The definative "USEFUL" app thread

[-=DEI[]v[]OS=-]

Ok lets get a thread full of useful programs you've come across on the web, what it does, and where you can download them.

Such as:

Coolmon (Stats on your desktop) http://coolmon.arsware.org/

Samurize: (More desktop stats with graphs etc)
www.samurize.com

Winbar (Stats/winamp controls/Google search toolbar thingy)
http://www.winbar.nl/index.php

Trillian (Instant Messenger which combines AIM, ICQ, mIRC, MSN and Yahoo all in 1)
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com

True Launch Bar (Enhanced Quickstart bar, wouldn't be without it)
http://www.tsoftcentral.com/tlb/

Rainlendar (Desktop Calendar)
http://sivut.koti.soon.fi/rainy/

Ghrone (Skinnable clock replacement)
http://software.garoo.net/

klipfolio (News from your favourite sites delivered to your desktop)
http://www.serence.com/site.php?page=prod_klipfolio
Could we get a OCNZ klip for this ?

UltraMon (Essential For anyone running dual monitors)
www.realtimesoft.com


That's all I have to say about that for now.
Might be back to post some more when I've had food and brain reboots



-=DEI[]v[]OS=-
Provider-Of-Many-Useful-App-Links (tm)

[-=DEI[]v[]OS=-]

Ok I've had some food....mmmm kools chicken

So here's some more indespensible apps

Glass2k(win2k\XP only)
Transparent Windows
http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

Zonealarm (Firewall)
http://www.zonelabs.com/

AdAware (Ad/Spyware remover)
http://www.lsfileserv.com/aaw.html

Kazaa Lite (Kazaa without the ad/spyware)
http://www.kazaalite.com/

iMesh (My personal favourite p2p program)
http://www.imesh.com/

Motherboard Monitor
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Quicknotes (Post-it type notes for ya desktop)
Quicknotes:
http://lowdimension.net/download/?n...uickNotes03.zip


Hmmm ok time for another break :D
Anyone else got anything useful to add ?


-=DEI[]v[]OS=-
App whore (tm)

[AgentofEvil]

CDex
Rips MP3's, simple, no-nonsense interface.
http://www.cdex.n3.net/

DU meter
Tracks internet usuage
http://www.hageltech.com/dumeter/

[MrThc]

Windows Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/) is the best software i've ever used, its the first thing I run when windows starts up :D ... its basically 2 explorer windows side-by-side which can browse thru your hdd's or network, aswell as browse thru ANY type of compressed file as if it were a standard folder, and also FTP\FXP.. it does too many other things to list :D

[Humantuckshop]

I've got a couple:

WCPUID (version3.0f) from H.oda:
http://cgi2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~nrklv/cgi-bin/softdl.cgi?wcpu30f.exe

SiSoft Sandra Benching utility:
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/redir?pid=9389781&merid=87052&mfgid=87052&ltype=dl_dlnow&lop=link&edId=2&siteId=2&oId=3000-2086-9389781&ontId=2086&destUrl=%2F3001-2086-9389781.html

Dr Hardware (a system bencmark/overview utility):
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/redir?pid=5521146&merid=59091&mfgid=59091&ltype=dl_dlnow&lop=link&edId=2&siteId=2&oId=3000-2094-5521146&ontId=2094&destUrl=%2F3001-2094-5521146.html

HD Tach (I think this only works for Windows 9x):
http://www.tcdlabs.com/htach261.exe

[Ripping]

heres a few that I use daily

WinVNC
http://tridiavnc.com

see and use another desktop from your network on your host PC.
_____

Quotetracker
http://quotetracker.com/
watch stock prices
_____

Diskdata
http://www.digallery.com/diskdata/

track your disk usage
(not freeware no more)

[matthew]

www.audiogalaxy.com :D

still the best for finding music (mp3's)....... and then d/ling them for free :p :p

[theYANK]

*Thinks really carefully as not to add any links that would violate the forum agreement*

VisualRoute - a fun little traceroute toy that gives you a cool little map & graph
http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/index.html

CloneCD4 - a MUST have
http://www.elby.org

ClonyXXL - a killer prog that tells you what protection is on a CD and how to make a working backup - works with CloneCD
http://home.arcor.de/bejot/

GL Excess - think "3Dmark2k1 using OpenGL"
http://www.glexcess.com/

[Joshsti_NZ]

My favourites are ..

