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2009 Pricelessware List by Category

These programs were voted as being "The best of the best in freeware" for 2009.

Desktop

Clippy: http://wots.coolfreepage.com/link.php?id=SW3; Text reformating thingy
Gadwin PrintScreen: http://www.gadwin.com/; Gadwin PrintScreen lets you capture images from your computer screen. For example, you can capture the entire screen, individual windows to use as an illustration in a manual or on a Web site. Gadwin PrintScreen captures the contents of the screen with a single keystroke. The captured screen can then be sent to the printer, or saved to disk as a file in 6 different graphics file formats. Gadwin PrintScreen can capture the entire Windows screen, the active window, or a specified area, when the hot key is pressed. The hot key defaults to the PrintScreen key, but users may also define other keys to initiate a capture. Gadwin PrintScreen allows you to e-mail the captured images to recipients of your choice.
Pstart: http://www.pegtop.net/start; PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks. PStart doesn't neccessarily have to be installed to your hard disk. Execute the installer and choose: you can install PStart to your local hard drive or a removable device. Unlike Windows shortcuts, PStart uses relative paths, when installed as a portable application. If your USB key drive gets another drive letter when you insert it into another computer, your portable applications still can be started properly. This means you can also use PStart to start applications you burn to a CD (and don't know the drive letter either).
VirtuaWin: http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net; VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista)
Windows System Control Center: http://www.kls-soft.com/freeware/wscc.php; WSCC is a free, portable program that allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites. WSCC is only an interface, you need to download and install the utilities separately. Alternatively, WSCC can use the http protocol to download and run the programs. The included Update Manager can check for newer versions of the utilities already installed and can download and install the missing items. The setup packages are downloaded from the author's website! WSCC - Console: WSCC uses the included WSCC Console to execute command line applications. WSCC is portable, installation is not required. Extract the content of the downloaded zip archive to any directory on your computer. WSCC Portable Edition is designed for use on the PortableApps.com Platform. WSCC U3 Edition is designed for use on the U3 smart drives and integrates itself into the U3 launchpad. This edition of WSCC supports the following utility suites: * Windows Sysinternals Suite (including support for Sysinternals Live service) * NirSoft Utilities WSCC is free for private and commercial use.

Development and Programming

AutoHotKey: http://www.autohotkey.com; AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can: * Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. * Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. * Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way". * Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details. * Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. * Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script. * Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities. * Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed.
AutoIt: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3; AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting.
HxD: http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd; HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size. The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.
PHP: http://www.php.net; Scripting language
Universal Extractor: http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract; The program allows you to extract files from virtually any type of archive. The author says: "The original motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find."

