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SUBJECT: Software for Windows
AUTHOR: Rami Rosenfeld
DATE: 20/01/22
TIME: 23.00
LANG: ru, en
LICENSE: GNU FDL 1.3
TAGS: software, opensource, free, app, windows, system
В основном, я конечно же ориентировался на GNU- (и open source). Но, к сожалению, мне пришлось включить в этот список некоторые "якобы free", freeware, freemium и прочие проприетарные программы - из-за их популярности и неплохого функционала.
Заранее предупреждаю: относитесь к подобному софту с большой долей осторожности, тем более, когда дело идет об абсолютно недоверенной среде их исполнения - я подразумеваю саму операционную систему, т.е. Windows!
Ну а для тех, кого искренне волнует вопрос: "Что не так с моей любимой Windows?", предлагается мое обновленное эссе (рекомендую к прочтению, осмыслению и распространению):
Ниже приведены прямые ссылки на официальные страницы закачек того или иного ПО (а не на стартовые страницы производителей и, конечно же - не ссылки на конкретные исполнимые файлы). Однако не удивляйтесь, если веб-браузер сходу предложит загрузить последнюю версию программы. Впрочем, это единичные случаи (ccleaner, defraggler, recuva. speccy)
License: GNU Lesser General Public License
7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver. 7-Zip uses its own 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats. The program can be used from a command-line interface or through a graphical user interface that also features shell integration.
License: Proprietary; Freeware
Advanced Renamer is a batch renamer program with GUI that can rename multiple files and folders at once.
License: Proprietary; Freeware
FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
Recuva is an undeletion program. It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted; the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. Recuva can recover files deleted from hard disk drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, portable media players or all random-access storage mediums with a supported file system.
License: Mozilla Public License
Syncthing is a peer-to-peer file synchronization application. It can sync files between devices on a local network, or between remote devices over the Internet. Data security and data safety are built into the design of the software.
License: GNU General Public License
FreeFileSync is a program used for file synchronization. FreeFileSync works by comparing one or multiple folders on their content, date or file size and subsequently synchronizing the content according to user-defined settings. In addition to supporting local file systems and network shares, FreeFileSync is able to sync to FTP, FTPS, SFTP and MTP devices.
License: Mozilla Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License
LibreOffice is a office suite, a project of The Document Foundation. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae. LibreOffice uses the international ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument file format (ODF) as its native format to save documents for all of its applications. LibreOffice also supports the file formats of most other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, through a variety of import/export filters.
License: GNU General Public License
Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window. It features syntax highlighting, code folding and limited autocompletion for programming, scripting, and markup languages, but not intelligent code completion or syntax checking. As such it may properly highlight code written in a supported schema but whether the syntax is internally sound or compilable cannot be verified.
License: GNU General Public License
Sumatra PDF is a document viewer that supports many document formats including: Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), DjVu, EPUB, FictionBook (FB2), MOBI, PRC, Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS, OXPS, XPS), and Comic Book Archive file (CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ). If Ghostscript is installed, it supports PostScript files.
License: GNU General Public License
(dictionaries; also look parent folder)
GoldenDict is a dictionary program that gives translations of words and phrases for different languages. It allows the use of several popular dictionary file formats simultaneously and without conversion.
License: GNU General Public License
Darktable is a photography workflow application and raw developer. Rather than being a raster graphics editor like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, it comprises a subset of image editing operations specifically aimed at non-destructive raw photo post-production. It is primarily focused on improving a photographer's workflow by facilitating the handling of large numbers of images.
License: GNU General Public License
GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
License: GNU General Public License
Greenshot offers several modes for creating a screenshot: "Capture region" allows to select an area of the screen by dragging a green rectangle to the desired position and size. "Capture last region" is used to re-capture exactly the same area that was captured before. "Capture window" creates a screenshot of the active or a selected window (depending on the user's settings). "Capture fullscreen" captures the complete screen(s). Greenshot's image editor is a basic vector graphics editor; however, it offers some pixel-based filters. It allows to draw basic shapes (rectangles, ellipses, lines, arrows and freehand) and add text to a screenshot.
