Useful Freeware Utilities

jbloggs · 13 Feb 2010 at 22:09

Ratbag said:
Puran Defrag has recently gone freeware. Don't fret about the pretty crappy website - it's one of the best defraggers out there.

Thanks Ratbag...

jbloggs · 17 Feb 2010 at 13:24

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jbloggs · 17 Feb 2010 at 20:12

mrk said:
VHD Attach!

http://www.jmedved.com/?page=vhdattach

Cheers mrk...

jbloggs · 18 Feb 2010 at 12:02

MarcLister said:
http://lifehacker.com/5473204/back4sure-makes-quick-work-of-backing-up-files-to-a-usb-drive

I like the way you can select the directories to backup...very straightforward!

jbloggs · 21 Feb 2010 at 18:36

Adward said:
PPT to Video Free
http://www.acoolsoft.com/

I use it to convert my PowerPoint presentation to video so that I can put it to YouTube and share with people. It's a free program and I really like it. I think it allows people who don't have PowerPoint installed on their computer to watch the presentation online at ease. It's a great assistant to me.

Thanks...added.

EDIT: Free Software Directory

jbloggs · 24 Feb 2010 at 21:58

MarcLister said:
http://lifehacker.com/5479395/mute-...turns-off-your-speakers-when-you-lock-your-pc

Looks good, would like something that could pause a media player when I lock my PC.

That's handy...I've not come across something like this before...

jbloggs · 1 Mar 2010 at 03:10

MarcLister said:
Disk Space Fan...

Nice pretty colours... :cool:

jbloggs · 1 Mar 2010 at 12:11

avec said:
http://code.google.com/p/monitores/

I think most will find MonitorES is a better solution to do the same job (and more).

This utility is already in the list...

jbloggs · 4 Mar 2010 at 15:02

Radiation said:
This thread really could do with a short best of list with only one or two programs for every use.

Are you offering to do it?

jbloggs · 4 Mar 2010 at 16:01

Come on that's not the attitude to take

MarcLister and I have spent MANY hours putting this list together, at the present time neither of us have the spare time to start putting together a shortened version of it...

If you would like to make a post with the best 2/3 utilities from each section, Marc and I will look at it etc with a view to putting it into a separate post at the top of the list...

jbloggs · 4 Mar 2010 at 21:55

i could run off a quick list of what i think is best

Thanks...that would be most helpful...say list the 3 best/most used utilities from each section, for large sections (like Desktop, Network etc) say up to 6 utilities...just make the list in a post in this thread and Marc and I will see it straight away...

Thanks...

jbloggs · 8 Mar 2010 at 15:33

Radiation said:
Ok sure but i can only do the ones i know about and believe to be good, this is a community driven thing so i can only do my part.

Avast Antivirus
Microsoft Security Essentials
Spybot S&D

Grooveshark
SHOUTcast
Spotify

Audacity

IMGBurn

7-Zip
WinRAR

Paint.NET

Firefox
Thunderbird

OpenOffice

Foxit Reader

SyncToy

VLC media player

Avidemux

Thanks...

jbloggs · 15 Mar 2010 at 16:00

Radiation said:
So hows the list going?

Coud do with a few more suggestions for the following sections:

Compression/Decompression

Desktop Enhancements

HTML/Text/CSS Editors

Registry/(Unwanted) Data Removal Software

General Utilities And Other Applications

Have already put a number of them into BOLD text...

jbloggs · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:33

Ignore...

jbloggs · 6 May 2010 at 13:32

Acemath said:
Just wondering,are these apps "free for life"or are they "30 day trails"?

They are ALL "Freeware," NOT "Shareware"...ie., ALL are "free for life"...

jbloggs · 24 May 2010 at 12:35

Khaaan! said:
Sharewatch + Sharewatcher
http://www.stevemiller.net/sharewatch/
http://www.thecodeline.com/index.aspx

Watches and shows who is connected to a PC share on the network and shows the files that person is viewing. Quite handy indeed!

I'm using Sharewatch

Thanks...

jbloggs · 3 Jun 2010 at 10:29

Thanks Marc...all updated.

jbloggs · 7 Jun 2010 at 17:35

Every utility in the list is "Useful," the ones that are particularly good (and would be used the most) are highlighted in BOLD ... thus, both the popular and obscure needs are catered for...

jbloggs · 10 Jun 2010 at 14:03

MarcLister said:
http://lifehacker.com/5559319/pir-creates-directory-folder-and-file-lists

http://www.pekspro.com/english/pir.html

I might really actually use this! At work I have to update laptops for the teachers and some of the laptops are quite fussy about taking Windows Updates. I get around this by downloading all the updates from Microsoft's site and creating a batch file that runs each installer update in turn silently and passively. I'm trying to save time so that I can mimic the real Windows Update automated process as much as possible. I download the updates into a special "Windows Update", sponsored by Ronseal, folder and then open a command prompt and navigate to the download folder and export the list of the files to a text file where I then have to append each file name with the necessary flags to make the installers run silently and not to restart the PC after each update install.

Pretty nifty so it is...

jbloggs · 10 Jun 2010 at 16:45

SiriusB said:
At least move the best to the top of each section!

But whatever, t'is merely a suggestion!

Moving the best to the top of each section would accomplish nothing that I can see, simply making unnecessary work for me, as the items in BOLD are more than easily seen along with the explanatory NOTE at the top of the list...