| Name | Description |
|---|
| aawin.exe | Autodesk FLI/FLC animation viewer. Uses aavga.dll, aaplay.dll, mciaap.drv |
| abyssws.exe | Free personal web server. Despite its tiny footprint (for example, the executable file size of the Windows version is less than 112 KB); it supports HTTP/1.1, dynamic content generation through CGI/1.1 scripts, Server Side Includes (SSI), custom error pages, and user access control (HTTP authentication/password protected files). Uses abyss.conf, okay to delete persist.data. |
| agrep.exe | Approximate Pattern Matching GREP -- Get Regular Expression |
| aida32.exe | System information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. Uses aida32.bin, aida32.dat, aida32.mem, aida32.sa6, aida32.si6, aida32.sys, aida32.vxd, aida32.web, aidaplugin_diskbench.dll, aidaplugin_monitordiag.dll, aidaplugin_netbench.dll, aida_directx.dll, aida_icons.dll, aida_xpicons.dll |
| ANALYSER.EXE | spectrum analyzer |
| ansi2knr.exe | convert ANSI C to Kernighan & Ritchie C |
| asterie.exe | reveals the passwords stored behind the asterisks in the web pages of Internet Explorer 5.0 and above |
| asterwin.exe | reveals the passwords stored behind the asterisks in standard password text-boxes |
| atomicparsley.exe | AtomicParsley is a command line program for reading & writing iTune-style metadata in mpeg4 files (m4a, m4b, m4p, m4v & mp4) whether iTMS drm protected or not. |
| autoruns.exe | has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login |
| basic.exe | Chipmunk basic for DOS |
| basicw.exe | Chipmunk basic for Windows |
| bat2exec.com | The original PC Magazine batch file compiler. Also at http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=40551 |
| burncdcc.exe | Burns ISO image to CD. Nothing else. |
| bbie.exe | Extract all boot images from a bootable CD-Rom or ISO image file |
| bc.exe | The GNU numeric processing language and reverse polish calculator |
| BeSweet.exe | Audio transcoding tool. it lets you convert audio files from one format to another. Supported formats : MP3,AC3,WAV,MP2,AVI,Aiff,VOB,Ogg Vorbis. Uses azid.dll, mp2enc.dll, lame_enc.dll, Shibatch.dll, hip.dll. See also http://besweet.notrace.dk/stable.htm |
| BeSweetGUI.exe | GUI front-end for BeSweet. See also http://besweet.notrace.dk/stable.htm |
| BinText.exe | extract text from any kind of file and includes the ability to find plain ASCII text, Unicode (double byte ANSI) text and Resource strings |
| bison.exe | A parser generator that is compatible with YACC |
| BITMAN.EXE | bitmap manager reads bitmaps in programs |
| blat.exe | Blat is a Win32 command line utility that sends eMail using the SMTP or NNTP protocols. |
| BossKey.exe | BossKey is a simple virtual desktop program. Create hot-keys to switch between the desktops. |
| BRUN45.EXE | Runtime for Microsoft QBASIC compiler |
| bunzip2.exe | a block-sorting file compressor extracts .bz2 files |
| bzip2.exe | a block-sorting file compressor creates .bz2 files |
| bzip2recover.exe | extracts blocks from damaged .bz2 files |
| c2e.com | .com to .exe program converter |
| CABARC.EXE | Microsoft CAB file creation tool |
| cat.exe | Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output |
| cdda2wav.exe | cdda2wav copies parts from audio cd's directly to wav or au files |
| cdrdao.exe | writes CD in disk at once mode from an iso file |
| cdrecord.exe | write CDR in any mode from an iso file. Also see http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/ |
| cdrider.exe | Rips audio CDs. CD Rider can directly read the audio from your music CD-roms and store it on your hard drive in WAV, MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format. Only saves to WAV format unless there is a Plugins folder with needed DLL files. Uses cdrshlext.dll, creates cdrider.m3u. |
| cdrtfe.exe | GUI front-end for CDR Tools (cdrecord, readcd, etc.). Uses cdrtfeShlEx.dll, cdrtfe_lang.ini, cygpopt-0.dll |
| chgrp.exe | Change the group membership of each FILE to GROUP |
| chown.exe | Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP |
| cksum.exe | Print CRC checksum and byte counts of each FILE |
| COA32.EXE | Replaces text in registry and INI files |
| Comm.exe | This is a pop-up (hot-key) application. While you're running other applications, you can press Alt/Right-Shift to instantly turn your computer into a communications terminal. |
| compress.exe | Microsoft (R) File Compression Utility |
| CONFIG.EXE | Small DOS software to evaluate the hardware of a x86 machine. Must be run from a DOS boot disk. Uses config.mca, config.ini, config.reg. |