License: Proprietary; free for non-commercial use
FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer. The program also includes basic image editing tools.
License: GNU General Public License
Claws Mail is a free and open-source e-mail client, which is both lightweight and highly configurable. It stores mail in the MH mailbox format. Plugins allow to read HTML mail, but there is none to compose HTML messages. Claws Mail is also a News client and RSS aggregator. Further features – integrated or supplied via plugins – include: Search and filtering, optionally via Perl and Python scripting; Security (GPG, SSL, anti-phishing); Anti-spam (SpamAssassin, Bogofilter); Per-folder preferences; Templates for messages; PDF viewer; Archiving, import/export from standard formats; Support for Mbox mailbox format; Calendaring with events as kind of messages
License: Mozilla Public License
Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) is a version of Firefox for organizations and other groups that need extended support for mass deployments. Each ESR release, based on the regular version released at the same time, is supported for approximately one year.
License: Mozilla Public License
Thunderbird is an email, newsgroup, news feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Twitter) client. Thunderbird can manage multiple email, newsgroup, and news feed accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. Features such as quick search, saved search folders ("virtual folders"), advanced message filtering, message grouping, and labels help manage and find messages. Thunderbird incorporates a Bayesian spam filter, a whitelist based on the included address book, and can also understand classifications by server-based filters such as SpamAssassin.
License: GNU General Public License
Pidgin is a multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log into various services from one application. Pidgin is widely used for its Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) plugin, which offers end-to-end encryption.
License: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Licens
Simple DNSCrypt is a simple management tool (GUI) to configure dnscrypt-proxy on windows based systems.
License: GNU General Public License
Delta Chat is a messaging app that is completely compatible with the existing
e-mail infrastructure.
License: Unlicense
Youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.
License: GNU General Public License
Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption.
License: GNU General Public License
Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone) is a SIP-compatible distributed peer-to-peer softphone and SIP-based instant messenger. Two account types are currently available, and many of each type can be configured concurrently. Both types offer similar features including messaging, video and audio. The account types are SIP and Ring. A SIP account enables the Jami softphone to connect to a standard SIP server and a Ring account can register (or use an account set up) on the decentralised Jami network which requires no central server. By default, Jami uses a OpenDHT node maintained by Savoir-faire Linux to join the network when the user connects for the first time. However, the application gives users the choice to run this through their own bootstrap server in the advanced settings. By adopting distributed hash table technology (as used, for instance, within the BitTorrent network), Jami creates its own network over which it can distribute directory functions, authentication and encryption across all systems connected to it.
License: GNU General Public License
FileZilla is a FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS), while the client can in addition connect to SFTP servers.
License: GNU General Public License
DownThemAll is a powerful yet easy-to-use extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DTA lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable filters to get only what you really want. DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it allows you to queue, pause and resume downloads at any time and is fully integrated in your browser.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License
Tribler is a decentralized BitTorrent client which allows anonymous peer-to-peer by default. Tribler is based on the BitTorrent protocol and uses an overlay network for content searching, which makes the program operate independently of external websites and renders it immune to limiting external action such as government restraint. Due to this overlay network, Tribler does not require an external website or indexing service to discover content.
License: GNU General Public License
RetroShare is a peer-to-peer communication and file sharing app based on a friend-to-friend network built on GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). Optionally, peers may communicate certificates and IP addresses from and to their friends.
License: GNU General Public License
Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication. It uses a decentralized distributed data store to keep and deliver information, and has a suite of free software for publishing and communicating on the Web without fear of censorship. The distributed data store of Freenet is used by many third-party programs and plugins to provide microblogging and media sharing, anonymous and decentralised version tracking, blogging, a generic web of trust for decentralized spam resistance and many more.
License: Free/Open Source (different licenses for different parts) - Public domain, Berkeley Software Distribution, GNU General Public License, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Licens
The Invisible Internet Project is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a Mix Network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer to peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network. Given the high number of possible paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely. The software that implements this layer is called an "I2P router", and a computer running I2P is called an "I2P node".
