chat
- Mumble
- Synchronized video playback and chat
- Syncplay
E-mail client
ISOs, Burning, Virtual Drives
- Disc Drive Emulator
- VirtualCloneDrive
- ISO Image Burning
- ImgBurn
- ISO Building
- ImgBurn
Security
System Management
- Startup Manager
- AutoRuns
- BSOD Information / Troubleshooting
- BlueScreenView
- Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Defrag
- [JkDefrag or MyDefrag Disk Defragmenter]
UI
- Start Menu
- [OpenShell]
App Collections
Linux
If you can't figure it out yourself, install Windows.
