Microsoft Corporation maintains a sprawling software ecosystem that spans productivity, development, system administration, collaboration, and gaming support. Everyday users rely on Microsoft Teams for video meetings and chat, Edge for privacy-focused browsing, OneDrive for automatic file sync across devices, and lightweight utilities such as PC Health Check to verify Windows 11 readiness. Developers benefit from Visual Studio Code’s extensible code editing, PowerShell’s cross-platform automation, SQL Server Management Studio’s database tooling, and frameworks like the XNA redistributable or GameInput API that simplify game creation. IT professionals deploy Windows at scale with the Assessment and Deployment Kit, enable Linux workloads through the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and manage headless servers via Windows Terminal. Power users streamline repetitive tasks with the open-source PowerToys collection, while legacy runtime packages such as DirectX End-User Runtime and Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office ensure backward compatibility for older applications. Enterprise environments standardize on Microsoft 365 Apps for cloud-backed Office collaboration, and WebView2 Runtime allows independent software vendors to embed modern Chromium-based content inside desktop programs. Across this portfolio, Microsoft emphasizes regular feature updates, security hardening, and tight integration with Windows update channels. All Microsoft applications are available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are sourced from trusted Windows package providers like winget, always deliver the latest official builds, and support batch installation of multiple titles in a single operation.

16-Bit InstallShield Support Package

A 16-bit InstallShield support package for installing 32-bit applications

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Account Lockout Status

A combination command-line and graphical tool that displays lockout information about a particular user account. It collects information from every contactable domain controller in the target user account's domain.

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Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 Sep 2025 Update

This page provides complete set of Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2025 Update (25H2)

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AI Shell

An interactive shell to work with AI-powered assistance providers

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AKS desktop

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) desktop application.

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Amendment App Word Service

Amendment App Word Service

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APM – Agent Package Manager

The package manager for AI-Native Development.

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Microsoft App Control Wizard

Enables IT and security professionals to build and edit Application Control for Business (formerly WDAC) policies by providing an easy to use interface.

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App Installer

Microsoft App Installer lets you easily install Windows apps with a double-click. It also includes WinGet for powerful command-line app management.

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AppInstaller File Builder

A Windows 10 application for users to easily build an AppInstaller file.

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Microsoft Application Inspector

A software source code characterization tool that helps identify coding features of first or third party software components based on well-known library/API calls and is helpful in security and non-security use cases.

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AppLocker Policy Converter

The policy converter will handle publisher rules by porting the CN=<> rules and chaining to the AuthRoot/Trusted Root. The tool will also add a CiSigner rule reference.

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Aspire CLI

CLI tool for building observable, production-ready distributed applications with Aspire

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Attack Surface Reduction Test Tool

Tool for testing Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules

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Azure Developer CLI

A developer CLI that accelerates the time it takes for you to get started on Azure.

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Microsoft Azure CLI

The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available across Azure services and is designed to get you working quickly with Azure, with an emphasis on automation.

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Azure Media Services Explorer

Azure Media Services Explorer is a test tool for Windows that provides upload, download, process, encode, package, and stream assets and live events with Azure Media Services using the AMS .Net SDK and the REST API. Source code is also provided on GitHub.

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Azure Monitor Agent

Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) collects monitoring data from the guest operating system of Azure and hybrid virtual machines and delivers it to Azure Monitor.

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Azure VPN Client

The Azure VPN Client lets you connect to Azure securely from anywhere in the world. It supports Azure Active Directory, certificate-based and RADIUS authentication.

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Bicep CLI

A declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources

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Bing Wallpaper

Explore the world one photo at a time

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BITS Manager

BITS Manager is a sample GUI tool for examining and creating BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) uploads and downloads.

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Bot Framework Composer

Bot Framework Composer is an open-source, visual authoring canvas for developers and multi-disciplinary teams to design and build conversational experiences with Language Understanding and QnA Maker, and a sophisticated composition of bot replies.

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Bot Framework Emulator

Development tool for the Microsoft Bot Framework. Allows developers to test and debug bots on localhost.

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Microsoft Bluetooth Test Platform

Contains everything that needs to be installed on your test machine to test the interoperability of Bluetooth enabled devices with the Windows Bluetooth stack.

