I was sitting here admiring a few programs I use nearly every day and realized we don't have a "great windows programs" thread (at least not one I could find...).

So, what programs could you not live without?

ME:
7zip
TerraCopy (I heart you)
Outlook
IrfanView
(probably others, these just were on the front burner)

 

Sell me on IrfanView. That used to come bundled with PCs back in the day and I'd just uninstall it, never used it. In my mind it's on the level of Cyberlink Power Director Studio 10 Pro. Why am I wrong?

 

It's like VLC player for images. Shows ANYTHING.

Good if you need to review lots of TIFF files, etc... Download it and look at the list of possible file associations.

 

Paint.NET for quick and dirty photo editing
Atmel Studio for messing around with various small electronics
+1 for PowerDirector 10
Hondata FlashPro Manager, a must have for my S2000

And finally, if you're on Windows 8, get 'Start 8' which gives you a Start Button and eliminate all the stupid full screen menus.

 

Native ActiveX controls in IE.

 

Robocopy
WinDirStat (portable edition)
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
Filezilla (Client and Server)
CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3

 

Steam. The only reason I would ever install Windows.

 

7zip
putty
winscp
robocopy
pstools
and powercli

and on my win8.1 desktop
classic shell

 

Paint and Notepad.
Use them all day everyday for creating simple wires for clients.

 

Putty
7zip
Notepad
Irfanview
Firefox
AVG Free

 

I LOVE irfanview, I install it on every PC I use and build. Best photo program out there for what I do, I've used it forever. Most pics I post on here are formatted somehow in IV, and all avatars

 

Firefox in private mode.

 

I think FastStone Image Viewer is better than irfanview. FastStone is like ACDsee before ACDSee started bloating up like anything made by Adobe.

And speaking of Adobe, I use Foxit PDF Viewer because it's lighter weight than Adobe Reader and includes a PDF printer. Much better than the PDF Architect and printer Sourceforge package.

I used to use Zoom Media Player, but have transitioned to VLC. I still use LeechFTP and haven't found anything that does FTP better.

 

anachostic, what makes LeechFTP better than, say filezilla? I have not used leech, just wondering if I am missing something...

 

VLC Player because like you said, it plays EVERYTHING, even corrupted pron files.
Counter-strike
itunes
solitaire
chrome
minesweeper
MS paint

 

I thought I was going to have d/l Filezilla to see what the differences were and when I got to the site and clicked screenshots, I saw:


I remembered I tried this once looking for a replacement. It's the UI interface I can't live with. Functionally, I'm sure they're just the same.

LeechFTP combines folder and file view in one panel and organizes queue and threads in a small panel to the left.

 

Well, generic applications on my desktop I need everyday without exception are:

- Microsoft Office (esp. Word, Excel, Visio, and Outlook)
- Notepad
- Chrome

 

Ah, OK. Thanks. The UI for filezilla makes sense to me, so it works, but looks like Leech is pretty smooth too.

 

you hosers.

 

If I had to reinstall my computer, the first few apps I'll install are:
1) SecureCRT - tabbed windows FTW.
2) irfanview for pics, lightroom for editing, KMPlayer for video.
3) ultraedit for editing anything vaguely important/complex. (Notepad for quickies)
4) at work: Microsoft calculator plus. It's Basically the xp calculator. I HATE the layout of win 7's calculator.
5) Display fusion - keep windows/taskbars on multiple monitors organized.

I used ACDSee for years and years before they got bloated and expensive. Shame.

My browser of reluctant choice is Chrome but it gets worse and worse in terms of memory/cpu bloat. I semi often have to just kill the whole damn thing and restart it to restore performance. Infuriating. I'd love a light nofrills browser recommendation.

 

Nice stuff chod!

I forgot to mention Jing. Pretty cool selective screen shot grabber that autohosts for posting, embedding, etc...

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

 

Gee, how could I have forgot my beloved Lotus Notes?

 

Thing needs to be KIWF'd.

 

 

AutoCAD
Microsoft Office
Chrome
WoW (home computer for the odd chance I get home before 8pm and want to actually look at the computer screen again)
Spotify
Pandora

Bout all I have time for these days.

 

Use my phone more but laptop musts are Office and XBMC

 

steam and power DVD are what I mostly use on my PC

 

Ok, found an AWESOME tool for you Excel power users... and it's free...

Here is the situation:

Person A made a spreadsheet with all your client's names and the main contact person at the client, but person A is a lazy douche and just typed "Walmart" instead of "Walmart, Inc.", "Target" instead of "Target Corporation", etc so you have NO way to make the list Person A made (the douche) to the list person B made where the DUNS number, internal account number, etc are listed because person B is not lazy and typed the actually correct corporate name for the client.

Vlookup, blah blah, IF condition, blah blah...

I present....

FUZZY LOOKUP.

It will match two different data sources with fuzzy logic and provide a "similarity score".

"Walmart, Inc." compared to "Walmart, Inc." would be a similarity score of 1.0
"Walmart" compared to "Walmart, Inc." might be a similarity score of .89

Here is the download from MS: Download Fuzzy Lookup Add-In for Excel from Official Microsoft Download Center

And here is a Youtube video showing it in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v-q...ature=youtu.be

 

Thanks for the suggestion, stogie!


P.S. no one caught it but you spelled TeraCopy wrong...

Gonna add to this list:

TeamViewer (to access personal and friends/family's computer to fix remotely)
Textpad (back to my old CS days..)/Notepad++ is nice too
windirstat (as mentioned above)
7zip ()
VLC (for pr0n )
and how can we forget our favorite, Internet Explorer 11

 

I suck at speling.

 

Work computer essentials:

VMWare vSphere Client / Horizon View Client
NetApp OnCommand System Manager (I suck at NetApp CLI)
Remote Desktop Manager
Teamviewer
SecureCRT or putty
Notepad++ (Compare plugin F T W)
Office
Chrome

Home computer essentials:

Office 2010 / 2013
Steam (duh)
Teamviewer
Spotify
Chrome
uTorrent

I'm a fairly simple PC user at home

 

Was just sitting here loving on TeraCopy as I copy ~2TB to a backup USB drive and was going to post it, but realized I already have...

CRC and MD5 verification on a file by file basis of copy accuracy...

 

Most of what I use has already been posted. Two I did not see:

Audacity
Virtual CloneDrive