Best Windows apps this week
Five-hundred-and-thirty-eight 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 is working on integrating a few usability improvements into its Windows 11 operating system. There is a new End Task option when right-clicking on open apps in the Windows taskbar, and a remapped Print Screen key, which will open the Snipping Tool in the future.
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.
- ArtRage Vitae, for $39.99
- djay Pro, for $34.99
- Finebits AppPack, for $9.99
- Nero Duplicate Manager Photo, for $14.99
- Recipe Keeper Pro, for $13.49
- Video Format Converter by Nero, for $24.99
New or notably improved Windows apps
AthenaOS is a Linux distribution for penetration testing and bug hunting. It is based on Arch Linux and may now be installed on Windows 11 devices using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
BloatyNosy is a tweaker for Windows. Its main purpose is to debloat Windows 11. The program analyzes the operating system on request and displays a list of issues that it detects and suggests to fix.
This ranges from disabling the Bing Search button and Telemetry in Firefox and Chrome, to using the dark theme or disabling the game DVR feature. You may go through these and uncheck changes that you don't require.
The app makes the changes then, but there is also an option to restore the defaults.
Oracle Linux 9.1 is now also available for WSL on Windows 11. The Linux distribution is optimized to run "demanding SaaS, PaaS, and traditional enterprise workloads".
Updated Windows apps
NirLauncher, a launcher app for Nirsoft programs, supports favorites now. You may add programs to the favorites for faster launching of them.