My Windows Software

I decided to post a list of my Windows software. I may stop using this OS soon, at least on a regular basis. All programs are used in compliance with their licenses!

Security

• Avira AntiVir Personal - Antivirus
• AVZ - Zaitsev’s Antivirus (system recovery + antivirus)
• Comodo Firewall - Firewall
• TrueCrypt - Encryption

Office

• OpenOffice.org - Office suite
• Microsoft Office Excel, Word, Visio and PowerPoint Viewers 2003 - Office viewers
• FreeMind, XMind - Mind maps (Mindmapping)

Internet

• Download Master, StrongDC++ and uTorrent - Download managers
• Mozilla Thunderbird - Email client
• CyberKit, Dig and Nmap - Network utilities
• Miranda, Skype, GTalk - Instant messaging clients
• FireFox, Opera, Safari - Browsers
• WinHTTrack - Website grabber (for creating site mirrors :)
• Putty - Shell (SSH, Telnet, Rlogin … etc.)
• WM Keeper Classic and WM Keeper Light - Internet banking

Multimedia

• K-Lite Codec Pack, Media Player Classic and Light Alloy - Video codecs and players
• AutoGK, SUPER (ffmpeg + mencoder) - Video conversion
• VirtualDub - Video editing
• Audacity - Audio editing
• AIMP2 - Audio player
• Mp3tag - Working with MP3 tags and collections. Sorting, masks, regexes, etc.

Graphics

• XnView (+Ghostscript) - Image viewing (+AI +PSD)
• Foxit Reader - A very speedy PDF reader
• Paint.NET, GIMP - Image editors
• Ape Webcolor - Color picker (the original ZIP archive is no longer available)

Utilities

• CCleaner - Cleaning junk out of the registry and the system as a whole
• SuperCopier - Copying, moving, queuing and resuming operations.
• Ultra Defrag - Defragmentation
• 7-zip - Archiver
• ImgBurn and Microburner - CD/DVD burning
• DAEMON Tools - CD/DVD emulation
• Acronis True Image - Backup (License)

Work

• Eclipse - IDE for PHP (PDT2) and Java
• NetBeans - IDE for PHP and Java
• MS Visual C++ Express - C/C++ development environment
• ArgoUML - UML design
• Total Commander and Far - File managers
• WinMerge - File and directory comparison
• Notepad++ - A fast, handy text editor with loads of plugins
• MySQL Query Browser - Query building
• MySQL Workbench - Database design
• HeidiSQL - A handy MySQL manager
• dbForge Studio for MySQL - Everything for MySQL
• TortoiseSVN - SVN client
• xDebug, WinCacheGrind, CacheGrindVisualizer - PHP debugger (profiler) and visualizers
• VirtualBox - Virtual machines
• Poedit - PO file editing

Loads of utilities from Sysinternals, NirSoft and nnsoft. Plus loads of utilities from wasm.ru (debuggers, decompilers, monitors, etc.). Lots of programs that I use fairly rarely, for example:

• Everest Home
• SiSoftware Sandra Lite
• MemTest86
• mhdd
• cpu-z
• ApiMonitor
• ApiSpy32
• DebugViewNt
• DiskMon
• FileMon
• ListDLLs
• PETools
• PortMonNt
• ProcessExplorer
• RegMonNt
• TCPView
• TdiMonNt
• cygwin
• EnableButton
• fLogViewer
• GMER
• usbdeview
• dd
• CDSlow
• Cobian Backup
• ProcessMonitor
• Dropbox
• PowerShell WindowsXP
• Tail
• FlyakiteOSX
• double driver
• nLite
• unlocker
• ResourceHacker
• TurboPascal
• W32Dasm
• TurboCpp
• PasswordsPro
• hiew
• John the Ripper password cracker
• wipfw
• etc.

P.S. I still haven’t decided whether to use Eclipse or NetBeans; each has its advantages… Both draw me in :/

P.S.S. Restored post.