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  1. Microsoft PowerToys

    Microsoft PowerToys Team

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    Power-user utilities for Windows

    Open source 90 Windows
  2. Windows Terminal

    Microsoft Corporation

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    A modern tabbed terminal for Windows

    Open source 90 Windows
  3. rclone

    rclone (Nick Craig-Wood)

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    Sync files with 70+ cloud storage services

    Open source 89 WindowsLinuxmacOS
  4. Notepad++

    Notepad++ Team

    87

    Lightweight text and code editor for Windows

    Open source 88 Windows
  5. 7-Zip

    Igor Pavlov (7-Zip)

    87

    File archiver with a high compression ratio

    Open source 85 WindowsLinux
  6. App Installer

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    Microsoft App Installer lets you easily install Windows apps with a double-click. It also includes WinGet for powerful command-line app management.

    Free 77 Windows
  7. DiskSpd

    Microsoft Corporation

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    DISKSPD is a storage load generator / performance test tool from the Windows/Windows Server and Cloud Server Infrastructure Engineering teams.

    Open source 77 Windows
  8. Power Automate for desktop

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    Automate workflows across modern and legacy applications on your desktop by recording actions such as mouse and keyboard clicks.

    Free 77 Windows
  9. SumatraPDF

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    87

    A tiny, very fast PDF reader

    Open source 63 Windows
  10. AdwCleaner

    Malwarebytes Inc.

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    Adware cleaner

    Free 60 Windows
  11. Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) has the tools you need to customize Windows images for large-scale deployment, and to test the quality and performance of your system, its added components, and the applications running on it.

    Free 60 Windows
  12. Windows 10 Update Assistant

    Microsoft Corporation

    87

    The Update Assistant can help you update to the latest version of Windows 10 (the Windows 10 2022 Update).

    Free 32 Windows
  13. 7zr

    Igor Pavlov (7-Zip)

    84

    Reduced standalone command line version of 7-Zip.

    Open source 77 Windows
  14. AzCopy v10

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    AzCopy v10 is a command-line utility that you can use to copy data to and from containers and file shares in Azure Storage accounts.

    Open source 77 Windows
  15. Crow Translate

    KDE e.V.

    84

    A simple and lightweight translator that allows you to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex, Bing, LibreTranslate and Lingva.

    Open source 77 Windows
  16. EventLogExpert

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    A Windows Event Log viewer for tech support and IT professionals.

    Open source 77 Windows
  17. KDiff3

    KDE e.V.

    84

    Diff/Patch Frontend

    Open source 77 Windows
  18. MFCMapi

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    Provides access to MAPI stores to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a sample for MAPI development.

    Open source 77 Windows
  19. Quick Share from Google

    Google LLC

    84

    Wireless sharing with your PC, made easy.

    Free 77 Windows
  20. Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    Create Windows 10 installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file).

    Free 77 Windows
  21. Windows PC Health Check

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    Windows 11 OS compatibility checker.

    Free 77 Windows
  22. Coreutils for Windows

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    Coreutils for Windows Setup

    Open source 75 Windows
  23. Microsoft PIX

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

    Free 60 Windows
  24. x264

    VideoLAN

    84

    x264 is a free software library and application for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression format.

    Open source 40 Windows
  25. Azure Data CLI

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    A command-line utility written in Python to bootstrap and manage the data services via REST APIs

    Free 32 Windows
  26. Microsoft IIS Compression

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    A bundle of two IIS compression scheme providers iisbrotli.dll and iiszlib.dll that enable IIS to compress HTTP response contents. iisbrotli.dll supports Brotli compression, while iiszlib.dll supports both Gzip and Deflate compression.

    Open source 32 Windows
  27. Microsoft Ntttcp

    Microsoft Corporation

    84

    A Windows network throughput benchmark tool.

    Open source 32 Windows
  28. LabPlot2

    KDE e.V.

    74

    FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals

    Open source 40 Windows
  29. ISO Image Writer

    KDE e.V.

    72

    Write an ISO Image to a USB Disk

    Open source 74 Linux
  30. Dolphin

    KDE e.V.

    72

    Manage your files

    Open source 67 Linux
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