sygeek
Technomancer
Here's a list of 30 kick ass powerful and useful apps under just 2 MB and best of all, they are all free!
[Small But Powerful: 30 Useful PC Apps Under 2MB via Maximum PC]
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Here are some more apps that some of you guys may find useful too [Recommendations by users]
- Space Sniffer
- f.lux
- CPU Z
- TeraCopy
- Everything
- TMonitor
- Darik's Boot And Nuke
- Delayer
- Eraser
- uTorrent
- KeePass
- Gmail Notifier
- CCleaner 3.0
- 7-Zip
- Color Cop
- IrfanView
- Easy Thumbnails
- Resize Enable
- Nail It!
- Internet Traffic Report
- LogMeIn Hamachi2
- HijackThis
- PC Decrapifier
- Memtest86+
- Prime 95
- Greenshot
- HashCalc
- ShellMenuView and ShellExView
- VirtuaWin
- StrokeIt
[Small But Powerful: 30 Useful PC Apps Under 2MB via Maximum PC]
Edit:
Here are some more apps that some of you guys may find useful too [Recommendations by users]
- Sandboxie
Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
- Video Cache View
After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
- HWMonitor
HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
- GPU-Z
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
- Unlocker
Unlocker is an Explorer extension that allows you with a simple right-click of the mouse on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it is used by another person or program.
- Vista Switcher (Don't go by the name, it works on XP and W7 too)
VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks, with their names and preview snapshots, and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch tasks, minimize, maximize, restore the main window, or close the process.
- WinUpdatesList
WinUpdatesList displays the list of all Windows updates (Service Packs and Hotfixes) installed on your local computer. For hotfix updates, this utility also displays the list of files updated with these hotfixes. In addition, it allows you to instantly open the Web link in Microsoft Web site that provides more information about the selected update, uninstall an update, copy the update information to the clipboard, or save it to text/HTML/XML file. - Stickies [Smaller Alternative to Stickies - Memento]
Stickies combines the best and most important features that you could want in a notes program with the added glory of being free. The program's main feature, the sticky note, can be customized on nearly every level, from font to color to behavior. - Tweak UI
Tweak UI is a free user interface customization application. It provides a simple graphical user interface for performing tweaks that otherwise would require editing the registry. - ZeuApp
ZeuAPP is essentially an installation dashboard for 160 applications. You can navigate to application types like CD Burners, P2P apps, Office apps, and more. Under each tab are applications for that category with a "Download" and "Visit Website" button which allow you to download the application and automatically launch the installer or visit the web site for more info. - Notepad2
Edit text files and program codes with this enhanced version of the standard Notepad, but its added functionality comes with a much larger file size. Notepad2 looks much like the Windows' version with a host of editing tools added. - Putty
PuTTY is a free and open source terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client. - EasyBCD
It's small, free, powerful, and flexible, and advanced users will get a jewel in this handy system boot tool. EasyBCD's crisp, clean, and logical interface presents everything you need to create a multi-OS boot system. Once the additional operating systems are installed, this utility makes it very easy to manage booting into an alternate OS. - Cathy
An extremly small, very fast and easy to use portable media cataloging tool. - 1by1
1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need for playlists or databases. - VoluMouse
Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. - Process Explorer
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. - Startup Programs Tracker
A small utility that will check the Start Menu and the System Registry for items that load at startup. - Dark Room [Dependencies - .NET Framework 2]
Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text. - mIRC
mIRC is a full featured Internet Relay Chat client for Windows that can be used to communicate, share, play or work with others on IRC networks around the world, either in multi-user group conferences or in one-to-one private discussions.
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