Flashcards: Utility software

Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems.

ATI Tray Tools (ATT) is a freeware program developed by Ray Adams for ATI Radeon video cards.

GNOME Keyring is a daemon application designed to take care of the user's security credentials, such as user names and passwords.

Sandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation program developed by Invincea (which acquired it from the original author Ronen Tzur), for 32- and 64-bit Windows NT-based operating systems.

Seahorse is a GNOME front-end application for managing PGP and SSH keys.

CCleaner /ˈsiːkliːnər/ (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform, is a utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files (including temporary internet files, where malicious programs and code tend to reside) and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer.

Clonezilla is a free disk cloning, disk imaging, data recovery, and deployment computer program.

Audiograbber is a proprietary freeware CD audio extractor/converter program for Microsoft Windows.

UltraDefrag is an open-source disk defragmenting utility for Microsoft Windows.

TreeSize is a disk space analyzer written by JAM Software.

Norton Utilities is a utility software suite designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain a computer.

Snagit is a screenshot program that captures video display and audio output.

Robocopy, or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory and/or file replication command.

Revo Uninstaller is an uninstaller for Microsoft Windows.

Resource Hacker (also known as ResHacker or ResHack) is a free resource extraction utility and resource compiler for Windows developed by Angus Johnson.

PageDefrag is a program, developed by Sysinternals (now distributed by Microsoft), for Microsoft Windows that runs at start-up to defragment the virtual memory page file, the registry files and the Event Viewer's logs (files such as AppEvent.Evt, SysEvent.Evt, SecEvent.Evt and so on).

.NET Reflector is a class browser, decompiler and static analyzer for software created with .

Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager program for use with Microsoft Windows.

LastPass is a freemium password management service which stores encrypted passwords in private accounts.

All My Movies is a movie collection organizer software for establishing a personal database of media collections (Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, VHS tapes, etc.) developed by Bolide Software.

Ceedo is a software virtualization platform developed by Israeli company Ceedo Technologies.

cwRsync is an implementation of Rsync for Windows.

jv16 PowerTools, developed by Macecraft Software, is a utility software suite for the Microsoft Windows operating system designed to help analyze, optimize and maintain the computer.

Monosnap is a free screenshot program for Mac OS X and Windows.

Ninite (codenamed Volery during private beta stage) is a package management system offering that lets users automatically install popular applications for their Windows operating system.

Process Monitor is a free tool from Windows Sysinternals, part of the Microsoft TechNet website.

Process Lasso is a process priority optimizer for Windows developed by Jeremy Collake of Bitsum LLC.

X Neural Switcher, or xneur, is a free software (GNU GPL) computer program for automatic (intelligent) keyboard layout changing in the X Window System, and runs on all flavours of Linux and BSD.

Deep Freeze, by Faronics, is an application available for the Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems which allows system administrators to protect the core operating system and configuration files on a workstation or server by restoring a computer back to its original configuration each time the computer restarts.

AVG PC TuneUp, previously separate from TuneUp Utilities, is a utility software suite for Microsoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure and troubleshoot a computer system.

RivaTuner is a freeware program developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk in 1997 for the NVIDIA video cards, from the Riva TNT to the GeForce 700 Series, which also has limited support for the ATI video cards from the Radeon 8500 and above.

SpeedFan is a system monitor for Microsoft Windows that can read temperatures, voltages and fan speeds of computer components.

Recuva (UK /rɪˈkʌvə/) is a data recovery program for Windows, developed by Piriform.

Hiren's BootCD (also known as HBCD) is a bootable software CD containing a number of diagnostic programs such as partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many others for fixing various computer problems.

PCKeeper is advertised as an optimization services package featuring a set of software utilities for Windows OS owned by Essentware S.

A Custom Recovery is a software system on a computer or smartphone which is normally used to present the user with a menu from which the operating system is booted, but can also be used to boot a separate operating system than the stock operating system or install programs while bypassing the operating system.

Lansweeper is an agentless IT asset management and Network Inventory software tool for Microsoft Windows OS.

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a freemium software application for Microsoft Windows intended to defragment files and folders on a hard drive, consolidate free space and optimize file placement using different criteria.