SearchMyFiles is a powerful alternative to the standard Windows search. It allows you to easily find files by wildcard, last modified/created/last accessed time, file attributes, content (text or binary search) and file size. File types available for search includes Microsoft Office and PDF files. The program also be detect duplicate files via the “Search Mode” drop-down box.
Note that the program is non-indexing, meaning it searches the drive directly, which is often slower but more accurate.
NOTE: Recent press about CCleaner indicates it may represent a privacy concern.
CCleaner is a feature-rich system optimization and privacy tool. The program cleans unused, temporary and log files from your system, as well as traces of online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. The program contains startup controls for Windows, major internet browsers and context menu entries. Includes a separate registry cleaner, duplicate search, system restore tool and can wipe both deleted files and drive free space for security.
A 64-bit version is available (within the folder). Monitoring functions are only available in the pro version.
Additional cleaner rules can be using an unofficial set of community-developed set. It should be noted that many of these rules are alpha and the developers will not provide support for these rules, a thread in the users forum is dedicated to supporting the add-on rules.
Alternatively, ccPortable is also available.
Unicodia is a simple Unicode encyclopedia and replacement for Character Map.
Task Manager DeLuxe is a powerful alternative to the native Windows Task Manager, offering detailed monitoring and efficient administration and manipulation of processes, windows, services, sessions, startup entries, environment and system performance.
SnipSVG is a screen capture and graphics editor that uses SVG vector images as its primary format.
SVG images can be used directly in HTML and many other applications. They give you the same sharp quality at all zoom settings, and unlike JPG or PNG images you can always edit all the elements of the image separately.
It contains a wide range of powerful image editing tools like crop screenshots, blur sensitive information, physically resize large photos, add HTML-formatted text.
Librer is a cross-platform GUI file cataloging program with extensive customization options to suit user preferences. Highly optimized for multi-core parallel search speed, data integrity, and repository portability.
The primary purpose of this software is to enable users to catalog their files, especially on removable media such as memory cards and portable drives. It allows user to add metadata, referred to here as custom data, and later search the created records with multiple criteria.
Librer allows you to search files using regular expressions, glob expressions and fuzzy matching on both filenames and custom data. Created data records can be exported and imported to share data with others or for backup purposes.
GetWindowText lets you grab text from static system messages via drag-and-drop. The program lets you work with most windows containing text including Edit, Static, Groupbox – Controls etc.
PhotoDemon is a fast, feature-rich photo editor with rotate, resize, crop, etc. and a variety of color, contrast, filters and other graphics tools. The program also allows adding text, a metadata viewer/editor, on-canvas paint tool, layers, screenshot too, and works with common graphics formats including GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, JP2, JXR, PPM, JPEG-XL, WEBP, AVIF, SVG, and many more.
The program will import PDFs, but cannot currently export to the PDF format.
The program also supports macro edition and batch processing.
HashMyFiles is a small utility that allows you to generate unique file identifiers (hashes) using a variety of popular checks. These can help determine if a file has been modified or corrupted, as well as help determine the file’s reputation by submitting to the VirusTotal database for malware analysis.
Formats supported range form fast to secure with CRC32, MD5, SHA1/-256/-512/-384. The various hashing information can be saved to a report (text/HTML/XML/CSV/TSV) that includes name, path, dates, file size, version and other info.