What "little" program could you simply not do without?

[John Steven]

Some of my Favorites are;

Ifranview for Graphics
http://www.irfanview.com/

Access Manager for Password management
http://www.citi-software.co.uk/

Countdown for keeping track of future dates
http://www.contactplus.com/products/freestuff/count.htm

Ultimate Zip for file zipping
http://www.ultimatezip.com/

Partition Magic for disk management (not free, but well worth every penny paid)
http://www.powerquest.com/

Belarc Advisor for system information
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Roxio Easy CD Creator for burning CD's (also not free)
http://www.roxio.com/en/products/index.jhtml

[mawil]

Drive Image . Don't know how I lived without it.

[Webshark2000]

Originally posted by mawil:

Drive Image. Don't know how I lived without it.

Hey mawil, with Drive Image, is the image the exact same size as your Hard Drive saving each and every file, or compress them, or does it just save settings? I'm curious because most Hard Drives today would have way too much information to fit onto one zip disc. Is this similiar to Window's own System Restore?

[MiseryQ]

I've been thinking about this since the thread started and I finally came up with it after installing another OS on my computer...

Proxomitron... The 1st program that gets installed... It's on every computer and every OS on my tri-boot...

[jonnyb]

I've been thinking about this since the thread started and I finally came up with it after installing another OS on my computer...

Proxomitron... The 1st program that gets installed... It's on every computer and every OS on my tri-boot...

I was messing with this program and also was wondering how you got the blue banner above to go away. Haven't figured that one out yet. What's that called? Header?

[buf]

This seems to be the correct forum to place this in.
Listing and links to last Freeware applications before converting to Shareware:
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html

[Dr. Bob]

Ideal for testing your (new) LCD monitor/notebook for those dead/hot/just a little bit ill pixels.

Homepage.

Which after a few clicks brings you to this Windows version binaries (and source code) download page.

Although LCD screens are pretty good these days depending on the warranty you get you could take this with you if you buy in a local shop and test a screen before you take it with you. Later they will hit you with their 'pixel defect norms' policy.

[Alpalie]

This is an interesting thread, good Idea.
I like and have used for what seems like forever, these 3 programs.

"Irfanview",I luvit, "Mysendto", cant live without it and The Powertoy "Image resizer", unfortunately Microsoft hasn't adapted this one for Windows 7.

[mawil]

Webshark,

Drive Image makes a complete image of the HD and compresses it. You can select low, med, or high. It doesn't compress enough to fit on a zip disk though. It will span CD's if you have a burner. I just save the image file to another partition on my hard drive and also burn a basic image to CD with drivers, browser, ZA and a few other basic things installed.

My basic image is about 495 MB and my most recent (just of my C: drive) is 650 MB, using high compression.

It will also copy the entire contents of your drive to another HD if you ever upgrade.

[Webshark2000]

Thanks for the info mawil.

MiseryQ, I've never heard of that program, what's it do? I'm guessing it does something with proxies; it sounds interesting.

[MiseryQ]

It's a very strong, configurabled ad-blocker... Ad-subract licenses it's "code" from Proxomitrons developers... which is strange since Proxomitron is freeware ...

[rambler]

I've only got to look at my quick-launch toolbar to answer this one.

Proxomitron - wouldn't be without it. I've configured dozens of new filters for ad-blocking and altering webpage HTML. For instance, I can't see the large blue banner at the top of this page....

Download Mage takes care of all my downloads in the background - best there is.

Windows Commander which has so many features I can't list them all - yes I can! It's a dual-pane file manager which doesn't use the Explorer interface, so you can look inside Windows folders like Cookies and Temporary Internet Files and see what Windows doesn't want you to see. It has an excellent FTP client with drag 'n drop & parallel upload/download, superb search and multi-file rename, DOS command line, views RAR, ACE, ZIP files in folder view with drag 'n drop.... and lots more (I should negotiate commision terms!)

Mail Inspector is a free mail viewer which lets you view a list of emails sitting on your mail server(s) and delete all the rubbish before it hits your inbox, with email view and compose/send if you can't be bothered to launch your mail client. Help/support is a bit sparse, but if you can configure Outlook Express you'll find MI no problem at all.

For debugging I use Regmon and Filemon from http://www.sysinternals.com/ to selectively track all registry and file accesses. Don't need to use them all that often, thank Gates, but when I do they are absolutely indispensible.

Oh - and not exactly "little" programs, but neither would I be without Norton DiskDoctor and SpeedDisk.

[Mahmud603]

MailWasher. View, blacklist, bounce, delete or mark your e-mails for download. Good anti spam utility.

from

here

Free at the moment but not for long. Grab it now.

[Mahmud603]

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v1.31 from
Here

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, .NET, Office 97, and Office XP.

[alphanumeric]

Aida32 the worldwide system info tool.