Top 100 PC Software

A free, open-source Windows editor for plain text and programming code. It combines tabbed documents with syntax highlighting, code folding, search-and-replace and macro recording. This entry is the installer package, rather than the portable edition.

A command-line package manager for Windows software. It provides commands to find, install, upgrade and uninstall packages, and supports explicit package sources and scripted workflows. It is administration tooling rather than a desktop application; package-specific installation behaviour still matters.

Mozilla's web browser includes automatic tracker blocking, tab groups, reader mode and extension support. It also provides tools to import browsing information when switching from another browser. This entry links to the Firefox package distributed for Windows through Chocolatey.

Microsoft's Chromium-based web browser. This listing installs the stable Windows release through Chocolatey. Its browser components include open-source software; the package source identifies the release channel and links to Microsoft's licensing information.

A helper-function package for authors of Chocolatey software packages. Install and uninstall scripts can use its additional functions by declaring it as a dependency. It extends the package-management tooling; it is not a separate end-user desktop application.

The servicing stack includes the files and resources that are required to service a Windows image. This includes the Package Manager executable, the required servicing libraries, and other resources. The servicing stack is included in all Windows installations. The update fixes some issues. On systems other than Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2, this package installs successfully, but does nothing.

This update is a cumulative update that includes the security updates and the non-security updates for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 that were released before March 2014. In addition to previous updates, it includes features such as improved Internet Explorer 11 compatibility for enterprise applications, usability improvements, extended mobile device management, and improved hardware support. All future security and nonsecurity…

Discontinued browser plug-in formerly used for Flash animations, games and multimedia. Adobe ended support in December 2020 and blocked Flash playback in January 2021; it recommends uninstalling the player. This historical package listing is not a recommendation to install it.

A disk-space analysis utility that shows how much storage folders and their subfolders use. It can be opened from a folder or drive's context menu, then expanded through an Explorer-style view to identify where files are consuming space.

Compatibility helpers for Chocolatey packages. It restores or supplies functions that differ between versions of the Chocolatey command-line tool, allowing older package scripts to continue working when their expected helpers are no longer included.

A PDF application for reading documents, adding annotations, completing forms and applying signatures. The linked page provides the Windows package and installation details. This listing describes the reader's functions, not an independent comparison with other PDF products.

An archive manager for opening compressed files and creating RAR or ZIP archives. It can unpack several downloaded archive formats, package files for backups and reduce the size of attachments. The linked package page provides the installer and licensing information.

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-defined conference room solution into one easy-to-use platform. solution offers the best video, audio, and wireless screen-sharing experience across Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Linux, Zoom Rooms, and H.323/SIP room systems. Founded in 2011, Zoom's mission is to develop a people-centric cloud service that transforms the real-time collaboration experience and improves the quality…

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

A collection of Windows troubleshooting utilities distributed together with their help files. It is intended for examining and diagnosing systems. The package source distinguishes the troubleshooting suite from separate Sysinternals demonstration tools such as NotMyFault.

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015-2026 installs run-time components of Visual C++ libraries. These components are required to run C++ applications that are developed using Visual Studio 2015-2026 and link dynamically to Visual C++ libraries. The packages can be used to run such applications on a computer even if it does not have Visual Studio 2015-2026 installed. These packages also install run-time components…

Microsoft's discontinued framework for interactive web applications. Support ended in October 2021, so it should not be treated as a current browser platform. This historical package entry is descriptive information, not a recommendation to install unsupported software.

Please take a few minutes to review the overview below before diving into the code: Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming & styling, and more.

This package provides helper functions useful for developing packages for Windows updates (KBs).

The number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure.

