for alt.comp.freeware 's picks of the best Windows programs
(S) before a program name indicates the program has been seconded
Nominations open from November 3 - November 17, 2002 - 18.00 hrs (GMT + 1.00)
last updated: November 17, 2002 - 22.00 hrs (GMT + 1.00)
for discussion of nominated programs, please check dicussion threads in alt.comp.freeware
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Charting Tools | TeeChartOffice | Draw charts from data (or equations) | Home Page | |
| Charting Tools | Visual Thought | cross-platform diagramming & flowcharting tool | Home Page | |
| Desk Top Publishing | (S) Serif PagePlus 5 | DTP-package | Home Page | Registerware. |
| Mind Manager | (S) MindMan Personal | Mind mapping software for brainstorming sessions | Home Page | |
| Office Suite | (S) OpenOffice.org | office suite | Home Page | |
| Spellcheckers | (S) APSC Spellchecker | All-Purpose Spell Checker | Home Page | Only American-English available in free version |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Astrology | Astrolog | astrology program | Home Page | |
| Astronomy | HNSKY | planetarium program for windows | Home Page | |
| Astronomy | Sky Charts | planetarium / deep sky program | Home Page | |
| Astronomy | StarCalc | astronomy planetarium & star mapping program | Home Page | |
| Bible Programs | e-Sword | fast and effective way to study the Bible | Home Page | |
| Calendar Tools | Calendar Magic | Multifunction calendar with additional options | Home Page | |
| Calculator | (S) ESBcalc | calculator, friendly to use | Home Page | |
| Calculator | Tapecalc | Tape calculator | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | About Time | Synchronizes clock with internet time servers | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | Atomic Clock Sync | Synchronizes clock with internet time servers | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | ClockRack | World time clock | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | Kana Reminder | program which can be used to set a reminder | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | (S) DIMENSION 4 | Time Synchronizer | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | Micro Egg Timer | Simple timer with sound | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | Multi-Timer | Ten timers which can count up or down | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | (S) TClock | startup button / clock customizer | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | (S) TClockEx | Taskbar Clock Enhancement | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | AtomTime95 | Time Synchronizer | Download | |
| Clock Tools | Sun Clock | shows time zones around the world | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | WorldTime | displays multiple clocks | Home Page | |
| Clock Tools | (S) World Time Clock | Desktop Clock | Home Page | |
| Converters | (S) Convert | unit conversion program | Home Page | |
| Converters | Currency Converter 2 | Converts between over 200 currencies | Home Page | |
| Customizers | (S) Desktop Architect | change desktop look, themes, icons, etc | Download | As of mid-2002, this product is apparently no longer supported |
| Customizers | WinLogo Changer1.2 | Change startup and shut down logo | Home Page | |
| Diary | (S) Smart Diary | Record your thoughts along with your mood, which is plotted on a graph. | Home Page | |
| Genealogy Programs | Personal Ancestral File 5.2.18.0 | Free version of genealogy program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Home Page | |
| Password Tools | Revelation | unmask passwords | Home Page | |
| Program Launcher | (S) MultiRunner | Multiple program launcher | Home Page | |
| Shell Replacements | Geoshell | Replacement for the Windows Explorer shell | Home Page | |
| Screen Capture | Gadwin PrintScreen | Screen capture utility | Home Page | |
| Screen Capture | (S) MWSnap | program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. | Home Page | |
| Screen Capture | ScreenRip | capture areas of the screen with a variety of methods | Home Page | |
| Screen Capture | ScreenSeize | Capture and save any part of your screen | Download | |
| Screen Utility | SuperMagnify | Magnify any part of your screen under the mouse | Home Page | |
| Window Tools | (S) AutoSizer | Automatically resizes any window you specify | Home Page | |
| Window Tools | FreeShade | Window shade (roll-up) utility | Home Page | |
| Window Tools | SendtoBack | Send a window to the back, behind other windows, to uncover them | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Archivers | (S) 7-zip | multi-format archiver | Home Page | |
| Archivers | (S) ICEOWS | multi-format archiver | Home Page | |
| Archivers | (S) Filzip | Archiver | Home Page | |
| Archivers | IZArc | multi-format archiver | Home Page | |
| Archivers | (S) UltimateZIP | Archive manager | Home Page | |
| Archivers | WinImp | File Archiever (Compression/Decompression) | Home Page | |
| Archivers | (S) ZipGenius | archiver | Home Page | |
| Backup Utility | (S) MOB (MY OWN BACKUP) | Backup your files | Home Page | |
| Backup Utility | Vice Versa Free! | Compare contents of folders and update as necessary | Home Page | |
| Copy Utilities | TreeCopy | copy directory structures in all Windows environments | Home Page | |
| DLL Utility | Installfile | Replace locked system files | Home Page | |
| File Cataloguers | (S) Catfish | create/browse HD/CD catalogs | Home Page | |
| File Dependency Tool | (S) Dependency Walker | View file dependencies | Home Page | |
| File Management | Comparator | Compares two directories | Home Page | |
| File management / Shell extension | (S) Attribute Changer | Modify file and folder attributes | Home Page | |
| File management / Shell extension | FileNote | add textual descriptions to your files | Home Page | |
| File management / Shell extension | (S) OpenExpert | it adds an "Open with" item to the context menu of the chosen file type with all the applications you decide. | Home Page | |
| File management / Shell extension | (S) Properties Plus | Windows Explorer add-on | Home Page | |
