I really appreciate your content and format. Great work!

As always on this channel, a great, info packed video.

Another excellent informative video...thank you!

Brave, PotPlayer, IrfanView, Q-DIR, Agent Ransack, NotePad3

Thank you, TG! Your channel is so informative and helpful.

Super update! Thanks!

Wow! This is awesome. I just learned a new thing. Thanks buddy. Let me download them right away.

Fantastic recommendations! Thank you!

My ( obviously superior not biased )list: Bulk program downloading site: ninite Browser: Brave Password Manager: Bitwarden Notepad: Notepad++ Torrent: WebTorrent Desktop ( simple and just doesnt look like trash ) Antivirus: Just use Windows Defender and don’t click on «free virus» crap Zip file manager: 7Zip Audio Editor: Audacity Wallpaper: Wallpaper Engine Storage Manager: Spacesniffer Hotel: Trivago

@Vrandomizer

Жыл бұрын

What about video player. What can you recommend?

i watch you for years now. keep up the good work mate. greetings from greece.

@gus473

Жыл бұрын

🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷👍🏼😎✌🏼

Thanks for this. Great video!

I love TechGumbo! You guys have been extremely helpful to me.

Great work 🥳 Thank you 💜

On Windows 10, you can press Shift+Win key (next to Ctrl on the left) to take a screenshot or snip an area. Then press Ctrl+V to paste.

@themindboggler8055

Жыл бұрын

Alternatively, Win+Shift+S to take a rectangular snip and copy it to your clipboard. I use it all the time

@Christobanistan

Жыл бұрын

@@themindboggler8055 That's literally what I was referring to. Though I did forget to say + S

@markae0

6 ай бұрын

Win key + prnt screen key

Netscape navigator was gold.

@surveyminghing5994

Жыл бұрын

😅😅 yeah, it is classic. I have changed from IE-> Firefox -> Opera -> Valvidi -> Chrome

Good Video mentioning some software I did not know about 👍

Thank you so much good man.I needed that programs!

Wonderful sharing!

Thanks very much for this video 👊

Thank u for sharing great content

If you are a programmer or even if you aren't, 7 Zip, Notepad++, MobaXterm for RDP and SSH client are a few that I install first after I install Windows.

Very informative.

I would recommend Exact Audio Copy as a tool to rip Audio CDs, and has been used for over 2 decades. I also recommend XWidget as a tool to have widgets on your desktop, as an alternative to Rainmeter. Hope these tools gets featured in the next video. (These tools are only for Windows though)

@superdave8248

Жыл бұрын

If you need to RIP Audio CDs, why not just use Microsoft Media Player?

I use several of these . Thanks.

Valuable information thank you

Nice selection of free programs. I have VLC and love it because it has played every type of media file that I've thrown at it.

A good selection. I would add Kdenlive in the video editing category. The latest versions have been excellent. I would also add Notepad++ for text editing, Audacity for audio editing, Bulk Rename Utility for renaming files, 7-Zip for file zipping/unzipping and FreeFileSync for file sync and backup between drives.

@amermeleitor

Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏👏

@weyne777

Жыл бұрын

Better u do your own selection dude.

@Skewrz

Жыл бұрын

Audacity has been in a little hot water for being a tad shady recently and spawned a couple of offshoots. Some details are the implementation of telemetry.

@GaryB007

Жыл бұрын

@@Skewrz They changed their mind on that in the end due to the backlash from users. In any event, it's easy to block Internet access to individual programs in Windows Firewall, so they can't send anything to remote servers. The only disadvantage being that you have to update it manually.

@Skewrz

Жыл бұрын

@@GaryB007 Sounds good, wasn't sure of the entire story due to minimal details online about it.

I like Panopreter Basic, for text to speech conversion. It can work in many (but not multiple) languages, that is to say if you install the voice it can probably use it, but the whole file needs to be in one language, as the software will not select languages on the basis of formatting within the text document. .txt will be read pretty much regardless how long the document is. I haven't tried going over 10 hours with it, but it ought to work even if the MP3 file produced would play for over a day. Conversion from .rtf seems to be limited to something between 8 and 9 pages.

@cameronlawoffices898

Жыл бұрын

Can’t find it on web or app store

I can vouch for: Vivaldi Bitdefender, and VLC

@zukxxxx0

Жыл бұрын

Vivaldi is kinda as a VM considerably not a typical Web browser. Brave is fine one

@MrPolemarxosGr

Жыл бұрын

Potplayer>vlc Firefox>any browser Kaspersky >any antivirus

@h1mangshu

Жыл бұрын

​@@MrPolemarxosGr pot player is like 100 times better for me than VLC with my personalised settings.