The Windows 10 Universal CRT is a Windows operating system component that enables CRT functionality on the Windows operating system. This update allows Windows desktop applications that depend on the Windows 10 Universal CRT release to run on earlier Windows operating systems. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 creates a dependency on the Universal CRT when applications are built by using the Windows 10 Software Development Kit…

AutoHotkey is a free, open source macro-creation and automation software utility that allows users to automate repetitive tasks. It is driven by a custom scripting language that is aimed specifically at providing keyboard shortcuts, otherwise known as hotkeys. Please see the Autohotkey FAQ for information on false positive anti-virus detections.

This security update resolves privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows. The most severe effect of the vulnerabilities is elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker who has successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could run arbitrary code in the security context of the account of another user who is logged on to the affected system.…

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

Microsoft has released a security advisory for IT professionals about SHA-2 code signing support. The security advisory announces the availability of a security update and contains additional security-related information. To view the security advisory, go to the following Microsoft website: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/3033929 This package requires Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to be installed first. The KB976932 package may be used…

Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the volunteer contributions of networking experts around the globe and is the continuation of a project…

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Microsoft Teams is a messaging app for teams where all conversations, meetings, files, and notes can be accessed by everyone, all in one place. It's a place for collaboration and work to happen in the open. The installed software is named:

Reliable and free network scanner to analyse LAN. The program shows all network devices, gives you access to shared folders, provides remote control of computers (via RDP and Radmin), and can even remotely switch computers off. It is easy to use and runs as a portable edition. It should be the first choice for every network admin. Please Note : This is an automatically updated…

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, SCP client, FTPS client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.

GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP…

Python 3.x is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python 3.x and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.

Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features: Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer. Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot. Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs…

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 installs run-time components of Visual C++ libraries. These components are required to run C++ applications that are developed using Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and link dynamically to Visual C++ libraries. The packages can be used to run such applications on a computer even if it does not have Visual Studio 2015 installed. These packages…

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name "Everything"). You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed.

PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project , this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows. A great overview of the Windows 95 PowerToys can be found here .

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office product line. The brand encompasses plans that allow use of the Microsoft Office software suite over the life of the subscription, as well as cloud-based software as a service products for business environments, such as hosted Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, and SharePoint, among…

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code.

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.

What is Sumatra PDF? Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast.

Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D, just to name a few. It's also integral to the intranet applications and other e-business solutions that are the foundation of corporate computing. Please note you now need a Java License from Oracle to use unless installed for Personal Use and Development Use.…

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10.

Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit…

Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. If the package is out of date please check Version History for the latest submitted version. If you have a question, please ask it in Chocolatey Community Package Discussions or raise an issue on the Chocolatey Community Packages Repository if you have problems with the package. Disqus comments will generally not be responded…

This package provides helper functions useful for developing packages for Microsoft .NET Framework runtime and Developer Pack.

WizTree is a very high speed disk space analyser utility for Windows. It scans your hard drive and shows you which files and folders are using the most disk space. Your entire hard drive's file system is displayed visually, making it very easy to locate large files and folders. Use the information WizTree provides to quickly locate and remove "space hogs" from your hard drive.…

Bitwarden, Inc. is the parent company of 8bit Solutions LLC. NAMED BEST PASSWORD MANAGER BY THE VERGE, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, CNET, AND MORE.

You can use Dell Command | Update to update a Dell system with the latest drivers, BIOS, firmware, and Dell software applications. Dell Command | Update provides the following new features:

The Adobe Flash Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia, executing Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform.

The .NET Framework is a development platform for building apps for web, Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Server, and Microsoft Azure. It consists of the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework class library, which includes a broad range of functionality and support for many industry standards. The .NET Framework provides many services, including memory management, type and memory safety, security, networking, and application deployment.…

Google Drive – All your files – everywhere. Safely store your files and access them from any device Choose folders on your computer to sync with Google Drive or backup to Google Photos, and access all of your content directly from your PC or Mac Please Note : This is an automatically updated package. If you find it is out of date by more than…

This package provides helper functions useful for developing packages for installing and servicing Microsoft Visual Studio.