| File Management Tools - Cleaners | iISystem Wiper | clear the history of your activites from you computer | Home Page | |
| File Management Tools - Cleaners | (S) Spider | scan hidden files for URLs and allow cleanup | Download | |
| File Management Tools - DOS | (S) LFN-Tools | Long filenames under pure DOS | Home Page | |
| File Managers | (S) 2xExplorer | dual-pane file manager | Home Page | |
| File Managers | ACBrowser | file manager for windows | Home Page | |
| File Managers | (S) PowerDesk | Filemanager | Download | Light version, requires registration nowadays |
| File Managers | Servant Salamander 1.52 | Filemanager | Home Page | |
| File Managers | Turbo Navigator | Filemanager | Home Page | |
| File Splitter | Chainsaw | Split files into smaller ones | Home Page | |
| File Validators | dsSFV | integrity verification of files | Home Page | |
| File Validators | QuickSFV | file validation, cyclic redundancy check | Home Page | donationware |
| File Viewers | Damn NFO Viewer | NFO and DIZ Viewer | Home Page | |
| Rename Utilities | Flexible Renamer | A file/folder renaming utility, which can use Wildcard or Regular-Expression and Tag-information | Home Page | |
| Rename Utilities | (S) Lupas 2000 | file renaming | Home Page | |
| Rename Utilities | Oscar's File Renamer | File renamer with a twist. | Home Page | |
| Rename Utilities | Rname-it | File renamer | Home Page | |
| Rename Utilities | THE Rename | renames files and folders | Home Page | |
| Search Utilities | (S) Agent Ransack | grep, search in files | Home Page | |
| Undelete | (S) PC Inspector File Recovery | undelete on FAT32 or NTFS partitions | Home Page | |
| Undelete | (S) Restoration | file restore utility | Home Page | |
| Unzipper | ExtractNow | Unzipper - zip,rar,ace | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Button Makers | DeKnop | Create buttons for webpages | Home Page | |
| Button Makers | Zpaint | Create buttons for web pages. | Home Page | |
| CD Cover and Labels Creators | InterCover | Create Jewel Case Inserts and CD Labels | Home Page | |
| Color Pickers | COLORCOP | color picker | Home Page | |
| Color Pickers | (S) ColorPic | color picker | Home Page | |
| Computer Aided Design | QCad | 2D CAD system for Linux, various Unices and Windows | Home Page | |
| Font Tools | Characteristica | Charmap replacement | Home Page | |
| Font Tools | FontPage | Font viewer for TTF and T1 fonts | Home Page | |
| Font Tools | The Font Thing | program for managing TrueType fonts | Home Page | |
| Font Tools | X-Fonter | Font viewer for TTF-files | Home Page | |
| Fractal Editors | Fractal Explorer | fractal generator | Home Page | |
| Graphics Editor | Blender3D | 3D Editor | Home Page | |
| Graphics Editor | EVE | Vector drawing package | Home Page | |
| Graphics Editor | (S) GIMP | Graphics and Image creation/manipulation tool | Home Page | |
| Graphics Editor | OpenOffice Draw | Vector drawing package | Home Page | Also available in OpenOffice (see Business)? |
| Graphics Editor | (S) Pixia | Graphics and Image creation/manipulation tool | Home Page | |
| Graphics Editor | Serif 3D Plus 2 | 3D Animation program | Home Page | Registerware. |
| Graphics Editor | Serif PhotoPlus 5.5 | Graphics and Image creation/manipulation tool | Home Page | Registerware. |
| Graphics Editor | Serif DrawPlus 4 | Vector drawing package | Home Page | Registerware. |
| Graphics Editor | Zoner Draw 3 | Vector drawing package | Home Page | |
| Graphics Plugin Filters | MuRa's Filter | Plugins for Adobe Photoshop and plugin compatible programs such as Paint Shop Pro, etc. | Home Page | |
| Graphics Printing | (S) Graph Paper Printer | print numerous kinds of graph papers, music manuscripts and pattern papers, with user-defined sizes and colors | Home Page | |
| Graphics Tools | Centarsia | makes photo-mosaics out of pictures | Home Page | Postcard-ware |
| Graphics Tools | DPic | Creation of contact sheets | Download | |
| Graphics Tools | Picture Shark | put watermarks on pictures | Home Page | |
| Graphics Tools | Terragen | Landscape Builder | Home Page | Free for private, non-commercial use. |
| Graphics Viewer | Image Guider | Image Viewer | Home Page | |
| Graphics Viewer | (S) Irfanview | graphic viewer/thumbnail generator | Home Page | Freeware, for private, non-commercial use |
| Graphics Viewer | (S) SlowView | Image Viewer and Browser | Home Page | |
| Graphics Viewer | (S) Xnview | graphic viewer/thumbnail generator | Home Page | |
| Icon Editors | @icon sushi | Icon editor | Home Page | |
| Icon Editors | (S) IconEdit32 | Icon editor | Home Page | |
| Icon Editors | (S) SnIco Edit | Icon editor | Home Page | |
| Photo Album Generators | (S) Easy Gallery Generator - EGG v2.0 | thumbnail creator | Home Page | |
| Photo Album Generators | FotoAlbum | Organize your pictures | Home Page | |
| Photo Album Generators | JAlbum | Multi-platform web photo album generator | Home Page | |
| Photo Album Generators | (S) MyAlbum | picture cataloger for building easily digital photo albums | Home Page | |
| Photo Printing Software | Iomega Photo Printer | print multiple digital camera photos on a single sheet of paper | Home Page | |
| Resizers | (S) PictureTray | Batch resize pictures by dragging and dropping | Home Page | |
| Rulers | SCREEN CALIPERS | on-screen measurement tool | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Bookmarks/Favorites Organizers | (S) FavOrg | Favorites list displayed as a tree | Home Page | |
| Bookmarks/Favorites Organizers | SyncURLs | Share bookmarks between browsers | Home Page | |
| Bookmark Verifier | (S) AMDeadlink | Finds dead/duplicate bookmarks in IE, Netscape and Opera. | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | Favorites Home Page | Tool for converting your Internet Explorer Favorites into a custom home page that resides on your computer. | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | IE Booster | Web Browser Extensions for Internet Explorer | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | ieSpell | Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | Multizilla | Extensions for Mozilla | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | (S) Optimoz | Extensions for Mozilla | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | (S) Quick Search | Starts web searches from the address bar. | Download | Part of the Web Accessories for IE 5 - works fine in IE6. |
