Windows_Essentials.php -- Windows Essential Software

Tue Mar 9 10:00:31 PST 2010

Roger C. Pao

Network


BOINC (optional)
  Open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources.
  http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

DynDNS Updater (conditional)
  DynDNS Update Clients
  http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/windows.html

Mozilla Firefox
  Firefox Web Browser
  http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons
  Add-ons for Firefox Web Browser
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/rcpao_essentials

Mozilla Thunderbird
  Email and Usenet client
  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/download/
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_Outlook_(Express)_contacts_with_Thunderbird_or_Mozilla_Mail

Pidgin
  universal chat client
  http://www.pidgin.im/download/

PuTTY
  Open source telnet and SSH Client
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
  http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.60-installer.exe
  http://www.google.com/search?q=backup+putty+sessions
  http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/02/01/howto-transfer-your-putty-settings-between-computers/

Skype
  http://www.skype.com

SolarWinds 2003 Standard Edition > TFTP Server (conditional)
  TFTP Server for network hardware firmware updates
  http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/free_tftp_server.aspx

Synergy (optional)
  Share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with
  different operating systems
  http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/files/

VNC
  UltraVNC (for XP, Vista, and Windows 7)
    VNC Specializing in Remote Computer Support
    http://www.uvnc.com/download/
  TightVNC (XP, 2.0+ for Vista and Windows 7)
    An enhanced VNC
    http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php
  RealVNC (not for Vista or Windows 7)
    VNC Remote Control Software
    http://www.google.com/search?q=realvnc

WampServer (for CardLogix/SCTester2)
  Apache, MySQL, PHP on Windows
  http://www.wampserver.com/en/

WinSCP
  Free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows
  WinSCP will use PuTTY session settings, so configure PuTTY first.
  http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

ZoneAlarm
  Free Firewall
  http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm

Software Development


picTree for Windows
  https://www.paonet.org/rpao/pub/picTree-w32/

ActivePerl 5.8 (for picTree)
  Perl distribution available for Windows
  http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads/

Cygwin > OpenSSH server + tcpwrapper + vim
  Linux-like environment for Windows
  http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

OpenSSL (for CardLogix/MostOs/Tester)
  The Win32 OpenSSL Installation Project is dedicated to providing a
  simple installation of OpenSSL.
  http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

TortoiseSVN (conditional)
  TortoiseSVN is TortoiseCVS for Subversion
  http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

WinMerge
  WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows.
  http://winmerge.org/downloads/

Anti-Malware


Microsoft Security Essentials
  http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
or
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
  http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage

Spybot Search & Destroy
  http://www.safer-networking.org

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Utilities


7-zip
  Open source Windows utility for manipulating archives.
  http://www.7-zip.org/

Avidemux
  A free multi-format, cross-platform video editor
  http://www.avidemux.org/

CmdHere
  Cmd Prompt Here
  http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdhere/index.html

ConTEXT
  Freeware Text Editor
  http://www.contexteditor.org/

CDBurnerXP
  CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including
  Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.
  http://cdburnerxp.se/

CDex
  Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor
  http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

DAEMON Tools Lite
  Emulate virtual CD/DVD-ROM/HD DVD and Blu-ray drives
  Create a disc image
  http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/products/dtLite

DVD Flick (untested)
  DVD Authoring tool
  http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/dvdauthoring.shtml
  http://www.dvdflick.net/

Frhed
  Free hex editor
  http://frhed.sourceforge.net/

GIMP
  GIMP for Windows installers
  http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

ImgBurn
  ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application
  http://www.imgburn.com/

ImageMagick® (for picTree)
  ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows

KeePass Password Safe (optional)
  KeePass is an open source password manager.
  http://keepass.info/

OpenOffice
  A multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.
  http://download.openoffice.org/

PDFCreator
  PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

TrueCrypt (optional)
  TrueCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software
  http://www.truecrypt.org/

Video DVD Maker FREE (untested)
  A freeware tool to create DVDs in 3 clicks
  http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/dvdauthoring.shtml
  http://www.videodvdmaker.com/download/vdm_free.exe

VideoLAN - VLC media player
  http://www.videolan.org/

VirtualBox (optional)
  An x86 virtualization software package
  http://www.virtualbox.org/

VirtualDub
  A free video capture and AVI/MPEG-1 processing utility.
  http://www.virtualdub.org/

Commercial


Adobe Photoshop Elements
  Allows multiple pages to be scanned while GIMP requires restarting
  TWAIN for each page.
  2.0 Installation CD included with Canon EOS 20D.