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Useful programs

Useful Programs.md

My useful utilities and favourite programs to make

everyday life that bit easier
Most of these are Windows based, but some are cross-platform. They are mainly
free tools, but paid ones have been marked accordingly. Freemium tools have a
free version but have a full version for a price. Tools are in no particular order

Utilities
• Windows Sysinternals - the swiss-army knife of Windows tools:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ (Free)
• Listary Pro - a spotlight style search tool for Windows:
http://www.listary.com/pro (Freemium)
• Ditto - clipboard management tool: http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/ (Free)
• Cmder/ComEmu - make command prompt suck less: http://cmder.net/
(Free)
• Bvckup 2 - the best backup program I've tried: https://bvckup2.com/ (Paid)
• Veeam Endpoint Backup - an excellent, free, truly enterprise-grade Windows
backup tool: https://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html (Free)
• Greenshot - Screenshots made easy: http://getgreenshot.org/ (Free)
• Everything - Lightning fast file search: https://www.voidtools.com/ (Free)
• Agent Ransack - Handy search tool that can search inside any file:
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ (Free)
• WizTree - A modern, fast alternative to WinDirStat: http://antibody-
software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-
using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/ (Free)
• mRemoteNG - makes managing remote connections easier:
https://mremoteng.org/ (Free)
• MobaXTerm - A fantastic program for managing remote servers and
computers, with support for SSH, RDP, SFTP and X11-forwarding:
https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ (Freemium)
• Sysnative BSOD apps - designed for collecting BSOD dumps, also collects
other useful system information:
https://www.sysnative.com/blogs/download/sysnativebsodcollectionapp-
exe/ (Free)
• Diskovery - find info about your HDDs and SSDs: https://diskovery.io/ (Free)
• CCSIO Benchmark - a pretty disk benchmarking tool:
https://ccsiobench.com/ (Free)
• Typora - Windows markdown editor: https://typora.io/ (Free)
• ExtraPUTTY - PuTTY but with more features: http://www.extraputty.com/
(Free)
• Glogg - Opens huge text files (1GB+) that other programs can't handle:
https://glogg.bonnefon.org/ (Free)
• RoyalTS - Manage multiple remote connections
https://www.royalapplications.com/ts/win/features (Freemium)
• Active@ Partition Manager - Windows based, completely free partition
editor: http://www.lsoft.net/partman.aspx (Free)
• FastStone Image Viewer - Lightweight image viewer and editor:
http://faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (Free)
• GSmartControl - View HDD health and SMART data:
https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/home/index.php/ (Free)
• Sysnative DRT - A database of over 4,000 3rd party drivers with official
download URLs: https://www.sysnative.com/drivers/ (Free)
• West Wind WebSurge - Web application load tester: http://websurge.west-
wind.com/ (Free)
 • RoslynPad - Simple, interactive C# editor. A free alternative to LINQPad:
https://roslynpad.net/ (Free)
• NTLite - Windows image and deployment management:
https://www.ntlite.com/ (Freemium)
• Etcher - Burns (Linux) ISOs to a USB or SD card: https://etcher.io/ (Free)
• Rufus - Create bootable USB sticks from Windows (and other) ISOs:
https://rufus.akeo.ie/ (Free)
• Serva - PxE boot and TFTP server, allowing booting computers from a
network: https://www.vercot.com/~serva/default.html (Freemium)
• FOG Project - Open source network computer cloning and management
solution: https://fogproject.org/ (Free)
• EventSoundControl - Easy playback of sound clips and jingles for shows and
events: https://www.eventsoundcontrol.com/ (Paid)
• TeXStudio - LaTeX editor: https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio (Free)
• QueryStorm - Run SQL queries against Excel because why not:
https://www.querystorm.com/ (Freemium)
• Adobe Bridge CC - The full version of Bridge, Adobe's photo management
software, is free and doesn't need a Creative Could Subscription:
https://www.adobe.com/uk/products/bridge.html (Free)

Development
• VSCode - Excellent, electron-based text editor by Microsoft:
https://code.visualstudio.com/ (Free)
• Notepad++ - Lightweight text editor that can handle almost any file:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ (Free)
• SQL Operations Studio: Modern, lightweight to SQL Server Management
Studio (SSMS): https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio (Free)
• WinSCP - A better alternative to FileZilla: https://winscp.net/eng/index.php
(Free)
• Zeal - Offline documentation for many popular libraries and APIs:
https://zealdocs.org/ (Free)
• JSON Formatter and validator: https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
• XML Formatter: https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-formatter.html
 • XPath Tester - for when you still need to battle with XML:
https://codebeautify.org/Xpath-Tester
• ReSharper - Visual Studio isn't the same without it:
https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ (Paid, free for students)
• SourceTree - my favourite git GUI: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ (Free)
• Fiddler 4 - the best way to trace and troubleshoot weird website and
network issues: https://www.telerik.com/fiddler (Free)
• FiddlerCap - cut-down version of Fiddler for end users:
https://www.telerik.com/fiddler/fiddlercap (Free)
• Fish shell - better than bash: https://fishshell.com/ (Free)
• Various programming fonts:
◦ Hack: http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/
◦ Source Code Pro: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro
◦ Hasklig (fork of source code pro with ligatures): https://github.com/i-
tu/Hasklig
◦ Nerd fonts: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
• Cryptii - Convert between various encodings, encryptions and ciphers:
https://cryptii.com/ (Free)
• OzCode - Visual Studio Extension to improve debugging: https://www.oz-
code.com/ (Paid)
• DB Browser for SQLite - SQLite DB browser: https://sqlitebrowser.org/ (Free)
• HeidiSQL - Portable MySQL/Postgres/MSSQL database browser:
https://www.heidisql.com/ (Free)
• Regexr - Online Regex tester and visualiser: https://regexr.com/ (Free)

Security
• ADWCleaner - quickly remove adware from any computer:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/ (Free)
• MalwareBytes Anti-Malware - Powerful and fast malware scanner:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/ (Freemium)
• VirusTotal - Analyse suspicious URLs for malware:
https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload (Free)
• SSLLabs - Test your server's SSL configuration:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ (Free)
• KeePass 2: My favourite password manager due to its flexibility:
https://keepass.info/ (Free)
• KeepWeb: web GUI for KeePass with built in cloud storage integration:
https://app.keeweb.info/ (Free)
• ZenMap - a GUI for nmap: https://nmap.org/zenmap/ (Free)