| Browser Tools | (S) SetBrowser | Lets you set the default web browser | Home Page | |
| Browser Tools | (S) UrlRun | Launch a browser after copying a URL to the clipboard (good for broken multi-line Url's) | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) Avant Browser | IE shell | Home Page | |
| Browsers | Beonex | Internet browser based on Mozilla 1.1 | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) Crazy Browser | IE shell | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) Mozilla | Internet Browser | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) K-Meleon | Mozilla based Web browser | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) MyIE2 | IE shell | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) OffByOne | Fast browser that fits on a floppy | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) Phoenix | web browser based on Netscape Gecko and Mozilla | Home Page | |
| Browsers | (S) HTTRACK | offline browser utility, web site copier | Home Page | |
| Browsers | Web Copier | offline browser utility, web site copier | Home Page | |
| Chat Clients | (S) Easy Message | instant message on AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN | Home Page | |
| Chat Clients | (S) Messenger Plus! Extension | Extension to MSN Messenger | Home Page | Current version does not work with MSN Messenger 5 |
| Chat Clients | (S) Miranda ICQ | Small and unbloated ICQ-clone. Can be extended with plugins to support MSN and other protocols. | Home Page | |
| Chat Clients | (S) Trillian | everything you need for instant messaging | Home Page | |
| Connection Utilities | AnalogX Proxy | internet connection sharing | Home Page | |
| Connection Utilities | (S) Keep It Alive | keeping dial-up Internet connection alive | Home Page | |
| Connection Utilities | (S) NetLaunch | start and shutdown applications whenever you connect & disconnect from the internet via Dial-Up Networking | Home Page | |
| Connection Utilities | TICK | Internet connection recorder | Home Page | |
| Cookie Managers | Cookies Manager | Manages the Internet cookies | Home Page | |
| Download Managers | (S) DLExpert | Download manager | Home Page | |
| Download Managers | (S) DownloadExpress | IE download manager | Home Page | |
| Download Managers | (S) LeechGet | download manager | Home Page | |
| Download Managers | (S) Star Downloader | Download accelerator and manager | Home Page | |
| Download Managers | WGet | Very powerful command-line downloader and spider. Supports ftp, http and https and is very scriptable. | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | (S) ePrompter | E-mail checker for POP and webmail accounts | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | EzPop | Multi-account email notifier | Home Page | unsupported |
| e-Mail Checkers | Letterbox | POP3 e-mail notification program | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | (S) MagicMailMonitor | mall multiple mail popper/previewer/deleter | Download | |
| e-Mail Checkers | (S) Mailwasher | E-mail checker and remote deleter/bouncer | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | (S) PopTray | E-mail checker | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | PP MailCheck | handle the mails on a POP3 server | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | Spam Motel | Generate and delete a e-mail-address instantly | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Checkers | (S) Spamweasel | E-mail spam filter | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) Calypso Mail | Mature Email Client | Download | |
| e-Mail Clients | Mutt | Open source text-based mail client | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) nPOP | Small, text only email client | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) Eudora Lite Version 3.0.6 | Emailer | Download | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) Foxmail | E-mail client | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | Kaufman Mail Warrior | E-mail client | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) Pegasus Mail | extremely feature-rich and powerful, yet remains small and fast | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) Pimmy | Textbase email client | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Clients | (S) Popcorn | ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client | Home Page | unsupported |
| e-Mail / News Client | (S) Sylpheed-Claws | Email and news client | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Tools | (S) ECleaner 2.01 | Strip leading spaces and email fwd marks from text | Download | |
| e-Mail Tools | (S) PopFile | POP3 proxy that does email classification and sorting | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Tools | Poppet | Downloads mail from a POP3 server, and sorts/filters it into locally-stored mbox or maildir format mailboxes | Home Page | |
| e-Mail Tools | StripMail | Strips the characters ">" and "|" from forwarded e-mails | Home Page | |
| Firewall | (S) Agnitum Outpost Firewall | firewall | Home Page | |
| Firewall | (S) Kerio Personal Firewall | firewall | Home Page | |
| Firewall | (S) Sygate Personal Firewall | Firewall | Home Page | free for personal use |
| Firewall | (S) ZoneAlarm | firewall | Home Page | |
| Firewall Utility | VisualZone | log analyser and trace for ZoneAlarm | Home Page | |
| FTP Client | (S) FileZilla | FTP client | Home Page | |
| FTP Client | FTP Explorer | Graphical FTP Client | Home Page | |
| FTP Client | (S) LeechFTP | multi-threaded FTP client | Home Page | unsupported freeware |
| FTP Client | (S) SMARTFTP | FTP client | Home Page | |
| FTP Client | (S) WS-FTP LE | ftp client | Home Page | |
