(Editor: Hex) (Editor: Programmer) (Automation: Batch Files) (Automation: Macros) (Programming: Installer) (Programming: Language) (Resource Tool: Editor-Extractor) (Resource Tool: Icon Extractor) (System Tweaker)

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Editor: Hex

Frhed
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT
Languages: English
Description: Frhed (free hex editor) is a small, fast and powerful binary file editor. Features include search and replace for any combination of binary and text data, file comparison, bit manipulation, customizable display colors and font size, ANSI or OEM character set, cut and paste, bookmarking and more. With Frhed you can also apply binary templates for structured information, load files partially (for working on huge programs), and export as hexdump to file or clipboard. Frhed currently does not support Undo.
Company: -- Author: Raihan Kibria
Home Page, download v 1.0.156 (2000-10-14) (frhed156.zip) (307 KB); v1.1 BETA 1 (2002-04-16) (frhed-v1.1.zip) (628 KB)
http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-09)

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Editor: Programmer

Crimson Editor
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (multi-byte support with integrated IME for eastern languages)
Description: Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. It offers syntax highlighting for more than 50 languages including HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX, and can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files. It features a tabbed interface, multi-level undo/redo, find-replace with regular expression support, support for DOS/UNIX/Mac formats, and a rich set of formatting and conversion commands. Crimson also includes user tools, macros, spell checker, natural word wrap, external browser support, bookmarks, built-in calculator (evaluate line), powerful print support, FTP support, fully customizable font, color and line spacing and more.
Company: -- Author: Ingyu Kang
Home Page:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
download v 3.70 (2004-09-22) (cedt370r.exe) (1224 KB)
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/english/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-24)

ConText
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, translation files available for many other languages
Description: ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. It offers syntax highlighting support for the most popular scripting languages, inclding HTML, PHP, Java, VB, SQL, Python, Perl and many others - and of course plain .txt files. It features unlimited open files without any limits on file sizes. It includes a macro recorder, project support, bookmarks and much more. ConTEXT is highly customizable and allows you to change syntax highlighting colors, cursor shapes, right margin, gutter, line spacing as well as user definable execution keys and other things. Additional features include search and replace across all open files, compiler support, code templates, file explorer, text sort, column block selection (supported by ALT key), and others. ConTEXT currently does not support natural word-wrap.
Company: -- Author: Eden Kirin
Home Page:
http://www.context.cx/
download v 0.97.5 (2004-08-14) (ConTEXTsetup.exe) (1.18 MB)
http://www.context.cx/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

Programmer's File Editor (PFE)
(Freeware) (Orphanware)
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/98/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: Programmer's File Editor (PFE) is a large-capacity text file editor, oriented towards those who use Windows as their program development environment, and so incorporates many features that make it a convenient work management system. Although it's primarily oriented to program development, it makes a very powerful general editor for any purpose at all. PFE's capacity is essentially limited only by the total amount of memory available on your system. There are no editor-imposed limits on the number of files that you can edit simultaneously, nor on the number of edit windows that you may have open. There is no limit on the size of file that can be handled, and none on the number of lines that a file may contain. PFE adheres strictly to the Windows MDI conventions. You can invoke most commands and facilities from menus; you can move around with a mouse or with the standard keyboard shortcuts; you can cut and paste from the clipboard, and so on. COMMENTS: Works well on XP Home too.
Company: -- Author: Alan Phillips
Program description, download:
http://download.com.com/3000-2352-904159.html
Alternate download v 1.01 (1999-02-04) (pfe101i.zip) (607kb):
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/pfe101i.zip
Description and download Win 3.1 version (pfe101.zip) (545kb):
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/11996.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

SciTE
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English, many other languages
Description: SciTE is an open source programmer's text editor developed to showcase the capabilities of the Scintilla edit control. It has a rich set of features, some of them are: Single document interface with tabs; Syntax styles (highlighting) for approx. 40 programming languages including Assembly, C, C++, Java, HTML, Pascal and Visual Basic; Rectangular selection; Search and replace in the current document using regular expressions; Folding; Calltips (similar to Microsoft 'tooltips'); 'Complete word': auto completion mode that is based on the content of the current document; 'Complete symbol': auto completion mode that is based on external file(s); Four context-sensitive commands (compile, build, run, help); Ten extra commands that can be set as general purpose or context sensitive.
Company: -- Author: Neil Hodgson
Home Page:
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
download page v 1.62 (2004-10-31) (wscite162.zip) (620 KB)
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDownload.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-11-16)

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Automation: Batch Files

Batchrun
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Batchrun will let you create batch files easily using a graphical interface. With Batchrun .brs batch files, you can launch any number of applications, documents, folders, shortcuts or dialup connections with just a simple click. Drag and drop between Explorer and Batchrun for maximum ease! In addition, you can control the starting process with several properties like process priority, window position, pauses between launchings and more. Do more than just starting programs and files with the built-in file management functions like Copy, Rename, Makedir, Delete and End Process. Batchrun batch files can be launched from Explorer or placed in StartUp folder or on the Desktop.
Company: Outer Technologies Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.outertech.com/
Program Description:
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=1
download page v 4.1 (btrun410.exe) (683 KB), (btrun410.zip) (678 KB)
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=downloads
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)

