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Timetable for the 2007 Pricelessware List review.

October 1 - October 24, 2006 - Program description submittals. Discussion.
October 25 - October 31, 2006 - Program nominations and seconds. Discussion.

Revised schedule
November 8 - November 14, 2006 Voting period
November 15, 2006 - Vote Results Posted
November 16, 2006 - Preliminary Pricelessware List Posted
November 16 - November 22, 2006 - Final Selection Discussion
November 23, 2006 - Final Pricelessware List Posted

(N) nominated, (S) seconded, (V) votes, W(V) Ware ballot, PW: Pricelessware selection
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Program (N) (S) (V) W (V) PW Category Author Ware_type
ESBCalc (N) (S) 07   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Calculator ESB Consultancy (Liteware) (free)
MoffSoft FreeCalc (N) (S) 07   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Calculator: printing Moffsoft (Donationware) (Litewae) (free)
Convert (N) (S) 18   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Converter (Joshua F. Madison) (Donationware) (free)
R (N) (S) 04     BUSINESS-HOME: Mathematics R Foundation for Statistical Computing (- project team) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
dBworx (N) (S) 06   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Database PLWorx Software Development (Liteware) (free)
OpenOffice.org (N) (S) 56   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Office Suite OpenOffice.org (Donationware) (free) (open source; GNU LGPL)
TheSage (N) (S) 11   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Dictionary: Thesaurus Sequence Publishing (Franc Morales and Leah Gilner) (Freeware)
WordWeb (N) (S) 29   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Dictionary: Thesaurus (Antony Lewis) (Liteware) (free)
All-Purpose Spell Checker (APSC) (v 4.0) (N) (S) 08   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Spell Checker Palware (Freeware) LFW (v 4.0)
MiKTeX (N)   n/a     BUSINESS-HOME: Desk Top Publishing (Christian Schenk) (Donationware) (free) (open source)
Ragtime Solo (v 5.6.5) (N) (S) 07   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Desk Top Publishing RagTime GmbH (Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 5.6.5)
Graph Paper Printer (v. 4.21) (N) (S) 17   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Graph Paper Printer Clinical laboratory software (Philippe Marquis) (Requestware) (free) LFW (v 4.21) last uncrippled version
UnderCoverXP (N) (S) 09   PW BUSINESS-HOME: Print Labels: CD Wicked & Wild Inc. (Eric Heeseakkers) (Donationware) (free)
PowerPro (N)   n/a     DESKTOP: Desktop Manager PowerPro Company (Bruce Switzer) (Freeware)
DoubleDesktop (N)   n/a     DESKTOP: Desktop Manager Tool Fat Free Software (was MidStream Inc.) (Freeware) (free for personal use)
RUNit (N) (S) 06   PW DESKTOP: Desktop Shortcuts (magister-lex) (Betaware) (Freeware) (open source)
MouseImp Pro Live! (N)   n/a     DESKTOP: Mouse Tool (aoleg) (Freeware) (open source)
StrokeIt     n/a     DESKTOP: Mouse Tool (Jeff Doozan) (Donationware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses)
Transparent (v 4.2) (N) (S) 05     DESKTOP: Icon Tool (Jay Guerette) (Freeware) LFW (v 4.2)
LetMeType (N) (S) 03     DESKTOP: Form Filler: Shortcuts clasohm.com (Carsten Clasohm) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
CLCL (N) (S) 12   PW DESKTOP: Clipboard: Extender (Nakashima Tomoaki) (Freeware) (open source)
Clipomatic (N) (S) 03     DESKTOP: Clipboard: Extender (Mike Lin) (Donationware) (free)
ClipTorrent (N) (S) 05     DESKTOP: Clipboard: Extender (Richard Wakelin) (Donationware) (free)
Yankee Clipper III (N) (S) 10   PW DESKTOP: Clipboard: Extender InteleXual Software LLC (Joe LeVasseur and Konrad Krupa) (Registerware: name) (Requestware) (free)
MWSnap (N) (S) 12   PW DESKTOP: Clipboard: Screen Capture Mirek's Free Windows Software (Mirek Wojtowicz) (Donationware) (free)
The Network Clipboard (N) (S) 04     DESKTOP: Clipboard: Tool (Ranieri Argentini) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
