Moving from mac to windows, need similar apps

[npowers86]

i am moving from snow leopard to windows 7 and wanted to know if anyone had advice on similar apps to the ones i will miss. thanks

mac:

little snitch
drive genius 3
clean my mac
quicksilver
the mac dock
istat pro

thanks

 

[ActionHobo]

Congrats on making the logical switch

It looks like the main things you want are HDD management, Security, and a few mac-like visual enhancements.

I would suggest getting CCleaner and Defraggler (both by Piriform) for the HDD management, which will replace Drive Genious 3 and Clean My Mac.
http/www.piriform.com/defraggler
http/www.piriform.com/ccleaner

For the Mac Dock, RocketDock is made to emulate the Mac Dock.
http/rocketdock.com/download

For iStat Pro, I would suggest Speccy (also from Piriform)
http/www.piriform.com/speccy

For Little Snitch, a good router with built in firewall in combination with the Windows firewall should suffice unless you are into serious hacking and whatnot. In which case, I would recommend a UNIX based OS, but that's just me

As far as Quicksilver goes, you may want to try SlickRun. I've never used it, but I hear it's the best windows alternative to Quicksilver.
http/www.bayden.com/SlickRun/


Also, did I mention that all of these softwares are free?
Welcome to the world of not being a mac

 

[npowers86]

cool thanks for the info i appreciate it!

one quick question, do the CCleaner and Defraggler run all the time like Drive Genius?

everything else looks nice i will be sure to check them out and use them!