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Started 16 years ago by FreewareFan
Latest reply from Jaddis

FreewareFan
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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 - http://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 16 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

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 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

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 16 years ago #
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 16 years ago #
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 16 years ago #
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 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

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

Posted 16 years ago #
scubaguy (R.I.P.)
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 16 years ago #
Lockett
Member

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

Posted 16 years ago #
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 16 years ago #
FreewareFan
Member

Thanks for the update, goodgotd!!

Posted 16 years ago #
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 16 years ago #
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 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

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

Posted 16 years ago #
lylcoop
Member

No games?! What about the games!?

Posted 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

search for freeware games list?

Posted 16 years ago #
lylcoop
Member

lol i am i am

Posted 16 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

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 16 years ago #
Jaddis
Member

Great list FreewareFan. Thanks!

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