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1. FAR (Far Manager) - like Total Commander, but I'm more used to it, than TC

2. SystemInternals Tools (Procmon, Procexp most used by them from me) - the best of the best, they make me hate Windows less.

3. CYGWIN - Brings the sanity on the command-line, and havoc if you decide to integrate them for other people, but great tools overall

4. Dependancy Walker.

5. WinMerge - my favourite windows differ/merger - there might be better tools than it, but I'm really used to it. At work my perforce P4Merge p4Diff is replaced by that one, the minute I get a new machine.

6. Trillian - I bought it, and I don't regret it.

7. Skype

8. Scintilla Editor - I also use emacs, and Lispworks for editing, but Scintilla is powerful (especially useful is to replace all \n to " ", or ";" to "\n" - for example if you are lazy parsing the PATH variable - you can doit command-line, but you can teach other people to use it through Scintilla easier).

9. Xobni - bought yesterday the full version, although my company could've pay, I decided that $30 is well spend on organizing my job better. Wonderful plugin



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