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File and Disc Utilities

7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org; 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Agent Ransack: http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack; Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!
Bulk Rename Utility: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php; Bulk Rename Utility is a free file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more! . Rename multiple files quickly, according to many flexible criteria. . Rename files in many ways: add, replace, insert text into file names. Convert case, add numbers. Remove or change file extensions. . Check the detailed preview before renaming. . Rename photos using EXIF meta data (i.e. "Date Picture Taken", "Resolution" and other information embedded in all JPG photo files) Rename your holiday pictures from a meaningless dsc1790.jpg to NewYork1.jpg in a flash. . Rename MP3 files using ID3 tags (a.k.a. MP3 ID3 tag renaming). . Change files' creation and modification time stamps.
Chainsaw: http://www.frankenwandern.de/software/chainsaw.html; Split large files into smaller ones. Main Features: * Intuitive user interface * No setup required - Chainsaw consists of just 2 files * Input file size may be greater than 2GB * Predefined sizes for most media e.g. CD-ROM, DVD etc. * All your settings are saved between sessions * You may redirect output to any drive or path
Copernic Desktop Search Home: http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/home/index.html; Free for non-commercial home use, Copernic Desktop Search HOME (CDSH) allows you to search the content of your files, e-mails and e-mail attachments (supported mail formats: Outlook versions, Thunderbird, Eudora v.5+). Before you can search, CDSH must build an index for all your files, and later continuously update the index when new files are added or old deleted. CDSH does not index while you are using your mouse or keyboard, or when your CPU is being heavily solicited by another application. You can change these settings from the "Index & Performance" tab of the "Options" window of CDSH. Note that indexing is always performed at full speed when the CDSH main window is open and active (in the "foreground"). CDSH supports many common file formats, for a list see http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/home/faq.html
Dependency Walker: http://www.dependencywalker.com; Show file and function dependencies for Win executable modules (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.). Advanced profiling capabilities.
docmd: http://thomaslauer.com/comp/docmd; Command line tool to traverse a whole drive or a directory tree and print or perform a command on every file and/or directory. It supports complex criteria, including wildcards, Perl regular expressions, size/date/time patterns, and more.
DupDetector: http://www.photo-freeware.net/dupdetector.php; Dup Detector finds duplicate and near duplicate images by opening and reading image pixel data. Large collections and large image file sizes can slow Dup Detector but it works well running in the background. Large image collections often are filled with duplicate images under different names. Use Dup Detector to clean them. DupDetector reads 9 image file types from a folder or its subfolders or from an image list.
Eraser: http://eraser.heidi.ie; Eraser is a secure file deletion tool that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with sophisticated patterns (Gutman, USDoD and others). You can simply drag and drop files and/or folders onto the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Windows Explorer right-click extension or use the built-in scheduler for automated wiping of unused disk space, browser cache files etc. Easy to use and secure!
Everything: http://www.voidtools.com; Local storage search engine to locate files and folders by name instantly
FileMenu Tools: http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html; Allows customizing the context menu in Windows. Adds multiple items of your choice to the context menu. Choose from things such as Advanced Renamer, Split and Join files, Copy Name, Copy Path, Paste Clipboard, Create New Folder, Enable/disable commands which are added by other applications to the context menu and more.
Filenote (part of ShellTools): http://www.moonsoftware.com/shelltools.asp; Filenote - Allows you to add comments to a file by creating/opening a text file for editing with the same file name as the file you selected when you invoked Filenote from your right-click context menu. If a same-named text file already exists, the existing file will be opened for editing istead of creating a new one. You can configure Filenote to use your text editor of choice, the default is Windows Notepad.
FreeCommander: http://www.freecommander.com; FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take FreeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD or USB-Stick - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer.
FreeUndelete: http://www.officerecovery.com; FreeUndelete restores deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (1.0 and 2.0) (default for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32, FAT16 or FAT12 file systems this is the utility to help.[...]The recovered files are saved into a new user-selected location to prevent overwriting the deleted files on the original media.[...] FreeUndelete is free for personal use.[...] Tip: It is common that the only drive user has is C: and this is also the drive from where files need to be undeleted. In that case a good solution is using a USB flash drive as FreeUndelete download and install destination.
Hash: http://keir.net/hash.html; Hash is a small GUI tool designed to perform MD5, SHA1and CRC32 hashing functions on a number of files. The file size and modified date is also optionally shown. Results displayed in the window can easily be copied to the Windows clipboard or saved to a text file. The program allows direct browsing of multiple files and files can also be dragged and dropped onto the window. Files (with support for wildcard selections) can also be supplied on the command line. A convenient use for this functionality is to place a shortcut to the program in the SendTo directory (C:\Documents and Settings\[name]\SendTo) so you can send arbitrary files to it from the Explorer shell.
Hashtab v3.0.0: http://www.beeblebrox.org; HashTab provides OS extensions to calculate file hashes. HashTab supports many hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RipeMD, HAVAL and Whirlpool. Hashtab is supported as a Windows shell extension and a Mac Finder plugin. HashTab provides an easy way to verify file integrity and authenticity. Once you have installed HashTab, just right click on any file. On Windows, select properties and you will see a new "File Hashes" tab.
HJSplit: http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit; Freeware file-splitter and joiner
IZArc: http://www.izarc.org; Freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self- extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support. With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).
Lister: http://www.ghisler.com/lister; External version of Total Commander's built-in viewer. Lister is a standalone viewer for text (ASCII, ANSI, Unicode, UTF-8, RTF), html files (formatted text and links), bitmaps and certain multimedia files. Any file can be browsed with a fixed length binary and a hex view. Lister can display pictures and other multimedia files using Irfanview or XNView as a filter. Lister Plugins written for Total Commander are supported, too. These plugins are available for a broad variety of file formats (executables, databases, CAD, GIS, office documents, archive files, fonts, Palm files, torrents, playlists,...), making Lister an excellent multi-format viewer. Some plugins also add edit facilities. Documents can be searched for text and hexadecimal strings. Text can be selected, copied to clipboard and printed. Customization is possible via command line and (if necessary various) *.ini file(s).
Lupas Rename: http://rename.lupasfreeware.org; Lupas Rename is a freeware utility that allows you to rename a massive number of files easily.
OpenExpert: http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html; OpenExpert - Open With submenu for explorer's menu Ever had the problem that you frequently use a file type with more than one application, while you can only associate one application with that file type? OpenExpert enables you to specify any number of suitable applications for each file type. In this way, when you open a file, instead of being restricted to using a single pre-determined application, you can easily choose among a list of suitable applications.
QuickPar: http://www.quickpar.org.uk; QuickPar is a utility for creating Parity Volumes using the Reed Solomon algorithm. Parity Volumes may be used to verify that a set of files have not been corrupted, or to reconstruct damaged files (providing that you have a sufficient quantity of Parity Volumes to match the missing or damaged files).
Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva; Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. -Restore lost files -Thumbdrive, Camera and iPod support -Recovery from damaged or formatted disks -Lightning-fast results -Quick-Start Wizard -View images before you restore them -Securing your data â?" overwriting deleted files -Deep Scan Option -Portable Version -Multi-language Support -User Community and Documentation
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier: http://www.roadkil.net; Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made seable even if some parts of the file were not recoverable in the end Most ordinary copy programs (including Windows own) will abort when a piece of a file is missing/unreadable, and then discharge (delete) the parts of the file that was actually copied before the abort was triggered. Say if the file contained your new book, you loose the whole book if a piece of the file is missing/unreadable. With Unstoppable Copier you might on the other hand be able to salvage most of your text and for example only loose a few pages.
Teracopy: http://www.teracopy.com; Copy your files faster and easier TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features: . Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives. . Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click. . Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer. . Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files. . Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move . functions, allowing you work with files as usual. . Full Unicode support. . Windows 7 x64 support.
Treecopy: http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/treecopy; Have you ever needed to copy a directory structure without copying the files? TreeCopy now makes this possible. The program will allow you to select the "from directory" and "into directory", and it will proceed to copy ONLY the directory structure. You can use the utility via its graphical user interface (GUI) - or you can invoke it from the DOS/CMD commandline. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME,NT, 2000 2003,XP and Vista according to the homepage.
Unlocker: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker; Right-click utility for Explorer. Delete, erase, close those stubborn files and folders.

