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hey how's it going Dave Judy here so this is a video on five free window apps that I think everyone should be using and this video is a little bit different from the Mac version that I made a couple days ago because Windows users have a huge selection of free apps to choose from so what I'm going to do is do five free apps I think everyone should be using and then list a few more apps that I think are also really good also free but are more specialized so those may not apply to everyone depending on what you do or don't you and as usual none of these are sponsored because those videos suck okay first one it's an antivirus I'm the type of person that doesn't use an antivirus because I'm an idiot but I'm just comfortable formatting frequently so I'm okay with it but for most people who are not stupid you should run an antivirus my two favorites are AVG and Avast or AV ASP there's a site called AV test they're an independent site that test antivirus really extensively and then they update their ranking list so in terms of the free ones AVG and AV ASP are always near the top this Ahn thing is up there as well but it's a paid software so screw that guy with the current builds a vast does a better job at detecting current malware but AVG is slightly less taxing on your system you really can't go wrong with either of them I prefer performance so if I have to choose I'd go with AVG if you're wandering Microsoft Windows Defender isn't perfect for detection and when it's running there's a measurable performance hit next up we have a clipboard manager called ditto these are apps that kind of store all the stuff you copy using control-c so if you copy a selection of text and then later on you copy more text ditto stores it all into a clipboard manager really useful for essays development and just about anything if you've never used one before install it they're very lightweight and pretty useful all right next up is a flux or efflux it's a program that adjusts the color temperature of your screen based on the time of day so during daylight hours your screen looks completely normal but as the Sun sets the blue hues get reduced on the screen which makes it more comfortable for your eyes it's a little weird at first because stuff looks really warm and orange but you get used to it and once you do your computer usage at night it's just easier on your eyes and personally I can fall asleep more readily after using computers that's head efflux running the next thing okay we need to talk about something related there's an app called ccleaner it used to be amazing like it seriously belongs in top three apps for Windows but Windows 10 has gotten better and better at cleaning up its own mess and at this point unless you really know what you're doing with it I don't recommend ccleaner anymore especially with cleaning registries nowadays a registry cleanup kamesh things up pretty bad this thing is ccleaner also came with a good uninstaller but since I don't recommend ccleaner anymore we got to find a separate uninstaller program and my favorite one right now is IObit Uninstaller it's pretty simple the UI is good and it just does what it says it does it cleanly uninstalled your applications ok the last of this group of apps is a tax better so instead of using something super basic like notepad that comes with Windows there's something called notepad plus plus it's basically an ant's up version of notepad a lot of the features are geared towards developers there's syntax highlighting and you can have multi editing but a lot of the features are awesome for regular people you can zoom in and out of your document and my favorite is we can have different tabs open so I use a text editor for a bunch of stuff in my life and notepad plus plus is awesome for it and I know some of you guys are developers and you're using things like sublime and Adam but for the average person that isn't a developer notepad plus plus is solid so they'll absolutely have listed so far those are just apps that everyone would use oh I think that everyone should be able to use the next five are a little more specific so the first one is an app called discord if you've been using Ventrilo teamspeak mumble or some other kind of voice chats play game you should consider switching to discord I think it's the best of the team chat programs it has your usual desktop client but you can also run it from a web browser and you can even send people links that instantly brings them into your channel it also tells you what games your friends are playing and if they're online if you're not using this yet you should switch next up is OBS or ODS and it's basics it's a screen capture program it's how I'm recording all of these clips but it can stream to any rtmp enabled service like twitch and YouTube it also supports quick sync for faster video processing has an audio mixer plugin it's really solid the one thing that doesn't have is like a secondary stream so if you want to stream your game while showing a webcam of you playing or like a webcam of your keyboard it doesn't support that okay if you're looking to edit videos and you want something a little more feature-rich than Windows Movie Maker my top picks are hitfilm and DaVinci Resolve now the free versions of these applications are toned down from the paid versions but there's still very capable programs I've actually edited some of my older videos with both of these hitfilm has more features in regards to effects like if you want to add any kind of visual effects hitfilm has stuff that's built into it and it basically supports any kind of video format so if you're shooting from a GoPro hit film is great if you have a more advanced camera like a DSLR I'd go with DaVinci Resolve it has some really powerful color correction and color grading tools another notable feature about resolve is how well it uses GPUs so if you're fortunate to have a really good video card resolve can take better advantage of it now if you're looking for a free photoshop type program if you just want something better than ms paint there's GIMP which is a pretty powerful photo editor but Windows users are lucky and also have access to paint.net so I've used both of these GIMP is more powerful and has access to a lot more features some of the plugins are amazing like gee Mike paint.net isn't as feature-rich but it's so much easier to learn how to use so if you're new to photo editing or digital illustration I would highly recommend paint.net fantastic program and I think for like 90% of people that use it you'll be able to do whatever you want to do with a photo editing program ok the last one is a hardware monitor and choosing one of these is like choosing a brand of cereal there are a ton of good options and everyone has their personal favorite my pick is hardware info it's an app for people who want to keep track of their systems so if you want to see your processor use temperatures memory usage it does a really good job it can monitor your system very extensively and if all the ones that I've tried I think that's the best overall package and that's about it if you guys learned a thing or two like if you've discovered an app because of this video I'd love to hear about it if you didn't learn anything that's pretty sad but let me know in the comments below if you knew about all these apps to begin with I hope you guys enjoyed this video some to be liked it subs we loved it I'll see you guys next time