useful Freeware tools for windows

Notepad ++
Vim - Vi IMproved
Win Tail - Tail for Win32

3CDaemon - TFTP, FTP and Syslog server for Win32

Wireshark - network protocol analyzer
Bit-Twist - Ethernet packet generator

bittwist -d
bittwist -i "\Device\NPF_....888}" dhcp.pcap

Sysinternals Suite - Sysinternals single Suite of tools
ZoomIt - utility for zooming and drawing on the screen
TCPView - Active socket command-line viewer

Free Ware:
Sysinternals Utilities Index - http://technet.microsoft.com
CDBurnerXP - burn CDs and DVDs --> http://cdburnerxp.se/download
CCleaner - Optimization and Cleaning --> http://www.piriform.com
Defraggler - File Defragmentation --> http://www.piriform.com
Recuva - File Recovery --> http://www.piriform.com
Speccy - System Information --> http://www.piriform.com


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