Windows Power User Tools

I’m a huge fan of Windows 7. It’s the first time I’ve ever run a Microsoft OS on my primary (home) machine.  I’ve compiled a set of programs that I have found to be invaluable in using Windows for serious development and computing. All are free and clean of any ads or spyware.

EaseUS® Partition Master 9.1 Home Edition

As Partition Magic alternative, EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is a ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management freeware. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 (SP1 included) 32 bit and 64 bit system.

Process Hacker

Effectively a better version of Task Manager, Process Hacker is a free and open source process viewer and memory editor with unique features such as powerful process termination. It can show services, processes and their threads, modules, handles and memory regions.

TeraCopy

TeraCopy is designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed. The program skips bad files during the copying process, and then displays them at the end of the transfer so that you can see which ones need attention. TeraCopy can automatically check the copied files for errors by calculating their CRC checksum values. It also provides a lot more information about the files being copied than its Windows counterpart. TeraCopy integrates with Windows Explorer’s right-click menu and can be set as the default copy handler. It replaces Explores copy and move functionality and instead provides excellent move and copy support.

WinDirStat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows. It works well and is very fast.

Write Monkey

Write Monkey is a knock off of the Write Room full screen distraction free applications for OS X. It’s quite well done and free.

Putty & Putty Connection Manager

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an  xterm  terminal emulator. Putty Connection Manager can be used as tabbed version of Putty. It works on all the editions of Windows OS i.e Windows XP, Server 2003,Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7.