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Program to save visible windows' locations and later restore the layout
I've tried all of the mentioned items in here.
With the paid program called Task Layout I could not get it to save any of my layouts in Windows 10.
The Software WilMa (Windows Layout Manager) by ...
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Windows Software to constantly record the last X minutes of audio entering the microphone?
You need What did I say?:
works on Windows: yes, requires .NET 4.5
constantly records the last X minutes of audio: yes, configurable time span
in the background: once configured, the window ...
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Software to make video from a game
I would recommend:
OBS Studio: https://obsproject.com/
Other candidates:
VLC, how to do it: https://www.wikihow.com/Screen-Capture-to-File-Using-VLC
ScreenToGif https://www.screentogif.com/ -it is ...
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Software to password-protect individual folder(s) on Windows 7
Compressing the folder using a free tools such as 7zip seems like it would work. Add a password.
Folder will have a visible icon, but any attempt to look inside will require a password.
Good luck.
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Desktop programs to beautify code
Atom.io is another text tool with beautification functionality tools available. The package I linked will format about a dozen languages out of the box. Others can be added through separate ...
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Send a file to Google Search by Image search from the Windows Explorer context menu
This is quite late, but I wrote a very simple program which does this: GoogleImageShell. It adds a shortcut to the right-click menu on images (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP) which uploads the image to Google and ...
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free software to remove background noise(Nosie of horns, other public disturbances) from video i shot
The process that I have used with very good results goes as follows:
Use FFMPEG to split the Video and Audio to separate files
Use Audacity to deal with the noise by using noise filters, high/low ...
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Looking for 64 bit Windows 7 spreadsheet program
Try OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Open Office is from Apache and it's free for linux. I don't know if it is free for Windows or not. When you go to the page, use the computer for which you want the ...
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lsusb for Windows
There are several tools available for this purpose. However, and unfortunately there is not one single tool like lsusb which does it all. Here are your options:
DevCon.exe (CLI) which is available in ...
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Using handheld QR Code scanner to launch program & perform action
The first step is generating the QR codes for this you can use a number of libraries - my favourite for this is PyQrCode.
You can decode images using ZBar python bindings but currently there are no ...
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Backup solution for laptops
UrBackup would satisfy all your requirements. For encryption and compression run it e.g. on FreeNAS.
Here is a list of features copied from https://www.urbackup.org/features.html:
Full and ...
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Volume normalizer for Windows to batch-process large number of MP3 files
since you only need normalizing for mp3-files, you can take a look at wxMP3gain:
uses replay-gain (therefor no generation loss)
add a file or folder for processing
if you want, you can just analyze ...
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Software to get basic hardware information from non-technical relative
I would highly recommend Speccy from Piriform.
It is free https://www.piriform.com/speccy (though they have a Pro version, which isn't different for the normal basic reporting you are looking for.)
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Automate taking screenshots of the same region on the screen
You could, assuming that the area of the screen that you need to screenshot is fixed, create an icon or shortcut for imagemagick such as magick convert screenshot: -crop 200x200+100+300 screenshot.png
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Looking for 64 bit Windows 7 spreadsheet program
I will list several answers based on what your question entails, feel free to take your pick as your ultimate solution.
My newer computer is a 64 bit Windows 7 (yes, it's an antique :-). The 2007 ...
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Login to Windows via a USB key
My USBLogon is another software that fits into your requirements scheme:
Free, no ads
Simple user interface
Locks/Shuts down computer/logs off user upon removal of the USB drive
Set-up of an ...
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LaTeX editor for Windows with Live Preview
I would suggest using a markdown editor that has baked in LaTex inside of it
My personal favorite at the moment is app.classeur.IO
Here's a demonstration of copying a wikipedia quantum physics ...
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Autocorrect anywhere on Windows
PhraseExpress is a text expander that has built-in autocorrect. It's free for personal use and is available on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS.
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Windows SSHFS/SFTP mounting clients
There is a free SSHFS implementation for Windows here. It doesn't appear to be related to Dokan. It is generally paired with WinFsp, which can be thought of as FUSE for Windows. Both of these are ...
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Disable the close button of a window in Windows
I used software listed at https://www.raymond.cc/blog/prevent-program-closing-disabling-close-button/
NoClose (did not work for me)
WinTopMost (expensive, did not try)
Actual Window Guard (not free, ...
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Program to save visible windows' locations and later restore the layout
This is an old question but I thought I would help the people who are coming back to read the answer to this question. I think this is actually a common program that people think that they want.
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Take screenshot from "command line"
You could use ImageMagick which fits most of your requirements with the command:
convert screenshot: screenshot.jpg
The output should be similar to that copied into the clipboard by Windows if you ...
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Simple screen recorder
The VLC video recording bug appears to have been fixed in the 2.2.5 nightly build. I have since tested it on several codecs and with default settings the file sizes are a lot smaller, and offers a lot ...
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Viewer for Python pickle files
For this exact reason I decided to build a website to view files directly in your browser without uploading any of that info online:
https://github.com/ch-hristov/Pickle-viewer
https://fire-6dcaa-...
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Viewer for Python pickle files
On Github, there is a tool called PickleViewer. With this tool you can simply
Edit
Load
Save
Pickle files.
It's free. In the program is a text editor, with which you can easily edit the files.
There ...
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lsusb for Windows
Uwe Sieber's commandline tool RestartUsbPort can list present USB devices:
C:\>RestartUsbPort -L
RestartUsbPort V1.0.3 (Win32) - Restarts a USB Port
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de
List ...
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Program that hides the Windows 10 update
Never10 did exactly this in the past. It is gratis.
Never10 does NOT prevent the installation of Windows updates, including
the infamous Get Windows 10 (GWX) update KB3035583. Never10 simply
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Sync my Dropbox, Onedrive or OneNote with my personal FTP server?
As for DropBox, try run Dropbox from scheduler as described in DropBox forum, it sync files locally. And then sync FTPBox or other way to desired location.
UPD:
rclone can be used to sync dropbox ...
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Open source software to create videos
I would recommend HitFilm 3 Express.
It works on Windows, it is free and it has some pretty good capabilities. It should be able to do most of the things that you describe. It can trim videos, and ...
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App to hide cursor when typing in Windows
I found, through trawling the Microsoft answers page referenced above, this excellent app called Windows Cursor Hider.
According to the manual, the app:
"...is a small script written and ...
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