A list of usable tool and utilities for Windows.
- Notepad++ – Plain text editor
- Google Chrome – fast browser
- Firefox – best web developer browser with plug-ins.
- Microsoft Powertoys for Windows XP – the PowerToys adds more functionality and programs that developers developed after Windows XP was released
- Microsoft Office 2007 Add-in: Save as PDF or XPS – allows you to export and save to PDF and XPS formats in 2007 Microsoft Office programs
- Ad-aware – Anti-spyware
- CCleaner – a freeware system optimization and privacy tool
- AVG – Anti-virus application
- Total Commander – file manager
- Daemon-Tools – Virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator
- Launchy – Keystroke Application Launcher
- Everything – Fast lightweight search engine
- TugZip – Archiving utility
- ImgBurn – Lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application
- VLC Player – cross-platform media player
- WinSCP – Secure file transfer
- TortoiseSVN – Version Control
- PuTTY – SSH client
- Pageant – Authentication agent
- PuTTYgen – Key generation utility
- Miktex – MiKTeX is an up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows
- TeXnicCenter – TeXnicCenter is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents