Help Web Designers: Tools and Utilities for Windows

Desktop Utils

Bosskey: simple virtual desktop program (Robin Keir. Freeware)
Count Characters: dump the contents of various combo, edit, list boxes, static, and button fields to the clipboard (Funduc Software. Freeware)
HoverSnap: free handy snapshot tool with jpg, png, bmp and gif support.HoverSnap can take snapshots of the full screen, active window or a selected area (Hover Inc. Freeware)
Lens: magnifies the selected area on your screen (Peter Stuer. Freeware)
Pixie: colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour (Nattyware. Freeware)
PureText: paste text from a web page, a word document, help , etc. as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source (Steve P. Miller. Freeware)
Sizer: allows any window to be resized to predefined dimensions (Brian Apps. Freeware)

File Analysis

BinText: small, very fast and powerful text extractor that will be of particular interest to programmers (Foundstone. Freeware)
CDMage: performs different tasks with a common CD image files on your harddrive (TWoeMS. Freeware)
DBF Viewer Plus: view DBF database files (Alex Nolan. Freeware)
DefragNT: presents the user with many options for disk defragmenting (Andrei Gaceff. Freeware)
Dependency Walker: scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules (Steve P. Miller)
Disk Investigator: view and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files (Kevin Solway. Freeware)
DiskView: shows you a graphical map of your disk, allowing you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, seeing which file occupies it (Sysinternals. Freeware)
DupeLocater: find duplicate files (Midnight Blue Software. Freeware)
ExamDiff: visual File Comparison Tool (Prestosoft. Freeware)
Explore2FS: WIN32 explorer for Linux ext2fs partitions (John Newbigin. Open Source)
File Analyser: lists your fixed disk after file types (Kurt Zimmermann. Freeware)
File List Generator: collects the information about all files and subfolders located under your specified path and generates the list in various file formats (Piyo. Freeware)
Folders Report: scans a drive or a base folder that you select, and displays essential information for each folder that it finds (Nir Sofer. Freeware)
Gemulator Explorer: read Atari ST and Apple Macintosh formatted disks (Emulators Inc.)
HashCalc: fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings (SlavaSoft. Freeware)
Lister: file viewer (Christian Ghisler. Freeware)
MDB View: view mdb files on systems without Microsoft Access installed (Mattia Campolese. Freeware)
Media Checker: helps you check all your media or only a folder on these media and ensure that all your precious data that you store on them are safe and can be accessed successfully. (Noel Danjou)
PEiD: executable files identifier (Jibz, Qwerton, snaker, xineohP. Freeware)
Space Monger: tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system (Sean Werkema. Freeware (v1.4))
Tiny Hexer: hexeditor for binary files (Markus Stephany. Freeware)
Virtual Floppy Driver: mount a floppy image file as a virtual floppy drive and directly access the contents (Kenji Kato. Open Source)
WinInterrogate: file system and process enumeration/integrity tool (vacuum. Open Source)
xTeq X-Find: find what you are looking for fast (Xteq Systems. Freeware)

File Management

1-4a Rename: very easy to use file renamer (1-4a Software. Freeware)
A43: file management utility with lots of features (B. G. Miller. Freeware)
CD2ISO: extract .iso images from your cd or dvd disk (Rene. Freeware)
CdManipulator: read, burn, copy and master CD-ROMs (Y. Kanechika)
DelOld: remove files matching a certain age and specification (Savilltech. Freeware)
Disk Wipe: securely delete whole floppy disks or hard disks (Roadkil. Freeware)
DrvCloner XP: clones disk partitions (Lexun Freeware. Freeware)
DrvImager XP: creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions (Lexun Freeware. Freeware)
dsCrypt: AES/Rijndael file encryption software with simple, multi-file, drag-and-drop operations (Dariusz Stanislawek. Freeware)
dsDel: a secure file deleter. It overwrites target files with a bit pattern before deleting them (Dariusz Stanislawek. Freeware)
Easy ISO: create ISO images and burn data to your CDs (Dirk Paehl. Freeware)
Express Burn: create and record audio or data CDs with any Windows PC with an installed CD recorder (NCH Swift Sound. Freeware)
ntouch: modify timestamps of files and directories (Florian Balmer. Freeware)
Pablo Commander: clone of Norton Commander with the look and feel of Windows Explorer. Includes an FTP client (Pablo Software Solutions. Non-commercial Freeware)
PageDefrag: see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them (Sysinternals. Freeware)
RawWrite for Windows: copies an image of a floppy disk to/from a file (John Newbigin. Open Source)
Replace in Files: quickly replaces strings matching your search string with the replacement you specify (Emurasoft. Freeware)
Roadkil's Disk Image: copies an image of a disk to/from a file (Roadkil. Freeware)
Small CD-Writer: small cd-burning program with nice GUI (russian version) (AV(T) Lab. Freeware)
Splitter light: splits files or whole directories (Martin Stoeckli. Freeware)
UUD32 Windows: extract binary files encoded in a variety of formats commonly used to send data through Email and the Internet (UUENCODE, XXENCODE, BINHEX4, MIME BASE-64, MIME Quoted-Printable, MIME Text/Plain, yEncode) (Mark Spankus. Freeware)
WinTidy: finds backup, object & temporary files that might be candidates for deletion and allows the user to delete one or more of these files. Can be automated (David J. Taylor. Freeware)

