AfterFormat
Reformatting always ends the same way: trying to remember what you had, hunting down one vendor site after another, clicking Next over and over. This exists to shorten that.
- Programs
- 110
- Guides
- 20
- Languages
- 3
- Version check
- Dated
What this is
Pick the programs you use and we build one set of installer files. The catalogue covers 110 programs in Korean, English and Japanese, and each entry states what the program is and on what terms you are allowed to use it. The things that trip people up before and after a format are covered in twenty guides.
What this refuses to do
Download sites lose trust in fairly predictable ways. So the refusals come first.
- We never host installers
- Every file comes from the vendor’s own server; nothing passes through ours. Sitting in the middle creates the opportunity to swap a file, and the absence of that opportunity is the firmest promise this site can make.
- Nothing is slipped into the list
- The install list contains what you picked and nothing else. Bundling is a common revenue model for download sites here; we do not use it.
- Visible version check dates
- Each version has a manifest check date. Collected changes are reviewed and deployed before publication; the catalogue is not a real-time guarantee of the latest vendor release.
What makes it different
It answers whether a program may be installed on a work PC. A surprising number are free for personal use but licensed for business — ALZip, ALYac, IrfanView, AnyDesk and others — and almost no Korean download site distinguishes them. Installing one on a company machine without noticing is a common way to end up in a licence dispute.
The Work PC list is a starting point for choosing software. Check the terms for your edition and your organisation’s rules before installing. A manifest check date is not a licence review or an installation test. Guides with reviewed sources state the scope separately.
Keeping the data from going stale
- A scheduled daily job checks winget manifests. Runs can be delayed or fail; the public page shows the last successful manifest check, not a promise that a new release is already published.
- Findings are not published automatically — they open a pull request for a person to review. Detection and publication are deliberately separate so a bad version or dead link never reaches you unchecked.
- Download URLs are probed at the same time. When a vendor moves a page, the download button quietly becomes a 404.
- Every version carries the date it was last verified. Data that has aged should look aged.
Who runs it
One person builds and maintains it. If you find something wrong, or a program worth adding, please say so. Corrections to a licence judgement are especially welcome — the accuracy of that data is what this site stands on, and leaving an error in place would make it pointless.
About to reformat?
Pick the programs you use and we build the installer files. No hunting through vendor websites one by one.