What program has proven most useful?

delanvital · January 25, 2006, 12:13:42 PM

The program in my case would have to be Total Commander. The program has a short-cut for just about everything and can do just about anything. For me it took over from Norton Commander from the DOS days. To me it is one of the most used programs and still in use every day, it is one of the first things that get installed after a fresh win install.

What is yours? Any REALLY good utilities that you use everyday? And you have used for a long time?

Blunt · January 25, 2006, 12:26:07 PM

Disc defrag & defrag that works at boot stage(can't remember the name but it was free)

I defrag like an obsessive compulsive...I like to see everything neatly stacked in one chunk :blush:

I defrag before and after installing anything, and auto defrag every night...the boot defrag, which I only use occasionally, does the windows files that won't move in normal d/f (cos they're windows files in use)

I started d/f'ing like this when my old pc was slow even with 1.5 gig RAM...I got it all neat and it works a treat

Edit: PageDefrag //www.sysinternals.com

Anonymous · January 25, 2006, 12:29:41 PM

Winzip - use it every day. I bought a licence for it when it still came on a floppy disk. I still ahve the floppy disk for sentimental reasons :blush:

Doorman · January 25, 2006, 12:47:15 PM

RegHeal: Got a thing about crap being left in the registry. I actually paid for this.

http://www.fixregistry.com/regheal/index.htm

Thulsa Doom · January 25, 2006, 12:53:11 PM

Neighbours and Corrie!

sulky_uk · January 25, 2006, 02:05:26 PM

big john's free poRn site locator :biggrin:

only jesting ad-aware for me just hate spyware :tongue:

DuVeL · January 25, 2006, 02:41:57 PM

Xfire and add-aware, also AntiVir.

big-paddy · January 25, 2006, 04:02:40 PM

eWallet

PC and PDA application. Stores all my passwords, websites, credit card, passport, you name it details. Synchronises PC and PDA. One password to everything I know and own.

Its like having a memory :blink:

KKND · January 25, 2006, 04:26:13 PM

Azureus dl proggie.

quickpar for repair parfiles.

Grabit...

ermmmm

Maus · January 25, 2006, 04:46:21 PM

I find Windows pretty essential, myself.

suicidal_monkey · January 25, 2006, 04:54:33 PM

firefox

delanvital · January 25, 2006, 05:42:26 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Maus@Jan 25 2006, 05:46 PM
I find Windows pretty essential, myself.
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I guess you could call windows utility software

OldBloke · January 25, 2006, 07:44:39 PM

Powerdesk. It's what XP's file explorer should have been.

BigFatCat · January 25, 2006, 09:22:26 PM

I guess Nero 6, paid $20 to upgrade from OEM 5.5 bundled with a cheapy cd writer. CloneCD is useful for playing CD games with a BACKUP of the original.

Actually, I'll chuck in a vote for WSUS as well. I can deploy updates for the 3 machines here without any bother. Better than SUS.

Whitey · January 25, 2006, 10:07:31 PM

I run a really usefull program on any PC's. It helps in the search for a cure to many fatal and dibilitating conditions. There's even a forum on this site dedicated to it.
Check out Dead Men Folding for more information and click Here for some of the results....

Give it a try, you know you want to