MultiRes (N) (S) 06   PW DESKTOP: Monitor Tool EnTech Taiwan (Freeware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses)
DialogMate2 (DM2) (was DialogMate) (N)   n/a     DESKTOP: Windows: Tool (Weird; flyfancy) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) (open source: GNU GPL)
Path Copy (PathCopy) (N) (S) 07   PW FILE UTILITIES: Directory: Copy Path Ninotech (Freeware)
Wherever Change Directory (wcd) (N) (S) 03     FILE UTILITIES: Folder Access (Erwin Waterlander) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
SoftCAT (N) (S) 07   PW FILE UTILITIES: Cataloger: Software FNProgramvare (Liteware) (free)
XYplorer (wasTrackerV3) (v 4.50.0018; v 4.50.0022) (N) (S) 08   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Manager (Donald Lessau) (Freeware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 4.50.0018; v 4.50.0022)
2xExplorer (N) (S) 18   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Manager: Dual pane (Nikos Bozinis ) (Donationware) (free)
freeCommander (N) (S) 21   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Manager: Dual pane (Marek Jasinski) (Freeware)
WAssociate (N) (S) 06   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Manager Tool: Association (Wilbert Hengst) (Freeware)
Unlocker (N) (S) 18   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Manager Tool: Delete Difficult Files (Cedrick Collomb) (Donationware) (free)
FileNote (N) (S) 07   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Notes Moon Software (Ahto Tanner) (Freeware)
Dependency Walker (N) (S) 06   PW FILE UTILITIES: Cataloger: File Dependency (Steve P. Miller ) (Freeware)
WinDriversBackup Personal Edition (v 1.09) (N) (S) 14   PW FILE UTILITIES: Drivers: Backup Jermar Software Corp (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) LFW (v 1.09)
DLL Archive (N) (S) 11   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Dependency (DLL) (Analog X) (Freeware)
Lister (N) (S) 06   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Viewer C. Ghisler & Co. (Christian Ghisler) (Freeware)
7-Zip (N) (S) 30   PW FILE UTILITIES: Archives: Zip-Unzip (Igor Pavlov) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU LPGL)
ICEOWS (was ArjFolder) (N) (S) 06     FILE UTILITIES: Archives: Zip-Unzip (Raphaël et Béatrice Mounier) (Freeware)
IZArc (N) (S) 19   PW FILE UTILITIES: Archives: Zip-Unzip (Ivan Zahariev) (Betaware) (Donationware) (free)
PowerArchiver (v 6.11) (N) (S) 14   PW FILE UTILITIES: Archives: Zip-Unzip eFront Media Inc. (Ivan Petrovic.) (Freeware) LFW (v 6.11)
TUGZip (N) (S) 06     FILE UTILITIES: Archives: Zip-Unzip (Christian Kindahl) (Freeware)
ZipGenius (N) (S) 09     FILE UTILITIES: Archives: Zip-Unzip M.Dev Software (Matteo Riso) (Freeware)
CloneSpy (N) (S) 05     FILE UTILITIES: Duplicate File Checker CloneSpy (Donationware) (free)
Agent Ransack (N) (S) 15   PW FILE UTILITIES: Search Mythicsoft (David Vest) (Liteware) (free)
Locate32 (N) (S) 05     FILE UTILITIES: Search (Janne Huttunen) (Betaware) (Freeware)
Info-Rapid Search & Replace (N) (S) 07   PW FILE UTILITIES: Search And Replace (Ingo Straub) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
Bulk Rename Utility (N) (S) 11   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Renamer (Jim Willsher) (Donationware) (free)
Oscar's File Renamer (N) (S) 08     FILE UTILITIES: File Renamer MediaChance (Roman Voska (aka Oscar)) (Freeware)
ReNamer (2) (N) (S) 03     FILE UTILITIES: File Renamer (Denis Kozlov) (Freeware)
THE Rename (N) (S) 04     FILE UTILITIES: File Renamer (Hervé Thouzard ) (Donationware) (free)
Chainsaw (N) (S) 14   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Splitter (Gerhard Schmeusser ) (Freeware)
Eraser (N) (S) 33   PW FILE UTILITIES: File Wiper Heidi Computers Limited (Sami Tolvanen (original author); project team) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
PC Inspector File Recovery (N) (S) 21   PW FILE UTILITIES: Files: Undelete Convar (Donationware) (free)
Restoration (v 2.5.14) (N) (S) 14   PW FILE UTILITIES: Files: Undelete (Brian Kato) (Freeware) LFW (v 2.5.14)
