Free Programs that EVERY PC should have! (NOT SPONSORED!)

hey what's up everyone J2 sense here and

I'm going to take you guys along for a

ride on some very important and free

software that I think every single

computer should have on it I don't care

if you're a beginner Builder a moderate

intermediate or an advanced uh PC user

every single system should have at least

some of this software on there it's

going to make your life so much easier

in the future if you ever have to

troubleshoot or test anything so don't

go anywhere I think this could

definitely help

everyone we interrupt this video to

bring you a special message from iFix it

no we interrupt this interuption with

this Interruption about new stuff from I

fix it we a new graphics card but

inventory sucks fix the inventory

problems with I fix it wo don't drop it

can't fix that with I fix it just

kidding yes you can wish you could take

iix it with you anywhere but your

pockets AR big enough introducing the

new Mo and the new minnow take them with

you

anywhere so get iix it for your loved

one or just get them for

yourself there's no real particular

categories or anything to this and a lot

of this stuff we actually talked about

in individual videos and we've done this

kind of concept in the past um But as

time goes on and software changes and

improves or sometimes gets worse we like

to kind of change up our recommendations

um so first and foremost I feel like

every single system should have some

sort of monitoring software so that's

why for this I use CPU ID uh hardware

monitor now hardware monitor basically

just scans every single sensor in your

system and what it will do is give you a

live readout of what all of those

sensors are so most of this information

that's in here is going to be probably

irrelevant to most people uh for

instance you know your CPU reports

temperature but did you know your

motherboard also reports a temperature

for the CPU and then there's a socket

Temp and then there's a package Temp and

then there's di temps there's all sorts

of temps you can kind of see everything

that's going on and if you just kind of

go by what's on the motherboard

sometimes you don't know exactly which

readout that's going to be so in this

particular laptop as you can see I can

see what my package temperature is right

here for my CPU it's currently 5 5 59 57

I can see my e cores and P core

temperatures currently are I can see the

minimum they've ever been the maximum

they've ever been um I can see the

amount of wattage being drawn wattage is

kind of a big deal too cuz if you were

to put your system under a stress test

and you can see how much watts that your

system is actually generating while

underload it can kind of give you a good

idea of how big to size your cooler um

maybe you can give you some ideas to

determine whether or not your cooler

might be too small but it's not just

what uh CPU that we can see so we can

see all of our frequencies obvious ly we

can see all of our voltages um this

right here is specifically I believe for

our Ram so we can see our Ram no

actually is that this right here yeah

okay so we can actually see what our our

SSD temperatures are we can see what our

Ram temperatures are we can see vrm

temperatures we can even see like hot

spot and Edge temp when it comes to our

graphics cards which is something that

often times like Nvidia doesn't report

its hotspot temperature if you look up

at like MSI After Burner or something it

just reports like the Edge temp which is

like the better looking temperature but

there's a range of temperature across

the die and each core kind of has its

own temperature diode and stuff so you

can get a good idea of what those

temperatures look like by actually

coming down here to let's say GPU right

here so we can see we got our GPU

utilization we got our performance

temperature limit so it even shows us

what our limits and stuff are going to

be but it's a 100% free piece of

software anytime a new CPU or GPU comes

out they always update it um I think

it's extremely important now I T I

talked about doing uh stress testing a

second ago and checking out coolers um

and cooler temps and stuff like that

which means you obviously need a way to

stress test your system now there's two

particular stress tests I recommend here

and I would always have a monitoring

piece of software like hardware monitor

or something like that going while

you're running stress test um so

cinebench is one that is kind of nice

however cinebench really only kind of

tests an AVX extraction set basically it

just says hey we can render a scene

you'll be able to see that all it's

doing right now is it's basically doing

R tracing it's just doing math to say

where the light is bouncing and what the

image is to create so if we bring up

hardware monitor too you can see now

what's actually happening with the CPU

so we're at package temp of 70c it's

actually not too bad at all on this core

I9 12 900h cores are sitting in the high

60s low 70s e cores are in the mid-60s

our frequency is all the way down to 2.5

GHz though that's because the fact that

it's a huge load for a laptop it's only

drawing 49 watts of power on the CPU so

that now you can see how the hardware

monitor software really comes in handy

when doing stress testing but this only

stress tests one aspect of your system

I'm going to go ahead and stop this test

right now and that's the CPU it doesn't

hit the Ram at all it doesn't hit the

GPU at all so I also like to use

occt as an alternative to the CPU test

if you want to get a more kind of a

robust systemwide test going on in fact

when we even did our our factory tour

recently of iby power we showed how occt

occt is what they use for an hour and 5

minute test um but again completely free

piece of software that you can download

from the internet you can see here we

can test all sorts of different things

we can test our memory we can test 3D

standard 3D adaptive we can test our

vram our power um you can even set up a

custom stability test which will go in

and kind of check everything it just

sort of runs different size instructions

different types of instructions

different workloads long math short math

all sorts of stuff even uh SSD tests to

kind of get a good idea of everything

your system is running correctly and all

of that can happen right here on the

left now it does have its own monitoring

built in as you can see right here and

it's very very similar to what we can

see in hardware monitor pretty much

because it's giving all of the same

exact temperature uh and sensor readouts

that you would find in in uh your system

it's kind of redundant to have OC's

Monitor and hardware monitor going at

the same time so if you're using occt I

would just use the built-in monitoring

only because anytime the software is

pinging the CPU or any of those sensors

saying like hey hey what's happening and

then the sensor has to like report back

what's going on that actually takes a

little bit of processing power away from

whatever test that you're running so if

you're doing benchmarking and you're

going for like high scores or whatever

you wouldn't want multiple pieces of

monitoring software happening at the

same time you just want to use whatever

is built in because it will prioritize

the fact that the test is more important

than um the monitoring built in whereas

hardware monitor is a separate

application which is going to demand

some um priority when it comes to

pulling those particular sensors so so

just wanted to kind of point that out

there plus this gives you a little graph

over time that you can also record and

you can spit out into a graph and see

later like if you want to run it for an

hour you can see how it did over that

whole hour it's a very nice piece of

software to have it's something that has

grown quite a bit over time in fact when

you do your stability test one of the

things I like about it is the fact that

it gives you um it's going to start

right now you're going to see a little

animation icon and the cool thing about

the animation icon is they call it a

freeze test because of the fact that

it's going to be able to give you a

visual indicator

on whether or not something in the

system has hung so you see this little

kind of a snake going over here it's

just going round and round and round

telling you that the system is doing

something if that were to stop and it's

not moving anymore it means your system

froze it hung maybe your overclock isn't

stable your RAM isn't stable or

something like that and it will show you

any errors that it found along the way

depending on what kind of test it's

running and how long you've told it to

run so it really is good also if you're

getting random blue screens and stuff

and you can't really figure out what's

going on necessarily maybe with event

logging and stuff in Windows it can give

you a place to start to try and figure

out where some of the instabilities in

your system are now when we talk about

cooling it's nice to have a way to

control your fans and I've done a piece

of I've done a video about this software

in the past I absolutely love this

software um I made a pretty big donation

to this guy too because we he didn't

know we were doing this video but this

is fan control fan control uh has no

sensors that would make sense probably

because I'm on a laptop yes yes yes we

did a video about how to use this this

will allow you to go in there and find

every single fan header built into the

system and every single temperature

sensor built into the system and allow

you to be able to assign curves to your

particular fans based on what load

you're having it monitor you can even

have it monitor multiple sensors at the

same time so the problem is you go into

your your bios and you tell your cooler

like hey monitor the CPU temp let CPU

temp be what triggers uh our fans and

stuff well if you got a gaming system

more often than not the biggest source

of heat in your system is going to be

your G GPU now your GPU is not something

that the motherboard is tracking or

monitoring it's only monitoring onboard

sensors from the motherboard in fact

when it says uh monitor the CPU temp

more often than not it's not even

monitoring the actual die temp on the

CPU itself it's monitoring its own

temperature sensor built into the socket

of the motherboard to figure out what

the CPU temp is um so now I'm not going

to go through a tutorial on how to use

this but I just wanted you to see what

the software looks like this is where

you go in and you identify your fans and

stuff you can tell it to start up uh

with the system system you can even give

it a delay to start like let's say you

can tell it to start 30 seconds after

the rest of the system boots that way

everything is started up and then this

starts minimize it's actually a really

smart piece of software um but what you

can do is you can set multiple sensors

for one header so you can tell it

prioritize whichever is hottest CPU or

GPU that way if your CPU goes under load

because you're doing rendering or you're

streaming or you're editing video or

whatever and you tell it to encode

suddenly the CPU is doing stuff let's

say you're not GPU encoding for whatever

reason your CPU temp goes up the fans

will ramp up with that CP CPU curve but

you can do a mix curve which also says

if the GPU is warmer use the GPU as a

priority so it's kind of nice that you

don't have to set one header to be one

or the other which is what your bios uh

and even most of the software built into

motherboards these days for the OS is

going to prioritize one or the other so

I love the fact that fan control is

nothing more than a a user interface or

a guey a graphics SU user interface that

allows the user to go in and Visually

set curves and stuff for their fans it's

an extremely strong piece of software

you can set up schedules you can even

set up different types of fan curves for

different like times of the year if you

want you could even say Okay I want to

use my summer fan curve which is now

going to suddenly and you just toggle

them on and off as you want you have a

su summer fan curve where things are

maybe more aggressive because it gets

hotter in your room you could have a

