Favorite Tools
Keywords: Resource Tool Tools
Here is a list of WinBatch Developers Favorite Windows Tools:
- WinBatch - (Of course)
- Windows Sysinternal tools - (free) Too many to list here. See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
- Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools - Lot's of handy command line tools.
- Cmd.exe - Gotta love the command line.
- XYPlorer - (shareware) Awesome file manager. Makes Vista tolerable.
- Beyond Compare - (shareware)Incredible file and folder comparison/sync tool. Favorite and most used utility.
- CDBurnerXP - (free) Everything most people need in a CD/DVD burning tool. No Roxio or Nero bloat here.
- CKRename - (free) Great for tricky batch renaming tasks that are hard to do at the command line and not done often enough to bother scripting.
- Data Recovery Wizard Pro - (shareware) Ever pop in an SD card and Windows says it's RAW and contains no data? This tool is probably your best bet for getting the data pulled off.
- DVDFab - (shareware) Any DVD to DVD, DVD to AVI, DVD to mobile device. Full control over your media. Great stuff.
- foobar2000 - (free) Great for fixing MP3 files that refuse to work on certain devices.
- IrfanView - (free) Great GUI tool for quick image cropping, resizing, converting, etc.
- ImageMagick - (free) Great command line tool for quick image cropping, resizing, converting, etc. Easy to control with a WinBatch script. Provides many more functions than Pixie extender with full control over JPG quality.
- MP3Gain - (free) Super tool for setting MP3 files to a consistent volume level.
- UltraEdit - (shareware) Just a really great text editor for code and data. Very fast.
- WinRAR - (shareware) Excellent RAR/ZIP etc. archiver/dearchiver. Seems to be nothing better/easier out there for creating self-extracting files.
- Tag&Rename - (shareware) Indispensable tool for cleaning up your MP3 collection. Tags from filenames, filenames from tags, tag data from Internet (e.g. Amazon), etc.
- Avast Home - (free) Great anti-virus software
- Spybot Search and Destroy - (free) Great anti-spyware software
- Registry Toolkit for Windows - (shareware) Search and replace the registry. Cool. Keep out of reach of children.
- IconLover - (shareware) Handy for creating icon files that work with WinBatch.
- AVI Trimmer - (freeware) Perfect for quickly trimming AVI files without recoding. So nice.
- InstEd (free) - Great MSI editor.
Article ID: W18307
Filename: Favorite Tools.txt
File Created: 2009:04:03:11:40:14
Last Updated: 2009:04:03:11:40:14