Great Tools

Update 11.30.2017

Please Test and Use At Your Own Risk

Windows 10

Suggested by Students and Fellow Consultants

Portable Apps
https://portableapps.com/

Install and Update All Your Programs at Once
https://ninite.com/

CPUZ – Good Tool Hardware Settings
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

File Search
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack

Recover Deleted Files
https://www.piriform.com/recuva

Web Sites

Create QR Code for Free
http://www.qr-code-generator.com/

Windows – Legacy

Windows 7 8 8.1

Free Text Test

Used this site to send a test txt
https://www.sendatext.co/

Free Space Monitoring

https://windirstat.net/

RDP

RDPMan - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44989
Multidesk - http://hoowi.com/index-en.htm

Free Office

Use an Online version such as Hotmail or Office 365
But if you need to install on the desktop use LibreOffice
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

Blogging Tool 2016

  Live Writer (Onfolio Writer) – “Sorry old friend”
Microsoft support started in November 2007 and ended in December 2015

Live Writer 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 has been my blogging tool for many years but in Dec 2015 Live Writer stopped working with blogger.  Google had turned off support for the outdated authentication protocal which Live Writer was using with Google blogger or blogspot site.  Bad December for the tried and true blogging tool since Microsoft also pulled the plug on Live Writer in the same month.  So some great people have taken up support for updating Live Writer … now named Open Live Writer.  Appears to the the same great free blog tool but now has been updated to work with Google and blogger.

http://openlivewriter.org/

Audio 2015

A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites
http://clipgrab.org/ or http://clipgrab.de/translate

Here is more great free utils - most are open

Métamorphose : A Great File -n- Folder Renamer
http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/

Free Undelete
http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

MP3 Spliter
http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_page/home.php

Open Source differencing and merging tool
http://winmerge.org/

Open disk usage viewer
http://windirstat.info/

Desktop Search
Everything - Locate files and folders by name instantly. http://www.voidtools.com/

Video transcode http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

Audio Converter http://www.freac.org/index.php/en/downloads-mainmenu-33

Other Great Tools

Outlook 2010 and outlook.com together
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/accountsettings.htm

Great Remote Connect Management Tool – RDP, VNC, ICA, SSH , Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, rlogin, and Raw Sockets
http://www.mremoteng.org/

Family Safety
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-up-family-safety#set-up-family-safety=windows-7

Check out this great list of open source apps for windows - Updated from my own workstation.
http://opensourcewindows.org/

www.codeplex.com

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com

SharePoint Only

http://www.pentalogic.net/sharepoint-products/free-stuff

webalizer iis/german www.tobias-schwarz.net

Update – Windows 8/Server 2012

ISO is now part of windows
http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4141-windows-finally-gets-native-iso-support-in-windows-8/

Here are some great tools that are not open but still worth mentioning.

Magic ISO
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm

Folder Size http://www.mindgems.com/products/Folder-Size/Folder-Size.html

Everything search engine - Great tool that locates files and folders by name instantly.

http://www.voidtools.com/

Sysinternals App

http://www.harbar.net/archive/2012/09/02/The-best-cloud-app-ever-by-a-country-mile.aspx

Great RDP Manager from Microsoft
Do you hate losing your CD's or DVD, can't find them or if you do they are scratched. If so then convert over to CD or DVD images using ISO file format.  I use disc magic to access these files and it makes CD or DVD management is a breeze.

Archive

Don't you hate getting the message that the file is locked and you can't delete due to bad code from some app you download for free.  Guys from sysinternal recommend this free tool - Handle.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx

Unlocker is also good tool, search google with the following link
http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=unlocker

since the old link below is broken :(
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

HDD Scan - Doesn't appear to be virus of same name.  (maybe?)
http://hddscan.com/

VB tools with source code
http://www.karenware.com/