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Essential Utilities
Hey there Everybody!
Here's my question for you all. I'm making a utilities CD (Windows Only, for now). I need your help in determining what essential utilities must be included. Free or Open Source are prefered.
Points will be spread across most relevant/helpful answers.
Here is what I have so far.
AdAware
Acrobat
Advanced Hex Editor
Audio Grabber
Command Prompt Here
Firefox
Flexible Renamer
The Gimp
Infranview
jEdit
Net Stumbler
Nimo Codec Pack
Open Office
Process Explorer
Quicktime
SnadBoy's Revelation
Sam Spade
SpyBot S&D
SSH and SFTP Clients
Sun Java RE
Thunderbird
Trillian
Winamp
WinRar
WinZip
XnView
Zone Alarm
Here's my question for you all. I'm making a utilities CD (Windows Only, for now). I need your help in determining what essential utilities must be included. Free or Open Source are prefered.
Points will be spread across most relevant/helpful answers.
Here is what I have so far.
AdAware
Acrobat
Advanced Hex Editor
Audio Grabber
Command Prompt Here
Firefox
Flexible Renamer
The Gimp
Infranview
jEdit
Net Stumbler
Nimo Codec Pack
Open Office
Process Explorer
Quicktime
SnadBoy's Revelation
Sam Spade
SpyBot S&D
SSH and SFTP Clients
Sun Java RE
Thunderbird
Trillian
Winamp
WinRar
WinZip
XnView
Zone Alarm
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Lee W, MVP
Hell, through in MySQL too, and don't forget the MySQL ODBC drivers and Command Center/Console. All available from www.mysql.com
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If you want to make a three disc set, the I'd suggest Knoppix be included as one of the CDs. Yes, it's linux, but it can be a valuable tool/backup OS.
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Why not round out the VNC family and include TightVNC and UltraVNC as well!
I wonder; why would anyone purchase a CD set with all of this stuff when they could, apparently just visit this thread?
jrs - he said nothing of selling it - I thought one reason he might be doing this is to provide this disk free to his clients. I'm planning on doing that...
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This is a great list! Thanks for the tips on the Nimo pack, it is officially gone from the disc.
I'm doing this mostly for myself, my friends, and my family. I find myself doing more and more "tech support" for friends and family and it is always good to have these utilities at your fingertips.
One thing I especially need that I haven't found yet is good, free CD burning software.
Keep 'em coming, I've downloaded all the ones recommended thus far.
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I'm doing this mostly for myself, my friends, and my family. I find myself doing more and more "tech support" for friends and family and it is always good to have these utilities at your fingertips.
One thing I especially need that I haven't found yet is good, free CD burning software.
Keep 'em coming, I've downloaded all the ones recommended thus far.
Thanks again! Points will be distributed soon.
Looking over the stuff here might make you rethink the project - and buy a dual layer DVD burner if you really want to include these things - but go through the list here:
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
Oh yeah - XNEWS - I think it's a great newsreader - especially if you like downloading multipart files. xnews.newsguy.com
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Best registry cleaner out there: http://www.jv16.org/ JV16 Powertools also gets to the root of all hidden spyware in the registry. This is a deep cleaning regisrty tool .
thanks for the suggestion - I'll check it out (Especially now that I have two news servers myself).
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Actually, instead of - or in addition to - WinISO, you might want to include WinImage - www.winimage.com - deals with ISO images and can make images of floppies.
Thanx,
Jvuz
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