The most useful tools thread

[Cliphead]

Delighted as I've been to have received help (and given some), I thought a thread where we could highlight some useful tools / apps / whatever might be appropriate.

Need to get rid of passwords on Win boxes? System Rescue CD does that job as well as many other useful functions.

Lavalys system info if you need to identify hardware and drivers.

Any other tips, tricks, apps?

[SimonMac]

Treesize for scanning volumes to find out whats sucking up all the free space

[Cliphead]

Treesize for scanning volumes to find out whats sucking up all the free space

Ooh, forgot about that one.

[monkfish]

Notepad++ and firewall builder get my vote.

[SimonMac]

Ooh, forgot about that one.

I have managed to keep an older version from before they limited the free one to not scan network drives

[SimonMac]

Delighted as I've been to have received help (and given some), I thought a thread where we could highlight some useful tools / apps / whatever might be appropriate.

Need to get rid of passwords on Win boxes? System Rescue CD does that job as well as many other useful functions.

Lavalys system info if you need to identify hardware and drivers.

Any other tips, tricks, apps?

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html is good if you want a quick freebie view of your system

[AtW]

Far Manager Official Site : main

[Contreras]

PDFCreator - print to PDF from any application. I like the 'wait' feature that allows successive prints to be collected into a single PDF. It's open source but stay alert during the install process which by default wants to install adware, toolbars etc. - the only bit you need is PDF Creator.

HashTab - Adds an extra tab to the Windows explorer file properties dialog to show the MD5 hash, CRC etc., of a file when right-clicking on it. For techies and PMs alike, if you have ever looked at file-size and date-stamp as a way to validate files then you need this instead.

Proggy Programming Fonts - Nice tidy fonts for use in your text editor of choice.

And lastly, Cygwin and GNU Emacs for actually getting stuff done.

[Spacecadet]

Paint.net - I never have much use for photoshop capabilities to it's good to have a free alternative for when I do

Sublime text editor - Thew new hip text editor (it's worth using for the features)

Ultramon - spreads the task bar across multiple monitors in windows XP, Vista and 7

ZipGenius - Free alternative to winzip and winrar (I've only used this for a couple of months but it seems to be going ok!)

StartisBack - vital for windows 8

ServiceManagerTray - Allows services to be controlled quickly from the task tray

BIDSHelper - If you use visual studio for SSIS/SSRS/SSAS then it adds a lot of extra functionality

TheRenamer - TV show file renamer

Filezilla - FTP client

[northernladuk]

I find MarillionFan is quite useful....