Uninstalling this package removes the Visual Studio Installer, which remains present after the Visual Studio product packages (such as visualstudio2022enterprise or visualstudio2019buildtools ) are uninstalled. This package does not install anything by itself.

Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike. See the Git Package Parameters documentation page .

Releases now come from HARMAN International which acquired Adobe's AIR platform. Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime that enables you to use your existing Flash/ActionScript or HTML/JavaScript development skills and tools to build and deploy applications, games, and videos outside the browser and on mobile devices.

The Adobe Flash Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia, executing Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform.

With Drive for desktop, you stream your Drive files directly from the cloud to your Mac or PC, freeing up disk space and network bandwidth. Because Drive files are stored in the cloud, any changes you or your collaborators make are automatically updated everywhere. You’ll always have the latest version. You can also make Drive files available for offline access. These cached files sync back…

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

The Visual Studio Build Tools allows you to build native and managed MSBuild-based applications without requiring the Visual Studio IDE. There are options to install the Visual C++ compilers and libraries, MFC, ATL, and C++/CLI support. To find out what's new or to see the known issues, see the Visual Studio 2019 release notes . System requirements

This package adds the Visual C++ build tools workload to an existing installation of Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools. The list of components included in this workload is shown here .

IMPORTANT NOTES for your Operating System:

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer is the free version of commercial PDF converter software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to convert to professional quality PDF documents - with just…

A Chocolatey package for installing Microsoft Office products on Windows. Its deployment options let administrators select products, languages, architecture and excluded applications, or supply an XML configuration. It is installation tooling, not a document editor or a licence to use the selected Office products.

Multiple layers of malware-crushing tech, including virus protection. Thorough malware and spyware removal. Specialized ransomware protection.

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world. This package runs the official Node JS installer, resulting in Node.exe and NPM being installed under Program Files, and added to the SYSTEM PATH environment variable.

Update status chocolatey/DarwinJS This package automatically does verbose MSI logging to %temp%(packagenameandversion).MsiInstall.log

Slack is a collaboration hub for work, no matter what work you do. It’s a place where conversations happen, decisions are made, and information is always at your fingertips. With Slack, your team is better connected. Please Note : This is an automatically updated package. If you find it is out of date by more than a day or two, please contact the maintainer(s) and…

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it super easy to share with others, whether you're a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte…

adobereader-update has been deprecated because functionality to install updates has now been built directly into the adobereader package. This package exists only for backward compatibility to provide a transitional dummy package for existing users and scripts which may still use this package ID.

Ghostscript is a high-performance Postscript and PDF interpreter and rendering engine with the most comprehensive set of page description languages (PDL’s) on the market today and technology conversion capabilities covering PDF, PostScript, PCL and XPS languages. Ghostscript has been under active development for over 20 years, and offers an extremely versatile feature set and can be deployed across a wide range of platforms, modules, end…

Python 3.x is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python 3.x and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.

Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) is a multimedia platform used to add animation and interactivity to web pages. It allows Adobe Director applications to be published on the Internet and viewed in a web browser on any computer which has the Shockwave plug-in installed. It was first developed by Macromedia, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Unlike the…

SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) is a collection of objects that are designed for programming all aspects of managing Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server Replication Management Objects (RMO) is a collection of objects that encapsulates SQL Server replication management.

These Build Tools allow you to build native and managed MSBuild-based applications without requiring the Visual Studio IDE. There are options to install the Visual C++ compilers and libraries, MFC, ATL, and C++/CLI support. To find out what's new or to see the known issues, see the Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes . System requirements

This installs the .NET Framework version 3.5 (includes versions 2.0 and 3.0). You may want to use this package as a dependency for packages requiring .NET 3.5. If .NET 3.5 is already installed, this package does nothing. On Windows builds below 28000, .NET 3.5 is enabled via DISM as a Windows optional component. Depending on your OS version, Windows may download components via Windows Update.

Python 3.x is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively. You can learn to use Python 3.x and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs.