Chocolatey is a software management solution unlike anything else you've ever experienced on Windows. Chocolatey brings the concepts of true package management to allow you to version things, manage dependencies and installation order, better inventory management, and other features.
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Desktop Version of popular draw.io diagramming software.
Registry management tool with many enhanced capabilities.
Open SSH tools for Windows - works in all CLIs.
PowerShell Core is the open source multiplatform version of PowerShell
The best registrystry / file snapshot tool for free, plus detailed information about Tasks, Processes, Modules, Startups, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files.
Analyzes existing crash dumps and tries to determine and state the root cause in easy to understand language.
Open source vesion of jFrog binary artifact repository including Nuget.
Professional version of JFrog binary artifact repository including Nuget. (Requires paid/evaluation license key)
PowerShell Core is the open source multiplatform version of PowerShell.
Installs the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit.
Installs Windows Management Framework (with PowerShell) 5.0, Windows Management Framework 4.0 (with PowerShell) 4.0 or PowerShell 3.0 (if 'legacy' OS.)
Verify that applications are compliant with Microsoft specifications.
Adds a control to all windows on your system to easily resize and place windows. Great for aligning standard sized windows (e.g. 1280x720) to a screencast recording window.
Free open source version of popular Nexus Repository for binary artifacts including first class Nuget support.
Port of linux fio - used for disk reads / writes and volume initialization - improved functionality over 'dd'
Graphical editor for modifying and protect Windows file type associations without using the registry.
Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter can be used to convert non-MS virtual machines to Hyper-V using a wizard or CMDLets and non-VHD hard disks to VHD or VHDX using CMDLets.(
Allows look up of various Windows errors.
Package depreciated. Use "openssh" package instead.
Create and compare process traces, similar to procmon (but better ;).
SSL Tools from the OpenBSD Project
Identifies and isolates problems with applications that attempt operations that require admin rights when they should not.
Process traces with full API in and Out parameters.
Display all installed versions of .NET and their service pack levels.
TeamViewer allows remote control between two computers on the internet. In portable mode it does not require either computer to do a full install.
Microsoft Visual Test Agents and Controller for running compiled tests on a node without installing all of Visual Studio.
Installs only the SQL Server Express 2012 Engine - this is a 120 MB download instead of 1000 MB for the advanced installer.(
Installs only the SQL Server Express 2012 Management Studio (SMSS) - this is a 160 MB download instead of 1000 MB for the advanced installer.
Installs only the SQL Server Express 2008 R2 Engine - this is a 120 MB download instead of 1000 MB for the advanced installer.(
Installs only the SQL Server Express 2008 R2 Management Studio (SMSS) - this is a 160 MB download instead of 1000 MB for the advanced installer.
You can use the CLI tools to manage your Amazon EC2 resources (such as instances, security groups, and volumes) and your Amazon VPC resources (such as VPCs, subnets, route tables, and Internet gateways).
Register dll/ocx/exe utility
Allows any text based file to be visible in Windows Explorer "Preview" - no more notepad for file previewing.
Microsoft is making it harder and harder to prevent this update from hitting your systems. This package applies the Microsoft fixes to prevent the upgrade on Windows 7 and 8.1.
Amazon no longer provides their monitoring scripts for Windows. Contains an updated AWS disk monitoring script for Windows and schedules it to run every 5 minutes to post metrics to AWS Cloudwatch.
Attempts to return WinRM to a pristine state after it has been used for system preparation (e.g. Packer) using a self-deleting computer shutdown script.
Schedule Nightly or Weekend Shutdown of Windows (Usually for Test VMs) to save on unnecessary utilization.
Parses a procmon trace to create an installer of whatever was traced. Creates a populated folder structure and a .REG
Free, portable, light JSON editor that allows editing in the tree view.
