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Thursday, May 7, 2026

Windows Development Software

Windows Development Software for you local human laptop

App	Short Desc	URL	Suggested Replacement

Browsers:
FireFox	main	https://www.firefox.com/en-US/
Chrome	dev test	https://www.google.com/chrome/	FireFox
Edge	dev test	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/
Vivaldi	backup dev test	https://vivaldi.com/

Hardware:
Headset Software:
Corsair Icue		https://www.corsair.com/us/en/s/icue
Steelseries Sonar		https://steelseries.com/gg/sonar
Turtlebeach Swarm II		https://support.turtlebeach.com/s/downloads?language=en_US#/319/Swarm-II
Logitech GHub		https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/software/ghub

Mouse/Keyboard Software:
Logi Options+		https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-options-plus
Steelseries Sonar		https://steelseries.com/gg/sonar

Cam Software:
OBSBot Center		https://www.obsbot.com/download/obsbot-meet-se

Printer Software:
Canon Generic Plus UFR II		https://my.canon/en/support/0101227001

VPN:
Proton VPN	vpn	https://protonvpn.com/


Docker:
WSL2	container manager	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
Docker Desktop	for wsl, ddev	https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/
DDEV	container tooling	https://ddev.com/
LMStudio	local AI when out of credits	https://lmstudio.ai/
Podman	container manager	https://podman.io/
Rancher Desktop	container manager	https://rancherdesktop.io/

IDEs
JetBrains:
JetBrians Toolbox	updater, launcher	https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/
PhpStorm	php ide	https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
WebStorm	nodejs ide	https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
Rider	dotnet c# ide	https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
DataGrip	mariabd, postgres, sqlsrv manager	https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
PyCharm	python ide	https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Office 365:
MS Teams	chats, meetings	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software	Slack, Proton Meet
Outlook	email	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365	ThunderBird
Excel	xlsx	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365	LibreOffice
Word	docx	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365	LibreOffice
PowerPoint	pptx	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365	LibreOffice
OneDrive	oec shared files	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onedrive/online-cloud-storage
LibreOffice	when office fails	https://www.libreoffice.org/
PDF-XChange Editor	pdf viewer, editor	https://www.pdf-xchange.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

Database:
NaviCat	main db manager; mariabd, postgres, sqlsrv manager	https://www.navicat.com/en/	DBeaver
SSMS	sqlsrv manager	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ssms/	NaviCat
DBeaver	mariabd, postgres, sqlsrv manager	https://dbeaver.io/	NaviCat
HeidiSQL	mariadb manager	https://www.heidisql.com/
PgAdmin	postgres manager	https://www.pgadmin.org/

Languages:
PHP5.6	php	https://www.php.net/
PHP7.2	php	https://www.php.net/
PHP8.1	php	https://www.php.net/
PVM	manage php versions	https://github.com/hjbdev/pvm
NodeJS 14	node	https://nodejs.org/en
NodeJS 18	node	https://nodejs.org/en
NodeJS 20	node	https://nodejs.org/en
NodeJS 22	node	https://nodejs.org/en
NodeJS 24	node	https://nodejs.org/en
NVM	manage node versions	https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
Dotnet 8	dotnet, c#	https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0
Dotnet 10	dotnet, c#	https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/10.0
Python 3.14	python	https://www.python.org/downloads/
PyManager	manage python versions	https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/

Utils:
File:
7Zip	compress, encrypt	https://www.7-zip.org/
Everything	quick search windows	https://www.voidtools.com/
FreeFileSync	backup files	https://freefilesync.org/
grepWin	grep code across repos, files	https://tools.stefankueng.com/grepWin.html
PeaZip	compress, encrypt	https://peazip.github.io/	7zip
WinDirStat	find large files	https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat
WinMerge	diff files external to ide	https://winmerge.org/downloads/?lang=en
wiztree	find large files	https://www.diskanalyzer.com/