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Microsoft Build Tools 2015

Microsoft Build Tools 2015 provides the essential tools for building managed applications. These tools previously were included in the .NET Framework, but they are now available as this separate download.

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Microsoft Certification Test Tool for Azure Certified Virtual Machines

Designed to provide an assessment of compliance to technical requirements as part of the Azure Certified program.

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Azure extension for Command Palette

The Azure extension for Command Palette

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GitHub extension for Command Palette

The GitHub extension for Command Palette

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Microsoft Data Migration Assistant

Enables you to upgrade to a modern data platform by detecting compatibility issues that can impact database functionality on your new version of SQL Server.

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Debug Diagnostic Tool

The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or memory fragmentation, and crashes in any user-mode process.

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Dependency Agent

Collect data about processes running on the virtual machine and their external process dependencies.

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) provides a unified collection of tools, processes, and guidance for automating desktop and server deployments.

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devtunnel

Dev tunnels allow developers to securely share local web services across the internet.

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DirectAccess Client Troubleshooting Tool

A graphical application, based on the .NET Framework, which checks the health of a DirectAccess client by running various tests.

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DirectX End-User Runtime Installer

Installs a number of runtime libraries from the legacy DirectX SDK for some games that use D3DX9, D3DX10, D3DX11, XAudio 2.7, XInput 1.3, XACT, and/or Managed DirectX 1.1.

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DiskSpd

DISKSPD is a storage load generator / performance test tool from the Windows/Windows Server and Cloud Server Infrastructure Engineering teams.

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DSC v3

DSCv3 is an open source command line application that abstracts the management of software components declaratively and idempotently.

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DTrace

A comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. Requires command line use.

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Microsoft Edge

World-class performance with more privacy, more productivity, and more value while you browse.

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Microsoft Edge WebDriver

Close the loop on your developer cycle by automating testing of your website in Microsoft Edge with Microsoft Edge WebDriver

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Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime

Embed web content (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in your native applications with Microsoft Edge WebView2.

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Edit

A simple editor for simple needs.

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EnterpriseStateClassify

This tool helps to classify the enterprise state of a target on the network. It will identify the target as PERSONAL or return the enterprise ID of the corporate resource.

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Error Lookup Tool

The Error Lookup Tool, also known as "ERR", is a command-line tool to decode many Microsoft error codes. It does not require elevation and is very easy to use.

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etl2pcapng

This tool enables you to view ndiscap and pktmon packet captures with Wireshark. Due to performance problems with the other popular packet capture method (WinPcap, which was included with older versions of Wireshark), these inbox tools should be preferred.

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EventLogExpert

A Windows Event Log viewer for tech support and IT professionals.

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Microsoft Firewire 1394 Legacy Driver

Driver installer for FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports, a cable type occasionally used in the early-mid-2000's for LAN networking and then-high-end external data storage.

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Foundry Local

Foundry Local enables local execution of Small Language Models using the hardware on your device.

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Windows Resource Kit Tools - FRSDiag.exe

Provides a graphical interface to help troubleshoot and diagnose problems with the File Replication Service (FRS).

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FSLogix

FSLogix enhances and enables a consistent experience for Windows user profiles in virtual desktop computing environments.

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Fuzzy Lookup Add-In For Excel

Performs fuzzy matching of textual data in Microsoft Excel. It can be used to identify fuzzy duplicate rows within a single table or to fuzzy join similar rows between two different tables.

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Microsoft GameInput

GameInput is a next-generation input API that exposes input devices of all kinds through a single consistent interface.

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Git

A fork of Git containing Microsoft-specific patches.

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Global Secure Access Client

Windows client for Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access that acquires and forwards selected device traffic to Microsoft’s Security Service Edge (Entra Internet Access / Private Access) based on configured forwarding profiles.

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Hanword HWP document converter for Microsoft Word

Hanword HWP document converter for Microsoft Word is a tool which allows you to convert and open HWP files in Word as DOCX files.

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Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro

A technology that creates smooth and stabilized time lapses from first-person videos.

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IdFix

IdFix is used to perform discovery and remediation of identity objects and their attributes in an on-premises Active Directory environment in preparation for migration to Azure Active Directory.

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IIS Manager for Remote Administration 1.2

IIS Manager for Remote Administration is an administration tool that provides end users and administrators with the ability to remotely manage IIS servers of version 7.0 and above.

