Free Software - Add yours

bigup

Ive been using mine for almost a year for free, never had to pay a penny??? Because you dont register the software, just download and run it.

You only have to pay if you buy the full advanced version.

GibsonSt19

bigup wrote:

Ive been using mine for almost a year for free, never had to pay a penny??? Because you dont register the software, just download and run it.

You only have to pay if you buy the full advanced version.

Fairy nuff, apologies for that.

smcicr

knew i'd forgotten something:

http://www.slipstick.com

** I have amended the file just to the website. I would ask that for security reasons we do not post .exe files, but rather a link to the site and details on what to click to get the file. This way, the user knows what they are opening. Thanks. Edited by Abuse Controller **

excellent program that searches mailboxes in outlook (98 - 2002) and removes duplicates - configurable and free - it's actually prayerware. no really - it was written by a rev - will save your sanity on those occasions you import your old files and forget to check the 'no duplicates' box

EvilMonkey

The list is getting pretty long now, so I thought it might help to bring everything so far into one post with links and a quick description (leaving out the AV stuff as per the OP's request). Hope this helps

Audacity - Audio editor and recorded

OpenOffice.org - Word, Database, Excel (equivalent)- great if you dont have ms Office

CCleaner - System optimisation / privacy

ITunes - Music player (including podcasts) not just for ipods....

Firefox - An altenative internet browser

PDF995 - Converts documents to pdf's

Opera - An altenative internet browser

X-lite - Internet telephony (VOIP)

Panicware - Popup stopper

Irfanview - Good basic image manipulation

Winamp - Reskinnable music / video player that allows you to add codecs

Filezilla - simple and effective ftp client

Motherboard Monitor - excellent way of monitoring internal temps and fans etc

dbpoweramp - quick and easy way to convert between WAV, MP3 and AAC

Bysoft Network Monitor - broadband usage monitor

Hijack This - allows you to see whats running on your system or rather what should not be.

Clean Up - similar to CCleaner

RegCleaner - does what is says

Eraser - cleans away files so they cannot be retrieved

Filzip - Compression (winzip)

Deepburner - CD/DVD burner

The GIMP Powerful photo editing software (like a free version of photoshop)

Wordweb - Free thesaurus and dictionary

Picasa - Photo Album / organisation & light photo editing

Bigfix - because windows update doesn't seem to like this laptop and gets stuck while bigfix works instantly

NVU - Web Authoring tool

Truecrypt - Disk encryption

Belarc Advisor - PC software \ hardware Audit

FreshUI - Windows settings tweaker...

Trillian - Chat Client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC

Paint.net - Paint program

TinyResMeter - Realtime system resource meter

Net Transport - Download tool

VOIPbuster - Another Internet Telephony application

PixResizer - tool to compress JPEGs, GIFs etc without loss of quality

ODR5 - searches mailboxes in outlook (98 - 2002) and removes duplicates

And finally, a list of good download sites to have a look through....

www.filehippo.com/

www.tinyapps.org/

www.techsupportalert.com/bes...e_utilities.htm

www.techsupportalert.com/more/extended.htm

E.M.

Rex_Mundi

smcicr........You know it's a really bad idea to post any .exe in an open forum. It's not safe practice, it could contain anything. I'm going to email abuse. They always remove these links. Couldn't you post the download page from where you got it.

chunter

Lavalys' Everest Home Edition http://www.lavalys.com
Tells you a bundle about the internals & software of your pc.
Eg how many sticks of memory, what speed,
Even tells you the WinOS activation code.
Invaluable before you do a reformat.

wolfman

I don't think TugZip has been mentioned. It's a brilliant zip program that can handle RAR and ACE archives too, superior to Winzip in my opinion, and a free alternative to using WinRar.

My list would be:

Firewall - Kerio Personal Firewall
Browser - Firefox
Email - Thunderbird
Ftp Client - FileZilla
Messenger - Trillian
Music - Winamp
CD-Ripping - Exact Audio Copy
Monitoring - SpeedFan

smcicr

ah - apologies one and all - never occurred to me.

right then - the amended link is a bit random so go here:

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.htm

and scroll down to duplicate checkers section, it's the last one there.

lots of useful little bits of mail based software on that page by the way.

oh and someone might want to amend EvilMonkey's post above - also a direct link to the exe.

once again - apologies all round...

Rex_Mundi

I see a couple of handy ones haven't been mentioned.

Process Explorer ...........This will tell you exactly what is running on your computer. If you click on the task, it will tell you all the DLLs and other bits that each program is using. Very handy for seeing what's going on in the background.

TCPview ............... TCPView will show you a detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the remote address and state of TCP connections as well as the application or process that is using the connection. In addition, you can end selected processes and close selected connections.

Joe_Bloggs

This is a link to a free offline mortgage calculator. It is American but the 'amortization' works with pounds and gets the numbers correct. http://www.hsh.com/hbcalc.html
J_B.