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Graphics

Color Cop: http://colorcop.net; Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a 42 color complementary palette. Color Cop will convert RGB decimal values to Hexadecimal color codes. It has color code support for HTML Hex, Delphi Hex, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic Hex, and Visual C++ Hex. Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for windows
ExifTool: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool; ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files. ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony. ExifTool is also available as a stand-alone Windows executable and a Macintosh OS X package. Note that these versions contain the executable only, and do not include the HTML documentation or other files of the full distribution above.
ExifTool GUI: http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm; ExifTool is "Command-Line" utility. That means, there's no Graphic User Interface (GUI), so all work must be done by typing commands inside "Command Prompt" window. Such approach gives ExifTool great flexibility, but is somehow difficult to use -especially for those who aren't familiar with old DOS workflow. So, I've decided do make some simple ExifTool GUI for my private use. There are allready some GUI's that make use of ExifTool, but some of them are not flexible enough (for my needs) and/or have quite limited use. Making ExifToolGUI, the main goal was: -view all metadata that ExifTool recognizes, -ability to edit most frequently used Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata tags, -batch capability (where appropriate), means: you can select multiple files and modify them at once.
Faststone Image Viewer: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm; FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org; Vector Drawing Program
Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com; IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7. Multi language support, Thumbnail/preview option, Paint = option, Slideshow, Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters, Batch conversion (with image processing) File search, Email option, Multimedia player, Print option, Scan (batch scan) support, IPTC editing, Lossless JPG rotation, Many PlugIns, and much much more.
JR Screen Ruler: http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm; On screen ruler for measuring Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimetres of anything on your screen. Handy tool for graphics editing. Quick and easy to use.
LightBox Free: http://www.lightboxeditor.com; Image editor: "If all you need is basic editing features like print, crop, resize, advanced red-eye removal, in addition to fast and intuitive photo enhancement features, then LightBox Basics is for you."
Photo! Editor: http://pho.to/editor; With Photo! Editor, you can remove red eye instantly, enhance the color of the image, make funny caricatures, add astonishing lighting effects, straighten, resample and crop images. The Denoise tool is one of the world's best to effectively remove luminance and color noise from digital images made under poor lighting conditions. You will also appreciate the Make Up tool that offers a complete set of retouching filters to make the best of your portrait photos.
PhotoFiltre: http://photofiltre.en.softonic.com; Fast, full featured image editing software that can work with many formats and offers a large range of image effects/filters as well as batch processing.
Photoscape: http://www.photoscape.org; A photo editor that has a few great features others don't have. Key Features Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo Splitter: Divide a photo into multiple parts Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music, calendar papers Face Search: Find similar faces on the internet
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/index.html; Organize and view your entire photo collection in one place. Edit pictures, crop, fix red-eye. Create collages and slideshows. Share online with family and friends using Picasa Web Albums.
The Gimp: http://www.gimp.org; GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
Xnview: http://www.xnview.com; utility for viewing and converting graphic files. a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use ! Support of more than 400 graphics formats.

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Internet

40tude Dialog: http://dialog.datalist.org; Newsreader
Apache: http://httpd.apache.org; The Number One HTTP Server On The Internet The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996.
CurrPorts: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html; CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it. CurrPorts allows allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file, XML file, or to tab-delimited text file. The integration with its companion Nirsoft utility IPNetInfo allows you to easily view the IP address information from WHOIS servers.
Filezilla: http://filezilla-project.org; FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following: Easy to use Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more IPv6 support Available in many languages Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue Bookmarks Drag & drop support Configurable transfer speed limits Filename filters Directory comparison Network configuration wizard Remote file editing Keep-alive HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support Logging to file Synchronized directory browsing Remote file search
Firebug: http://getfirebug.com; Firebug integrates with Firefox to put web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html; Web browser
Forte Free Agent v1.93: http://www.cc.uom.gr/pub/FREEWARE/INTERNET%20TOOLS/Newsreaders-Usenet/a32en193.exe; freeware news reader, no longer available for download on the forte site.
HostsMan: http://www.abelhadigital.com; Hosts file manager and editor. Toggle hosts on/off with one button. Download and merge hosts files from several sources. Scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijacks. Very simple GUI but can also be run with command line parameters. Free for non commercial use only.
HTTrack: http://www.httrack.com; HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/XP/Vista release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release. HTTrack allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
IPNetInfo: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html; IPNetInfo is a small utility that allows you to easily find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more. This utility can be very useful for finding the origin of unsolicited mail. You can simply copy the message headers from your email software and paste them into IPNetInfo utility. IPNetInfo automatically extracts all IP addresses from the message headers, and displays the information about these IP addresses.
K-Meleon: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net; K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla. K-Meleon is the browser you control.It provides users with a secure browsing experience. K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems.
KompoZer: http://www.kompozer.net; KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs. KompoZer is designed to be a easy to use stand-alone tool, small in size and fast. KompoZer is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla
Maxthon Classic Ver. 1.6.5: http://www.maxthon.com; Maxthon Browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic browsing functionality, Maxthon Browser provides a rich set of features to improve your surfing experience.
Miranda IM: http://www.miranda-im.org; Miranda IM is an open-source multi protocol instant messenger client for Microsoft Windows. It's smaller, faster, easier!
MozBackup: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php; MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird, Songbird and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It's an easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup ... MozBackup is compatible with: * Firefox 1.0 - 3.5 * Thunderbird 1.0 - 3.0 Beta 2 * Sunbird 0.3 - 0.9 * Flock 1.0 - 2.0 * SeaMonkey 1.0a - 2.0 Alpha 3 * Mozilla Suite 1.7 - 1.7.x * Spicebird 0.4 - 0.8 * Songbird 1.0 * Netscape 7.x, 9.x
NewsProxy 1.2.5: http://www.exscientia.org/akula_tools/index.html; Newsproxy is a client-side filtering program for Usenet News. It operates as a proxy, sitting between newsreader and news-server, supplementing a newsreader's native filtering.
Nmap Security Scanner v5.00: http://nmap.org; Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and official binary packages are avalable for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Noscript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722; Security addon for Firefox. The best security you can get in a web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
Opera: http://www.opera.com; Fast internet browser which also handles mail and RSS
Pegasus Mail: http://www.pmail.com/index2.htm; Pegasus Mail is an e-mail client that runs on computers using Microsoft Windows: by client, we mean that it interacts directly with the user, allowing mail to be sent, read, filed, printed and otherwise manipulated through a graphical interface. Probably one of the most feature-rich mail clients available, most users say that they find the program easy to use despite its richness. Small and fast, Pegasus Mail can be left running permanently on the workstation and includes powerful tools to notify the user when new mail arrives.
Pop Peeper: http://www.poppeeper.com; Check email on many different accounts including webmail. Supports POP and IMAP. Read, send, delete email from within POPPeeper. Portable. Colour coded accounts.
PuTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty; PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Skype: http://www.skype.com; soft VoIP phone with chat and video support
slrn: http://slrn.sourceforge.net; slrn ('S-Lang read news') is a newsreader, i.e. a program that accesses a newsserver to read messages from the Internet News service (also known as 'Usenet'). It runs in console mode on various Unix-like systems (including Linux), 32-bit Windows, OS/2, BeOS and VMS. Beside the usual features of a newsreader slrn supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their header. It is highly customizable, allows free key-bindings and can easily be extended using the sophisticated S-Lang macro language. Offline reading is possible by using either slrnpull (shipped with slrn) or a local newsserver (like leafnode or INN).
Thunderbird 2: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird; Thunderbird 2 includes many new features to help you manage your inbox. With Thunderbird 2, it's easier to prioritize and find your important email with tags and the new find bar helps you find content within your email faster.
WinSCP: http://winscp.net; WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
Xenu's Link Sleuth: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html; Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time. Additional features: * Simple, no-frills user-interface * Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors) * Simple report format, can also be e-mailed * Executable file smaller than 1MB * Supports SSL websites ("https:// ") * Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites * Detects and reports redirected URLs * Site Map
Xnews: http://xnews.newsguy.com; Xnews, a free Usenet newsreader for Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP. It's written in Delphi.
µTorrent: http://www.utorrent.com; µTorrent is a lightweight, feature rich and high performing BitTorrent client. The program itself is contained within a single executable less than 220 KB in size. µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. It does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

