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Got A Favorite FREE Computer/Windows Utility Program?

Posted on 10/24/2009 5:58:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono

What is it?

Where is it?

What's it do?

ZoneAlarm Firewall


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: cheapbastards; computer; freeware; jpb; linux; microsoft; software; utility; utilityprogram; windows
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To: cynwoody

Got it.
Love it!


101 posted on 10/24/2009 8:42:11 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

OS X.


102 posted on 10/24/2009 8:45:35 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: JoeProBono
NotLight, by Matt Neuberg, a Mac utility that accesses the full power of the database that underlies Spotlight.
103 posted on 10/24/2009 8:46:53 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Mark Russinovich’s Autoruns.exe from http://live.sysinternals.com/ is much better.

Russinovich's Process Explorer is an excellent upgrade to Task Manager.

Actually, if you are a Windows user, it would behoove you to give the whole Sysinternals web site a good lookover. There's so much good stuff there that Microsquish bought them a couple of years ago.

104 posted on 10/24/2009 8:57:59 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: JoeProBono
System Info for Windows (SIW) Tool is very handy for me. Basically, it reports everything you can find out about your system. I often need to know a model # or actual manufacturer of a piece of hardware on a system or even a specific chipset type. Standalone (.exe) version is portable. I carry this around on a USB stick for when I'm working on others computers as well.

Software Info for Windows

105 posted on 10/24/2009 9:09:41 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: JoeProBono
The Ruby programming language. By the world's greatest programmer, Yukihiro Matsumoto, a Japanese Mormon.

You do have to invest the effort to learn the language, but the reward is immense: the ability to shove data around automatically on Windows, Mac, and Unix. Automation is what computers are for (ultimate goal; important subgoal is replacing the dinosaur media).

106 posted on 10/24/2009 9:12:47 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

What was that about ccleaner not being free anymore?


107 posted on 10/24/2009 9:15:16 PM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: dr_who; VeniVidiVici
"You must be using an evil Linux distro."

Yep. Disklabel with *BSD is the way to go for multiple operating systems on cheap drive arrays (e.g., SATA 3Gb)--especially with Raidframe and XEN. ;-)


108 posted on 10/24/2009 9:22:10 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: Reagan Man

I work PT for Cyberdefender and our techs from all over have come to the conclusion that MWB IF ever someone buys it and treats it like an AV 24/7, it’s game over for everyone: Avast, AVG, Norton, Mcafee etc.

Our techs use Gmer too...


109 posted on 10/24/2009 9:27:47 PM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: Mmogamer

Don’t know what the guy is talking about .. I am using the Latest version: 2.24.1010 and it does what it has always done .. for free!


110 posted on 10/24/2009 9:30:51 PM PDT by plinyelder
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To: plinyelder

CCleaner


111 posted on 10/24/2009 9:31:53 PM PDT by plinyelder
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To: cynwoody
System Explorer. I keep it on my thumb drive as part of my toolkit.
112 posted on 10/24/2009 9:35:56 PM PDT by gitmo (History books will read that Lincoln freed the slaves and Obama enslaved the free.)
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To: plinyelder

Oh.. ok well wasn’t sure.. hehe he still here?


113 posted on 10/24/2009 9:37:50 PM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: Mmogamer
What was that about ccleaner not being free anymore?

Beats me. I had not heard of the program until your message. However, a quick google indicates it's free and well received.

Wouldn't stand up to Zero's NSA. But maybe if you followed it with one of those utilities to wipe unused disk blocks, it would be a significant speed bump.

114 posted on 10/24/2009 9:43:10 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: JoeProBono

WinDirStat
http://windirstat.info/
Cobian Backup
http://www.cobian.se/cobianbackup.htm


115 posted on 10/24/2009 9:53:42 PM PDT by Master of Orion
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To: papasmurf

I have 2 computers. The first is for gaming and a few apps the second is for the rest. PC one has windows xp and PC two has SUSE 10. I caught a virus with avg on the xp and was angry I saw it and avg didn’t. The only thing I could find that recognized the infection in the free category was the MS site. That was my last shot believe me. Well guess what, it worked great and I have no problems at all. To be fair I’ve had it for about a month. As for the virus it came in a pdf from a Korean motherboard manufacturer’s website. I highly recommend updating Adobe Acrobat to the newest version. As long as I’m at it pc 3 has win2k. I keep it because I like it.


116 posted on 10/24/2009 10:58:24 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: dr_who

LMAO I was just thinking about trying the live disc. Is that wrong? I remember when they said that about Mandrake in ~ 98. My friend Chris used to say I should feal dirty for using Mandrake. He’s a Caldera and SUSE freak.


117 posted on 10/24/2009 11:04:22 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: discostu
I haven’t defragged a hard drive this century.

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You probably have , hundreds of times , and didn't know it ... in most MS OS's defrag is by default a scheduled event weekly/monthly etc. , with a large disk cache you might not notice the latency and seek delays for small files but you will definately notice performance delays if you don't defrag for 9 years as you declared you have.

118 posted on 10/25/2009 3:04:56 AM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: library user

grep

vi

gcc

PHP

Perl

MySQL

Linux

combined with Sourceforge.net will get you everything you ever needed.


On a more practical note, many opensource projects are already packaged as binary executables, with installers, for unix platforms, Mac OS and Windows.

The GIMP is a fantastic program as a replacement for Photoshop, Open Solaris is a top-notch OS as a replacement for Linux, and OpenOffice (also from Sun) is a great replacement for MS Office.


119 posted on 10/25/2009 3:09:28 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: rabscuttle385
No, that would be Diskeeper.

Used it for years. It's bloatware. Horrible, horrible, horrible. PerfectDisk also sucks.

120 posted on 10/25/2009 5:10:19 AM PDT by library user
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