I'm too bored to work today (still trying to digest the new year's excesses ) so I am starting a thread about programs I use all the time (except xplorer2 of course)
in no particular order
VS6
MS outlook
IE8
paint.NET
irfanview
MS virtual PC winscp wink 7-zip
tortoise SVN
winamp uptime scout
My own favorites (i.e., most used, or always running) are:
Firefox
Thunderbird
xplorer2
MS Excel
editor2
ACD See
irfanview
MS Security Essentials
WinPatrol
Shadow Protect
7zip
MS Word
Foxit pdf reader
Google Earth
these are a few I pretty much use every day:
xplorer2
Classic Shell
Firefox
Thunderbird
XChat
Notepad++
7-Zip
WinRAR
TCC/LE
Media Player Classic Home Cinema
foobar2000
IrfanView
awxRename
Ken Rename
FileMenu Tools
CloneSpy
Cygwin
GnuWin32
TreeSize Free
HashCheck
VirtualBox
STDU Viewer (just started using this, but I like it)
several Sysinternals and NirSoft utilities
many more that I use occasionally
I thought ACD See was aiming at professional grade? What does Irfan do that ACD can't? (Not to critique, but as Irfan insanely doesn't allow zooming with the mouse, it's unusable.)
Funny, my most valuable software is usually the stuff running in the background that I don't even think about...
...about half the Nirsoft catalogue at this stage...
...and more video games than a middle-aged man should have (how the heck can one silly game take up 17GB of space these days? Who designs these things?)
It's getting boring, the lists are quite similar:
X2 (I might just as well put it in the startup-folder)
Notepad++
Firefox
Thunderbird
Opera (depending on mood)
FileZilla (anyone?)
Pidgin
Irfanview (Kilmatead, I don't know ACDsee, but Irfan is so fast)
Renamer
WinMerge
OpenOffice (writer, calc, base)
7-zip
AutoIt
VBSEdit
PyScripter
Freemind/Freeplane
UniPad
(apart from translation software and Adobe's designing software, which is just the job)
Mr.Pleasant wrote:(Kilmatead, I don't know ACDsee, but Irfan is so fast)
I don't know it either, I was just under an impression of its goals... I was just wondering why Fred uses two viewers. I never liked Irfan - aside from the lack of mouse-zooming (which is criminal), it just never felt right. I don't even use a viewer now, everything is done via Gimp or the command-line-only nconvert.exe (made by the bloke who wrote XNview).
I use ACDsee as full screen viewer and primary photo editor; irfanview for image types not decoded by ACDsee. Otherwise x2 preview pane for low-res looks.
Thanks for your lists. There's a few I've never heard of that I will checking out but I use a lot of the same ones everyone mentioned. But Xplorer2 is my main one which is generally always open on any computer I have powered up. One time we had a customer at my company and I showed him Xplorer2 which he immediately took a liking to. He told me he doesn't often run across other 'tool junkies' like himself. I thought that was pretty funny. He then told me about Beyond Compare.
The only one I use a lot but don't see on anyone's list is Total Commander. I use it mostly for file renaming because it's sophisticated and easy-to-use file renaming is hard to beat. I use Xplorer2 mass renaming mostly for adding suffixes or prefixes to a bunch of files at once. I also use Total Commander for ftp connections and directory synchronizing. I'm slowly starting to use Xplorer2 more though for directory synchronizing because of the combination filters that can be used. Total Commander can only do one extension type at a time or all with *.
I have played around with TC from time to time... it's a nice file manager... I really like the way it handles custom toolbars and toolbar buttons but it uses some wacky file selection method that is nothing like any other Windows programs I have ever used... it just annoys me too much.
) so I am starting a thread about programs I use all the time (except xplorer2 of course)
