Q: What are those essential Utils & Tools that you can't live with out?

[wahrez]

Hi Guys I just wanted to find out what are the essential tools & utils (pref. freeware or shareware) that you can't live without on your PC?

I'll start the ball rolling with:


X-Desk (Multiple Desktops)
ZoneAlarm (Firewall)
AutoExit (Schedule shut-downs and restarts locally and remotely)
KaZaA (Online File-sharing)
Real Jukebox (Not my pref. choice but I've got over 7,000 tracks and it has great track management features.)


I'm particularly interested in what apps you guys use for monitoring your internet connections and things like this?

Cheers

Wahrez

[NDC]

I'll list programs too!

Photoshop
Image Ready
Illustrator
Go Live
Corel Draw
ACDSee
SnagIt
Diskeeper
System Mechanic
NAV2001
MBM4
Clear Event Log
ICQ
Adaptec Direct CD
WinAMP

and a few others. I just can't think of more at the moment...


[This message has been edited by NDC (edited 08-01-2001).]

[SickPup404]

ACDSee
ZoneAlarm (DEFINITELY)
RealJukebox (register free and you can rip at up to 192k! Plusses to track management here too!)
Nero
EasyCDCreator
TweakUI
TweakDUN
DUNCE
ICQ
NetMedic
ISpeed
MBM
Norton AV

(probably many more, but I'm at work and going by memory)

[Sweeper]

Winzip
Most of the other's have been listed already.

[Graham]

Irfanview

G

[thehig]

Got to add Morpheus (File Sharing)

Music City (http://www.musiccity.com)

[This message has been edited by thehig (edited 08-01-2001).]

[muchmark]

Hi,
For me its WinMX (http://www.winmx.com)
Regards...

[^hyd^]

Photoshop/ImageReady
Norton Utilities
Office 2000
Visual Studio
WinAmp
ICQ
KazaA
WinRar
NotePad!

and of course
Half-Life/CounterStrike!!

and one or two custom apps of my own, with more to come...

[flea]

Mini-commander (gnome applet that had a command line)

Kedit (for writing posts, for spell checking and backup just incase the post
fails, nice and simple like notepad)

Midnight commander (very good and easy to use text based file manager)

Opera, especially the separate taskbar and download screen (has stop/resume
etc)

X-chat (not just for chat, it keeps the internet connection alive as well)

XMMS / XMMS gnome applet (mp3 player)

-Flea

[darrelld]

Dr.TCP
RegCleaner

[Juliana]

Photoshop6, Acrobat5, Nero5.5, TweakUI, Partition Magic6, QuickTime5,RegCleaner, ACDsee, Norton System Works 2001, Mpower1.2, StartCPL, WinAmp, and few more that should alway be on my system.

[BBA]

Hard one...then I found only one shareware app...Webferret. All the rest I bought.

One other neat thing is powerzip...much better than winzip simply because it does rar's and such as well as anything winzip does.
http://www.trident-software.com/

[OuTpaTienT]

Photoshop
ACDSee<FONT COLOR="red">*</FONT c>
Irfanview
ThumbsPlus
Metapad<FONT COLOR="red">*</FONT c>
HzTool
Winamp
Macro Express
GameSpy
TNTclock
WCPU_ID
WinZip (&/or DOS PKZip)<FONT COLOR="red">*</FONT c>
WinRar
WinAce
WinTV
Wavelab
Netscape
MBProbe
Landmark
Exact Audio Copy
Z-tree (&/or X-tree)<FONT COLOR="red">*</FONT c>

(I guess honestly I could do without any of them, & on occasion have. But the ones marked with the "<FONT COLOR="red">*</FONT c>" are the ones I truly feel lost without.)

[F4_Hunter]

A few of my essentials:
StarOffice
FTP Explorer
WinZip
Mobo Monitor
Sisoft Sandra
Download Accelerator
and of course the D.Net RC5 client. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

F4

[crazyray]

EZCD Creator
Winzip
Adobe Photodeluxe
Acoustica's MP3 To Wave 1.21
Sound Forge
Cute FTP (older version w/o spyware)
ICQ
RazorLAME
Audiograbber
Xing MP3 player
Xing MP3 editor
id3kill
CloneCD

[eagle1]

Definitely

Irfanview
MBM5
CloneCD
Nero 5.5
ICQ
Photoshop 6
Flash 5.0
CoffeeCup HTML Editor.!

[scoots987]

Here are mine, excuse the repeats but these are my essentials:

ZoneAlarm
McAfee AV
Norton System works 2001
ICQ
Notepad(sometimes textpad)
StupenDOS
Winzip(DOS zip)
Outlook Express
Sysopt.com ;-)
Symantec PCAnywhere

[scoots987]

darrelld
What is Dr.Tcp?

[Comtech]

Irfanview
Power Archiver (FREE Winzip clone)
Push the Freakin' Button ***
TclockEx
Cdex
CloneCD
Nero
Partition Magic
Ghost
Win98 bootdisk

***Absolutely indispensible, pushes any onscreen button that would otherwise require a mouse click, great for "nag screens", etc.

[Crimson_Waylander]

Mine are:

ICQ 98a / AIM 4.3x
WS_FTP Lite
Textpad
Eudora
Nero 5.5
CloneCD 2.5.x.x
ACDsee 2.4
Diskeeper
Ad-aware
InoculateIT
Trojan Remover
Winkey
Remote Administrator
Drempels
Powerstrip
and a hardware firewall

[acid_burn~187]

Debian Linux
licq (icq client)
mozilla (browser)
xmms (winamp clone for linux)
grip (linux CD ripper/mp3 encoder front end)
KDE (I dont' like gnome)
Word Perfect (version 8 for linux)
Corel Draw
Gimp (Image editing program for linux)
traceroute, sniffit, PING!!!

