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Bodhi Linux
A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution
Bodhi is a minimalistic, enlightened, Linux desktop. Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable. Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users. The Ubuntu LTS assures stability for years and the Bodhi Team is very open to all suggestions and requests from users and willing to help. -
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Archcraft
Yet another minimal Linux distribution, based on Arch Linux.
Archcraft is an arch-based rolling-release distribution aimed at users who cares more about minimalism and aesthetics of their desktop. It comes pre-configured with various lightweight applications which makes it super fast. It can run under 500Mb of memory. There's no desktop environment in (main) Archcraft, just two highly configured window managers - Openbox and Bspwm. The default username & password is 'liveuser' for live ISO. The installer can be found in the app launcher and in openbox menu under the Application > System category, namely 'Install Archcraft'. Archcraft uses two Installers, Calamares and ABIF -
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Xming X Server for Windows
X Window System Server for Windows
Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation). -
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Mabox Linux
Lightweight ready to use OpenBox Desktop Rolling-release Manjaro based
Mabox is a Manjaro based, desktop Linux distribution. The project ships with Openbox as the default desktop with pinch of customistations and home-brewed tools, like improved menu, side-panels and Mabox Control Center. Works great even on weaker computers. -
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QTTabBar is extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser, along with a host of other great features. Under new management! Now in public beta!
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Window Maker Live
Window Maker Live Linux Distribution
Window Maker Live is an installable Linux Live ISO based on the current Bookworm branch of Debian. The system uses the Window Maker window manager as the default graphical user interface. Window Maker Live's components have been carefully preconfigured and the desktop environment has a consistent visual appearance. Window Maker Live integrates selected components from other desktop environments such as XFCE4, MATE, LXQT, with a particular focus on GNUstep. The main idea behind this project is to integrate the Window Maker window manager as default user interface on top of a standard Debian/Bookworm base system. It also serves as an alternate installation medium for Debian/Bookworm. The second main idea not directly visible on the surface level is the inclusion of many useful command line utilities and tools for system administration. This effectively turns wmlive into a UNIX administrator's workbench for rescue and repair operations. -
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Rename-It!
Windows software to safely rename of thousands of files via regex.
Define some filters to apply to a list of files, which can be in multiple folders, to rename the whole list at once. It checks the file names, integrates in the Shell (via Explorer context menu), supports regular expressions, ID3 tags, and much more. Moved to GitHub https://github.com/wernight/renameit/ -
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WinExplorer is a utility that shows all system's windows in hierarchical display. For every window in the hierarchy, you can view its properties, like handle, class name, caption, size, position and more. You can also modify some properties, like Caption and Visible/Enabled. This utility is released as freeware with full source code. You can freely use, distribute, and modify the source code of this utility without restrictions. However, if you release to the public a modified version of this utility, you should specify the original copyright notice.
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Menu Maker is 100% Python heuristics-driven menu generator for a number of X Window Managers and desktop environments. It features large knowledge base of known programs, powerful and flexible search algorithms, persistence of menus across several WMs
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SystemTrayMenu
SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily
SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email. -
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LuninuxOS
LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.
A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware. -
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Rofi
A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
Rofi started as a clone of the simple switcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on a super switcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in menu replacement, making it a very versatile tool. Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script. It's not an application that can support every possible use case. It tries to be generic enough to be usable by everybody. Rofi has several built-in modes implementing common use cases and can be extended by scripts (either called from Rofi or calling Rofi) or plugins. -
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Wmping is a simple usefull program that allows to check host status in your network environment. It can be used for monitoring servers in the network.
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Clicky Gone
Hide windows from praying eyes or for the comfort of a clean desktop.
Hide windows from praying eyes or for the comfort of a clean desktop. Has a boss key feature that hides the active window and mutes the sound. You can also manage the priority of your applications through your applications system menu. -
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SLAX based LiveCD showcasing Sun Microsystem's open source project "Project Looking Glass 3D" (LG3D). Presented in 2004 LG3D combines a stunning 3D UI with the benefits of Java (easily expandable and reusable code, platform independency, etc.).
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FlickOS
Lightweight, Elegant and Sustainable Operating System
FlickOS is designed to be lightweight, fast and sustainable, with focus on efficient use of system resources. The project is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and LXLE, which provides a stable and well-supported foundation. Unnecessary packages and services are stripped away, leaving only the essential components needed to minimize resource usage. FlickOS have complete suite of applications like LibreOffice, Firefox, VLC and many essential software for daily use. Save the environment, recycle your old PCs and Flick it. Support If you are having trouble installing or have some suggestions, you can email me at dvbondoy@gmail.com. You may also join our Reddit community at r/flickos, I am always there to answer your questions. Create issues at https://github.com/dvbondoy/FlickOS/issues Download the ISO file, write it to flash-drive using Etcher and boot your computer to the USB. -
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This program will let you use two screens on two different computers as if they were connected to the same computer. It even works between different operating systems. If you have two or more computers on your desk and you are tired of having several
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Babya System is a free shell replacement that is Windows XP compatible and easy to use. It has many useful features-like Babya Discoverer, which has automatic popup ad blocking, and easy access to Windows Control Panel applets.
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wmpower is a Window Maker dock application for Linux allowing the user to see (and set) the power management status of his laptop. Written in C, works with both APM and ACPI enabled kernels. It also interfaces directly to Toshiba hardware.
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PowerChanger is a tiny GUI wrapper for the Windows powercfg utility that lets you easily switch between power schemes in Windows. The GUI lists all saved power schemes in Windows and allows you to choose between all saved Windows power schemes.
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PC Tools by Davis PC Mechanics
system diagnostics tool
PC Tools by Davis PC Mechanics is a tool used to perform some basic administrative tasks to help make thigs quicker by being all in one spot. Rather than a console application, i made an interface so you can quickly point and click. there is also a command line so you can type if you want to. some commands in the program require an elevated permission, before you open the program, use the "run as administrator" feature for full capibility -
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User Unlock Tool
User unlock and Password Reset tool
A tool to unlock users and reset passwords in a Windows domain. Works best with windows 7 Works with XP but the option to force user to reset password at next logon will not work Small .exe file -
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UDPStressTest
A Desktop app for network stress testing, TCP-Ping and icmp ping.
Easy to use GUI app. *It reads your active and Up NIC and gets some info about it. * You can see your machine IP Address, gateway, subnet mask. * You can ping any ip address you want and get measure of TTL. * It gets the available range of IP's in your local network. * When you start the test you see testing throughput as a graph against time also total size of packet sent in (MB). *You can use it as DOS attack tool. *Every action done on the app is logged in XML file as data source (only stress test + ping). *TCP-Ping is a perfect way to discover network devices which active firewall to ignore ping packets or you can use it as TCP port scanner to check your network security. *Stress test speed graph can be exported as image easily. *Searching log files for certain data is also integrated to app. *Exporting search results as static HTML page. -
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Keybreeze Desktop
Perform any task with a few keystrokes
Keybreeze Desktop lets you perform a variety of tasks from a hotkey-activated, command-line toolbar. Press a hotkey on your keyboard. Then type a few letters and press Enter to open programs and websites, search websites such as Google or Wikipedia, paste custom text into text fields, create sticky notes and set reminders, automate actions with macros, perform multiline calculations, keep windows on top of other windows, and more. -
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Windows enhancement. Intelligent resize windows via keyboard. New ways to organize windows on your desktop (in addition to cascade, tile horizontally/vertically). No GUI, accessed through press-hold-release mechanism (something like ALT+TAB)