DVDSig (N) (S) 06   PW FILE UTILITIES: Files: Validate (Dariusz Stanislawek) (Freeware)
MD5summer (N) (S) 06   PW FILE UTILITIES: Files: Validate (Luke Pascoe) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
CDCheck (N) (S) 15   PW FILE UTILITIES: Files: Validate: Undelete (Mitja Perko) (Donationware) (Registerware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
Blender (N) (S) 12   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: 3D Blender Foundation (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
ArtRage (N) (S) 10   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: Photo-Paint Ambient Design Ltd (Liteware) (free)
Deep Paint (N) (S) 05     GRAPHICS: Editor: Photo-Paint Right Hemisphere (Freeware) earlier version of $ware program
PhotoFiltre (N) (S) 24   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: Photo-Paint (Antonio Da Cruz) (Donationware) (Liteware) (free for non-commercial use)
Pixia (N) (S) 11   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: Photo-Paint Tacmi Co. (Isao Maruoka) (Freeware)
The Gimp (N) (S) 21   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: Photo-Paint The Gimp (Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
TwistedBrush Free (N) (S) 05     GRAPHICS: Editor: Photo-Paint Pixarra (Freeware) older version of a commercial program
Zoner Draw 3 (N) (S) 07   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: Vector-Draw Zoner (Registerware: product key) (free) earlier version of $ware
Visual Thought (N) (S) 05 Trialware (14) (4)   GRAPHICS: Diagram And Chart Drawing Tool 2000 Confluent Inc. and E*TRADE Inc. (Trialware: 13-year license) (free) (unsupported) licence key: 4687 5261 1375 3152 2773 94
MyAlbum (N) (S) 04     GRAPHICS: Organizer: Image Gallery MyAlbum (Pierre Meindre) (Donationware) (free)
FastStone Image Viewer (N) (S) 18   PW GRAPHICS: Viewer FastStone Soft (Andrew Lu) (Donationware) (free for personal use)
IrfanView (N) (S) 68   PW GRAPHICS: Viewer (Irfan Skiljan ) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) bundled with toolbars (installation is optional)
XnView (N) (S) 20   PW GRAPHICS: Viewer (Pierre-E Gougelet) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses)
Free Digital Camera Enhancer (N) (S) 15   PW GRAPHICS: Viewer: Image Optimizer MediaChance (Roman Voska (aka Oscar)) (Liteware) (free)
picture-shark (N) (S) 05     GRAPHICS: Watermark Tool picture-shark (Wolfgang Geiss and Christian Zink) (Donationware) (free)
Ulead GIF Animator (v 2.0) (N) (S) 07   PW GRAPHICS: Editor: Animation ULEAD (Freeware) LFW (v 2.0)
iICO (compiled) (N) (S) 01     GRAPHICS: Editor: Icons Mintra Systems (compiler) (Carles P. V.) (Freeware) (open source)
IconShop (N) (S) 09   PW GRAPHICS: Icon Tool Lion Tech (Peter Stuer) (Freeware)
Exifer (N) (S) 10   PW GRAPHICS: Edit Image Comments (Friedemann Schmidt) (Requestware) (free)
JR Screen Ruler (N) (S) 07   PW GRAPHICS: Measure Spadix Software (Liteware) (free) bundled with the $ware version
Meazure (N) (S) 07   PW GRAPHICS: Measure C Thing Software (Freeware)
Opera (N) (S) 37   PW INTERNET: Browser: Suite Opera Software (Freeware)
SeaMonkey (N) (S) 10   PW INTERNET: Browser: Suite Mozilla.org (Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License) (sucessor to Mozilla)
K-meleon (N) (S) 15   PW INTERNET: Browser Contributors to the K-Meleon project (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Mozilla Firefox (was Mozilla Firebird) (was Phoenix) (N) (S) 59   PW INTERNET: Browser Mozilla.org (Freeware) (open source)
Maxthon (was MyIE2) (N) (S) 10   PW INTERNET: Browser: Shell Mysoft Technology (Bloodchen) (Donationware) (free)
OffByOne (N) (S) 09   PW INTERNET: Browser: Small Off By One Productions (Freeware)
Weather Watcher (N) (S) 11   PW INTERNET: Get Weather Singer's Creations (Mike Singer) (Donationware) (free) the bundled version contains Adware
Google Toolbar (N) (S) 11   PW INTERNET: Browser Toolbar Google (Freeware)
MozBackup (N) (S) 16   PW INTERNET: Browser Tool (Pavel Cvrcek) (Freeware)
The Proxomitron (v 4.5J) (N) (S) 17   PW INTERNET: Content Filter (Scott Lemmon) (Freeware) LFW (v 4.5J June)
Hosts File (N) (S) 13   PW INTERNET: Content Filter: Hosts . (Freeware)
Hosts Toggle (N) (S) 06     INTERNET: Content Filter: Hosts HostsToggle (Mike Meyer) (Freeware) (open source)
HostsMan (N) (S) 07     INTERNET: Content Filter: Hosts (R.J.Governa; R.Loureiro) (Freeware)
AM-DeadLink (N) (S) 32   PW INTERNET: URL Checker (Martin Aignesberger) (Freeware)
Xenu's Link Sleuth (N) (S) 17   PW INTERNET: URL Checker (Tilman Hausherr) (Requestware) (free)
Trillian (N) (S) 11   PW INTERNET: Chat Client Cerulean Studios (Liteware) (free)
Mozilla Thunderbird (N) (S) 40   PW INTERNET: Email Client The Mozilla Organization (Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License)
Pegasus Mail (N) (S) 18   PW INTERNET: Email Client (David Harris) (Freeware)
Mailwasher (v 1.33) (N) (S) 15   PW INTERNET: Email Checker (Nick Bolton) (Freeware) LFW (v. 1.33) (v. 2beta28) last uncrippled versions
POP Peeper (N) (S) 12   PW INTERNET: Email Checker Mortal Universe Software Entertainment: (Jeff Meier) (Freeware)
ePrompter (N) (S) 07   PW INTERNET: Email Manager Tiburon Technology Inc (Donationware) (free)
Magic Mail Monitor (N) (S) 06     INTERNET: Email Manager (Marco Gulino; Wendell Travis Watford; original author Valeriy Ovechkin) (Betaware) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
K9 (N) (S) 11   PW INTERNET: Email Tool: Spam (Robin Keir) (Donationware) (free)
Spamihilator (N) (S) 03     INTERNET: Email Tool: Spam (Michel Krämer) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
SpamPal (N) (S) 08     INTERNET: Email Tool: Spam SpamPal (Donationware) (free)
40tude Dialog (N) (S) 22   PW INTERNET: Newsreader Softwareentwicklung M.Mönnig (Marcus Mönnig) (Donationware) (free for personal use)
Free Agent (v 1.21) (N) (S) 20   PW INTERNET: Newsreader Forte Internet Software (Liteware) LFW (v 1.21) last uncrippled version (fa32-121.exe)
Xnews (N) (S) 17   PW INTERNET: Newsreader (Luu Tran) (Donationware) (free)
GrabIt (N) (S) 22   PW INTERNET: Newsreader: Binary (Ilan Shemes) (Betaware) (Donationware) (Liteware) (free)
DLExpert (N) (S) 10   PW INTERNET: Download Manager (Chen Ying) (Freeware)
Free Download Manager (FDM) (N) (S) 14   PW INTERNET: Download Manager FreeDownloadManager.ORG (Freeware)
HTTRACK (WinHTTrack) (N) (S) 24   PW INTERNET: Download Web Sites (Xavier Roche) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
µTorrent (N) (S) 27   PW INTERNET: BitTorrent Client (Ludvig Strigeus) (Donationware) (free)
FileZilla (N) (S) 29   PW INTERNET: FTP Client (Tim Kosse) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
LeechFTP (v 1.3 Build 207) (N) (S) 09     INTERNET: FTP Client (Jan Debis) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.3 Build 207) discontinued; unsupported
FTPpie (N) (S) 07   PW INTERNET: FTP Tool (David Taylor) (Freeware) (free for personal use)
Hamster (N) (S) 11   PW INTERNET: Server: Mail: News (Juergen Haible; Thomas G. Liesner and many other) (Freeware) (open source)
TCP Optimizer (TCP/IP Optimizer) (N) (S) 12   PW INTERNET: DUN: Speed Optimizer Speed Guide Inc. (Freeware)
NetMeter (was Haim's Net Meter) (N) (S) 08   PW INTERNET: Network Monitor NetMeter (Haim Gelfenbeyn) (Betaware) (Donationware) (free) an older non-beta version is also available
IPResolve (N) (S) 07   PW INTERNET: Network Tool Zone 17 Software (Benoit Bousquet) (Freeware)
NetStumbler (N) (S) 03     INTERNET: Network Tool (Marius Milner) (Donationware) (free)
IPNetInfo (N) (S) 07   PW INTERNET: Network Tool: IP Address NirSoft (Nir Sofer) (Freeware)
TightVNC (N) (S) 11   PW INTERNET: Network Computing TightVNC Software (Constantin Kaplinsky (lead developer)) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
VNC (N) (S) 09     INTERNET: Network Computing RealVNC Ltd (Donationware) (free) (open source)
Skype (N) (S) 13   PW INTERNET: Phone On-Line Skype Technologies S.A. (Sharman Networks) (Liteware) (free)
Audacity (N) (S) 38   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Editor (Dominic Mazzoni) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
