After installing a new Windows-PC i always ask myself what software i want to install.
Here is a list of programs i like to use, because they are free, fast, reliable and useful. (or there are just no alternatives)
If you think something is missing or if you find mistakes, please let me know in the comments!
Unsorted
- Unchecky Must have! Prevent the installation of unwanted Software
- WinDirStat Analyse your harddrives for disk-usage
- Putty Client for SSH, Telnet, Serial, etc.
- NMap Discover and map your network
- FileZilla Powerful FTP-Client
- CutePDF Print documents to a PDF-File
- SysInternals-Suite Very nice additional tools for Windows
Archive and Compression
- 7zip (De)Comporesses pretty much everything
Browsers
Email
Image viewing/editing
- The Gimp Very powerful Image-Editor
- Irfanview Fast and opens nearly everything image-related
(install the plugins/addons!)
- Inkscape Create and edit vector-based images (svg)
Office-Suits and (Text-)Editors
- Libreoffice Better alternative to OpenOffice
- Notepad++ Best Text/Code-Editor i came across so far...
- HxD Simple but powerful Hex-Editor
Multimedia
Medium-Creation
- CDBurnerXP Simple but versatile CD/DVD-burning-software
- Rufus Write images/iso to media like USB-Sticks
Gaming and PC-Emulators
- VirtualBox Emulate a whole PC (like VM-Ware)
- DosBox Play DOS-Games on modern Windows
- ZSNES Play SuperNintendo/Famicom Games on Windows
(you need roms for that)
Games