Thanks!

I use a bunch of video and audio editing tools that are not mentioned here, but VLC player is the best, especially when you're trying to sync a video. I use different tools for that. Everything else that I use I do not use the ones that he has mentioned. I have a lot of audio files that are great for me such as MP3 Gain, MP3 TagTools & MP3Trim, all of them I started using in the early 2000s. For the videos I use DDVideo MP4Gain, Bandicut, Bandicut Joiner. Audacity, Free Video Joiner, Avidemux, Handbrake, and if a video gets out of synch more and more as the video goes on, I use MKV ToolNix. The last one is a little bit hard to understand but once you know how to do it it works great

Nice video..! from myside I would recommend the K7 antivirus. I installed k7 free trail version for my laptop, it is working good for both my laptop and mobile. and thanks for your video.

Glary utilites has been a free godsend for me for years now also

It means a lot help thank you for all your tutorials and other similar video tubes also. I have fixed all the problems the startup boot and it"s total processing speed is improved I only need sfc and Dism command b/c I found corrupt system file. GBU!

Excellent video. Great information. What free Contact Management Software do you recommend for small business?

Great video

30% into the video I already switched to the Vivaldi browser and finished watching this video. I like it so far.

Other cool softwares every Windows user should have - Quicklook - Everything (that's the name of the software) - WindowsTop

Really enjoy your work. On this latest video I found that there was nothing to replace Adobe acrobat pro though. Would be great to find a decent substitute for that :).

@stumpycool8646

Жыл бұрын

LibreOffice

@peterbreis5407

Жыл бұрын

Preview on MacOS

@dpcrn

Жыл бұрын

I use Foxit. I started using their free reader because it includes the ability to use a typewriter anywhere on the page. And then progressed to their paid version for several things that I needed to do. However, I am not a power user, so I can’t really tell you if it is a good replacement for Adobe, although it advertises that it is.

This is Useful

Opera in 2023 is pretty powerful. Uses Chrome extensions with the Chrome extension plugin. Offers complex interfacing for more control over the internet. I like the ability to choose a Search Engine from the drop-down menu.

@rodi2641

Жыл бұрын

Stay away from opera and WPS ...they are Chinese spyware ..

Great!

For screenshots and editing them free open source Greenshot is also excellent and full of practical functions. Don’t think they ever mention that one here.

@zakaryaelq8775

Жыл бұрын

For us Ethical hackers we use greenshot a lot and I love it

@zukxxxx0

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm also big fan of the tool from tcm I got to know about it

@zakaryaelq8775

Жыл бұрын

Tcm is a great guy I have a huge respect for him he’s always helping the community

@yuutuu9427

Жыл бұрын

GREENSHOT SUCKS ALWAYS PROMPTING YOU FOR YOUR OKAY GO WITH GADWIN PRINTSCREEN SPAM THE PRTSCR BUTTON AND GET TONS OF INSTANT IMAGES IN THE FOLDER OF YOUR CHOICE ... IN A COUPLE DIFFERENT FILE FORMAT OF YOUR CHOICE

A nice selection. I've found that Open Office is another good package deal very similar to Windows' Office suite, and it's free.

@randydaniels9297

Жыл бұрын

highly recommended

@jerryrussell2600

Жыл бұрын

There are too many glitches in Open Office. It will add random underlines that you cannot get rid of, it has aparagraph numbering that it relentless in numbering a paragraph, when you hit the center key to create a paragraph.

Thanks

I never plan to leave Firefox! And I have enjoyed using Irfanview Photo Editor for years. And VLC Media Player has worked well for me for many years. You didn't mention Irfanview.

@gitaar70

Жыл бұрын

Love irfanview!

@ytucharliesierra

Жыл бұрын

Same for me for Firefox! Indeed Irfan is a must have, however I only use it for viewing and selecting my raw files, which I process in Raw Therapee.

Audacity for sound editing. VidCoder for video file transcoding. SumatraPdf opens more filetypes than Acrobat Reader.

@italixgaming915

Жыл бұрын

MP3DirectCut is also an alternative to Audacity (but it works only for MP3 files).

Best FREE password manager is KEEPASS, period.

