What's your favourite productive app/program to install

As the title says, I wondered what everyone's most used/favourite/most helpful, productive program or app they always install on a computer. If you could pick one, not including Office and Adobe reader Just thought I might pick up some tips re something I didn't know of.

Edit: And not including Macrium or Antivirus programs.

FreeFileSync

App(s)
FreeFileSync
Stardock Start11
Stardock Fences5

Are the first 3 apps/software that I load.

Just looked up Free file sync .............thanks.

Hazel123 said:

Just looked it up .............thanks.

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Such a valuable, free & unrestricted software. There is a donation addition which I have (donate once, always get the donated updated version) but the difference is negligible, it’s really for very experienced sync operators.

QTTabBar Explorer Enhancement Suite. Hands down, couldn't live without it!

Paint Shop Pro 7.04 10th Anniversary Edition, and XnView...



XnView Classic (minimal)

For my personal systems, I can't pick one. I won't be without these 7...Roboform, Internet Download Manager, Minitool Partition Wizard, 7zip, Revo Portable, Coretemp, cCleaner

glasskuter said:

For my personal systems, I can't pick one. I won't be without these 7...Roboform, Internet Download Manager, Minitool Partition Wizard, 7zip, Revo Portable, Coretemp, cCleaner

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I also have licenses for the three I highlighted. Couldn’t be without them. In fact I have licenses for all of them (less the free 7zip) on all 4 PC’s in my house.

Hazel123 said:

As the title says, I wondered what everyone's most used/favourite/most helpful, productive program or app they always install on a computer. If you could pick one, not including Office and Adobe reader Just thought I might pick up some tips re something I didn't know of.

Edit: And not including Macrium or Antivirus programs.

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Roots Magic 9 (genealogy) goes onto all my computers because for $40, I get to put it on everything I have. And, it's one of the best genealogy programs around.

Of course, I need my backup program. I've taught Macrium Free to my Windows 11 students, but since they're all seniors (me too), and Macrium no longer has a free version, we'll be learning Aomei Backupper free and Hasleo Backup Suite. Fixed income sux!

Firefox of course. Gotta have a browser that allows me to think for meself.

I could go on, since I rarely put anything on my computer that I won't use regularly.

glasskuter said:

For my personal systems, I can't pick one. I won't be without these 7...Roboform, Internet Download Manager, Minitool Partition Wizard, 7zip, Revo Portable, Coretemp, cCleaner

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Yep, I had to stop because I thought I already had too many and can't live without any of 'em.

With the exception of Office, a browser and a few base programs, I could navigate my PC, get work done and have fun for months on end without touching about 60 of the 68 programs i have installed! But, not the aforementioned QTTabBar!
I have really expensive programs I don't even use anymore!

LibreOffice
VLC
Firefox

I've already learned about some new ones For me it's

Panda USB Vaccine
Paint.net
Firefox
Cyberlink Powerdirector

WSL (Ubuntu) and Visual Studio Code.

Everywhere! And turn off the inefficient Windows Indexing

I love the following too.

DiskGenius
Crap Cleaner AKA ccleaner
DuckDuckGo
Brave browser
Revo uninstaller Pro
WhatsApp
Libre Office

ExplorerPatcher
New Version of ExplorerPatcher - ElevenForum
It lets me continue using the Taskbar Toolbars that have been my menu system for about fifteen years - after previously having had the same capability within the Start menus of Windows XP & earlier versions for as far back as I can remember.
Taskbar Toolbars - Creating and naming, customising, moving [post #20] - Windows 10 and Windows 11 with ExplorerPatcher - TenForumsTutorials


All the best,
Denis

kelper said:

Everywhere! And turn off the inefficient Windows Indexing

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Everything, you mean? Love it.

I'll have to check out Xnview, I'm still using PolyView but it's occasionally sluggish on Win-11 on the first use after a boot. The only thing I wish it did more was to be able to draw lines and arrows. It's hard to change after using one program for 30 years

I also have Jasc PSP 9
Email I finally had to switch from Eudora to Thunderbird
Still using WinZip and 7zip
Cant live without Active Desktop Calendar but it's not available that I know of. Someone took over the company name
CCleaner occasionally
Glary Utilities on occasion
pdfFactory for printing and PDF-Exchange for editing
Still have Adobe Acrobat Standard 8 but cannot install it on Win-11 so I keep Win-7 going on a second computer
Quickbooks Pro 2012
MS Office 2007

pseymour said:

Everything, you mean? Love it.

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Yes, I meant that Everything.

kelper said:

Yes, I meant that Everything.

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What is it?