Open-source might not be the first thing you think of with Windows, but these free tools can seriously boost your productivity.

Rufus is a popular software used to create bootable USB flash drivers to install Windows or another operating system on a computer. It is a free and open-source utility.

If you want to install and run Software in a Sandbox to test the program in Windows 11/10,, you can follow this complete guide.

While package managers on Linux, Mac, and smartphones update all apps automatically, you had to update your software manually on a Windows PC for a long time. Now it finally works automatically.

Some apps are useful; others are essential. These are the ones I always install before anything else when I set up a new PC.