mp3DirectCut (N) (S) 14   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Editor: MP3 mpesch3's mp3 tools (Martin Pesch) (Donationware) (free)
LAME (compiled) (N) (S) 22   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Converter (Dmitry Kutsanov (aka mitiok)) (Freeware) (open source: GNU LGPL)
CDex (N) (S) 32   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio: Ripper-Converter CDex (Albert Faber) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) (v 10.1) (N) (S) 20   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio: Ripper-Converter Illustrate (Freeware) LFW (v 10.1) last version with free mp3 encoder
Exact Audio Copy (EAC) (N) (S) 29   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio: Ripper-Editor Exact Audio Copy (Andre Wiethoff) (Betaware) (Donationware) (Requestware) (free)
MP3Gain (N) (S) 20   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Normalizer MP3Gain Team (Donationware) (free) (open source: Library or LGPL)
mpTrim (was mp3Trim) (N) (S) 09   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Tool: MP3 mp3Trim (Jean Nicolle) (Liteware) (free)
1by1 (N) (S) 11   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Player mpesch3's mp3 tools (Martin Pesch) (Donationware) (free)
WinAmp Classic (N) (S) 26   PW MULTIMEDIA: Audio Player Nullsoft (Freeware)
Screamer Radio (N) (S) 11   PW MULTIMEDIA: Player/Recorder: Streaming Media Starduck.net (David Zidar) (Donationware) (free)
Wink (N) (S) 09   PW MULTIMEDIA: Screen Capture: Video (Satish Kumar) (Freeware)
GSpot (N) (S) 16   PW MULTIMEDIA: AV Properties (Steven Greenberg) (Freeware)
GOM Player (N) (S) 06     MULTIMEDIA: Multimedia Player Gretech (Freeware)
Media Player Classic (N) (S) 45   PW MULTIMEDIA: Multimedia Player (Gabest; Rob Schultz; J. VICTOR) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
QuickTime Alternative (N) (S) 31   PW MULTIMEDIA: Multimedia Player KL Software (Freeware)
Real Alternative (N) (S) 32   PW MULTIMEDIA: Multimedia Player KL Software (Freeware)
Ant Movie Catalog (N) (S) 09   PW MULTIMEDIA: Organizer: Movies (Antoine Potten) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Catfish (N) (S) 09     ORGANIZERS: Cataloger Equi4 Software (Jean-Claude Wippler) (Freeware) (open source)
Cathy (N) (S) 12   PW ORGANIZERS: Cataloger (Robert Vasicek) (Requestware) (free)
dirhtml (N) (S) 10   PW ORGANIZERS: Cataloger: Web Site Index Maker (Eric Nitzsche) (Freeware)
EssentialPIM (EPIM) (N) (S) 18   PW ORGANIZERS: PIM EPim Ltd. (Betaware) (Freeware)
UK's Kalender (N) (S) 10   PW ORGANIZERS: Calendar-Reminders (Ulrich Krebs) (Freeware)
KeyNote (N) (S) 06   PW ORGANIZERS: Organizer: Notes-Rich Text (Marek Jedlinski) (Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License)
TreePad Lite and TreePad Asia (N) (S) 18   PW ORGANIZERS: Organizer: Notes-Text Freebyte (Henk Hagedoorn) (Liteware) (free)
AtNotes (v 9.5) (N) (S) 10   PW ORGANIZERS: Notes And Reminders (Thomas Ascher) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) LFW (v 9.5)
nnCron LITE (N) (S) 05     ORGANIZERS: Reminders: Scheduler nnSoft (Nicholas Nemtsev) (Liteware) (free)
Calendar Magic (N) (S) 23   PW ORGANIZERS: Calendar EuroSoft (Alex Balfour) (Freeware)
Rainlendar (N) (S) 11   PW ORGANIZERS: Calendar (Lee Patterson (Rainy)) (Donationware) (Liteware) (free) (open source)
WorldTime (N) (S) 13   PW ORGANIZERS: Clock PawPrint (Donationware) (free)
TClockEx (N) (S) 27   PW ORGANIZERS: Clock Customizer (Dale Nurden) (Freeware) (open source)
AtomTime95 (v 1.4b) (N)   n/a     ORGANIZERS: Time Synchronizer (Bruce Adelsman) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.4b)
Dimension 4 (N) (S) 07     ORGANIZERS: Time Synchronizer Thinking Man Software (Rob Chambers ) (Donationware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses)
Neutron (N) (S) 16   PW ORGANIZERS: Time Synchronizer (Robin Keir) (Donationware) (free)
Frhed (N) (S) 08   PW PROGRAMMING: Editor: Hex (Raihan Kibria) (Betaware) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) Marked as Beta for years. Stable.