| FTP Server | (S) CesarFTP | ftp server | Home Page | |
| FTP Server | WarFTPd | ftp server | Home Page | |
| FTP Tools | FTPpie | Graphically displays contents of a web folder. | Home Page | |
| Hosts File Utility | Hostess | Hosts file manager | Home Page | |
| Hosts File Utility | (S) Hosts Toggle | Toggle status of hosts file | Home Page | |
| HTML tools | (S) Xenu Link Sleuth | Link checker | Home Page | |
| IE Cache Managers | CacheMonitor II | tracking Internet cache changes | Home Page | |
| IE Cache Managers | CacheSentry | fixes serious bugs in the Internet Explorer cache manager | Home Page | |
| Internet Tracer | (S) SAM SPADE | a freeware network query tool | Home Page | |
| Network Computing | TightVNC | remote network access to graphical desktops. | Home Page | |
| Network Computing | (S) VNC | remote control software | Home Page | |
| Network Computing | (S) WinSCP | Secure Copy Client, similar to use as an ordinary FTP client | Home Page | |
| Network Tools | Analyzer | network analyzer program for Win32 environment | Home Page | |
| Network Tools | Cyberkit | collection of network tools | Download | |
| Network Tools | Ethereal | Network Analyser | Home Page | |
| Network Tools | NetMon | network monitor graphing thing for Win32 | Home Page | |
| Network Tools | TCP/IP Optimizer | optimizes TCP/IP connection on computers | Home Page | |
| News Aggregator | AmphetaDesk | Syndicated news aggregator | Home Page | |
| Newsreader | (S) 40tude Dialog | newsreader | Home Page | |
| Newsreader | (S) Binary News Reader (BNR) | news reader software specifically tailored for binary articles | Home Page | |
| Newsreader | (S) Gravity 2.5 | powerful newsreader | Download | no longer supported - former Shareware, released as Freeware |
| Newsreader | (S) Noworyta | free Usenet news reader and e-mail client for Windows | Home Page | |
| Newsreader | (S) Super Gravity 2.6 | Enhanched (unofficial) version of Gravity 2.5 | Home Page | |
| Newsreader | (S) slrn | Usenet newsreader | Home Page | |
| Newsreader | (S) XNews | newsreader | Home Page | |
| Newsreader Tools | AGO - AGENT GROUP ORDER | rearrange the order of your subscribed news groups with Agent | Home Page | |
| Newsreader Tools | (S) Morver | Tool to automatically modify incoming usenet news | Home Page | |
| News/e-Mail Tools | (S) Korrnews | Tool to automatically modify outgoing news/mail | Home Page | |
| News/e-Mail Tools | (S) OE-Quotefix | Proper sig., formatting, color quoting, etc. for Outlook Express | Home Page | |
| News/e-Mail Tools | (S) Outlook-QuoteFix | OE-QuoteFix's little brother | Home Page | |
| Online Timing Tools | No Frills Timer 2.1 | Small online timer | Home Page | |
| Peer-to-Peer Clients | D++ | An enhanced DirectConnect client | Home Page | |
| Peer-to-Peer Clients | eMule | peer to peer application | Home Page | |
| Peer-to-Peer Clients | Gnucleus | file-sharing program | Home Page | |
| Peer-to-Peer Clients | KaZaA Lite | file-sharing program | Home Page | |
| Peer-to-Peer Clients | (S) WinMX | file-sharing program | Home Page | |
| Peer-to-Peer Clients | (S) Shareaza v1.7 | File-sharing program | Home Page | |
| Phone Tools | PicoPhone v1.40 | Internet phone application with chat | Home Page | v1.50 connects to (so far) nonexistent server and has bad interface |
| Ping Utilities | (S) Dipstick | Pings mirror sites to find the fastest. | Home Page | |
| Popup Killers | EMS Free Surver mk II | Popup killer | Home Page | |
| Popup Killers | PopupStopper | Popup blocker | Home Page | |
| Proxy Servers | ProxyPlus | proxy server with web interface | Home Page | Full function 3-user free version |
| Search Facility | (S) Atomica | Internet search facility | Home Page | |
| Servers | (S) Hamster | Local mail/news server | Home Page | |
| Servers | (S) OpenSSH | an SSH and SFTP server for Windows (requires Cygwin) | Home Page | |
| Servers | SimpleServer:WWW | Simple Web server | Home Page | |
| Spidering Utility | IntelliTamper | analyze web site structures to find hidden files | Home Page | |
| TelNet Client | (S) PUTTY | a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms | Home Page | |
| URL Organizers | (S) JetLinks | tool for managing internet bookmarks and URL collections | Home Page | |
| URL Organizers | Visit URL | Handy tray-based URL organizer | Home Page | |
| Web Accelerator | (S) Naviscope | Web Accelerator, ad blocker, cookie blocker, set your computer time | Home Page | |
| Web Page Content Filters | (S) Hosts File | blocking ads and other means of unknowingly tracking you while you surf the net | Home Page | |
| Web Page Content Filters | (S) The Proxomitron | html filter, webpage ad blocker | Home Page | |
| Web Page Content Filters | WebWasher | Internet filter | Home Page | |
| Web Screen Capture | URL2BMP | Transform URL to a bitmap file (jpeg, png, bmp,tiff) | Home Page | |
| Web Search Tool | Favorites Search | Internet Explorer plug-in that adds a convenient explorer bar | Home Page | |
| Web Search Tool | (S) Google(c)Searchtool | Search Google quickly | Home Page | |
| Web Searchers | (S) Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar | toolbar web search | Home Page | |
| Web Searchers | (S) FirstStop WebSearch | desktop web search | Home Page | |
| Web Searchers | (S) GOOGLE TOOLBAR (IE only) | Access Google's search technology from any web page. | Home Page | |
| Web Searchers | Search Bar Pro | configurable internet-searchbar | Home Page | |
| Website Checker | C4U | Checks websites for updates. | Download |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Media Editors | (S) Audacity | audio editor | Home Page | |
| Media Editors | Audioblast | Program to edit sounds | Home Page | |
| Media Editors | (S) CDex | CD ripper | Home Page | |
| Media Editors | (S) Exact Audio Copy | CD audio to audio file extraction | Home Page | |
| Media Editors | JAZZ++ | audio capable midi sequencer | Home Page | |
| Media Editors | OggDropXPd | Ogg encoder/decoder/player | Home Page | |
| Media Editors | VirtualDub | video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms | Home Page | |
