Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Top 10 Free Windows Utilities" video.
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Great list Chris... most of which I already use, and that's why it's great. xD /jk
Adding some others:
7zip - don't get the free trial forever Winzip, get 7zip.
mplayer - if for some reason VLC is too heavy for you, or you get some weird codec problems in some ancient movie files, try this one.
Media Player Classic (MPC-HC) - same as above
Notepad++ - popular alternative to notepad more towards coding
Keepass - password manager with local storage
video production stuff - shotcut, audacity, OBS, GIMP, Camstudio...
This one may sound a bit weird and you do have to take extremely good care for getting it from a reputable source, but afaik, it's kinda unique in what it does:
h2testw1.4 - it's a small software designed to make a hard test on the size of USB pendrives and SD cards. Something that became necessary because the market is flooded with fake pendrives and SD cards that are actually small sized, hacked to display on Windows as large sized ones... like an 2Gb pendrive that shows up as a 128 or 256Gb one. The only way to really know is doing what this piece of software does - copying a bunch of filler files there until it reaches capacity.
The hacked ones will reach it's true capacity and start deleting files... I've gotten fake stuff from Amazon and other websites, so people really have to be careful. It's the first thing I run on a newly purchased pendrive or sd card, and Amazon staff accepts this as proof that it's a fake product (at least on the only fake one I've got so far, they did).
Oh, I also recommend checking all the other stuff made by the company that does Recuva - Piriform. It's all good.
These are the ones I can remember right now...
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