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List of Fast (no-bloat) Windows Softwares
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Actually Fast Windows Tools

A good criteria to judge if a tool will be fast is often the package size. Tools in or under 10s of MBs usually do one thing and do it really well.

Tools listed here have fast/instant startup and/or handles large files without slowing everything down.

Document Editors / Viewers

  1. Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  2. Notepad2 Notepad3 (not sure if these are actually fast)
  3. SumatraPDF https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader

Image Editors / Viewers

  1. IrfanView https://www.irfanview.com/
  2. XnView https://www.xnview.com/en/
  3. JPEGView https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview

Search Files / Contents

  1. Everything https://www.voidtools.com/
  2. Ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

Others

  1. Nirsoft tools https://www.nirsoft.net/
  2. Sysinternals tools https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/

Uusually all small and fast softwares here https://www.portablefreeware.com/

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