About
Free Windows tools, since 2010.
A handful of free Windows apps and a long archive of guides, built and maintained in one place, not churned out by a content team.
Who writes it
TechyGeeksHome is written by Andrew Armstrong. Over twenty-six years in IT — Windows desktops and servers, Microsoft System Center, PowerShell, Active Directory, networking and virtualisation — and this is where the things worth writing down end up.
It started in 2010 because too many guides online were vague, out of date, or clearly written by someone who had never actually done the thing they were describing. Everything here came off a real machine, a real ticket or a real deployment.
The apps, and the rules they follow
Eight small Windows apps. The rules are the same for all of them.
- One job each. DiskGeek finds disk space. PDFGeek handles PDFs. Nothing tries to be a suite.
- Free, with no paid tier — no trial, no unlock, no upgrade nag.
- No ads and nothing bundled. No toolbars, no third-party offers in the installer.
- No account and no sign-up. Download it and run it.
- Nothing happens without you asking. The tools that could change your machine report first and act only on what you tick.
- Free to use at work. No separate commercial licence.
Most of them are open source under the GPL, on GitHub; the remaining couple publish their source to read under a licence of their own. Bugs and feature requests go to GitHub issues, where you can see what is actually being worked on.
The guides
There are 768 of them, going back to 2010, and they lean heavily towards Windows Server, System Center, software deployment and the sort of Windows troubleshooting that only comes up at half past four on a Friday.
Some are still exactly right. Some describe a version of Windows Server that nobody runs any more. Those stay up rather than being quietly deleted — an old guide that says what worked in 2013 is more use to someone than a dead link. The menus now point at the parts of the archive still worth your time.
How this is paid for
The apps are free and stay free. If one of them saved you an afternoon there is a Ko-fi button in the footer, but it is never expected.
Beyond that: a small shop selling the Pro edition of the NeoDark WordPress theme, and the occasional affiliate link in a hardware guide, always disclosed on the page. That is the whole list.
Getting in touch
Something broken in an app? Raise it on GitHub — each app has its own repository and issue tracker, so it gets seen and stays visible.
Something wrong in a guide, or a topic you want covering? The contact page is the fastest route.