[blub]

I use these almost daily:

* Total commander (all-in-one file manager)

* The Regex Coach (useful if you work with regular expressions)

* Notepad++ (text editing)

* Beyond compare (visual diff)

* XnView (image viewer)

* putty (SSH/SCP)

* Sysinternals pack (various system tools)

[moonfern]

You should try then the 150 utilities from nirsoft which are bundled in one launcher: http://launcher.nirsoft.net/download.html And then use that launcher to combine sysinternals and nirsofts tools in one gui. Here is described how:http://www.thewindowsclub.com/integrate-sysinternal-suite-wi...

[gambler]

If someone likes Total Commander, they might want to try FreeCommander (which is roughly the same thing, but free).