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Multimedia

1by1: http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html; 1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks - with no need for playlists or databases. It can play almost all audio formats with the appropiate WinAmp plugins.
AIMP2: http://aimp.ru/index.php; AIMP2 is a skinnable audio player which will play various audio-formats and audio-CDs. AIMP2 comes with an integrated equalizer. The program has a lot of useful functions like a smooth transition between the songs in a playlist and automatic volume control. The player can play radio streams and comes with an integrated audio-converter, a sleep function, a tag editor, an audio-grabber and an audio-recorder. There also a free WYSIWYG skin editor allowing you to design and create your own GUI. AIMP2 is a great freeware audio player.
Ant Movie Catalog: http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog; Ant Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available) program made to manage your collection of movies on DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, ...) and tapes.
Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net; Audacity is an excellent open source program for recording and editing audio files.
Avidemux: http://avidemux.sourceforge.net; Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.
EAC (Exact Audio Copy): http://www.exactaudiocopy.de; Exact Audio Copy is a grabber for audio CDs. The main difference between EAC and other free audio grabbers is that it works with a technology which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are errors that can't be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you can try to correct it. EAC has a small audio editor and a GUI for command line audio compressors e.g. lame).
Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org; foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Main features: * Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components. * Gapless playback. * Full unicode support. * Easily customizable user interface layout. * Advanced tagging capabilities. * Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component. * Full ReplayGain support. * Customizable keyboard shortcuts. * Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.
Format Factory: http://www.formatoz.com/index.html; Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter, converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others. Features also included are: Repair damaged video and audio file; Reducing Multimedia file size; Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.; Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags; DVD Ripper. Format Factorys upports 50 languages and runs on all 32-bit Windows plattforms.
HandBrake: http://handbrake.fr; HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
Lame: http://lame.sourceforge.net; A wav ----> mp3 encoder (LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder For use as a command-line program, or with programs like Cdex and EAC. What would music be without the lame project ?
Media Player Classic Home Cinema: http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net; Media Player Classic Home Cinema is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like Windows Media Player v6.4, but has many additional features. You can use the player as a Media Player Classic Home Theater.
Mp3tag: http://www.mp3tag.de/en; Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tag editor for metadata of common audio formats. It supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.
VLC Media Player: http://www.videolan.org/vlc; VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
XMedia Recode: http://www.xmedia-recode.de; XMedia Recode is an excellent audio/video converter. It is essentially a GUI for FFMPEG and converts most audio/video formats.

