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What are you favorite utilities?

Mine are :
Zmover
VLC
Vmware
File-ex
Maxthon
iesandbox
netlimiter
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BartPE
Knoppix
PSTools
Porbably others, but brain is fuzzy at this hour.
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Irfanview
Crimson Editor
Logparser
ZoneAlarm
Windows Server 2003 Resource kit Tools
Gimp 2 - Imaging Utility
WebDwarf V2 - WYSIWYG Html Editor
IzArc - Compression/Decompression
Context - Text Editor
PSTools
Browster
FTPget.exe
Health Monitor
to name a few.

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Also I like the utilities listed in www.analogx.com. They are small and not so heavy on Harddisk or memory.
Portableapps
http://portableapps.com/apps 
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MagicISO

JerMar's
http://www.driverguidetoolkit.com/
Oh, and also Solarwinds tools.  There's a couple of free ones that are pretty handy, and if you can shell out for it, the Engineer's toolset is great.

http://www.solarwinds.net
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BartPE, already mentioned

sysinternals a bunch of stuff i use regularly http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html 

MS Portqry http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=89811747-C74B-4638-A2D5-AC828BDC6983&displaylang=en or nmap http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

AnalogX has a few useful tools as well http://www.analogx.com/contents/news.htm the bittorrent client they have (bitpump) for example is pretty good and nicely sized.

Magic Jelly Bean if i need to recover MS product keys

online tools like bugmenot http://www.bugmenot.com and the default passwords list (found around the web but here's one link i had bookmarked http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html) are also useful.
I use these programs often:

Agent Ransack: http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ - excellent enhancement on Windows' standard file search.

Windows Grep: http://www.wingrep.com/ - search and replace across multiple files

WinMerge: http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/ - file comparison and merging

Google desktop search: http://desktop.google.com/ - for searching for files (I turn off all the flashy widget stuff)

JetStart: http://www.codesector.com/jetstart.asp - Start menu replacement/enhancement (find programs by name, rather than poking through your start menu for it)

Stickies: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/ - Yellow sticky notes!  Supports sending notes over the LAN/internet to other computers, too.
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Two more from me!

ACDSee Classic : http://www.download.com/ACDSee-Classic/3000-2192_4-10043995.html - Although I'm not a fan of their recent versions, I like their old image viewer.  Its quick, lightweight, and not loaded down with fancy features.

Heatsoft ADCS : http://www.heatsoft.com/ - Compare and synchronise directories.  Really handy when Windows bails out halfway through a large file copy operation.
Given the comments posted, I'm a bit surprised this wasn't split amongst everyone...
Then I'm not going to participate - either you recognize the contributions of others, or some people, such as myself, will not contribute.
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I understand your point.
Maybe I should have done this for 20 points since it's for fun only.
But I will put it to everybody which particpats to decide either to split or to give it the the most useful.
Is that fair in your eyes?