

You could also configure it to throttle the internet for some applications. Helpful to keep an eye if some application is consuming massive bandwidth (ahem ahem Windows update). NetBalancer shows network traffic in taskbar toolbar. Bing Wallpaper (from Microsoft) is a lightweight app that sets a new high-res beautiful image each day as your desktop wallpaper (same as shown on their Bing search page). Static desktop background can get boring after some time. Supports 2-way live sync.Ĭustomization Bing Wallpaper - Dynamic wallpapers RBTray is a small program that runs in the background and allows windows to be minimized to the system tray by right-clicking its minimize button.Īdvanced Renamer is a batch renamer program that can dynamically rename multiple files and folders at once.įreeFileSync is a free and cross-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) to synchronize files and folders.

See my favorite scripts and how to use them: Source-code: AutoHotkey - Automation scriptsĪutoHotkey is an open-source scripting software for Windows that is used to automate repetitive tasks, remap keys, build small utility tools, etc.

Supports images, text transformation on the fly, search, pin items, auto-clear entries, etc. Trigger a hotkey to invoke popup window and paste any of your past clipboard items. Productivity Ditto - Clipboard managerĭitto is a lightweight and feature-rich clipboard manager for Windows. Someday, I’ll probably write a similar list of tools I use on Mac. PS: I switched to Mac (M1 MBP) at starting of 2022. All tools are free to use (or freemium with a generous free version), and many of them are even open-source (source code links are provided where applicable).

In this article, I categorized these tools under their use cases. I’ve been a Windows (power-) user for a decade, and throughout the journey, I found tools and apps which made me work more efficiently on Windows.