Winamp
Plays your music, some wicked skins are avail for it too
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp280_full.exe

Pulse - Project Dolphin
Counts your keys typed, i'm addicted
http://project-dolphin.net/releases/Pulse0-95.zip

Verve
Manages all your wallpaper/desktop stuff, wicked program
http://www.545studios.com/download.php?id=11

I also like Ad Aware, Sandra etc etc etc ...

[AcurA]

above sums it up lol...
Another bunch i find usefull is...
Netlab... ping, dns, time, trace etc etc... nice lil freeware - not main addy now - just stored here and there.
Xnetstat (http://www.freshsw.com/xns/)... graphical interface to netstat (dos)

[Binky Stunt Cat]

http://www.analogx.com
thats my fave site for lil aps and such...
btw, CoolMon is kewl :D
almost 4 days uptime atm...

[TooMuchCoffeeMan]

Ok, this is big... Its a list I collaborated on with friends for a "2K fresh install" but lots of it is applicable to XP and 98 too.
This list should appeal to people who are online and involved in things from sysadmin type activities through to DiVX and mp3 making.
A good start to any system, tho I prefer etrust InnoculateIT for anti virus.

ACDSee v3.1 and v4.0
ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.631
Perl2Exe
Ad Aware 5.62
RefUpdater program
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop 6.0 Full Installer
Photoshop 6.0.1 Update
Kais Power Tools 5
ASPI Installer
Atomic Time
AudioCatalyst 2.1
BINChunker 1.70
BulletProof FTP Client 2.4
BulletProof FTP Server 2.15
BungBar 1.02
CDmage 1.01.5
CDRWIN 3.8
Command Prompt Here
Compression Programs
ace
arj
bzip2
lha
pklite
pkzip
rar
unstuff
upx
wic
Conseal PC Firewall
Cool Edit Pro 1.20
demos
Energia by Sunflower
Particle Demo
DiskKeeper 6
Diskeeper 6.0.377 Worksatation
Diskeeper 6.0.388SE for Win2000 Server
Diskeeper 6.0.388SE for WinNT Server
DiVX Utilities
Advanced DiVX Bitrate Calculator
AviSynth 1.0b3
CladDVD 1.64
cladMdec 1.2
decimate 11b2
DeCSS
divfix
DiVX 4.02 codec
DiVX 5 pro
FlaskMPEG 0.60 Preview
thunder.mism
GDiVX Player
Gordian Knot 0.21
MicroDVD Player 1.2
Nimo Codec Pack 4.4
Radium mp3 codec 1.263
SubConvert 0.9 b1
SubRip 0.97b
telecide 12b4
VirtualDub 1.4c
DU Meter v3.0.28
enable Virtual Desktop 2.1s Build 6
Extract Audio Copy 0.9 Beta 3
FireBurner 1.06
FlashFXP 1.3.770
FPortNG
Fractal Extreme
Ghost 6.03
ICQ
ICQ 99a + hacks
ICQ 2001b 5.18 Build #3659
Iparty
Kaspersky Antivirus (AVP)
Kaspersky Antivirus Gold 3.5.1.6 for Professional and Workstation
Kaspersky Antivirus 3.5.133.0 for Server
Old Antivirual Toolkit Pro - Platinum - 1.31
LAME 3.91
Lame 3.91 dll
Lame 3.91 exe
RazorLame 1.1.5
Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker 3.32
Nero Burning Rom 5.5.4.0
NetCat 1.1 for NT
NewsGrabber 3
Norton Antivirus 2002 8.0
OpenSSH 3.1
Partition Magic
PQMagic 4 - Bootable Floppy
PQMagic 7
PC Anywhere 9
PGP 6.02
RealPlayer 8 Basic
Revelation 1.1
SecureCRT
SecureCRT 3.1.1
SecureCRT 3.4 beta 4
Teleport Pro 1.2
Terminal Services Client
Total Recorder 3.2
TreeSize Professional 2.3
Trillian 0.725
TweakUI - win98
UnixDOS 4.3a
VCDgear 2.0
VMWare Workstation 3.0.0.1499
wget 1.8.1
Win32 Unix Utility Ports (WUUP)
Winamp 2.78 Standard
WinDiff
Win9x Tips Tricks and Secrets
WinImage 6.0
WinRAR 2.60
WinTOP - Win9xME
WinZip 8.0
XTree Gold