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Microsoft Integration Runtime

A customer managed data integration infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics to provide data integration capabilities across different network environments.

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Intune WSL Plugin

Intune compliance evaluation for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

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Kanagawa

A high-level, imperative programming language for hardware design. It introduces Wavefront Threading, a new execution model that makes concurrency hardwired, enabling efficient and predictable parallel hardware.

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Local Administrator Password Solution

Manage local account passwords of domain joined computers

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LightGBM

A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting (GBT, GBDT, GBRT, GBM or MART) framework based on decision tree algorithms, used for ranking, classification and many other machine learning tasks.

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Lingering Object Liquidator (LoL)

Automates the discovery and removal of lingering objects from an Active Directory Domain Services forest.

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LogCheetah

A Windows GUI tool for viewing column-based log data, optimized for interacting with large volumes (millions of rows) of data in memory at once.

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Log Parser 2.2

Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files

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Microsoft 365 Agents Playground

Debug, test and iterate agent/bot application locally.

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Make Bing Your Search Engine

This installer makes Bing your default search engine. The installation applies to Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

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Malicious Software Removal Tool

Tool to manually run Windows' monthly update checks for malicious software.

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Media Creation Tool

Configuration of Windows 11. An available USB stick is required for use.

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MFCMapi

MFCMapi provides access to MAPI stores to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a sample for MAPI development.

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Microsoft Multiple Interface Test Tool

Contains several tools to be used to test simple peripheral buses such as I2C, SPI, and GPIO with the MITT board.

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Mixed Reality Feature Tool for Unity

An application that enables developers to discover, update, and add Mixed Reality feature packages into Unity projects.

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Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center

The Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center is an application that helps you make the most out of your Microsoft keyboard and mouse. Mouse and Keyboard Center helps you personalize and customize how you work on your PC.

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Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders

Mouse without Borders allows you to control multiple computers from one system.

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MSIX Toolkit

A combination of tools and scripts focused on assisting IT pros and developers to make their app package modernization journey smoother.

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MSIX Core

The MSIX SDK project is an effort to enable developers on a variety of platforms to pack and unpack packages for the purposes of distribution from either the Microsoft Store, or their own content distribution networks.

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MSIX Packaging Tool

Enables you to repackage your existing desktop applications to the MSIX format. It offers both an interactive UI and a command line for conversions, and gives you the ability to convert an application without having the source code.

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Microsoft MPI

A Microsoft implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard for developing and running parallel applications on the Windows platform.

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Microsoft MPI SDK

Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI) is a Microsoft implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard for developing and running parallel applications on the Windows platform.

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Microsoft USB Hub and Controller Test Tool (MUTT)

Test tools for validating USB controllers and hubs.

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Microsoft Network Monitor

Network Monitor 3.4 is the archive versioned tool for network traffic capture and protocol analysis.

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Microsoft Ntttcp

A Windows network throughput benchmark tool.

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NuGet

The package manager for .NET

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Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise

The most productive and most secure Office experience for enterprises, allowing your teams to work together seamlessly from anywhere, anytime.

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Office Deployment Tool

A command-line tool that you can use to download and deploy Click-to-Run versions of Office, such as Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, to your client computers.

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Microsoft OneDrive

Keep your files and memories protected, up to date, and easily accessible across all your devices.

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Microsoft OneLake file explorer for Windows

The OneLake file explorer application seamlessly integrates Microsoft OneLake, the data lake for Microsoft Fabric, with the Windows File Explorer. Requires an organization account.

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OneNote Client Diagnostics Tool

Enables users to collect and send Diagnostics Logs from within OneNote to help the Support team when working with Customers on issues they are experiencing.

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OpenCL™, OpenGL®, and Vulkan® Compatibility Pack

A mapping layer, which implements the OpenCL 1.2 API on top of D3D12. It also implements the OpenCL ICD extension, and can therefore be loaded by the existing ICD loader.

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OSCDIMG

CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility

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PerfView

PerfView is a CPU and memory performance-analysis tool.

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Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Testing

Generates test cases and test configurations. With PICT, you can generate tests that are more effective than manually generated tests and in a fraction of the time required by hands-on test case design.