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Office and Productivity

Calendar Magic: http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm; Calendar Magic is an easy-to-use program that is entertaining, informative, educational and of equal applicability in the home and in the office. Calendar Magic has been tested on Windows 95, 98, Me, XP, Vista (32-bit) and Windows 7 (64-bit), and has also been reported to run without problems on other versions of Windows.
Convert for Windows: http://joshmadison.com/software/download-convert-for-windows; Convert is an easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! NOTES: registration requested, but not required (name and email)
EclipseCrossword: http://www.eclipsecrossword.com; just give EclipseCrossword a list of words and clues, and it does the rest. In seconds, you'll have a crossword puzzle with just the words you want.
ESBCalc: http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm; ESBCalc is a Freeware Scientific Calculator for Windows with Infix Notation, Brackets, Scientific Functions (Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, Logarithmic - including Base 10, Base 2 & Natural - plus more), Memory, Paper Trail, Result History List and more.
ESBUnitConv: http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm; ESBUnitConv is a Free User-friendly Windows Utility to easily convert between units of measurement. Includes Units for Temperature, Distance, Mass, Area, Volume, Pressure, Velocity, Acceleration, Force, Energy, Power, Fuel Consumption, Flow, Torque, Angles, Luminous Intensity, Illumination, Time, Quantity & Radioactivity.
EssentialPIM Free: http://www.essentialpim.com; EssentialPIM Free is an excellent free personal information manager. It is not bloat ware and contains no spyware or adware. it allows you to keep all your information in electronic form. All your appointments, tasks, to do lists, notes, contacts and email messages are stored in a graphical and easily accessible form.
Gnumeric: http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric; The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets and we offer a customizable feel that attempts to minimize the costs of transition. Gnumeric has been localized to various languages, and we welcome new contributions. It handles numeric formats properly for various countries and languages. Import filters -XML (gnumeric format) -MS Excel (tm) 2,3,4,5,95,97,2k,XP -Applix (4, 5) -HTML (various) -CSV (comma separated values) -Lotus 1-2-3 .wk1 format -GNU oleo (rudimentary) -Quattro Pro -OpenOffice (sxc, not the older binary format) Export filters -XML (gnumeric format) -MS Excel (tm) 5,95,97,2k,XP (including dual stream) -HTML (3.2, 4, xhtml) -LaTeX, Troff -PDF, EPS, DVI -CSV
Index Your Files: http://www.indexyourfiles.com; Search Files for Windows with Advanced Features using Index Files.Creates Indexes faster and smaller than any other. Compacts the indexes Create indexes for Only the directories you select. Internal display for found files Is compact and runs from a Single file without .dll's Support Unicode
Neutron 1.07: http://keir.net/neutron.html; Neutron is a very simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it. Options in the program enable you to automatically obtain the time from the time server and set your clock appropriately at program startup. It is also possible to have the program automatically exit after the time has been set and so is ideal for placing a shortcut in your Startup folder to sync your clock when your computer is started. Neutron uses the standard Time protocol (UDP port 37). See RFC 868 for more details. The time retrieved from the network time server is given as the number of seconds since midnight on January 1st 1900. Since the protocol only allows accuracy down to the second you may not get the most accurate time possible but it is usually good enough to always be within about half a second of "true" time. Network latency is accommodated in the calculations involved in setting your computer clock.
Open Office: http://www.openoffice.org; Open source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.
Rainlendar: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php; Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it on all major operating systems: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.
Stickies: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies; PostIt note software complete with colour and font options, alarms and ability to send across LAN, import, export, email notes, hidden or always on top.
TClockEx: http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex; TClockEx enhances the standard Windows taskbar clock, adding the ability to display the date, time and lots of other information in any format you like. TClockEx is highly customizable, from the format to the font and colour, and even the tooltip information. Many people have wondered why this wasn't built into the standard clock to begin with.
TheSage: http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html; TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus A Comprehensive and Easy-to-use Language Reference System TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single and powerful language reference system. TheSage can look up words directly from almost any program (IE, Word, Firefox, Outlook, Thunderbird,... ) and is 100% portable.
TinySpell: http://tinyspell.m6.net; A tiny Windows programme that checks your spelling in any application and offers the correct spelling.
TOMBO: http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En; Treeview viewing of text files. Store text files in a folder and subfolders and view the contents quickly and easily with a single click. Great for storing large notes with excellent search facility.
TreePad Lite: http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware; TreePad Lite is a small and powerful personal database programs. It allows you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple tree-type databases.
UK Kalender: http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs; UK's Kalender is a MS Windows program intended to remind you of upcoming events and todos. There are several views for your dates that are organized similar to a calendar sheet. Dates and appointments can be entered into the calendar via an input form.You can enter a forewarn time, so as long as "UK's Kalender" is running in the background you'll be reminded of your dates as soon as the forewarn time is reached. Independent from the calendar function there is also a todo list where you can enter tasks with a deadline and a forewarn time. If the forewarn time is reached, "UK's Kalender" will inform you of the due tasks with symbols and colors. Since version 2.0 of "UK's Kalender" it is possible to share a common event file between several computers in a network. A shared event can be entered, changed or deleted on one computer, all other computers will synchronize their event database. This shared event file runs in parallel to the local event file, so private event entries can still be entered as usual.
Wordweb Free Version Dictionary/Spell Checker: http://wordweb.info; Dictionary/Spell Checker. The comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary includes: Definitions and synonyms Proper nouns Related words Pronunciations 150 000 root words 120 000 synonym sets Fixed web reference tabs

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Security

a-squared Free 4.5: http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free; Scan your PC for infections of Trojans, Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Bots, Keyloggers and Dialers. 2 Cleaning Scanners in 1: Anti-Virus + Anti-Spyware
Agnitum Outpost Firewall Free: http://free.agnitum.com; Outpost Firewall Free gives you solid firewall protection with standard packet and application filtering to safeguard your data against unauthorized third parties. Plus, you get advanced protection against illegal program activity that will help stymie unknown threats. All this coupled with minimum impact on your system resources makes Outpost Firewall Free a must-have instrument for an unprotected PC.
Analog-X Script Defender: http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/System/sdefend/Freeware.htm; AnalogX Script Defender intercepts all requests to execute a variety of different script types that are commonly used to infect your computer - Visual Basic Scripting (.VBS), Java Script (.JS) and Windows Scripting (.WSH) are the most common and can all be intercepted by SDefender. Best of all, you can add other scripting extensions later on when virus authors figure out how to exploit something else.
Avast! antivirus Home Edition: http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download; The most popular free antivirus with more than 80 000 000 registered users. Perfect for people who send e-mails and surf popular websites, but do not store any sensitive data on their computers.
AxCrypt File Encryption: http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt; AxCrypt is open source file encryption software for Windows. It integrates with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.
GMER: http://www.gmer.net; GMER is an application that detects and removes rootkits . It scans for: # hidden processes # hidden threads # hidden modules # hidden services # hidden files # hidden Alternate Data Streams # hidden registry keys # drivers hooking SSDT # drivers hooking IDT # drivers hooking IRP calls # inline hooks
GNU Privacy Guard: http://www.gnupg.org; GnuPG is the GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key managment system as well as access modules for all kind of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. Frontend applications and libraries are available.
KeePass Password Safe: http://keepass.info; KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html#Kerio%20Personal%20Firewall; Kerio Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks. It is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute firewall. The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a special low-level driver loaded into the system kernel. This driver is placed at the lowest possible level above the network hardware drivers. Therefore, it has absolute control over all passing packets and is able to ensure complete protection of the system it is installed on.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org; Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware. It includes a number of features, including a built in protection monitor that blocks malicious processes before they even start.
Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI): http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal; The Secunia PSI is a free security scanner designed to help you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs. It provide details on the software installed on your computer and gives you direct links to update programs that are potentially not secure. "The Secunia PSI works by examining files on your computer (primarily .exe, .dll, and .ocx files). These files contain non-specific meta information provided by the software vendor only. This data is the same for all users, and originates from the installed programs on your computer - never from their configuration. After examining all the files on your local hard drive(s), the collected data is sent to Secunia's servers, which match the data against the Secunia File Signatures engine (https://psi.secunia.com/) to determine the exact applications installed on your system. This information can then be used to provide you with a detailed report of the missing security related updates for your system."
Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html; Adware files, Trojans and many malware types are being detected and removed with Spybot Search & Destroy. This is a classic anti-spyware, anti-adware tool that has become a well known product for users who fight against all kinds of online threats. It allows you to fix the Windows Registry inconsistencies that are related to malicious applications and adware that you are installing.
SpywareBlaster: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html; Prevents the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software! Simple, effective, trusted.
Stunnel: http://www.stunnel.org; Universal SSL Wrapper Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.
Superantispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com; Detect and Remove Spyware, Adware and Remove Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats.
TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org; Free open-source disk encryption software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before it is loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc). TrueCrypt can on-the-fly encrypt a system partition or entire system drive, i.e. a partition or drive where Windows is installed and from which it boots.
Wireshark: http://www.wireshark.org; Wireshark is an award-winning network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of experts.