| Media Frontends | Speek's encoder frontends | Frontends for audio (MP3/OGG/MPC/AAC) console en/decoders | Home Page | |
| Media Frontends | WinVorbis & Vorbix | Graphical front-ends for VorbisComment, OggEnc, OggDec, & VorbisGain | Home Page | |
| Media Organizers | Ant Movie Catalog | movie collection organizer | Home Page | |
| Media Organizers | (S) Cathy | Media cataloging tool for removable media or hard disk | Home Page | |
| Media Organizers | (S) MPEG Audio Collection | audio file collection organizer | Home Page | |
| Media Player | 1by1 | Audio player that needs no playlist | Home Page | |
| Media Player | (S) Chime Tray Play | Mini audio player that runs in tray | Home Page | |
| Media Player | Coolplayer | Audio player | Home Page | |
| Media Player | (S) Quintessential Player (QCD) | Audio player | Home Page | |
| Media Player | Synthesiser | MIDI file player | Home Page | |
| Media Player | VanBasco's Karaoke Player | MIDI file player with full-screen Karaoke display | Home Page | |
| Media Player | (S) WinAmp Classic | mp3 player | Home Page | |
| Media Player | XMPlay | MP3/Ogg/etc player-encoder | Home Page | |
| Media Player | Zinf | audio player | Home Page | |
| Media Player | (S) ZoomPlayer | media player | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | (S) Finale Notepad | Music Notation software | Home Page | Spyware? |
| Media Tools | AP Guitar tuner | Guitar tuner | Download | |
| Media Tools | (S) Burnatonce | cdrdao/cdrtools gui for windows xp and compatibles (freeware burning) | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | CdAid | CD content found online | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | DBpoweramp | audio file conversion and encoding | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | EncSpot | Tests MP3 quality | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | HarddiskOGG | Records directly from your line-in to Ogg (or mp3). | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | (S) Monkey’s Audio | compress (lossless) digital audio | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | MP3Gain | adjusts volume of mp3 files | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | (S) Ogg Vorbis | Audio compressor (open source) | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | Slide Show Movie Maker 3.2.2 | create an .avi file from a series of .bmp or .jpg images | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | TagScanner | MP3 tag editor | Home Page | |
| Media Tools | VBRFIX | Reconstructs Mp3 Files | Home Page | |
| Media Viewer | RealAtLast | Enables viewing of RealMedia files without Realplayer. | Home Page | Legal? |
| Video Player | VideoLAN Client | Video player | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Break-Reminder tool | Break Time | Reminds you to take a break from the computer | Home Page | |
| Cataloguers | (S) SoftCAT | Organize your software in a database | Home Page | |
| Desktop Notes | (S) ATnotes | Sticky Note + Alarm + Note organizer | Home Page | |
| Desktop Notes | ZipNote | Sticky Note + Alarm + Note organizer | Home Page | |
| Note Managers | (S) Keynote | flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook | Home Page | |
| Note Managers | Notes Center | store and retrieve all of your notes | Home Page | |
| Note Managers | (S) Treepad | notes database | Home Page | |
| Note Managers | Treepad Viewer | Stand alone viewer for Treepad files | Home Page | |
| Time Management Tools | Clicktray Calendar | Calendar/reminder utility, runs from system tray, highly featured | Home Page | |
| Time Management Tools | (S) GoldenSectionNotes | Personal Information Manager | Home Page | |
| Time Management Tools | Quick To-Do Light | Personal Information Manager | Home Page | |
| Time Management Tools | What To Do | organize your task list | Home Page | |
| Time Management Tools | (S) Xdesk95 | PIM+reminder | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Anti-Spyware Tools | (S) Ad-Aware | removes adware/trojans | Home Page | |
| Anti-Spyware Tools | (S) Spybot Search & Destroy | malware cleaner | Home Page | |
| Anti-Virus | (S) AntiVir | anti-virus | Home Page | |
| Anti-Virus | (S) AVG Antivirus, Free Edition | Anti-Virus Software | Home Page | Registration required |
| Anti-Virus | (S) F-Prot for DOS | DOS-based anti-virus tool | Home Page | |
| Encryption Tools | (S) Blowfish Advanced CS | File encryption with choice of open source algorithms, batch file functionality built in | Home Page | |
| Encryption Tools | Cryptext | Windows shell extension that performs strong file encryption | Home Page | |
| Encryption Tools | Encryption for the Masses (E4M) | File Encryption Utility | Home Page | According site of Scramdisk no longer available? |
| Encryption Tools | Mp-Crypt | Easy file and directory encryption | Download | |
| Encryption Tools | ScramDisk 3.01R3c | Disk volume encryption tool | Home Page | Windows 9x version is Free; Windows NT/2000 version is For Pay |
| File Wiper | (S) ERASER | completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | Any Password | password manager | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | Oubliette | secure info/passwords manager | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | PassKeeper | encrypted database for passwords | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | Password Corral | password manager that lets you store your logins and passwords securely. | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | Password Safe | Password manager. | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | (S) PINs | secure passwords manager | Home Page | |
| Password Managers | (S) Whisper | Password keeper | Home Page | |
| Script Defense | (S) Script Defender | Detects scripts which may be harmful | Home Page | |
| Script Defense | Script Sentry | Script Sentry allows safe scripts to run on your system while alerting you if a script might harm your system | Home Page | |
| Script Defense | ScripTrap 1.03 | Block potentially malicious scripts | Home Page | |
| Spam Checker | SpamPal | Detects and tags spam | Home Page | |
