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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by rkagerer »

abdusco wrote: post #2

I'd add Directory Opus[0] to that list. It's an incredibly customizable and scriptable file explorer that allows you to fit it exactly to your workflow. It's like IntelliJ of file explorers. - Tabbed interface with multiple panes - Every function can be assigned a shortcut - Every button can be scripted - Defaults can be overwritten - Dynamic layouts based on folder contents, path or determined by a script - Custom f…

I tried Directory Opus today. Is there any way I can make the menu bar about half the height?

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by abdusco »

rkagerer wrote: post #221
abdusco wrote: post #2

I'd add Directory Opus[0] to that list. It's an incredibly customizable and scriptable file explorer that allows you to fit it exactly to your workflow. It's like IntelliJ of file explorers. - Tabbed interface with multiple panes - Every function can be assigned a shortcut - Every button can be scripted - Defaults can be overwritten - Dynamic layouts based on folder contents, path or determined by a script - Custom f…

I tried Directory Opus today. Is there any way I can make the menu bar about half the height?

Some components are Win32 primitives, and it may not be possible to modify them. You could try asking it in the forum[0]? Lead developer is quite responsive.

https://resource.dopus.com/

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by Jamie9912 »

Jasonnor wrote: post #141
Jamie9912 wrote: post #4

I would add ClipX ( https://bluemars.org/clipx/ ) to that list, its extremely handy to bring up a small window of my past clipboards with a hotkey. It's also extremely lightweight

I think clipboard history (Win + V) in Win10 is completely enough to replace ClipX.

I don't like the whole Cloud sync thign

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by 867-5309 »

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #209
867-5309 wrote: post #187

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getting rid of the adware, spyware and bloatware which come with Windows

I see. Are you familiar with O&O ShutUp10:Free antispy tool for Windows 10? It can do what you want, and O&O is a respectable company.

I hadn't come across it before, will check it out, even though it's not open source

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by cmbailey »

mrweasel wrote: post #87
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #76

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I think that Microsoft just don't care.

That’s sort of my take as well. I can’t think of a single Windows program that would wish was available to me on the Mac or Linux. You never hear a company advertising that their product is only feasable thanks to the features provided in the .Net framework, or that their application takes advantage of the foundation provided by Windows. I not saying that Windows is bad, it’s a truck, meant for business, and games. I…

X1 Search is the single Windows program I wish so badly was available on the Mac. So much that I switched from Mac back to Windows twice in the past because the functionality was so important.

I search for a word or phrase through 1000s of documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and email archive files going back two decades. On my desktop or in a cloud service. X1 displays matches in real time, fast-as-you-type, with all the results easy to grok in one glance in list form, sorted by any field. And on the same screen, X1 renders a preview of the file/email as I click through the list. No need to open the file/email: I can read the whole document right there on the search screen. I can also copy & paste from that document. And all search terms are highlighted.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by eknkc »

wayneftw wrote: post #210
0xfeba wrote: post #168

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I'm a big XFCE fan but multimonitor support is still iffy, especially if one is a HDPI one and another not, as the scaling applies to all monitors.

Yeah - my solution was to not do that because I don't like having multiple monitors with mismatched resolutions anyway and I don't care for HiDPI for work. Every monitor I own is 1080p, even my laptop screen. My Macbook Pro is the only HiDPI computer screen here. I'm not even sure what the point of HiDPI is though. It never made a difference for my work as a web developer. I understand it's more pixels per inch and l…

I don't know about gaming but for daily desktop applications and coding I would never ever use a low dpi display again.

On a 1080p I can easily see individual pixels from a mile away and everything looks simply bad. I can not stand text on a low dpi screen.

Also, when I use 1.5x scaling, I have 1.5x more real estate. Hence my requirement for the fractional scaling. Even on 2x scaling (effectively turning it into a 1080p display) everything looks much better than a native 1080p display.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by binaryman1 »

joshschreuder wrote: post #180
frankietaylr wrote: post #92

Everything[0] search is a great file search utility on Windows. This is one sure productivity booster. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/

I recommend WizFile [0] as an alternative (same developer of WizTree, which is a far better WinDirStat alternative). [0] https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/

I recommend Directory Report as an alternative http://www.file-utilities.com

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by fomine3 »

joshschreuder wrote: post #219
shadowfox wrote: post #184

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Are there features in WizFile that make it better than Everything?

I could be wrong, but I believe it searches the MFT directly rather than having to index files on disk, making it a lot faster. Everything would be faster for network drives because of this though.

Everything works on the same way.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by wayneftw »

jodrellblank wrote: post #216
wayneftw wrote: post #124

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I actually switched to XFCE a couple years ago because I think it's a much better desktop environment than Windows with regards to activities that I do for work like running lots of Docker images. XFCE has features that you need 7+ Taskbar Tweaker for on Windows, like being able to middle-click a taskbar button to close it's window. Any feature XFCE didn't have such as "move a window to another monitor with a hotkey"…

> " FCE has features that you need 7+ Taskbar Tweaker for on Windows, like being able to middle-click a taskbar button to close it's window " Middle click on a taskbar window preview popup closes the window on Windows without having any taskbar tweakers installed.

Yeah, it's just annoying to me because you have to wait for the pop-up.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by rkagerer »

abdusco wrote: post #222
rkagerer wrote: post #221

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I tried Directory Opus today. Is there any way I can make the menu bar about half the height?

Some components are Win32 primitives, and it may not be possible to modify them. You could try asking it in the forum[0]? Lead developer is quite responsive. https://resource.dopus.com/

Thanks. It is actually possible to reduce the height of standard Windows menu bars via system metrics. These look somewhat non-standard and don't respect that.
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