App-Utility
Utility software as classified by freedesktop.org's menu-spec (1.0).
Contents
Accessibility
Archiving
WinRAR
A full-featured Windows-compatible GUI-based archive tool able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, XZ, Z, etc., archives. A RAR for Android application exists, as does a cross-platform RAR console application for *nix systems.
Calculator
Clock
File Management
File Tools
FCIV
An unsupported, Microsoft-supplied, command-line utility that computes MD5 or SHA1 cryptographic hashes for files.
Path Copy Copy
A Windows Explorer add-on to add file/folder context menu items that copy path(s) in various formats.
- Path Copy Copy is a reboot of the now-dead Ninotech Path Copy utility. github sources
Security
KeyPassX
A cross-platform password manager based on the open source KeePass Password Safe.
- Version 1 strains like KeePassX 0.4.4 use local storage only and is preferred here for that reason.
- Version 2 series applications can access password databases over network connections.
A rough comparison of features may be viewed on a related keepass.info web-site.
SSH Agent
A utility that holds a decrypted SSH private key in trust for a user to use to automatically authenticate on behalf of a user in the process of establishing SSH-protocol connections (i.e. ssh, scp, sftp, etc.).
Text Editors
GVim
"Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X."
