Looking for some windows programs that are helpful that people don't really mention? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] brainw0rms@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Beyond Compare 4 - various types of file comparison and merging operations.

WinDirStat - makes it easy to identify and clean up files taking up your drive space.

Everything - I resisted using this for a long time and wish I hadn't.

Joplin - note taking app with markdown editor.

QTranslate - discontinued freeware, most recent version that I'm aware of is 6.10.0. very useful translation app that supports Google, DeepL, Yandex and others.

RapidCRC (Unicode) - file hash creation and verification

also shout out to Windows Firewall, not really a new thing but many people don't bother learning how to use it properly.

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

In my experience SpaceSniffer was slightly faster than WinDirStat.

Also if you just want to quickly check the hash of a file you can use the 7Zip right click menu, but it won't verify a file, to my knowledge.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is also Wiztree which is WAY faster than both SpaceSniffer and WinDirStat.

It can scan a 8 TB HDD in a few seconds and not hours (exaggeration) like WinDirStat

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