Gizmo's Freeware Reviews: Gizmo's Desert Island Utilities
19 September 2011
by gizmo.richards
Last year I installed for review purposes, hundreds of utility programs and applications. In the last five years, the number must be in the thousands.
Almost all of these, after review, have been promptly uninstalled. Some were just dogs. Some worked fine but caused problems on my PC. Others were excellent but not as good as products I was already using.
The products that remain on my personal PC today are the survivors of a long Darwinian battle. They are the products that best suit my needs. When I buy a new PC these are the products I install.
Of course the products that suit my needs may not suit yours. For example I consider product reliability to be more important than an extensive feature set. You may think the opposite.
So please don't interpret this list either as a set of general recommendations or a list of the best products in their class. Rather it's a list of products that do it for me. It is my desert island software list and that list is unlikely to be the same as yours.
Some of the utilities and applications in this list also appear on the "Best-ever Freeware List" on this site but not all. That's because my list includes shareware and commercial products as well.
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