Top 10 Free Windows Utilities

Free Windows utilities for media playback, drive management, file recovery -- and other things! Links to all of the utilities on my list are as follows (and no peeking until you have watched the video!):







All of the above links are provided in good faith as legitimate download sources, but you should always exercise caution when downloading and installing free applications.

You may also find useful some of my other videos as follows:

Top 10 Free Windows Applications:

Top 10 Free Video Editors:

Drive Cloning & Imaging (demos Macrium):

VeraCrypt Encrypted USB Drive:

#FreeUtilities #FreeWindowsSoftware #ExplainingComputers

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[walts]

👍 A lot of terrific advice in a short video. Showing install links, choices and setup screen details is a nice touch. All that detail with your compact phrasing makes for a nice pace and overall length. Quite rare in YouTube land! Thx.

[julianadams]

I'm very pleased to find that I have already downloaded and am using several of the utilities you cite as your favorites. And certainly I will be downloading several more which I'm quite sure I can put to good use. It is so wonderful to be able to sit at my desk and, in a sense, with minimal effort "pick your brain" from across the pond. Love your videos! I continue to learn much. Another viewer sums it up well: "All the British class and elegance of this teacher and without paying anything."

[brainstewX]

There is one substitution I would make: Win32 Disk Imager for Etcher. Win32 Disk Imager can write images to flash drives like Etcher can, but it can also rip the flash drive into an image file, which Etcher cannot.

One of my favorite Windows utilities is mp3gain. It is a lossless way to change the volume of mp3s. It is most useful when some songs in the collection are whisper quiet, and others are earth shatteringly loud. Having them all at a consistent volume, and me not being forced to ride the volume control between songs, makes for a more enjoyable listening experience.

[bejarano]

Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander) is the most useful utility I've ever used on my Windows computers. It is a replacement for the native Windows Explorer file manager, but much more versatile and powerful. I believe it is considered to be shareware, so there is a free, fully functional version with a delay upon startup, or you can make a donation and receive a key which will bypass the startup delay. This utility has been #1 on my must-have list since I began using it over twenty years ago. The author continues to make improvements and add features. I keep Total Commander open on my desktop at all times, and often I will keep two of them open, giving me four panels in which I can manage my files and drives.

[TheSpeculatingApe]

I started using VLC Media Player for an odd reason. About five years ago I was checking the total power draw of a new computer I'd built. At idle the computer drew about 50W. VLC added about 5W, but Windows Media Player added 15W. I knew that some tasks, like gaming or graphics rendering, used a lot of power, but I was surprised to find so much difference between two media players.

btw, Irfan View finally gave me something I'd been looking for: Windows Preview-like functionality for RAW images. Very helpful for a quick sort and cut on a new batch of photos. Thanks for the tip!

[BoyAditya]

not a complete Sunday without watching rerun cartoons from my childhood and watching your new video. I hope you always be healthy, Mr. Christopher.

[Diptendu_Kr]

I don't know how can I thank you enough, but the recuva software saved my uncle's only wedding video thumb-drive. I'm a long time viewer and YT recommend this video to me and I tried the recuva and worked like a magic. Love and well wishes from India.

[thiaramus]

Just wanted to add... Such a great channel! Watching it make me feel like a kid again. Nerdy one 🤓. It make me feel cozy and happy. Like I am re-discovering wonders of computers all over again. Thank you for that!

[ElmerFuddGun]

It should be illegal to have those *fake download buttons* on the intended download page! - 3:51

They must get more from those "advertisers" for putting in the delay before it starts downloading. That's why I would *NEVER donate* to support a product that plays those games to take advantage of the uneducated computer user.

[mrteatime]

In my opinion, Spacesniffer is a great option to see where your data is located on your selected drive. It also shows you visually how big these files are, so you can easily identify the biggest files for example.

[piers]

I started watching this video over two hours a go. I paused it once you mentioned VeraCrypt as I wanted to find out what happened to TrueCrypt. That led on a Wikip(a)edia marathon where I found the tales of contract killings, drug smuggling, illegal arms sales, court cases and all sorts of other information. I really didn't expect to find that when looking up information about software! Anyway, good video as always, Christopher.

[DavidxBoyd]

You’re such a pleasant and helpful person - I’m glad I found this informative channel.

[stegoboard]

Installed IrfanView right after watching this video. It's nice to have a traditional image viewer again for Windows 10. Excellent video Chris. Presentation as is excellent.

[patthesoundguy]

Great list! There were a few I use nearly every day but a few I had not heard of yet that I will be adding to my must have lost. Thanks again for another great video

[Kaxlon]

A really awesome file manager is called Total Commander.
It's so much more, you can edit the menus, add shortcuts to calculate space before copying, you can FTP directly into your domain, you can add buttons, etc.
After a while you will have everything in one place. No need to stress out searching for files in Explorer.
And if you get the maxed out version then search for Total Commander Ultima Prime. It has several of the apps from this video built-in right into the Commander.
Edit: It's also available for smartphones.

[Swanicorn]

If someone is new to VLC player then they should know that it is more than just a video player unlike the default Windows media player. I used it to just watch videos for months till I found out about so many other things that it can do. It can capture every single frame in a video and save it as images. It can clips videos, has playback speed control, it can also convert videos from one format to another(I haven't tried it). It can also play IPTV. It also has a lot of audio and video filters to work with. It can also repeatedly play a certain portion of the media file. One of the most handiest features is that it can boost the volume of a rather low-volume video which you can't hear anywhere else.

[frigbychilwether]

Where can we download the Mr Scissors album ? I hear the musical work of Stanley the Knife is cutting edge !

[PaidinFull]

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[augurseer]

Yay. Sunday morning and Chris is here.