Your favorite utilities

[Gary Richardson]

Don't use a2 free, it's known for having a history of false positives and has toasted more than one operating system before now.

I advise at 3 separate security forums so see these kind of problems a lot.

If you want a good general purpose trojan remover go for AVG Anti-Spyware, it's free also.

http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

Don't mind the link name, AVG Anti-Spyware used to be made by Ewido before they got taken over by AVG.

[ronie]

My Favorite utilities are

Mozilla
Winrar
Google Toolbar
Winzip
EditPlus
Java
Data Recovery Software

[pranavy]

here is the software i cannot live without...

VLC Player (www.videolan.org) - kinda Universal media player
µTorrent (www.utorrent.com) - bit torrent client
WinRAR (www.rarlab.com) - zip/unizp multiple compression formats
Wordweb (www.wordweb.info) - handy offline English dictionary
Copernic Desktop Search (www.copernic.com) - desktop search engine
SlickRun (www.bayden.com) - tiny utility to launch applications by shortcuts

Hope you will find some of these useful for you too...

[pranavy]

I would like to add Foxit Reader too to my list... Thanks to all those who mentioned about it in this thread...

No wonder that I already uninstalled the bulky Acrobat Reader

[Doug Nelson]

I just added ClipMate to my utility arsenal.

[Swampy]

On The Macintosh...(OSX 10.4.X Tiger)

Quickeys: Makes macros for doing repetative tasks or boilerplate text etc.
ABDialer: Dials Phone numbers through your internal modem. Numbers can be copy/pasted to the clipboard or you can script the dialing in programs such as FileMaker Pro.
SuperDuper: Creates bootable backups to an external drive. Has scheduling capabilities.
ChronoSync: Backs up selected files and folders only. Has scheduling capabilities
(I use both backup methods. Full SuperDuper weekly, Files and Folders daily)
SnapzPro: Screen capture and QuickTime movie maker from the screen (how I make video tutorials-or grab videos from the web)
FileChute: An FTP type utility that lets me put stuff up on my .Mac site, then creates the URL on the clipboard that I can then include in an email so the recipient can download the file directly to their desktop.

[cardmnal]

Advanced Windows Care. IObit has created a nice little 1 click utility that sweeps for spyware, performs registry fixes, optimizes my system and removes junk files. I have installed it on 3 different machines and have seen a marked improvement in performance on all.