LURKMORE Compack

The LURKMORE Compack is a list of programs that are the best at their job. The list is currently Windows-related, for the most part, because Linux is meant to be used for servers. Below are the picks from three awesome people, though the two bottom lists are very outdated.

King_John's picks

Audio and Video Tools

• Music Playback - foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player (local foobar2000 page)
• Video Playback - Manual install or CCCP Combined Community Codec Pack
• Video Card Tweaking - Sapphire TriXX, MSI Afterburner, ASUS GPU Tweak (worst)
• Image Viewer - Irfanview Windows Graphic Viewer
• Desktop Recorder - BSR Screen Recorder or CamStudio

Bulk Process Tools

• Bulk File Renamer - Bulk Rename Utility (BRU)
• Duplicate File Finder - Simple Duplicate Finder (used to be Duplicate File Finder 3.5)
• Search Filesystem for Keywords - File Text Finder or Windows Grep

Document Tools

• Comic Viewer / Reader - CDisplayEx
• Document / File Viewer / Editor - Notepad2 or Notepad++ and Microsoft Office
• PDF Reader / Viewer - Sumatra PDF

File Management Tools

• Search - voidtools Everything Search Engine
• Recovery File (PAR, PAR2) and Hash File (SFV, MD5) Management - QuickPar
• Quick File Hashing - HashTab
• Archiver (RAR, Zip, 7z, etc) - WinRAR or 7-Zip
• File Splitting and Joining - HJ-Split

File Transfer, P2P and SSH Tools

• FTP / SFTP / SCP - WinSCP
• FXP - FlashFXP (does anything even support FXP these days?)
• SSH - PuTTY
• Torrents - uTorrent v2.2.1 build 25302
• Newsgroup Downloader - NewsBin Pro
• p2p - ApexDC++
• Remote Desktop Control / VNC - TightVNC / Comparison of remote desktop software

Hardware Tools

• Hardware Information - CPU-Z
• Graphics (GPU) Information - GPU-Z
• Fan Speed Control - SpeedFan
• Hardware Monitor - SpeedFan, HWMonitor, and GPU-Z

HTTP Tools

• Website Browser - Opera Web Browser (local Opera page) and Microsoft Internet Explorer
• HTTP File Downloader - Opera's Links panel

Instant Messaging / Chat Tools

• Instant Messaging (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc) - Pidgin Instant Messenger
• IRC - mIRC (local mIRC page)
• Voice Chat - Mumble, Ventrilo, Skype (worst)

ISOs, Burning, Virtual Drives

• Disc Drive Emulator - VirtualCloneDrive
• ISO Image Burning - ImgBurn
• ISO Building - ImgBurn

Security

• File Destruction / Real Deletion - Eraser
• File / Hard Drive Encrypting - TrueCrypt

System Management Tools

• Startup Manager - Startup Manager
• BSOD Information / Troubleshooting - BlueScreenView
• Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Defrag - MyDefrag Disk Defragmenter

nd's picks

• comicreader - CDisplay
• desktop recorder - camstudio
• drive emu - DAEMON Tools
• dvd ripper - DVD Decrypter
• ebooks - ubook
• ftp - ws_ftp
• http - firefox
• image viewer - Irfanview
• irc - mIRC
• music - foobar2000
• ssh - Putty
• torrents - uTorrent
• txt files - crimsoneditor
• video - zplayer
• vnc - TightVNC
• voicechat - Ventrilo

whoreface's picks

• Audio Editing - Audacity
• CD and DVD Burning - CDBurnerXP
• CD Ripper - EAC
• Download Manager - wget and Flashget
• DVD Ripper - DVDFab HD Decrypter and DVDShrink (both work in WINE)
• FTP - Filezilla
• HTTP - Opera
• IM - Pidgin
• Image Editing - GIMP
• IRC - mIRC
• Music - foobar2000
• Shit don't work f5
• Torrents - uTorrent
• Video - K-Lite Codec Pack|Media Player Classic