Occasionally there are posts which indicate the existence of nice free utilities (eg Search Agent) and I thought it would be good to share, even when not Delphi / ElevateSoft related.

My (partial) list is:

CCleaner - /www.ccleaner.com
JKDefrag
ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp
Autoruns - used to be sysinternals now M$
StartupDelayer - http://www.r2.com.au/
FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/
Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/


Roy Lambert

I'll add a few...

Asterisk Logger - http://www.nirsoft.net/
for when I forget a saved password

SyncToy - http://bit.ly/cHjd (Microsoft)
for synchronizing files between computers or USB drives

PhraseExpress - http://www.phraseexpress.com/
for auto-completing repetitive phrases

K-Lite Code Pack - http://www.codecguide.com/
for playing ANY audio file through Windows Media Player

RevoUninstaller - http://www.revouninstaller.com/
for COMPLETELY removing any installed application

FoxIt Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
for reading PDF files in a smaller, faster reader than Adobe's

Xmarks - http://www.xmarks.com/
for synchronizing web bookmarks between browsers and computers

ooVoo - http://www.oovoo.com/
for live video feeds with my family when I'm on the road

--
David Cornelius
Cornelius Concepts

And another one (a very fast file-searching-utility):

Agent Ransack -
http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?type=agentransack&page=home

Uli

I use
http://cdburnerxp.se/
to burn CDs/DVDs


I've used sdelete.exe from sysinternals
to clear free space on win 95/98 machines since
ccleaner.exe doesn't have that option for these versions of windows.
The current version doesn't mention these versions so not
sure if it still works but there's probably an older version around.


For all those multitude of passwords:
http://keepass.info/


JonD

And another one:


http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html

Absolute gem for those occasions when software will not clean up the registry as part of its uninstall. Without this I would have had some 1500 registry keys to delete manually.

Roy Lambert

Few more:

- Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) - text editor

- Imgburn (http://www.imgburn.com/) - very lightweight cd/dvd burner with full ISO image support

- Sysinternals Suite (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/default.aspx) - various tools

- VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) - yet to find a file this can't play

- MS Security essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/)

- Sun VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)
(VMWare Workstation is IMHO bit better still but not free like VirtualBox for product that can create VMs)

- OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/) - free SSL VPN for home for up to 2 connections

Raul

Jon,

<< I use
http://cdburnerxp.se/
to burn CDs/DVDs >>

And interesting note:  Windows 7 includes native support for ISO image
burning.  I found it out after installing CDBurnerXP to use with some MSDN
disk images.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

My (partial) list is:

Metapad (Notepad replacement)- http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
UPX (EXE compressor)- http://upx.sourceforge.net/
CutePDF (Free PDF Printer) - http://www.cutepdf.com/
FileZilla - http://filezilla-project.org/
Attribute Magic - http://www.attributemagic.com/
Thumbs Plus (Image/Font utilities) - http://www.cerious.com/
Raxco PerfectDisk 11 - http://www.perfectdisk.com/
FinalBuilder - http://www.finalbuilder.com/