Useful 3rd party tools to complement TC

[mupo]

The Best Text-Editor i ever found: [face=comicsansms]PSPad[/face]

-> Imports FTP-List from Total-Commander
-> Code Explorer
-> ... tons of more featurers

IT'S REALLY FREE!

File/Folder Synchronisation:
- WinMerge
- KDiff3

[Lesmo16]

Do you want TC to stay on top sometimes?
Have a look at WindowPinner.
Also some other fine apps there!

[D1P]

2Lesmo16: "Stay on top" feature exist in TipTop filesystem plugin.

[icfu]

ProcessTamer:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/proctamer/index.html

It watches CPU consumption of running processes and lowers priority when a process moves towards 100% to conserve system responsiveness and switches back to normal priority when CPU usage drops again, highly recommended.

Beta version 2.0, available only to donators right now:
It offers additional fine tuning like percentage of CPU usage to trigger action, a little task manager, ability to auto kill processes or autoset priorities, logfile, etc...

Icfu

[SanskritFritz]

2icfu
Have you actually tried Process Tamer? I found it a while ago on Shell Extension City, but never dared to try it, as it seems to reach into the system deeply. Any experiences?

[icfu]

This thing rocks, otherwise I wouldn't mention it here.

Especially the beta version which I got as testing object from developer due to a minor glitch I reported regarding registry polling is pretty nice but the basic version does its job pretty good already.

Although it has a setup routine it doesn't install anything "deep" in the system, it's just an exe that watches CPU performance and reacts on it. It's already in my startup list and has saved lots of time and nerves in the few days I used it because I haven't suffered from any system lock anymore due to high CPU load.

Icfu

[SanskritFritz]

Thanks, i will try it!

[CoMiKe]

No one talk here about a good live linux distro, though.

I do like Slax, an Slackware based minidistro that just fits on a mini CD-R(W) (180 or 210 Mb).

[Sir_SiLvA]

No one talk here about a good live linux distro, though.

Can You please explain me how a LINUX-Distro is a "Useful 3rd party tools to compliment TC"

[CoMiKe]

Yeah, it's going to be difficult to explain.

Well, this topic covers also tools not so related to Total Commander, thus the confussion, sorry...

Anyway, Slax is a good piece of software, as other tools mentioned in this thread.

[Thorz]

This thread has been very enlighting.

I am sorprised that nobody has mentioned a good backup program, maybe the experts don't do backups?

Anyway, I use 2 that work very well for me.

For HD imaging I was a fanatic of Ghost Corporate but lately I changed to Acronis True Image Workstation 8 for the easiness of use, specially for customer PCs. There are still things that I like to see improved but it is a nice step ahead from Ghost Corp 8, I have never tested the home versions of Ghost though. I like that A.T.I. can even backup to the same partition.

As a file backup program I use Genie Backup Manager Pro 6. What attracted me to it was the ability to tag the backup files with date and time, I was really needing that, other backup programs didn't offer this. It offer also the usual backup features and some not so usual too. Webpage is http://www.genie-soft.com/ and they have some nice discounts for students.

In partition managing I can recommend the tools from Paragon http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/, they are way ahead in reliability than the garbage Partition magic, I have seen PM several times melting partitions without a reason and never have had a single problem with Partition manager from Paragon.

The best defrager IMO is Raxco Perfect Disk http://www.raxco.com/, It does a better work than Diskeeper specially with the XP boot files.

And for ending this post, for data recovery I use:

Executive Software Undelete: Replaces the unreliable Windows Recycle Bin.
When things are nasty and partitions or hole hard disks are lost my 2 savers are:
Steeve Gibson Spinrite 6 http://grc.com/spinrite.htm (supports everything from FAT to Linux to Novell file systems) and Runtime's GetDataBack for NTFS (or FAT) http://www.runtime.org/.

[djorge]

What is the best tool to convert all the contents of a directory from UNIX/MAC to DOS?

It is possible to make a Packer plugin to make such conversion?

[SanskritFritz]

This is really neat: TaskArrange

I wish i had the same for the Traybar. I know about TraySaver, but it is not really stable and not intended to rearrange the icons.

[CoMiKe]

Great, SanskritFritz!

I was using Tasbar Commander at work, but TaskArrange looks much better.

[icfu]

Tray Manager restores tray icons when explorer.exe crashes. As it runs as a service it's very reliable. You can also choose which icons you want to display in a tray menu instead.

Icfu