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System Utilities

AnVir Task Manager Free: http://www.anvir.com/taskmanagerfree; AnVir Task Manager Free is a freeware edition of AnVir Task Manager. It offers several security features, system monitoring features and Windows enhancements. A startup monitor, startup manager and delayed startup option is part of the package. You can upload files to Virustotal with it, for a quick analysis and detection of viruses, worms, trojans and other malware. It can limit the CPU usage for processes that eat a lot of CPU, suspend/resume processes and threads and free process memory. It monitor processes, services, Internet connections, CPU, disk, memory, DLLs, drivers, locked files and windows. It can show icons and tooltips in the Windows tray for CPU, memory, network, disk load, HDD temperature, and battery (but only 2 icons in the free version). It can also find locked files and DLLs. The free version has some support for viewing of download- and upload speeds and amount of data transferred. It also includes a Tweaker for many Windows settings. When the program is running, it can also maniuplate the windows of other applications: Click on title of any application to hide window to system tray, make window semi-transparent, pin window 'always on top', change window size to 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and change priority of the process. Anvir Task manger is compatible with all popular antivirus packages. It can replace the Windows Task Manager and can also be run as a portable application. Seee the full list of features here <http://www.anvir.com/task-manager-windows-startup.htm>
Auslogics Disk Defrag: http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag; Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of modern hard disks. Defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. Defragmenting your disk(s) may prevent system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Auslogics Disk Defrag is very easy to use.
Autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx; This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.
BurnCDCC: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm; This utility is used to burn an ISO file to a CD/DVD/BD disc. BurnCDCC enables many new systems that come with a limited CD/DVD software package to burn ISO files.
Burrrn: http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4; Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC's noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.
CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com; CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
CDBurnerXP: http://www.cdburnerxp.se; CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
Cmdow (Commandline Window Utility): http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html; Win32 commandline utility that allows windows to be listed, moved, resized, renamed, hidden/unhidden, disabled/enabled, minimized, maximized, restored, activated/inactivated, closed, killed and more.
Cobian Backup 9: http://www.cobian.se; Cobian Backup 9 is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions.
Contig: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx; There are a number of NT disk defraggers on the market, including Winternals Defrag Manager. These tools are useful for performing a general defragmentation of disks, but while most files are defragmented on drives processed by these utilities, some files may not be. In addition, it is difficult to ensure that particular files that are frequently used are defragmented - they may remain fragmented for reasons that are specific to the defragmentation algorithms used by the defragging product that has been applied. Finally, even if all files have been defragmented, subsequent changes to critical files could cause them to become fragmented. Only by running an entire defrag operation can one hope that they might be defragmented again. Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible.
CPU-Z: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php; CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system, like CPU, Mainboard, BIOS model and date, Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor, Graphic interface, Memory, and System (Windows and DirectX version).
DeepBurner Free: http://www.deepburner.com/index.php?r=products&pr=deepburner&prr=features; DeepBurner Free comes with features that will satisfy most CD and DVD burning needs: Burn data CDs/DVD, AudioCDs, Create/burn ISO images, bootable CD/DVD support.
Defraggler: http://www.defraggler.com; Defraggler differs from other defrag tools by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool.
EASEUS Partition Master: http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm; EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE disk partitioning utility for extending system partition, better disk space management, settling low disk space problem under Windows 2000/XP/Vista ***(for 32bit Only)*** * Extend system partition to maximize computer performance. * Main features for better managing hard disk and maximizing computer performance. * Copy wizard to backup all data or copy entire hard disk to another without Windows reinstallation. * Usability features allow you to operate directly on the disk map with the drag-and-drop and preview the changes.
ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT): http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/index.htm; Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista by Lars Hederer. ERUNT is a commandline tool with a GUI (Graphical user interface) pop-up dialog if no commandline arguments are provided for backup options. For restoring from backup a separate executable (ERDNT) is found in - and must be run from - the same folder you saved your registry backup to. Read the FAQ http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/faq.htm. If you prefer a simple GUI version, see ERUNTgui for NT/2000/2003/XP by Klaus Roemer at http://www4.webng.com/krtech/programs.html. Notice the ERUNTgui setup program installs the ERUNT executable in subdirectory under its own. No need to install ERUNT if you install ERUNTgui in other words.
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner v.2.5.1: http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm; Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair regis- try problems.
Folder2Iso: http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareFolder2Iso.php; Folder2Iso just creates an iso from any kind of folder (with the subfolders). Its a GUI of mkisofs. No need of installation, really small exe.
GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net; GnuWin32 provides ports of unixy tools to MS-Windows
GParted LiveCD: http://gparted.sourceforge.net; GParted Live CD is the Gnome Partition Editor application on a bootable Linux CD-ROM. Gparted can create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy disk partitions.
ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com; ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit! It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task: * Read - Read a disc to an image file * Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc * Write - Write an image file to a disc * Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct * Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing
InfraRecorder: http://infrarecorder.org; InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
JkDefrag 3.36: http://www.kessels.biz/JkDefrag; JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.
JkDefragGUI: http://www.emro.nl/freeware; JkDefragGUI is a Graphical User Interface which allows you to easily select all the features of JkDefrag, a freeware defragmentation tool made by Jeroen Kessels has to offer. But it can do a lot more. JkDefragGUI can schedule a defragmentation, install JkDefrag or its screensaver but can also do some small maintenance to your computer. It can be used to schedule a defragmentation of your system files like pagefile and registry files. JkDefragGUI also supports CCleaner which can be used instead of the internal cleaning function. It can also erase any information which is left behind on your hard disk after erasing files. JkDefragGUI was created for people who don't have the skills of an advanced user but still want to use the powerful features JkDefrag has to offer or for those people who like a GUI instead of using the command line. JkDefragGUI is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, U3 capable flash memory and with BartPE pre-installed environment.
Karen's Replicator: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp; Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen's Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of folder and file deletions.
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder: http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder; The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications. Another feature is the ability to retrieve product keys from unbootable Windows installations.
MagicDisc: http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm; It is very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs.
MyUninstaller: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html; MyUninstaller is an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system. It displays the list of all installed application, and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry, and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or HTML file. MyUninstaller also provides additional information for most installed applications that the standard Add/Remove applet doesn't display: product name, company, version, uninstall string, installation folder and more.
nLite: http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html; Windows Installation Customizer. nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install does not include, or even contain on media, the unwanted components. Features * Service Pack Integration * Component Removal * Unattended Setup * Driver Integration * * Hotfixes Integration ** * Tweaks * Services Configuration * Patches *** * Bootable ISO creation
PC Wizard: http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php; PC WIZARD is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. PC WIZARD is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.
Power Defragmenter: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Power-Defragmenter-Download-20185.html; Power Defragmenter is a very advanced GUI for the Sysinternals core application which takes defragmentation process to a whole new level. Power Defragmenter is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) application for program Contig by Sysinternals. Contig is a very powerful defragmentation application designed for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems. Contig created by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.
