Useful Freeware Utilities

[OhISee]

Driver Sweeper no longer exists, its Driver Fusion now. Nice guide but for AV I suggest Kaspersky, good detection rate.

 

[kmetek]

which one is better

Advanced System Optimizer
advanced system care
ashampoo winoptimizer8
tuneup utlitlies 2013

 

[IRLeetly]

Many thanks to this thread, I managed to recover all my holiday snaps from the past ten days when my memory card threw a wobbler.

Always the first stop for me when some software is needed. CHEERS!

 

[jbloggs]

Many thanks to this thread, I managed to recover all my holiday snaps from the past ten days when my memory card threw a wobbler.

Always the first stop for me when some software is needed. CHEERS!

Glad it was of use...

 

[MarcLister]

Many thanks to this thread, I managed to recover all my holiday snaps from the past ten days when my memory card threw a wobbler.

Always the first stop for me when some software is needed. CHEERS!

Cool!

Glad it was of use...

Nice to know the list still gets a lot of use eh?

 

[jbloggs]

Cool!

Nice to know the list still gets a lot of use eh?

Hi Marc...yes it is...

I do keep an eye on it at regular intervals, even adding the odd bit...

 

[MarcLister]

Hi Marc...yes it is...

I do keep an eye on it at regular intervals, even adding the odd bit...

Thought you did! Found anything cool of late?

 

[jbloggs]

Thought you did! Found anything cool of late?

Not really, just run-of-the-mill stuff...

 

[kmetek]

which program from burning dvd's/bluray's?

 

[jbloggs]

Have a look at:

Ashampoo Burning Studio

InfraRecorder

CDBurnerXP

 

[MarcLister]

My first one of these for a while!

http://lifehacker.com/5961264/scratchpad-puts-all-your-quick-temporary-notes-one-keystroke-away

Scratchpad is a simple little app that sits out of your way until you need it, providing you a quick place to jot down any and all notes with just a few keystrokes.

Scratchpad is simple: Press Win+S to bring up your pad, jot down your notes, then press Win+S to dismiss it again. It's portable, so you can stick it anywhere on your computer, and even give it a template so it starts off with the same skeleton note every time you start it up. You can run it as a standalone app or put it into one of your existing AutoHotkey scripts.

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/top...ppets-and-notes-for-programmers-and-students/

 

[jbloggs]

My first one of these for a while!

http://lifehacker.com/5961264/scratchpad-puts-all-your-quick-temporary-notes-one-keystroke-away



http://www.autohotkey.com/board/top...ppets-and-notes-for-programmers-and-students/

Thanks Marc, added...

 

[BananaDunka]

I've been looking for a quick way to convert an audio file (m4a) to mp3 for my phone tone and found this site which also does way more online for free:

http://www.online-convert.com/

Might be handy for others

 

[George Hincapie]

I've been looking for a quick way to convert an audio file (m4a) to mp3 for my phone tone and found this site which also does way more online for free:

http://www.online-convert.com/

Might be handy for others

Very nice find!

 

[jbloggs]

I've been looking for a quick way to convert an audio file (m4a) to mp3 for my phone tone and found this site which also does way more online for free:

http://www.online-convert.com/

Might be handy for others

Thanks mrk...added.

 

[tally2425]

Great thread, Would be nice to see a top 10 list too!

 

[kmetek]

Is there a program who scan's everthing and checks empty directories, uninstalled programs with directories or uninstalled hardware etc?

 

[Ðudeth]

Very random request, please can you change the colour of the bold highlighted programs, its hurting my eyes =)

 

[Ðudeth]

Great thread, Would be nice to see a top 10 list too!

Top 10 would be good, maybe a "starter pack" advisory or something

like standard ;
- system security kit
- system monitoring kit
- system maintenance kit
etc etc

especially for newbies like my self

 

[jbloggs]

Very random request, please can you change the colour of the bold highlighted programs, its hurting my eyes =)

They are that colour for a reason, so that they are very easily identifiable; they have been that colour for a very long time and there has only been one request in all that time to change it, that being yourself, so, no, it won't be changed...

Top 10 would be good

Ain't going to happen, as there are quite a few utilities in bold, which are the most popular and I don't have a clue what the top 10 used ones might be, nor do I have the time to find out...

Nor will there be any 'starter packs' etc, as the items in bold fulfil this...