| ControlExtract.exe | Extracts data in any Windows control into plain text. Requires rpiAccessProcess.dll |
| convert.exe | Converts graphic formats. Special static version uses no DLLs. |
| cp.exe | file archiving utility |
| CRLF-CR.EXE | |
| CRLF-LF.EXE | |
| csplit.exe | Output pieces of FILE separated by PATTERN(s) to files xx01, xx02, etc. |
| csv2pdb.exe | Pilot-DB is a freeware (OpenSource) database program for the Palm OS |
| cut.exe | Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output |
| cygwin1.dll | Needed for most unix family programs to run. Provides standard POSIX interface. |
| date.exe | |
| dd.exe | Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options |
| DiskPie.exe | PC Magazine utility. DiskPie's pie charts offer a visual display of the folders and file types that are taking up the most space |
| DM32.EXE | Commercial software for smaller hard drives. DiskMapper is the essential new utility that visually shows you exactly what's on your hard disk, so you can get the most out of the space you have. |
| dnsquery.exe | DNS query tool. Part of the Posadis DNS server. Uses poslib.dll, mingwm10.dll, pthreadGC1.dll, libgdk-0.dll, libgtk-0.dll, libintl-1.dll, may also ned iconv.dll, libglib-2.0-0.dll, libgmodule-2.0-0.dll |
| DocReader.exe | Windows application to read Palm Doc-formatted files and unencrypted Peanut Press files on the PC. |
| DTemp.exe | Shows hard drive temperature. Uses DTemp.att. |
| du.exe | Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories |
| e2c.com | .exe to .com program converter |
| ED.EXE | Commercial software. DOS Editor similar to EDIT.COM, but distributed by Stacker |
| EditDisk.exe | DiskExplorer is a tool which can import/export a file to/from a disk image. It manages the disk images used in PC emulators such as Bochs. Uses types.ini and editdisk.ini. |
| egrep.exe | Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input |
| emulprn.exe | Capture serial printer output to graphic. |
| Ephemeris.exe | For computing information about sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset for a given date. Uses Ephemeris.hlp, "Ephemeris Settings.txt" |
| expand.exe | Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output |
| expr.exe | Expression evaluator writes results to stdout |
| EXTRACT.EXE | Microsoft (R) Cabinet Extraction Tool |
| ExtractClosedCaptions.exe | Extracts closed captions from "dvr-ms" files and saves them as "srt" files. An older version (without the time offset option) is at "http://www.dragonglobal.org/forums/attachment.php?s=cfbfdaa49a8d8af0abf477698eacf7bc&attachmentid=143&d=1185003733". This is (these are) a modified version of Stephen Toub's "http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2005/09/17/470491.aspx" ClosedCaptions.zip code. Uses "Toub.MediaCenter.Dvrms.dll". |
| factor.exe | Print factors of each NUMBER, read standard input with no arguments |
| FEWizard.exe | Create self-extracting archives for Windows from existing ZIP files |
| ffmpeg.exe | FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It is a command line tool to convert one video file format to another. It also supports grabbing and encoding in real time from a TV card. See also http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffmpeg and http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/. Needs pthreadGC2.dll. |
| ffmpeg2theora.exe | Converts almost any video format into OGG Theora |
| ffplay.exe | Simple media player. Needs pthreadGC2.dll. |
| fgrep.exe | Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input |
| FileCap.exe | Capture serial port data to file. |
| FileRecovery.exe | Recovers files and hard drives. Uses help.chm, INT13EXT.VXD |
| findg.exe | Finds text in files. Original name was "find.exe", renamed. |
| flex.exe | A fast lexical analyzer generator |
| FLI2GIF.EXE | Convert FLI/FLC files to animated GIF |
| fmt.exe | Reformat each paragraph in the FILE(s), writing to standard output |
| fold.exe | Wrap input lines |
| fsplit.exe | file splitter |
| ftps.exe | Secure drop-in replacement for Microsoft's built-in "ftp.exe" FTP client. Supports passive mode transfers and resumption of transfers. Uses UTSecureLayer.dll |
| gawk.exe | pattern scanning and processing language |
| gclip.exe | get the Windows clipboard text from stdin |
| gdiscan.exe | Scans computer for JPG buffer overrun versions of GDIPLUS.DLL |
| getmail.exe | POP3 command-line email retriever |
| gif2avi.exe | Convert animated GIF to AVI |
| gplay.exe | minimalist console multimedia player using DirectShow. With gplay filename | URL you should be able to play just everything, as long as Microsoft supports it |