If you read that all, I congratulate you.
Further information on any of these programs can be obtained here (http://www.google.co.nz).

[Volodkovich]

heh, one of my favourites is desktop architect (http://www.desktoparchitect.com) . real good for changing ur backgrounds, and all the user stuff in windows

[Antimatter]

PopUp Killer (http://software.xfx.net/utilities/popupkiller/)

[SilverPriest]

IrfanView (www.irfanview.com)

[AcurA]

of course! how did anyone miss that one!!

and devious - glass2k - very interesting... prolly won't use it permamantly though... nice show off app for win2k/xp heheheh

[AcurA]

Ohh yeah FlyDS (http://asvzzz.narod.ru/) for the TV tuner :)
HDD Temp (http://www.hddtemperature.com) to complement MbM5 - though doesn't integrate with latest version for some odd reason
Wintidy to manage your icons layout - Google (http://www.google.com) job on this.

[PsYcHo]

thought i would put in an app i use every day, an old bugger but still good :)
Naviscope (http://www.naviscope.com/)

[SecretSquirrel]

I would like Desktop Weather...but the site is dead/gone.

Can anyone send me a copy of the latest version please?

I like boys (vniog@paradise.net.nz)

[chopsuwe]

Editpad lite text editor
http://www.editpadlite.com/
File manager
Ontrack Power desk (http://www.ontrack.com/)
Shutdown timer
Shutdown Now (http://www.dworld.de)
LCD Studio

[Elle T]

Ad Aware 5 (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/aaw.html)
Scans your PC for spyware :)

[Gremlin]

Tabbed Browsing + crap loads more (url blocking, pop-up captor etc etc) while still having IE compatability .. is that an oxymoron ??

Netcaptor - www.netcaptor.com

[p01s0n_p1e]

anyone got something like stylexp?
i used to have it, then the evaluation wore out :(

[dustyslapper]

Thanks for Irfanview Silverpriest. I finally tidied up my avatar. Thats a damn nice program for an 880k download.

[Geek4Life]

Originally posted by Gremlin
Tabbed Browsing + crap loads more (url blocking, pop-up captor etc etc) while still having IE compatability .. is that an oxymoron ??

Netcaptor - www.netcaptor.com
or Crazy Browser (http://www.crazybrowser.com) which is the same as far as I can tell and is free.

[NNA2m]

For us '98 people who have to suffer incompetent memory management MaxMem is good...

AnalogX (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm)

[-NiBbLeT-]

AdAware 6.0
here (http://www.lavasoft.nu)

Run this and you'll be amazed at what it finds :cool:
(already mentioned, but new version)

[Ragnor]

SmartFTP - The best and completely free FTP client
www.smartftp.com

Spybot Search and Destroy - Rose to glory while Lavasoft dawdled around making Ad-Adware 6 and not updating v5 for newer threat... is perhaps more thorough too
http://patrick.kolla.de/

TightVnc - VNC / Remote control better optimized for speed then WinVNC
www.tightvnc.com

Getright 5.0 (currently beta) - Great download manager, getting even better in the newer versions.
www.getright.com

PS: This thread should probably be a sticky by now

[Geek4Life]

Vitrite (http://home.insightbb.com/~ryanvm/tinyutilities/vitrite/) a very small easy to use program for utilising the transparency function in Windows 2k/XP systems. It just sits in the tray and you use keyboard shortcuts to adjust transparency and forced staying on top of the active window.

