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Now Here's A List That Should Please Just About Anyone

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  • Started 7 months ago by FreewareFan
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  1. FreewareFan
    Member

    As some of you might recall, I've posted several freeware lists in the recent past. I structured those lists to be relevant to just one category of software at a time.

    I'm breaking tradition with this list. I thought that this time I would provide a list that covered many, many bases. This list, while not pretending to be the end-all of lists, certainly should provide most forum members with a very good reference for most categories of freeware.

    If you find yourself in a pickle and need to find a certain type of program fast, this just might be the 'go-to' list that you use. I hope it will be of use to some, if not all of you. As I said, it doesn't pretend to contain each and every freeware program in each category, just some that I consider to be useful.

    OK, well then, here we go....

    Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spyware

    Ad-Aware - http://lavasoft.element5.com/index.php
    AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
    Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - http://www.free-av.com/
    ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
    Comodo Antivirus - http://antivirus.comodo.com/
    HijackThis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis
    Spybot-S&D - http://www.spybot.info/en/home/index.html
    SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
    SpywareGuard - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
    Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/
    XPY - http://xpy.whyeye.org/

    Audio Players

    1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
    CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
    DeliPlayer - http://www.deliplayer.com/
    Delphamp - http://www.delphamp.com/
    Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.com/
    MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/
    musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
    Quintessential Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
    SongBird - http://www.songbirdnest.com/download
    XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/

    Audio Tools

    Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
    AutoFLAC - http://legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&...mp;app=autoflac
    BonkEnc - http://www.bonkenc.org/index.php
    CDEx - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
    EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
    Floola - http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/
    MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
    Mp3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
    YamiPod - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/
    Yammy - http://yammy.sourceforge.net/

    Benchmarking / Hardware Info

    CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
    Futuremark - http://www.futuremark.com/products/
    HDDScan - http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/
    HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/
    Nero CD-DVD Speed - http://www.cdspeed2000.com/
    Nero InfoTool - http://www.nero.com/nero7/deu/Info_Tool.html
    PC WIZARD 2007 - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
    RightMark Utilities - http://www.rightmark.org/
    SIV System Information Viewer - http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
    SIW System Information for Windows - http://www.gtopala.com/

    Bittorent Clients

    µTorrent - http://utorrent.com/index.php
    Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php
    BitComet - http://www.bitcomet.com/
    BitSpirit - http://www.167bt.com/intl/
    BitTorrent - http://www.bittorrent.com/
    Deluge - http://www.deluge-torrent.org/
    Halite - http://www.binarynotions.com/halite.php
    Rufus - http://rufus.sourceforge.net/

    CD & DVD Burning

    Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
    CDBurnerXP Pro - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php
    cdrtfe - http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/
    DeepBurner - http://www.deepburner.com/
    ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
    Infra Recorder - http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
    Small CD-Writer - unofficial translation - http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=7564

    Compression/Decompression

    7-zip - www.7-zip.org
    ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
    Far Manager - http://farmanager.com/
    WinUHA - http://winuha.com
    UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
    Universal Extractor - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=62418

    Data Backup & Recovery

    DriveImage XML - http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
    PC INSPECTOR File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
    Recuva - http://www.recuva.com/
    Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
    SelfImage - http://selfimage.excelcia.org/
    TestDisk and PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/
    Undelete Plus - http://www.undelete-plus.com/

    Download Manager

    DownThemAll - Firefox extension - http://www.downthemall.net/
    FlashGet - http://flashget.com/
    Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
    LeechGet Personal Edition - http://www.leechget.net/en/
    Orbit Downloader - http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
    Wackget - http://millweed.com/
    Wget - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
    wGetGUI - http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/
    WinWGet - http://www.cybershade.us/winwget/

    Encryption

    FreeOTFE - http://www.freeotfe.org/
    KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
    Steganos LockNote - http://www.steganos.com/?content=locknote&language=en
    TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

