free utilities
If you are stuck with a Windows operating system, you might need some tools for basic needs, these are all free:
for brute/regexp search in .pro and .rux files: WinGrep
finding out changes in different versions of files: WinMerge
or the PSPad editor
Windirstat is quite a useful visualisation tool to clean up your drives/servers. A picture is worth a thousand words, take a look at the screenshot.
It was first developed for KDE: kdirstat
SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and more. Read the detailed SnagIt review.
download here
free license subscription here (thanks Eric!)
A few more tools from lifehacker
And finally, not a desktop tool per se, but quite useful to share files quick, easy and secure: http://drop.io