[lunablue]

jetAudio - plays windows media files and real player files and heaps of others, can rip, burn, convert audio
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/jetaudio/index.html

window washer - Comprehensive cleaning of your PC and Internet history
http://www.webroot.com/wb/products/windowwasher/index.php

[WinXP Monkey]

O&O Defrag V4 (http://www.oo-software.com) It's a defrag tool, It should be faster and it has a stealth defrag for 24/7 file servers.

TweakXP Pro (http://www.totalidea.de/frameset-tweakxp.htm) I like this program, it allows you to change many WinXP settings with a simple graphical interface without editing the registry and it has some optimising features.

[FRiO]

EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de) - Exact Audio Copy. Arguably the best audio ripper out there, though the initial setup takes a while. I had a CD with a massive scratch (a nasty deep bastard), left EAC running overnight and in the morning... wow! Perfect rip for me to burn back to CD. Similar to CDPARANOIA for *nix. Grab the LAME 3.93 DLL too, Google for it.

Reget Deluxe (http://www.reget.com) - a download manager. Is far superior to FlashGet, GetRight, Go!Zilla and all that crap, as it has absolutely no spyware and is incredibly powerful. Grab the trial, then buy it - it's well worth it, as you will see.

WinaXe (http://labf.com) - an X server for windows. Is quite efficient, as is free for use under the trial period (unlimited amount of time, 30minute sessions only though!).

I'll edit with a link to Putty when I find the site. Putty is a remote SSH client, and is easily the best in the business, although one is included with WinaXe+.

[mird-OC]

Savant Web Server (http://savant.sourceforge.net/) - a nice opensource win32 based web server with perl CGI support.

AnalogX Time Sync (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/ats.htm) - for a precise system clock ;)

TeraTerm Pro Web 3.1.3 (http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/) - great little telnet/SSH/SSH2 client.

[Septic_12]

Winkey = all good.

http://www.copernic.com/winkey/

[Geek4Life]

ClipCase (http://www.dougworld.com/clipcase.html) for easy stripping of formatting when you're copying and pasting stuff.

[Joshsti_NZ]

Biggie ups to <insertname> in <insert threadname> for that bookmarky converter thingy ..

http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csab3666/

It couldn't be anymore wanted by me ..

[FRiO]

Just thought I should also add
Geoshell, www.geoshell.com - A replacement Shell for Windows. I've tried them all, and Geoshell comes out best IMO. Also makes multi-monitoring a much more functional enterprise!

[dustyslapper]

What is a good/the best free/trial disk drefragmenter? I used to use Norton simply for the fast defrags - normally I'd take 10 minutes or so.

What should I use now?

[NTBlowz]

Yz Dock (http://yz.designtechnika.com/software/yzdock/index_en.html) : apple style dock for windowz!

Yz Dock icons (http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=techoperatingsystems&Number=1869374&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1)

Yz Docklet (http://users.wpi.edu/~albeik/yz/) for Yz Dock (got weather docklet)

XnView (http://www.xnview.com/) : free image capturing utility (similar to hypersnap)

JASC Paintshop Pro (www.jasc.com) is a no frills photo editing program

PerfectDisk 2000 (http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/) is also a pretty good defrag utility

[Larno]

Good list so far :D

At work atm ill find link later, very simple but the reg patch to add "command prompt here" to right click menu... best thing EVA!

[Disrespective]

Found these whilst browsing,

Boot Screen Manager/Randomizer (http://www.belchfire.net/~userxp/)
and
Boot Screen Creator (http://www.geocities.com/outersoftinc/CXP.html)

[Evilgrin]

Went looking for coolmon and the link provided at the top doesnt work as it has moved to : http://coolmon.arsware.org/ :D

But you all knew that ..

