My Favorite Commonly Used Programs - Some Free And Some Paid

A lot of these I have been using for years and trust

My quick reference guide

I will update from time to time

Audacity -  :https://www.audacityteam.org/
Free open source audio editing software

Belarc - https://www.belarc.com/products_belarc_advisor

Like Sandra PC Analysis motherboard,chipsetsand windows software licence information.

Malwarebytes : https://www.malwarebytes.com/

Worth the money :I have been using Malwarebytes for very long time now and nothing comes close its worth every cent, best to purchase a 2 year subscription.

Open office : https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

Great equivalent to Microsoft office if you are looking for a free alternative but I would still rather purchase Microsoft office Home and student edition then purchase a subscription (365)

TeamViewer : https://www.teamviewer.com/en/
Remote desktop software - easy to configure and easy to use

WakeOnLan : http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html

Direct link 32 bit: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wakemeonlan.zip
Direct link 64 bit: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wakemeonlan-x64.zip

Vixen : http://www.vixenlights.com/downloads/vixen-3-downloads/
Christmas light control software

Mega : https://mega.nz/
50 Gig Cloud Sharing

Notepad2 : http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Text editor than can convert to upper case when exporting

Movie Scanner :https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/moviescanner/
https://lozaelec.blogspot.com/2019/12/movie-scanner-catalog-your-home-movie.html
Catalog Your Home Movie Collection In List Format

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard : https://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/

I had a WD portable hard drive that would take some time to come up in device manager after it would lock up the PC for quite while and would not recognize it in disk management, I tried many programs like find an mount, WD format utility, recovery software and the only one that would work and read the drive was EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard. I Paid for full version and recovered the customers documents, photos movies etc - worth every cent Highly recommend and no I'm not getting paid to say this, when your drive totally fails I mean totally fails to load try this software. Has trial period.

Victoria 5.21 HDD/SSD  : http://hdd.by/downloads/

Portable program. for testing and measuring performance of HDD, SSD flash with IDE interfaces, SATA, USB, SCSI and more.

WinSCP : https://winscp.net/eng/index.php

FTP/SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows

Youtube Downloader :http://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/

I used to use AtubeCatcher but my Virus program would come up with PUP (Potentially unwanted program alert as it would try to install other software.

 http://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/

SD Format Tool : https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/

Formats SD/SDHC/SDXC Cards

Awesome Duplicate finder : http://www.duplicate-finder.com/photo.html

Fast and easy to find duplicate photos on your computer

mkvtoolnix-gui :  https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html

MKV Video converter :

Input files : AVI, MPEG1, MP4, Ogg/OGM, RealVideo, MPEG2, h264/AVC, Dirac, VC1)

Output name : Filename will automatically name it the same an file but as MKV extension.

Beyond Compare : http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?zz=dl3_en

Compare files and folders

Easy File Locker: http://www.xoslab.com/

It can easily hide your Files and folders

https://lozaelec.blogspot.com/2019/01/filesfolder-lock.html

Find Ip Addresses Of All PCs On Your Network

Didn't you ever want to find out what PCs are connected to your network as well as the host name, well this program does it with ease.
I have downloaded lots of different trial versions and found this to be the best, it even found the correct host names.
If you look closely at the attached photo you will see that it found my Tivo, Billion router, & Lexmark printer.
No other software found all the names, most found only the workstations.
The pricing shows a one year subscription after the trial period has expired.

The software can be found at http://www.magnetosoft.com/common/purchase.htm

Tpg Usage Meter

Tpg = http://users.tpg.com.au/sirloin/download.htm

Usage meter shows you your Peak, Off peak and Remaining Days

Just enter into the settings your user name password

Shows peak and off peak limits

The program will do the rest.

Universal Usage Meter = http://netusage.iau5.com/

Not sure how secure this is, as a browser addin.

Has been working fine though.

Find & Mount Recovery Program

Let's assume we've lost a partition on our hard drive.

We simply select the hard drive from the list and click Scan.

After scan is complete, Partition Find & Mount lists all partitions it has found:

Now we have to mount our newly found partition. Partition Find & Mount allows to assign any drive letter to the partition

At this point we can open Windows Explorer and access the mounted partition like any other partition in the system

http://findandmount.com/download/

BackUpTime

Fully automatic backup software

BackUpTime has become the backup utility of choice for large and small businesses, freelancers, students, IT professionals, designers, accountants and other people who want to make sure that their files are always available when needed. Why did all of these different people choose BackUpTime? The answer is simple - all you have to do is to download this software from the Internet and install it.

BackUpTime has been specially designed to make it easy to use. You will learn how the program works in less then an hour. This software features straitforward, eye-pleasing interface, dynamic folders (unique feature that other backup utilities don't have), and built-in scheduler. You can even use the software to set alarms to remind you of important events. The program supports zip compression format which has long been recognized as an industry standard. The built-in scheduler allows you to set times for certain tasks (such as disk cleanup or disk scanning) so that these tasks will be performed when you want.