My essential tools and utilities
By Jeroen on Monday 14 July 2008, 16:10 - Permalink
Utilities I typically install on a Windows box. All of this software is free (at least as in beer), unless otherwise mentioned. No adware, shareware, nagware or spyware.
System Utilities:
- notepad2: The Best Notepad Replacement. Ever.
- 7-zip: Zip compression as it should be.
- unlocker: simple tool to unlock files and folders locked for mysterious reasons (not open source).
- SysInternals suite: swiss army knife of system utilities.
- Windows Resource Kit
- unxutils: Win32 port of the classic suite of unix utilities (grep e.a.)
- StExBar: very useful Windows Explorer extension, by the author of TortoiseSVN.
(.Net) development:
- Reflector
- Reflector Add-Ins
- Debugging Tools for Windows
- Subversion. Frictionless Version Control
- TortoiseSVN. Frictionless Subversion :-)
- KDiff3: Visual 3-way merge tool
- WinMerge: Visual text file diffing (& 2-way merge)
Visual Studio Plugins
- ReSharper (not free, but well worth every penny)
- VisualSVN Subversion integration for VS (not free, but miles ahead of Ankh IMO)
General Applications
- Foxit PDF reader. Much faster than Acrobat.
- FireFox
- Google Toolbar
- Paint.Net. Not quite PhotoShop, but a very good, free image editor.
