Freeware

[fasteez]

Nobody uses PDFCreator ? opensource virtual pdf printer which is close to perfection. (Never used the other though.. because PDFCreator always delivered, well almost always)

If you often run into "locked files" that you cannot open/copy/rename, try http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

my own list goes like this

pdf:
foxit reader, sumatra pdf

multimedia:
xnview
vlc/mpc/klcp
foobar+plugins
imgburn

hmm:
notepad2/notepad++
putty/winscp
system internals suite
unlocker
eraser
utorrent
7zip

tp related:
nhc
tpfc

ps : we should centralize this someway

[crashnburn]

fasteez.. I use ALL of the ones you listed..

I'll add ..
TreeSize
Sizer

[fasteez]

Treesize mos def !
I forgot to check the "old portable apps" dir

emacs
dokan sshfs ( add ssh folders under "My Computer" in windows )
treesizefree
winmerge
windirstats

i took windows binaries of wget and curl, always handy to mass download

nlite
qemu
virtualdub

I guess that's it

[ThinkRob]

Of the programs I use that are Free software (and free software), by far the most useful is VirtualBox, as it lets me do my job. Having the ability to use a well-supported, fully-functional, totally-free VM solution is awesome. I routinely have to test things on a number of different platforms, and not a workday goes by where I don't use VirtualBox for at least a couple instances.

[A31]

I do my programming on Visual Basic 2010 Express (which is free from Microsoft and it has all the features I will ever need and more), and I do file archiving on 7-Zip, which is free and open source.

[Tasurinchi]

In my Windows machines (Thinkpads or Desktops) I use only freeware software (appart from Windows itself, of course). But what I particularly like to use is a bunch of portable software that I don't need to re-install after every clean install or setting up a new desktop/Thinkpad. My preferred ones:

- Thunderbird portable
- Firefox portable
- Chrome portable
- Free Commander Portable
- 7zip portable
- VLC portable
- uTorrent portable
- Skype portable
- Foxit reader portable (PDFs)
- ProcessExplorer

The best thing is that I have a copy of all those folders on a pendrive and after a clean install I just copy them to the target machine and voila! Everything is working...

My 0,02 cents...

[crashnburn]

Tasu - Which PORTING portable app are you using.. ? Are your using U3 or any Launcher? e.g. PStart

[Tasurinchi]

Tasu - Which PORTING portable app are you using.. ? Are your using U3 or any Launcher? e.g. PStart

Actually I don't use any launcher. I have an usb stick with a backup of all the portable software and the standard launcher from http://portableapps.com/.

Normally I will copy the folders with the software I need in my target desktop/TP and then use Rocketdock as launcher, but I have to configure it locally and add all the applications I want/need manually.

The best would be to have Portable Rocketdock

[jdrou]

Few that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
IZArc - free but not opensource; handles a few formats that 7-Zip doesn't (I use 7-Zip as my primary though)
DeepBurner - CD/DVD burner
CygWin - run GNU/linux software on Windows; I mainly use the command-line text utilities and cdrtools (the real ones, not from the CygWin distribution)
Virtual Floppy Drive (http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#top )
TightVNC
CopSSH - CygWin-based OpenSSH package
ISO creator and patch creator from http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php

[A31]

The best would be to have Portable Rocketdock

LOVE RocketDock!

I don't know where I'd be without my dock!!

Also discovered nLite and vLite, for modifying the Windows installation disc, making a 'modded' version of the XP Pro w/SP1 disc at the moment on nLite, with SP3 slipstreamed, and the language options etc already set to the United Kingdom for me!