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Sysinternals System Tools

Homepage
OS: all Windows versions
Open Source: Some source codes are available
Description: The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 and Windows 9x, Windows Me internals that you won't find anywhere else.
Check the site out, there're 50+ tools for all purposes.

These are the guys that busted Sony on their rootkit. Great site, they are fanatics about wanting to know exactly what is running on their PCs.

I got a bunch of tools from this link to Toms Hardware:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/...ows/index.html

This includes:

7-zip, an Open Source Zip tool.
http://www.7-zip.org/
This supports:
* Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
* Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB

CDex, a freeware CD ripper/MP3 encoder/analog recorder
EDIT-> BKS has the right url. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

Also has links to OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Cygwin, GIMP, and some other windows tools.