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Windows | My Toolbox

My precious tools .. these mostly go unnoticed, but these are the frequently used apps in my toolbox.

Jukka

• 5 min read
Windows | My Toolbox

ShareX

This is a multi-use tool that I use for screen capture/recording, color picking, area size measurements .. a lot of different use cases.

  • Screen Capture, Screen Recording (Animated Gif, MP4, etc.), tools for screen color picker, ruler, etc
ShareX - The best free and open source screenshot tool for Windows
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
The best free and open source screenshot tool for WindowsShareX Team

Ultimaker Cura

My go-to slicer for 3D printing integrates with Octoprint.

Ultimaker Cura: Powerful, easy-to-use 3D printing software
Ultimaker Cura is free, easy-to-use 3D printing software trusted by millions of users. Fine-tune your 3D model with 400+ settings for the best slicing and printing results.
ultimaker.com

Solar-PuTTy

Like PuTTy, but with lots of sweet extras. Multiple tabbed sessions, saved credentials / private keys for any session, etc.

Solar-PuTTY for Windows – Free SSH Download | SolarWinds
Manage remote sessions in a professional way. Connect to any server or device in your network with Solar-PuTTY for Windows from SolarWinds. Experience Solar-PuTTY. Get your free Solar-PuTTY download now!
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MQTT Explorer

MQTT Explorer is a comprehensive MQTT client that provides a structured overview of your MQTT topics and makes working with devices/services on your broker dead simple.

MQTT Explorer
An all-round MQTT client that provides a structured topic overview
Thomas NordquistThomas Nordquist

Advanced Renamer

Rename multiple files and folders with multiple different methods and ways.

Advanced Renamer - Free and fast batch rename utility for files and folders
Batch rename files and folders in a snap. Perfect for any kind of file renaming including music and photo files. Preview your files before renaming and undo erroneous renaming jobs.
Free and fast batch rename utility for files and folders

MoviePrint

Make screenshots, thumbnails of any movie or a video clip, and easy frame-by-frame adjustments.

MoviePrint - Make screenshots of movies in an instant
A free tool to help you select, analyse, present and archive your movies.
MoviePrint

DiskInternals Linux Reader (Pro)

Linux Reader™ is a popular and free software product, and it remains non-commercial freeware. Since version 4.0, there are extra features that are available as Linux Reader Pro™.

  • Ext2/3/4, FAT, exFAT, HFS, HFS+(reader), NTFS, ReFS, UFS2, RomFS(reader), APFDS, ZFS*, XFS*

(*) Pro version needed

Freeware Linux Reader™ for Windows
Need to access files on Linux? Easy! Here is a freeware tool for extracting files from Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, HFS and ReiserFS partitions in Windows.
DiskInternalsDiskInternals ltd.

DiskInternals Uneraser

Restore any deleted or corrupted file from NTFS, FAT32/exFAT/FAT, APFS, etc

4 Practical Ways for File Recovery
Need to undelete files? If you lost any kinds of deleted files and documents - you have a chance to get them back.DiskInternals Uneraser™ will help you in recovering files removed from the recycle bin or lost due to a system crash.
DiskInternalsDiskInternals ltd.

Notepad ++

If you don't know this, I swear ..

Notepad++
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Ferdi

All apps in one place (Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook ..)

Ferdi - All your apps in one place
Ferdi is a free and opensource all-in-one desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps.
FerdiStar

Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition

Backups, backups ..

Free Backup Solution - Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition
Backup and restore VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines with Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition. Unlimited hosts and VMs. Free forever.
Veeam SoftwareVeeam Company

WinSCP

SFTP client

WinSCP
WinSCP is a popular free SFTP and FTP client for Windows, a powerful file manager that will improve your productivity. It supports also Amazon S3, FTPS, SCP and WebDAV protocols. Power users can automate WinSCP using .NET assembly.
WinSCP - Free SFTP and FTP client

7-zip

File archiver with a high compression ratio.

  • Packing/unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
  • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
7-Zip

TinkerCad

Almost all my designs are somehow modeled and tested with this (even woodwork), this is my primary design tool for 3D prints.

Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes
Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.
Tinkercad

MIB Browser

For all SNMP needs

Network Management / Network Monitoring / SNMP Monitoring / MIB Browser
SNMP MIB Browser. SNMP Agent Builder. SNMP Agent Simulator. iDesktop Desktop Management Software, SysUpTime Network Monitor is a network monitoring tool that checks for failures and fixes them automatically. Network monitor and server monitor for your enterprise - checks Exchange Se…
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VLC Media Player

Again if you don't know what this is ..

VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
VideoLAN