Useful Freeware Windows Utilities you might not know about

[Spawn]

Because he capitalised it I would assume it is a proper noun, and the name of the program.

[OvermindDL1]

As well as a link, try clicking on it.

You do need to log in to download it (it is an open source project, the link goes to an article that tells not only about it, but how it works in detail, codeproject is a wonderful programming learning website).  If you do not want to register, just go to BugMeNot
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[CivBase]

Where could I get a program that changes .m4p and .mp4 files into .wma files?  What about .flv and .avi into .wmv?

[Spawn]

Did you try using google?  I hear it can search the internet nowadays.

[CivBase]

That's too easy... and half the time the first few results are crap.

[Zero Angel]

I assume because you don't know how to search very well -- for example

[ quote "he advances yet does not seek fame" ]
would search for the word "quote" as well as the phrase

[ "he advances yet does not seek fame" -"Art of War" ]
would search for the phrase, but would exclude search results which had the phrase "Art of War" in them

[ "he advances yet does not seek fame" +Denma ]
would search for the phrase, the word "Denma" MUST be in the search result or it will not be displayed

The square brackets represent the text box, you dont actually type them into the search field.

[CivBase]

Right...

I was just wondering if anyone already had some that worked well, as they come in handy.  I know I could search for them, but I don't like trying out programs that might not be high quality.  For example, I could find several youtube downloaders, modeling programs, or other various programs and utilities, but only a handful will be very good.  They all do roughly the same thing, but some are more effective or user friendly than others.

I know how to search, but I like to have the assurance from an actual user that the program is useful and reliable.

Needless to say, if you don't know of one you don't need to answer.  I was simply curious, as I find myself constantly wasting CDs to convert my iTunes files into something readable by other programs.

[OvermindDL1]

ffmpeg.  It can convert from just about any audio/video format to any other audio/video format, including the above mentioned onces.  ffmpeg itself is a command-line program (which I use it like that), but there are plenty of front-end interfaces for it, WinFF is a popular one for windows, but you should still learn it on the command line regardless since WinFF takes the command-line parameters in its interface.
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[AHadley]

Anybody know anything about SearchGun? Or is there something else I can use to search through files by their contents?

eg: Find ODF files containint the text 'shipxpl', so I can fix some of my file conflicts.

[Nielk1]

WindowsGrep

[AHadley]

Oh, it does? Good, I thought it was just a batch renamer.

[Nielk1]

Oh, it does? Good, I thought it was just a batch renamer.

I don't think it can do that.

[AHadley]

I don't think it can do that.

Oui, just do what I did for my recy variant and edit the stock AIPs to your needs (mine was adding the mod suffix after all the units, yay Windows Grep, for decreasing my work time by 2000%)

[Nielk1]

Yea, I don't think it renamed files, I think it can only change the text inside of files, IE what Steeveeo was talking about. He had to change lots of things IN his ODFs after he renamed them.

[AHadley]

OK, fair enough.