Process Explorer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx; Process Explorer is a comprehensive application that lets you examine in great detail (and in real time) what is going on "behind the scenes" with your system. It is also a Task Manager on steroids. Highly configurable "must have" troubleshooting tool.
ProcMon: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx; Advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more.
RegScanner: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html; RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item. You can also export the found Registry values into a .reg file that can be used in RegEdit.
RegSeeker: http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm; RegSeeker is primarily a registry cleaner. It can also display information like startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and more. With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside the registry, export/delete the results, open them in the Windows registry editor. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel and a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad shortcuts and more.
Regshot v1.81: http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/files/; Regshot is an open-source(GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.
Revo Uninstaller: http://www.revouninstaller.com; Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet.
Sandboxie: http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie; Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Spacemonger: http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php; SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system. So, for example, if the "Windows" box takes up 90% of the screen, the "C:\Windows" folder and all its sub-folders and files are taking up 90% of your "C:" drive.
SpeedFan: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php; SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware. At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can change fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise.
Sysinternals Suite: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx; The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files. It does not contain non-troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault.
System Information for Windows: http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html; SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
UBCD4Win: http://ubcd4win.com; UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. Some of the tools included are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. A few of the tools included in UBCD4Win are paid for and licensed software owned by UBCD4win.
UnxUtils: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils; GNU utilities for Win32 - some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools. REMARKS: BeAr: Compilation of common GNU commandline utilities to native Win32. Compared to other implementations, the UnxUtils compilation consists of very stable and fast tools with exceptional support of command line switches. The installation directory should be added to the Windows search path to use the tools from anywhere. Look here for a description: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 (The Path variable consists of a list of fully qualified directory names, separated by semicolons.) The collection contains: agrep.exe, ansi2knr.exe, basename.exe, bc.exe, bison.exe, bunzip2.exe, bzip2.exe, bzip2recover.exe, cat.exe, chgrp.exe, chmod.exe, chown.exe, cksum.exe, cmp.exe, comm.exe, compress.exe, cp.exe, csplit.exe, cut.exe, date.exe, dc.exe, dd.exe, df.exe, diff.exe, diff3.exe, dircolors.exe, dirname.exe, du.exe, echo.exe, egrep.exe, env.exe, expand.exe, expr.exe, factor.exe, fgrep.exe, find.exe, flex.exe, fmt.exe, fold.exe, fsplit.exe, gawk.exe, gclip.exe, gplay.exe, grep.exe, gsar.exe, gunzip.exe, gzip.exe, head.exe, id.exe, indent.exe, install.exe, join.exe, jwhois.exe, less.exe, lesskey.exe, ln.exe, logname.exe, ls.exe, m4.exe, make.exe, makedepend.exe, makemsg.exe, man.exe, md5sum.exe, mkdir.exe, mkfifo.exe, mknod.exe, mv.exe, mvdir.exe, nl.exe, od.exe, paste.exe, patch.exe, pathchk.exe, pclip.exe, pr.exe, printenv.exe, printf.exe, ptx.exe, pwd.exe, recode.exe, rm.exe, rman.exe, rmdir.exe, sdiff.exe, sed.exe, seq.exe, sh.exe, sha1sum.exe, shar.exe, sleep.exe, sort.exe, split.exe, stego.exe, su.exe, sum.exe, sync.exe, tac.exe, tail.exe, tar.exe, tee.exe, test.exe, touch.exe, tr.exe, tsort.exe, type.exe, uname.exe, unexpand.exe, uniq.exe, unrar.exe, unshar.exe, unzip.exe, uudecode.exe, uuencode.exe, wc.exe, wget.exe, which.exe, whoami.exe, xargs.exe, yes.exe, zcat.exe, zip.exe, zsh.exe
USB Disk Ejector: http://quick.mixnmojo.com/usb-disk-ejector; USB Disk Ejector allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program. The command line options are very flexible. When run as a GUI program the tools enables USB devices to be quickly ejected through a mouse click or keyboard press. It's especially useful when dealing with multiple USB devices and for Vista users who don't want the "now safe to remove this device" dialog box to appear.
USBDeview: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html; USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. For each USB device, exteneded information is displayed: Device name/ description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more... USBDeview also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer.
USBDLM: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html; USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives. Running as service makes it independent of the logged on user's privileges, so there is no need to give the users the privilege to change drive letters. It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or subst drives of the currently logged on user. Furthermore you can define new default letters for USB drives and much more. USBDLM is Freeware for private and educational (schools, colleges, universities) use only. The students shall outnumber all others. Otherwise one licence per computer is required after a 30 day test period even though the software does not expire.
VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org; VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player; Not entirely 'pure' freeware but runs lighter and more stable than Virtualbox. Although VB is seriously good now.
WinAudit: http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm; WinAudit reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorised for ease of viewing and text searching. Whether your interest is in software compliance, hardware inventory, technical support, security or just plain curiosity, WinAudit has it all. PC audit and inventory of software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings. The programme has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows update and firewall settings. WinAudit is easy to use, a self-contained single file that needs no installation or configuration. It can be run from a floppy disk or USB stick. WinAudit can be dowloaded as a ANSI version (WinAudit.exe) or a Unicode version (WinAuditu.exe). Use the Unicode version if you need to display "international" characters.
WinContig: http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm; WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates.
WinDirStat: http://windirstat.info; WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).
WinPatrol: http://www.winpatrol.com; WinPatrol takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge. WinPatrol was the pioneer in using a heuristic behavioral approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. It continues to be one of the most powerful system monitors while staying a single small programs.
xxclone: http://xxclone.com; * Makes a self-bootable clone of Windows system disk. * Supports all 32-bit Windows (95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP). * Can restore the self-bootability in many cases. It takes only a minute to run. Everyone should keep the Freeware handy for just in case. * Supports common internal disk drives (IDE, SATA, SCSI). * Supports external USB/FIREWIRE drives (good for a laptop). * Competes with Norton Ghost, DriveImage, MaxBlast. * Need not go to the DOS mode. Operates in regular Windows environment.
xxcopy: http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm; In particular it clones a bootable system in Win9x-ME. ME requires a DOS patch, though. A Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/2003/2008 utility which runs in command line mode. Comes with a 16-bit version (XXCOPY16). Duplicates the entire system drive which can boot Win9x). Keeps the same short name (8.3) in the destination as in the source The source specifier accepts wildcards in directory names also. Backs up directory incrementally without the use of archive bit. Synchronizes directories. Controls file attributes (keeps the source, destination attributes or none). Excludes directories or files from copying by wild cards. Handles a Cyclic Copy case much better than XCOPY. Qualifies files by file date/time (Before, On, or After). Deletes files or directories using the same powerful selection mechanism. Copies hidden/system files, and overwrites Read-only files. Flattens a directory tree into files in one directory. ... and many, many, intimidatingly more ... (over 200 command switches) Copies security information for NTFS volume archiving. Supersedes Microsoft's ROBOCOPY. Works very much like XCOPY with the same command syntax.
ZSoft Uninstaller: http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4; ZSoft Uninstaller is the better and easier way to uninstall programs on your computer. ZSoft Uninstaller can be used as a Add/Remove applet replacement, but not only that, it can also: * Analyze an installation so it can be completely uninstalled (also supports reboots of the computer as the process is split into two: Before and after the installation) * Find and delete temporary files * Delete entries from programs that are no longer installed * Hide Windows Updates * Hide entries from the list that you are never going to uninstall (drivers etc.) making the list smaller and therefore easier to manage. * Show more information than available though add/remove * Automatically find entries from programs that are most likely already uninstalled * Automatically find entries that are considered "crap-ware" * (Off course) search the list of installed software

