I recently had the opportunity to reinstall Windows 7 on my laptop and figured it was a good time to make a list of the programs and utilities I use regularly on Windows. Most stuff is open source and/or free. There are a few commercial packages that I use a lot that I really like so I’ve included those on the list too. I don’t work in Windows that often, but when I do these are the things I use.
- Firefox – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
- Chrome – http://www.google.com/chrome/
- Classic Shell – http://classicshell.net/
- Ditto Clipboard Manager – http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/
- Gadwin PrintScreen – http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/
- 7 Zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
- Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- VirtuaWin – http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
- Keepass 2.x – http://keepass.info/
- Owncloud – http://owncloud.org/
- Git – https://msysgit.github.io/
- Putty – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
- Filezilla – https://filezilla-project.org/ (watch for crapware installs)
- LibreOffice – https://www.libreoffice.org/
- Bitorrent – http://www.bittorrent.com/bittorrent-free
- Tweak UI – http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-v2-a-tweak-ui-for-windows-7-vista
- MySQL Workbench – https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/
- CALI Author – http://www.cali.org/content/cali-author-download
- XAMPP – https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
- Skype – http://www.skype.com/
- Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com/
- Komodo – http://komodoide.com/
- Slack – https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201746897-Slack-apps-for-computers-phones-tablets