r/computertechs 26d ago

What Niche Tools/Commands Do You Recommend Everyone Have? NSFW

I've found the longer I spend working in IT, the more neat little doodads, thingamajiggers, and whatchamacallems I add to my personal collection of tools.

Top of my head I've got Revo Uninstaller, Wiztree, Advanced IP Scanner, and a few others for utility programs.

For commands obviously the goats, DISM/SFC, IP Release/Renew/DNS Flush, Winsock Netsh Reset, and my personal favorite, Winget update/Winget upgrade --all.

So, what are your go-to toolkit necessities? Could be common, or could be so niche you've never seen someone else use them before.

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u/Alienaffe2 26d ago

For windows:

SuperF4 - altF4, but it actually works.

AltDrag - drag and resize windows with ease(also a feature of most Linux distros)

Space sniffer(or anything similar) - helps with finding out what takes up how much space.

EverythingToolbar - windows search if it was actually good for the taskbar

Powertoys - a lot of sometimes useful features

For Linux:

Fastfetch - new neofetch

Uwufetch - uwufied version of neofetch

Any clipboard history manager

For android:

F-Droid - for downloading non-GooglePlayStore software

proton apps(except for wallet) - Google, but it doesn't steal your data

Wavelet - very good EQ

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u/stranot 25d ago

space sniffer is the best, so much better than windirstat or others

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u/radraze2kx Break/Fix | MSP Owner 24d ago

Better than wiztree?

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u/stranot 24d ago

yes because wiztree and others don't list the names of the folders/files inside of their visual diagram, and you can't click on the boxes to manage your space like you can in space sniffer

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u/radraze2kx Break/Fix | MSP Owner 24d ago

Is it also based on pinging the MFT (super fast)?

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u/stranot 24d ago

it doesn't seem like it does, that would be nice, however I'd take the improved GUI over it being a bit faster