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holzkohlengrill edited this page Dec 15, 2023 · 7 revisions

XFCE-like Alt + Right click window resizing

AltDrag is a Windows implementation for this (https://github.com/stefansundin/altdrag) This is a solution but was causing more problems than it solved

Path Copy

PathCopyCopy

Screenshots

LightShot

Caffeine / keep screen on

Microsoft store available

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-caffeinated/9pbvhhsn78bl?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

-> Only available via Windows store

No Microsoft store available

http://desmondbrand.com/caffeinated/

Very minimalistic and just what you need. No install.

CD/DVD/BD burning

cdrtfe -> Windows "frontend for the cdrtools (cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, cdda2wav), Mode2CDMaker, VCDImager and other well-known tools."

Disk cloning

https://www.elby.ch/en/download.html

Performance measurement and stress tests

Temperature Monitoring

  • MSI Afterburner - mainly GPU but can check also other temperatures and fan speeds
  • LibreHardwareMonitor - shows all kind of system information (open source!)
  • CristalDiskInfo -> Shows disk info (e.g. errors, temperature, power on count/hours, features (SMART, TRIM, ...), ...); also available via portable apps (open source!)

Stress

  • GPU
    • Furmark -> High intense GPU stressor
  • CPU
    • CineBench - CPU single core and multicore
    • stress-ng -> partially stress CPU
      • stress-ng -c 0 -l 40: Spawn number of processes as per CPU core count (-c 0), produce approx. 40 % load (-l 40) -> use in WSL
    • Prime95/mprime -> Super hardcore stressor; Windows and Linux
  • Disk
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