UniGetUI (Windows package manager)

UniGetUI (formerly WingetUI)

The Graphical Interface for your package managers:
Download, install, update and uninstall any software that's published on the supported package managers

https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/

TPM "Trusted Platform Module" update to Windows 11

 You're looking at the inside of a desktop computer I built in 2018. It was high-end at the time, and in fact, it still works beautifully in 2025. But with Windows 10 nearing end of support, it fails Microsoft's compatibility test for Windows 11, saying its hardware doesn't meet the requirements. 🤔 Seriously?

Not enough memory? Hah! Tons of that. Out of date processor? Nope. Why then?  

Here's where the scandal comes in. This gets geeky, but stick with me. The detailed test results say it lacks something called a "Trusted Platform Module" - or TPM - which is a requirement for Windows 11's security system. I wasn't so sure that was truly the case, and a few well-honed Google searches revealed that my motherboard does indeed include a TPM - disabled by default. This, it turns out, is very common with systems from just a few years ago. In the computer world, "disabled" equals "not present", so the system fails the check! In my case, I had to get into the system setup (BIOS), find the setting for the TPM, and change it to "enabled".  Restart, and now it's fully compatible!

This is the reason for the vast majority of fails for Win11 readiness. Is Microsoft telling anyone about this? Not that I've seen, and many people are buying new computers for a completely bogus reason. If your 3-6 year old computer failed the Windows 11 test, find yourself a capable geek, or if you're good with such things, Google your computer model and "TPM" and you may find instructions for doing what I did. I had two computers that initially failed, and now they both pass with no issues. No money spent.  Just a few minutes time.

ExplorerPatcher: customization options for the Windows taskbar, Start and File Explorer

 ExplorerPatcher is an open source program for Windows 10 and 11 that adds a huge number of customization options to the desktop environment. From restoring the classic Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11 devices to adding or removing features that Microsoft does not want users to have access to.

The application is tiny and can be run right after download. Note that the screen may turn a solid color for a moment before the changes that it makes take effect. There may also be a Windows SmartScreen warning about the app.

Warning: Explorer Patcher seems to be glitchy with recent versions of Windows 11. The system boots to a black screen, making it unusable. We are no longer recommending this tool, as it prevents Explorer from running.

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer)

 Q-Dir is a great alternative file manager for Windows with a amazing Quadro-View technique.

You don't have to give up your usual work habits, drag 'n' drop, view types, and other standard functions of your current file manager.

No! Q-Dir gives you extra useful functions to make you happy. Save time by reducing mouse-clicks and hand movements .

http://www.q-dir.com/

Optimize windows for audio

The Ultimate Guide To Optimizing Your Windows Computer For Live Music Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5I-1aQQQNw&t=7s

https://gigperformer.com/docs/ultimate-guide-to-optimize-windows-for-stage/index.html

https://gigperformer.com/docs/ultimate-guide-to-optimize-windows-for-stage/The%20Ultimate%20Guide%20to%20Optimize%20your%20Windows%20PC%20for%20the%20Stage.pdf

Disable file grouping in Downloads

Completely disable file grouping, always, everywhere, in all windows, dialogs, everything!

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/completely-disable-file-grouping-always-everywhere/ac31a227-f585-4b0a-ab2e-a557828eaec5

https://superuser.com/questions/1566886/downloads-folder-keeps-getting-grouped

Stop windows explorer from grouping

 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/completely-disable-file-grouping-always-everywhere/ac31a227-f585-4b0a-ab2e-a557828eaec5

Use WinSetView to turn off file grouping globally.

https://lesferch.github.io/WinSetView/

Win 10 utils

 https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-my-five-favorite-free-utilities/

• Files
• Windows Sysinternals
• Belarc Advisor
• MiniTool Partition Wizard
• PowerToys

Recover Windows key from disk

Use Nirsoft’s ProduKey:

Run the program as Admin (it will show your own key by default)

Press F9 to bring up the Select Source dialog

Select Load the product keys from external Software Registry hive

Browse to the SOFTWARE registry hive. For example, if you have the drive from the other system mounted as drive Z:, then you would probably select Z:\Windows\System32\Config\SOFTWARE

Click [OK]

Save info as TXT file

LiceCap

Capture animated GIF from desktop

 www.cockos.com/licecap/

BSOD - PNP error

The main culprit for this annoying error for some is the Intel Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Manager Driver, or the Intel DPTF Manager Driver.

Intel DPTF Manager

Do you have another computer you can connect the drive to and use autoruns to hopefully identify and disable the drivers causing the crash? You'd use the "File -> Analyze offline system..." menu item.

In the Options you'll want to hide Microsoft and Windows entries as disabling those can easily make the system unbootable. 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns

How to show keystrokes on Windows 10

 Carnac

The app is open source and doesn’t need to be installed. When you run it, to goes straight to the system tray. By default it will show keystrokes as well as mouse clicks, highlighting which mouse button was clicked. The first thing you want to do after running the app is customize it. Double-click the app’s icon in the system tray to open its settings.

On the General Tab, you can select where the keystroke shows on your screen. Use the top, bottom, left, and right offset sliders to position the visual. Carnac supports multiple monitors so you can choose which monitor the keystroke should be displayed on. Be careful with this setting because if you offset it too much from all sides, it might cut the visual off.

Once you’ve positioned the app’s visual, go to the Keyboard tab. Here you can customize whether the app will show all keystrokes or just those that include modifier keys. You can also customize the visual, its font size, opacity, and the color.

The Mouse tab is where you can customize how mouse clicks are shown on your screen. If you don’t want the mouse clicks to show, uncheck the ‘Show mouse clicks’ option. This option is a bit buggy though so if it doesn’t apply, set the value of the Stop Opacity slider to 1, exit the app, and run it again. That should do the trick.

https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases/tag/v3-beta

LibreOffice Writer - Outline Folding Mode

 Outline folding mode

Added a new Writer outline folding mode (as experimental feature). You should enable experimental features in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ Advanced dialog to see "Show outline content visibility button" checkbox in Tools ▸ Options ▸ LibreOffice Writer ▸ View dialog. After checking it you'll can see a button with arrow near any selected heading in your document. Click on it to fold all text from the current heading to next heading. Right click on it to fold all text from current heading to next the same level heading with all its subheadings

Optimize & Combine PDF

 https://combinepdf.com/

WhatsApp yourself

 

•  escribe en la barra ‘https://wa.me/XXXXXXXXXXX’, donde todas esas ‘X’ son los 9 dígitos de tu número de teléfono, incluido el código de país -recuerda que en España es 34-.
• Después solo debes pulsar donde pone ‘Ir’ para que se active la función ‘Clic para chatear’ de WhatsApp.

 WhatsApp permite fijar hasta tres conversaciones en la parte superior del listado,

En Android, mantén el dedo presionando sobre el chat que quieras fijar y cuando se seleccione toca el icono del ‘pin’ o chincheta que aparece en la parte superior de la pantalla. Para desfijarlo solo tienes que presionar de nuevo y, esta vez, tocar el icono del ‘pin’ que aparece tachado.

PDF unlock

 https://smallpdf.com/unlock-pdf

Blender Screencast

Screencast keys is now an external addon (it was formerly distributed with blender, but has since been removed). 

 

https://www.blendernation.com/2019/01/13/screencast-keys-add-on-now-supports-blender-2-8/

https://blender-addons.org/screencast-keys-addon/

https://developer.blender.org/T74679#:~:text=In%20the%203D%20View%2C%20hit,corner%20of%20the%203D%20View

Logitech webcam log file

 LWSDebugOut.txt is a logitech file that captures errors. In my case 1.8GB of errors. This is because a new error record is appended every 5 seconds that the webcam is not connected.

The file is ok to delete. Better yet, Windows 10 can control the camera, so might as well uninstall the program.

- deleted, made read only, and stopped its insatiable growth desires at 8K.- 

My Notes Chrome extension

 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3584908/chrome-note-taking-tool.html

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/my-notes/lkeeogfaiembcblonahillacpaabmiop

Win 10 Reliability Monitor

 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3575353/troubleshooting-windows-10-with-reliability-monitor.html

Linux on Win10

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-helped-me-install-ubuntu-linux-on-my-windows-10-pc-and-its-actually-pretty-good/

 

add Icon to "open in new window" in right click menu

add Icon to "open in new window" in right click menu

Open Registry Editor (Win/Run/regedit).
Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\opennewwindow

In the right pane, create a String value (REG_SZ) named Icon
Double-click Icon and type the path to an icon (.ico) file, or mention the icon library file name and the icon index.

example:
C:\Windows\Sustem32\Shell32.dll,4

All the Shell32.dll icons:
https://www.sysmiks.com/windows10/icon-number-of-icon-list-shell32-dll-imageres-dll/

collaborative audio online

Jacktrip

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/jacktrip/windows/index.html

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/software/jacktrip/

Why So SLOW ?

https://www.resplendence.com/whysoslow

Latency Monitor (for live audio)

https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Win 7:
https://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml

Gmail delete BIG files

Search:
size:5mb has:attachment

Windows 10 change language

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-properly-change-system-default-language-windows-10

https://www.howtogeek.com/232659/how-to-change-the-display-language-in-windows-10/

Windows Update Blocker

https://www.sordum.org/

disable Volume PopUp bar

Open the Google Chrome browser and type the following text in the address bar:

chrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling




also...
To disable it in Chrome, (and most Chrome variants), disable Media Session Service in about:flags ...



or...
http://wordpress.venturi.de/?p=1#more-1

Image viewers

ImageGlass
https://imageglass.org

nomacs
https://nomacs.org

FastStone
https://www.faststone.org/index.htm

XnView
https://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/

Irfanview
https://www.irfanview.com



How to set default photo viewer:
https://www.guidingtech.com/best-alternatives-windows-10-photos-app/

Settings/Apps/DefaultApps/PhotoViewer

Win10 Start menu

https://www.howtogeek.com/197836/8-ways-to-customize-the-windows-10-start-menu/

customize windows 10 tools

https://www.guidingtech.com/52049/customize-windows-10-tools/

Win 10 init settings

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/windows-10-settings-to-change

Webrecorder

Since 1999, Rhizome has developed software in-house to support its artistic program. Today, we build free, open-source, and broadly applicable software for born-digital art and culture, with a digital preservation focus.

Webrecorder
Our premier open-source platform and hosted service (webrecorder.io) to revolutionize web archiving; easily create and share high-fidelity, fully interactive copies of almost any website.

Webrecorder Player
A user-friendly desktop app to browse any web archive (created by Webrecorder or any other tools) on a Windows, OSX or Linux machine, without need for an internet connection.

oldweb.today
Surf the web the old-fashioned way with this tool to explore web archives through emulated legacy browsers.

pywb
A full-featured free and open-source, high-fidelity web archive replay and recording system (a more advanced version of the Wayback Machine) that serves as the core of Rhizome’s web archiving toolset.


http://rhizome.org/software/

Enhanced explorer & Toolbars

Folder Guide lets you access frequently used folders quickly in 2 clicks in Windows
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/folder-guide-download
http://www.freeware365.com/desktop/folderguide.htm


Folder View is a free (freeware) add-on for Windows that drastically enhances the way you browse the folders on your system.

Files are often scattered around many different folders on the harddisk and locations on the network. Every time you want to copy, move, open or save a file, this situation leads you to a quest through levels of folders.

With Folder View, these quests are over. Folder View enhances the Windows file Explorer by making all folders you need available in a single click. It integrates with other applications, speeding up opening and saving of files and also lets you copy and move files very quickly. Click the screenshot on the right to get an overview of the features.
https://folderview.com/





17 Windows Explorer Extensions & Replacements
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/470-windows-explorer-extensions-replacements.html

17 Windows Explorer Extensions & Replacements

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/470-windows-explorer-extensions-replacements.html#s9

Focusrite Guide on Optimising your PC for Audio on Windows 10

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207355205-Optimising-your-PC-for-Audio-on-Windows-10

Video download (& MP3)

Any Video Converter Free Edition
https://www.any-video-converter.com/download-avc-free.php



Record any audio

Mp3 MY MP3 Sound Recorder
https://mp3mymp3.com/mp3_my_mp3_recorder.html#schedule

Grid paper

• Writing and Bullet Journalling
• Plain Grids
• Patterns
• Recording and Charting
• Classic Writing
• Specialty
• Graph Paper Quick Picks

https://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/

Hex Grids

Hexagonal Graph Paper PDF Generator

https://www.incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/

Optimising your PC for Audio on Windows 10 (Focusrite)

https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207355205-Optimising-your-PC-for-Audio-on-Windows-10

outliners & doc writers

Ghostwriter
A distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows and Linux
Stylish. Open source. Free.

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/


Atomic Scribbler
free software to plan your novel, prepare and maintain research material, then write that novel scene by scene in a modern Windows application that has a similar look and feel to Microsoft Word.
Outliner. Note & research manager.

https://www.atomicscribbler.com/


Writemonkey
Writemonkey is a Windows zenware* writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. It is light, fast and free. With an array of innovative tools under the hood and full Markdown* support, it helps you write better.

https://writemonkey.com/index.php


Plume
A Scrivener alternative.
This software gives you an outliner, a distraction-free mode, a note manager and much more.

http://plume-creator.eu/

MicMute

Mute MIC on startup.