| Start-Up Utilities | Boot Log Analyzer | utility to help in identifying Windows95/98 boot-up problems | Home Page | |
| Start-Up Utilities | (S) StartUp Cop | Start Up Control utility | Home Page | |
| Start-Up Utilities | (S) Startman | Clean start-up apps | Home Page | |
| Start-Up Utilities | (S) Startup Monitor | Be warned of programs set to run on startup | Home Page | |
| Start-Up Utilities | Whej Startup Manager | enables you to quickly enable/disable programs that start when windows does | Home Page | |
| System Security | System Security 2002 | prevents unwanted or unauthorized users from gaining access to your system | Home Page | |
| Web-Tracking Detectors | Bugnosis | Be aware when a website has bug tracking devices | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Desktop | Planetscott's OnTop | keep any window always on top | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Tools | (S) CopyURL | adds commands Copy URL, Copy Link and Copy Name to the shell context menu of Internet Shortcut files | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Tools | (S) PathCopy | Copy short/long path to clipboard | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Tools | (S) Yankee Clipper III | Windows clipboard extender/memory | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Tools | (S) Yankee Clipper Plus | Windows clipboard extender | Home Page | |
| File Management | Attribute Changer | make changes to file and folder attributes | Home Page | |
| File Management | Directory Lister | list all the files in selected directories | Home Page | |
| File Management | (S) DirKey | A small folder bookmarking utility for Windows. You can define a bookmark for the current active folder in an Explorer or File Open/Save window using a shortcut key on your keyboard. | Home Page | |
| File Management | (S) FileTargets | Right-click context menu to copy/move files to pre-defined folders with one click | Home Page | Important: The program is free, but you need to enter password during installation |
| File Management | Instant Version Info | Version info for file appears in explorer context menu | Home Page | |
| File Management | (S) MP3ext | MP3 info / id3 tag editor shell extension | Home Page | |
| File Management | RJH Extensions | Adds several useful option to Explorer right-click menu | Home Page | |
| Folder Customization | ChangeIcon | Folder customization tool | Home Page | |
| Folder Management | (S) Treesize | List folders' size | Home Page | |
| Navigation | Explore for Files | right click shorcut jump to program folder | Home Page | |
| Navigation | (S) Quick Folders | open/save recently used folders | Download | |
| Navigation | Take5 | Up to 5 program icons popup next to your mouse when double clicking on file extensions you choose | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Automation | (S) EndItAll 2 | lists all the programs running on your system, and lets you decide which ones to close down | Home Page | |
| Automation - Button-Pushing Tool | (S) PTFB (Push the Freakin' Button) | Automated button-pusher for pesky dialog boxes | Home Page | |
| Automation - Launcher | (S) Batchrun | Launch multiple programs | Home Page | |
| Automation - Macro | AutoIt | tool that can simulate key presses, mouse movements and window commands | Home Page | |
| Automation - Macro | MacroMaker | Keyboard and mouse macro tool | Home Page | |
| Automation - Multipurpose | Wonderful Icon | Multipurpose automation tool | Home Page | |
| Automation - Task Killer | (S) EndItAll 1 | Close all open programs for the purpose of installing software | Download | |
| Back-Up Tools | (S) WinDriversBackup | backing up Windows system driver files | Home Page | |
| Back-Up Tools | (S) xxcopy | Duplicates the entire system drive | Home Page | |
| CD Tools | Burn to the Brim | Makes selection of files to optimally fill a CD a breeze. | Home Page | |
| CD Tools | (S) CDCheck | CD check utility | Home Page | freeware for personal use |
| CD Tools | Cdswitch | CD check utility | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Extenders | Clipboard Magic | clipboard extender | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Extenders | (S) Clipomatic | clipboard extender | Home Page | |
| Clipboard Extenders | Hamsin Clipboard | Windows Clipboard Extender | Home Page | |
| Console Utility | rxvt | Colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm | Home Page | |
| Cooler | Rain 2.0 | cpu cooler for win95/98/me | Download | |
| Cooler | Waterfall | CPU cooling utility | Download | |
| Disk Space Information Tools | SpaceMonger | keep track of the free space on your computer | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | DLL Archive | Clean up your system by getting rid of unused DLL's | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | Empty Temp Folders | manages folders that contain temporary files | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | FileAnalyzer | List and categorize files by file extension | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | HDCleaner | Select, scan for, and delete temporary files | Home Page | |
| Harddidk Managers | (S) HDValet | Cleans unneccesary files from hard disk | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | (S) Savepart | Save/Copy hard disk partition | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | Scanner | Displays a pie chart of your hard disk. | Home Page | |
| Harddisk Managers | Space | overview of the free disk-space on selected partitions | Home Page | |
| Hardware Monitor | (S) MotherBoard Monitor (MBM) | Monitor fans and temperature | Home Page | |
| Icon Tools | FreshIcons | Repair your desktop icons | Download | |
| Install / Uninstall Tools | Add/Remove Pro | displays the entries in the Add/Remove Programs list of Windows Registry, checks if each is valid, and uninstalls the selected program or removes the entry from the list. | Home Page | |
| Install / Uninstall Tools | (S) InCtrl4 | Reports system changes made by installation of programs | Download | Not to be confused with InCtrl5 |
