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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.
1. COD MW2
1. VirtuaWin - Multi desktop (my switch desktop shortcut is ctrl+alt+win+arrows) (GPL)
2. YzShadow - drop shadow on windows (pointless pretty eye candy) (Free)
3. GVim (GPL)
4. Abyss Web Server (simple local webserver) (BSD)
5. On Windows XP - Royale Noir Theme (Kinda Hacky Commercial)
6. Office 2007 (Commercial)
7. TOAD (Commercial)
8. cmd.exe (Commercial)My 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.
It'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.
If you can get over that it's made by Microsoft, Windows Security Essentials is free and IMO better than AVG. I also saw somewhere that it outperforms it but I don't recall the source.
I'll spare everyone the Outlook/OneNote and just list the possibly unusual: - VistaSwitcher (alt-tab replacement) - FeedDemon (most RSS is actually on iPhone with MobileRSS) - LastPass (Firefox plugin) - HandBrake (and complimentary Bulk Rename Utility) - Paint.Net (free image editor) - Windows Live Photo Gallery - Live Mesh - JungleDisk (backup to S3)
must-haves for whom? I can't think of any identifiable group of users for whom this list can be the list of must-haves..
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I'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 cygstart is much the same as cmd start, except it understands Cygwin paths.
Almost forgot about another one--I still use some of the MS powertoys.
1. Display Fusion (In UltraMon the font on task bars in my 2nd and 3rd monitor is unreadable)
2. Ditto - clipboard manager (free, open source )
3. Used so be Foxit Reader, now it's Sumatra PDF
4. Used to use Foxit's ifilter for searching PDF's but now I see it's commercial: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/