Software Tools ************** Archive ------- 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/ Boot ---- BootPart is an easy tool for adding additional partitions to the Windows NT multi boot menu (for example, add the OS/2 boot manager or a Linux partition). http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm Clone ----- Recommended by Alasdair. http://clonezilla.org/ Console ======= http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ PowerShell ---------- Windows PowerShell Install using Microsoft Internet Explorer. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx Blog of Windows PowerShell team http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/ Database ======== SQuirreL - SQL - Universal SQL Client. :doc:`../java/jdbc`` DbVisualizer Free http://minq.se/products/dbvis/ Development =========== WinMerge http://winmerge.org/ (should try http://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/index.html}DiffMerge sometime). BareTail - A free real-time log file monitoring tool http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/ Diagnostics =========== Process Explorer :doc:`../windows/processes.html` Sysinternals Suite by Mark Russinovich. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c5a693683.aspx Unknown Devices http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices/ helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are. smartctl :doc:`../linux/system` Provides advanced warning of hard disk degradation and failure. DVD === http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - Things you didn't know VLC media player can do: http://www.unixmen.com/software/404-things-you-didnt-know-vlc-media-player-can-do - http://www.nerdlogger.com/search/label/VLC File Management =============== The ultimate tool for Windows Explorer http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/StExBar WinDirStat http://windirstat.info/ is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (very nice... I used it for a friends computer... well worth installing). 24/07/2020, I am not sure if *WinDirStat* is supported any more. One of our corporate customers uses TreeSize Free! https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free Firewall ======== To try: Zonealarm (BBC News - Click - ) Fonts ===== http://www.proggyfonts.com/ Proggy programmer's fonts Graphics ======== To try, http://www.getpaint.net/ HTML ==== http://www.nvu.com/ ISO === :doc:`../windows/iso` Creating ISO disks from Windows http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/ WinCDEmu allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wincdemu/ Launchy To try: http://www.launchy.net Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows Logging ======= To try: - http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ - http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/ A free real-time log file monitoring tool Media ===== http://www.videolan.org/ VLC media player is a free cross-platform media player (MPEG, DivX, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs and VCDs. Mindmap ======= http://freemind.sourceforge.net FreeMind - free mind mapping software Miscellaneous ============= To try: http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html Sizer is a freeware utility that allows you to resize any window to an exact, predefined size}}. Musix ===== To Try - http://www.mediamonkey.com/ (BBC News - Click - ) Office ====== http://symphony.lotus.com/ IBM Lotus Symphony https://huckster.dev.java.net/ Huckster is a simple program for doing presentations. Partition Editor ================ http://partedmagic.com/ Parted Magic Recommended by Alasdair. Gnome Partition Editor ---------------------- The http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ Gnome Partition Editor has a LiveCD which can be used to resize NTFS partitions. - Download the GParted LiveCD ISO image. - Optionally burn the ISO image to a CD. - Boot from the CD or straight from the ISO image. - Hit when you see the message "Boot:". - Select language, keyboard and screen resolution from the menus. - The partitioner should start and the following steps are intuitive. Have fun! Partimage --------- http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. PDF === See :doc:`../pdf/links` PDF Links, PDFCreator Photo ===== Alasdair recomends this file recovery software: http://www.piriform.com/recuva Presentation ============ http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/DemoHelperInfo Remote ====== https://www.crossloop.com/ CrossLoop Simple Secure Screen Sharing. To try: - http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals Terminals is a multi tab terminal services/remote desktop client}}. - To Try - LogMeIn (BBC News - Click - ) - https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp - http://www.teamviewer.com/. Recommended to me at EuroPython 2010. Rescue ====== See *Photo* category (above) for recovery software. http://sysresccd.org/ SystemRescueCd http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Ultimate Boot CD for Windows Repaired GB's laptop... http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/use-ubuntu-live-cd-to-backup-files-from-your-dead-windows-computer/ Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer}} http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD. RSS === http://www.rssowl.org RSSOwl Screen Capture http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms669985.aspx HTML Image Editor Try the following: - http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# on the .Net platform. - http://www.ntwind.com/software/winsnap.html WinSnap - http://www.windowclippings.com/ Window Clippings Search ====== To try (Shareware) http://www.wingrep.com/ Windows Grep is a tool for searching files for text strings that you specify. Security ======== AVG Anti Virus -------------- http://free.grisoft.com/ AVG Anti Virus To disable, switch off *Resident Shield*. .. note:: Install AVG 8.0 Free Edition without the LinkScanner component http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1238#faq_1238 Run the installation with the parameters:: /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch avg_free_stf_*.exe /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch Uninstall An uninstaller can be downloaded from http://www.avg.com/download-tools Issues http://www.avg.com/filedir/util/support/avg_resacc_en.exe ClamWin Antivirus ----------------- Probably worth trying it out: http://www.clamwin.com/ KeePass ------- http://keepass.info/ KeePass, the free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. RISING Antivirus ---------------- http://www.freerav.com/ Simon Berriman is trying it out Spybot ------ http://www.spybot.info/ Spybot - Search & Destroy Synchronisation =============== http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html Unison - File Synchronizer Taskbar ======= http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm Taskbar Shuffle Text Editor =========== http://www.pspad.com/ PSPad http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/TextEditor/index.html BEST TEXT EDITOR :doc:`ultraedit` UltraEdit Twitter ======= http://www.twhirl.org/ Utility ======= http://www.autohotkey.com/ AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd2.html NirCmd is a small command-line utility that allows you to do some useful tasks without displaying any user interface. http://www.zabkat.com/ xplorer2 exponential growth to file management productivity. http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ Unlocker http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2007/06/03/train-to-be-a-keyboard-master-with-keyboard-jedi.aspx Train to be a Keyboard Master with Keyboard Jedi http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/ WCD - Wherever Change Directory - Another Norton Change Directory (NCD) clone with more features. http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html nLite - Windows Installation Customizer Virtual Desktop =============== Download and install *Virtual Desktop Manager* from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP How to use: Right click on the taskbar, click toolbars, then click *Desktop Manager*. If the taskbar is locked and you want to resize the manager, you will have to unlock it. XML === http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&displaylang=en Microsoft - XML Notepad 2007