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- HoeKey - Make use of that Windows key and many other key combos. Here are my keys combinations.
- PureText (Strips away formating when you paste using Winkey-V) As there is no install,
- Copy to the directory of your choice
- Start the program and it will appear as a PT icon on your system tray
- Right click the icon and choose options
- Check the box to "Automatically run PureText each time...."
- Araxis Merge 64-bit - Best diff tool I have ever found. (disable Ribbon Interface, check do not show splash window, add folder filter to ignore .svn folders and make the default encoding UTF-8 No BOM). DetalWalker looks promising and cheaper.
- Metapad - almost as tiny and fast as notepad but with unlimited undo's and a couple of other nice features
- Quick SFV 64-bit (use md5 or sfv files to ensure integrity during transport of files)
- EMEditor (good with distinguishing and using UTF-8, ISO ectsect.. fast, light with text highlighting)
- WinRar 64-bit - better than winzip (does all the same stuff with zip files) plus allows you to create self-extracting splittable files and has a superior compression format called rar.
- Erase - with a right-click you can securely delete or move confidential file
- Disable running of scheduled tasks
- VMWare Workstation - allows you to virtualize operating systems. If you do not know what this means you are missing out.
- Any Password - centralize your passwords. Now I am looking at an open source alternative called KeePass which I can hopefully hook up to an application server and make online. Even more ideal, I can perhaps hook up KeePass with a java web app with 2-Factor authentication.
- AntiVirus I use different ones on different computers. As a power user I disable the on the fly scanning to conserve cpu and memory.
- Avira Personal Edition - has highest detection rate but has pop-up advertisement. Though it can be disabled, I actually recommend buying a license.
- Avast Home Edition - Recommended by Dickson. Very good but I don't like having to renew my keys every once in a while.
- AVG - Free version does not check for malware.
- Telnet - you actually have to go into Windows 7 and install this manually.
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- ieWatch (watch all details of traffic flow in browser)
- Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers where I manually bundle Java and Tomcat.
- TortoiseSVN + improve performance + configure to integrate with Araxis
- Adobe Photoshop 7.01 - Small and light and does everything I need compared to the newer editions.
- Tail for Win32 - Nice tail utility which can watch files. Got it from Dimitri.
- JAD (JAva Decompiler)
- WinTask - Record Windows actions as macros. Great for repetitive testing of websites.
- Notepad++ - Recommend by Shawn. No installer required. No install necessary. There is also an option to make it portable so nothing is kept in the registry. It's on their FAQ. More neat optionsabout the editor,
- "Alt + Left Mouse Click" puts you in Column Mode Select
- To select columns without using the mouse use ALT+SHIFT and the cursor keys
- UTF-8 support
- text highlighting for many languages and more via plugins
- TopStyle - the best CSS editor and as of version 4.0 all around editor. The search and replace functionality I find to be particularly easy to use (allows simple * type searches), powerful (regular expressions) and reliable (unlike Windows built in search).
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