Free Windows 10 ApplicationsMARCH 21, 2019

SIR Computer & Tech Leadership TeamCAT Tech Advisors (The “Experts”)

Phil Goff

Derek Southern

Dean Steichen

Barry Brown

Frank May

Neil Schmidt

CAT Support Team

Dan Green (Treasurer)

Nick Bowes (Asst. Treasurer)

Dick Curry (Coffee Master)

Bill Phelon (Membership)

Windows 10 App News Articles

Several 1st of Year Tech articles about Windows 10 Apps:

Useful and Unknown Software and Tools of 2018 for Windows (ampercent.com)

Top 35 free apps for Windows 10 (computerworld.com)

The 20 Best Productivity Apps for Windows in 2018 (zapier.com)

2019 list: Best free software for a new Windows 10 (windowsreport.com)

Our favorite Windows apps will help you get the most out of your new PC (digitaltrends.com)

SIR Area 16 Computer & Technology Group “Tech Advisors”

Windows Store

How do you load “apps”?

Windows Store

Find it in your “Start”

screen

Or just type “Store” in

the search bar

Download program from web

site

PC Utility AppsPC Utility AppsPC Utility AppsPC Utility Apps

Flipboard

Digital Trends

News aggregator

Personalize to include articles

of interest to you:

Technology

CNET

Mobile Technology

The DYI PC

Home Automation

Etc., etc.

Available for PC, mobile

Free (Windows Store)

Also available for Mac

Microsoft “OfficeOnline”

Computerworld

Web based MS Office

View, edit and create Office files on your browser

Get many of the features of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote

Somewhat similar to Google Docs

Free (Windows Store)

FreeOfficeOffice productivity suite

Similar to WORD, EXCEL, etc.

Runs inside your favorite browser

Free (freeoffice.com)

Available for Mac

Computerworld

Windows 10 “OneNote”Note-taking app

Take detailed, intuitively organized notes that capture images, audio, text, and more

Data accessible and may be edited on both PC & mobile devices

Free (Included with Windows 10)

App available for mobile devices

Available for Mac

zapier.com

Windows 10 “Snipping Tool”Capture screenshot of all or part of your PC screen

Capture words or images

Copy/paste snapshot

Save snapshot as a jpg file

Print snapshot

Free (Included with Windows 10)

Mac snipping type tool: Skitch

Barry Brown

Windows 10 “Photos”

Barry Brown

Windows photo viewer

Quick and easy photo viewer

Import images from mobile via

WiFi (see Appendix for details)

Free (Included with Windows 10

Note: If “Photos” app not found:“intowindows.com/how-to-enable-windows-

photo-viewer-in-windows-10/”

Google PhotosStore, retrieve and manage your photos

Free unlimited storage (16mp max photos and 1080p video)

Apps for iOS, Android and all the major browsers on any platform

Can set to auto upload pics from phone or WiFi enabled camera

Automatically analyzes every photo

Great facial recognition

Free (photos.google.com)

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

AutoHDR

Barry Brown

Creates high dynamic range

images

HDR from a single picture

Improve photos in an

incredible way

Free

(autohdr.en.lo4d.com)

Adobe Photoshop Express

Digital Trends

Photo editing

Limited access to Photoshop’s

photo-editing tools

Free (Windows Store)

IrfanView

Neil Schmidt

Quick image viewer/converter

View images

Convert/Resize/Crop

Optimize

Scan & print

Create slideshow

Free (Windows Store)

Free Cam

Barry Brown

Create screencasts, edit recorded videos, and upload to YouTube

Record your screen

Fine-tune your videos

Share videos

Free (freescreenrecording.com)

Microsoft “To-Do”

Phil Goff

Create intelligent to-do lists

Shopping, travel, etc. lists

Links to mobile app

Free (Windows Store)

Duolingo

Digital Trends

Learn a new language

Spanish, French, German,

Portuguese, Italian, Irish,

Dutch, Danish and English

Free (Windows Store)

Xodo PDF Reader & Editor

Trusted Reviews

PDR reader and editor

Edit PDF documents

Fill in forms

Annotate documents

Collaborate online with

others

Free (Windows Store)

Primo PDF

Phil Goff

Create PDF files

Create file size that fits your needs (print quality, screen quality, etc.)

Free (primopdf.com)

MSN Weather

Digital Trends

Weather forecaster

Free (Windows Store)

Microsoft Sticky Notes

zapier.com

Note taking app

Jot down anything quickly for easy

reference

Free (Windows Store)

RAR Opener

Barry Brown

Extracts and opens compressed files quickly and easily

Free (rar-opener.jaleco.com)

Google Earth Pro

Barry Brown

Enhanced “Google Earth” app

Advanced measurements

High-resolution printing

Spreadsheet import (2500 addresses at a time)

Free (earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth-pro.html)

PC System Management AppsPC System Management AppsPC System Management AppsPC System Management Apps

CCleaner

windowsreport.com

Remove old files from your PC

Free (ccleaner.com)

