What are your Microsoft Windows hidden gem apps

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I want to share TypingMasterPro cuz it is the program that helped me learn to type 2x over (QWERTY than DVORAK)

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  • Autohotkey
  • Powertoys
  • winget, choco and that other one
  • Faststone
  • advanced Renamer
  • croc
  • shareX
  • one photo viewer (sadly only on window store)
  • everything

I wouldn't consider them hidden gems for the tech savvy community, but for the general community pretty much is.

winget, choco and that other one

Scoop? If so, highly recommend to fellow developers!

Yes, scoop. I still can't remember why I don't like it. I might give it a try when I reinstall windows.

What's oneshot? Besides being difficult to search for.

I ment one photo viewer. I only like it because it's a very minimalistic photo viewer and also the windows photo kept crashing at some point so I needed a replacement.

Ninite may fit here, to

I was thinking of adding it to my list but I'm trying not to download any software on a browser if I can try because I might click on one of those fake look-a-like site that give you malware like what happened to gimp with google ads a while back.

Another reason for why I didn't added it to my list is that it doesn't have apps that I perfer like ungoogled chromium, brave, Librewolf, MPV, neovim, rustdesk, croc, rust, Gog, vscodium, prism launcher, signal, simplex, tor browser, yt-dlp, and Obsidian.

Package mangers are way better for updating than using ninite so I won't have to deel with an app just sending me to download the newest verson.

I do like using ninite for when a friend or family asking for some help with a file so I send them a ninite with Libreoffice, VLC, and 7-Zip (but now win 11 has native support for winrar and 7z so it isn't need for most users)

And yes I know that ninite is very defferent from a package manager, all i'm try to say is that I would rather sepnd a little more time setting up choco then use ninite.