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PC Mag’s 15 “Must Have” Utilities

January 28, 2011 7:32:22 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

 

 

Fifteen incredible and free utilities for your computer. Registry, startup, audio editors and more!  Only one is "pay", I believe.

Granted, this list is from March, 2010 however, these utilities are incredible and I’ll be on the lookout for the 2011 list for you when it comes out.

The “must have 15”:

ArsClip 3.1.3

Audacity 1.2

Autoruns 9

DualBootPRO 1.0.0

ImgBurn 2.5

Iometer

KeyText 3.13

Meraki WiFi Stumbler

NetSurveyor Professional

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Suite

Process Explorer 11

Process Monitor 2.8

Registry Workshop

VLC media player 1.0.5

Wireshark 1.2.6

 

Source:  http://tinyurl.com/y9ts84k

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Reply #1 January 28, 2011 7:58:59 PM
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My download finger is sprained at the moment. There are some really cool apps listed. I know some of them. I highly recommend Audacity. Had it before on my HP. VLC media player is also a good one. I wanted to check out DualbootPro but there is no price listed that I could find.

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Reply #2 January 28, 2011 8:07:27 PM
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Might throw some free "Must Have" suggestions up as well.

7-Zip

FastStone Image Viewer

Revo Uninstaller

TrueCrypt

Winpatrol

 

 

 

 

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Reply #3 January 28, 2011 8:14:51 PM
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Add CCleaner too...

All suggestions welcome!

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Reply #4 January 28, 2011 8:50:39 PM
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7-Zip

FastStone Image Viewer

Revo Uninstaller

CCleaner

 

LastPass is a must have.

Also...

DropBox and/or Sugarsync

 

I have to say...I LOVE FAststone. I have tried Picassa and several others, including Adobe's stuff and always come back to Faststone.  It's amazing to me that they don't charge for it.

 

I also recommend Glarys Utility.

 

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Reply #5 January 28, 2011 9:07:12 PM
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Indeed. Glory Utilities is a fave of mine as well.

Picasa 3.8 is a wonderful entrance level photo processor with batch abilities since Picknic was purchased by Google.

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Reply #6 January 28, 2011 9:11:02 PM
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Revo and Faststone get's my vote. 

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Reply #7 January 28, 2011 9:12:33 PM
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Bookmarking this as a 'must have' thread..... 

thanks doc..

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Reply #8 January 28, 2011 9:17:33 PM
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Syd... always a pleasure.

For Faststone 4.3  download site: http://www.faststone.org/

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Reply #9 January 28, 2011 9:52:52 PM
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This isn't so much a utility as it is a script based on Stylish's themes. You can enter this into Firefox and turn ANY webpage into a dark, glassy vista style page. Truly amazing and hurts nothing.

Vista Dark Glass Script

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Reply #10 January 28, 2011 10:04:17 PM
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Revo uninstaller - Ccleaner - Paragon Backup and drive manager - Smart Defrag - Advanced System Care - IOBit 360 (good AV app) - EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.1 - IZark (which handles 7zip and a hoost of others. Just a few.

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Reply #11 January 28, 2011 10:30:09 PM
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Quoting PoSmedley,
reply 9
This isn't so much a utility as it is a script based on Stylish's themes. You can enter this into Firefox and turn ANY webpage into a dark, glassy vista style page. Truly amazing and hurts nothing.

Vista Dark Glass Script

   "amazing" is the word, alright.

 

 

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Reply #12 January 28, 2011 10:36:32 PM
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Who's Astley? 

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Reply #13 January 29, 2011 2:07:27 AM
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I'd like to add:

Microsoft's Sync Toy 2.1

FileZilla

 

There's lots of great ones here.  Essentials for me include CCleaner, Revo, Picassa, and definitely LastPass.

 

 

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Reply #14 January 29, 2011 9:10:25 AM
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That's a pretty weak list of "Must Haves".

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Reply #15 January 29, 2011 9:30:00 AM
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15+ is hardly weak.

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Reply #16 January 29, 2011 9:33:33 AM
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Quoting BernieTime,
reply 14
That's a pretty weak list of "Must Haves".
I agree with that. Among these, I've only ever needed VLC.

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Reply #17 January 29, 2011 9:54:20 AM
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Quoting BernieTime,
reply 14
That's a pretty weak list of "Must Haves".

Quoting Werewindlefr,
reply 16

Quoting BernieTime, reply 14That's a pretty weak list of "Must Haves".I agree with that. Among these, I've only ever needed VLC.

Then please feel free to add those you feel are "must haves".

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Reply #18 January 29, 2011 10:31:35 AM
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ARSclip................ If you're English, that's funny, right there!!

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Reply #19 January 29, 2011 10:40:03 AM
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If your French, it's still funnee.

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Reply #20 January 29, 2011 10:44:05 AM
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Quoting BoXXi,
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ARSclip................ If you're English, that's funny, right there!!

*sigh.

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Reply #21 January 29, 2011 10:52:22 AM
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Quoting PoSmedley,
reply 9
This isn't so much a utility as it is a script based on Stylish's themes. You can enter this into Firefox and turn ANY webpage into a dark, glassy vista style page. Truly amazing and hurts nothing.

Vista Dark Glass Script

 

umm.  Rick Astley.  WTF?

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Reply #22 January 29, 2011 10:59:11 AM
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Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware.

Nice to run once a week or whenever you wish.

 Malwarebytes

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Reply #23 January 29, 2011 11:14:19 AM
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Good addition.

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Reply #24 January 29, 2011 11:39:44 AM
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Hello all,

Thanks for the great utilities.

Does anyone know of a fast and comprehensive substitute/alternative for Windows 7-64bit Indexing? I don't like how indexing excludes parts of the hard drive and the sluggish rebuilding of fequently accseced directories.

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Reply #25 January 29, 2011 11:53:23 AM
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Have a look at Google Desktop , Chuckve4

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