[Control_Phreak]

bootxp is the best bootscreen manager/randomiser I reckon

Its nagware so the only thing you gotta put up with is like a 2-3 second wait while opening up the config

http://www.bootxp.net/

[-=DEI[]v[]OS=-]

Originally posted by Evilgrin
Went looking for coolmon and the link provided at the top doesnt work as it has moved to : http://coolmon.arsware.org/ :D

But you all knew that ..

Thanks, I've updated the link now. Mind you why anyone would use coolmon over samurize is beyond me.....samurize == teh win !!!!1

[Will Hunt]

Admin, make this a sticky on here or another forum !

[SilverPriest]

Hmm, thought it was stickied.
Sticky now anyway :)

[tanivula]

i recommend using Miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/)

takes a wee bitta setting up but has cool mods ie atm i can send & recieve msgs to ppl on any chat client while in hl (thru console) :)

[c01d]

Bottler (http://www.memelog.com/bottler/) good xdcc catcher for those mp3s which arnt on your local topsite
FtpListChecker (http://ftplistchecker.sourceforge.net/) for crawling/indexing ftp lists

[WhiteDragon]

GSpot (http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/11/2/7/11-2-7-12.shtml) for when you don't know which codec a movie uses

[orpheus]

that YZ Dock app's developer was shut down by apple for piracy reasons :(

i wanted to use it...somebody hook a geek brother up !

[Binky Stunt Cat]

Originally posted by WhiteDragon
GSpot (http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/11/2/7/11-2-7-12.shtml) for when you don't know which codec a movie uses
you haven't read the Faq of mine in the multimedia section yet have you? :p :rolleyes:

[Joshsti_NZ]

Not everyone looks there Binky :p.

[whetu]

havent seen the pimping of foobar yet.. maybe I didnt look hard enough...

http://cmail.info.kuzbass.net/~nav/

has a few interesting little nicknacks, I'm using sndvol33 at the moment

[RedeviL]

Remote Administrator (http://www.radmin.com/default.html)

Much like VNC, but it aint free
- Has better security
- Less cpu hungry

[Evilgrin]

Google it, (Cacheman)

I got it free of a Australian pc authority magazine cd , its freeware and its pretty much for those of you who dont know how or cant really be bothered tweaking your ram use and page file kind of stuff ... has a annoying splash screen but you can turn that off in the options..

Found a great imporvements after running the wizards ect...
"worth a look"

[dustyslapper]

Cacheman is a god send to ****ty old 9x systems that are low on memory. I put it on my parents PC when they had win95usb with a mere 32mb of ram. Gave it the performance of a machine with nigh on 48mb or something.

[orpheus]

Chainsaw (http://www.schmeusser.siw.de/software/chainsaw.html) - file splitting tool

[orpheus]

XnView (http://www.xnview.com/) - Graphics Converter

[AcurA]

http://www.bleucanard.mark1hosting.net/
Collection of lil freeware.
CPU usage tray icon is neat. Pop email checker (with server delete) feels like a simpler version of mailwasher.

[juandem@rco]

Heaps of really good useful utilities found in this site:

http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.html

Also good stuff in here too:

http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?cat=35

[juandem@rco]

This site also it's very useful:

http://www.systemtools.com/

[JebusMonkies]

System Mechanic, windows tweaker.
www.iolo.com

Alto MP3 Maker, CD - MP3 ripper
www.yuansoft.com

Daemon Tools, ISO,CUE,CCD,BWT,MDS,CDI reader
www.daemon-tools.com

Virtual Drive, VCD Maker/Reader
www.farstone.com

[prod]

Keywallet - free password manager with almost zero footprint, and 128bit Blowfish encryption.

Drag and drop to fill out forms as well as password fields.

G P

[Evilgrin]

Just found this app called belarc advisor, basically waht it does it profile your computer and give you a read out of everything about your pc in a html you can save or print.

