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Software recommendation

Must have software

  • no warranty for the following links, please always check if the links are still valid!
  • I highly recommend to use https://www.heise.de/download/ for downloading software.
Program Application Link
Everything Very fast search engine for NTFS partitions https://www.voidtools.com/
Greenshot Screenshot software with a good editor https://getgreenshot.org/
XnView Easy way to cut images https://www.xnview.com/de/xnview/
IrfanView Best picture/image viewer https://www.irfanview.com/
Inkscape Image Editor (I like version 1.0.2) https://inkscape.org/release/1.0.2/platforms/
Notepad++ Best text editor https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
Firefox Browser https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/new/
Thunderbird Email client https://www.thunderbird.net/de/
Cryptomator Free encrypter for cloud storage https://cryptomator.org/de/
Google Drive Cloud storage https://www.google.com/intl/de/drive/download/
VeraCrypt For encrypting sensitive data https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
Zotero collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research https://www.zotero.org/
ImgBurn create .iso file https://www.imgburn.com
7zip file archiver https://7-zip.org/
WinMerge WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows https://winmerge.org
Total Commander File manager https://www.ghisler.com/
USB Flash Drives Control provides quick access to control the way in which USB flash drives are used on your computer https://www.binisoft.org/
ShellExView displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension. https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
7gif play, pause, frame by frame playback of .gif animations https://www.xtreme-lab.net/7gif/en/index.html

Firefox plugins

Plugin Application Link
ublock origin AdBlock https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
HTTPS everywere Enabling HTTPS encryption automatically on sites that are known to support it https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/
Leech Block Simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/
Simple Translate Quickly translate selected or typed text on web pages https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-translate/
Zotero collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research https://www.zotero.org/download/

Thunderbird plugins

Plugin Application Link
Quicktext create templates that can be easily inserted into your own emails https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/quicktext/?src=search
BorderColors D Shows a colorful border around the "New Message" window, so you can tell different identities apart https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/bordercolors-d
Identity Chooser Identity Chooser helps you to always use the correct identity when composing a new email https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/identity-chooser
Manually sort folders allows you to manually sort (order) your folders https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/manually-sort-folders
Minimize on Close minimize thunderbird instead of closing the app https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/minimize-on-close
Send later send email on a specific date/time https://addons.thunderbird.net/de/thunderbird/addon/send-later-3

PC troubleshooting

Program Application Link
MemTest tests the RAM in your computer for faults https://www.memtest86.com/
GPU-Z provide vital information about your video card and graphics processor https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Github related stuff

How to insert table in github

  1. Open Excel and create your table
  2. Copy the Excel table to Notepad++
  3. Replace all tabs with |

Use Github with a Raspberry Pi

How to create a bootable USB-device with the Windows tools

  1. start diskpart.exe via command line, you may want to exit GoogleDrive first!
  2. list disk
  3. select disk <N>
  4. lis par --> sanity check if the space of the USB-stick is valid
  5. sel par <N> --> select partition, default should be 1
  6. clean --> will delete all content of your selected disc - BE CAREFUL !
  7. create partition primary
  8. format fs=FAT32 LABEL=”Win10-EDU” QUICK OVERRIDE
  9. active
  10. exit
  11. extract the content of the .iso file with e.g. with 7zip

Windows 11 classic context menu

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in-windows-11/a62e797c-eaf3-411b-aeec-e460e6e5a82a

  1. cmd as admin
  2. reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve
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