The browser pdf viewers are very basic and primitive for my taste and needs.
Vivaldi is made by past Opera developers, it's basically Chrome but with a lot of tweaks, improvements and other conveniences. Try it yourself)

 

You can install Chrome extensions in Vivaldi too

 

So, these are my go-to utilities:

xyplorer - just the best windows explorer alternative imo.

These are free as far as I know:
Listary - quick launch apps and a browser on steroids ( via pop up menu - so much you can do with this)
Arsclip - clipboard app
Faststone - image browser and editor
Everything - the fastest search app I have used.

 

Close All Windows (or CloseAll)
https://www.ntwind.com/software/closeall.html
quickly close multiple (up to all open) applications with just two clicks.
Wise HotKey
https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-hotkey.html
launch any application, document or URL by a single keyboard shortcut.
Always on Top
https://www.labnol.org/files/always-on-top.zip
Keep Any Window Visible Always.
Z-AX-ZIP Finder
http://www.ax-systems.com/axzipf.html
shows archives as the folders containing inside folders and files within structure of which is shown as the form of a tree & search for files in archives.

 

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To count the number of folders on your drive
1. open Powershell
2. type: cd\
3. type: (Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory | Measure-Object).Count
4. press ENTER
you get this



You can make a batch file to run it with a single command:

cd\
PowerShell.exe -Command "(Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Directory | Measure-Object).Count"
pause

 

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Netlimiter is not free but super powerful at controlling all networking connections. https://www.netlimiter.com/

 

Useful tool for hacking midi files.. you can directly work with notes duration, velocity, and other cc events at assembly level ..
HxD - Freeware Hex Editor and Disk Editor


https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

 

The link does not work, please provide a working link.

Is this the official website? https://rufus.ie/en/

 

No description?
Here it is:
r8brain is a free audio sample rate converter application. It was designed to allow both amateur and professional users to perform high-quality sample rate conversion of uncompressed PCM WAV files.

 

I dont think it beats Total Commander as most advanced file managemet

 

Bulk Crap Uninstaller
https://www.bcuninstaller.com/
BCUninstaller can detect, manage and uninstall applications from the following sources:

• Normal registered applications (same as Programs and Features and many other uninstallers)
• Hidden/protected registered applications
• Applications with damaged or missing uninstallers
• Portable applications (looks in common locations and on portible drives, configurable)
• Chocolatey packages
• Oculus games/apps
• Steam games/apps
• Windows Features
• Windows Store apps (Universal Windows Platform apps)
• Windows Updates Applications from all of these sources are treated the same - you can filter, export and automatically uninstall them in the same way.
• 

 

I believe it's right here, updated September '22:
https://www.sordum.org/8125/firewall-app-blocker-fab-v1-9/

 

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And then there's also Uninstalr by Macecraft Software, a Free Uninstaller which should be great.
https://uninstalr.com/

 

Thank you. I see that it's also from sordum. There are a bunch of interesting things there.

 

There are TONS of useful open source - free is not enough nowdays, in our opinion - softwares out there !

We've decided to collect many audio and video (not for Windows only) "gems" in our HyMPS project: feel free to check, share and contribute !

 

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OneClickFirewall is a small app which will give you the ability to block any app from accessing the Internet. It integrates with the Explorer context menu. All you need to do is right click the application you want to block and select "Block Internet Access".
Author: Winaero.
https://winaero.com/download-oneclickfirewall/

 

I tried it, but unfortunately, it mistakenly identified two of my functioning programs as "leftovers" and deleted them completely. I had to reinstall them. Additionally, the software provides very little information, making it difficult to decide whether or not to keep what it treats as 'leftovers'. Finally, it lacks any warning prompts before deleting programs, which is concerning.

 

Here's one I've used off and on for many years. Free, and no ads (except maybe in your radio streams).

streamWriter - the internet-radio recorder


streamWriter is a free application for windows that records music broadcasted by internet-radiostations.
Current version: 5.5.1.1
To download streamWriter click here.
Features

• Record as many streams as you want at the same time (MP3/AAC)
• Automatically record a wishlist's song when it's playing on a stream
• Player for streams and recorded files
• Track splitting with silence detection
• Function for manual cutting of saved titles
• Tracks are named by a given pattern
• Short songs (ads) can be skipped
• Writing of tags to recorded files
• Script-based postprocessing
• Applying of effects to recorded songs (SoX)
• Integration of different audio encoders
• Scheduled recordings
• Stream browser
• Multilingual ()
• Can be installed or used in portable mode
• ...and much more!

https://streamwriter.org/en/

 

Really? Sorry to hear that.
Maybe you should contact them here
https://jv16powertools.com/discuss/public/
They seem to be pretty active at forums...
And good luck!