| Install / Uninstall Tools | (S) InCtrl5 | monitor changes to your system during installation of new software | Home Page | |
| Install / Uninstall Tools | (S) Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) | a scriptable win32 installer/uninstaller system | Home Page | |
| Install / Uninstall Tools | (S) Total Uninstall | monitor any changes that were made to your system during installation of new software | Home Page | |
| Install/Uninstall Tools | (S) UndoREG | Undo registry changes | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | BlueVade HotKey | system tray hotkey assigment, quick launch | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | (S) Hotkey Detective 2 | Manages hotkeys without using system resources. | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | (S) Hotkeys | Hotkey manager | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | Insert Toggle Key (ITK) | Lets you know when you've hit the insert key by mistake | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | MemoKeys | Shortcuts Generator/Form Filler | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | WinKey | Keyboard Enhancer for Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP | Home Page | |
| Keyboard Tools | ZDKeymap | Re-map keyboard keys | Home Page | |
| Memory Utilities | Cache Booster | Cache and memory management | Home Page | |
| Memory Utilities | (S) Cacheman | Disk cache and memory optimizer | Home Page | Version 5 is freeware if you can't afford to pay for it. |
| Memory Utilities | (S) MemLoad | Monitor your memory usage | Home Page | |
| Memory Utilities | Memtest86 | stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers | Home Page | |
| Memory Utilities | RAMpage | a RAM manager for windows9x/Me | Home Page | |
| Mouse Tools | (S) MouseImp | tool to help you use your mouse more efficiently | Home Page | |
| Mouse Tools | StrokeIt | Control programs by drawing symbols with your mouse | Home Page | |
| Operating Systems | BeOS | Free operating system | Home Page | |
| Operating Systems | Debian | Linux operating system | Home Page | |
| Operating Systems | FreeBSD | Free operating system | Home Page | |
| Partition Managers | (S) RANISH PARTITION MANAGER | boot manager and hard disk partitioner | Home Page | |
| Partition Managers | (S) XOSL | Boot manager, hides partitions, enables boot from extended partitions | Home Page | |
| Process Manager | (S) FileMon | monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. | Home Page | |
| Process Manager | PV2K Process Viewer 2000 | Kill tasks from the tray (and more) | Home Page | |
| Process Monitors | (S) PrcView | Process viewer | Home Page | |
| Process Monitors | (S) Process Explorer | Process monitor | Home Page | |
| Programming | Adventure Game Studio | Utility for authoring Sierra/LucasArts-style adventure games | Home Page | |
| Programming | Eclipse | an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular | Home Page | |
| Programming | GRDB | Advanced DOS DEBUG replacement | Home Page | |
| Programming | FreePascal | Object Pascal Compiler with some Delphi Extensions | Home Page | |
| Programming | (S) Inno Setup | Setup Program compiler | Home Page | |
| Programming | Gel | Java IDE | Home Page | |
| Programming | LCC-Win32 | complete C environment with Compiler, Linker, Debugger, Assembler, IDE and more | Home Page | |
| Programming | Open Perl IDE | IDE for the Perl language | Home Page | |
| Registry Cleaners | (S) Easycleaner | program which searches Windows' registry for entries that are pointing nowhere | Home Page | |
| Registry Cleaners | OleClean | Ole objects registry cleaner | Home Page | |
| Registry Cleaners | (S) RegClean | clear the Windows 95 Registry safely and effectively | Download | |
| Registry Tools | (S) RegEdit plus | Advanced registry editor (w/ bookmarks, history, etc.) | Home Page | |
| Registry Tools | (S) Registrar lite | Registry editor | Home Page | |
| Registry Tools | (S) Registry Detective | Search the registry quickly | Download | |
| Registry Tools | RegMagik | Advanced Registry Editor | Home Page | |
| Registry Tools | (S) Regmon | Trace access to the registry in realtime | Home Page | |
| Registry Tools | RegSeek | search and jump to registry keys | Home Page | unsupported |
| Registry Tools | (S) RegSeeker | Registry utility for finding and cleaning | Home Page | |
| Registry Tools | RegSrch | Searches registry and outputs result to Wordpad file | Download | |
| Registry Tools | (S) RegShot | Create and compare "snapshots" of the registry | Home Page | |
| Resource Meters | (S) Quick Resource | More informative than Windows Resource Meter | Home Page | |
| Screen Resolution Manager | (S) MultiRes | Quick screen resolution changer. | Home Page | |
| Start-Up Managers | (S) Startup Control Panel | easily manage startup programs | Home Page | |
| System Information Tools | (S) Aida32 | System information and benchmarking tool | Home Page | |
| System Information Tools | WinSystem98 | system information (CPU, temperatures, memory, resources, hard drive) and memory management | Home Page | |
| System / Resource editor | (S) Resource Hacker | Edit resources (dialogs, graphics etc.) within system files | Home Page | |
| System Tools | (S) Belarc Advisor | List installed hardware, software, drivers, hot fixes | Home Page | |
| System Tools | (S) DAEMON Tools | virtual CDRom player emulator, mounts CD images | Home Page | |
| System Tools | (S) WCPUid | displays the CPU information of your personal computer | Home Page | |
| System Tools | (S) jv16 Powertools | registry/system/file/network-utility | Home Page | freeware for personal use |
| System Tools | (S) PowerPro | Start your apps the way you want, tweak your GUI, take notes, etc. | Home Page | |
| System Tray Utilities | Folder Organiser | small tray application/folder launcher | Home Page | |
| System Tray Utilities | TraySaver | Restores icons that are lost in an Explorer crash | Home Page | |
| System Tweakers | (S) TWEAK UI | System tweaking tool | Home Page | unsupported |
