Useful Windows Programs (Rev 0.02)

Recently my job has caused me to once again revert back and use Windows for my daily work. Luckily this time I was able to get away with simply installing the free version of VMWare Server on my linux box. To do my job I needed to test the functionality of a program when connected 4 differently configured computers, each of which resulted in me needing 3 windows open. Before I knew it, my Desktop was a MESS!

That’s when VirtuaWin came to the rescue. This program lets me have up to 9 (although I find 4 to be sufficient) virtual desktops on my computer. Microsoft did release a similar tool in their power-toys package, but this was limited to running on just WindowsXP.

And so I figured it was time to update my list of usefull programs:

• Programming
  • Dev-C++
• Checksum Utilities
  • MD5-Summer
• Compression
  • WinRAR
• Chat
  • Gaim
  • Meebo.com
• FTP Clients
  • FlashFXP – Although this is pay software
  • SmartFTP – I just started using this today, so I don’t yet give it my full pledge of approval, but it looks promising.
• SSH
  • PuTTY
  • WinSCP
• Web Browsing
  • Firefox with the following extensions:
    • AdBlock and Adblock Filterset.G
    • BugMeNot – Useful for browsing sites that require registration
    • ForcastFox
    • GMail Notifier
    • IE Tab – Lets you have IE windows inside of FireFox’s Tabs (useful for work sites that require you to use IE).
    • WebDeveloper – A great WebDevelopment tool
    • Grease Monkey – A tool to let you inject JavaScript into HTML pages you visit (Pretty Awesome!)
• Virtual Desktops
  • VirtuaWin

You can find the original list at: mattfarmer [dot] net » Blog Archive » Useful Windows Programs