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Microsoft PIX

Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

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Microsoft PowerApps CLI

Command Line Interface for the Microsoft Power Platform

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Power Automate for desktop

Automate workflows across modern and legacy applications on your desktop by recording actions such as mouse and keyboard clicks.

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Power Automate Process Mining desktop app

Take advantage of additional enterprise process mining capabilities with the Power Automate Process Mining desktop app.

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Microsoft PowerBI Desktop

Visualize any data and integrate the visuals into the apps you use every day with Power BI, a unified platform for self-service and business intelligence.

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Power BI Report Builder

Power BI Report Builder provides a productive report-authoring environment for IT professionals and power users of the Microsoft Power BI service.

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Microsoft Power BI Report Server

Power BI Report Server, available as part of Power BI Premium, enables on-premises web and mobile viewing of Power BI reports, plus the enterprise reporting capabilities of SQL Server Reporting Services.

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PowerShell

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.

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Microsoft Printer Metadata Troubleshooter Tool

Fixes a bug in affected units that have falsely detected non-HP printers as HP and automatically installed the HP Smart app. Requires command line use.

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Profile Explorer

CPU profiling trace viewer

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Project My Screen App for Windows Phone

If you want to project your phone screen to an external display but are unable to connect to a wireless device, you can use a USB cable to connect to a Windows device.

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Microsoft Promptflow

Prompt flow is a suite of development tools designed to streamline the end-to-end development cycle of LLM-based AI applications, from ideation, prototyping, testing, evaluation to production deployment and monitoring.

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection

Microsoft Purview Information Protection client.

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quicreach

A tool for determining QUIC reachability

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Remote Desktop

You can access Windows Virtual Desktop resources on devices with Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise using the Windows Desktop client.

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Remote Desktop Multimedia Redirection Service

Multimedia redirection redirects video playback and calls in a remote session from Azure Virtual Desktop.

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Remote help

Remote help is an application that works with Intune and enables your information and front-line workers to get assistance when needed over a remote connection.

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Microsoft Report Builder

Report Builder provides a productive report-authoring environment for IT professionals and power users. The download provides a stand-alone installer for Report Builder.

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Active Directory Rights Management Services Client 2.1

Software designed for your client computers to help protect access to and usage of information flowing through applications that use RMS services in Azure Information Protection and AD RMS on-premises.

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Microsoft Safety Scanner

A scan tool designed to find and remove malware from Windows computers. Download it and run a scan to find malware and try to reverse changes made by identified threats.

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Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant Command Line

The Enterprise version of Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant is a self-contained, enterprise-ready diagnostic tool that you can use to troubleshoot specific client issues that affect Microsoft 365 apps, such as Microsoft Teams and Outlook.

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SBOM Tool

The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts.

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Screen Recorder

Allows you to start and stop recording from the command line. When a recording is started, the framerate, monitor, and buffer size can be specified. When a recording is stopped, a folder must be provided in which to store the screenshots.

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Microsoft Server Speech Platform Runtime

Allows developers to build and deploy Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech applications.

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Microsoft Azure Service Fabric

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large scale.

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Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK

To build and run Azure Service Fabric applications on your Windows development machine, install the Service Fabric runtime, SDK, and tools.

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SetupDiag

A diagnostic tool that can be used to obtain details about why a Windows upgrade was unsuccessful.

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Microsoft Small Basic

Microsoft Small Basic is a programming language, interpreter and associated IDE.

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SmartDump

A flexible command line utility to capture exception logs and memory dump files against a target process based on user specified settings like filter strings or memory addresses of breakpoints.

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Sqlcmd Tools

Microsoft SQL Server command-line interface

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Microsoft SqlPackage

SqlPackage is a command-line utility that automates the database development tasks by exposing some of the public Data-Tier Application Framework (DacFx) APIs.

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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is an integrated environment for managing any SQL infrastructure

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Surface

Get the most out of your Surface. The Surface app provides you with customization options and opportunity to learn more about your Surface device. Give feedback on your experience so we can keep making it better.

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Microsoft Surface Hub Recovery Tool

Helps re-image your Surface Hub Solid State Drives (SSD) using a Windows 10 desktop device without a need for calling for support or replacing the SSD itself.

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SymCrypt

Unit test program for the core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows.

