awesome-windows/awesome

:computer: 🎉 An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.

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Add GoldenDict

http://goldendict.org/
It is a good dictionary lookup application.

potplayer recommend

PotPlayer is decent, it is light and fast. Maybe we should consider adding it to the list.

Question about NitroPDF

I tried to use the Nitro PDF to review PDF files( the other software--Sumatra PDF does not support the function), but the program can not work and I think I have installed it correctly......
Maybe the reason is that I use Win10? I am not sure and I have not figured out the real reason.
Besides, I recommend the jisupdf: http://www.jisupdf.com/.

Suggestion for AstroGrep and WinMerge, a Microsoft Windows grep utility (in dev tools)

• AstroGrep, a Microsoft Windows grep utility :
  http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/

• WinMerge, a an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows :
  http://winmerge.org/?lang=en

(I can't push a pull request because the law in my state don't permit CC0).

Add new IDEs category?

If we start adding more IDEs like IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Android Studio, etc. Would it make sense to create a separate IDEs category instead of having everything under Text Editors?

Add Bid-O-Matic (Biet-O-Matic)

Biet-O-Matic
Biet-O-Matic is a tool to watch and bid on auctions. Many features like mail control, autoconnect/disconnect, integrated ODBC- client, multi-language-support, time sync, item grouping etc.

Copyright issue about PotPlayer

PotPlayer was added to the list as an awesome vedio application, but this page reported that it violated FFmpeg's license, perhaps you should be a survey

Major Changes [Scheduled]

Some major changes are in place, part of them is that I will check all links and ensure the project is up-to-date. Cheers!

Few suggestions

Hi!

Nice initiative. Thank you for putting this together.

I started working on windows 10 a bit more for day to day development and I really love it.

Here are some of the tools I highly suggest adding to the list, they helped me lot getting a reasonably looking shell:

• https://github.com/lukesampson/concfg
• https://github.com/lukesampson/psutils
• https://github.com/lukesampson/pshazz

or everything @lukesampson has been doing really. scoop is already on the list 👍

And some random notes / projects

• https://github.com/mklabs/dotfiles/tree/master/i3#windows-10-note
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperfish

I would be happy to help, in any way I can. I'll init a PR for each individual suggestions I might have, but thought it would be good to say hi.

Thanks!

Fix the Addict link

The current Addict link points to a page that is not found.
Probably this is the one that it should reffer to: Addict

VS Code in the Developer Tools doesn't have icons against it

Applications missing "open source" image

Please add the open source image beside their names.

• VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html
• 7-Zip: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
• PeaZip: https://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/
• SumatraPDF: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
• Thunderbird: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/

Add Emacs to Text Editor Category

Of course Emacs is awesome, although I am a Vim fan boy:)

Is there any good Image Viewer app replacement for Windows?

Is there any good Image Viewer app replacement for Windows? I couldn't find it on the list.

Developer Tools为什么没有idea？

I think Developer Tools should add IntelliJ IDEA

Add Jellyfin

Add Jellyfin - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin

A opensource alternative to Plex/Emby.

"Online Storage - Mozy". Mozy aquired by Carbonite.

Mozy is now part of Carbonite. https://www.carbonite.com/products/mozy

NirSoft

What would be the best way to include utility made by NirSoft? They make a TON of free, small, right to the point utilities. Check out their web site to see what I mean: http://www.nirsoft.net

Maybe have a category of external resources which link to places like the NirSoft homepage?

Nylas Mail Discontinued

Development for Nylas Mail has been discontinued. The entry should either mention this or the entry itself should be removed.

Icon placement

The icons don't stand out at the end of a line. Maybe move them to the beginning and use empty ones for the entries where they aren't applicable. (Well, the latter part is maybe hindering contributions, so this needs a little thought).

Also, wouldn't it be safer to maintain the icons in this repo?

怎么能少了我大360 ;)

怎么能少了我大360 ;)

Add the sylpheed email client

Sylpheed is a free ,opensource and lightweight email client.
Link: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

Add Attribute Changer

Attribute Changer
Change file and folder properties with ease.

Suggestion about screenshot

I recommend snipaste
https://www.snipaste.com/

Local network chat clients

You can Add Achat , a nice local network chat app : https://sourceforge.net/projects/achat/

[FEATURE REQUEST] Add tron script

Add the Tron Script, an open source utility to clean your computer

https://old.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

Tron is a glorified collection of batch files that automate the process of cleaning up Windows systems. It is built with heavy reliance on community input and updated regularly.

Tron supports all versions of Windows from XP to 10 (server variants included).

Suggestion for Games Section: Godot Game Engine

It's a free, open source (MIT licensed), and cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine.

Link to Godot Engine website: https://godotengine.org/

Add Signal Messenger to Chat Clients

Add MEGA to Online Storage

Add WinMerge

WinMerge
Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Duplicate of Issue #82, which doesn't seem to have been incorporated.

[Utilities]YYNote：Cross platform todolist that can be embedded on the desktop

Cross platform todolist that can be embedded on the desktop

For windows：www.6fcsj.com

For ios:https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id1175974945?mt=8

For andiord：https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiaohuangtiao

Add mStream

mStream is a music streaming server with a Windows port. You can see the code and download the exe's here: https://github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream

Just a few comments and suggestions

Here are just some errors I found (and some suggestions). Feel free to carry out those you like and disregard the others, I'm just a bit too lazy to make a decent pull request (sorry).