The video player for most people I could recommend MPC against VLC. Brcause MPC just easy and works perfect from you start it first time. To have the same experience with VLC I need to set it up, download some script, walk through a lot of settings. For example play/pause with click on video, VLC can’t do it from start, MPC can. Or turn to next video file when previous ends - VLC can’t do it, MPC easy. So I have VLC just in case, but usually I use MPC and absolutely happy with it.

Love Da Vinci and OBS. From zero to a full gameplay video (with a copyright free music) uploaded to youtube in a day.

TeamViewer is great for online remote desktop sessions. Paragorn had great free backup utility

@TrubbleMaker

Жыл бұрын

What's wrong with Microsoft's built in Quick Assist?

Share X is the novelty app for its scrolling screen capture that's missing in Win 11 Snip and Sketch.

7-zip, GIMP, Open-Source Offices, FreeCAD, Blender, free players such as VLC, virtualbox

I have Vivaldi and LibreOffice. They get my vote. But I cannot feel the love for VLC.

@synchro505

Жыл бұрын

It's been a while since I used LibreOffice. It's time I try it again. Microsoft gives me a headache.

thanks

Hi TechGumbo, I didn't see the Tor Browser for secure browsing as well as the Startpage private search engine.

Good video

Great selections. 2 comments: No audio editor? Audacity would be my pick. And maybe at least honorable mention to Greenshot in the screen capture pick.

@kevinhumphreys1016

Жыл бұрын

Audacity can also extract audio from video files ( after installing the FFmpeg library )

clipchamp is another video editing program and you can use it for free but only export up 1080p

No day goes by when I don't use the free “FilerFrog.“ It adds to a file’s or program’s right-click menu and lets you do many things that otherwise take you more steps and more time to do. You can “copy file path to the clipboard“ in one click (for example to then paste into a SAVE AS or OPEN field, ETC.) You can “extract file to a folder“ (which FilerFrog creates and lets you name), you can MOVE FILE UP (to the next highest folder), you can rename groups of files at once (find and replace), and so much more. I’ve used it on XP for years, and now on Wndows 10 and I find it bug-free. You should DEFINITELY have included this in your list of free stuff, but FilerFrog is a sleeper which no one I’ve ever met knows about!

Good video ...Tixati for torrents and don't forget Sketchup for awesome free 3d modeling

a lot of useful tools here

Should've also added mpv in the video player section, a open source lightweight video player which is fully scriptable and is unbelievably super fast !!

if anyone values there online privacy stay away from chrome

@GeneralDante108

Жыл бұрын

Firefox 💪🏾

@RossNixon

Жыл бұрын

Brave. Takes 99% of Chrome add-ons, and is so private.

@theosid5099

Жыл бұрын

brave and or tor for me

@YeFansMalaysia

Жыл бұрын

Not install it on my new laptop

@zawa3udo11

Жыл бұрын

If anyone values there privacy stay away from Internet

Inkscape is amazing!

I use most of them!

handbrake video converter and audacity audio editor.. and i like k-lite codec pack better if you work alongside microsoft document format, free version onlyoffice desktop editor in my experience has the most compability with docx xlsx pptx file

What would be the best free alternative to After Effects when it comes to 2d animation like banners or ads for the web and social networks like stories for Instagram?

@zukxxxx0

Жыл бұрын

Try learning davinci resolve

Awesome!! Worth watching!

I use keepass for my passwords and it's free, as for DaVinci Resolve I installed this but had issues with crashing, when I reported it no response was heard, can only assume that if you pay then they are more than happy to reply back. I also use VMWare which is free and works really well

I think XDM is one of the underrated download managers out there

Hi do you know of any free software that can remove black bars on the sides of recorded video. I have recorded several videos that predated HD, but I can't find a way to remove the black boarders on the sides of the screen to produce a full screen picture. I've done some research and I haven't been able to find a program that can do this nor have I found one that will keep an MP4 file type. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

@johntarun9177

Жыл бұрын

Kdenlive

@istvantorok4819

Жыл бұрын

Avidemux

I use Vivaldi and it's awesome!

Open source is awesome!

¿What's your stance on Apache's OpenOffice?

Am also in the processing of downloading mine through inline and online

Why you never mention Sketchup? as one of the best and easy to use 3D modeling software.

You forgot about librewolf browser, which is a Firefox based privacy browser.

I usually stick to windows built in apps, but sometimes I use much better third party apps such as 7z, pot player, freed download manager. we need a video of the best apps on windows store please.

