A few of the tools i like that haven't been mentioned yet

• ALZIP
  Compression utility which handles over 36 different compression formats
• Jdiskreport
  Provides a graphical and "drill-down" view of your disk usage. It also supports multiple ways to view your usage (e.g. by folder, by file type, ascending or descending order, top 50 file sizes, etc)
  
• FreeCommander
  Tired of trying to work back and forth between two different Explorer windows? Try a dual-pane view of your file/folders all within a single Window
  
• HDTune
  Very handy tool to help assess the health/performance of your drives
  
• VLC_Player
  Gotta have a copy of this portable multimedia player (which doesn't require you go searching for codecs) for playing
  • Various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...)
  • DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols
  • Unicast or multicast media streams received as IPv4 or IPv6 over a high speed network

And I'll add a few "of the more Geek-ish" tools

• RegShot
  Ever wish you could just see a “diff” between two different snapshots of your Windows registry?
• System Information Viewer
  We all like Everest, but System Information Viewer allows you to “drill-down” into your system to find lots of details and easily understand the relationships via a hierarchical drill-down view (The buttons in your SIV provide a "drill-down" or different view into your machine)
  
• Adapter Watch
  Keep an eye on your network adapters and their performance data
• BIOS Explorer
  If you ever feel like "crawling around" inside of your BIOS....
  

As the title suggests... a proper uninstaller !!...here is an amazing freebie, much better than m/s add/remove.. and actually clears the junk out of the registry afterwards, revo uninstaller

revo uninstaller YES! Good suggestion. Completely forgot about that one.

And welcome to TechSpot mushley!

Hope these have not been mentioned before..

Winrar and vlc media player.

Revo's got 3 fans then! (also forgot)

It has great options as to how picky it's supposed to be when searching for leftovers and it is clear where the files are situated, minimizing the risk of deleting something by mistake. Actually, I still haven't been offered to delete anything necessary for other programs. Spot on!

did anyone mention unlocker? this is a great program if u want to kill or unlock a program and also known where the program is from..

sorry for bringing this up..

i cannot post link because of the restriction...

Hi,

I can really recommend PSPad editor as a top notch text editor. It's been my favorite for a while now.

Also please take a look at faststone image viewer. Super fast image veiwer with sweet editing and batch processing features. This is like the best tool ever!

http://www.pspad.com/en/
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

Keep up the good work.

Bne

Putty. Best telnet/ssh client.