WildBit Viewer is a compact & fast image viewer with a slide show and editor. PicPick is an all-in-one screen capture tool that includes an intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard, and more. It won't replace all of those but does come close. Inscape aims to be an open-source editor to replace Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Gimp can be used for many different photo management purposes, but its real power lies in photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. was designed to replace the old Microsoft Paint that came with Windows that grew into an excellent program offering features that make it as good as IrfanView and XnView. One neat advantage to IrfanView is the IrfanView Plugins. You can apply everything written about XnView (above) and apply it to IrfanView. Sometimes you need those features but not a full-blown, pricey suite. Krita Studio is an Open-source, all-in-one painting application geared for professional artists, VFX, and game studios. They should have called it "Faststone Image Viewer, Editor, Converter and More," but I guess that would be a bit long.
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Intel Driver & Support Assistant quickly scans your machine for the latest up-to-date drivers currently available from Intel.ĭon't be fooled by the word viewer here.
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Windows 10 & 11 manage most drivers well, but not video drivers. GeForce Experience comes with NVIDIA driver installations and watches for new drivers. Snappy Driver Installer is a driver updater geared toward geeks and techs alike. Snappy Driver Installer Origin is an Open Source fork of Snappy Driver Installer designed by a former contributing developer and build master who felt that the project had gone astray.
They offer a premium version and typically a third-party app during installation, so watch for that. I've used this one for years, and it works great. Karen was one of those who made software to help people for free. Karen Kenworthy passed away on April 12, 2011, and in 2019, someone began updating her apps again. Karen has been around for years, and we love it. Not updated since 2017, but it still works in a category where there are very few free apps. XXCLONE clones your hard drive to another hard drive with the system files, installed applications, and all of your data files.
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You won't find anything like this for free or Open Source. It's an all-in-one disk management suite.
It uses little resources and can compress files it backs up.Ĭlonezilla is an Open Source partition, disk imaging, and cloning program similar to True Image or Norton Ghost. We stopped using drive cloning software thanks to Reset This PC.įBackup is a free, lightweight automated backup program that can effectively help protect your important files and folders from being lost.Ĭobian is a backup tool designed to back up files on your computer or network on a schedule. Reset This PC is part of Windows and makes resetting your Windows 10 or 11 to factory settings, without losing your files, easy for anyone.Leave a comment below if you think we forgot something. You can scan for free, but real-time protection requires a license. For example, Malwarebytes, a household name, is included. There are now (very) few freemium listings included that we could not avoid. These are the apps that most geeks would recommend to you in their respective categories. However, in our 15,000 plus listings, you can find the cream of the crop, or as we call it, the top 1%. MajorGeeks.Com takes pride in hand-selecting the best freeware, shareware, Freemium, and Open Source software.