File Recovery

Handy Recovery: restore files accidentally deleted from a hard disk or a diskette (SoftLogica. Freeware)
PC Inspector: a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems (Convar. Freeware)
R-Linux: file recovery utility for the Ext2FS file system used in the Linux OS and several Unixes (R-tools Technology Inc.. Freeware)
Restoration: an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows (Brian Kato. Freeware)
Smart Recovery: the new data recovery program from CONVAR for Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card or any other data carrier for digital cameras (Convar. Freeware)

File Transfer

BabyFTP: very small anonymous FTP server (Pablo Software Solutions. Non-commercial Freeware)
BabyPOP3: very small POP3 server (Pablo Software Solutions. Non-commercial Freeware)
BabyWeb: very small HTTP server (Pablo Software Solutions. Non-commercial Freeware)
DropUpload: very light, simple, strong and usefull Upload spooler for FTP management (Zapman. Freeware)
File Gateway: Peer to Peer file transfer tool, that is friendly with HTTP proxys/firewalls/routers/etc (SteelBytes. Freeware)
Freeway FTP: both an FTP server as well as an FTP client (Larry Nezar. Freeware)
HFS HTTP File Server: HTTP server designed for file transfer (Rejetto. Open Source)
i.FTP: graphical FTP client (Memecode. Open Source)
Nullsoft Copy: file copying without overloading the network traffic in order to avoid skipping (Stephen Loomis. Open Source)
Simple Socket File Transfer: transfer a file between two computers using a TCP port of your choosing. Partially completed transfers can be resumed, and files are automatically checked with MD5 to ensure they were received error-free. (Whitsoft Development. Freeware)
SMBDownloader: start, stop and resume downloads from Windows shares (Dirk Knop. Freeware)
Synchronize It! V1.69: provides quick comparison and synchronization of files in different folders or drives (Igor Green. Freeware)
TFTPD32: TFTP server and client, DHCP, SNTP and Syslog servers (Philippe Jounin. Freeware)
ThirdDir: directory synchronizer which can optionally copy the newer files to the third directory defined by user (R. Vasicek. Freeware)
Unstoppable Copier: copy files without giving up once an error is encountered (Roadkil. Freeware)
Wackget: a download manager for Windows. It maintains a queue of files and downloads them (using wget) in the order you specify (Milweed. Open Source)
WinSCP: connect to a SSH server with SFTP or SCP (Martin Prykryl. Open Source)

Hardware Info

AIDA32: system information utility (now Everest Professional by Lavalys Consulting Group) (Tamás Miklós. Freeware)
Bart Stuff Test: long time heavily stress testing storage devices. Bst5 supports testing at file and device level (Bart Lagerweij. Freeware)
CD-Bremse: set the reading speed of a CD-ROM drive (Joern Fiebelkorn. Freeware)
Central Brain Identifier: AMD processor identification utility (Viktor Ishikeev. Freeware)
Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for Windows: perform drive identification, diagnostics, and repairs on a Western Digital FireWire, EIDE, or USB drive. In addition, it can provide you with the drive's serial and model numbers (Western Digital. Freeware)
DriverView: displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system (Nir Sofer. Non-commercial Freeware)
DTemp: HDD temperature meter (DaleSoft. Freeware)
FreeSysInfo: uses WMI to discover system and network information on your local machine or network computer. (Nsasoft. Freeware)
HD Tune: hard disk utility which can be used to measure the performance or to get important information from the hard disk such as the temperature, SMART parameters, firmware version, buffer size, etc (EFD Software)
HD_Speed: measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. Realtime graphical display (SteelBytes. Freeware)
Monitor Test: displays test patterns for repairing computer monitors (Roadkil. Freeware)
Nero CD/DVD-Speed: CD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive (Erik Deppe. Freeware)
Nero DriveSpeed: set the reading speed of a CD-ROM drive (Erik Deppe. Freeware)
Nero InfoTool: (Erik Deppe. Freeware)
ReSysInfo: system information viewer for Windows (Dominik Reichl. Freeware)
SIV: general Windows utility for dumping lots of useful Windows and hardware info (Ray Hinchliffe. Freeware)
SIW: read-only / display-only system information tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings (Gabriel Topala. Freeware)
WinAAM: configures Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) of disk drives (Heise. Freeware)
WinAudit: performs an exhaustive audit of the hardware and software configuration of your computer (Parmavex Services. Freeware)