tiny hexer (N) (S) 07     PROGRAMMING: Editor: Hex (Markus Stephany) (Freeware)
AutoHotkey (N) (S) 13   PW PROGRAMMING: Automation: Macros (Chris Mallett) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
AutoIt (N) (S) 13   PW PROGRAMMING: Automation: Macros Hiddensoft (Jonathan Bennett) (Donationware) (free) (open source)
HelpMaker (N) (S) 07   PW PROGRAMMING: CHM: Help Files Vizacc (Freeware)
Inno Setup (N) (S) 12   PW PROGRAMMING: Programming: Installer Jordan Russell's Software (Jordan Russell) (Donationware) (free) (open source)
Open Object Rexx (N) (S) 03     PROGRAMMING: Programming: Language Rexx Language Association (Rick McGuire) (Donationware) (free) (open source: Common Public License)
Python (N) (S) 13   PW PROGRAMMING: Programming: Language Python Software Foundation (non-profit) (Guido van Rossum (BDFL); e.a.) (Freeware) (open source: Python License)
Resource Hacker ( v 3.4.0) (N) (S) 17   PW PROGRAMMING: Resource Tool: Editor-Extractor (Angus Johnson) (Freeware) LFW ( v 3.4.0) discontinued
TWEAK UI (N) (S) 37   PW PROGRAMMING: System Tweaker Microsoft (Freeware)
X-Setup Pro (was Xteq X-Setup) (v 6.6) (N) (S) 25   PW PROGRAMMING: System Tweaker (Michael 'TeX HeX' Tröger) (Betaware) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) LFW (v 6.6)
TortoiseSVN (N) (S) 05     PROGRAMMING: Version Control (Tim Kemp and Stefan Kueng) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic (AntiVir Personal Edition) (N) (S) 11 Nagware (6) (13)   SECURITY: Anti-Virus Avira GmbH (was H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH) (Liteware) (Nagware) (Registerware: keyed) (free for personal use)
Avast! (N) (S) 24 Trialware (18) (7) PW SECURITY: Anti-Virus ALWIL Software (Liteware) (Registerware: keyed) (Trialware: time limited (1 year) renewable) (free for personal use)
AVG Anti-Virus System (N) (S) 47   PW SECURITY: Anti-Virus Grisoft (Liteware) (Registerware: name: e-mail: address) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use) (unsupported)
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (N) (S) 12   PW SECURITY: Anti-Virus Frisk Software International (Freeware) (free for personal use)
Agnitum Outpost Firewall (Free) (v 1.0.1817) (N) (S) 07     SECURITY: Firewall Agnitum Ltd. (Freeware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 1.0.1817)
Kerio Personal Firewall (v 2.1.5) (N) (S) 28   PW SECURITY: Firewall Kerio Technologies Inc. (Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 2.1.5) earlier version
Sygate Personal Firewall (v 5.6.2808) (N) (S) 13   PW SECURITY: Firewall Sygate Technologies Inc. (Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 5.6.2808) (was Registerware)
ZoneAlarm (Zone Alarm) (N) (S) 28   PW SECURITY: Firewall Zone Labs (Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
Ad-Aware (N) (S) 60   PW SECURITY: Anti-Spyware Lavasoft (Liteware) (free for personal use)
Spybot Search & Destroy (N) (S) 56   PW SECURITY: Anti-Spyware PepiMK Software (Donationware) (free)
Spyware Terminator (N) (S) 09     SECURITY: Anti-Spyware Crawler LLC (Liteware) (free for personal use)
SpywareBlaster (N) (S) 24   PW SECURITY: Anti-Spyware Javacool Software LLC (Donationware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses)
SUPERAntiSpyware (N) (S) 10   PW SECURITY: Anti-Spyware SUPERAntiSpyware.com (Nick Skrepetos) (Liteware) (free for personal use)
Script Defender (N) (S) 06     SECURITY: Script Defense (Analog X) (Freeware)
Script Sentry (N) (S) 07     SECURITY: Script Defense (Jason Levine) (Donationware) (free for personal use)
ScripTrap (N)   n/a     SECURITY: Script Defense (Robin Keir) (Freeware)
Any Password (N) (S) 04     SECURITY: Password Manager RomanLab Software (Roman Nikolaev) (Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
KeePass Password Safe (N) (S) 12   PW SECURITY: Password Manager (Dominik Reichl; project team) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Password Safe (N) (S) 10   PW SECURITY: Password Manager (Bruce Schneider.(original author); project team) (Freeware) (open source: Artistic License)
Revelation (N) (S) 09   PW SECURITY: Password Recovery SnadBoy Software (Donationware) (free)
AxCrypt (N) (S) 15   PW SECURITY: Encryption Tool Axon Data (Svante Seleborg) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
TrueCrypt (N) (S) 13   PW SECURITY: Encryption Tool TrueCrypt Foundation (Ennead; Syncon) (Freeware) (open source)
SpaceMonger (v 1.4.0) (N) (S) 04     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Cataloger: Disk Space Sixty-Five Software Inc. (Sean Werkema) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.4.0)
WinDirStat (N) (S) 10   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Cataloger: Disk Space (Oliver Schneider) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Aida32 (N) (S) 22   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: System Information Tool Aida32 (Tamas Miklos) (Freeware) LFW (v 3.94.2)
Belarc Advisor (N) (S) 32   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: System Information Tool Belarc (Freeware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses)
EVEREST Home Edition (v 1.51.195) (N) (S) 22   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: System Information Tool Lavalys Consulting Group Inc. (Liteware) (Registerware) (free for personal use) LFW (v1.51.195) last uncrippled version
System Information for Windows (SIW) (N) (S) 22   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: System Information Tool (Gabriel Topala) (Donationware) (free for personal use)
Ultimate Boot CD (N) (S) 20   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: System Information Tool (Charles Appel; Scott Wares; Victor Chew) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Memtest86 (N) (S) 24   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Memory Tester Memtest86 (Chris Brady (original author)) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
