Mark Wieczorek Listed his Favorite Smallware: My Favorite Smallware. Below is the list brief.
Multimedia
MP3Gain
MP3Gain analyzes your MP3s and determines which ones are louder/quieter and sets a hidden bit in the MP3 that tells your player how much volume to add or lower.
Audacity
Free, open source multi-track recorder & editor.
Streaming Download Project (install)
Use this to capture streaming video and audio off the net.
File Management & UI
WinMerge
This is a diff program - it will detect changes between two text documents or between two directories.
Contig
Command line tool from SysInternals that lets you defrag a single file or directory.
Folder Size for Windows Explorer
Adds a column to Windows Explorer that tells you the size of your folders.
PC Inspector File Recovery (6MB, install)
Out of all the programs I tried, PC Inspector was the best. It works with NTFS and FAT32, and it's extremely thorough.
Agent Ransack - install
Agent Ransack is a great search utility that will search through folders and files based on regular expression searches.
PowerMenu 49 KB, no install
This program adds Always On Top, Minimize to Tray, Priority and Transparency menus to your taskbar rightclick.
WhoLockMe 22 KB, install optional
WhoLockMe will tell you what programs are using that file or folder, so you can shut them down and move on with your life.
DoubleKiller - 721 KB, no install
This file searches your hard drive & finds duplicate files.
Oscar's File Renamer - install
BKReplaceEm - no install
This is a great regular expression based search & replace utility.
SyncBack- 1.68mb, install
SpaceMonger - 212kb, no install
This program shows you visually how much space is taken up by what folders/files on your hard drive.
Folder Size (see above) is an excellent plugin for Windows Explorer that will show you the size of each folder.
Internet - email, chat, browsing, networking
Mailwasher
Pegasus Mail
Off By One Web Browser
Wireshark (formerly Ethereal Packet Sniffer) - install
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) - install
WASTE - Install (some versions)
Jabber
Google Talk is based on Jabber.
Trillian - Install
MoonEdit - Install (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD)
Security
TrueCrypt
AVG Antivirus
Winpooch
Filemon
Trust No EXE
HijackThis & CWShredder (Alternate Link for Infected Computers)
HijackThis scans your computer for anything that might attach itself to your computer & browser (IE) - good and bad things.
BHODemon - install
Browser Helper Objects are things that plug in to your web browser to make it work better...
Shields Up
Gibson Research Corporation's website that will test you computer to see which ports are open.
Spybot Search & Destroy
Another excellent tool to help get rid of and prevent spyware from infesting your computer. This one caught some spyware on my friend's computer that Ad-Aware missed.
Ad-Aware
Want to keep your computer spyware free? Use Ad-Aware
Password Safe
Password Safe is a program that will store all of our passwords for us in one secure place.
Pretty Good Privacy - install
It allows two parties to communicate in a secure manner, and completely in the open.