License: Massachusetts Institute of Technology License
PuTTY is a terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port. PuTTY supports many variations on the secure remote terminal, and provides user control over the SSH encryption key and protocol version, alternate ciphers such as AES, 3DES, Arcfour, Blowfish, DES, and Public-key authentication. PuTTY supports SSO through GSSAPI, including user provided GSSAPI DLLs. It also can emulate control sequences from xterm, VT220, VT102 or ECMA-48 terminal emulation, and allows local, remote, or dynamic port forwarding with SSH (including X11 forwarding). The network communication layer supports IPv6, and the SSH protocol.
License: GNU General Public License
UltraVNC is a remote-administration/remote-desktop-software utility, uses the VNC protocol to control/access another computer remotely over a network connection.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
A freemium internet security suite that includes an antivirus program, personal firewall, sandbox and a host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS).
License: GNU General Public License
ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free and open-source antivirus tool for Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine.
License: GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License
VLC is a media player software and streaming media server. VLC supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.
License: GNU General Public License
SMPlayer is a cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer and forks of Mplayer using GUI widgets offered by Qt.
License: Freeware
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs that enables an operating system and its software to play various audio and video formats generally not supported by the operating system itself. The K-Lite Codec Pack also includes several related tools, including Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC), Media Info Lite, and Codec Tweak Tool.
License: GNU General Public License
Audacity is a digital audio editor and recording application software. In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, Audacity can be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out.
License: GNU General Public License
Avidemux is a video editing program designed for video editing and video processing. Avidemux is capable of non-linear video editing, applying visual effects to video, and transcoding video into various formats. Avidemux can also insert audio streams into a video file or extract audio streams from video files. Avidemux supports many formats, such as AVI, MP4, Matroska, MPEG-2, H.264 and H.265. Avidemux has built-in subtitle processing, both for optical character recognition of DVD subtitles and for rendering hard subtitles.
License: GNU General Public License
EasyTag is a graphical tag editor. Supported formats: MP3, MP2, FLAC, Opus, Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MP4, MPC and APE. Available tag fields (depending on format): Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist, Copyright, URL, Encoder and Picture. The main features are: automated tagging using presets and custom masks, rename files using tag information or external text files, etc.
License: GNU General Public License
WinLAME is an easy to use encoder for many audio formats, including MP3, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you read in audio tracks from CDs or encode audio files from your hard drive. The intuitive wizard-style user interface makes it easy to set up encoding settings. Multicore CPUs are used to parallelize encoding tasks.
License: GNU General Public License
GPG4usb is a very easy to use portable-application, which combines a simple text-editor with a GnuPG-frontend to write, encrypt and decrypt your text-messages and files.
License: GNU General Public License
Eraser is a secure file erasure tool. It supports both file and volume wiping. Eraser securely erases data by overwriting it such that the data is irrecoverable. It supports a variety of data destruction standards, including British HMG IS5 (Infosec Standard 5), American DoD 5220.22-M, and the Gutmann method which features a 35-pass overwrite.
License: GNU General Public License
KeePass Password Safe is a password manager. KeePass stores usernames, passwords, and other fields, including free-form notes and file attachments, in an encrypted file. This file can be protected by any combination of a master password, a key file, and the current Windows account details. KeePass supports a number of plugins. It has a password generator and synchronization function, supports two-factor authentication, and has a Secure Desktop mode. It can use a two-channel auto-type obfuscation feature to offer additional protection against keyloggers. KeePass can import from over 30 other most commonly used password managers.
License: Apache License, TrueCrypt License
VeraCrypt is an utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or (in Windows) the entire storage device with pre-boot authentication.
License: GNU General Public License
PWGen is a professional password generator capable of generating large amounts of cryptographically-secure passwords - "classical" passwords, pronounceable passwords, pattern-based passwords, and passphrases consisting of words from word lists. It uses a "random pool" technique based on strong cryptography to generate random data from indeterministic user inputs (keystrokes, mouse handling) and volatile system parameters. PWGen provides lots of options to customize passwords to the users’ various needs. Additionally, it offers strong text encryption and the creation of random data files (which can be used as key files for encryption utilities, for example).
