Useful tools for everyday life on an administrated Microsoft Windows machine

A few suggestions of useful helpers in one’s everyday professional life:

• Package managers for the automatic installation of software: Winget or Chocolatey on computers with admin rights, Scoop on those without
• PowerToys:
  • Win + Shift + T: Text recognition
  • Alt + Space: launcher, window finder, …
  • Win + ->, <-, (= arrow keys) … to position windows
  • Ctrl + Shift + V: Insert unformatted text
  • …
• Win + V (or Ditto) as clipboard history
• File search with the Everything Toolbar
• Win + Shift + S (or ShareX) for sending screen contents
• Autohotkey:
  • To expand abbreviations such as asap to as soon as possible
  • Jump and move windows to virtual workspaces using Win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer (on Windows 10) / VD.ahk (on Windows 11)
  • Run-or-Raise for displaying/launching continuously used applications
• Image viewer and editor: JPEGview
• SumatraPDF or PDFXchangeEditor for editing PDFs
• File manager: TotalCommander (20 EUR) or its free clone DoubleCmd
• Notepad++ with Notepadreplacer as default text editor
• Qalculate as Desktop calculator
• using Capslock as simultaneous Control and Escape key with dual-key-remap