MicMute is a small program that will enable you to easily manage the level of a connected microphone. The application also supports push-to-talk thanks to the built-in 'Transmitter Mode'. While it runs minimized in the system tray, MicMute? can be controlled trough keyboard shortcuts you choose. The software uses tray notification balloons and it also has a sound signal option you can activate.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/micmute/

Bulk Crap Uninstaller

https://www.fosshub.com/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller.html

Bulk Crap Uninstaller (also known as BCUninstaller), is a free, open source program uninstaller for Windows® OS. It is a powerful program capable of detecting and removing orphaned applications, clean leftovers, filter the program type (such as those that belong to Microsoft) and more. It was designed as a tool for the tech users, but it can be easy enough to be understood and used by anyone. Bulk Crap Uninstaller will run on almost all Microsoft® Windows® OS.

Disk LED

TrayStatus shows you the status of keyboard keys like Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, Alt, Ctrl, and more, right in your system tray.

https://www.traystatus.com/Compare/





DiskLED is a small tool that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon.

https://helgeklein.com/blog/2009/11/how-to-easily-monitor-system-performance-with-the-new-diskled-1-1/

Uninstall KB4056892 on Windows 10 – Intel Meltdown, Spectre Bug Patch

Uninstall KB4056892 on Windows 10 – Intel Meltdown, Spectre Bug Patch

1. Click Start and type “cmd”
2. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator
3. Type “wusa /uninstall /kb:4056892” and press enter
4. Answer Yes to uninstall & restart when prompted

https://jcutrer.com/howto/windows/uninstall-kb4056892-windows-10-intel-cpu-slowdown-patch

cherrytree

Outliner / notes


A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

Written by Giuseppe Penone (aka giuspen).

https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

Outliner for LibreOffice

Organon is a plugin for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
Organon allows to split up large texts into parts, allows tagging and opening parts of the project in new tabs.

• Parts are shown in a treeview. Entries can be moved by drag and drop.
• Every entry can be tagged.
• Tags are freely configurable, can be renamed, created and deleted. Organon's Organizer is a fast way of showing and editing all tags at once.
• Tabs can be opened based on these tags. They also might freely be chosen from the folders and files of the project and they might be sorted by date and/or time.

Organon offers extensive import and export options.


https://organon4office.wordpress.com/

PureData on RasPi

PureData on RasPi

installing RasPi
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-2-first-time-configuration/using-the-whole-sd-card

Pd extended
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pure-Pi-Control-custom-stompbox-effects-on-a-Raspb/

""
http://log.liminastudio.com/writing/tutorials/how-to-build-pd-extended-on-the-raspberry-pi

Pd vanilla
https://guitarextended.wordpress.com/2012/08/10/running-pd-on-a-raspberry-pi/


Alt build:
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Guitar-effect-using-Raspberri-Pi/


RasPi finder (running headless)
https://learn.adafruit.com/the-adafruit-raspberry-pi-finder/overview

Pd Effects
https://github.com/doitnowlabs/rpieffectbox

Delete duplicate files

SearchMyFiles

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_my_files.html

Duplicate Search Mode

Starting from version 1.35, SearchMyFiles also allows you to search duplicate files on your system. In order to use this feature, simply change the search mode in the 'Search Options' window to 'Duplicates Search'. 
When you switch to 'Duplicates Search' mode, all other search options are still relevant, and SearchMyFiles will scan your files according to these settings. For example: if you choose to search for files larger than 500KB, SearchMyFiles will only search for duplicate files that their size is larger than 500KB. In fact, it's highly recommended to narrow your duplicate search by using date/size restrictions, because if you don't do it, the duplicate search will be very slow, and it'll consume a large amount of memory.

When you are in 'Duplicates Search' mode, SearchMyFiles will first scan all files and folders according to your settings, and only after the scan is finished, it'll locate the duplicate files and add them to the files list on the main window. SearchMyFiles automatically mark the duplicate files with identical colors (up to 64 different colors). There is also a 'Duplicate Number' column, which displays identical number for each chunk of duplicate files. You can click the 'Duplicate Number' column header in order to sort by this column and to easily view the chunks of duplicate files.

Be aware that the duplicate search is done by making a binary comparison of the files with the same size, byte by byte.

Delete MAC crap garbage files

Win+R -> cmd


del /s /q /f /a .DS_STORE

del /s /q /f /a ._.*

(change drive, repeat)
https://awesometoast.com/delete-all-instances-of-ds_store-in-windows/

FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is a free data backup software that helps you synchronize files and synchronize folders. It is designed to save your time setting up and running data backups while having nice visual feedback along the way. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

DETECTS MOVES!

