Posted: March 17th, 2007, 18:49
My list, I've copied this verbatim from a post I did on my website 6 months ago, it was popular for a little while and I hope it's useful to 5punkers. I don't believe it's self-promotion per-se, but if the admins feel I've overstepped the mark then they should remove this post and I have absolutely no problem with that.
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This is a list of software that I carry on my portable thumbdrive (1Gb). Almost all of it is Freeware (any exceptions are noted) and most of it is Open Source too.
The flashkey has an autorun.inf to start PStart on double click, or on the right click menu either open explorer or mount a Truecrypt archive (to protect customer data). Lastly the key is bootable with Acronis True Image V9
Installations for PC's
Diagnostics & Removal - Working directly from drive
Only two, but I have to have them.
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This is a list of software that I carry on my portable thumbdrive (1Gb). Almost all of it is Freeware (any exceptions are noted) and most of it is Open Source too.
The flashkey has an autorun.inf to start PStart on double click, or on the right click menu either open explorer or mount a Truecrypt archive (to protect customer data). Lastly the key is bootable with Acronis True Image V9
Installations for PC's
- 7-Zip - Supports ZIP,RAR and many others and it's own 7z format is hard to beat.
- Ad-aware - Spyware cleaner
- ActiveSync 4.2 - PocketPC Sync software
- Adobe Reader - PDF Reader
- Audacity - for recording and editing sounds
- Autohotkey - hotkeys and keyboard macro program for repetitive tasks.
- AxCrypt - File Encryption Software with a nice "Shred file" feature
- Blender - suite of tools for 3D creation
- CDBurnerXP Pro - CD/DVD burning solution
- Codecs All-in-one - one of the most complete codec packs
- DaemonTools- Virtual CD/DVD-ROM Emulator - Freeware for private use only (V4+ includes spyware, use 3.x)
- .NET Framework
- Exact Audio Copy - copy audio data from an audio CD with jitter correction.
- EFS3 (Email Forwarding System) - POP3 gateway for any SMTP server
- Wireshark - network protocol analyzer (changed its name from Ethereal)
- Files and Settings Transfer Wizard - helps you copy files and settings from your old computer to a new computer (Commercial software found on Windows XP CD)
- Filezilla - fast and reliable FTP client and server
- Firefox - open-source web browser
- Firetune - optimization software for Firefox
- Gaim - instant messenger client, which can handle multiple protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!
- Google Desktop - easy access to information on your computer and from the web
- GTK+ - package needed for GIMP and Gaim
- HTML Slideshow - create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures
- HTTrack Website Copier - easy-to-use offline browser utility
- ImageResizer Powertoy - resize one or many image files with a right-click.
- Inkscape - Inkscape is a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator
- Flash player for Mozilla/Opera
- InnoSetup - powerful script based freeware installation builder
- Java Runtime Environment - allows end-users to run Java applications
- KeePass - open-source password safe
- LAME - LGPL MP3 encoder for use with EAC.
- MySQL ODBC Connector
- NVU - WYSIWYG HTML editor with site manangement features
- OpenOffice- free office suite to use and distribute
- OpenVPN- full-featured SSL VPN solution
- PaintDotNet - image and photo manipulation software
- PDFCreator - easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer.
- Barts PEBuilder - Create Windows bootdisk for PC maintenance tasks
- Picasa2 - Photoeditting software
- Planner - project scheduling tool
- Quicktime Alternative - Play Quicktime files without installing Quicktime player
- Realplayer Alternative - Play Realplayer files without installing Realplayer
- RunPCRun Total Support - Have to carry around our support package!
- Skype - The now famous VoIP software. Will be lovely when there's a proper Asterisk gateway.
- Spambayes - Probability based mail felcher includes Microsoft Outlook plug-in.
- Thunderbird - cross-platform email and Usenet client
- TightVNC - remote control software
- TrueCrypt - create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk
- WinSCP - SCP/SFTP client
- XnView - View and convert graphics files - not free for commercial use
- 7-Zip - dragging the folder containing the executables seems to work
- KeePass - Password Safe, use zip version for portability
- Firefox Portable - the portable version of this great browser
- Portable Filezilla - portable FTP client
- Portable Clamwin - portable antivirus
- Portable Gaim - portable Messaging
- Portable NVU - portable HTML editor
- Portable Thunderbird - portable email program
- Notepad2 - notepad replacement
- Spacemonger - show the layout of files and space on a hard drive.
- Putty - SSH client
- TrueCrypt - create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk without installation
Diagnostics & Removal - Working directly from drive
- Dependency Walker - scans any Windows module and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules
- DiskMon - logs and displays all hard disk activity
- Filemon - displays file system activity on a system in real-time
- PortMon - displays all serial and parallel port activity
- Process Explorer - shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded
- Pstools - SysInternals 'Resource Kit'
- RegMon - Real-time Registry monitoring utility
- TCPView - detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system. Graphical netstat
- TokenMon - monitors and displays a variety of security-related activity taking place on a system
- Winobj - display information on the NT Object Manager's name space
- Norton Removal Tool - Norton can be stubborn to remove at times.
- autoruns - show all auto-starting locations
- HijackThis
- RootkitRevealer - advanced rootkit detection utility
- WinsockXPFix - simple winsock fix. i don't know if it's just netsh int ip reset but it does work.
- NT Resource Kit - the original resource kit (not freeware)
- 2000 Resource Kit - (not freeware)
- 2000 Support Tools
- 2003 Resource Kit - (not freeware)
- UnixUtils - ports of common GNU utilities
- BluesPortScan - Fast port scanner
- eicar - Anti virus test file
- pixie - an 8Kb colour picker
- rawwritewin - for writing floppy disk images
- tftpd32 - TFTP server
- UPX - powerful executable packer
- Tight VNCviewer - just the viewer
- WinSCP - standalone WinSCP
Only two, but I have to have them.
- Acronis True Image V9 - Great HDD imaging utility.
- NOD32 - The only antivirus we recommend
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that's a brilliant post, and I will run through some of them later on, they look really useful!
*dribbles*
with added fix'd.