winter fan curve or maybe you live in a

very cold climate you open the window

and suddenly it's very very cold in your

room room and you don't need your fans

blaring so you could slow them down and

have your system be much more silent and

again it's 100% free nothing about this

software is behind any sort of a pay

wall everything is donation based so I

think fan control is a very very

important piece of software that every

system should have whether it's even a

laptop desktop or not so we've talked

about uh monitoring our temperatures and

stuff we've talked about how to

stability test and stress test our

system uh which I think is very

important for every system we've now

talked about how to control our fans and

stuff if you determine during stress

testing that your coolers are or your

fans are not properly speeding up as

they should so there's there's fine

tuning you can do to get your

temperatures going what about your GPU

well the GPU is where I've got two

pieces of software here that I would

recommend one MSI After Burner I think

most people know what MSI After Burner

is basically it does exactly like what I

just uh showed like hardware monitor can

do for your um monitoring all your

sensors and stuff on your mother border

your whole system but MSI After Burner

allows you to take control over

perimeters in your vbios on your

graphics card that are unlocked or

available to you you'll notice my cord

voltage is gray out my power limits gr

out my temp limit is gr out that's

pretty much because of the fact that I

am on a laptop but if we were using a

desktop we would have core voltage

slider which is not going to increase

our voltage it's just going to slide our

voltage um ratio with clock limit uh up

or down to make to basically for

stability reasons if you start pushing

your core frequency to try and overclock

you might need more voltage sooner in

that frequency so you can slide it uh

basically moving it up slides it down if

that makes any sense um but core clock

here this is where you can come in and

do your overclocking you can overclock

your memory you can control your fans

right here because I'm on a laptop here

I can't actually go in here and change

the fan speeds I'd have to use the

laptop software to do that unless I was

doing something like fan control um but

it allows you to go in there and

customize your GPU in terms of fan

speeds overclocking uh on things that

are available to you which is going to

be specifically your GPU core and your

RAM if you're not interested in doing

that but you want to know more about

what's happening with your GPU and you

don't necessarily want to install a

piece of software like CPU ID hardware

monitor which shows you everything you

could use Tech PowerUp GPU Z this is

also going to scan all of the sensors in

your GPU and I like how it's showing the

Intel Iris because currently that's the

GPU that's activated if you hit the

lookup button it even tells you like

exactly what that is so if you were like

what is my graphics card you click look

up it takes you to their own database to

show you like here's what those

particular graphics card settings are or

what that graphics card is but because

I'm a laptop I have multiple graphics

cards in here so I can go in here and

select now my 3080ti laptop now we can

see the fact that this is a RTX 380 TI

laptop click look up there's more

information about it I can see how many

cores I've got what's the Boost what's

the bit rate for the memory all that

information it's very very cool but back

to what I was saying about limits if I

was to come over here and go to sensors

and I was to expand this this we can see

right now perf cap or performance cap

and even if you hover over it explains

why right now it says we're technically

thermal limited but that seems a little

arbitrary considering the fact that

we're not really doing anything it's

currently sitting at 57.3 C it'll

actually go up to like 85 or 90c but if

I were to put this under load by using

something like heaven or some synthetic

benchmarker even gaming it'll more than

likely go to voltage limit and probably

go back and forth between voltage limit

and power limit as being reasons for

being limited but you can see now our

load is basically think of it as like a

dashboard for your graphics card just

your graphics card to tell you

everything that's happening there so if

you want to actually create a file

though to go back and reference later

you could click log to file it'll tell

you where to save it you save the

location I'll just do documents and now

it's actually making a file and if you

want you can even screenshot what this

particular graph looks

like and then you can save the file or

even upload to free image host whatever

just save to file and then it creates a

graphics interface uh file or a gif I'm

going with GIF you can go and start that

argument um it's not graphics it's

Graphics okay just saying but let's say

you're getting stuttering or something

in your games you can't figure out why

and you just want to know what's

happening you could be logging and then

you can notice like where those stutters

are by looking at the chart you might

notice some sort of a dip in the

frequency um you might have noticed that

the engine load went down suddenly and

that could be an indicator of C GPU

bottlenecking or other issues happening

with your system so you can kind of

figure out what is going on by just

simply logging it and GPU z uh is

another important free piece of software

now let's talk about the other side of

things we we did a video on this

recently and they did exactly what I

said they would do is they took down the

free downloader but it's back so I'm

going to go ahead and mention this again

and that is Revo uninstaller which is an

extremely powerful piece of software it

allows you to go in and delete anything

you want from your system yes anything

so be careful but it allows you to

remove things even from Windows that

maybe you don't want in there like if

there's any of the built-in software

that's you just don't want you can get

