Why is VMWare and Beyond Compare listed as shareware? VMWare Player is free, but not Workstation. And I doubt Server is either (haven't looked). Beyond Compare is great, but it costs $30.
Must-Have Windows Programs (or Windows Programs that I use)
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#12I prefer FreeOTFE to TrueCrypt because it can use LUKS partitions (which are used by Linux).
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#13GridMove.
I spend most of my time in a tiling window manager in linux and I'd go insane without some half-decent tiling support. GridMove isn't perfect, but its enough to keep me happy when I use Windows outside of gaming (where I obviously don't need tiling) or running Visual Studio (which I run in full screen, so also don't need tiling).
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#14It's worth noting that Windows 7 obsoletes a bunch of those utilities:
TrueCrypt - Bitlocker comes with it Locate32 - Indexed search is now built-in Launchy - Start menu now defaults to search DUMeter - Part of the Task Manager Taskbar Shuffle - Finally possible directly in windows
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#15Wow. XML Notepad is just what I had been looking for.
Windows apps I can't live without in order of importance:
1. StrokeIt
2. HotChime (disclaimer: I wrote it)
3. EmEditor (text-ed of choice)
4. Popular stuff: Thunderbird, Pidgin, Chrome, FF
5. ChimeNote (disclaimer: I wrote it)
6. FileZilla
7. MySQL Front v2.5 (all other versions suck)
8. UltraVNC
9. PuTTy
10. Paint Shop Pro / Paint.NET (either works)
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#16 1. Notepad++ (though I'm almost 100% Emacs at this point)
2. Filezilla
3. imo.im client (because I need Skype for work, but the latest client does Bad Things with MS Office 2007)
4. Cygwin
5. PowerShell
6. Paint.NET
7. Wireshark
8. SysInternals Process Explorer
9. ReflectorRe: Must-Have Windows Programs (or Windows Programs that I use)
#17My list is rather small: Beyond Compare - I have yet to find a comparison tool which is as versatile as Beyond Compare. ClipX - It will change your life! :) Vim - Can't live without it.
How does one change the paste in ClipX to Win+V like the author suggested? I can only change it to Ctrl/Alt/Shift+V.
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#18I've got a little windows utility called "open". If I'm in a dos box and want to open a windows explorer instance in the current directory, I just type "open .". It globs too, so if I'd like to view all the pdf files in the current directory, I can "open *.pdf". I use it all the time. NTP has been ported to windows, and I run it on all my machines. rsync, of course. NSIS for building install programs. Maybe there's s…
The cmd builtin 'start' will do much of that, but not for globs.
Under cygwin, I'd do this for an equivalent to what you describe as 'open':
#!/bin/bash
for f; do
cygstart "$f"
done
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#19It's rare that I use Windows these days, but Crimson Editor, AVG, Malwarebytes, Digsby, Launchy, TinyGrab, PuTTy, WinSCP, Winamp Classic, VLC.... then there's a lot of everyday, non-windows specific (not that everything in the previous list is) stuff that I use, like git, Skype, FF, Photoshop & Illustrator, etc.
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#201. Notepad++ (though I'm almost 100% Emacs at this point) 2. Filezilla 3. imo.im client (because I need Skype for work, but the latest client does Bad Things with MS Office 2007) 4. Cygwin 5. PowerShell 6. Paint.NET 7. Wireshark 8. SysInternals Process Explorer 9. Reflector
My Mods/Adds
1) JEdit and VIM
10) Slickrun (floating command prompt)
11) Fiddler2
12) Visual VM
13) 7-zip instead of WinRar from the original article