Good Freeware Stuff

[Randy Walker]

Enjoy

Thank you Piero

[Piero]

https://color.adobe.com/

[Piero]

Found an interesting tool for programming audio stuff (multiplatform and seems to work with latest OSs)…

Includes an Extra (AudioPluginHost) that you can quickly compile to get FREE system-wide audio enhancement (via audio plugins)!
…for that you will also need a virtual audio routing thing, like (example for Mac) blackhole (installable via brew)

Rough Example Setup:

[Piero]

Interesting…
Debut v1.0 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOE7EAlPUwE

on Mac, you can activate it (I mean via mouse) using xGestures

[Randy Walker]

Make your own Windows program installer easily and for free.
From my experience the create desktop icon feature is broken but works great other than that.
https://freeextractor.sourceforge.net/FreeExtractor/
Keyword there is "Easily". Other free apps available I think but not so simple.

My FreeExtractor story -- I have only one serious project. It is a helpdesk utiity for a POS software company that I have developed over a period of about 30 years. Many nice improvements after migrating the project from GFA Basic over to PureBasic, which was a huge undertaking for me, But got many nice enhancements out of the move with the help of the many magnanimous contributions I received from this forum and its members. The home for my project started out in a dedicated folder on drive C: with no option to install anywhere else. Nothing glamerous about it so when its not needed any longer, Just delete the dedicated folder and its all uninstalled, because the programs are not dependent on any DLLs, windows registry or anything else. Shortcuts had always been created by the user. So FreeExtractor worked perfect for my needs as an installer solution. Nothing fancy, just put the files where needed and done. Truth be told, it would have been a nice touch if the desktop shortcut option was not broken, but no big deal -- users all accustomed to creating them manually anyway, and since the updates just overwrote the executables, the existing shortcuts continued to work anyway.

OTHER FREEWARE STUFF I USE:

TEXT EDITORS:
EditPad Lite (simple text editor)
RJ-TextEdit (Edit or view content of any file)

COMPRESSION:
7-Zip
IZArc
EasyZip

VIDEO:
VirtualDub (edit AVI videos)
Super (convert/extract any sound or video file)

SOUND:
WaveSoundEditor (what is says)

SYSTEM:
Everything (find any file on any drive)
Speccy (system properties)
CrystalDiskInfo (drive ID & staistics)
CrystalDISKMark 8 (benchmark drives)
DesktopOK (restore scrambled desktop icons)

COMMUNICATION:
Skype (voice and/or video chat + file transfer)
Whatsapp (Like Skype sorta + very clever AI assistant)
PuTTY (free SSH client+)


OFFICE:
LibreOffice (complete replacement for MS Office crap)
BROWSERS:
WaterFox (FireFox derivitive -- more secure)
Comodo Dragon (chrome derivitive -- more secure)

LAST BUT NOT LEAST:
Revo Uninstaller (cleans up like no native uninstaller can)

[GG]

Make your own Windows program installer easily and for free.
From my experience the create desktop icon feature is broken but works great other than that.
https://freeextractor.sourceforge.net/FreeExtractor/
Keyword there is "Easily". Other free apps available I think but not so simple.

I prefer >> NSIS <<

[Randy Walker]

https://freeextractor.sourceforge.net/FreeExtractor/
Keyword there is "Easily". Other free apps available I think but not so simple.

I prefer >> NSIS <<

Looks complicated. My keyword was "Easily".
Unfortunately FreeExtractor is not maintained so there will never be a fix for the shortcut feature. Boo Hoo. User has to create their own shortcut.

[Piero]

Wanted to share with linux/windows ppl…

Using ffmpeg, mrswatson(64) and loudmax (their names may end with .exe or .dll)
to quickly improve the audio of a VIDEO:

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ffmpeg -v 32 -hide_banner -i INPUT___FILE.mp4 -map 0:a:0 -f s16le -ar 44.1k -ac 2 - | mrswatson64 --quiet -p loudmax --parameter 0,0.0 --parameter 1,0.94 --parameter 3,1.0 -i - -o - | ffmpeg -v 32 -hide_banner -y -i INPUT___FILE.mp4 -f s16le -ar 44.1k -ac 2 -i - -c:v copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 OUTPUT___FILE.mp4

[dige]

@Piero: I wanted to try it out. But I can't find the Windows binaries for the plugins. Can you please add the links?

[Piero]

@Piero: I wanted to try it out. But I can't find the Windows binaries for the plugins. Can you please add the links?

https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
https://ffmpeg.martin-riedl.de/

https://loudmax.blogspot.com/

https://github.com/teragonaudio/MrsWatson/releases/
( MrsWatson-0.9.8.zip )

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mrswatson64 --display-info --plugin loudmax

mrswatson64 -p loudmax  --parameter 0,0.0 --parameter 1,0.94 --parameter 3,1.0  --display-info

mrswatson64 --help full

You may need to specify full paths and/or file extensions

[SPH]

Hi,

I'm posting here because there may be a software in these pages that concerns me:

Do you know an installation software (like "Inno Setup") but that does not contain the "Uninstall" option?
Or, how to do it with Inno Setup?
Thx

[Piero]

how to do it with Inno Setup?

Hope this will help:

https://jrsoftware.org/ishelp/topic_set ... llable.htm

https://www.google.com/search?q=uninsta ... ftware.org

[SPH]

Good news, I found the solution.
You have to add :

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CreateUninstallRegKey=no
Uninstallable=no

Thanks for your research... THX

[Marc56us]

Do you know an installation software (like "Inno Setup") but that does not contain the "Uninstall" option?

Hi,

There's no point in getting a complicated setup program if you're not going to use its main options, such as uninstall. It's a good thing to allow the novice user to clean up an installation and Uninstall only adds 2 files.

As for the rest, most archiving programs make setups with more or less options (such as desktop shortcuts, etc.).
The one with the most options is WinRar. auto-exe made with it doesn't require a license.

[Randy Walker]

Hi,

I'm posting here because there may be a software in these pages that concerns me:

Do you know an installation software (like "Inno Setup") but that does not contain the "Uninstall" option?
Or, how to do it with Inno Setup?
Thx

In my searches I found there are a number of utilities to create an installer. The problem I found was a huge leearning curve required just to get started with any of them. [Exception] I posted the simplest one I found here: viewtopic.php?p=629888&hilit=FreeExtractor#p629888