Open-source windows software
982 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged windows, ranked by how closely windows is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
982 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| JasonWei512/EnergyStarX Energy Star X is a WinUI 3 GUI for the EnergyStar tool that improves Windows 11 battery life by using the EcoQoS (Efficiency Mode) API to t… | 64 | 1228 | active |
| zetaloop/BetterWX A set of Python patch scripts for WeChat PC 4.0 on Windows x64 that enable anti-revoke (message recall prevention with notice), multi-insta… | 58 | 1224 | active |
| theimpactfulcompany/Rise-Media-Player Rise Media Player is a native Windows media player built with WinUI that plays music and videos from local files, discs, OneDrive, and stre… | 41 | 1220 | active |
| DDoSolitary/LxRunOffline A full-featured command-line utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distributions. It supports installing arbitrary Linux d… | 23 | 4265 | maintenance |
| DuoStream/Duo Duo is a Windows-based multiseat game streaming application that gives each user an independent virtual desktop session, built on top of Su… | 83 | 1215 | active |
| jxy-s/herpaderping A proof-of-concept tool and technical write-up demonstrating Process Herpaderping, a Windows technique that maps a process image from a fil… | 32 | 1214 | active |
| bp2008/BetterClearTypeTuner A Windows utility that provides a better interface for configuring ClearType font smoothing settings than the built-in OS tuner. It offers … | 92 | 1210 | active |
| strozfriedberg/Windows-Exploit-Suggester A Python CLI tool that compares a Windows host's patch level (from systeminfo output) against the Microsoft security bulletin database to d… | 10 | 4229 | maintenance |
| seuyh/stellaris-dlc-unlocker A shell/PowerShell script tool that automatically unlocks all DLC for the Steam version of Stellaris by patching game files and launcher co… | 86 | 1204 | active |
| The-Viper-One/PsMapExec PsMapExec is a PowerShell-based post-exploitation framework inspired by CrackMapExec/NetExec for assessing Active Directory environments. I… | 78 | 1202 | active |
| petoolse/petools PE Tools is a Windows GUI toolkit for researching and manipulating Portable Executable (PE) files and running processes. It bundles a PE he… | 41 | 1201 | active |
| eiz/SynchronousAudioRouter Synchronous Audio Router is a Windows audio driver that routes application audio through digital audio workstation (DAW) software via a mul… | 66 | 1200 | active |
| J2TEAM/idm-trial-reset A small AutoIt-based Windows utility that resets the trial period of Internet Download Manager (IDM), allowing continued use without cracki… | 23 | 4187 | maintenance |
| alesimula/wsa_pacman A GUI package manager and installer for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), built with Dart/Flutter. It provides double-click installation… | 23 | 4186 | maintenance |
| microsoft/XmlNotepad XML Notepad is a free Windows desktop application from Microsoft for browsing and editing XML documents with a tree view and text view. It … | 87 | 1197 | active |
| EdgelessPE/Edgeless Edgeless is a powerful and elegant Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) tool based on Win10, designed to replace some Windows To Go use… | 61 | 1197 | active |
| FreneticLLC/KeyboardChatterBlocker A Windows GUI tool that blocks mechanical keyboard chatter by filtering rapidly repeated keystrokes. It supports per-key chatter thresholds… | 79 | 1192 | active |
| PKRoma/ProcessHacker System Informer (formerly Process Hacker) is a free, open-source, multi-purpose Windows tool for monitoring system resources, debugging sof… | 74 | 1192 | active |
| trustedsec/CS-Remote-OPs-BOF A collection of Beacon Object Files (BOFs) by TrustedSec implementing remote operations commands for Cobalt Strike, covering tasks like use… | 97 | 1190 | active |
| okibcn/wslcompact A PowerShell CLI utility that safely compacts the ever-growing VHDX disk images used by WSL2 Linux distros, shrinking them to minimal size … | 51 | 1189 | active |
| aardio/wubi-lex WubiLex is a tiny (~800KB) portable Windows tool that replaces and manages the code tables and phrase dictionaries of the built-in Microsof… | 54 | 1185 | active |
| canix1/ADACLScanner A PowerShell script (ADACLScan.ps1) with both CLI and GUI interfaces for reporting on discretionary and system access control lists (DACLs/… | 88 | 1180 | active |
| Recol/DLSS-Updater A desktop application that scans installed games across all major launchers, detects their DLSS, XeSS, and FSR DLLs, and replaces them with… | 87 | 1179 | active |
| compnerd/swift-win32 Swift/Win32 is a Swift application framework providing an MVC model for building native Windows applications. It wraps the Win32 APIs with … | 50 | 1179 | active |
