Some Windows Goodies
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Win+R is nice key shortcut to run some command without stating CMD shell. Example
notepad %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
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Far Manager http://farmanager.com/ is text mode based file manager and console.
With FTP client:
And convenient OS CLI shell (press Ctrl+O).
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Free Download Manager can pause and resume downloads, also can download file’s different section simultaneously, sometimes giving n times boost. But the best is that you need to start download only one time, and it will keep trying until file is ready no matter what could happen with network in between.
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GIMP is professional image manipulation software, that is free and
has a lot of extensions. (The software actually came from Linux world.) -
WinDirStat util to show disk usage (there is also Lunix version KDirStat)
Share what you use!