You might say "well I know what my pc is ect " but take two things into consideration, its extreamly concise ( right down to watch patches you have installed ) and has great potential as a information gathering if your a computer tech eg send it to a client so you know what your dealing with before you get there.

www.belarc.com

[Joshsti_NZ]

What was that little prog for XP that could disable all its hidden bullhicky crap? xp spy or something? I can't remember .. and Google is no help ..

[MrThc]

http://www.xp-antispy.org/ :D

[Joshsti_NZ]

Originally posted by MrThc
http://www.xp-antispy.org/ :D

Excellent, thanks mate :cool:

[.weasel.]

www.webroot.com
Windows Washer. A nice utility that cleans out the cache / temp internet folders in IE and netscape. its only a 30 day trial though :(

www.pollensoftware.com
Autorun Software Central - CD Autorun/ Autoplay Software.
StyleSkin - Software to design 2D/ 3D Interface graphics.

[dice]

http://www.cheapshareware.co.uk/downloads/downloads.php (Folder List)

.nfo viewer (waaay better than DAMN) (http://www.kifoth.de/jane/html/home.html)

[whetu]

Originally posted by dice
http://www.cheapshareware.co.uk/downloads/downloads.php (Folder List)

.nfo viewer (waaay better than DAMN) (http://www.kifoth.de/jane/html/home.html)

what's wrong with notepad? ;)

[Sydog]

Yeah dice, thats what terminal font is for :)

[NTBlowz]

Get Hare/AntiCrash/Zoom from Dachshund Software (http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/index.html)

Anti-crash for catching and fixing the crash
Hare to speed up ur pc (usefull for sub 1Ghz PC)
Zoom to speed up ur bootup time (if u r on XP get Bootvis instead)

[Widget]

Have a look at Scanner from
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
I've found it very handy for figuring out what to delete to get some disk space back. Anyone know anything similar or better, even?

[Widget]

Proxomitron from
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.shtml

Highly configurable web filter (popups, banner ads, javascript, cookies, etc)

[Eagle32]

Net-Peeker (http://www.net-peeker.com)

Real-time breakdown of your TCP/IP traffic by application so you can see how much bandwidth each application is using. Uses should be obvious. Also allows you to limit bandwidth use of any application.

I searched but didn't read the entire thread so if it's already here you can blame the search :p

[mightybob]

Im not sure if it has been posted, but its a program that i find to be pretty good.

MyIE2. Its a browser haxed off IE. Pretty good really. Tabbed browsing, Searchbar, Ad filtering, Translation etc.

http://www.myie2.com/html_en/home.htm

Try it if you are still using the standard IE, its a pretty good replacement.

[Secern]

Winamp Deskband, handy as hell.

Sits down in task bar like WMP, only winamp its currently beta but works :P

http://fileforum.betanews.com/download.php?fid=1052475492

[philipnewman]

If you are looking for something to Animate gif files, the ones that aren't really complex maybe banners check this out.

http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

Drag the Gifs you want to animate, set the frame rate and make a gif. It's so easy.

[CommanderK]

Don't know if it has been mentioned, but StrokeIt (http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/) is quite useful. It's a mouse gesturing program for all of windows, like what you would have in Opera.

[leet lude]

Wininternals is the most usefull thing ever!

Especially ERD Commander... or more to the point Lock Smith

[Xoddoza]

I love this tiny little program, its called Dr Delete and its awesome for deleteing inuse files!!!

Dr Delete (http://www.docsdownloads.com/dr-delete.htm)

[Will Hunt]

My Current Installs…

Updated 2004 December
# = not free

SYSTEM:
Windows XP # (Pro if you have it)
SP2
Power Archiver # (opens zip, rar, ect. Is trialware)
XP Powertools
Norton Sytem Works 2004 #
ZoneAlarm (Firewall)
AVG (Anti Virus)
Adaware SE
Spybot
Xplorer 2 (Alternate Folder Explorer Program)