@peterbreis5407

Жыл бұрын

Windows doesn't have much in the way of built-in Apps and what it has are usually second rate.

@nakedeye44

Жыл бұрын

@@peterbreis5407 yes but they're better for the work of the system, because these are apps programmed by the same company behind the system.

Kirta is ranked #1 while Inkscape is ranked #3 so check out both for what you need. Kirta is totally free and open sourced.

@ricsim78

Жыл бұрын

Krita, not Kirta 😁 But yes, Krita is awesome and I prefer it to Inkscape, though both are great.

After discovering mpv, I never went back to VLC.

@abhirajsinha23

Жыл бұрын

That's so true, MPV is so much better than vlc.

@senritsujumpsuit6021

Жыл бұрын

I use Potplayer all the way it’s so clean an featureful

@shinichikudoz

Жыл бұрын

Really?

I use Asunder ( Linux ) to rip my CDs to mp3, can also rip to other formats

I was wondering if there is anything better than Iobit Advanced System Care to avoid crashing of the RAM.

@ivanyosifov2629

Жыл бұрын

try revo uninstaller - way better than iobit

@ciprianlica

Жыл бұрын

How can Iobit Advanced System Care fix RAM crashes? If you experience RAM crashes, either your RAM is too overclocked, the connection between the RAM modules and the motherboard needs to be cleaned of dust, or the RAM module itself is defective and needs to be replaced.

@koantao8321

Жыл бұрын

@@ciprianlica only 4 GB of RAM.

@koantao8321

Жыл бұрын

@@ivanyosifov2629 Thanks, but does it have a button on desktop which allows me to instantly clean the RAM?

@ivanyosifov2629

Жыл бұрын

@@koantao8321 no but it clears all leftovers which might cause ram issues

I am looking for a free imageviewer, most similar to ACDsee if you remember that one, with the ability to view a library of your images, and .g renaming them on masse or see one image very clearly in full screen, or a bigger thumbnail in the left part of the screen, I know windows has something free but it is far from similar or easy to use and ACDsee is well very expensive for what it is, currenlty I am using Faststone image viewer which is like a clone but not a particularly good one, it kind of lacks in functionality, allthough 90% similar to ACDsee it is probably what you will reccomend but I want to know if there are any other alternatives and I am not talking about Photoshop or adobe bridge or paintshop pro

@leoforteq

Жыл бұрын

Xnview

@istvantorok4819

Жыл бұрын

IrfanView

What's the best browser, what do you use

@cynz4299

Жыл бұрын

Use brave

Can you do something for Chromebook

Netscape navigator was free for a few years and by the time they charged there were plenty of other free browsers that were better

Vivaldi is ever my favorite

If anyone is into game development I highly recommend the Godot engine. Open source, free and has support for their native script, C++ and C#.

I use wps office

0:00 - Hi TG. 👋 9:50 - 899th like from me. 👍 Cheers.

PotPlayer is way way way better than VLC Media Player... I also recommend Everything, which is tremendously quicker than Windows Explorer for searching files.

I like brave, just bc I can turn the BAT they give me into other, high APY cryptos. May be worthless, but when the $10/m they give me can get turned into $10 + $0.10/d in earnings, might as well.

Can anyone suggest a MEDIA PLAYER for "m3u8" video format. Player, NOT CONVERTER. VLC or CLASSIC MEDIA PLAYER BLACK doesn't work.

I would go with Daum Pot Player instead of VLC.

I am in the process De- Googling everything on my cellphone and computer and going to try Proton Mail instead of Gmail!!

Qemu/KVM way better for virtualization software

@surveyminghing5994

Жыл бұрын

KVM for 2 more desktop computers with the same keyboard and mouse, just it!

Awesome video! All great programs🤩 I would just add Notepad++ and 7 Zip and you got yourself a HOMERUN! I think VLC is almost the first thing I download on a every fresh OS Install😂

Been using Gimp since 2012 but it does not support AVIF formats. As many "updates" / versions that they crank out, when will they make the approach? btw: The list you guys 'create' hasn't change that much from previous years, e.g. VLC, Gimp, Vivaldi, etc. Do you think you'll ever add Photo Viewers? I have Irlens Syndrome and the default viewer blinds the daylights out of me. Please include whether, or not, the apps listed have a dark mode.

@1slotmech

Жыл бұрын

Give Irfanview a try for photo viewing.

As to media players, I prefer PotPlayer (Windows).