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=== Audio and Video === | === Audio and Video === | ||
* Music Playback - [http://www.foobar2000.org foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player] ([[foobar2000|local foobar2000 page]]) | * Music Playback - [http://www.foobar2000.org foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player] ([[foobar2000|local foobar2000 page]]) | ||
* Video Playback - [http://fuxx.us/imouto Simplest, most powerful, and best method] or [http://www. | * Video Playback - [http://fuxx.us/imouto Simplest, most powerful, and best method] or [http://www.cccp-project.net/ CCCP Combined Community Codec Pack] (worst option) | ||
* Image Viewer - [http://www.irfanview.com/ Irfanview Windows Graphic Viewer] | * Image Viewer - [http://www.irfanview.com/ Irfanview Windows Graphic Viewer] | ||
* Desktop Recorder - [http://www.bsrsoft.com/downloadbsr.asp BSR Screen Recorder] or [http://camstudio.org/ CamStudio] | * Desktop Recorder - [http://www.bsrsoft.com/downloadbsr.asp BSR Screen Recorder] or [http://camstudio.org/ CamStudio] | ||
Revision as of 18:16, 3 August 2015
This is a list of programs that are the best at their job.
Windows
Audio and Video
- Music Playback - foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player (local foobar2000 page)
- Video Playback - Simplest, most powerful, and best method or CCCP Combined Community Codec Pack (worst option)
- Image Viewer - Irfanview Windows Graphic Viewer
- Desktop Recorder - BSR Screen Recorder or CamStudio
Bulk Processing
- 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 Editors / Readers
- Comic Viewer / Reader - CDisplayEx
- Document / File Viewer / Editor - Notepad2 or Notepad++ and Microsoft Office
- PDF Reader / Viewer - Sumatra PDF
File Management
- Search - voidtools Everything Search Engine
- Recovery File (PAR, PAR2) and Hash File (SFV, MD5) Management - QuickPar
- Quick File Hashing - HashCheck
- Archiver (RAR, Zip, 7z, etc) - WinRAR or 7-Zip
- File Splitting and Joining - HJ-Split
File Transfer, P2P, and SSH
- 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
- Hardware Information - CPU-Z or HWiNFO
- Graphics (GPU) Information - GPU-Z
- Fan Speed Control - SpeedFan
- Hardware Monitor - SpeedFan, HWMonitor, and GPU-Z
Web
- Website Browser - Opera Web Browser v12.17 (local Opera page) and Microsoft Internet Explorer
- In-page File Downloader - Opera's Links panel
Instant Messaging / Chat
- 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
System Management
- Startup Manager - AutoRuns
- BSOD Information / Troubleshooting - BlueScreenView
- Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Defrag - MyDefrag Disk Defragmenter (don't use it on an SSD, obviously)
UI
- Start Menu - Classic Shell
App Collections
Linux
If you can't figure it out yourself, install Windows.