| grep.exe | Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input |
| gsar.exe | Global search and replace |
| gtouch.exe | Originally TOUCH. Changes file timestamps. |
| guidgen.exe | Generate globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) with this tool. |
| gunzip.exe | Compress or uncompress .gz files |
| gzip.exe | Compress or uncompress .gz files |
| head.exe | Print first few lines of a file to standard output |
| HV.EXE | Hex viewer, very similar to DEBUG |
| ICONJACK.EXE | Extract and convert .ico and .dll files back and forth |
| iconwrks.exe | icon editor. Needs cmdialog.vbx |
| IMAGEDIT.EXE | Microsoft image editor for BMP, ICO, and CUR files |
| imagerec.exe | recovers graphics files from entire disk |
| inctrl5.exe | Monitors before and after changes made by any program |
| innounp.exe | Inno Setup Unpacker |
| join.exe | For each pair of input lines with identical join fields, write a line to stdout |
| JPGCLN32.EXE | JPG Cleaner is simple but powerful utility for cleaning JPG files from anything that is not picture data. Commonly used programs such as Adobe Photoshop are writing additional information into JPG file that isn't needed for correctly displaying the picture. |
| jwhois.exe | whois client |
| keyfinder.exe | Retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows. |
| lame.exe | MP3 command-line encoder. Use "lame.exe -b 64 input.wav output.mp3" for 64Kb. Default is 128. Source code from http://lame.sourceforge.net/. Uses lame_enc.dll. |
| less.exe | file viewer (opposite of more) and editor |
| ln.exe | does real hardlinks on NTFS |
| logname.exe | Writes login name to stdout |
| ls.exe | A lot like DIR, except it's LS! |
| Lview1b.EXE | Commercial software - Graphics viewer |
| LVP48632.EXE | Commercial software - Graphics viewer |
| madplay.exe | Used by CDRTFE to create audio CDs from MP3 source files. |
| mailpv.exe | displays the Account Name, Application, Email, Server, Server Type, User Name, and Password of email accounts for Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, IncrediMail, Eudora, Group Mail Free |
| MAKECAB.EXE | Microsoft CAB file creation tool |
| makedoc.exe | Command line tool to create Palm PDB DOC files from plain text |
| MakeDocW.exe | Windows tool to create Palm PDB DOC files from plain text |
| md5sum.exe | Print or check MD5 checksums |
| MediaInfo.exe | MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. Uses MediaInfo.dll and optionally MediaInfoActiveX.dll if you want to use ActiveX. |
| MENUEDIT.EXE | PC Magazine utility. Edit file context menus |
| METER.EXE | Audio meter |
| MingSweeper.exe | network reconnaisance tool |
| mkbt.exe | Create any boot-floppy/image from any win32 platform with any media size... |
| mknod.exe | |
| Mode2CDMaker.exe | Used by CDRTFE to create mode 2 CDs. |
| msconfig.exe | Windows XP configuration utility. Get it from SP2 patch or an XP computer. Works okay on Win2K. |
| msi2xml.exe | Displays contents of MSI files |
| mspass.exe | Reveals the passwords of instant messenger applications for the logged-on user. |
| mvdir.exe | |
| naplayer.exe | Netscape 3 audio player. Needs MFCANS32.DLL, MFCUIA32.DLL |
| NARC.EXE | ARC file compression DOS utility |
| nbtscan.exe | Scans netbios and displays names on foreign computers. Same thing done by standard nbtscan command. |
| Netscapass.exe | This utility can reveal the stored mail and web site password in Netscape 4, 6, 7. |
| nistime-32bit.exe | Sets computer time |
| nl.exe | Write each FILE to standard output, with line numbers added |
| nmap.exe | Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. |
| ntrawrite.exe | Read and write floppy images under NT or better. |
| ob1.exe | Small HTML 3.2 web browser. SSL support is provided through the OpenSSL DLL files SSLeay32.dll and libeay32.dll. They are not required if you don't need SSL support. HPSW.CKI is the "cookie file" and can be deleted. |
| Pageant.exe | an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink |
| paste.exe | |
| patch.exe | |
| pathchk.exe | |
| pclip.exe | put the Windows clipboard text to stdout |
| pdb2csv.exe | Pilot-DB is a freeware (OpenSource) database program for the Palm OS |
| PDFReader.exe | PDFReader is a free Acrobat PDF reader for Windows. Uses preview2.dll |
| PEResourceExplorer.exe | Free, powerful, fully featured resource editor and PE module explorer |
| php.exe | PHP4 scripting engine. Uses php.ini, php4ts.dll. |
| PKLITE.EXE | Commercial software. DOS exe compressor. |
| PKUNPAK.EXE | Ancient ".arc" file decompressor. |
