Below are my top 15 system utilities of 2024.
- 7-Zip – A powerful file archiver with support for a variety of formats and high compression ratios.
- Autoruns – Provides detailed information about startup programs and system services.
- Proces Explorer – An alternative to Windows Task Manager that gives you more detail information.
- WinDirStat – Visualizes disk usage and helps you manage storage space effectively.
- BleachBit: A disk cleaner and maintenance tool.
- Everything – An ultra-fast file search tool that indexes your files and folders to find anything almost instantly.
- VeraCrypt: A disk encryption program.
- WinMerge is differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.
- Rufus – an great program to create a bootable USB drive.
- CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
- HWMonitor for Windows is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, powers, currents, fans speed, utilizations, clock speeds, etc.
- Backerupper Free Edition – A great free program to make system images of your PCs
- Wireshark – A network protocol analyzer useful for network troubleshooting and analysis
- Nmap – A very useful program for network mapping, vulnerability assessment, and network security auditing.
- Notpad ++ – is notepad on steroids.
I hope you find one or more useful.