Free alternatives to NETworkManager

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Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys Team

87

Power-user utilities for Windows

Open source 90 Windows
Windows Terminal
Microsoft Corporation

87

A modern tabbed terminal for Windows

Open source 90 Windows
rclone
rclone (Nick Craig-Wood)

87

Sync files with 70+ cloud storage services

Open source 89 WindowsLinuxmacOS
Notepad++
Notepad++ Team

87

Lightweight text and code editor for Windows

Open source 88 Windows
7-Zip
Igor Pavlov (7-Zip)

87

File archiver with a high compression ratio

Open source 85 WindowsLinux
Chrome Remote Desktop Host
Google LLC

87

The easy way to remotely connect with your home or work computer, or share your screen with others.

Free 82 WindowsmacOS
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
Microsoft Corporation

87

Explorer for Azure Storage

Open source 82 WindowsLinuxmacOS
WinSCP
Martin Prikryl (WinSCP)

87

File transfer over SFTP, FTP and S3

Open source 80 Windows
WireGuard
WireGuard (Jason A. Donenfeld)

87

A fast, modern and secure VPN protocol

Open source 80 WindowsLinuxmacOSAndroid
7zr
Igor Pavlov (7-Zip)

87

Reduced standalone command line version of 7-Zip.

Open source 77 Windows
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
AzCopy v10
Microsoft Corporation

87

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
Crow Translate
KDE e.V.

87

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

Open source 77 Windows
DiskSpd
Microsoft Corporation

87

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

Open source 77 Windows
EventLogExpert
Microsoft Corporation

87

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

Open source 77 Windows
MFCMapi
Microsoft Corporation

87

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
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
PowerShell
Microsoft Corporation

87

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Open source 77 WindowsLinux
Quick Share from Google
Google LLC

87

Wireless sharing with your PC, made easy.

Free 77 Windows
Windows 10 Media Creation Tool
Microsoft Corporation

87

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

Free 77 Windows
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 77 Windows
Windows PC Health Check
Microsoft Corporation

87

Windows 11 OS compatibility checker.

Free 77 Windows
Coreutils for Windows
Microsoft Corporation

87

Coreutils for Windows Setup

Open source 75 Windows
SumatraPDF
Krzysztof Kowalczyk (SumatraPDF)

87

A tiny, very fast PDF reader

Open source 63 Windows
AdwCleaner
Malwarebytes Inc.

87

Adware cleaner

Free 60 Windows
Microsoft PIX
Microsoft Corporation

87

Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

Free 60 Windows
x264
VideoLAN

87

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
Azure Data CLI
Microsoft Corporation

87

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

Free 32 Windows
Microsoft IIS Compression
Microsoft Corporation

87

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
Microsoft Ntttcp
Microsoft Corporation

87

A Windows network throughput benchmark tool.

Open source 32 Windows

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