| plink.exe | a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends |
| PluginCreator.exe | Creates plugins for very simple single executable utilities for BartPE (bootable cdrom) |
| PocketDivxEncoder.exe | Video encoder primarily resizes videos, can handle WMV files as input. Output is exclusively AVI. |
| pop3.exe | ActiveX pop3 email client |
| pr.exe | Paginate or columnate FILE(s) for printing. |
| PREC.EXE | Commercial - Part of old soundcard package. "Pocket Recorder" small PC audio recorder. |
| prn2pbm.exe | Convert IBM Graphics printer files to PBM graphics |
| procexp.exe | Like the Windows task manager, but better |
| pscp.exe | an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy |
| PSFTP.EXE | PuTTY Secure File Transfer (SFTP) client |
| pspv.exe | reveals the passwords stored on your computer by Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and MSN Explorer |
| PuTTY.EXE | PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. |
| PuTTYgen.exe | an RSA and DSA key generation utility |
| pvt.exe | Change owner, make hardlinks, more. |
| QUICKFLI.EXE | QuickFli - A simple player for 256 color VGA animations |
| QuickSend.exe | QuickSend is a SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) Mailer. |
| RAWRITE.EXE | Write disk file to raw floppy diskette. Also see http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/ |
| rawwritewin.exe | Windows version of rawrite reads and writes floppy images. Under 95, 98 & ME you need diskio.dll. |
| RegAlyzer.exe | Registry editor allows bookmarks. Uses RegAlyzer.rdb, bookmarks.txt |
| Regmon.exe | See all Registry activity in real-time |
| Requires.com | Shows DLLs required by a 16-bit application. |
| ResHacker.exe | Freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files |
| Restoration.exe | Recovers files after you've emptied the recycle bin. Uses DLL16.DLL and DLL32.DLL. |
| rm.exe | Remove (unlink) the FILE(s) |
| RV.EXE | Converts self-extracting archives back to normal. |
| scgcheck.exe | SCSI and CDR scanner (part of cdrtools) |
| SCOPE.EXE | Oscilloscope - works well - free |
| Screnc.exe | Script Encoder is a simple command-line tool that enables script designers to encode their final script so that Web hosts and Web clients cannot view or modify their source. |
| scriptomatic.hta | The utility that writes WMI scripts for you -- and, in the process, teaches you the fundamental concepts behind writing WMI scripts for yourself. |
| Scrndmp.exe | MS-DOS only! Captures serial printer output to graphic. |
| setfile.exe | Change file owner and timestamp |
| sh.exe | A simple zsh |
| Shed.exe | Shed is a very fast Windows shared resource scanner. Multiple potential hosts are scanned in parallel. |
| SHELEXEC.EXE | Starts any file. Mostly used in CD autorun. Get it from many CDs, also http://www.naughter.com/shelexec.html and http://soils.usda.gov/technical/guides/emaps/templates.html |
| Sherlock.exe | Verify what Video and Audio codecs you have installed on your PC and determine if they are broken or not. |
| SHORTCUT.EXE | Creates shortcuts, but only for Win9x |
| showin.exe | ShoWin displays useful information about windows by dragging a cursor over them. Perhaps one of the most popular uses of this program is to display hidden password editbox fields |
| SIG-GEN.EXE | Audio oscillator - works well - free |
| Sine.exe | Audio oscillator with GUI using knobs - free |
| sleep.exe | A simple time delay |
| Snpp.exe | snpp client |
| sox.exe | SoX, the swiss army knife of sound processing programs. SoX is a command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files during the conversion. |
| split.exe | Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ... |
| splitz.exe | Splitz! allows you to split any image into rectangular parts and export the resulting images along with the HTML table that puts them back together. |
| stego.exe | stego -E encode.me -T words.txt Encodes file encode.me as gibberish text using words from the words.txt file to stdout. If the -T option is omitted, stego looks for a file called "words" in the current directory. Of course, the -D option will decode the input file; remember to redistribute words.txt together with the encoded file. The purpose of this program is to disguise binary files as a kind of text file or to drive your coworkers mad. |
| strun.exe | displays the list of all applications that are loaded automatically when Windows boots. |
| SuperScan4.exe | Rewritten update of the highly popular Windows port scanning tool. Administrator privileges are required to run the program. It will not run on Windows 95/98/ME. |