| S3cur3Th1sSh1t/Creds A collection of PowerShell scripts and executables useful for penetration testing and forensics, mostly Windows and Active Directory domain… | 72 | 1174 | active |
| SoftGPU SoftGPU is a software and hardware accelerated GPU driver bundle for Windows 95/98/Me guest systems running in virtual machines like Virtua… | 44 | 1172 | active |
| Nigh/I-wanna-clean-keyboard A small Windows utility built with AutoHotkey and a WebView-based GUI that blocks keyboard (and optionally mouse) input so users can eat, w… | 85 | 1171 | active |
| clechasseur/pathcopycopy Path Copy Copy is a Windows Explorer shell extension that adds contextual menu items to files and folders for copying their paths in variou… | 47 | 1171 | active |
| kkkgo/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore A batch script that installs the Microsoft Store and its dependency appxbundle packages onto Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019, which ships w… | 23 | 4069 | maintenance |
| 0xthirteen/SharpRDP SharpRDP is a C# console application that executes authenticated commands on remote Windows hosts via the Remote Desktop Protocol, using th… | 71 | 1167 | active |
| microsoft/WinAppDriver Windows Application Driver is a service that enables Selenium-like UI test automation for Windows applications, including UWP, WinForms, WP… | 26 | 4053 | maintenance |
| hakuna-m/wubiuefi WubiUEFI is a fork of Wubi, the Windows Ubuntu Installer, adding UEFI support and compatibility with recent Ubuntu releases. It installs Ub… | 23 | 1165 | active |
| eSheep A C# desktop application that recreates the classic 1995 eSheep screen mate, showing an animated pet that walks and falls around your deskt… | 86 | 1156 | active |
| tom-englert/RegionToShare A Windows helper app that mirrors a selected screen region into a hidden window so video conference apps can share just that region. It wor… | 28 | 1156 | active |
| shuax/MouseInc.Settings MouseInc.Settings is the modern Vue 3 + Vite settings interface for MouseInc, a Windows mouse gesture utility. It provides a responsive con… | 10 | 1156 | active |
| Grasscutters/Cultivation Cultivation is a custom desktop game launcher that makes it easy to proxy anime game traffic to private servers such as Grasscutter. It han… | 58 | 1151 | active |
| ayufan/steam-deck-tools A suite of Windows applications for Steam Deck hardware providing fan control, a performance overlay, TDP/refresh rate power control, and S… | 34 | 1143 | active |
| diyan/pywinrm pywinrm is a Python client library for the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) service, enabling remote command and PowerShell script executi… | 62 | 1140 | stable |
| desowin/usbpcap USBPcap is an open-source USB packet capture tool for Windows, consisting of a filter driver and a command-line capture application (USBPca… | 23 | 1138 | active |
| tanaer/WindowsClear WindowsClear is a Rust-based Windows utility that scans AppData directories for large folders and migrates them to another drive, creating … | 60 | 1136 | active |
| Endermanch/XPKeygen A C++ tool that generates valid Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 VLK product keys from a raw product key, based on reverse-engineered ell… | 59 | 1135 | active |
| Snoothy/UCR Universal Control Remapper is a Windows application for remapping inputs from devices such as keyboards, mice, joysticks, and racing wheels… | 55 | 1135 | active |
| npocmaka/batch.scripts A collection of Windows batch (cmd) script utilities and examples maintained by npocmaka. It provides ready-made scripts for common Windows… | 32 | 1135 | active |
| Chunyu33/viap Viap is a Windows desktop application for moving installed programs and selected data folders to another drive using NTFS directory junctio… | 82 | 1132 | active |
| zmjack/PortProxyGUI PortProxyGUI is a Windows GUI application for managing netsh interface portproxy rules, which handle TCP/IP port redirection. It provides a… | 23 | 1125 | active |
| m417z/Textify Textify is a small Windows utility that lets users copy text from dialog boxes and controls that don't normally allow text selection. It wo… | 63 | 1120 | active |
| Ciantic/VirtualDesktopAccessor A Windows DLL (with a companion Rust crate `winvd`) exposing functions to programmatically access Windows 10/11 Virtual Desktop features, s… | 66 | 1116 | active |
| JIEKE66633/One-click-cleaning-of-C-drive A free, open-source Windows desktop utility that cleans temporary files, caches, and junk from the C drive in one click, with safety checks… | 25 | 1111 | active |
| DinoChan/Loaf Loaf is a small WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK) desktop application with a single button that pretends to start a Windows Update, letting the use… | 32 | 1101 | stable |