• Replace [Textual 5](http://www.mirc.com) with [mIRC](http://www.mirc.com)
• Replace ## Editors with ## Text Editors (also in table of contents)
• Unless you actively use Profanity and WeeChat (CLI IRC clients) on Windows, I would remove them because they are not really typical Windows tools (they do work, I guess, but I think only very few Windows users like the CLI)
• Fix the typo in [ListEry](http://www.listAry.com) (should both be "a")
• I would put MTPutty, Putty and MobaXterm under "terminal" rather than "developer"
• Add [Sysinternals Suite](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062) - Tool suite by Mark Russinovich that provides access to Windows internals for troubleshooting: processes, physical ports, disk activity, ...
• The "other" category is still empty.

For what it's worth, this is what I typically install on a new Windows box (using Chocolatey):

choco install adwcleaner
choco install malwarebytes
choco install spybot
choco install ccleanerd
choco install unchecky

choco install ChocolateyGUI
choco install notepadplusplus
choco install windirstat
choco install teamviewer

choco install GoogleChrome-AllUsers
choco install adblockpluschrome
choco install flashplayerplugin
choco install adblockplusie
choco install adblockplusfirefox
choco install lastpass

choco install vlc
choco install 7zip
choco install adobereader
choco install libreoffice

choco install Skype
choco install spotify
choco install evernote
choco install dropbox
choco install googledrive

choco install paint.net
choco install inkscape
choco install gimp
choco install picasa

choco install filezilla
choco install autohotkey
choco install daemontools
choco install wireshark
choco install sysinternals

choco install git
choco install cyg-get
choco install ConEmu

There are quite some duplicates with your list but maybe there are some things you guys like as well (FYI: I don't claim that everything on here is awesome, some things "just work" (e.g. Skype and Spotify)):

Validate Links

Hello, I wrote a tool that can validate README links (valid URLs, not duplicate). It can be run when someone submits a pull request or a commit is pushed.

It is currently being used by

• https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios
• https://github.com/matteocrippa/awesome-swift
• https://github.com/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps
• and many more

Examples

• https://travis-ci.org/matteocrippa/awesome-swift/builds/96526196 ok ✅
• https://travis-ci.org/matteocrippa/awesome-swift/builds/96722421 link redirected / rename 🔴
• https://travis-ci.org/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps/builds/96763135 bad link / project deleted 🔴
• https://travis-ci.org/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps/builds/95754715 dupe 🔴

You would have found these changes if you used it:

• https://windirstat.info/ redirects to https://windirstat.net/
• https://www.prosofteng.com/datarescuepc3/ redirects to https://www.prosofteng.com/data-rescue-recovery-software/
• https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/download/ redirects to https://onedrive.live.com/pagenotfounderror
• more https://gist.github.com/0d38d10c32afa4eb707e3fbad5e7ba12

If you are interested, connect Awesome to https://travis-ci.org/ and add a .travis.yml file to the project. You can also use https://circleci.com/ which does not not require a config file in your repo.

See https://github.com/dkhamsing/awesome_bot for options, more information
Let me know if you have any questions 😄

QTractor?!

QTractor is strictly a Linux program (as far as I can tell). Is there some way to get it working on Windows?

Add link

Add NetLimiter Link in line 354
https://www.netlimiter.com

[Ownership transfer] Is this project still alive?

There hasn't been an update in 3 months and there are still 25 pull requests waiting for many months.

If whoever maintains this repo doesn't have the time nor energy to look over this repo, it might be time to transfer ownership of the repo to someone who's got time to manage it.

[Organization] Add more admins to help manage PRs

@rahulkapoor90 Seeing if you'd be open to adding another admin to help merge PR's since there are 25 PR's issued since September?

About Chinese documentation

The relevant information shows that the English document has been modified in November 2019.Why not update the Chinese documentation on this basis? @rahulkapoor90 @tangdou1

Include Plex next to Kodi

Plex is another free albeit not open source solution for home theater

Optimizing JPEGs

Add optimizing JPEGs with jpeg-archive: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive

Alacritty does not support Windows

alacritty/alacritty#28

Suggestions for Utilities

Can this two go scripts for utility section.
https://aashutoshrathi.github.io/Python-Scripts-and-Games/SetToStartup/
and
https://aashutoshrathi.github.io/Python-Scripts-and-Games/AddToSendTo/

Forums

disclaimer: I dont know what criteria you have for including forumns nor do I know a lot about reddit.
Maybe sysadmin is a nice addition to the forum list?

And http://superuser.com/ seems to fit this topic at least as well as stackoverflow

AppCode is available for Windows?

Appcode's system requirements:

• macOS 10.12 or higher
• Xcode 9.2-10
• 4 GB RAM recommended

[Suggestion] Remote access

Add remote access tools, such as TeamViewer.

Alacritty is actually supporting Windows now

It can be installed via choco.

The conpty backend is still experimental (usable, just the cursor will be flashing at the left top corner). Its winpty is totally usable.

Similar Repo

Inspired by this repo, I create Amazing Windows Apps that sync with gitbook.
Please do take a glance and tell me how you require me or maybe we could combine.
For further discussion, drop me an email

VLC is open source

Issue while trying to read ConnectionString from 'app.config' file

Hi,

I'm facing an issue while trying to read the connection string from app.config file. I was trying to read the connection string from a class which is kept in a separate folder.

FYI, the property of the file was set to "Build Action - Compile"

Though I've added all the necessary references, couldn't get the connection string, rather showing an error, 'ConnectionString doesn't exist in the current context'.

Please help me out!