MotherBoard Monitor (MBM) ( v 5.3.7.0) (N) (S) 08     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Motherboard (Alex Van Kaam) (Freeware) (discontinued) LFW (v 5.3.7.0)
SpeedFan (N) (S) 16   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Motherboard (Alfredo Milani Comparetti) (Donationware) (free)
Process Explorer (N) (S) 31   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor Microsoft (was Sysinternals) (Mark Russinovich) (Freeware)
Filemon (N) (S) 17   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor: Files Microsoft (was Sysinternals) (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) (Freeware)
RegMon (N) (S) 13   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor: Registry Microsoft (was Sysinternals) (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) (Freeware)
Process Guard (ProcessGuard) (N) (S) 10   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor: Protect Processes Diamond Computer Systems Pty. Ltd. (Liteware) (free for personal use)
Start-Up Monitor (Startup Monitor) (N) (S) 13   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor: Start-Up (Mike Lin) (Donationware) (free)
System Safety Monitor (SSM) (SysSafe Monitor) (N) (S) 07     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor: Start-Up System Safety Limited (was Max Computing) (Liteware) (free)
WinPatrol (N) (S) 16 Trialware (9) (12)   SYSTEM UTILITIES: Process Monitor: Start-Up BillP Studios (Bill Pytlovany) (Liteware) (Trialware: some features expire) (free)
Autoruns (N) (S) 14   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Start-up Manager Microsoft (was Sysinternals) (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) (Freeware)
Startup Control Panel (N) (S) 20   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Start-up Manager (Mike Lin) (Donationware) (free)
nLite (N) (S) 08     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Boot Disk Creator (Dino Nuhagic (nuhi)) (Donationware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses)
PE Builder (N) (S) 15   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Boot Disk Creator Nu2 Productions (Bart Lagerweij) (Freeware)
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4Win) (was Windows Ultimate Boot CD) (N) (S) 29   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Boot Disk: Utilities Disk (Benjamin Burrows) (Freeware)
Ranish Partition Manager (N) (S) 14   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Partition Manager; Boot Manager Ranish (Mikhail Ranish) (Freeware)
GParted LiveCD (N) (S) 12   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Partition Tool (Bart Hakvoort; Patrick Verner; project team) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Partition Saving (was Savepart) (N) (S) 12   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Partition Tool (D. Guibouret) (Freeware)
Registrar Registry Manager (was Registrar Lite) (N) (S) 03     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry Editor Resplendence Software Projects Sp. (Daniel Terhell) (Liteware) (free)
RegMagiK (v 3.26.4) (N) (S) 05     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry Editor (Boris Guzner) (Freeware) LFW (v 3.26.4)
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) (N) (S) 43   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry And File Tools Piriform Ltd. (was CCleaner (Donationware) (free) the standard build is bundled with Yahoo's IE Toolbar (installation is optional)
EasyCleaner (N) (S) 28   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry And File Tools ToniArts (Toni Helenius) (Donationware) (free)
jv16 Powertools (v 1.3.0.195) (N) (S) 16   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry And File Tools (Jouni Vuorio) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.3.0.195) last uncrippled version
RegSeeker (N) (S) 27   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry And File Tools Hover Inc. (Thibaud Djian; Russ Schwenkler) (Freeware) (free for personal use)
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner (N) (S) 04     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Registry Cleaner Eusing Software (Donationware) (free)
IE Privacy Keeper (N) (S) 05     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Cleaner: Files UnH Solutions Inc. (Freeware)
Index.dat Suite (N) (S) 15   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Cleaner: Files Ur I.T. Mate Group (Steven Burn) (Freeware)
Total Uninstall (v 2.35) (N) (S) 19   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Install-Uninstall Tool (Gavrila Martau (Gabi)) (Freeware) LFW (v 2.35)
PUI (Program Uninstallation Information) (N) (S) 04     SYSTEM UTILITIES: Uninstall Tool Ur I.T. Mate Group (Steven Burn) (Freeware)
Cobian Backup (N) (S) 14   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup Files (Luis Cobian) (Donationware) (free)
DriveImage XML (N) (S) 11   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup Files Runtime Software (Freeware) (free for personal use)
Karen's Replicator (N) (S) 20   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup Files (Karen Kenworthy) (Donationware) (free for personal use) (source code included)
XXCopy (N) (S) 14   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup Files Pixelab (Kan Yabumoto) (Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
SyncBack Freeware (N) (S) 12   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup Files: Syncronize Directories 2BrightSparks (Liteware) (free)
My Own Backup (MOB) (v 2.1) (N) (S) 08   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup Files: ZIP (Fredrik Johansson ) (Freeware) LFW (v 2.1)
Emergency Recovery Utility NT (ERUNT) (N) (S) 20   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Backup: Registry (Lars Hederer) (Freeware)
DAEMON Tools (N) (S) 22   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Virtual CD THE DAEMONs HOME (Donationware) (free) LFW (v 3.47) Later versions are bundled with Adware (installation is optional).
