Let's you download videos/songs from just about any popular websiteīased on the super reliable and very well maintained commandline-tool youtube-dlīest leightweight notepad alternative for quickly editing single filesġ:1 MS Office copy, most popular office in ChinaĪutomatically deselects adware that comes with installers Officially, Picasa has been discontinued, but you can still use it Has a built-in editor for colour adjustments face recognition easy to use (fool-proof)Ĭomes with a great built-in picture viewer (see above) Install this, if you do not want to install Picasa for looking at picsĭefinitely the best photo manager out there Sweet 'lightbox' picture viewer that comes with Picasa, without having to install Picasa. Simple video player with many settings and featuresĪlternatively, just set your favourite browser as GIF viewer (yes, that works!) Light Alloy (great alternative to VLC player)

Most popular media player out there, it's great When the configuration window shows up in Chinese, click the language bar in the top-right and change to English Makes it look smoother, nicer to look at. This will improve how text is displayed in most applications. For some well configured applications, you can also use Default Programs in the settings.ĭims your screen at night, to reduce eye-strain and help you sleep betterįirst you gonna be like 'WTF', but you quickly get used to it and will love me for it Instead, you have rightclick a file of each desired type and select 'open with' to make the app default.

Note: since Windows 8, apps cannot make themselves default for certain filetypes anymore. My list for older versions of Windows would have the exact same tools, but also a few more to cover features that are now built-in in Windows 8 and above. = Brinkie Pie's List of Must-Have Tools (Windows) =

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