| sigoden/window-switcher A lightweight Windows utility that lets you switch between windows of the same application using Alt+` and optionally replace Alt+Tab app s… | 85 | 1099 | active |
| Return-Log/Drive-Icon-Manager A Windows GUI utility (Python/PyQt6) that removes third-party cloud-drive icons from 'This PC' and the Explorer sidebar by editing registry… | 14 | 1094 | active |
| builtbybel/privatezilla Privatezilla is a Windows 10 desktop application that performs a privacy and security check against about 60 critical privacy settings, let… | 23 | 3738 | maintenance |
| nptr/msstyleEditor A portable Windows application for editing Windows visual style (.msstyles) theme files from Vista through Windows 11. It lets users browse… | 55 | 1087 | active |
| TuringSoftware/CrystalFetch CrystalFetch is a native macOS application with a graphical interface for building Windows 11 installer ISO images from UUPDump's update pa… | 22 | 1086 | active |
| builtbybel/xd-AntiSpy xd-AntiSpy is a Windows 11 privacy utility that lets users disable telemetry and spy-related settings through a simple interface, continuin… | 15 | 1086 | active |
| microsoft/go-winio A Go library from Microsoft providing Win32 IO utilities, focused on named pipes and file handles, including using named pipes as a net tra… | 99 | 1084 | stable |
| audiorouterdev/audio-router A free Windows GUI application that routes audio output from individual programs to different audio devices, similar to CheVolume. It suppo… | 23 | 3718 | maintenance |
| tibold/svg-explorer-extension A Windows Explorer shell extension that renders SVG file thumbnails directly in File Explorer. It installs as a native extension module so … | 23 | 3714 | maintenance |
| microsoft/msix-packaging Microsoft's cross-platform MSIX SDK for packing and unpacking .msix/.appx application packages on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. It pr… | 64 | 1071 | active |
| hamflx/huawei-pc-manager-bootstrap A Rust-based Windows installer launcher that patches Huawei PC Manager (华为电脑管家) so it can be installed and run on non-Huawei computers. It … | 66 | 1069 | active |
| M2Team/NanaBox NanaBox is a lightweight, XAML-based Hyper-V virtualization client for Windows built on the Host Compute System API and Remote Desktop Acti… | 94 | 1061 | active |
| bitsadmin/nopowershell NoPowerShell is a C# implementation of PowerShell-like commands that avoids using System.Management.Automation.dll, making execution invisi… | 70 | 1056 | active |
| Xenia Manager Xenia Manager is a Windows desktop application that simplifies using the Xenia Xbox 360 emulator with a friendly GUI. It handles emulator s… | 89 | 1055 | active |
| 巨应壁纸 (LiveWallpaper) Giantapp Livewallpaper is an open-source wallpaper application for Windows 10/11 that supports both dynamic (video/animated) and static wal… | 88 | 1051 | active |
| pmem WinPmem is an open-source Windows physical memory acquisition tool with a signed kernel driver and standalone imager executables. It dumps … | 40 | 1051 | active |
| Topshelf/Topshelf Topshelf is a .NET framework for hosting Windows services, letting developers build services as simple console applications that can later … | 10 | 3587 | maintenance |
| henrypp/chrlauncher A small, fast, portable launcher and updater for Chromium-based browsers on Windows. It can launch Chromium, Chrome, Firefox-based browsers… | 87 | 1049 | active |
| neelabo/NeeView NeeView is a free, open-source Windows image viewer that lets you browse images in folders and compressed archives like flipping through a … | 80 | 1037 | active |
| spyoungtech/ahk A Python wrapper for AutoHotkey that lets you drive Windows automation (mouse, keyboard, windows) from Python with full type support, inclu… | 78 | 1033 | active |
| Chuyu-Team/YY-Thunks YY-Thunks is a C++ compatibility library that lets Windows applications run on older Windows versions like XP and 7 by automatically provid… | 94 | 1027 | active |
| xianyukang/MyKeymap MyKeymap is a keyboard mapping tool built on AutoHotkey that enhances keyboard input and window operation efficiency on Windows. It provide… | 33 | 1018 | active |
| ryanries/UniversalPauseButton A small Windows system-tray utility that pauses and unpauses the foreground application (or a named process) when you press the Pause/Break… | 24 | 1015 | active |
| dylanraga/win11hdr-srgb-to-gamma2.2-icm A project that provides ICM (ICC color profile) files to change Windows 11's virtual SDR-in-HDR tone curve from piecewise sRGB to Gamma 2.2… | 20 | 1014 | active |
| n2far2000/winrarsc A curated repository listing official ad-free WinRAR Simplified Chinese installer download links from RARLAB/win-rar.com, covering versions… | 44 | 1013 | active |
| fuhsjr00/bug.n bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for the Microsoft Windows Explorer shell, written in AutoHotkey. It dynamically arranges windows in… | 23 | 3435 | maintenance |
