Friday, December 4, 2015

Useful Programs for the PC

Every now and then, you want something done automatically, which can't be done natively on Windows. That's when a few Google searches find you some free programs which serve the purpose very nicely. For me, Most of these had to be found after Radeon dropped functionality from their Control center in Radeon Crimson.

MultiMonitorTool - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html
This tool allows you to control the arrangement of your displays. This was especially helpful for me since it has command line options to do what's needed. And also, something I like very much, it needs no installation.

OpenHardwareMonitor - http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
No installation free software that shows all the fan/temperature/Load/Clocks in your system. It shows it from anything connected to your pc very neatly with some filtering options.
Still in the Beta phase, but is very promising.

FolderSize - http://www.mindgems.com/products/Folder-Size/Folder-Size-Download.htm
Free software that shows you the size of any file or folder while being able to drill down each folder to find whatever it is that is taking a lot of your storage. Also has a portable, non-installation needed version.
The Pro version can even analyze network drives and has command line options.