What Are Your Favorite PC Utilities?

[Fun Guy]

I recently found PowerStrip and Prime95. Made me wonder how many other cool utilities out there I am completely unaware of. What are your favorites? (Please link if possible)

 

[John]

winzip
winrar
icq
aim
HDtach
acdsee

 

[damocles]

all can be found at
www.download.com

or

www.tweakfiles.com

HDTACH
DAP (Flashget is better, but not so user friendly)
Powerstrip is a must
Tweakgui
Cacheman
RegCleaner

 

[Floyd]

Technically not all utilities, but here's my definitive list:

File Utilities
WinZip
WinRar
Winimage (disk images)
UltraEdit (bin/hex)

System Utilities
Norton SystemWorks
PowerQuest PartitionMagic & DriveImage
InstallWatch Pro and/or Arkosoft System Snapshot (registry/HD scanner)
HDTach
TweakUI

Audio
WinAmp
CoolEdit

Image Utilities
IrfanView (viewing/editing)
PaintShop Pro (editing)

Video Utilities
VirtualDub (general editing)
FlaskMPEG (VOB/MPEG decoding)
AviSynth (nonlinear editing, frameserving)
ProjectDivX (merging low- & fast-motion AVI's)
Vobdec GUI (ripping DVD's)
PowerDVD

CD Recording
Nero (overall)
CloneCD (copy protection)
CDRWin (patched binaries & ISO's)
CDSpeed (CD Benchmarking)
AutoPlay Menu Studio
Surething CD Labeler

Email
Pegasus Mail

Web
IE 5.01 (as much as it pains me to admit it)
Go!Zilla
WS_FTP

Also have some picks for loudspeaker and PCB development, but doubt it would concern anyone here. That's pretty much a snapshot of my hard drive!

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[abovewood]

WinZip
Getright

ACS See
ThumbsPlus

Norton Utilities
PartitionMagic
TweakUI

 

[|TOAST|]

Not all are UTILs but some are good or troubleshooting or other things

TrayIt
TweakUI
BinChunker
WCPUID
powerstrip
APCOMPAT.EXE for WIN2K to make games/programs run/install in a compatibility mode for NT4 SP 3,4 or 5 WIN98 or WIN95

 

[Mule]

I just have 60.7 GB of porn

 

[Dameon]

Mule - Get ACDsee with A scroll mouse and use their browser to ermmm.... full screen browse thru it all. (Not that I would know about such things.)

 

[Blain]

Gozilla
Tweakall
Toolstar for Windows

 

[Jeff H]

Winzip
Winamp

And, the two most basic utilities I use on a daily basis are RegClean and Emergency Recovery Utility. ERU especially has saved my backside more than a few times.

 

[setaanbomb]

Well, I hate any utility that has Ads in it. Adware is plain evil.

I like

WinRar
CuteFTP
MusicMatch Jukebox
ICQ