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Software to run on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems.

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Text-based slides (in order to support version control)

(1) Not trendy, in fact somewhat old, but also reliable (and I have used it) is Slidy2 (and see the demo). It is actually easier to use that it might first appear. It is fairly versatile, and works. …
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Alternative to Windows Explorer that allows easy navigation in identical folder structures

are a couple of very nice "twin-commander" style file managers that will allow you to do just this -- and much more besides: Double Commander The main interface (pic from website) looks like this on Windows … FreeCommander The same workflow is also possible with the Windows-only FreeCommander (my main file-manager during my Windows days; I now work mostly on Ubuntu and Mac OS X): There are many other configurations …
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Free software for selecting and combining pages from multiple PDFs into a single PDF

Although PDFTK was mentioned above, what is really needed here is PDFTK Builder, a free Windows GUI for the PDFTK "engine": As of version 3.5 "drag/drop" facility (mentioned by OP) has been added. … I last used this on Windows 7, and it continues to work flawlessly. It meets OP's needs beautifully. (An analogous program for Linux type systems is PDF Chain, in case that is of any interest.) …
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5 votes

Font editor for Windows

There are two options I'm aware of that will work natively under Windows: FontForge is the obvious suggestion. It helps that it is cross-platform. … A third-party review fills in details: It runs under "Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT)", but I'm quite certain I used it with XP as well. …
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Free lightweight to do list/organizer with task priority

context", and multiple contexts can be used Prepending an x to the start of the task marks it as "complete", like this: x call Bob @home There are a large number of apps for various platforms (including Windows
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A good alternative to Opera 12.17? (with web browsing and native email client)

When I see a question about tight integration of browser and email client, the solution that immediately springs to mind is Seamonkey: Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC …
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Free lightweight to do list/organizer with task priority

Quire.io Quire is a "free" (see more below) to-do, productivity, task-list web app. It also allows for collaboration in projects. add, edit, delete tasks name - yes description - using Markdown, …
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Language-agnostic code editor with advanced formatting/highlighting features

It's probably worth adding Textadept to this Q&A. A glance at the ! symbols below suggests this is a bad fit. But I post it since (a) I'm genuinely uncertain about these; and (b) it's so fast, powerfu …
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ToDo manager with dependencies and events

Non-functional properties Required runs on MS Windows 7 and above free of charge stores its data locally (i.e. does not require accessing any cloud) a somewhat usable, point-and-click-based way to … I have run BORG successfully on each of Windows 7, Ubuntu (18.04 LTS), and Mac OSX (Mojave). …
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5 votes

Split MP3 files automatically

It is distributed as "freeware", is a Windows program, although I've discovered it behaves well running under Wine on Ubuntu. …
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