Your top 10 software freebies

Alloneword

Saetana wrote: »

Top of my list has got to be Revo Uninstaller (a recent find) which uninstalls any program in the add/remove programs list by first using the program's own installer and then you can scan for traces left behind in the registry and folders. The program finds them for you and then you choose whether or not to delete them - this is an excellent bit of kit for removing all the crap that programs leave behind when you uninstall them, it is highly recommended by my computer magazine.

Don't want to have a pop or anything but never found an uninstaller that can get rid of everything, best way round this issue is IMO to take an image (using Ghost or DriveImage, none are these are free i know) then install chosen app have a play and see how you go if your happy with app then keep it installed if you don't like it just go back on your image and hey presto not a sausage left behind, as i say best way to do it IMO....


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movilogo

AVG Antivirus
Comodo firewall (works on Vista)
Firefox
7-zip (can open all sorts of zipped files)
Zoho Documents (better than Google documents)
Microsoft Synctoy 2.0 (for syncting your PC and backup disk)
Cute PDF (free PDF writer)
Clipomatic (multiple clipboard app)
VLC Player (can play all video formats)

Bit techy freeware

Oracle Database (free for personal use)
SQL Server 2008 Developer edition
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express edition
Python IDE and interpreter
Linux - Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSE etc.

albionwarrior

Don't want to have a pop or anything but never found an uninstaller that can get rid of everything, best way round this issue is IMO to take an image (using Ghost or DriveImage, none are these are free i know) then install chosen app have a play and see how you go if your happy with app then keep it installed if you don't like it just go back on your image and hey presto not a sausage left behind, as i say best way to do it IMO...

have you actually tried Revo? because it does get rid of everything IMHO.
Tested it against paid for programs and it outperformed them all..

Alloneword

albionwarrior wrote: »

have you actually tried Revo? because it does get rid of everything IMHO.

To be honest i have not used an uninstaller for years now, but what i might do is take an image of my C & D drives, taking a note of how many files there are and the size of the registry, bung this Revo on and then install a couple of apps Nero stuff like that then allow Revo to do it's work and see how well it does compared to before everything was installed then that way we have something to base this one, i'm not too well right now but hopefull will be able to get round to it at the weekend so i'll keep you posted with my results.


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