CDBurnerXP Pro (N) (S) 25   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: CD-DVD: Burner (Stefan Haglund) (Freeware)
DeepBurner Free (N) (S) 19   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: CD-DVD: Burner Astonsoft Co. Ltd. (Liteware) (free for personal use)
4DOS (N) (S) 09   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: DOS JP Software Inc. (Rex Conn) (Freeware) (unsupported) v. 7.5
KNOPPIX (N) (S) 18   PW SYSTEM UTILITIES: Operating System (Klaus Knopper) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Extended Character Map (v. 1.41) (N) (S) 11   PW TEXT: Extended Characters AriTech Development Indonesia (Sony Arianto Kurniawan) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.41)
AllChars (N) (S) 11   PW TEXT: Extended Characters: Form Filler (Jeroen Laarhoven) (Freeware)
The Font Thing (N) (S) 15   PW TEXT: Font Manager (Sue Fisher) (Betaware) (Freeware)
MetaPad (N) (S) 17   PW TEXT: Editor (Alexander Davidson) (Donationware) (free)
NoteTab Light (N) (S) 13   PW TEXT: Editor Fookes Software (Eric G.V. Fookes) (Liteware) (free)
Programmer's File Editor (PFE) (v 1.01) (N) (S) 05     TEXT: Editor (Alan Phillips) (Freeware) LFW (v 1.01)
yWriter (N) (S) 13   PW TEXT: Editor Spacejock Software (Simon Haynes) (Freeware)
EditPad Lite (N) (S) 17   PW TEXT: Editor: Code (Jan Goyvaerts) (Liteware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses)
Notepad++ (N) (S) 15   PW TEXT: Editor: Code (Don HO) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
PSPad (N) (S) 14   PW TEXT: Editor: Code (Jan Fiala) (Donationware) (free)
TED Notepad (N) (S) 13   PW TEXT: Editor: Code (Juraj Simlovic) (Donationware) (free)
vim (N) (S) 08     TEXT: Editor: Code Vim (Bram Moolenaar) (Requestware) (free) (open source: CharityWare (a GPL-compatible license))
AbiWord (N) (S) 20   PW TEXT: Editor: Word Processor SourceGear Corporation (Dom Lachowicz) (Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Atlantis Nova (N) (S) 15   PW TEXT: Editor: Word Processor Rising Sun Solutions (Liteware) (free)
Crypt Edit (v 4.10) (N) (S) 10   PW TEXT: Editor: Word Processor PolySoft Solutions (Ulyanov Ilya Andreevich) (Freeware) LFW (v 4.10) discontinued
RoughDraft (N) (S) 02     TEXT: Editor: Word Processor (Richard Salsbury) (Freeware)
UnxUtils (N) (S) 07   PW TEXT: Text Tool (Karl M. Syring) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
ExamDiff (N) (S) 12   PW TEXT: Compare Text In Files PrestoSoft (Liteware) (free)
SimpleOCR (N) (S) 04     TEXT: Convert: OCR (Cyril Cambien (original author)) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses)
FreePDF and FreePDF XP (N) (S) 12   PW TEXT: Convert Text To PDF (Stefan Heinz) (Donationware) (free)
GhostScript (N) (S) 15   PW TEXT: Convert Text To PDF artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises) (Freeware) (open source: AFPL or GNU GPL)
PDFCreator (N) (S) 22   PW TEXT: Convert Text To PDF Sector7g (Donationware) (open source: GNU GPL) Spyware-free version (no toolbar)
HTMStrip (N) (S) 06   PW TEXT: Convert: HTML To Text And Tables Wayne Software (Bruce Guthrie) (Freeware)
AceHTML 5 Freeware (v 5.09.1) (N) (S) 07 Nagware (2) (13)   WEB DESIGN: Editor: HTML Visicom Media (Liteware) (Nagware) (free) was keyed Registerware but the app can no longer be registered) LFW v5.09.1
HTML-Kit (N) (S) 06   PW WEB DESIGN: Editor: HTML (Chami.com) (Freeware)
KompoZer (N) (S) 02     WEB DESIGN: Editor: WYSIWYG (Fabien Cazenave (aka KaZé) (lead developer)) (Freeware) (open source: GPL/ LGPL/ MPL)
Nvu (N) (S) 20   PW WEB DESIGN: Editor: WYSIWYG Linspire Inc. (Daniel Glazman (lead developer)) (Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License/LGPL/GPL tri-license)
Easy Gallery Generator (EGG) (N) (S) 05     WEB DESIGN: Image Gallery Ian's EGG Page (Ian Print) (Freeware)
JAlbum (N) (S) 13   PW WEB DESIGN: Image Gallery (David Ekholm) (Donationware) (free)
JPEG Cleaner (N) (S) 10   PW WEB DESIGN: Cleaner: Image Files Rainbow Software and PiT (Freeware)








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