Open Source Windows Desktop Environment Software
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View 92 business solutionsBrowse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects for Windows below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Desktop Environment software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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KeePass
A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details. -
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GnuCash
Personal and small-business finance manager
GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles. -
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Digital Clock 4
beautiful customizable clock with plugins
Very customizable beautiful clock. There are 2 versions exist (they may co-exist): - Digital Clock 4 - discontinued, not recommended - Digital Clock 5 - current version, replacement for Digital Clock 4 Digital Clock 4 final version is 4.7.9 Digital Clock 5 current version is 5.2.0 Nothing special is required to start using this clock. Just launch it and enjoy! When it starts, apart from the clock itself, a small tray icon appears. This tray icon can be used to call the clock configuration dialog. Also this dialog can be called using clock context menu. Sources (v5) are hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/Kolcha/DigitalClock5 You can create your own skin! See this link for details: https://sourceforge.net/p/digitalclock4/wiki/How%20to%20create%20skin/ NOTE: do NOT download any .rar or .exe files marked as my software, these files are NOT made by me and I'm not responsible for their content -
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Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Windows Explorer details view that displays the sizes of files and folders. A service scans your hard disk in the background and caches the results. Designed for performance!
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uGet, the Best Download Manager for Linux. uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. - Quick Links - Features: https://ugetdm.com/features Screenshots: https://ugetdm.com/screenshots Blog: https://ugetdm.com/blog Support: https://ugetdm.com/qa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://ugetdm.com/qa/faq RSS Feed: https://ugetdm.com/rss GitHub: https://github.com/ugetdm
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ClipAngel
Clipboard history capture and paste tool
This program belongs to class "Clipboard Manager". It captures many clipboard objects and allows user to select and paste one in any program. Inspired by analogs: ClipDiary, Ditto, AceText. Main priorities: usability, compatibility, reliability. Requires .Net Framework 4.52+ (Windows Vista+/Server 2008+) -
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Classic Shell
Start menu and Windows enhancement software
Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others. Note: The software available here is not the latest version. Visit the new website www.classicshell.net to download the latest version and to access the new forums and documentation. -
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PNotes is light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. It supports multiple languages, individual note's settings, transparency and scheduling. Absolutely portable as well - no traces in registry. PNotes.NET edition requires .NET framework 4 Client Profile
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Linkbar
Windows desktop toolbar
Beta - https://sourceforge.net/projects/linkbar/files/Version%201.7.0%20beta/ Linkbar - ideological heir to desktop panels from Windows XP. This application that is useful for those users who are on the desktop requires more than one tray to place shortcuts for launching frequently used programs, files, etc. Note: Windows XP and prior not support. GitHub - https://github.com/ATGH15102AFMLD/Linkbar -
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KShutdown
A graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows
KShutdown is a graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows. It allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications. -
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Domination (Risk Board Game)
Domination is a game that is a bit like the board game Risk
Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android. -
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searchmonkey
Powerful desktop search app for Windows, Linux and Mac
Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale. -
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GCompris : I got IT
Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational. -
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PDF Split and Merge
Split and merge PDF files on any platform
Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface. -
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Sucrose
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine
Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive wallpapers. -
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Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
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ASuite is an application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.
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Access your remote files over SFTP directly from Windows Explorer and 'My Computer'.
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Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.
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HotShots
a screenshot and annotation tool
HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...). -
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SystemTrayMenu
SystemTrayMenu - Browse and open your files easily
SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email. -
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Customizable weather widget
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TTCalc is an open source bignum mathematical calculator. It features arithmetical functions, trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions, hyperbolic functions, inverse hyperbolic functions, logical operators, logarithms and so on.
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Network-Activity-Indicator
Featuring old-school blinking network status icon in the system tray
Network Activity Indicator is a handy swiss-knife tool for network administration and statistics. Featuring an old-school but very missed blinking network status icon in the system tray, network traffic graph, and advanced network statistics. It's the fork of GabNetStats application by GabSoftware (https://github.com/gabsoftware) Notes: 1. .Net Framework 4.8 must be installed to use this application 2. It's portable application. Unzip it to any folder and run "Network Activity Indicator.exe" 3. Use one of "color" icon sets (see all icon sets inside "icons" folder of application) for "Only send/receive detection (blue icon)" visual effects 4. Use any icon set for "bandwidth" (send/receive rate) visual effects -
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Googsystray is a system tray app for Google Voice, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Docs. It notifies on new messages, alerts, etc., and provides basic services quickly.
