Programs

this section contains my curated list of software I use and love,

if you'd like to see more, I can't recommend enough to dive in FMHY's various tools lists,

Honorable mentions:

I've used these in the past, or have been recommended by others

• DeepL: accurate translator
  • Available as a website and app, if using the latter you can press ctrl+c twice to directly open the app and send the clipboard to be translated
• Benchmarking PresentMon via CapFrameX or directly graphed with Frame Time Analysis
  • PowerShell script I made back when I used it:

    $T = Get-Date
    
    $CSV = "C:\PresentMon\PM-$Process $($T.Date -replace ' 00:00:00','' -replace '/','_') @ $($T.Hour).$($T.Minute).csv"
    
    @('javaw','r5apex','VALORANT')
    ForEach-Object {
        if (Get-Process -Name $_ -Ea Ignore){
            $script:ID = (Get-Process $_).ID
            break
        }
    }
    
    sudo PresentMon.exe -process_id $ID -output_file $CSV -hotkey 'ALT+SHIFT+X' -timed 15
    

• Nirsoft and Sysinternals NT software toolkits
  • Open With View: discard programs you never open apps with that bloat up your field (also see ContextMenuManager)
  • RegistryChangesView: create registry snapshots to compare what programs store on your computer when e.g. installing them also see ProcMon
  • ShellExView lets you disable custom shell extensions (e.g TeraCopy, QTTabBar, Visual Studio..)
• linkshellextension: easily make filesystem links (you can also powershell New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path ./original -Target ./link)
• Zellij: a new cool alternative to tmux
• Playit.gg / Minekube: programs that let you do port forwarding/tunneling without touching your router's open ports, useful for self-hosting minecraft servers