(Formerly known as Draw.io)
Free Open-Source Tool for designing diagrams and flow charts.
You can use the web app on their website without install nor signup.
Chocolatey is a package manager that makes it easier to install
and upgrade software.
It downloads software from the source. Checks the hashes to ensure
it wasn't tampered with.
Then does a full silent install.
You can also do a silent upgrade of all installed packages with one command.
Programs I like to manage with Chocolatey:
Web Browsers:
Chromium and Firefox depending on what I need:
choco install chromium
choco install firefox
Diagrams.net (Formerly Draw.io)
Free Open Source Tool for designing diagrams and flow charts.
You can use the web app on their website without install nor signup.
choco install drawio
VLC Media Player
Plays most music and video files without the need for additional codecs
choco install vlc
MP3 Tag
Tool to add/edit the tags on mp3 files such as Album Art, Artist, Title, Track #, CD #, ect.
choco install mp3tag
KeePass 2
Free Open-Source password manager.
It encrypts your passwords into a database that consists of only one file that can be transferred from one computer to another easily.
I also like some plugins like keeagent as you can store your ssh keys as attachments in the database. Keeagent can also load the key for your ssh sessions.
Note: I no longer like using agents such as keeagent or pagent as it auto submits keys which is a security issue
as well as can cause logins to auto-fail.
Tool to pack and unpack archives and compressed files of multiple formats such as rar,zip,tar and 7z.
choco install 7zip
Greenshot
Better replacement for snipping tool that has a built in annotation/edit tool for Highlighting, obscuring sensitive info, numbering steps, drawing arrows ect. It also allows easy export to clipboard, word, outlook, imgur, or save the file.
choco install greenshot
Flux (f.lux)
Make the screen easier on your eyes by reducing blue light at sunset and at night to help not interfere with your circadium rhythm.
choco install flux
Paint.Net (Paint dot net)
Free photo editor that supports layers, magic wand selector, and some light editing.
choco install paint.net
OnTopReplica
Picture in Picture overlay for any application window.
Also supports transparency.
Recommend using the UWP Windows Store version if you want to add/sync tons of local files of media. Otherwise I'd recommend the regular non-UWP Windows Store version as it seems to have less lag on the controls.
Remote Terminal/Shell for SSH, Telnet, Serial.
Note: I will probably remove this recommendation in the future.
once I find a good modern alternative for Serial / Telnet.
An easy way to run some Linux tools on Windows 10.
Though it is not a fully fledged Linux environment so not everything works.
For example nmap won't work inside the WSL.
nmap does work on WSL Version 2 but not all features as it doesn't have Layer 2 network access.
I switched to just accessing a full linux virtual machine over SSH.
To install:
Enable the windows feature "Windows Subsystem for Linux"
Then install a Linux Distro from the Windows Store.