Best Windows apps this week
Four-hundred-eighty-two in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.
Microsoft removed the last Windows 11 upgrade block this week; all compatible Windows 10 devices should have received an upgrade offer by now.
Games on Windows will soon benefit from improved loading times thanks to the new DirectStorage API that is now available.
As always, if I've missed an app or game that has been released this week that you believe is particularly good, let me know in the comments below or notify me via email.
Discounts this week
The following list is a selection of the best deals. Make sure you check out the Store for all offers.
Some apps are discounted for more than one week. Only new apps and games are listed below. Check out the previous post in the series for past offers that may still be valid.
- Caffeine, Keep Your Computer Awake, for $1.39
- Disc Activity LED, for $0.99
- Sonca - the one smart player, for $3.99
- Speech Central: Voice Reader, for $7.99
- Wifi Direct Access Point, for $10.49
- WritingFX, for $0.99
New Windows apps and games
ViVETool-GUI is a graphical user interface for ViVeTool, a command line application to unlock features in Windows Insider builds.
Usage is simplified, as users may enable features for their builds with just a few clicks of the mouse button.
WinDefLogView is a portable application by Nirsoft. It displays all threats that Windows Defender detected on Windows 10 or 11 systems. It can display local detections but also those detected on remote machines.
Threats are displayed in a table, with each threat taking up a single row in the table. File names, detection times, severities, threat names and links to Microsoft support pages are all provided by the application.
Notable updates
.NET 7.0.0 Preview 2 is now available.
MSEdgeRedirect 0.6.4.0 with improvements and two new weather services.
NanaZip 1.1 Final updates 7-Zip to 21.07, improves translations, and modernizes message boxes.