If your working in the IT sector, you unfortunately sometimes have to work
with Windows. And if you're not used to that, it can be a very painful and
traumatic experience, much like trying to type with 2 fingers cut off each
hand.
Luckily, some people have made the Windows experience somewhat more bearable by writing ans sharing free programs and I hope I can share that information with you here.
Luckily, some people have made the Windows experience somewhat more bearable by writing ans sharing free programs and I hope I can share that information with you here.
- Firefox Web browser
- Thunderbird Email application
- Sunbird Calendar application
- OpenOffice Office suite
- PDFCreator - Print documents to PDF
- VI Improved - Versatile text editor
- nvu
- Password manager
- ClamAV - Open Source Anti-virus tool
- Ad-aware
- Spybot Search and Destroy
- Cygwin - complete UNIX environment inside Windows (including X server)
- Python - platform independent programming language
- Open ObjectREXX - platform independent programming language
- SnackAmp Music player - Versatile music player and manager
- VideoLan Client media player - DVD/VCD/Streaming movie player
- CDex - CD Ripping/Conversion/Backup tool
- VirtualDub - Video editing tool
- MPlayer Video player
- Skype Internet Phone - Dial for free to other skype users
- shrinkdvd
- dvd decrypter
- Audacity
- PuTTY - SSH/telnet application (allows SOCKS tunneling)
- GAIM Instant messaging - Supports MSN,ICQ,Yahoo,AOL,Jabber,Sametime,IRC and many more
- Miranda Instant messaging
- TightVNC - VNC Remote desktop tool
- TraceTCP - tcptraceroute alike utility
- Ethereal Network protocol analyzer
- NMapWin Port scanner - NMap for windows
- NetStumbler - Wireless Network Scanner
- WinSCP - SCP/SFTP application for transferring files from and to UNIX
- FileZilla - FTP application for transferring files from and to UNIX
- BitTorrent - Distributed file transfer utility
- 7-Zip - File compression utility
- Adblock
- Add N Edit Cookies
- Bandwidth Tester
- Bookmarks Synchronizer SE
- Colorful Tabs
- Flashblock
- Header Monitor
- IETab (replaces IEView and User Agent Switcher)
- Image Zoom
- Linkifaction
- Live HTTP Headers
- Modify Headers
- Mozilla Calendar
- SwitchProxy tool
- Tab Mix Plus (replaces SessionSaver, Tabbrowser Preferences and Tab X)
- Uppity
- User Agent Switcher
- Web Developer

Anything to add/change to this page?