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This is a list of tools i've found need for whilst working with Windows PC's, both professionally and personally. I've provided links as close to the download as possible whilst keeping the website's linking requests in mind.
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- Autopatcher XP
Until it's demise, AutoPatcher was handy for updating WindowsXP in one go, as well as various registry tweaks and useful miscellaneous programs. - AVG Anti-Virus Free
Free Anti-virus from AVG. Be sure to disable the daily scan, it's a pig for resources. - AVG Anti-Spyware Free
Free Anti-spyware from AVG, often finds things SpybotSD does not. - HijackThis
Useful tool for Windows users to find items that have hijcaked their Windows/IE installations - Spybot SD (Search and Destroy)
Anti-spyware tool, effective at removing many infections. - StartupCPL
Windows utility to view items set to run automatically at boot. - CPUz
Hardware utility, provides infromation on the Processor - HDTune
Hardware utility, provides infromation on the Hard Drive, includes benchmarking and SMART readings. - SpeedFan
Hardware utility, displays current system temperature and allows control over system fans. The link to the download is hard to find, it's in the second paragraph under header "Download", the link reads "The latest version is SpeedFan X.xx". - Alcohol 120%
Software for emulating a virtual CD Drive, making/burning ISO's and mounting them on a virtual drive. - WinDirStat
Hard drive-space utility, graphically shows the used/availabel space and sizes of file ont he hard disk. - Pidgin
Cross-platform, cross-protocol Instant Messenger, support MSN, AIM, Googletalk and many others. - Filezilla
FTP client, nice GUI with a site-manager. Works well, available for Windows and Linux. - VLCPlayer
Versatile Media Player for Windows and Linux. - uTorrent
An impressivly small BitTorrent client with all the features you'd expect, including a webmin. - PeerGuardian2
For use with a BitTorrent client, prevents you connecting to and IP address that's bad for your health. - Paragon
Both the "Drive Backup" and "Partition Manager" programs are useful for dealing with their respective tasks. "Drive Backup" offers one-button backup, disk imaging and restoring etc, "Partition Manager" will manage a variety of partition types. See website for more. - GIMP
Free image manipulation program, runs on Window/Linux - Fast Image Resizer
A fantastic tool for anyone thats ever had to resize large numbers of images to an array different sizes, FIR lets you browse to pictures in explorer, then drag and drop them into Fast Image Resizer window. The resized files are save to a custom directory.