| System Tweakers | (S) Xteq X-Setup | registry tweaking tool | Home Page | |
| Task Managers | (S) Another Taskmanager 2.2 | Windows proces viewer/killer with CPU-cooler | Home Page | |
| Task Managers | AppSwat | Application Killer/Terminator | Home Page | |
| Task Managers | (S) Win9x/ME TaskManager | system information and management (CPU, processes, memory) for Win9x/Me, very similar to standard winNT task manager | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | BarLaunch | Program launch bar | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | Hidden Menu | application launcher by mouse or hotkey | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | (S) PowerPro | Launch bar and _a whole lot more_ | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | (S) RUNit | Custom Popup menu | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | (S) TrayBar | program launcher | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | Tray Commander | Launcher for programs or folders | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | TrayManager | "Container" for systray icons | Home Page | |
| Taskbar Utilities | Whiz Launcher MINI | program launcher | Home Page | |
| Unix Tools | (S) Cygwin | A UNIX environment for Windows | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Anagram Maker | Anagram Generator | Anagrams, lexigrams, palindromes and more. | Home Page | |
| Converter | Web2Text | a HTML to ASCII text converter | Home Page | |
| Crossword Helper | XWord2 | crossword puzzle solution | Home Page | |
| Editors - Hex | Frhed | Simple Hex Editor | Home Page | |
| Editors - HTML | HTMLDOC | Converts HTML to PDF (Portable Document Format) and PS (Post Script) | Home Page | |
| Editors - HTML | HTMStrip | Convert HTML to text quickly | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | (S) Crypt Edit | NotePad replacement | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | EditPad Lite | NotePad replacement | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | EmEditor 1.27 | Text editor | Download | |
| Editors - Notepad | (S) Metapad | NotePad replacement | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | NotesPad | NotePad replacement | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | (S) Notetab Light | NotePad replacement | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | Shalom Txt | straightforward editor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Notepad | Win32Pad | full featured Notepad Replacement | Home Page | |
| Editors - PDF | (S) GhostScript | PostScript/PDF-converter | Home Page | |
| Editors - PDF | (S) MakePDF | create PDF from virtually any software | Home Page | |
| Editors - Programmer | (S) ConTEXT | Programmer's Text Editor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Programmer | (S) Crimson Editor | Text/programming editor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Programmer | jEdit | programmer's text editor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Programmer | (S) vim | Programmer's Text Editor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Text | PDF2TXT | a command line program in the package xpdf converts PDF file to plain TXT file | Home Page | |
| Editors - Text | Text2Web | Convert text to Html | Home Page | |
| Editors - Word Processors | (S) AbiWord | word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word | Home Page | |
| Editors - Word Processors | Atlantis Nova | Wordprocessor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Word Processors | (S) Jarte | powerful, free word processor | Home Page | |
| Editors - Word Processors | (S) RoughDraft | Wordprocessor | Home Page | |
| File Compare | (S) ExamDiff | Compare two files | Home Page | |
| OCR | SimpleOCR | OCR program | Home Page | |
| Reader | BookReader | Scrolling text reader | Home Page | |
| Reference - Dictionaries | (S) WordWeb | thesaurus/dictionary | Home Page | |
| Text Statistics Tool | (S) TextStat | Analyzes text and reports statistics | Home Page | |
| Text Statistics Tool | TextTally 1.1 | Counts words and characters in text copied to the clipboard | Home Page | |
| Text-To-Speech | ReadPlease | Text-to-speech tool | Home Page | |
| Text-To-Speech | Speakonia | reads aloud any text you type into the text area, a text file or the clipboard | Home Page | |
| Tools - Auto-Complete | (S) AI RoboForm | one-click web form filler and password manager | Home Page | |
| Tools - Auto-Complete | (S) LetMeType | AutoComplete in any program while you type | Home Page | |
| Tools - Auto-Complete | (S) TypeItIn | Fill online forms automatically | Home Page | |
| Tools - Search & Replace | Bintext | Finds Ascii ( text ), Unicode and Resource strings in a file | Home Page | |
| Tools - Search & Replace | (S) InfoRapid Search & Replace | text or html search and replace | Home Page |
| CATEGORY | PROGRAM NAME | DESCRIPTION | HOME PAGE OR DOWNLOAD LINK | PLEASE NOTE: |
| Image Tools | Splitz! | splits any image into rectangular parts and export the resulting images along with the HTML table | Home Page | |
| Internet authoring | 1st Page 2000 | WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Home Page | |
| Internet authoring | (S) Amaya | WYSIWYG HTML Editor and Browser | Home Page | |
| Internet authoring | AOLPRESS | Web Page WYSIWYG Editor | Home Page | unsupported |
| Internet authoring | Arachnophilia | A Multipurpose Web Page Creator and Editor | Home Page | |
| Internet authoring | (S) HTML-Kit | HTML editor | Home Page | |
| Internet authoring | PHPEdit | full featured PHP IDE for Windows | Home Page | |
| Internet authoring | Serif WebPlus 6 | WYSIWYG Web editor | Home Page | Registerware. |
| HTML Converters | Bookmark Wizard | generates an editable HTML page with all/selected links from your Internet Favorites folder | Home Page | |
| HTML Tools | Dir2Html | creates an HTML index from a file system directory | Home Page | |
| HTML Tools | (S) HTML Calender generator 4 | Make and maintain calender | Home Page | |
| HTML Tools | ThumbHTML | Make online album with thumbnails | Home Page |