Utilities
February 24th, 2010
I need to go through this and check these properly, and organise it better!
Until then, here is a big list of stuff that sounds cool but I haven’t tried most of these! A lot of these I’ve heard about but haven’t personally tried. So the bottom bit of this page is stuff I haven’t tried. But on to the stuff I do / have run.
Apps I run
‘Thumb Drive Utils’
Although I run them from a CD, just in case a virus infects the thumb drive!
- Firefox Portable – sometimes their browsers are screwed up.
- Notepad++ Portable – a nice editor is useful.
- 7-Zip Portable – very good unzip app.
- ClamWin Portable – Anti-Virus.
- Eraser Portable – Clear out extra space.
- InfraRecorder Portable – Because XP sucks for burning disks.
- CCleaner – to remove the fluff / clear temp files etc.
- JKDefrag Portable – help speed up the PC. Yes it’s now called MyDefrag or something but it went to closed source
- App Remover – help remove annoying security apps.
- Kill Process Portable – Kills running apps and stops them restarting.
- McAfee Rootkit hunter – Looks for Rootkits
- SysInternals Suite – All the useful SysInternals I run (and more).
- Soft Key Revealer – Pulls out product keys from the registry.
- VLC Portable – Plays almost every media file (sound, videos etc)
- Eraser Portable – Wipe files securely.
- Lightscreen Portable – Take screenshots easily.
- Q-Dir – 4 paned file manager
Also on the CD I have a few install programs:
- Revo Uninstaller – uninstalls programs (including tidying up registry) and more.
- Team Viewer – still playing around with it, but it’s an easy remove control software.
- Secunia PSI – to find how insecure your windows machine is (and how to fix it).
- Ad-Aware – anti-adware / spyware program.
- Spybot Search and Desroy – another anti-adware / spyware program.
- Spyware Terminator – yet another anti-adware / spyware program
- Clam AV – free anti-virus.
- Malware Bytes – anti-spyware program.
Other useful little utilities:
- PC Wizard 2009 – tells you about your computer.
- AllSnap snaps windows to edge of screen / other windows (via), just like Linux does.
Cross-platform Utilities
- FileZilla FTP program.
Apps I should try out
- Process Tamer stops programs grabbing 100% processor power.
- AppSnap Makes installing software a ’snap’. Like apt-get or similar.
- Net Stumbler to scan WiFi Networks
- ImgBurn – Free CD / DVD burning software
- Command Line Windows Update – just like apt-get update / upgrade!
- Text Editor for Programmers
- TRID Repair Tool
- Easy Cleaner
- Replacement Task Explorer
- Windows System Control Centre for Sys Internals and similar
- CDBurnerXP CD Burning
- NirCMD a swiss army knife tool
- Disk Investigator – look at the raw data on a disk
- SVC Host Analyzer – figure out what is happening with SVC Host
- LockHunter – deletes locked files etc
- Processblocker – stops programs from running
- Recuva – undelete program (Windows)
- NirSoft Apps – Various Utilites
- Device Doctor – find drivers for hardware
- Free Registry Defrag
- Unstoppable Copier
- HWInfo – Hardware Info
- Device Remover
- Eraser Portable http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/eraser_portable
- Ultradefrag http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/files/
XP
- Free XP Tools – 61 tools from MS to support XP.
Vista
Anti-Spyware
Linux
- Zone Minder for home security
- Make an Ubuntu Live CD
Other
Nice Utils for Thumb Drives
- Win Pen Pack – portable apps
- Democrakey open source privacy suite.
- How to boot knoppix from USB
- How to create a bootable USB disk
- Network Utilities
- Raw Copy
- Guliverkli
- Irfan View picture editor
- Pen Drive Linux
- Runt Linux
- PUTTY SSH Client
- Windows NT Utilities
- Ultra Edit 32
- Free Anti-Virus
- nPop
- GNU Win 32
- Windows native version of GNU stuff
- Unix Kit for Windows (defunct, link dead)
- Lifehacker Utilities
- Build a USB Mail system
- Dual Boot Linux / Bart PE on USB
- CygWin
- TorPark Runs TOR stand alone
- DJGPP
- HTTP Tunnel
- 7-Zip
- Damage Cleanup Engine
- Portable Apps
- Portable Apps on The Info Box
- Portable Freeware
- WEP Key Generator
- Tiddly Wiki personal note taker
- TrueCrypt
- dirsync
- tcpview
- smartsniff
- regmon
- pspad
- siw – System Information for Windows
- bear / gear? – GREP for windows
- netcat
- truecrypt
- portable firefox
- vidala – portable tor
- putty
- cygwin
- Clonezilla
- Ghost
- NTFS Clone on some distros
- PING – Part Image Not Ghost
Disk Error
- chkdsk
- fixboot
- fixmbr
(those two are from windows CD)
- NTFSfix
- If physical errors -> ddrescue
Also there is dd_rescue
- gparted for patitions (space selects options)
- ubcd to ccheck it works
Util CDs
- mhdd
- testdisks
Forensics
- sleuthkit
- photorecord
Other to look at
- CTFMON.EXE what it is and why is it running.
To sort and add (being lazy, no links just the text)
- http://www.pendriveapps.com/diskdigger-undelete-deleted-files/
- http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/6086/remove-garbage-software-from-your-new-or-old-computer/
- http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/30/paragon-backup-and-recovery-10-is-a-great-free-imaging-and-partiti/
- http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/23/ninite-install-multiple-popular-free-apps-on-windows/