    File Tools

    A43 File Management Utility - http://www.primitus.us/a43/
    Ant Renamer - http://www.antp.be/software/renamer
    CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ce/about
    Directory Lister - http://www.krksoft.com/index.html
    ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/
    freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/
    LS File List Generator - http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/
    ReNamer - http://www.den4b.com/
    UltraExplorer - http://www.mustangpeak.net/ultraexplorer.html
    WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

    Firewall

    Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.comodogroup.com/
    Outpost Firewall Free - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/index.php
    Safety.Net - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
    SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
    ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/

    FTP

    Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

    Graphics

    ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/
    AveIconifier2 - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=15304
    Blender - http://www.blender.org/
    Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
    hugin - Panorama Tools GUI - http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
    InkScape - http://www.inkscape.org/
    IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/
    Jahshaka - http://www.jahshaka.org/
    OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org/
    Paint.NET - http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
    PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
    Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/
    Google SketchUp - http://www.sketchup.com/
    Scratch - http://scratch.media.mit.edu/
    TuxPaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org/
    XnView - http://www.xnview.com/

    GUI

    Adolix Wallpaper Changer - http://www.adolix.com/wallpaper-changer/
    AveDesk - http://www.avedesk.org/
    CD Art Display - http://www.closetosoftware.com/
    Crawlpaper - http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawlpaper/
    Deskloops - http://www.xilokit.com/deskloops/deskloops.html
    Desktop List View - http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/index.php
    Dexpot - http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home
    DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/
    Flickr Wallpaper Rotator - http://www.rushfrisby.com/apps/Flickr-Wallpaper-Rotator.aspx
    FlyakiteOSX - http://osx.portraitofakite.com/
    John's Background Switcher - http://www.johnsadventures.com/backend/BackgroundSwitcher/
    ObjectDock - http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/
    Pitaschio - http://pitaschio.ara3.net/index.htm
    Power Dimmer - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/
    PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
    RK Launcher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/
    RocketDock - http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock
    Switcher - http://insentient.net/index.html
    Tango Shell Patcher - http://vertigosity.benpbrown.com/?page=start
    TaskSwitchXP - http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html
    XPize - http://xpero.msfn.org/
    Yahoo! Widgets - http://widgets.yahoo.com/
    VirtuaWin - http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
    Vista Transformation Pack - http://www.windowsxlive.net/?page_id=15

    Instant Messaging

    aMSN - MSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
    Gaim - Multi-Protocol support - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
    miniaim - AIM - http://miniaim.net/
    Miranda - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.miranda-im.org/
    Trillian - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

    IRC Client

    Bersirc - http://bersirc.free2code.net/index.php/home/
    HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
    KVIRC - http://www.kvirc.net/
    X-Chat - http://www.xchat.org/
    X-Chat 2 - http://www.silverex.org/news/

    Network Tools

    Ethereal - Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
    Knocker - Port Scanner - http://knocker.sourceforge.net/index.php
    Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
    OCS Inventory - Inventory - http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/
    OmniPeek Personal - http://www.omnipeek.com/omnipeek_personal.php
    Show Traffic - Traffic Analyzer - http://www.demosten.com/index.html
    SmartSniff - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/smsniff.html
    Snort - IDS - http://snort.org/
    SoftPerfect Network Scanner - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/
    The Dude - http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
    Wireshark - http://www.wireshark.org/

    Notepad Replacements

    metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
    Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
    Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

    Office

    AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/
    doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com/
    Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
    Gnumeric - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
    Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/index.php
    OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
    PDFCreator - http://www.pdfforge.org/

    RSS

    FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/
    GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/index.html
    RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/

    System Utilities

    Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php
    CamStudio - http://www.camstudio.org/
    CCleaner - http://ccleaner.com/
    Convert - http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/
    Event Log Explorer - http://www.eventlogxp.com/
    HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/
    JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
    Neoshooter - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=161346
    nCleaner - http://nkprod.ro/ncleaner/
    NirSoft Utilities - http://www.nirsoft.net/
    Revo Uninstaller - http://www.revouninstaller.com/index.html
    Rumshot - http://shellscape.org/rumshot/
    Sandboxie - http://www.sandboxie.com/
    Sizer - http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html
    Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...itiesindex.mspx
    Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
    VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/
    Window Clippings - http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/t...gs/default.aspx

