From time to time I have to reinstall Windows on my rig (who doesn’t know the problem?). There are a few tools I install at first without even thinking about it, they clearly belong to my default Windows installation. So this post is made for all these underdogs compared to OpenOffice, GIMP and Eclipse.

  • NcFTP Client (http://www.ncftp.com) – command line based ftp client
  • GNUWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) – beloved utilities like tar, gzip, less, …
  • AdBlock Plus (http://adblockplus.org/de) – the net wouldn’t be that fun as it is now without adblock
  • Xmarks (http://www.xmarks.com) – synchronize your firefox bookmarks and passwords
  • Dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com) – synchronize your files online, fast and version aware
  • Subversion (http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/subversion) – svn command line client, I hate Tortoise!
  • 7zip (http://www.7zip.org) – handles almost every compression format