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TeamMate

TeamMate is an application for managing Azure Dev Ops (ADO) work items and pull requests.

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Microsoft Teams

Collaborate more effectively with a faster, simpler, smarter, and more flexible Teams.

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Microsoft Teams TxNDI add-on

Add production capabilities to Microsoft Teams to external devices via NDI.

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Time Travel Debugging (TTD)

TTD is a command line utility that enables you to record program execution and replay it in WinDbg.

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Tokenizer

Contains Typescript and C# implementation of byte pair encoding (BPE) tokenizer for OpenAI LLMs, it is based on open sourced rust implementation in the OpenAI tiktoken.

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Windows 10 Update Assistant

The Update Assistant can help you update to the latest version of Windows 10 (the Windows 10 2022 Update).

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GVFS

Virtual File System for Git - a tool to scale Git for monorepo scenarios.

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Microsoft Visio Viewer 2016

Microsoft Visio 2016 Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser.

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Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Microsoft Visual TrueType (VTT)

The compilers can compile the high level VTT Talk source to a lower level assembler source and then can assemble that source to corresponding binaries. The compilers can also produce 'cvar' data from a source format.

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vott

Visual Object Tagging Tool (VoTT) - an annotation and labeling tool for images and video.

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Microsoft Visual Studio/.NET Log Collection Tool

Collect information from Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET installations, for instance for when contacting Microsoft's Visual Studio customer service.

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VSIX Bootstrapper

Microsoft VSIX Bootstrapper

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime

This download installs the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime, which is required to run Microsoft Office based solutions built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.

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Wassette

Wassette: A security-oriented runtime that runs WebAssembly Components via MCP

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Microsoft Web Deploy

Web Deploy (msdeploy) simplifies deployment of Web applications and Web sites to IIS servers

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer

A little tool for deploying your favorite open-source web applications and all the necessary platform components required to get you up and running quickly and seamlessly.

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Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool

A tool to wrap Win32 App and then it can be uploaded to Intune.

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Windows App Development CLI

CLI for Windows app development, including package identity, packaging, managing appxmanifest.xml, test certificates, Windows (App) SDK projections, and more. For use with any app framework targeting Windows

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WinDbg

WinDbg is a debugger that can be used to analyze crash dumps, debug live user-mode and kernel-mode code, and examine CPU registers and memory.

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Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) has the tools you need to customize Windows images for large-scale deployment, and to test the quality and performance of your system, its added components, and the applications running on it.

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Windows Admin Center (v2)

A customer-deployed, browser-based app for managing servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10/11 PCs. It comes at no additional cost beyond Windows and is ready to use in production.

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Windows App

Windows App is your gateway to Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft Dev Box, Remote Desktop Services, and remote PCs, securely connecting you to Windows devices and apps on a device of your choice.

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Windows Application Driver

Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) for Test Automation on Windows Applications.

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windowsbusestracing

Buses tracing scripts for debugging.

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Windows Device Recovery Tool

Firmware and bootloader repair tool for Windows Phone devices, HoloLens, and HoloLens Clicker.

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Windows 11 Installation Assistant

For installing Windows 11 on the device you’re currently using.

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Windows Journal

With Windows Journal, you can use your tablet pen to take handwritten notes on your Tablet PC.

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Windows MIDI Services Runtime (for MIDI 1.0)

This project is the next-generation MIDI API for Windows, including MIDI 1.0. It includes enhancements, a new USB class driver, new transports, and essential tools. The project adds many enhancements and bug fixes to our MIDI 1.0 support.

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Windows PC Health Check

Windows 11 OS compatibility checker.

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Windows Terminal

The new Windows Terminal, a tabbed command line experience for Windows.

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Remote Desktop Services Infrastructure Agent

Install the Windows Virtual Desktop Agent

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Remote Desktop Agent Boot Loader

Windows Virtual Desktop Boot Loader

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Windows File Manager

Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements

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Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator

The Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator command-line tool

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Windows Subsystem for Linux

A feature of Windows that allows you to run a Linux environment on your Windows machine, without the need for a separate virtual machine or dual booting.

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XmlNotepad

XML Notepad provides a simple intuitive User Interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

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Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable Refresh

The XNA Framework Redistributable download provides game developers with the XNA Framework run-time libraries they can include with their product for redistribution on the Windows platform.

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