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Automation: Macros

AutoIt
(Donationware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English (documentation in Russian, Spanish, Italian)
Description: AutoIt v3 is an opensource BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). NOTES: Unlike AutoIt v2, the new v3 language has a much more standard syntax -similar to VBScript and BASIC - and now supports complex expressions, user functions, looping and everything else that veteran scripters would expect.
Company: Hiddensoft Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.hiddensoft.com/
download page: v 3.0.102 (2004-08-04) (autoit-v3-setup.exe) (1011 KB); (autoit-v3.zip) (927 KB)
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/downloads.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-08-06)

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Programming: Installer

Inno Setup
(Donationware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Inno Setup is an installer for Windows programs. Features include support for all 32-bit Windows versions in use today -- Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Me, NT 4.0. Support for Windows NT 3.51 can also be optionally included. (An older 16-bit version of Inno Setup is still available.) Supports creation of a single EXE to install your program for easy online distribution. Disk spanning is also supported. Standard wizard interface, including support for the latest Windows 2000/XP wizard style. Customizable setup types, e.g. Full, Minimal, Custom. Complete uninstall capabilities. Installation of files: Includes integrated "deflate" file compression (the same compression .zip files use) and also supports bzip2 compression. The installer has the ability to compare file version info, replace in-use files, use shared file counting, register DLL/OCX's and type libraries, and install fonts. Creation of shortcuts anywhere, including in the Start Menu and on the desktop. Creation of registry and .INI entries. Silent install and uninstall. Full source code is available (Borland Delphi 2.0-5.0).
Company: Jordan Russell's Software Author: Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan
Home Page:
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
download page v 5.0.6 (2004-12-24) (isetup-5.0.6.exe) (1070 KB)
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-04)

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Programming: Language

Python
(Freeware) (open source: Python License)
Windows OS: DOS; Windows; Windows CE (Pocket PC)
Other OS: Mac OS X; Mac OS 9; Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The standard implementation includes a large standard library and even more third party extensions are available from the internet.
Company: Python Software Foundation (non-profit) Author: Guido van Rossum (BDFL); e.a.
Home Page:
http://python.org/
download page v 2.4 (2004-11-30) (Windows) (python-2.4.msi) (10632 KB)
http://python.org/download/
(desc. rev.: 2005-01-09)

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Resource Tool: Editor-Extractor

Resource Hacker
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese
Description: Resource Hacker(TM) is a utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler. Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG resource images can be viewed. WAV and MIDI audio resources can be played. Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo resources can be viewed as decompiled resource scripts. Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application. Resources can be saved as image files, as script files, as binary resource files, or as untyped binary files. Resources can be modified by replacing the resource with a resource located in another file or by using the internal resource script compiler. Dialog controls can also be visually moved and/or resized by clicking and dragging the respective dialog controls prior to recompiling with the internal compiler. Resources can be added to an application by copying them from external resource files.
Company: -- Author: Angus Johnson
Home Page:
http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/.
download v 3.4.0 (2002-03-24) (ResHack.zip) (541 KB)
http://delphi.icm.edu.pl/ftp/tools/ResHack.zip
alternate download v 3.4.0 (2002-03-24) (ResHack.zip) (541 KB)
http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/reshack.zip
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)

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Resource Tool: Icon Extractor

Icon Snatcher
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Before you search the Internet for cool icons, look a little closer to home. Chances are you'll find some neat images hiding inside the files on your very own hard drive. Icon Snatcher is a free 32-bit utility that can extract icon files from any .exe, .dll, or any other type of file that might contain embedded icons. Each icon may be saved in either BMP, ICO or GIF format, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into your favorite graphics editor. You can also pick the background color for maintaining the transparency of bitmaps and gifs.
Company: Creative Design Interactive Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.cdiware.com/
download v 3.6.1 (1999-12-22) (iconsnat361.exe) (813 KB)
http://www.cdiware.com/downloads/apps/iconsnatcher/iconsnat361.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-30)

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System Tweaker

TWEAK UI
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: With the Tweak UI 1.33 update, you can adjust your Windows User Interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. NOTES: versions for XP (Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher is required).: 32-bit: http://windows-help.net/cgi-bin/2003/6.26.cgi?62605 (TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe) (147 KB) 64-bit: http://windows-help.net/cgi-bin/2003/6.26.cgi?62606 (TweakUIPowertoySetup_ia64.exe) (224 KB)
Company: Microsoft Author: --
Home Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
download v 1.33 (Tweakui.exe) (64 KB)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/winme/Install/1.0/WinMe/EN-US/Tweakui.exe
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)

X-Setup Pro (was Xteq X-Setup)
(Freeware) (free for non-profit home use; Government controlled education institutions; Charity organizations; Public libraries)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: X-Setup PRO is a so-called "hacker" or "tweaker" program. It allows you to change more than 1.600 settings that are normally hidden deeply in some configuration-files like the registry fast and easily. X-Setup Pro is clutter-free, easy to use, extensible, powerful, covers any aspect of your computer and has more configuration options than any other tweaker. NOTES: Starting with version 7 new releases will be shareware.
Company: XQDC Ltd. Author: Michael 'TeX HeX' Tröger
Home Page:
http://www.x-setup.net/
download page v 6.6 (2004-05-28) (xqdcxsp-setup-en.zip) (4.6 MB)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4083.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-06-03)