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was https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=hddguardian
A windows GUI which uses the smartctl backend.
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Abandoned – Website gone, archive gone.
glances
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| The irony of not having an icon. |
BeCyIconGrabber is a small utility to view icons and cursors of any sizes that are contained in EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX, CPL, SRC, ICO and CUR files. The icons/cursors can be saved either individually as an icon, cursor, bitmap, png file or collectively within resource libraries.
(and more awesome features)
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(on Wikipedia)
was https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/
A PDF reader. Many people mistake this as “the” PDF viewer, but PDF is an open format, and Adobe just happens to make a popular viewer.
- While I don’t use it, I keep it in my toolkit: Win10 enGB – 2015.009.20069
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(on Wikipedia)
https://winscp.net/eng/index.php
An SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client.
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Windows Secure Copy
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https://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm
A defragmentation tool for individual files.
Note that defragmentation is irrelevant with an SSD, and even with a HDD, Windows will auto-defragment if you leave it alone for a bit. For windows 8 and Windows 10, my administrative settings are so aggressive that when I’m inactive for five minutes it pokes around to see what it can defragment.
- As of 2016-02-15 on Windows 10, 1.35.04 is in my toolkit.
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I had tested v1.0.0rc1 on Windows 8.1 a while back, for Path of Exile – (2013 game).
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Software > Image viewers, [/tag/svg-viewers |SVG viewers]] >
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Chocolatey: IrfanView and irfanviewplugins
https://www.irfanview.com/
A venerable picture viewing tool. Can also view other media with plugins.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/greenshot/greenshot/releases
https://getgreenshot.org/
A screenshot software tool.
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Generally unnecessary now that Windows Snip (
Win-shift-s) works well.
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.aida64.com/
A general system information utility.
- These days this is called AIDA64
- I’ve been using 3.93 (2004-02-23) since my Windows XP days. Tested and still works as of 2016-02-12 on Windows 10 64bit.
- Tested 3.94.2 (2004-02-23), on 2016-02-12, on Windows 10 64bit.
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I’m not going to pursue the trialware AIDA64.
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
A GPU (graphics card) information utility.
Included in FurMark.
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http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cprocess.html
A process viewer.
It’s 80k, so why not include it in my kit.
- aka CProcess
- Tested 1.10 on 2016-02-12 on Windows 10, updated recently.
- Tested 1.10 on 2014-04-24 on Windows 8.1, updated recently.
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As of 2016-02-12 this was last updated 2008-05-22.
Windows NT needs psapi.dll downloaded and put in system32
