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What are some good/useful software that you use that aren't well known/talked about? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Windows, Preferably free

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[–] Saltarello@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Windows, free, not well known/talked about?

Hands down qttabbar. Adds tabbed browsing to Explorer. Absolutely no idea why this isnt built into Windows, I've used it for some years & hate using a Window machine without it.

More well known:

Joplin. Markdown note taking app. Also has a portable version (I use this over the .exe version). Can be set up to sync with your other (multi OS) devices
ShareX. Screenshot clipper. Has a learning curve but the initial pain is worth it. Greenshot is a good portable alternative
TeraCopy. File transfer tool. Much faster & far more reliable than Explorer copy/paste
Everything. File search utility. Use this once & you'll absolutely hate having to endure using the built in Explorer search. Also has a portable version

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

I fucking hate Teracopy with a vengeance. It’s such a buggy piece of shit. I have never seen it not fuck up and crash when you ask it to do something remotely challenging.

Robocopy is the only thing I use for serious file copy/move jobs.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's built into windows 11 now.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But in a weirdly shit way. I will never want more than 1 window but still end up with 5.

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you get more then one window of you don't want them and have tabs?

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The browsers solved this long ago.

Any request to open a new page, from either the pages themselves or from the OS, prefers a new tab. If there are multiple windows in which it could open a new tab, it prefers the latest. If you want to split a tab off into a new window, you can.

With Explorer, any OS request for a folder that isn't already open creates a new window and there doesn't appear to be any way to prevent that.

[–] yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I use 'Everything' daily. So teracopy actually has faster speeds with data transfer?