Multimedia:
Audacity	audio recorder, test microphone	https://www.audacityteam.org/
AviDemux	simple video frame editor	https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
foobar2000	audio player	https://www.foobar2000.org/
HandBrake	reduce video sizes	https://handbrake.fr/
Image Glass	image viewer	https://imageglass.org/	IrfanView
IrfanView	image viewer	https://www.irfanview.com/
Krita	graphics editor	https://krita.org/en/	paint.net
OBStudio	record screen	https://obsproject.com/
paint.net	graphics editor	https://www.getpaint.net/
VLC	video player	https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Dev:
Git for Windows	git	https://git-scm.com/about
insomnia	api testing	https://github.com/Kong/insomnia
KeePass2	local password manager	https://keepass.info/index.html
mRemoteNG	tabbed ssh putty	https://github.com/mRemoteNG/mRemoteNG	tabby
NetBeans	edit large gigabyte files	https://netbeans.apache.org/front/main/index.html
Notepad++	light text editor	https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Postman	api testing	https://www.postman.com/	insomnia
putty	generate ssh keys,manage putty sessions, so can update mRemoteNG putty	https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
Remmina	tabbed connection manager	https://remmina.org/
ShareX	screen captures	https://getsharex.com/
tabby	tabbed ssh	https://tabby.sh/
Windows Terminal	windows term	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/
WinSCP	sftp files	https://winscp.net/eng/index.php

Utility:
CCleaner	remove temp, cache files; manage startup programs	https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner
CurrPorts	ports running/blocked	https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
EarTrumpet	manage audio sources, mixer	https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh516xp?hl=en-US&gl=US
MalwareBytes	scan for adware	https://www.malwarebytes.com/
OOAPB	uninstall mstore apps	https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster
OOSU10	increase privacy, reduce telemetry	https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
PowerToys	windows usability	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
Process Explorer	process viewer	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Process Monitor	file/process monitor	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
simplewall	firewall	https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
SoundSwitch	manage audio sources	https://github.com/Belphemur/SoundSwitch
SpeedCrunch	calculator	https://heldercorreia.bitbucket.io/speedcrunch/
SystemTrayMenu	simpler menu launcher	https://github.com/Hofknecht/SystemTrayMenu
UniGet	update apps	https://github.com/Devolutions/UniGetUI
VSCode	code editor, backup	https://code.visualstudio.com/	JetBrains
VSCodium	open source vscode, backup	https://vscodium.com/	JetBrains
Winaero Tweaker	customize windows	https://winaerotweaker.com/

Monday, April 25, 2022

If you are using Windows, or other OSes which have antivirus/malware scanners installed such as Windows Defender, you can increase the responsiveness and decrease the time taken for your code installs, transpiles, complies, etc by simply excluding your code from their scans.

Best practice, keep your versioned code in a common directory, such as

C:/Users/[user]/My Documents/ado/[repo-name]

C:/dev/git/[repo-name]

And then simply exclude that directory from your antivirus/malware scanner(s).

An example for Windows Defender on Windows 10

After excluding your code directory, code installs such as npm, composer, nuget, maven, etc will not take as long and use much less resources eg cpu, disk i/o.

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Monday, December 6, 2021

Windows Development Software - Tweaks

This is a series of posts which will list some useful apps for development and general usage of Windows. These are just some examples of what can be useful. Of course, use any app you already know or have.

tweak windows:

Open Shell

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

Start menu replacement with Classic style Start Menu for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Toolbar for Windows Explorer

Winaero Tweaker

https://winaerotweaker.com/

Winaero Tweaker is a freeware app, all-in-one application that comes with dozens of options for fine-grained tuning of various Windows settings and features.

O&O ShutUp10

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.

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Monday, November 22, 2021

Windows Development Software - Maintenance/Security/Utilities

maintenance/security/utilities:

CCleaner

https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/

CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your PC.

It protects your privacy and makes your computer faster and more secure!

Malwarebytes

https://www.malwarebytes.com/for-home/

Malwarebytes doesn’t just find threats like malware and viruses, it also finds potentially unwanted programs that can slow you down. Malwarebytes protects all your devices and personal info from threats, so you can shop, play, and connect without a second thought.

