Software I use
posted by sacah on
DisplayFusion
Purchased. I couldn't live without this, task bars on each monitor, unbelievably useful. If you don't think so, you either don't have 20 applications open at once, or don't know what your missing. Download the demo and try it. The other features are neat, but I rarely use them.Ditto
Free. Clipboard manager, store a ton of copies, and let you select the one you want to paste with a simple hotkey. I use this a ton while programming, but still find it useful when I'm not coding.Take Ownership
Free. Registry hack that adds a 'Take Ownership' option to your right click menu. I use this when I copy files from a previous install of Windows, resets the permissions to me on my current install.TeraCopy
Free. Windows Copy Replacement. Fantastic replacement, cut/copy files and folders like normal, and on paste it will queue your files, and perform the copy. Has error handling, so no more broken copies halfway through, and seems to copy slightly faster. Amazingly well done program, and some of their Android tools are pretty awesome too.MSI Afterburner
Free. AMD VISION Engine Control Center replacement. Light weight, amazing fan control. This is so good I'd buy an MSI card over other comparable cards.avast!
Free. Great and light weight antivirus scanner. Does a great job, all the features you want, none of the bloat you don't. It does offer to install Chrome, I select this option as I use both Firefox and Chrome, and it gives avast! some money from Google.Defraggler
Free. Great defragmenter, see fragmented files, choose which ones to defragment. Super simple and works a treat.VLC Player
Free. The best media player, light, powerful, great to use. Nothing comes close to VLC.TightVNC
Free. Great Windows VNC server, small and fast with a multi-platform client(Java).Irfanview
Free. The best image viewer ever. Reads almost everything, has some great adjustment controls and it's batch mode is simple and fast.7-Zip
Free. Compression tool, reads/writes ZIPs, TARs, GZIPs and a range of other formats. Lightweight, does a great job.
clumsy
Simulates bad/laggy networks on Windows at the network driver level, so no need for proxy server settings etc.