~Paul http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[rbvpp]

I load:
Rain
Winzip
Winamp
Gozilla
Unreal Tournament
SiSoft Sandra


ADSW

[narayan]

Explorer Plus - Split pane explorer window
Winamp
Zone Alarm (Duh) http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
CD Crator

[eq.rights]

File sharing programs

[griobhta]

a little program called

Startup control panel
freeware find it at download.com
Powerdesk Explorer
get a freeware version at ontrack.com
ZoneAlarm

Trillian
messenger that will talk to MSN and Yahoo www.trillian.cc (http://www.trillian.cc)

Winamp
Audiogalaxy
Morpheus

must be a few more but can't think at the moment

Griobhta

[jray]

Ghost
Lost & found
Partition magic...

[voogru]

Ghost
AO-HELL Instant Messenger (nice to talk to g/f http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif )
ICQ
Photoshop
Winzip
WinRAR
VISE Installer
ACDSee
WS_FTP Pro
DreamWeaver4
Winboost 2001
PartitionMagic V.6.0
Color Cop
Adobe Illustrator 9.0
Sub7 j/k http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
Nero5
Half-Life (TFC and CS)
Half-Life: Admin Mod (server side Administrator tool!)
KaZaa
Windows 2000 http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
World Craft
NOTEPAD!
WORDPAD!
Format.com (dos Program instantly fixes pc http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif )
JoneSoft File Splitter

-voogru






[This message has been edited by voogru (edited 08-06-2001).]

[Solidus]

mIRC

[Barney]

-Notepad
-Word
-Calculator
-Paint Shop Pro/Animation Shop
-Norton SystemWorks (Speeddisk/Windoctor)
-TweakAll
-Pop-Up Stopper
-AdSubstract
-WinRAR
-GetRight
-Winamp

[abcham]

I like most of the listed software, but I'm surprised nobody mentioned GoBack. That is one cool program. I apologize if somebody listed it and I overlooked it.

[John Prophet]

Win ME Restore!
RegCleaner
Cacheman

[Target]

Haven't seen 'em mentioned yet, so thought I would throw these two into the hat:

Both are free from AnalogX www.analogx.com (http://www.analogx.com)

NETSTAT LIVE Real-time monitoring/reporting of your uploads and downloads, CPU utilization, system threads, and more. Way cool utility for free!

MAXMEM Utility to free memory on your machine. Can be set to periodically do it for you at certain thresholds, or you can do manually from systray. Also very handy, and did I mention free? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[gfunkmartin]

prolly some repeats, but here goes:

AIM
WinAMP
EZ Scheduler
TweakUI
ACDSee
Ghost 2001
msconfig.exe
format.com
edit.com
command.com (along w/ msdos.sys, io.sys)
WinZip
Ctrl-Alt-Del

I'm out...J

[smoss62]

1. Simple MP3 maker
2. Unreal Tournament...GOTY
3. FreeMem
4. Serials2000
5. PC-Cillin
6. Partition Magic

Thats it for now

[oldhermit]

Hi Wahrez, I have 'em all on my desktop of every config:

Norton Internet Security
Cleansweep
Zip-It
Dos Prompt
DosEdit
Notepad
Calculator
Word
Excel
Illustrator
Acrobat Reader
Partition Magic
American Heritage Dictionary
An eternal Calendar I built using VB
A Dos address book I built using batch cmds
and as of today, SiSoft Sandra.

[bwlegan]

Irfanview for fast JPG
DUMeter to monitor internet throughput
ProComm for faxes and other comm things
Exacttime to reset my system clock from the NIST
PKZip for Windows, don't like Winzip

[jcbama]

I load eDexter everytime I start.

[Herb']

V-SHREDDER.BAT

@echo off
attrib -r -s -h "%1\*.*"
for %%n in ("%1\*.*") do copy %windir%\explorer.exe "%%n"
for %%n in ("%1\*.*") do copy nul "%%n"
echo y|del "%1\*.*"
exit

put it into SendTo folder and send a superfluous directory to it, you'll see http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[This message has been edited by Herb' (edited 08-09-2001).]

[Makaveli]

Just a suggestion, but everybody else from now on, when you post the programs, could you list what the programs do? This way I can check out the programs if they seem interesting... Thanks...

-MaK

[papawealey]

How about:

Programmer's File Editor (PFE)

Don't know if its still around anymore.

[shawnr]

I see alot of utilities listed that are already part of Windows (i.e. msconfig). Here's one for you, Delpart, ever try to delete an NTFS partition? This originally came with Windows NT 3.1 and is freely available on the internet (very easy to use, works great!).

[lidex]

Ad-aware(finds and deletes spyware)
Eraser(file shredder)
Net Vampire Pro(ftp&http download manager)
Quintessential Player[QCD](cd,mp3 player)
Sygate Personal Firewall
Textshield(text editor)
WinRescue 98(system crash-guard;registry optimizer)
Xteq X-Setup(detailed tweaker for windows)
ZipCentral(zip file manager)
AnalogX Atomic Timesync(internet time sync)
Bigfix(file and program updates/fixes)
Broadband Wizard(optimizes settings for broadband)
EasyCleaner(registry & file cleaner)
WinRar(manage those pesky rar files)

For the most part the rest have been mentioned.



[This message has been edited by lidex (edited 08-16-2001).]