Belarc Advisor

Barry Brown

Analyses your PC

Details of all components and gives serial numbers, size, capacity

All the info you can imagine

Free

SpeccyExamines the innards of your PC

Ferrets out all sorts of info

Easy to output reports

Recommended over BelarcAdvisor

By CCleaner

Free (www.ccleaner.com/speccy)

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

Gary Utilities

Barry Brown

Clean-up PC files

Automatic maintenance

Erase privacy tracks on Windows shutdown

Checks for updates

Deep clean and fix

“Boosts PC speed and fixes frustrating errors, crashes and freezes”

Free (garysoft.com)

Revo UninstallerUninstalls desktop programs

Removes leftover pieces that

Windows uninstall misses

Also removes remnants of

programs that have already

been uninstalled

Free (revouninstaller.com)

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

AutorunsList autorunning programsLets you turn off individual

programs

Doesn’t require installation

Free (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns)

Computerworld

Process ExplorerTells you which files are

currently open by what

program

Free (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

us/sysinternals/downloads/index)

Computerworld

WinDirStatIdentifies where all your drive space has gone

Microsoft app

“Tree map” usage pane

Meaningful Help info

Free (windirstat.net)

Computerworld

Wiztree

Maximum PC

Analyses your drives (similar to “WinDirStat”)

Finds the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive

Sort the contents of your entire hard drive by folder size and optionally delete files and folders

Free (wiztree.en.lo4d.com)

Windows DefenderAntivirus protection built-in to Windows 10

May not come out on top of all the antivirus benchmarks (Avast, Avira, AVG, Bitdefender)

Won’t bug you about paying for an upgrade or hijack your browser’s search engine

Free (Included with Windows 10)

Windows Defender Security Center

Computerworld

MalwarebytesRemoves malware and spyware

Double-checks for infections

Run manually (suggest once a week)

Combined with Malwarebytes support

forum, ultimate fallback for infected

systems (if you know it or not)

Free (malwarebytes.com)

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

LastPassPassword manager

Tracks your user IDs, passwords, and other setting and stores them in the cloud (encrypted)

Free (lastpass.com)

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

VLC Media PlayerMulti-media player

Plays nearly any media

Plays Internet streaming media with a click

Records played media

Converts between file types

Tolerates incomplete or damage media files

Starts to play downloaded media before the download’s finished

Free (Microsoft Store)

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

AutoCloseSpecify how and when to close the

running programs on your system

Free (autoclose.net)

ampercernt.com

RouterPassViewRecover your Wi-Fi router password

Free (routerpassview.en.lo4d.com)

ampercernt.com

WiFi AnalyzerAnalyzes your wireless network

Identify Wi-Fi problems

Find the best channel or the best

place for your router/access-point

Free (Windows Store)

Neil Schmidt

Advanced IP Scanner

Dean Steichen

Network scanner

Scans your network and documents the addresses for each device

Free (advanced-ip-scanner.com)

SDformatter V4.0

Dean Steichen

Formats SD cards

Quick and easy access to all memory card formats like SD, SDHC and SCXC

Gets rid of all the content stored on your SD card in one go

Free (www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/)

EaseUS Todo BackupNimble, general purpose backup tool

Can create full disk image backups, incremental drive and file backups

By default, it runs full backups one a week with differential backups every 30 minutes

Free (todo-backup.com)

Note: Be careful when installing to only get the Free version

Also available for Mac

Computerworld

EaseUS Partition Master (Free Edition)

Barry Brown

Resize drives, create drive partitions, merge partitions, clone hard-drive, etc.

Free (Windows Store)

Also available for Mac

TeamViewer

zapier.com

Remote access and control to your computer

Good for technical support efforts

Free (Windows Store)

Also available for Mac

Duplicate File Cleaner

Phil Goff

Find and remove duplicate files

Finds duplicate documents, photos, etc.

Sort out your image collection

Free (duplicatecleaner.com)

PC Tips...PC Tips...PC Tips...PC Tips...

How to Uninstall a Windows App

technicalnews.com

Remove an app

Settings Apps

Select the app Uninstall

Create Your Own Website App

Neil Schmidt

Directly jump to a website via

an icon on your Desktop

Copy URL address for the

website

On desktop, right mouse

click and select “New”

Select “Shortcut”

Insert URL address

Type name

Select “Finish”

Change Icon for New Website App

Neil Schmidt

Create a customized icon for your

Desktop app

Select a photo for your new Icon

Convert it to an ICO file using

icoconvert.com

Put cursor on desktop icon and right

mouse click

Select “Properties” “Change Icon”

Select “Browse” to find your new ICO

icon file

Hit “OK”

AppendixAppendixAppendixAppendix

WiFiWiFiWiFiWiFi Image Transfer Using Microsoft “Photos”Image Transfer Using Microsoft “Photos”Image Transfer Using Microsoft “Photos”Image Transfer Using Microsoft “Photos”

Load “Photos Companion” smartphone app (free)

Launch “Photos” Windows 10 app

Go to Settings: Preview “On”

Go to Import: “From mobile over WiFi”

Scan QR code on PC with phone app

Must be on same WiFi

Select photos to transfer

Find images in PC file folder: “Pictures > Imported

from Photos Companion”

Move photos to your own “organized” picture folders

Settings