Ask HN: What tools do you recommend for working on Windows?

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Keypirinha

#App Launcher #Productivity #Windows Tools 33 social mentions

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Ninite

Https://ninite.com/ has a lot of decent tools in one place (select the ones you want, download one exe - run it, it grabs the latest version of everything you selected and installs it with sane options [no toolbars / good location] (I haven't used it in a long time so I am not sure if that's still the case, it gets mentioned here sometimes, so maybe search here about it, get a fresher perspective, I used to use it a lot though.)) https://nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html - its a clipboard manager.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #SSH 449 social mentions

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CLCL

Https://ninite.com/ has a lot of decent tools in one place (select the ones you want, download one exe - run it, it grabs the latest version of everything you selected and installs it with sane options [no toolbars / good location] (I haven't used it in a long time so I am not sure if that's still the case, it gets mentioned here sometimes, so maybe search here about it, get a fresher perspective, I used to use it a lot though.)) https://nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html - its a clipboard manager.

#Clipboard Manager #Bookmarks #Note Taking 2 social mentions

4

Portapps

Always put all your portable programs in the "A:\MyPC\Programs\" folder. Always put all your documents in the "A:\MyPC\Documents\" folder. Put driver files and runtime libraries in the "A:\MyPC\Install\" folder. For all three, feel free to create subfolders as needed, either per topic, per group, or however your brain envisions data trees. You can find plenty of portable windows software in the links provided below. Few of my favorites for specific tasks: - my personal auto-run and launch hooks: https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/splat/ - my personal system tray app/doc shortcuts: http://jacquelin.potier.free.fr/QuickWayToFolders/ - my personal desktop icons: https://www.cylog.org/utilities/toolbox.jsp - system monitoring utilities: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor Find more portable apps in these libraries: https://portapps.io/ https://portableapps.com/ https://www.portablefreeware.com/.

#Note Taking #Windows Tools #Programming 8 social mentions

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PortableApps.com

Always put all your portable programs in the "A:\MyPC\Programs\" folder. Always put all your documents in the "A:\MyPC\Documents\" folder. Put driver files and runtime libraries in the "A:\MyPC\Install\" folder. For all three, feel free to create subfolders as needed, either per topic, per group, or however your brain envisions data trees. You can find plenty of portable windows software in the links provided below. Few of my favorites for specific tasks: - my personal auto-run and launch hooks: https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/splat/ - my personal system tray app/doc shortcuts: http://jacquelin.potier.free.fr/QuickWayToFolders/ - my personal desktop icons: https://www.cylog.org/utilities/toolbox.jsp - system monitoring utilities: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor Find more portable apps in these libraries: https://portapps.io/ https://portableapps.com/ https://www.portablefreeware.com/.

#Note Taking #LMS #Bookmarks 150 social mentions

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Process Explorer

Always put all your portable programs in the "A:\MyPC\Programs\" folder. Always put all your documents in the "A:\MyPC\Documents\" folder. Put driver files and runtime libraries in the "A:\MyPC\Install\" folder. For all three, feel free to create subfolders as needed, either per topic, per group, or however your brain envisions data trees. You can find plenty of portable windows software in the links provided below. Few of my favorites for specific tasks: - my personal auto-run and launch hooks: https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/splat/ - my personal system tray app/doc shortcuts: http://jacquelin.potier.free.fr/QuickWayToFolders/ - my personal desktop icons: https://www.cylog.org/utilities/toolbox.jsp - system monitoring utilities: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor Find more portable apps in these libraries: https://portapps.io/ https://portableapps.com/ https://www.portablefreeware.com/.

#Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Performance Monitoring 289 social mentions