In my previous « profesional » blog, I made a list of the softwares that must be installed on my computer.
Please note that I am speaking of my working computer, not my personal one…
Here is my current list:

Edition

  • Pspad: A free and really powerful editor.
  • NVU: An HTML editor.
  • Kompozer: The NVU bug-fixes release.

System

  • Process Explorer: Replace the default windows task manager by Process Explorer!
  • Autoruns: Want to know what is launched when Windows starts? Try autoruns!
  • CubicExplorer: An alternative to the Windows Explorer, with bookmarks, tabs…
  • Supercopier: Replace the default copy tool of Windows.
  • Unlocker: A process is locking a resource on your disk? Use unlocker to solve this problem.
  • Console²: Change the DOS command for Console², with tabs, better UI…
  • Taskbar shuffle: Rearrange the programs on your Windows taskbar by dragging and dropping them.

Tools

  • Stroke It: Execute commands, start programs only with a mouse gesture! Magic!
  • 7-zip: A free file archiver.
  • Ditto: A copy-paster manager, to not be limited to one element in your clipboard.
  • Dirkey: Use Ctrl-0 to Ctrl-9 to access your preferred directories on your disks on Windows Explorer.
  • Print screen: A free tool to create screenshots, with a lot of options…
  • Launchy: Type Ctrl-Space, then write the first letters of the application, and it’s launched!
  • Keybreeze: Almost the same thing as Launchy.
  • PDF Creator: To transform any document to the PDF format (a new printer is added in your configuration).

Development

  • Tortoise CVS: A CVS extension for Windows Explorer.
  • Eclipse: Java development IDE.
  • Netbeans: Another Java development IDE, much better as Eclipse when you need to create Java application with Swing (this is my opinion ;o) ).

Multimedia

  • Foobar 2000: A powerful media player. But needs a lot of configuration…
  • XnView: A powerful image viewer. Also offers lot of conversion controls.

Internet

Firefox plugin

Do not hesitate to share your list with me, using the comments.