| swf_player.exe | Plays SWF (Shockwave) animations. From the QuickBooks CDROM. CAUTION: Associates itself with SWF files. |
| sysexp.exe | Grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, and combo boxes from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file. |
| tac.exe | Write each FILE to standard output, last line first. |
| tail.exe | Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. |
| tar.exe | GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. Only forward slashes are accepted. the -z option (compression) does not work. no remote archives. works only on NT, does real hardlinks on NTFS |
| Tcpview.exe | TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. |
| tee.exe | displays to screen and saves to file simultaneously |
| TERMINAL.EXE | Terminal program |
| test.exe | Tests any expression as true or false and sets exit status |
| TFTPD.EXE | TFTP daemon can run any block size and any port. |
| ThumbsExploder.exe | Extracts thumbnail images from thumbs.db files. Uses ThumbDBLib.DLL |
| tidy.exe | Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of HTML problems. Use -h -help or -? options for help. |
| tiny.exe | Very small web server |
| touch.exe | Changes file modified timestamp |
| tr.exe | Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input, writing to standard output. |
| ttg.exe | test tone generator |
| twack_32.exe | Twain test application |
| unexpand.exe | Convert spaces in each FILE to tabs, writing to standard output. |
| UnFREEz.exe | Take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images. |
| uniq.exe | Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output). |
| unrar.exe | File decompressor for .rar archives |
| unvbe.vbs | Decodes VBE-encoded scripts |
| UnWise.exe | Extracts data from WISE installer files. See also http://protools.anticrack.de/decompilers.htm |
| unzip.exe | File decompressor for .zip archives. Typical use "unzip C:\test.zip -d C:\foo" would extract all files in C:\test.zip into the C:\foo subdirectory, creating subdirectories as needed. Also from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ |
| upx.exe | Executable compressor and decompressor |
| usbview.exe | Shows you what's connected via USB |
| uucode.exe | |
| uudecode.exe | duh! |
| uuencode.exe | duh! |
| vcdimager.exe | Used by CDRTFE to write VCD disks. |
| VideoPak.exe | AVI/WMV video compression converter. Uses msacm32.dll |
| vncviewer.exe | VNC viewer compatible with all VNC servers |
| wc.exe | Print line, word, and byte counts for each FILE |
| WebBug.exe | HTTP client shows raw results |
| WGET.EXE | command-line HTTP downloader |
| which.exe | |
| whoami.exe | |
| WinAAM.exe | Quiet a noisy hard drive. Configures the Automatic Acoustic management for Windows NT/2000/XP. German http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctsi.shtml |
| win9xpv.exe | reveals the passwords stored on your computer by Windows 95/98 |
| winscp.exe | SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure SHell) |
| WINSCOPE.EXE | The most common freeware oscilloscope on the web - free |
| WinSQL.exe | Connects to any ODBC database. SQL wizards help you write queries. Uses WinSqlHelp.chm. My personal registration info for the free version is stored in Winsql.reg. |
| WotWeb.exe | WotWeb is a cut-down port scanner specifically made to scan for and display active web servers. |
| WRITE.EXE | Word processor |
| WZUNZIP.EXE | WinZip command line add-on unzip utility |
| WZZIP.EXE | WinZip command line add-on zip utility |
| xcacls.vbs | Xcacls.vbs is an augmented version of the Extended Change Access Control List tool (Xcacls.exe) that ships in the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Support Tools. Xcacls.vbs is an unsupported utility that addresses specific limitations with the original Xcacls.exe utility, specifically the inability to append permissions to a folder whose child objects have the inheritance flag set. |
| XENU.EXE | Find broken links on a web site |
| xml2msi.exe | If you used msi2xml to make an xml file, then edited it, this will make a new msi file for you |
| XPlite.exe | Mostly an easy way to turn off Windows File Protection under Windows 2000. Supposedly used to uninstall Windows components. |
| zcat.exe | Compression and decompression utility for .z archives |
| zip.exe | File compressor for .zip archives. Typical use "zip -Dru C:\test.zip C:\Temp\*.*" to put entire C:\Temp subdirectory with paths into C:\test.zip. Also from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ |