Anti-Virus:
AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/Avast -
http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_version_comp.htmlAVG -
http://free.grisoft.com/BitDefender -
http://www.bitdefender.comClamWin -
http://www.clamwin.com/Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware -
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/CWShredder -
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract..._download.htmlHijackthis -
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.htmlMicrosoft AntiSpyware -
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspxSpyBot Search & Destroy -
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/SpywareGuard -
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.htmlWinPatrol -
http://www.winpatrol.com/Anti-spam programs:
K9 -
http://www.keir.net/k9.htmlPOPFile -
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/SpamBayes -
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/SpamPal -
http://www.spampal.org/Audio Creation
Gungirl Sequencer -
http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePageHammerHead -
http://www.threechords.com/hammerhea...oduction.shtmlJesusonic -
http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.phpKRISTAL Audio Engine -
http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.phporDrumbox -
http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free -
http://www.burn4free.com/Burnatonce -
http://www.burnatonce.com/Burrrn -
http://www.burrrn.net/CDBurnerXP -
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/CDRDAO -
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/CDR Tools Frontend -
http://demosten.com/cdrfe/Deepburner -
http://www.deepburner.com/DVD Decrypter:
http://www.dvddecrypter.com/Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD -
http://www.paehl.de/cdrImgBurn -
http://www.imgburn.com/Compression / Decompression:
7-zip -
http://www.7-zip.org/bzip2 -
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.htmlExtractNow -
http://www.extractnow.com/FilZip -
http://www.filzip.com/Info-Zip -
http://www.info-zip.org/IZArc -
http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/QuickZip -
http://www.quickzip.org/TUGZip -
http://www.tugzip.com/UPX -
http://upx.sourceforge.net/Zip&Go -
http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htmZipgenius -
http://www.zipgenius.it/Network Tools:
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer -
http://www.ethereal.com/Gencontrol -
http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.htmlhamachi -
http://www.hamachi.cc/NetMeter -
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/NetProfiles -
http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/NMap -
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/Ntop -
http://www.ntop.orgPingPlotter -
http://www.pingplotter.comPuTTY -
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puttyRAS Graph & Stats -
http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread...&threadid=2400RealVNC -
http://www.realvnc.com/TightVNC -
http://www.tightvnc.org/Ultr@VNC -
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/WinSCP -
http://www.winscp.com/Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar -
http://www.google.com/NoAds -
http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/PopUp Stopper -
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.htmlPrivoxy -
http://www.privoxy.org/Proxomitron -
http://www.proxomitron.info/Video players :
AC3Filter -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filterBsPlayer -
http://www.bsplayer.org/Crystal Player -
http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloadsCygwin MPlayer -
http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/DivX Player -
http://www.divx.com/MaximusDVD -
http://www.maximusdvd.com/Media Player Classic -
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303VideoLan -
http://www.videolan.org/Fast Video Download
http://rpocc.livejournal.com/43565.htmlVideo Downloader
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.phpNero
- great CD burning software.. highly recommend it to everyone w/ a cd-writer.. great wizard interface.. makes cd buring for newbies VERY easy
http://www.nero.comWinamp 5
- should i say more ? one of the best MP3 players around.. the registerd version comes w/ a cd-burning tool
http://www.winamp.comWinAce
- another alternative for decompressing compressed files such as Zip,ACE,RAR and a lot more...
http://www.winace.comFlash Get
- So far the best download manager. Breaks download into five partition making it fast and efficient.
http://www.flashget.comMaxthon
- Tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, IE & gecko rendering, simple collector, skinning, support for Maxthon plugins and IE plugins.
http://www.maxthon.comABC
- Those who are using the original client for BT should definitely switch. ABC is one of the best BT clients out there. It features a web interface although a host supporting PHP is required.
http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/Emule
- A lot better than the original Edonkey client. There are also very many mods available for it.
http://www.emule-project.netLinux
- Not really a tool .. but it provides and replaces the services that would normally be wasting resources on my Windows XP machine including Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, etc. I exported one of the partitions as an NFS partition and I can see and use it just as any local drive.
StyleXP
- Makes your Windows desktop look prettier. Lets face it, the default Windows theme gets old fast. You can also use a modified uxtheme.dll to get the same effect of Style XP. Modified uxtheme.dll is free while Style XP is not. Style XP is just so much more convenient for me.
http://www.tgtsoft.com/Spybot Search & Destroy
- I don't ever get Spyware, but some of you might find it useful. It has replaced AdAware for me and I use it occasionally.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=homeIrfanview
- Free multi-format image viewer. I used it a lot. But I have currently been using ACDSee.
http://www.irfanview.comUltraEdit
- My favorite text editor for anything that deals with code. It features syntax highlighting, unlimited file sizes, and many more.
http://www.ultraedit.comWinRAR
- Multiformat compression program. The only one you will ever need.
http://www.winrar.comAntiVir
- Virus scanner. It's free and you can download updates very often.
http://www.free-av.comStickies
- virtual post-its
http://www.btinternet.com/~tom.revell/Filezilla
- Simple and powerful FTP Client
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/CDex
- for ripping music
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/Tag and Rename
- MP3 Tagger
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htmG-spot
- Identifies the codecs a movie file is using.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/Sequoia View
- visualizes your hard drive so you can see which folders are taking up the most space (*cough cough..pr0n...cough*).
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/Miranda
- Integrates most of the popular IM clients into one lightweight package
http://miranda-icq.sourceforge.net/LaunchMate 3.0--freeware (848kb)
- A desktop icon organizer..well reccomended to those who have a lot of icons on their desktop.Stable and very costumizable..
http://www.softpile.com/Games/Miscel...956_index.htmlDirectory Size--freeware (1.5mb)
-A utility to know where all your Harddrive space went ...
http://www.tucows.com/preview/292100.htmlSystem Mechanic 4.0--shareware (5mb)
- I would say the most complete windows utility software.It has startup folder costumizer, net booster,registry cleaner, file junker, memory defrager,spyware remover,blah..the list goes on.I have used this to repair damaged OS of three computers..
http://www.iolo.com/sm/index.cfmNotesPad FREE
- The best text editor for programmers and coders. Best for its functionality and memory management.... a replacement for win9x notepad
http://www.newbie.net/NotesPad/Explore2Fs Partly GPLed
- Useful if you want to view files in LINUX EXT2 file system... I recommend it for dual boot win/linux boxes
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htmMozilla 1.5/1.6 GPLed
- Tab browsing with built in popup blocker , junk mail filters and a lot more! best of all its free!
http://www.mozilla.orgOpenOffice GPLed
- Alternative to Microsoft Office suite. It has more or less same capabilities and its cross platform well suited for multi invironment organization.
http://www.openoffice.orgNOD32 Antivirus 2.0 (demo)
- the best antivirus IMO. highest rated in virus bulletin
http://www.eset.comFast Video Download
http://rpocc.livejournal.com/43565.htmlVideo Downloader
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.phpTMPGEnc 2.5 (freeware)
- a freeware video converter. easy to use and can convert almost every video file to several formats. has a plus version which is kinda expensive. mostly used for additional effects and inverse telecine.
http://www.tmpgenc.netOpera 7.x (adware)
- a fast browser. been using it ever since version 5. it really shows a difference of load times especially if you're using dial up. i like the hotlist too.
http://www.opera.comSony/Sonic Foundry VEGAS 4.0e (demo)
- rapidly becoming a major contender in the vast world of prosumer digital video editing, this is the fastest and most practical of doing video editing in current midrange PCs. no special hardware required. i like the way it does cuts too and workflow is pretty straightforward.
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.co...egasfamily.asp
Crimson Editor
- all around text editor. supports code higlighting for html, php, c, python, css, etc.
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/Mozilla Firebird
- next generation web browser from mozilla. small, fast, and completely skinnable.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/Eudora (freeware/adware/shareware)
- fast email client
http://www.eudora.com/Star Downloader (freeware)
- download manager/accelerator
http://www.stardownloader.com/Dev-cpp (freeware)
- full featured c/c++ ide for windows. has support for gcc-based compilers
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.htmlWordweb (freeware)
- quick and powerful english dictionary/thesaurus
http://wordweb.info/free/YahooPOPs! (freeware)
- provide free pop3 and smtp access to your yahoo! mail accounts
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/3DMark03
- A good system ( vide.cpu.ram) test and a 3d benchmark tool
http://www.futuremark.com/download/( you can also try PCmark04, same URL)
Prime95
-mostly used by overclockers to test their system for stability under FSB/Mem settings overclocking..
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htmdBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)
- Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio. Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats, the Fastest CD Ripper and now AccurateRip Compatible. Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others, whilst preserving ID Tags, Volume Normalize audio files, Windows Explorer Integration right click Convert To & popup useful information on audio files (such as bitrate, length). ID tag editing [Power Pack Option], Record from LPs or anything [optional Auxiliary Input install], Fully compatible with Windows 95/98/ME NT4/2000, Windows XP and Linux (using Wine). 100% Free, No nags, popups, hidden spyware or bundleware.
