I didn't switch, I added.

I live in eastern Ontario and like other have noted, the heat/humidity makes a whole-house fan impractical. It often does not cool down much at night so drawing outside air doesn't do much.

WinSCP has the best STFP implementation on Windows that's I've found. I used to use Filezilla, but large transfers over STFP were slow - really slow. My processor usage would spike to 100% and the whole machine would slow down.

Vote: WinSCP

InfraRecorder does everything I need. Open source, light, and simple enough for my mother.

For work, it's either VPN with RDP or just ssh (depending on what computer I need).

Only indexes MS products? No thanks.

@savedsoul

There is still nothing like Apple's TimeMachine or Flyback for Windows that I can find. I'm really interested in finding a file-level backup/revisioning system that doesn't require much maintenance and has a pretty interface.

I couldn't get remove bloat to do anything on my FF2/WinXP machine. I use Click2Zap to do what is described. I use it constantly.

@falsefridays: If your job is processing words, Wordperfect is the best tool there is. Try it for a month, check out the features, and you will be convinced.

This has been built into Wordperfect for years.

Restore last session. I don't even know what my homepage is.

This is also an option in the excellent TabMixPlus extension.

- pretty much what others have said here

N++ - for all the reasons mentioned here, plus built in session saver, regex search and replace, easy block comment/uncomment, a slew of TextFX functions that I use daily (trim trailing whitespace), and a growing list of plugins. Seems to have rapid development too.

This system works well. Better than the commercial software I had access too (Photoshop CS). Although it is quite a bit slower.

Didn't read the whole thread, but I'm looking for a cross-platform centralized image management system. We have Ubuntu, Windows and MacOS X deployed in our lab and a small number of users working with the same image base.

Quality, not quantity. The number is not really relevant. Although at least one a day.

@Slater7607