Calibre is a powerful and easy‑to‑use e‑book manager that goes beyond normal e‑book software. It’s completely free and open source, making it a must‑have for both casual readers and power users.

⏱️ Save time on managing your e‑book collection

🌍 Use it everywhere and with anything

📖 Comprehensive e‑book viewer

📰 Download news and magazines from the web

📤 Share and back up your library easily

✏️ Edit the books in your collection

🛠️ Satisfy every e‑book need with community support

Perfect for: Readers and professionals who want a versatile, free, and open‑source solution for managing their digital libraries.

GnuCash is a free, open‑source financial accounting software designed for personal and small‑business use. It combines ease of use with professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.

📊 Track bank accounts, income, and expenses

💹 Manage stocks, investments, and portfolios

🧾 Double‑entry accounting for accuracy

💻 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Solaris)

🔒 Licensed under GNU GPL, community‑driven

Perfect for: Individuals and small businesses who want reliable, professional‑grade accounting software without the cost.

ChatRTX is a demo app by NVIDIA that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content — docs, notes, images, or other data. Leveraging retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT‑LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers.

📂 Connect your own documents, notes, and images

⚡ Powered by TensorRT‑LLM and RTX acceleration

🔍 Retrieval‑augmented generation for precise answers

💻 Runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or workstation

🔒 Fast, secure, and private — no cloud dependency

Perfect for: Users who want to build a personalized chatbot with their own data, running locally for speed and privacy.

Lazesoft Recovery Suite Home Edition provides a series of easy‑to‑use utilities to recover data, repair Windows systems, and reset forgotten passwords. It’s designed to help users quickly restore functionality even after serious issues.

💾 Recover deleted files and formatted partitions

🖥️ Repair Windows systems after crashes

🔑 Reset forgotten Windows login passwords

⚡ Easy three‑step recovery process

📀 Create bootable CD/USB for emergency use

Perfect for: Windows users who need a reliable, free toolkit for data recovery, system repair, or password resets.

Screenbox is a modern video player built on LibVLC for the Universal Windows Platform. It’s designed to be fast, lightweight, and user‑friendly, while supporting a wide range of devices.

⚡ Optimized for performance and smooth playback

🎨 Beautiful, friendly user interface

💻 Runs on Windows 10 (1903+), Windows 11, and Xbox consoles

🛠️ Built with LibVLC for broad format support

🌐 Free and open‑source project available via Microsoft Store

Perfect for: Users who want a sleek, efficient, and versatile media player across Windows and Xbox.

Jami is a free/libre, end‑to‑end encrypted, and private communication software. It offers peer‑to‑peer connectivity without central servers, ensuring privacy and freedom for its users.

⚡ Fast latency with direct peer‑to‑peer connections

🌐 Works even without internet on local networks

🛡️ End‑to‑end encrypted communications

🙅 No personal information required to create an account

📞 Unlimited: no restrictions on file size, bandwidth, or features

🚫 Ad‑free: there will never be advertising on Jami

Perfect for: Users who want secure, private, and unrestricted communication across multiple platforms.

Quiet is a free, open‑source messaging app that eliminates the need for central servers. Messages sync directly between devices over Tor, giving you full control of your data and communications.

💬 Peer‑to‑peer messaging without servers

🛡️ Built‑in privacy with onion routing

🌐 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)

⚡ Lightweight and community‑driven project

🚫 No reliance on Big Tech infrastructure

Perfect for: Users who want secure, private group or organizational messaging without depending on third‑party servers.

Streamlabs is a powerful, all‑in‑one platform for live streamers. It provides simple tools to broadcast to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and more, while helping creators engage with their audience and grow their channels.

📡 Go live easily on popular platforms

💬 Engage with viewers through interactive tools

🎨 Customize overlays, alerts, and stream design

⚡ Lightweight, fast, and feature‑rich performance

🌐 Free to use with optional premium features

Perfect for: Streamers who want an easy, customizable, and professional way to broadcast and grow their audience.

Krita is a free, open‑source professional painting program made by artists for artists. It offers a full set of creative tools for illustration, concept art, texture and matte painting, and comics.

🖌️ Powerful brush engines with extensive customization

🎨 Advanced layer management and blending modes

📚 Built‑in resource manager for brushes and textures

⚡ Optimized for performance with large canvases

🌐 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)

🤝 Community‑driven project with active development

Perfect for: Artists, illustrators, and designers who want a professional‑grade, open‑source alternative to commercial painting software.

Obsidian is a powerful note‑taking and knowledge management app that adapts to the way you think. It uses Markdown files stored locally, giving you full control over your data while offering extensive customization through plugins and themes.

📂 Local‑first: your notes are plain Markdown files

🔒 Privacy‑friendly, no forced cloud dependency

🧩 Hundreds of plugins and themes for customization

⚡ Fast, flexible, and extensible knowledge base

🌐 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS)

🤝 Free for personal use, with optional paid sync and publishing features

Perfect for: Writers, researchers, and thinkers who want a private, customizable, and extensible knowledge management system.