Detect Moved Files
FreeFileSync is able to detect moved files on one side and can quickly apply the same move on the target side during synchronization instead of a slow copy and delete. To make this work, FreeFileSync requires database files (sync.ffs_db) to compare the current file system state against the time of the last synchronization.

The Two way variant already creates database files, therefore, detection of moved files is always active.

The Mirror variant however, does not need the database files to find synchronization directions, so detection of moved files is not available by default. If you don't mind the creation of the database files, you can enable this feature by selecting the Detect moved files checkbox.

https://www.freefilesync.org/

DLC Boot

DLC Boot 2017 is a bundle of diagnostic tools which used for different types of works like disk cloning and imaging creation. Sometimes we do not know where the error occurs in our computers and install windows again and again for better performance. In the solution of this problem, developers create this fantastic program it fixes the various PC errors just in minutes. It;s create on the Hiren’s BootCD base, but in this version, they add some advanced features.

http://dlcboot.com

Reaper Step MIDI editor

This plug-in looks like a step sequencer, but is a MIDI item editor.
It allows you to edit notes on different tracks within one measure bounds
inside a beat grid, by toggling grid cells. You can move from one measure to another.

Reaper extension free/paid(12$)

http://nizzei8q.bget.ru/sower/index.php

Pd GEM px objects

https://puredata.info/downloads/gem/documentation/manual/manual/list-of-gem-objects

Pd data from arduino

http://colinzyskowski.com/?page_id=503

http://modular-muse.com/tutorial/tutorial-bi-directional-communication-between-pd-and-arduino-part-1-of-3

Context Menu Editors

Add, Remove, Edit Context Menu items in Windows 10/8/7 with Context Menu Editors

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/remove-click-context-menu-items-editors

Ultimate Windows Customizer, Right-Click Extender for Windows and Context Menu Editor for Windows are freeware releases from the Windows Club, and you may want to check them out.

2) ContextEdit will allow you easily control the items that appear on your context menu of Windows Explorer.

 You can also try ShellExtView or  ShellMenuView. They are small utilities that display the list of static menu items that appear in the context menu when you right-click a file/folder in Windows Explorer, and allow you to easily disable or edit unwanted menu items.

4) File Menu Tools (link removed) lets you add, delete & customize the context menu items of the Windows Explorer – but it NOW comes bundled with a lot of crapware, according to the comments below.

5] If you are you looking for a fast and easy way to clean up your Window Explorer and Internet Explorer right-click context menu, try MenuMaid.

6] Easy Context Menu freeware will let you add a Program or Icon to the right-click menu.

7] Read this post if you want to remove items from the “New” Context Menu.

Arduino to PureData multiple sensors serial

http://modular-muse.com/tutorial/tutorial-bi-directional-communication-between-pd-and-arduino-part-1-of-3

Small Word Processors

Jarte
http://www.jarte.com/

Verbum
http://lifehacker.com/5773269/verbum-is-a-simple-theme-friendly-word-processor-for-windows

FocusWriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

NiftyAuthor
http://nifty-author.findmysoft.com/

Bulk Crap Uninstaller

Bulk Crap Uninstaller (or BCUninstaller) is a free (as in speech) program uninstaller. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal user input. It can clean up leftovers, detect orphaned applications, run uninstallers according to premade lists, and much more! Even though BCU was made with IT pros in mind, by default it is so straight-forward that anyone can use it.

BCU is fully compatible with Windows Store Apps, Steam, Windows Features and has special support for many uninstalling systems (NSIS, InnoSetup, Msiexec, and many other).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bulk-crap-uninstaller/

Open Hardware Monitor

The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
The Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main window, in a customizable desktop gadget, or in the system tray. The free Open Hardware Monitor software runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 and any x86 based Linux operating systems without installation.

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

Win 10 anniversary update problems

Win 10 anniversary update problems
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/16-windows-10-anniversary-update-issues-fix/

Block unwanted updates
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/block-unwanted-windows-updates-in-windows-10

Win10 search not working

1. 1. Right-click the Start button.
   2. Click Control Panel.
   3. Click Category near the top right corner of the window.
2. Click Troubleshooting.
   Click System and Security.
3. Right-click Search and Indexing.
   Click Run as Administrator.
4. Click Next. Troubleshooter will detect problems.
   Click the checkbox next to any problems you're encountering. In this case we click Files don't appear in search results.
5. Click Next. Troubleshooter will detect any problems.
6. 
   

Magnifier software

https://www.maketecheasier.com/windows-magnifier-alternatives/

Win 10: "magnifier" - Win+esc to quit