Name your gem programs here

I have found programs so useful and great that they are absolute gems. Please name yours. Here are my top 3:

1. patchmypc

• freeware

• tiny

• scans all programs looking for latest update and patches them auto!

2. Driver Booster 8

• freeware

• scans all drivers and updates

• small

3. ccleaner

• free s

• small

• removes masses of garbage

Edited by hamluis, 20 December 2020 - 12:30 PM.

Macrium Reflect: Easy to use, can recover an image to a new hard drive, free to use.

CCleaner. Usually safe to remove what it finds.

Hard disk Sentinel: Monitor hard drives in real time, will warn you if your drive is about to fail, standard & premium versions.

Driver Easy: Free & paid version, has never given me a bad driver (unlike DriverBooster), free version you need to download & install the driver manually, no multiple downloads, paid version has full automation for download & install.

+1 for Macrium Reflect and CCleaner

To add on to the list:

Revo Uninstaller: Clean removal of any program from your PC. Uninstalls programs and additionally removes any files and Windows registry entries left behind by the program's uninstaller or by the Windows uninstall function.
 

VLC Media Player: Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.

Everything search engine.

WinDirStat for disk usage.

+1 for Hard Disk Sentinel, although there are others that perform same drive-monitor function as well (e.g., Crystal Disk Info and others).

CPUID Hardware Monitor.

Autoruns for Windows.

Speccy

Louis

Edited by hamluis, 20 December 2020 - 12:40 PM.

Notepad++

VLC player

Autoruns and Process Explorer from MS Sysinternals

ESET antivirus

qBittorrent

Ever had a computer problem and all your icons got rammed together on one side of the screen when you rebooted? You need Desktop OK

Good selection guys. Keep em coming!

Bleachbit

Wise Disk Cleaner

Wise Registry Cleaner

It changes a lot, but for Windows usage this may be it:

- Agent Ransack : search file content, but in a way that actually works, compared with Windows search

- Locate : search for file metadata (name, age, etc. - NOT content) - similar to Everything - also here; doing what Windows can't, even with indexing enabled

- ClipX : clipboard memory tool - basically replaced by some program (in Windows 10 at least), but I prefer this one - it keeps a list of text, screenshots & files you have CTRL-C'ed

Unchecky: Since I started running this, I have not had a single PUP downloaded, and I also use CCleaner, so it's obviously doing its job

Easy to use and really good for printing

Any more pls? Something for free back up from one hard drive to another i am looking for.

Covered in above posts; I use Macrium Reflect free edition.

Wise Disk Cleaner | Wise Program Uninstaller | Microsoft Defender | Paint.Net | Speccy | WizTree (Disk Analyzer) | Libre Office | Nitro PDF Reader Free | 7-Zip File Manager | Google Drive | Google Earth Pro.

+1 Paint.Net

- CrystalDiskInfo

• Occasional drive checks for early warnings about hard drive failure

- Visual Studio Code

• Free, open source text editor from Micro$oft
• Surprisingly good