rid of it more importantly you can get

rid of things that are just also

bloatware on laptops or desktops it just

you maybe maybe you've had software just

accumulating for years on your system

and your system is acting funky and

you've got registry files that are just

scattered all over the place you can use

this to get rid of that stuff so I'll

just do a quick demo here so I would

right click on OBS and click uninstall

we can uncheck make system restore point

now that's nice that that's there you

means you can make an image of what your

system looked like before that file gets

deleted that way if you screw something

up you can at least take that image and

restore from it and be back to where you

were beforehand I always unclick it

because I like to live dangerously so

we're going to hit continue what it's

going to actually do is bring up the OBS

uninstaller it's not going to go into

delete files yet it's going to bring up

the OBS uninstaller we can say we want

to delete our settings and scenes and

everything and click uninstall now on

the surface it seems like cool OBS

uninstalled itself it got rid of

everything nice no it didn't now we can

hit Advanced on our performing the

initial analysis and un uninstall hit

scan so look at all of these files that

I left behind like these are registry

files right here you can see hkey

current user software Microsoft Windows

current version so that's all in the

registry and the registry as that gets

Fuller and Fuller and more full of junk

that slows down your OS it really does

and then there's other files that are

left behind just wherever like right

here system program files OBS Studio

bin64 ob. EX like it left its executable

behind somewhere so anyway we can hit

select all and then delete are you sure

you want to delete the selected system

or files yes oh look it even left some

more behind so now we're going to select

all again delete again yes now every

single trace of OBS is gone we've even

done this for getting rid of drivers

we've done this for getting rid of

bloatware mostly but we can also use it

to get rid of apps that we don't want

that are installed with Windows

so that's a very nice piece of software

to have I was disappointed to see that

they had um gotten rid of the free

download I think that's because so many

people downloaded at one time after my

video that we were probably hitting

their download server way too hard so

that was why they removed it temporarily

but when they removed it they also did a

50% off their paid version which has

extra features available to it um which

a lot of people actually ended up buying

it I guess I I've never talked to this

company I I don't know I don't even have

the paid one myself but uh apparently a

lot of people came back and said it's

the best piece of soft software they've

ever had uh even the free version or the

the half off version was more than worth

it so I don't know if they'll do that

again but we'll see but I think it's a

very important uh piece of software to

have in fact there's so many other

things it does I'm not even aware of

like I don't even know what Hunter mode

is anyway one last piece of software

that I think is an honorable mention is

going to be open RGB I can't really

demonstrate it on this particular laptop

because I don't have much RGB on this

laptop other than the keyboard yeah see

it's saying interfaces fail to

initialize mostly because of the fact

that this does not have much going on

with it RGB Wise It's not a standard

like motherboard doesn't have any

controllers built in for like IQ or

anything like that but open RGB is a

free piece of RGB software that's

constantly being updated and works with

many of the main like main controllers

that are out there I think from like

Razer and NZXT Corsair Rog so that

instead of having to have like let's say

you have Corsair RAM and you've got an

Rog motherboard well technically they

supposed to SDK work together most of

the time they don't so that means you

would have like IQ for controlling the

memory RGB and then you would have the

Armory crate for controlling the r Rog

stuff and then you've got an MSI

graphics card so then you've got to have

like Mystic light or whatever to control

the graphics card and then you've got in

there some of the like let's say you got

I don't know RGB fans from be quiet so

those are plugged into the motherboard

but then you're having a hard time

making everything sync you can actually

use open RGB to create profiles to run

all of your RGB from one piece of

software this this is something we've

been asking for for a long long time in

in like the industry it's nice to see

that open RGB is a is a publicly funded

like by donations and stuff from patreon

and all this other sources that they

that they get community funding to

continue the project going because I'll

tell you right now super simple super

free and to be honest does it in my

opinion kind of better than like a lot

of those companies do it it can and it's

always getting updated with different

modes and stuff so Phil uses it and this

is one of the reasons why it's on here I

think it's honorable mention if you're

just frustrated and tired what really

led to Phil wanting this or doing this

is because of how many times or Armory

crate has bricked itself on his system

and sometimes the only way to actually

get that back is to like reinstall

Windows and you got tired of going

through all that so that's how I found

out about Revo on installer cuz I was

trying to fix Armory crate and we also

fixed our infinite Spinning Wheel of

death of thinking wheel on my I on my

mouse that we still don't know exactly

actually it was Asus causing that it was

Asus so anyway there we go guys just uh

video to show you kind of like what I

think is must have software at every s

single system regardless how New or Old

the system is the older the system the

more important I think Revo and

installer is going to be um I normally

would do a video about each of these

independently but I wanted to kind of

give one Hub uh one stop for people to

go to find really important pieces of