Windows | My Toolbox

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Notepad ++

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

Notepad++

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

VLC Media Player

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

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