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htmHoverSnap
- free handy snapshot tool with jpg, png, bmp and gif support.HoverSnap can take snapshots of the full screen, active window or a selected area. It can even capture layered windows (alphablended ones under 2K / XP). You can even FTP upload your screenshots! You can set up the capture folder / filename and format. You can reduce the capture size. Auto-generate filename option will add the time stamp (date/time) to your filename in order to be able to take several captures without having to change the filename. Optional sound when capture is done. FREE for personal use only!
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htmPutty
- free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/Electronic Cosmo MPEG Suite 2001
- encodes/decodes mp3s (freeware)
http://ec2000.xperiment.net/WinSplit
- Distribute large files by e-mail or floppy disk by breaking the file into smaller pieces. (freeware)
http://www.unganisha.org/home/pages/winsplit/VCDCutter 4.12 (Win XP), VCDCutter 4.04 (Win 98, NT, Works also w/ Win XP)
- VCDCutter is a MPEG,VCD and Movie Player. This version can play MPG,VCD,or other movie files(such as MPG,DAT,AVI,MOV). Very friendly and menu driven with full featured control with movie file. VCDCutter can extract MPG,frame from VCD or MPG file, cutting your favourite part or whole MPG file to disk when playing(now can extract system stream,or video,audio stream only). (shareware)
http://www.seller-club.com/~vcdcut/BootVis
- a free tool that examines your system boot process in order to optimize the prefetch parameters. It can drastically speed up the boot process.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664 or
http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/2/12-2-1.shtmlMemtest86 -
a thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86.
http://www.memtest86.com/Trayit (Freeware)
- Allows you to put programs into the system tray to save taskbar space, i use it to place outlook express onto the system tray.
http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htmQuickgamma (Freeware)
- Adjust your gamma quickly through an icon on the system tray.
http://shaderlab.com/quickgamma/Powerstrip (Shareware)
- Alot of you probly know what this is already. Powerstrip provides a lot of controls over your display adapter/monitor. From color correction to custom resolutions to overclocking your VC, PS can handle it all. Personally i use it to brighten up and save color profiles for some games. I also set some hotkeys to adjust the gamma, brightness and contrast whenever a game gets too dark.
http://www.entechtaiwan.net/ps.htmMV2Player - freeware
- Media player with multi-features- that WMP don't have..better than WMP. Interface needs some work though.
http://mv2.czweb.org/Time Up - shareware
- Utility to monitor your internet online time.
http://www.timeupsoft.com/English/index.aspAvast antivirus - shareware
- Lighter than NAV or McAfee but does what's its suppose to do..Lots of customizable settings..Auto update, skins, etc..
http://www.avast.com/CurosorXP - freeware
- Simply the best cursor suite for WinXP. Just in case some of you still don't have it..
http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/App: Real VNC
- VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view an office Linux machine on your Windows PC at home. VNC is freely and publicly available and is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately. (taken from site)
http://www.realvnc.comEverest dictionary/translator (Freeware)
- Free dictionary/translator that covers a lot of languages (mostly european). You can download only the languages/modules that you want. Can be pretty useful.
http://www.free-soft.ro/index-en.htmlObjectdock (freeware)
- Gives you OSX's awesome launch bar. There are also plenty of docklets and dock icons available on
www.wincustomize.com. Can be resource hungry.
http://www.objectdock.comY'z Dock (freeware)
- Similar to objectdock and reportedly less resource hungry. I prefer using OD though but that's just me. (just google y'z dock). BTW, development of this has been halted since Apple gave a cease and desist order to the dev. tsk tsk..
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2912StyleXP (shareware)
- Skin your windows when the default Luna themes bore you. I used to prefer Windowblinds but after revisiting stylexp and checking the themes in deviantart (as well as finding out that it uses less resources than WB) i switched. Currently using Stefanka's Panther-Snow Theme.
http://www.tgtsoft.comiEx (freeware)
- Emulates OSX's Expose feature. Essentially a souped up Alt-Tab alternative. Press the appropriate button (or drag the mouse to any of the 4 configurable corners of your screen) and all your open windows are turned into thumbnails so you can choose which window you want maximized. It's great, too bad XP doesn't have this feature.
http://www.oxygen-inc.com/premium/InsaniSoft/iEx.htmZone Alarm(freeware)
- the same as sygate but much more popular
http://www.zonelabs.comY!tunnel pro
- protects you from being booted out in Yahoo messenger while in room or in chat room and also from receiving spam... webcam.. and a lot more cool features...
http://www.ytunnelpro.comCodecPack all in 1 6.0.1.5 Freeware
- A collection of codecs for playing DivX movies. All you need to see DivX movies: DivX, XviD, AC3.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...k_All_in_1.htmAM-DeadLink 2.0 Freeware
- AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks.
