Links To Useful Software (mainly free for personal use)

7 Zip

http://www.7-zip.org/

A great little file zip and unzip utility

AutoIT

http://www.autoitscript.com/site/

For automating windows GUI based applications this is great, it also works well as a test tool for GUIs.

CCleaner

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

A useful system optimisation and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system

Fresh Devices

http://www.freshdevices.com/

A collection of windows utilities which really do work including performance benchmarking, windows interface tweaker, download manager and multimedia browser.

Fresh FTP

http://www.freshwebmaster.com/

A nice and simple, easy to use FTP client

Fresh HTML

http://www.freshwebmaster.com/

A nice and simple, easy to use HTML editor

Inno IDE

http://www.innoide.org/

A GUI based front end for Inno Set Up which makes it much easier to use

Inno Setup

http://www.jrsoftware.org/

An excellent install builder for windows based on scripts, can be difficult to use.for more complex installers.

Irfan View

http://www.irfanview.com/

A nice graphics conversion and manipulation program

ShellExView

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

A useful shell extension manager

PAD Generator

http://.asp-software.org/

Portable Application Description (PAD) is a standardised way to describe software which allows automation of listings

SciTE

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

A customised script editor for AutoIt

Xenu

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

This makes checking web site links simple

Windows Service Manager

http://tools.sysprogs.org/srvman/

Useful tool for changing, creating and monitoring services