Best 'Little'/Unintrusive Programs

[barryonepointfour]

I thought having a place to get recommendations for small but needed programs would help a lot of people find new ones, including me.

 

For me the key programs I need are:

 

WizMouse - Allows scrolling on non selected windows

F.lux - Controls lighting of your monitor during the day

Pushbullet - I found it by trying to find a program to receive texts on my PC, but I now mainly use it to send links or images between my PC and phone, and also great for notifications, no more constantly checking my phone.

Hotkeys - Gives me a few combinations to launch programs, allow me to use a more minimalistic desktop

Winzip - Personal choice for unzipping files

 

That's all I can think of at the moment, I'm sure I've missed some, and I haven't added browser extensions as I'm sure there are plenty of threads for those.

 

Thanks guys. 

[Bloodyvalley]

WinRAR is free.  I need it.

Steam. Obviously

Origin too.

Outlook, Word (MS Office)

Skype

Firefox

[ANUPLUCIFERGAMER]

WinRar

CCleaner

Steam

Pinnacle game profiler ( for games that doesn't support controllers)

Picasa

[Vacsol]

Steamtiles - add steam games to metro start menu

Winyl - my favourite music player

KeePass - generate and store passwords in an encrypted application

CCleaner - remove temporary internet files, cache, etc. to speed up applications and free up HDD space

Revo Uninstaller - uninstall applications and clean up any files and registries associated with it.

[Me1z]

7-Zip - Because free, and it can do everything WinRAR/WinZip can, in addition to its own 7z compression which is more compact than a RAR

 

VLC media player - To play ALL the media, because Windows Media Player is terrible.

 

RealTemp - Because I'm slightly paranoid about my CPU temperatures while gaming after my SR-2 build literally blew up an AIO cooler.

 

Afterburner hardware monitor - For GPU monitoring. Again, paranoia due to the AIO incident. The FPS monitor is also nice for gaming.

 

LTT Notification extension - To stop me from endlessly refreshing the forum homepage for 10 minutes every time I comment on something.

 

IO Bookmark extension - for people like me who have way too many bookmarks, but can usually identify each one by icon only.