    Web Browsers

    Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
    K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
    Opera - http://www.opera.com/

    VoIP

    Gizmo - http://www.gizmoproject.com/
    Skype - http://www.skype.com/
    VoipStunt - http://www.voipstunt.com/
    WengoPhone - http://www.wengo.com/

    Video Players

    GOM Player - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
    Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
    MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/
    MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/
    KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php
    rulesPlayer - http://rulesplayer.lessequal.com/
    VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    Zoom Player (Standard) - http://www.inmatrix.com/

    Video Tools

    Any Video Converter - http://www.any-dvd-converter.com/
    AutoGK - http://www.autogk.me.uk/
    BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
    Dr.DivX - http://labs.divx.com/DrDivX
    DVD43 - http://www.dvd43.com/
    DVDFab Decrypter - http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm
    DVD-Rebuilder - http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/
    GSpot Codec Information Appliance - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
    MediaCoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
    MKVToolnix - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
    RatDVD- http://www.ratdvd.dk/download.htm
    StaxRip - http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
    Videora Converter - http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/
    VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

    Well, that does it for this time, and if you find it to be useful to ya, just drop a quarter in the bucket on the way out.. :-)

    Posted 7 months ago #

  2. Whiterabbit-uk
    Member

    Hey wheres the games, lol.

    Wow, what a comprehensive list of software man. That's going to take some time to work through. :) Thank you for all the time and effort you've put into this.

    WR

    p.s.

    From the list above I found three excellent HDD tools (HDDfirmware updater, HDD Tune and HDD Scan) I've become much more aware of how important it is to look after your HDD's after losing a series of them over a short period (probably due to poor cooling as they were all from the same computer), one of which had around 200G of data that I'd stupidly not got around to backing up, and some of which was no longer available. Even several recovery programs couldn't help with that one. :( Thanks again FF you are a star.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  3. BuBBy
    Administrator

    I forgive you FF, this one is before your time :P

    Apps
    http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/684

    Games
    http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/686

    Posted 7 months ago # | Login to Send PM

  4. RunesageMagik
    Member

    Bubby, fwiw, I've recently referred to Wolven's post #684 twice, once when writing directly to FwF. I think his zeal is slightly out of phase with his memory bank, not that there's anything wrong with that. :-)

    Posted 7 months ago #

  5. FreewareFan
    Member

    Yep, out of phase is a good way to put it... Too many irons in the fire, and this is the result.

    Well, maybe the list will still be of use to newer forum members who did not get it the first time around..

    Posted 7 months ago #

  6. Archangel
    Member

    Wow, I'm on a BlackBerry and came to browse the new post and saw This and had to say thanks. I'll be following the links when I get home.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  7. goodgotd
    Member

    I just posted some stuff on the freeware list home BuBBy pointed out, might give it a gander... :-)

    Posted 7 months ago #

  8. scubaguy
    Member

    @ FreewareFan
    Yippeeeeeee, I'm first to comment What!!! No screensavers?? and how come you didn’t even review each of these sites? Are these trial versions???? Can't find the registration # anywhere...are you sure these are free and I don't have to....

    Oooops..ohh ahhh!!!Sorry..thought this was the comment's page. LOL!!!

    Great list,with this and the games from the other thread I'll never get any sleep.

    Thanks FF

    Posted 7 months ago #

  9. Lockett
    Member

    Thanks! I especially liked PowerMenu and XMPlay. ArtRage isn't freeware, though, and a few of the sites are defunct.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  10. goodgotd
    Member

    all active links, all free. note you have to enable both 'filenote' and 'copy file name' in 'shell tools' for filenote to work right. I'll be reporting that buglet, I will.

    shell tools

    CROA - http://davidcrowell.com/archive/2007/03/11/Croa.aspx
    Shell Tools - http://www.moonsoftware.com/shelltools.asp
    FileMenu Tools - http://www.lopesoft.com/en/index.html
    ShellMenuView - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_view.html
    File Association Editor - http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/fileasoc.html
    Madotate with english interface - http://davc73.free.fr/madotate/Madotate_2.02.02.zip
    Madotate english description - http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/60/80/

    Office Suite

    SSuite Office-The Fifth Element - http://ssuite5element.webs.com/thefifthelement.htm

    System Snapshot Tool

    Regshot (english news) - http://regshot.blog.googlepages.com/regshot

    Posted 7 months ago #

  11. FreewareFan
    Member

    Thanks for the update, goodgotd!!