Disk:
Nero 6 #
Clone CD (For making Isos
Daemon Tools (Best Virtual Optical drive for opening ISOs
Sequior Viewer (Graphic of HD)
APC # (Advanced Disk Catalog)
Gordian Knot (for making a backup of my own dvds)

Media:
K-lite Full Codec Pack (with Media Player Classic) (playes .rm and .mov)
Windows Media Player 9
BS Player
Winamp 5
Divx Player
PowerDVD # (For playing dvds)
ACDSee v4 # (best picture viewer out there)
Showshifter # (For watching TV)
Flash Saver Maker (lets you save flash movies)
Dr Divx (for encoding Avi’s to smaller filesize)
Codecs, DivX Pro, Xvid, Ogg, Matroska, Vobsub, Lame AC3 ect.

Creation / Modification:
Microsoft Office #
Paint Shop Pro 8 # (For all my graphics editing)
Quick Menu Builder (for making DVD menus)
Audacity (For sound editing/converting)
Sony Vegas 5 # (for video editing)

Internet / Network:
Avent Browser (For all my net browsing)
Firefox Browser (for looking at sites with tiny font / sites that don't work with AB)
AIRoboform (remebers passwords
ieSpell (checks spelling for any text form in your browser, just right click)

MSN Messenger
Skype (For VOIP aka Voice chatting over the internet)
Trillion (for those people not on MSN <rarely used>)
IM2 (see above)

CZDC++
BCDC++
MS++
oDC++
PDC++
Yoshi Hub
Ptoka Hub

Azureus BitTorret (really good Bittorrent client)
A3 Bittorrent (really good Bittorrent client)
Getright (For Http Downloads)
Flashget (For Http and Ftp Downloads)
Filezilla FTP (For FTP Access)

DU Meter # (Tells up and down speed. Also keeps track of bandwidth used)
Real VNC (Remotely control a pc. I use mine every day with my laptop)
Gmail Notifier (Tells you when you have new mail in Gmail)

Other / Custom:
Motherboard Manager (Displays motherboard temperature and info)
S___2k (Helps to remember serials)
Clipomatic (extends your
[B]Samurize (Desktop information display. Tells you all sorts of info from tv, to weather to hd space to cpu temp. Highly customizable and easy to use)
Style XP # ( For changing visual styles, boot, login screens and icon sets)
XP Wallpaper Changer (Srolls through a directory every 15min or more)
Objectdock Plus # (An alternitive taskbar program)
Windows Blinds # (Full skinning ability. better then Style XP)

Games:
Battlefiled 1942 v.6 #
Desert Combat v.8
Unreal Tournament #
Quake3 #
Tribes 2 #
Soldat
Starcraft #
Virtual Boy Advance
Project 64

[Humantuckshop]

Accidentally baleeted some porn?

Use GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm)

[princexxx]

Originally posted by Humantuckshop
Accidentally baleeted some porn?

Use GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm)

I used this to do that exact job around 3 weeks ago, I mean uhh, no I didn't

[ev0lution]

One more I dont think is covered:

Darik's Boot and Nuke (http://dban.sourceforge.net)

Download the iso, stick it on a floppy, usb memory stick, cd, punch cards etcetera, boot to it instead of to your hard drive, run it, a few hours later say goodbye to all that data you no longer need but wanted to securely delete. Saves all the hassle of going to the length of utilising the chemicals in your shed to produce some homemade, loud, colorless, and potentially shed destroying fireworks to wipe your drive of data :D

[whetu]

www.ultimatebootcd.com does that and more ;) (It includes darik's boot and nuke, but I personally prefer autoclave)

http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/ a cd with the cream of the open source crop

[MercuryFree]

Originally posted by Xoddoza
I love this tiny little program, its called Dr Delete and its awesome for deleteing inuse files!!!

Dr Delete (http://www.docsdownloads.com/dr-delete.htm)

Broken link! New URL (http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/dr-delete.htm)

[SledgY]

Originally posted by MercuryFree
Broken link! New URL (http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/dr-delete.htm) Or you could head over to sysinternals.com and get Handle v2.20 to tell you what process is preventing you from deleting a file (usually explorer) then use Process Explorer v8.61 to close the handle (in the case of explorer, it doesn't effect stability as explorer seems to loose track of it's open file handles often). Saves you having to reboot.

