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Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by zubspace on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:29AM (#20894453)
Here are some utilities I love and use all-the-time on windows. Would love to hear about your tools in the replies.

* Everything: https://www.voidtools.com/

An awesome and terribly fast file finder. You can add a global Shortcut, like WIN+<something>. I use it all the time.

* Licecap: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

A gif recorder. Useful to spice up your bug reports!

* WinDirStat: https://windirstat.net/

Low on Diskspace? Find out, where it's gone!

* Bulk Rename Utility: https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk

It's a bit arcane, but it renames everything in every format you can think of with a bit of practice.

* Text Crawler: https://www.filepuma.com/download/textcrawler_3.0.3-9304/

Grep everything in a directory. Use it for complex Regex searches on windows. Unfortunately new versions are limited by a trial.

* Greenshot: https://getgreenshot.org/

The better snipping tool.

* CurrPorts: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

The better TCPView

* Process Explorer: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...

You know it already.

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by Multicomp on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:13AM (#20894927)
* WinDirStat -> WizTree . Same idea as WDS/Space Monger but uses Everything-style disk tree reading to be much faster scanning

* Licecap -> Gifcam . Similar functionality, slightly more modern UI

* Greenshot -> Jing . Mostly because I'm used to Jing and have it mapped to Ctrl + Print Screen

* Open Hardware Monitor . My Sandy Bridge laptop likes to go into Jet Engine mode and this gives me details as to what the hardware is doing. Combined with procexp and I have a clear view that svchost.exe has gotten away from itself again and its time for a reboot

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by basch on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:00AM (#20895687)
Everyone is going to have their own WinDirStat suggestion, because theres about 50 million variants on the market, but WizTree is fastest.
Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by busfahrer on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:48AM (#20894522)
Instead of TextCrawler, I use grepWin: https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html

Edit: Forgot to mention TinyTask, a macro recorder in 30kb or so: https://www.tinytask.net

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by rdiddly on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:39PM (#20898473)
How'bout Instant Eyedropper? Sits in the system tray and you can drag it onto any pixel onscreen & get the color mapping in a variety of spaces.

http://instant-eyedropper.com

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by chronolitus on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:08AM (#20894887)
A utility similar to windirstat which I use all the time :

* spacesniffer: http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by philliphaydon on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:39AM (#20895071)
After using spacesniffer every other alternative seems terrible. I love spacesniffer.
Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by Lukesys on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:38AM (#20895486)
I've always used Treesize Free myself, used it once it did the job so kept using it lol
Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by thefz on Friday September 06, 2019 @09:46AM (#20895571)
ShareX is also very good screen grabber/snipper.

https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by BlueGh0st on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:58AM (#20902230)
Seconding ShareX. This is an extremely powerful tool, but only if you want it to be. I was using it as a basic lightweight snipping tool for over a year before diving deeper into it's macro, automatic uploading, screen recording, and screenshot organization tools. Among it's other features is built in QR and OCR tools. Cool stuff!
Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by ZoomStop on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:01AM (#20894559)
If you like WinDirStat, try WizTree sometime. Not open source but free from antibody-software. Many times faster in operation that WinDirStat.

For file renaming lately ReNamer Lite by den4b has been great. It seems to have all the power of other rename tools with a GUI that makes it very easy to accomplish what you are trying to do.

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by phit_ on Friday September 06, 2019 @07:16AM (#20894628)
* Licecap

* Greenshot

can be both replaced by the IMO far superior ShareX https://getsharex.com/

- Text Crawler

you can do the same thing with notepad++ and it's free

Re:PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity by ozzmotik on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:58AM (#20895184)
it's always nice to see someone bring up Everything. it's almost terrifying how fast it can find basically anything.