Links To Useful Software (mainly free for personal use)

Energy Saving Software

CRT Energy Saver

http://www.LeithauserResearch.com/CRT-Energy-Saver.html

For use only with CRT monitors, reduces the energy used by blacking out the portions of the screen that are not in use.

General Software

7 Zip

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

A great little file zip and unzip utility

AutoIT

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

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

CCleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com/

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 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

ISTool

http://www.istool.org/

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

PAD Generator

http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/

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