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Text Utilities

AbiWord: http://www.abisource.com; AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.
AllChars: http://allchars.zwolnet.com; AllChars provides a quick, easy-to-remember way of creating accents and special characters in most Windows programs.
Atlantis Nova: http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/nova.htm; Atlantis Nova is an advanced and veratile RTF editor with a whole array of usfeful functions. Atlantis Nova is very fast, compact, and has a very small memory footprint. Tabbed document interface, column block selection etc.
Bullzip PDF Printer: http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php; The Bullzip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application. This program is FREEWARE with limitations, which means that it is FREE for personal and commercial use up to 10 users. It does not contain any advertising or popups.
Do PDF: http://www.dopdf.com; pdf printer.. de best
EditPad Lite 6.5.1: http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html; EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
FreePdf: http://freepdfxp.de/; Easy to control GUI wrapper for GhostScript, RedMon, and the Windows printing system to create *.pdf files from any application with printer output. Can combine multiple print jobs in one *.pdf document. Provides support for the conversation of *.ps files (Windows Shell extension) and for combining *.pdf files. Profiles can be defined for different resolutions, color and font handling, encryption, watermarks (needs PdfTk: www.accesspdf.com/pdftk),... Output as picture (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG) is also supported.
Ghostscript: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost; Postscript and Pdf interpreter and converter.
Metapad: http://liquidninja.com/metapad; Notepad replacement.
NotePad++: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm; Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
PDF-XChange Viewer: http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer; PDF-Xchange Viewer is an excellent PDF viewer with many useful features and tools and a tabbed document interface. 'Restricted functions' ($ware features) can be hidden. Portable version available.
PDFTK Builder: http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder; PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to the Windows version of PDFTK making it much easier to use Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat
PSPad: http://www.pspad.com; The universal freeware editor, useful for people who: * work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker * create web pages - as a web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools that save your time * want to use a good IDE for their compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more...
Pure Text 2.0: http://www.stevemiller.net/apps; Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application. Better yet, you can configure a hot-key to convert and paste the text for you. The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting.
TED Notepad: http://jsimlo.sk/notepad; TED Notepad is a chrome-less freeware text editor. It offers 197 text- processing functions, innovative features and other advanced tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quick advanced editing. This light-weight portable notepad replacement fits on any USB flash disk and loads instantly with no installation required. This notepad replacement is particularly targeted to advanced users with non-trivial demands and tasks. To discover its true power, you might need to learn a thing or two. Once you do, you won't type, you'll ted-it..
WinMerge: http://winmerge.org; WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

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