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Awesome Terminals is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
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System Utilities
System utilities covers small programs that tune, clean, or extend the computer you already use. The topic includes package managers, keyboard and clipboard helpers, window and taskbar tweaks, driver catalogues, and diagnostic tools. Before you install one, compare it with what your operating system already offers, check the platform and version it supports, and look at how often the project ships fixes. Several entries are open source projects kept by a small team, so an active issue tracker and a recent release tell you more than a long feature list. Some tools also need administrator rights or a background service, which is worth knowing in advance.
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Awesome Tuis is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
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A repository about Windows 11 settings, tweaks and scripts, aiming to show that Windows can be configured without third-party programs by learning a few simple tweaks. Its scripts are written in the standard PS1 language. It also links to apps, an FAQ and ISO images.
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BatUtil is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
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Baulk is a minimalist, portable package manager for Windows written in C++20. It decompresses msi, exe and archive packages into each package's own directory, provides environment isolation and virtual environments for switching distributions, and offers zip, tar and Unscrew Extractor decompression tools. A compatibility mode supports limited use of scoop manifests.
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bin is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
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BleachBit is a system cleaner tool compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems. It is hosted as an open-source repository on GitHub under the bleachbit/bleachbit project, with repository pages including guidance for running the software from source code and localization resources.
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Bulk Crap Uninstaller is a utility tool designed to remove large quantities of unwanted applications quickly. It is hosted as an open-source repository on GitHub under the BCUninstaller/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller project, with repository pages noting a call for new project maintainers, plus download and system requirement information.
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Busybox-w32 is a WIN32 native port of BusyBox, providing Unix-style utilities and a shell on Windows. The project states that things may work, may not, or may never work because of differences between Linux and Windows. Precompiled binaries are offered for i686, x86_64 and aarch64. Building requires a MinGW toolchain and a POSIX environment.
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Cerebro is an open-source launcher tool intended to improve user productivity and efficiency. It is hosted as an open-source repository on GitHub under the cerebroapp/cerebro project, with repository pages covering usage guidance, plugin functionality, core plugin details, and plugin installation instructions.
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Choco is the open-source Chocolatey client, described as a package manager for Windows akin to yum or apt-get. It requires .NET Framework 4.8+, PowerShell 2.0+, and Windows Server 2008 R2+ or Windows 10+. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0, and users can run choco.exe --help for command information.
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ChoEazyCopy is a simple and powerful graphical user interface for the RoboCopy file copying tool. It is hosted as an open-source repository on GitHub under the Cinchoo/ChoEazyCopy project, and requires .NET Framework 4, 4.5.2, or 4.8 to run, with repository pages including setup and help resources.
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Clink is an open source software project hosted on GitHub, created by developer chrisant996. It brings Bash's powerful command line editing capabilities to the Windows cmd.exe command interpreter, allowing users to access enhanced line editing features in the default Windows command line environment.
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CloverBootloader is a bootloader for macOS, Windows and Linux in UEFI and legacy mode. It can boot macOS, Windows, and Linux in UEFI or legacy mode on Mac or PC with UEFI or BIOS firmware, and offers a customizable GUI with themes, icons, fonts, and background images. It is open source under a BSD-2-Clause license.
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Command Line Tools is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
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CopyQ is an open source clipboard manager with advanced features, hosted as a GitHub repository maintained by developer hluk. It provides enhanced clipboard management functionality for users across supported platforms.
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CPU Fetch is an open source tool hosted on GitHub, developed by Dr-Noob. It is designed to fetch and display CPU architecture information in a simple, visually formatted manner for users.
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Crosspaste Desktop is an open source cross-device clipboard synchronization tool hosted on GitHub by the CrossPaste team. It supports macOS, Windows and Linux, operates exclusively over local area networks with end-to-end encryption and no cloud dependency, and includes built-in optical character recognition, command line interface and MCP server functionality.
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Customizable Skin, also known as Fluent-Metro, is an open source Start menu skin for the Open-Shell project, hosted on GitHub by developer bonzibudd. It is designed to be modern and highly customizable to align with user preferences.
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DWM (dwm-win32) is an open source project hosted on GitHub, developed by prabirshrestha. It is a port of the dwm tiling window manager to the Windows operating system, providing tiling window management functionality for Windows users.
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Ear Trumpet is an open-source volume control utility built for Windows operating systems. The project is hosted on GitHub under the File-New-Project organization, and accepts contributions from developers who create a GitHub account.
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A GitHub Gist guide for uninstalling Microsoft Edge. It instructs users to run Windows Update on the latest supported Windows versions, then open PowerShell as administrator and run a script to completely uninstall Edge. The guide notes the Microsoft Edge Update service might remain because it is required for updating WebView2.
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Error Lookup is a portable open source tool that translates Windows error codes into more meaningful text descriptions. Users type a code into a box and the details appear in another. It supports regular Windows API errors, Native API errors, DirectX, Windows Internet errors and STOP codes, and modules can be configured in settings. It is compatible with Windows 7 and higher.
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EtchDroid is an open-source Android application for writing disk images to USB drives without root access. It handles modern GNU/Linux images and Raspberry Pi SD card images, but not official Windows ISOs, Apple DMG images, USB hard drives or SSDs. Google Play and GitHub builds collect minimal telemetry that can be disabled; F-Droid builds do not include telemetry.