(on Wikipedia)
https://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php
One of those “PC problems” programs.
Whatever this is supposed to be, it’s insultingly simplistic and opaque.
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TODO – make a proper page
TODO – add my notes
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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.
TODO – add my notes
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Storage > Software > smartmontools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/
A HDD health program.
I find it essential. I think.
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This is part of the smartmontools suite.
| 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)
I just now learned that Karen Kenworthy, the author of a great number of excellent tools , is dead. All my heroes are dying.
Spoiler
I’d like to thank the outpouring of support for this great programmer and person. Though I did not know her myself, I feel strongly about this topic and am glad it has attracted readers.
Whenever you act as a consumer — use a piece of software, watch a video or read an article or just a comment — and it brightens your day or informs your life, please think about leaving even the smallest reply. These matter more than you may ever realize.
One moment of your writing will impact uncounted hours of a person’s future efforts. One minute of your time will brighten years for another. If all we have is kindness, maybe that’s the one thing that another might need.
If something matters to you, then you matter to it.
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2022-07-10 – Joe Winett stopped maintaining Karenware.
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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]] >
(on Wikipedia)
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.
