Useful Windows tools

The files on this page provide some useful tools for those of us that are forced to use Windows.


Tera Term/TTSSH provide an nice ssh client capability for Windows. This program is provided in 2 zip files. Unzip `ttermp23.zip' and run the setup program to install the Tera Term terminal emulator program. Then unzip `ttssh154.zip' in the directory where you installed Tera Term to add secure shell, TTSSH, capabilities to Tera Term.

  • PuTTY and PSCP are provided as straight Windows binaries. Just copy these files to your Windows machine and run them and you're ready to go.
  • This is a shareware version of WinZip that doesn't have a timeout clause.
  • Also, since MicroSoft is evil, there's a recent copy of Mozilla Firefox (Web browser) and Mozilla Thunderbird (email client).
  • Nice little app that returns detailed information about the hardware you are running on. Think of it as a beefed up `/proc/cpuinfo'.
  • Verson of Skype that doesn't pollute your task bar.