KeePass

https://keepass.info/

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can store all your passwords in one database, which is locked with a master key. So you only have to remember one single master key to unlock the whole database. Database files are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known

grepWin

https://github.com/stefankueng/grepWin

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces.

FreeFileSync

https://freefilesync.org/

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

WinMerge

https://winmerge.org/

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

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Monday, November 8, 2021

Windows Development Software - Code Editor, IDE

code editor, ide:

PHPStorm

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
PHPStorm actually 'gets' your code and deeply understands its structure, supporting all the PHP language features for modern and legacy projects. It provides the best code completion, refactorings, on-the-fly error prevention, and more.

IntelliJ IDEA

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

Every aspect of IntelliJ IDEA has been designed to maximize developer productivity. Together, intelligent coding assistance and ergonomic design make development not only productive but also enjoyable.

Netbeans

http://netbeans.org/

Netbeans, an open source and cross platform ide, highlights source code syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools.

CodeLobster

http://codelobster.com/

CodeLobster IDE streamlines and simplifies the PHP development process. You don't need to keep in mind the names of functions, arguments, tags or their attributes -- we've implemented all these for you with autocomplete features for PHP, HTML, JavaScript and even CSS.

NuSphere

http://www.nusphere.com/

NuSphere is provider of the best PHP Tools, the home of PhpED - state of the art PHP Editor.

Thousands of people use our tools including our PHP IDE with the leading debugging tool for PHP.

Atom

https://atom.io/

An open source, hackable text editor for the 21st Century

Visual Studio Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity)

AWS Cloud9

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Cloud9 comes prepackaged with essential tools for popular programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, and more, so you don’t need to install files or configure your development machine to start new projects. Since your Cloud9 IDE is cloud-based, you can work on your projects from your office, home, or anywhere using an internet-connected machine. Cloud9 also provides a seamless experience for developing serverless applications enabling you to easily define resources, debug, and switch between local and remote execution of serverless applications. With Cloud9, you can quickly share your development environment with your team, enabling you to pair program and track each other's inputs in real time.

Notepad++

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size.

Geany

https://www.geany.org/

Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. It runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS is translated into over 40 languages, and has built-in support for more than 50 programming languages.

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Monday, October 25, 2021

Windows Development Software - Local Dev Env

local dev env:

Laragon

https://github.com/leokhoa/laragon

Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby. It is fast, lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-extend.

XAMPP

https://www.apachefriends.org/

XAMPP is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use.

Ampps

https://ampps.com/

AMPPS is a WAMP, MAMP and LAMP stack of Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl & Python. With AMPPS you can create a website by installing any of the 419 Apps, customizing it, and then simply publishing it on the internet via a wide choice of hosting service providers.

Virtual Box

https://www.virtualbox.org/

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software

Docker

https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop

Docker helps developers bring their ideas to life by conquering the complexity of app development. We simplify and accelerate development workflows with an integrated dev pipeline and through the consolidation of application components. Actively used by millions of developers around the world.

WSL

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment -- including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications -- directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup.

Cloud Droplets

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/

Easy, fast, and flexible compute

Spin up your choice of virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Basic, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow your app from startup to scale.

Cloud EC2

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.

Cloud Virtual

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/linux-on-azure/red-hat/

Deploy secure, reliable, flexible hybrid cloud environments using Red Hat solutions on Azure—a fully comprehensive cloud for open source architectures

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Monday, October 11, 2021

Windows Development Software - Image Editor

image editor:

Paint.Net

https://www.getpaint.net/

Paint.NET is image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Krita

https://krita.org/en/

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

IrfanView

https://www.irfanview.com/

It is designed to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer worldwide with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers worldwide with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer worldwide with Multiple ICO support.

XNViewMP

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).

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Monday, September 27, 2021

Windows Development Software - SFTP

sftp:

WinSCP

http://winscp.net/eng/

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client and SCP client for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

Cyberduck
https://cyberduck.io/
Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows

MobaXterm

https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
When you log to a remote server using SSH, a graphical SFTP browser pops up on in the left sidebar. It allows you to drag and drop files directly from/to the remote server using a secure SFTP connection