    Posted 7 months ago #

  12. goodgotd
    Member

    Well, it passed without a ripple on http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/684, so I boiled it down, and dropped the basics in here. Only one not yet personally used is the SA office suite.

    Filenote from 'shell tools' (Moon Software just stopped carrying the standalone, 206k 1999 version- should I post where it's still available, or just host it someplace, you think?) I use every day, along with parts of filemenu tools- 'create new folder', 'command line here' and 'delete and no move to recycle bin' get heavy use and I add 'open with notepad' to my R-C menu asap for .nfo. .ini and .reg file view & edit use.

    Much better than the windows stock methods.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  13. goodgotd
    Member

    hmm, another question, another handful of 'oh, yeah...'.

    compression:
    AlZip - http://www.altools.net ok, free registration, never been spammed.
    Sort of like FreshDevices but less annoying.

    actually, http://www.altools.net also has:
    ALSong - Live Lyrics MP3 Player
    ALShow - Movie Player
    ALSee - Picture Viewer
    ALFTP - FTP Client & Server
    ALPass - Secure Login & Password Manager (IE only)

    file hosting:
    theonlinedatastorage http://www.theonlinedatastorage.com 1.24 gigabyte limit!
    sendspace - http://www.sendspace.com 300 meg limit, low hassle

    video recode:
    Dr. DivX OSS v2.0.1 b5 - http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/drdivx/drdivx2-2.0.1-b5-setup.exe
    WinFF - http://www.biggmatt.com
    Alltoavi - http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/index.php

    video dub-edit (no recoding) for mpeg/mpg:
    Free Fast MPEG Cut 2.4.2.1 - http://planetmirror.com/pub/freewarefiles/FreeFastMpegCut.exe

    video dub-edit (no recoding) for avi:
    Free Video Dub 1.2.1.1 - http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Dub.htm
    SolveigMM AVI Trimmer 1.5 - http://www.solveigmm.com/?Products&p=AVITrimmer

    <sigh> ok, http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm also has:
    Free YouTube to iPod and PSP Converter 2.8.3.1
    Free Audio Dub 1.2.1.1
    Free Video to Flash Converter 3.1.3.1
    Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 2.4.3.1
    Free DVD Decrypter 1.2.3.1
    Free 3GP Video Converter 2.4.3.1
    Free Video Flip and Rotate 1.2.3.1
    Free YouTube Download 1.2.3.1
    Free YouTube Uploader 1.5.3.1
    Free Video to iPod and PSP Converter 2.4.3.1
    Free Video to iPhone Converter 1.3.3.1
    Free Video to MP3 Converter 2.8.3.1
    Free Video to JPG Converter 1.2.3.1
    Free YouTube to iPhone Converter 1.3.3.1
    Free Studio Manager 2.2.1.1 (launcher for the rest)

    Posted 7 months ago #

  14. goodgotd
    Member

    update here: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/684/page/2?replies=48#post-16220

    Posted 7 months ago #

  15. lylcoop
    Member

    No games?! What about the games!?

    Posted 6 months ago #

  16. goodgotd
    Member

    search for freeware games list?

    Posted 6 months ago #

  17. lylcoop
    Member

    lol i am i am

    Posted 5 months ago #

  18. fullbug
    Member

    Here is one to add to the firewall list, Online Armor, been using it for months and I'm REALLY impressed with it....
    http://online-armor.com/

    Posted 5 months ago #

  19. Jaddis
    Member

    Great list FreewareFan. Thanks!

    Posted 5 months ago #

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