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htmABC
- Bit Torrent client.
http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/Azureus
- Java based. It provides a current implementation of the BT protocol. A good choice ... although a bit resource intensive on some systems.
http://azureus.sf.netG3
- The Bit Torrent client I currently use. It provides great statistics as well as great control of upload/download bandwidth allocation. This client provides the greatest control of your torrents by far.
http://g3torrent.sf.netQuintessential Player
- If you can spell it, you are a better man than I. This has replaced Winamp for me. Great audio player. It doesn't use as much resources as Winamp 5 although I wish they put more work into a playlist/library manager aspect of the player. It feature great skin support, plugin support, visualizations, and built in encoding to/from different audio types.
http://www.quinnware.com/LeXpert
- LeXpert is a software program designed to assist word game enthusiasts in expanding their knowledge of words. It offers more than 3500 word lists and different ways of viewing these lists. Customized lists can be created based on patterns, cryptograms, anagrams, number of vowels, etc.
http://www.carolravi.com/ScrWeb/LeXpert/Default.aspxxplorer2
- This is an update of 2x Explorer. It is a two paned file manager. You'll never go back to Windows Explorer once you've tried an alternative file manager. This is the best I've found so far. It even has replaced Powerdesk for me. I'm going to try out the new 6.0 Release of Powerdesk ... but for now this file manager has been great.
http://netez.com/xplorer2/Bit Spirit (Freeware)
- Bit Torrent client
http://www.bytelinker.com/intl/foobar2000 (freeware)
- an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. some of the basic features include replaygain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.
http://www.foobar2000.orggVim (freeware)
- a hot text editor. it is basically an on-steroids version of the vi editor, with many features such as GUI support , online help and syntax highlighting. great for those who are more at home with the vi editor
EAC (freeware)
- an udio grabber for CD-ROM drives. the main differences between most other audio grabbers. it works with a new technology, reading audio CDs almost perfectly. if there are any errors that can't be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player
http://www.exactaudiocopy.deDVD Decrypter (freeware)
- a tool which enables you to decrypt and copy a DVD to your PC's hard disk.
http://www.dvddecrypter.comDVD Shrink (freeware)
- a software to backup DVD discs. you can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.
http://www.dvdshrink.orgDVD43Free (freeware)
- the FREE version of DVD43 that integrates into Windows and overrides copy-protection mechanisms found on DVDs. a region-freeing utility for your DVD drive
http://www.dvd43.com AVG Antivirus
Free antivirus. Excellent scanning and virus identification. And it's fast.
http://www.grisoft.com/Ad-Aware
Free Anti-spyware
http:/www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot Search & Destroy
Free Anti-spyware
http://www.safer-networking.org/PDF995
Free PDF writer
http://www.pdf995.com/Zoom Player
Fast and very efficient video player. No hassle.
Freeware. Payment needed for DVD features.
http://www.inmatrix.com/JetAudio
All around multimedia tool. Play, Record, Rip, Burn.
Free version available.
http://www.jetaudio.com/FastStone Image Viewer
Free image viewer with editing capabilities
http://www.faststoneserver.com/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
No intro needed for these
http://www.mozilla.org/Inno Setup Compiler
Make your own setup scripts (freeware)
http://www.jrsoftware.org/ISOBuster
The ultimate CD and DVD recovery tool
http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/Utimate Boot CD
Bootable CD with tons of diagnostics and troubleshooting utilities
http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/Total Commander
Shareware Norton-Commander clone for Windows. Don't use Windows without it.
http://www.ghisler.com/ZoneAlarm Firewall
Freeware firewall for Windows. A must-use if you connect to the Internet.
http://www.zonelabs.com/WordWeb
Freeware Dictionary and Thesaurus for Winows. Quite useful.
http://wordweb.info/free/Registry Commander
Nice Windows registry editor
http://www.aezay.dk/aezay/regcmd/K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
Free collection of codecs and related tools
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