The Settings app includes Storage Sense, a feature that automatically runs when the storage is low in space. Alongside the ability to delete temporary files, you can also enable the feature to delete files in the recycle bin or Downloads folder that haven’t changed in the last 30 days. However, it is limited and doesn’t offer an option to monitor additional folders to delete files that haven’t changed in the previous 60 days.

When you store temporary files from the internet or projects in different folders, it’s possible to use the ForFiles command in Command Prompt and Task Scheduler to delete files from any folder older than a specific number of days.

In this guide, you will learn the steps to manually delete files that haven’t been modified in a specific number of days and the instructions to create an automated task that will delete files older than a certain number of days inside any folder on Windows 10.

HandBrake is a free, open‑source tool built by volunteers for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

📼 Convert videos from almost any format

🎞️ Output to MP4, MKV, WebM, and more

⚡ Presets for fast, easy conversion or fine‑tuned custom settings

🎚️ Advanced options: filters, cropping, scaling, and bitrate control

🌐 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)

🤝 Community‑driven project with active development

Perfect for: Users who want a reliable, flexible, and open‑source solution for video conversion and compression.

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

🛡️ Permanently erase files, folders, and free disk space

⚡ Multiple overwrite algorithms for maximum security

💻 Integrates with Windows Explorer for easy use

🔒 Prevents recovery of deleted files with forensic tools

🌐 Free and open‑source software

Perfect for: Windows users who need to securely delete sensitive data and ensure it cannot be recovered.

AES Crypt is a free, open‑source file encryption software that uses the industry‑standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to protect sensitive files. Designed for simplicity, it makes strong encryption accessible to everyone.

🛡️ 256‑bit AES encryption for maximum security

⚡ Easy‑to‑use interface, no cryptography expertise required

💻 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)

📂 Encrypt individual files quickly and reliably

🌐 Perfect for securing files stored locally or in the cloud

🤝 Widely trusted with millions of downloads

Perfect for: Users who want a straightforward, reliable way to protect sensitive files without complexity.

An instruction video on how to install OpenJDK on Windows including how to set the environment variables, path and testing to ensure OpenJDK is installed.

ShareX is a free, open‑source productivity tool for Windows that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it instantly. It comes packed with annotation, automation, and workflow features for power users.

🖼️ Capture full screen, window, region, or scrolling content

🎥 Record screen as video or GIF

🖊️ Built‑in annotation, highlighting, and editing tools

⚡ Automate tasks with customizable workflows

🌐 Upload to over 80 destinations (cloud, social, FTP, etc.)

🤝 Open‑source, community‑driven, and free forever

Perfect for: Developers, designers, and productivity enthusiasts who need a versatile screen capture and sharing tool.

ImageUSB is a free utility that lets you write an image concurrently to multiple USB flash drives. It creates exact bit‑level copies, making it highly effective for mass duplication of bootable or standard USB drives.

📂 Create exact bit‑level clones of USB drives

⚡ Write ISO files directly to USB drives

🖥️ Perform flawless mass duplications, including bootable drives

🗑️ Zero out entire drives or just MBR/GPT entries

🔧 Reformat hard‑to‑format drives and reclaim lost disk space

🌐 Lightweight, reliable, and free to use

Perfect for: IT professionals, system admins, and anyone needing to duplicate or securely wipe multiple USB drives at once.

HashTools is a free utility by Binary Fortress Software that computes and checks hashes with just one click. It supports multiple algorithms and integrates directly into the Windows Explorer context menu for quick access.

🧮 Supports CRC32, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, and SFV

⚡ One‑click hash calculation and verification

📂 Integration into Windows Explorer context menu

🔍 Quickly compare file hashes for integrity checks

🌐 Lightweight, reliable, and free to use

Perfect for: Users who need a fast, simple way to verify file integrity and detect tampering.

MoneyManager Ex is a free, open‑source, cross‑platform software that helps you organize your finances and keep track of where, when, and to whom the money goes. It provides a clear overview of your financial worth and supports multiple accounts.

📊 Track income, expenses, and account balances

⚡ Manage multiple accounts with ease (bank, cash, credit, investments)

📝 Budgeting tools with categories and recurring transactions

🌐 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)

📂 Import/export data in common formats (CSV, QIF, etc.)

🤝 Community‑driven with active development and support

Perfect for: Individuals and families who want a simple, privacy‑friendly alternative to proprietary finance management tools.

Thunderbird is a free, open‑source email, calendar, and contacts app that maximizes your freedom. It brings all your messages, schedules, and contacts together in one fast, customizable application.

📨 Manage multiple email accounts in a unified or separate inbox

📅 Built‑in calendar and task management features

⚡ Fast, secure, and privacy‑friendly with regular updates

🎨 Highly customizable with themes and extensions

🌐 Cross‑platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)

🤝 Community‑driven with active development and support

Perfect for: Users who want a powerful, privacy‑respecting alternative to proprietary email clients.