After cleaning up a friends system recently and dramatically improving it’s performance, appearance and usability I was asked again, nay begged, to recommend as many of the applications and or utilities I use(d) to install or put onto an existing or new installation of Windows to ‘protect it’ and to help keep it running optimally and take full control of your applications, system preferences and resources.<\/p>\n
The list below contains most of the things I install on, or use, on all of my machines.
There are also ‘portable’ or ‘non-install’ versions of nearly all of these applications which I carry on my thumb drives too. But I will not provide the links for them as they can be easily found the same place as the full installs of these applications.
There are of course many others I use for network administration but I won’t include all of those here now.
I just wanted to put this up so that those of you looking for some very good freeware applications to enhance and improve your computing experience could find them in one place. And to keep it as secure and trouble free as possible.<\/p>\n
Firefox: 7-Zip opensource file archiver: Notepad++ Opensource notepad on steroids: Windows PowerToys: ClearType Tuner PowerToy: Alt-Tab Replacement: Open Command Window Here: Tweak UI: The entire Syinternals Suite: Complete tool set: Of those I use most are: Revo Uninstaller – freeware: JKdefrag: Mike Lin’s Startup Control Panel: Unlocker Wholockme File assassin A great spyware finder:<\/p>\n Spybot Search And Destroy Don’t confuse this application with other that are trading on the ‘Spybot’ name and are in http:\/\/www.spybotupdates.biz\/files\/spybotsd162.exe<\/a><\/p>\n CCleaner: Taskbar Shuffle – a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows Another program much like Tweak XP: ImageBurn CD\/DVD burner: VLC Media Player: KeyPass: ANTI VIRUS APPS: AVG free AV: <\/a>Clamwin Free AV: FIREFOX EXTENSIONS I use: Google toolbar: pdf download: stop autoplay: FoxyTunes Video DownloadHelper Adblock Plus Redirect Remover Grease Monkey for firefox – allows of additional script functionalities in firefox: GreaseMonkey Scripts:<\/p>\n Remove Facebook Ads: YouTube HD Ultimate: GZoom: After cleaning up a friends system recently and dramatically improving it’s performance, appearance and usability I was asked again, nay begged, to recommend as many of the applications and or utilities I use(d) to install or put onto an existing or new installation of Windows to ‘protect it’ and to help keep it running optimally … Continue reading “Windows Utilites and Tools”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14,73,13,8,1,16,15],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Download here<\/a>
[see list at end for Firefox extensions and add ons I use too]<\/p>\n
http:\/\/download.mozilla.org\/?product=firefox-3.0.10&os;=win⟨=en-US<\/a>
App:
http:\/\/superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net\/sourceforge\/sevenzip\/7z465.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\/uk\/about.php<\/a>
Appinstall:
http:\/\/superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net\/sourceforge\/notepad-plus\/npp.5.4.2.Installer.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/downloads\/powertoys\/xppowertoys.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/b\/7\/0\/b7019730-0fa3-47a9-a159-98b80c185aad\/setup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/whistler\/Install\/2\/WXP\/EN-US\/TaskswitchPowertoySetup.<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/whistler\/Install\/2\/WXP\/EN-US\/CmdHerePowertoySetup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/f\/c\/a\/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-b352-839afb2a2679\/TweakUiPowTweakUiPowertoySetup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb842062.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/download.sysinternals.com\/Files\/SysinternalsSuite.zip<\/a><\/p>\n
Process Explorer and AutoRuns<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.revouninstaller.com\/<\/a>
App:
http:\/\/www.revouninstaller.com\/download\/revosetup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.kessels.com\/Jkdefrag\/<\/a>
App:
http:\/\/www.kessels.com\/JkDefrag\/JkDefrag-3.36.zip<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/mlin.net\/<\/a>
App:
http:\/\/www.mlin.net\/files\/StartupCPL.zip<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/ccollomb.free.fr\/unlocker\/<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.dr-hoiby.com\/WhoLockMe\/<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\/fileassassin.php<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/en\/spybotsd\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n
and of themselves ACTUALLY spyware. The one and only original FREEWARE application is here.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ccleaner.com\/<\/a>
http:\/\/www.filehippo.com\/download_ccleaner\/download\/d1565b7fb77b48a3692a199d871845fd\/<\/a><\/p>\n
taskbar buttons to rearrange them:
http:\/\/nerdcave.webs.com\/<\/a>
download:
http:\/\/nerdcave.webs.com\/downloads\/ts2.5_setup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/xenomorph.net\/?page_id=336<\/a>
installer:
http:\/\/xenomorph.net\/files\/xdn_tweaker_setup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.imgburn.com\/<\/a>
App:
http:\/\/download.imgburn.com\/SetupImgBurn_2.4.4.0.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/<\/a>
App:
http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc\/0.9.9\/win32\/vlc-0.9.9-win32.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/keepass.info\/<\/a>
http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/keepass\/KeePass-2.07-Beta-Setup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
I have used both of these and they are fine freeware applications.
I also am quite happy with corporate versions of McAfee and Symantec despite the idiot rantings of people who don’t do this for a living.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/free.avg.com\/<\/a>
App Download:
Freeware download <\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.clamwin.com\/<\/a>
http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/clamwin\/clamwin-0.95.1-setup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n
Better Gmail
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/4866<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/6249<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/636<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1765<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/219<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/3006<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1865<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/537<\/a><\/p>\n
https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/748<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/46560<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/31864<\/a><\/p>\n
http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/7840<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"