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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
the kit
All posts tagged the kit
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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.
(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
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Confuses a hidden Keylogger (if any) by generating a ton of fake key strokes internally.
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https://mion.yosei.fi/BES/ [ 1 ] was http://mion.faireal.net/BES/ [ 2 ] was floral-magician.marybell.info/BES/
(source code)
Throttles CPU usage. Good for grinding applications to a halt, for testing, or to make sure that CPU-hogging applications don’t shit all over your computer.
Footnotes
prcview.com (gone as of 2016-02-12, archive)
Command line utility allows automating common task like figuring out if particular process is running or killing a running process on scheduler. Has a GUI version.
I’ve never really used it, but it’s stayed in my toolkit because it’s under a megabyte.
- Tested PrcView GUI 3.7.3.1, commandline 3.10.2.1, on 2014-04-24 on Windows 8.1, updated recently.
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Tested PrcView GUI 5.2.15.1, commandline 3.11.1.1, on 2016-02-12 on Windows 10, updated recently.
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: sysinternals
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
Various GUI and console utilities to do technical stuff on Windows.
Although I don’t actively use this, I easily consider this suite mandatory.
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I may have used this on my Windows 9x days.
