Useful Tools

Audio - Video

     • 4K video downloader : to download 4K videos on Youtube.
     • Audacity : a free, open source digital audio editor, recorder and mixer.
     • AVIcodec : free multimedia file analyser for Windows.
     • Avidemux : free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
     • AVS video converter : Convert between most known video files: AVI, MPEG, DVD, WMV, 3GP, FLV & more. Burn videos to DVD.
     • Blue-ray converter ultimate : Convert your blu-ray to many formats.
     • CodecTweakTool : scans your computer for broken codecs and filters and it allows you to remove them.
     • CoolEdit2000 : digital sound editor for Windows.
     • CDex : Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor.
     • Miro Video converter : convert almost any video to MP4, WebM (vp8), Ogg Theora, or for Android, iPhone, and iPad.
     • DVD converter ultimate : Convert your DVDs to many formats.
     • Format factory : multifunctional media converter.
     • Gspot : Establishes what codecs (audio and video) are required to play an media file.
     • Guitools : tuner and metronom for guitars
     • Mediacoder : Converting between most popular audio and video formats. Ripping BD/DVD/VCD/CD and capturing from video cameras
     • Medieval CUE splitter : A MUST have to separate a big Flac audio file in separated Flac tracks
     • Mpeg4 modifier : modifies a MPEG-4 ASP video (XviD, DivX) without re-encoding.
     • Free Video Dub : video editor without re-encoding.
     • Super : Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Recorder.
     • Presentation To Video Converter : transform your Microsoft® PowerPoint® (*.pptx, *.ppsx, *.ppt and *.pps) presentations into any video format supported by your system.
     • Tubemaster++ : download video from browser.
     • Video studio pro : video editor from Corel
     • VideoInspector : provide you with as much information as possible about your video files.
     • Virtualdub : video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
     • Wavpack : open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode.
     • Many tools provided here..
     • TVO : to capture webtv (included Silverlight).
Note : You need the mms:// url of the video to get in with TVO
     • Nettransport : Free software (1.87) to capture webtv.
     • Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate : useful for 4k videos.
     • Wondershare Video Player : complette the previous one, allow playing 4k videos.
     • LiveTV : Motorsports, football ..... FREE ! (to get better streaming install SopCast or Acestream)

Copy

     • CloneCD : perfect tool to make backup copies of your music and data CDs, regardless of copy protection.
     • CloneDVD : copies movies in unparalleled picture quality.
     • DVD shrink : solution for shrinking original DVDs onto recordable media.
     • AnyDVD : decryption of DVDs on the fly, as well as targeted removal of copy preventions.
     • DVD decrypter : decrypt and copy any dvd.
     • DVDfab : Copy, rip, clone, split, merge, burn, customiz DVD.
     • Exact Audio Copy : audio grabber for audio CD.
     • EZ CD-DA Extractor : CD Ripper, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor and Disc Burner.
     • Deepburner Pro : like Nero but cheaper.

Zip - Unzip files

     • 7zFileManager : file archiver with a high compression ratio.
     • HJsplit : split and recombine files.
     • XstremSplit : cut and join any file.
     • Yoyocut : cut and join any file.
     • XnView : reading, viewing, and processing all your images.

System

     • LinuxLive USB Creator : to run Linux in Windows.
     • Knoppix Linux Azur : portable Linux.
     • VirtualBox : general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.
     • USBDLM : Windows service that gives control over Windows' drive letter assignment for USB drives. a MUST !
     • KeePass : free open source password manager. Plugins for browsers)

Anonymity

     • Tor Browser : free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis.
     • Tails : Amnesic Incognito Live System.

Diagnosis and Restore

     • iCare Data Recovery Enterprise : recover data from hard drives.
     • ShadowExplorer : to restore lost or damaged files from a Windows restoration point.
     • AdwCleaner : Tool to throw away advertising and hijacking.
     • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware : scan et delete many malicious softwares.
     • EKFiddle : framework based on the Fiddler web debugger to study Exploit Kits, malvertising and malicious traffic.
     • TuneUp : Improved cleaning, troubleshooting & optimizing.
     • Error Repair Pro : detects and repairs many of the most common errors generated on your computer.
     • Everest - AIDA64 : computer diagnostics, hardware monitoring, network audit.
     • Whocrashed : reveals the drivers responsible for crashing your computer.
     • LCDtest : test your lcd screen.
     • binwalk : analyzing and extracting firmware images.
     • EaseUS Partition Master : Free disk partition management tool.
     • EaseUS ToDo : one-click backup & restore system.
     • h2testw : to test the real storage of SD card.
     • ZHPdiag : Quick diagnosis of the O.S.
     • ZHPfix : delete all unwanted files, clean register database and uninstall some softwares.
     • ZHPcleaner : to fight Hijackers.
     • ResetBrowser : reset in one click Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer, without deleting bookmarks, passwords and important data.
     • MozBackup : backup your Firefox profile (useful if your PC crashes).
     • Revo Uninstaller : remove completely unwanted programs in Advanced mode.

Miscellaneous

     • Total Commander : A multi-language file explorer (a MUST). My favourite tool.
     • PS Tray Factory : control ALL the other icons in the system tray of the taskbar.
     • Convert file : doc, xls, pdf, txt, ....
     • Universal Scientific Calculator.
     • Network profile manager : network settings manager which can easily switch between your preconfigured profiles!
     • Printkey Pro : Screen Capture Program for Windows.
     • Jdownloader : java program that manages downloading.
     • Mipony : download manager.
     • CPU-Z : gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. And portable.
     • Unlocker : A must! Unlocks files locked by Windows.
     • RMPrepUSB : makes a bootable disk, format SD card, ...
     • PassPass : batch script to disable/re-enable Windows logon password validation.
     • Rawcopy : file copier for NTFS that uses low level disk reading, and resolves data clusters by parsing the MFT.
     • Rawdir : low level dir command specialized for NTFS volumes.
     • HideAndProtect : turn a regular file into an NTFS system file, by changing it's MFT reference number to one between 12 and 15, which are reserved by the filesystem. By doing this, the file becomes invisible and protected from modification.
     • Tiny PXE server : portable dhcp server including a tftp and a http server.
     • Cheat Engine : Memory analyzer to locate variables used by programs and modify them. (useful with µtorrent to get faster downloadings)
     • Inssider : Useful tool to position netbox at home.
     • SRWare Iron : A browser as Chrome without Google spies.