Re: Free programs - the ultimate guide
CD/DVD Burning/Virtual Drives:
CD Burner XP - CD burning utility featuring Blu-Ray and HD-DVD burning support along with image burning
Burn At Once - Free CD/DVD Burning Software
Infra Recorder - Burning Software
Iso Recorder - Lets you burn isos by right click in windows
ImgBurn - Makes/Burns DVD/CD images (use in conjunction with avi2dvd v.0.4.5)
Daemon Tools - Virtual DVD Drive for running CD/DVD image files without burning to CD/DVD
Virtual Clone CD - Virtual DVD Drive for running CD/DVD image files without burning to CD/DVD
Programming / Website Development:
EasyPHP - Great PHP/MySQL webserver for doing a bit of coding or testing your own website
DevC++ - Simple easy to use C++ Editor
wxDev-C++ - Same as DevC++ but includes drag and drop buttons, dialogs and other GUI tools without the need of .NET framework
XAMPP – Portable web server supporting MySQL, PHP and Perl (supposedly better than EasyPHP)
Server Tools / Network Management / LAN Networking Tools / Data Security / File Management:
Virtual PC - Free virtualisation software
Hamachi Virtual LAN network over the internet - no faffing with settings, it just works!
PuTTY - Connect to SSH servers - tunnels can be created and other advanced options are included
TrueCrpyt - Encrypt your files into an extremely secure container with password protection
UltraVNC - Once set up this program will allow you to remote access into a PC running the UltraVNC server with ease
Unstopable Copier - This is an excellent program for copying large amounts of data. It seems like a GUI front end for RoboCopy
WinDirStat - Find out which folders and files on your computer are using the most space. Analyses the size of all the folders on your computer
TreeSize - See where all your hard drive space is being taken up. Similar app. to WinDirStat I suspect.
Eraser - Fully deletes files from the right click menu
Free Undelete - Recover deleted files, as long as you didn't use Eraser :D
Unlocker - Unlock files which are locked by an application to allow deletion, moving or renaming
Sync Toy Mirror files on 2 or more computers (like RAID1 over a network I assume?)
Universal Extractor - Useful for extracting MSI/EXE installers and other packages. (cab, xpi etc)
Kill Disk (free edition) – Allows you to ‘zero’ a hard drive to ensure a high level of security that data can never be recovered
Other Utilities:
Various useful apps are available from software995. Most can be used with ad support (gives a single pop up window every time you use one of the apps - very minimal really). I really like PDF995 and FTP995. PDF995 creates really nice PDF files from any program, works like a virtual printer. Will convert in high quality vector format where possible and is the best best of a number of apps I've tried. Doesn't leave a watermark (from memory) either. FTP995 is much like filezilla, but worked when filezilla didn't, behind work's proxy settings, thus it gets my recommendation.
Filezilla Free FTP App.
WinSCP - WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
Convert - Free mini app - convert any type of unit measurement into something else - lb to Kg, miles to cm etc.
What Pulse Tracks how many keystrokes and mouse clicks you do. See how much you type, keys you press the most etc. Hexus group
NetStat Network speed analysis tool
Time Synchroniser - Great little tool to have on your flash drive to sync Windows after an OS install or loss of time etc.
Bandwidth Monitor
Notepad++ - Great alternative and advanced notepad program. You can use regex in searches too.
Notepad 2 - Another advanced notepad program.
Autoruns - MSconfig replacement. used to control autostart entires,drivers,services etc. I reccomend going to the options, tick hide microsoft and windows entires. I also reccomend ticking verify code signitures.
Process Explorer - Windows task manager replacement. i reccomend going to options,tray icons and enabling cou history and Physical memory. i also reccomend going to options to enabling hide when minimized. can replace task manager if you want it to. i dont use the last option i noted.
Auto Hotkey - Use it for setting up a Ctrl+Alt+ or Winkey+ hotkey for pretty much anything
Enso Launcher - Enso Launcher is designed to give you instant access to your applications and windows. With a few easily remembered keystrokes, you can launch an application, switch to a window by name, and control the state of your windows.
Linux Apps / Others Key posts in this thread:
http://forums.hexus.net/operating-sy...ml#post1618118 (aidanjt - Post #72)
Will update this first post regularly with new suggestions you add.
Many thanks to all the contributors!
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