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TeraCopy https://www.codesector.com/teracopy
is a program that copies files. Default copying mechanism on windows doesn't preserve file creation time and modification time, so this handles that.
Total Commander https://www.ghisler.com/
is a file manager for windows. Uses two panels, highly customizable, and is a grandgrandson of ancient Norton Commander for DOS. I rarely use it, but sometimes it is very useful. And guess what, it preserves file times as well.
of course a fag like this will show up. Please go waste yours and only yours life away, don't drag other people down this rabbit hole.
Not like UNetbootin is a bad program. I'll even add this url in its full glory https://unetbootin.github.io/ , in case some people like to copypaste threads instead of saving them.
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UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including:
Parted Magic
SystemRescueCD
Super Grub Disk
Dr.Web AntivirusF-Secure Rescue CD
Kaspersky Rescue Disk
Backtrack
OphcrackNTPasswd
Gujin
Smart Boot Manager
FreeDOS>willingly suckling on bill gates teat
Open-Shell
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
A start menu replacement for windows.
I can't stand default windows start menu, especially windows 10 start menu, so I use this instead.
You can customize search box to not search for files or online, so with this you can launch programs by just typing first letters of its name.
certUtil
https://www.shellhacks.com/windows-md5-sha256-checksum-built-in-utility/
A good enough tool to quickly calculate a hashsum of some file. Comes with windows since windows 7.
Use it like this:
certUtil -hashfile c:/filename.zip MD5
or
certUtil -hashfile c:/filename.zip SHA256
If anyone has something more comfortable to use than console programs, please share.
Honeyview
http://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/
Really fast and lightweight imageviewer for windows. Starts in less than a second, unlike other things.
Hashtab
https://implbits.com/hashtab
A nice util for calculating hash sums.
They recommend https://github.com/namazso/OpenHashTab themselves though.
yt-dlp
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
A software to download videos (and metadata, thumbnails, and such) from youtube and other sites. A spiritual successor to youtube-dl. I'm not sure what happened to youtube-dl, probably authors of it were harassed to shit by big tech, no idea.
Command to get the entire list of all videos on a channel.
yt-dlp --skip-download --flat-playlist --print-to-file "%(id)s %(title)s.txt" "yourfilename.txt" https://youryoutubeurl
Command to get the entire list of all videos on a channel, but not save any of the videos while grabbing thumbnails and metadata. Pretty slow.
yt-dlp --skip-download --write-info-json --write-thumbnail --print "%(id)s %(title)s"
disk space visualizer
https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921
The Best Disk Space Analyzer for Windows
Those are tools that show big files/folders as big rectangles, and small files/folders as small rectangles. Really useful when you try to find what to delete.
Surprisingly useful for when you try to open some source code for the first time too, you can instantly see which files matter the most.
A small hint for you. To make those work faster, merge folders with millions of small files into an archive, maybe even an uncompressed zip if it's music / images. Some programs can read files from zips anyway.
This is a long list, but I mostly used 2 of those.
WinDirStat
https://windirstat.net/
and
SpaceSniffer
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
They are nearly the same, but I like how windirstat looks a bit more.
Open Broadcaster Software
or
OBS
https://obsproject.com/
Good software for streamers and for people who need to record their screen / window. Annoying part about it though, if you try to record videos in not fullscreen, you will have to reconfigure video output resolution and bitrate every time.
ShareX
https://getsharex.com/
Good software for recording part of the screen.
https://mpv.io/ for media playing
https://www.irfanview.com/ for image viewing
https://www.httrack.com/ tool for archiving websites
https://www.qbittorrent.org/ for torrenting
https://nicotine-plus.org/ for Soulseek
https://7-zip.org/ for archives
https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist for installing all the various Visual C++ runtimes
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