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title: "Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Updated"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/29/ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-windows-upd.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/29/ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-windows-upd.html"
published: "2006-08-29T09:27:26"
updated: "2006-08-29T09:27:26"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Cool sites"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "It's back, and it's bigger than ever, tighter around the edges, and storms into your hard drive faster than you can say \"RegEdit\". It's Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows If…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Updated

By Roy Osherove August 29, 2006 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 29, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

It's back, and it's bigger than ever, tighter around the edges, and storms into your hard drive faster than you can say "RegEdit".

It's

[Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2006UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx)

If you're a geek, power user or developer, this list has tools in it you didn't know you needed until you saw them (and there are plenty of those, trust me).

Highly recommenced for hanging on your open space wall for when you're bored and looking for something to download and be more "productive".

Nice bonus for me: My Regular Expression Tools: [Regulator](https://osherove.com/), [Regulazy](http://regulazy.osherove.com/) and [Regex Visualizers](http://tools.osherove.com/Default.aspx?tabid=187) all made it to the list. Sadly, [my own tools site](http://tools.osherove.com/) didn't - maybe next time!

_**Update**: I missed it, but my_ [_Amazoner_](https://osherove.com/) _is on the list too. Glad people found it useful!_

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

- Sep 10, 2006

    ### [Regulazy 1.02 is out and about](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/10/regulazy-102-is-out-and-about.html)

- Sep 9, 2006

    ### [Cool Tool: vRD - Multiple Remote Desktops in one program](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/9/cool-tool-vrd-multiple-remote-desktops-in-one-program.html)

- Aug 27, 2006

    ### [16 Features in Resharper Every Developer Needs To Learn](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/27/16-features-in-resharper-every-developer-needs-to-learn.html)

- Aug 21, 2006

    ### [Cool Tool: Direct Access - Keyboard macros everywhere](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/21/cool-tool-direct-access-keyboard-macros-everywhere.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/