| OnTopReplica A Windows desktop utility that shows a real-time, always-on-top replica of any window you choose, built on native DWM thumbnails. It suppor… | 23 | 3405 | maintenance |
| tylearymf/SETUNA2 SETUNA2 is a small Windows screenshot utility that supports high-DPI/multi-monitor DPI scaling and keeps screenshots pinned on screen with … | 10 | 996 | active |
| stephenfewer/ReflectiveDLLInjection A C library implementing reflective DLL injection, a technique for loading a library from memory into a host Windows process without touchi… | 32 | 3363 | maintenance |
| EasyHook/EasyHook EasyHook is a Windows API hooking library that lets you intercept and extend unmanaged code APIs with managed (.NET) or native hook handler… | 23 | 3290 | maintenance |
| rjpcomputing/luaforwindows Lua for Windows is an all-in-one installer that bundles the Lua interpreter, compiler, libraries, documentation, and a SciTE-based editor f… | 52 | 3252 | maintenance |
| reactos/reactos ReactOS is a free, open-source operating system written from scratch that is binary-compatible with applications and drivers written for th… | 86 | 18242 | experimental |
| bloxstraplabs/bloxstrap Bloxstrap is an open-source alternative bootstrapper/launcher for Roblox on Windows, built in C#. It adds features like Discord Rich Presen… | 87 | 3166 | maintenance |
| GI Model Importer GIMI is a modified version of 3DMigoto that enables importing custom character and weapon models into Genshin Impact. It includes loader to… | 65 | 3138 | maintenance |
| mskyaxl/wsl-terminal A terminal emulator for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) built on mintty, fatty, and wslbridge2. It provides helper executables like open-… | 23 | 3124 | maintenance |
| RoundedTB/RoundedTB RoundedTB is a Windows utility that adds margins, rounded corners, and segmented/dynamic resizing to the Windows taskbar. It supports Windo… | 10 | 3122 | maintenance |
| 1357310795/MyComputerManager A Windows GUI utility built with WPF that manages stubborn 'shortcuts' injected into 'This PC' (including sidebar entries) by rogue softwar… | 23 | 3109 | maintenance |
| KMS Activation Suite KMS_VL_ALL is a batchfile-based smart activation script for Windows and Microsoft Office volume-licensed products. It emulates a KMS server… | 23 | 3042 | maintenance |
| GavinYellow/SharpSCADA A lightweight C# SCADA framework and industrial gateway for .NET Framework that supports major industrial protocols like Modbus, Siemens S7… | 32 | 3041 | maintenance |
| Embarcadero/Dev-Cpp Embarcadero Dev-C++ is a fast, portable, free C/C++ IDE and code editor for Windows, forked from Bloodshed and Orwell Dev-C++. It bundles a… | 23 | 3028 | maintenance |
| NYAN-x-CAT/AsyncRAT-C-Sharp AsyncRAT is an open-source Remote Access Tool (RAT) written in C# that lets an operator remotely monitor and control Windows client machine… | 23 | 3028 | maintenance |
| transcode-open/apt-cyg apt-cyg is a simple shell script that provides an apt-get-like command-line package manager for Cygwin. It cooperates with Cygwin Setup and… | 32 | 3017 | maintenance |
| samhocevar/wincompose WinCompose is a free, open-source Windows utility that brings the classic X11 compose key to Windows, letting users type special characters… | 66 | 2940 | maintenance |
| ohpe/juicy-potato Juicy Potato is a C++ Windows local privilege escalation tool that abuses COM/DCOM activation and impersonation privileges (SeImpersonate/S… | 23 | 2829 | maintenance |
| 1y0n/AV_Evasion_Tool YanRi (AV_Evasion_Tool) is a Windows GUI tool for red teams that generates loaders to evade antivirus detection of shellcode payloads, supp… | 36 | 2760 | maintenance |
| rootm0s/WinPwnage WinPwnage is a Python tool and library that implements UAC bypass, privilege elevation, and persistence techniques for Windows. It can scan… | 32 | 2753 | maintenance |
| FuzzySecurity/PowerShell-Suite A collection of PowerShell utilities for interacting with low-level Windows APIs, covering tasks like process creation, runas-style credent… | 32 | 2737 | maintenance |
| DarthTon/Xenos Xenos is a Windows DLL injector built on the Blackbone library, supporting x86/x64 processes, manual image mapping, managed image injection… | 23 | 2679 | maintenance |
| ParrotSec/mimikatz mimikatz is a well-known Windows security tool that extracts plaintext passwords, hashes, PINs, and Kerberos tickets from memory, and suppo… | 32 | 2672 | maintenance |
| steveloughran/winutils Windows native binaries (winutils.exe and Hadoop DLLs) for various Hadoop versions, built from the same git commits as official ASF release… | 23 | 2634 | maintenance |
| lework/RedisDesktopManager-Windows Windows x64 builds of the open-source RedisDesktopManager (RDM) Redis GUI, compiled from the upstream uglide/RedisDesktopManager project. I… | 23 | 2626 | maintenance |