[haytona]

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

best app ever - quote from guy i work with ;)

used control my laptop from the work desktop. much better than VNC as there is no lag, just have to turn your head a bit. it is also cross platform which is nice to be able to test in IE.

I have a linux dual head box which is the main machine. Then a windows box to the right, then my laptop if I bother to bring it in. So I can move the mouse across 4 screens of LCD goodness.

[Growly]

Originally posted by Humantuckshop
Accidentally baleeted some porn?

Use GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm) Brilliant program.

[AcurA]

KeyBoard HDD activity. (http://www.ttecx.de/softwarereports/31_keyboard_hdd_led/setup.zip) This is a german website so i just linked the file directly.
POPeeper. (http://www.poppeeper.com/) Excelent email checker and flashes scroll lock LED when 'you got mail'.

[MercuryFree]

Originally posted by AcurA
KeyBoard HDD activity. (http://www.ttecx.de/softwarereports/31_keyboard_hdd_led/setup.zip) This is a german website so i just linked the file directly.
Heh, that's great :)

[AcurA]

Yips specially when ya pc is under the desk... that would be bout 90% of us i'd say.
Been looking for something like this for a long time actually - i ended up puting an led on top of my case lol.

[led face]

BitLord or any other bittorrent client. Forget the rest of the lame p2p, Bittorrents win!

[shiver]

SlickRun (http://www.fiddlertool.com/SlickRun/)

For those sad people that don't like the mouse. Use your keyboard to do almost anything. Just bind a keyword to a program, type it in and voila!

Has keyword, path, filename completion and more. I couldn't live without it :D

[shiver]

KQuery (http://www.kquery.com/)

Very good game server browser.

[Sumo]

Couldn't see it in the list, so..

Snagithttp://www.techsmith.com

[mercy]

Good and cool collections.
where did u collect all these from?
Some broken links are also there........
plz check it when u post something for the very next time.

[joshr]

Good and cool collections.
where did u collect all these from?
Some broken links are also there........
plz check it when u post something for the very next time.

1. Use English spelling & punctuation FTW
2. Some links might be dead because the thread is old.

3. Let me introduce ya'll (you all) to Launchy, its a handy little program.

http://launchy.net/

[Chris]

Useful linux apps anyone?

Just a thought.

[powerslayer]

.:LINUX:.

AmaroK for music - http://amarok.kde.org/ - works best when using KDE (although it can be used on any desktop enviroment, it will still need to load kde libraries, wasting precious memory :p)

Xchat for all your irc whoring - http://www.xchat.org/ - Most feature rich irc client for linux I've come across.

NVclock for controlling fan speed on Nvidia gpu's - http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu_dapper/ - Add those repositries then - apt-get install nvclock

[Solid Snake]

I found the CD burner app. Seems kind of nice, not sure if it has been found yet,

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php

[Pistol_Friendly]

well i dunno if this qualifies, but www.voodoofiles.com normally have any app youll need :)

[scarlet.spider]

various apps stripped down cleaned and set up for an unattended install but you can post-install as well

http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=a616410820b281bf61fcf8421cd9f176


my must have list includes (found in the first 5 pages also includes post to original software site in some posts):

Copy Handler Addon Pack v1.28-070707
CPL All-in-One v5.8.2 -->2007/07/10
Jared's Universal Extractor Addon v1.5-070705
Kels' UberPacK v9.9.8 ->2007/06/09<-
ReadError's NetMeter Addon Pack 1.1.2

all you have to do is download-> extract->right click inf file and install.

[Softix]

i got tune-up
shaplus bandwidth meter
regcure
mptrim
avirecomp
win utilites
yahoo MULTI MESSENGER
Primo pdf
internet access manager
flash get
sompy encoder
vob split ............