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*[http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip] - LGPL, handles every compression format you are likely to encounter, and a bunch you aren't unless you're a time traveler from a BBS circa 1991.
 
*[http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip] - LGPL, handles every compression format you are likely to encounter, and a bunch you aren't unless you're a time traveler from a BBS circa 1991.
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*[http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm/ WinRAR] - WinRAR is also a Archiving software just like 7-Zip, does the same thing.
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*[http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm/ WinRAR] - WinRAR is also a Archiving software just like 7-Zip, does the same thing.  Proprietary commercial software that doesn't respect your freedom, and doesn't handle the same number of compression formats.  Basically, use if you're an idiot.
  
 
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Revision as of 18:25, 31 January 2014

Video Players

  • MPC-HC - open-source; with the madVR renderer for GPU rendering and more features (Download here)
  • mpv - open-source, supports H.265 playback. A fork of mplayer(2). (Download here)
  • VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. (Download here)
  • PotPlayer - Freeware piece of shit written by koreans that violates the GPL, Use MPC-HC or mpv instead you hipster faggot.

Audio Players

  • foobar2000 - freeware; lightweight and customizable
  • MusicBee - freeware; customizable and powerful
  • MediaMonkey - freemium; powerful media player with a great database
  • AIMP - Freeware, considered successor to WinAmp

PDF Readers

Image Viewer

Image Editor

  • GIMP - A popular Photoshop alternative - as good as it tries to be; known to be buggy
  • Paint.NET - Started as a MS Paint alternative, now integrates plenty of features such as layers and effects

Video Encoder

H.264&Others

  • HandBrake - Very basic
  • MeGUI - Supports Hi10P encoding
  • StaxRip - Supports fairly advanced audio encoding, batch processing

H.265

  • x265 - Pre-alpha x265 builds

Audio Editor

Office Suite

  • OpenOffice - If you're an idiot, and want to use a dying and deprecated program [1] for some for some bizarre reason. Oddly, things didn't work out for Oracle, so they gave the license to the Apache Foundation who released it under their own license.
  • LibreOffice - After Oracle acquired OpenOffice, it asked community members to GTFO [2]. Since everyone despises Oracle, the developers all jumped ship as well [3] and stared LibreOffice.

Text Editor

Hex Editor

Archiving

  • 7-Zip - LGPL, handles every compression format you are likely to encounter, and a bunch you aren't unless you're a time traveler from a BBS circa 1991.
  • WinRAR - WinRAR is also a Archiving software just like 7-Zip, does the same thing. Proprietary commercial software that doesn't respect your freedom, and doesn't handle the same number of compression formats. Basically, use if you're an idiot.

Encryption

Disk Burning

Virtual CD/DVD Drive

Anti-Virus/Malware

Firewall

Defragmenter

Don't use these on your SSD, you moran.
  • Defraggler
  • MyDefrag - Freeware, based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft. Also optimizes file locations.

Cleaner

File Recovery

Computer Specs

Virtual Machine

Virtual Desktop Manager

  • VirtuaWin - Allows you to use multiple virtual desktops

Terminals

  • Cygwin - Terminal that gives you the feel of GNU/Linux on windows.

Misc & utils

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