License: Mozilla Public License
Enigmail is a seamlessly integrated security add-on. It allows you to use OpenPGP to encrypt and digitally sign your emails and to decrypt and verify messages you receive.
License: GNU General Public License
BleachBit is a disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer. Features: identifying and removing Web cache, HTTP cookies, URL history, temporary files log files and flash cookies for browsers; removing unused localizations; shredding files and wiping unallocated disk space to minimize data remanence; wiping unallocated disk space to improve data compression ratio for disk image backups.
License: (EULA); Proprietary
O&O ShutUp10++ means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 and Windows 11 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 and Windows 11 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
CCleaner is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. CCleaner can delete potentially unwanted files left by certain programs, along with browsing history, cookies, recycle bin, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data, autocomplete form history, and various other data. The program includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references to application paths. CCleaner can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
Defraggler can defragment individual files, groups of files (in a folder) or an entire disk partition, either by the user's command or automatically on a schedule. It supports FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT. Defragmentation of RAID disks is also supported, although no details are supplied.
License: Proprietary; Freeware
It uninstalls programs and additionally removes any files and Windows registry entries left behind by the program's uninstaller or by the Windows uninstall function. Revo Uninstaller first runs the selected program's built-in uninstaller, then searches and removes associated files and registry entries that the uninstaller may not have removed from the user's drive. Revo Uninstaller also cleans out: files in the temporary folder, entries in the Windows start-up applications folder, browser history and cache, the recently opened file list in Microsoft Office applications. Revo Uninstaller can also irrecoverably delete files.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
Speccy a utility software, which shows the user information about hardware and software of the computer. The information displayed by Speccy includes processor brand and model, hard drive size and speed, amount of memory (RAM), information about graphics card and operating system. Speccy is for seeing what kind of hardware is present in a system and how it is being used.
License: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Licens
A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel/AMD RAID and NVMe.
License: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Licens
CrystalDiskMark is a simple disk benchmark software.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
Novabench is a computer benchmarking utility. The program tests (CPU, GPU, SSD, HDD, RAM, USB) the performance of computer components and assigns proprietary scores, with higher scores indicating better performance.
License: GNU General Public License
Memtest86+ is memory test software programs designed to test and stress test an x86 architecture computer's random access memory (RAM) for errors, by writing test patterns to most memory addresses, reading back the data, and comparing for errors. It tries to verify that the RAM will accept and correctly retain arbitrary patterns of data written to it, that there are no errors where different bits of memory interact, and that there are no conflicts between memory addresses.
License: Proprietary; Freeware
IsMyLcdOK is a small program but effective solution to easily check for dead/paralysed/stuck pixels on LCD monitors. Many manufacturer's provide the highest industry standard dead pixel policy. IsMyLcdOK does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop, and can be carried on a small usb-stick or other memory device. The program IsMyLcdOK does not read any data from the computers on which it is installed, it does not collect or use them or process them in any other form that you don't want.
License: Proprietary; Freeware
HDDScan is a software for hard drive diagnostics (RAID arrays servers, Flash USB and SSD drives are also supported). The program can test storage device for errors (Bad-blocks and bad sectors), show S.M.A.R.T. attributes and change some HDD parameters such as AAM, APM, etc.
License: Mixed
.NET Framework is a software framework. It includes a large class library named as Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages. Programs written for .NET Framework execute in a software environment named the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR is an application virtual machine that provides services such as security, memory management, and exception handling. As such, computer code written using .NET Framework is called "managed code". FCL and CLR together constitute the .NET Framework.
License: Oracle Technology Network License Agreement for Oracle Java SE
Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers write once, run anywhere, meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture.
License: Proprietary; Freemium
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE). It is used to develop computer programs, as well as websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code.
🄯 Rami Rosenfeld, 2022. GNU FDL 1.3.