Ultimate Freeware Collection
FREEWARE COLLECTION
AntivirusTrojan Removal- a² Free - a complementary product to antivirus software which is specialized in protection against harmful software. Antivirus software often features an inadequate protection against Trojans, Dialers and Spyware. a² fills this gap." - tg911
- Ewido Security Suite - removes Trojans, Worms, Dialers, Hijackers, Spyware and Keyloggers.
[b]Spyware Removal [*]Ad-Aware - Tutorial: Using Ad-Aware [*]IE-Spyad - Tutorial: Using IE-Spyad [*]Spybot - Search & Destroy - Tutorial: Using Spybot S&D [*]Spywareblaster - prevents spyware from being installed on your PC. - Tutorial: Using SpywareBlaster [*]Spywareguard - provides a real-time protection solution against spyware that is a great addition to SpywareBlaster's protection method. - Tutorial: Using SpywareGuard [*] WinPatrol - "WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Traditional security programs scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. WinPatrol takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge." [/list]Free Online Virus/Trojan/Spyware Scanners- a² - Malware & Security checks. On the right, under Quicklinks.
- aumha.org - Internet Explorer (IE) parasite scan
- BitDefender - virus scanner
- CastleCops - several scans under "Tool Kit', on the right, at the bottom of the page
- eTrust - Virus scanner - WhyBeNormal
- HouseCall - virus scanner
- HouseCall - Europe - virus scanner - Does not require the use of ActiveX controls. Uses Java instead. - joe53
- Jotti's scan - submit files to be scanned by multiple (14) scanners (AntiVir, ArcaVir, Avast, AVG, BitDefender, ClamAV, Dr.Web, Fortinet, F-Prot Antivirus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, NOD32, Norman Virus Control, UNA and VBA32)
- kephyr.com - PopUp Killer Test
- McAfee - virus, security and Wi-Fi scanners
- PandaSoftware - virus scanner
- PC Pitstop - several scans, on the left
- SpywareGuide - spyware scanner, on the left, under "Our Online Tools"
- SpywareInfo - spyware scanner, on the left, under "Site Navigation"
- Sygate - several different scans on the left
- Symantec.com - virus & security scanners
- Webroot Spy Audit - Spyware scanner. It will not remove or modify any files. - WhyBeNormal
- WindowSecurity - trojan scanner
Specific Virus Removal Tools - if you know what Virus you have, try here.FirewallsPC Security- CleanUp! - a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more. - WhyBeNormal
- Core Control - a full featured advanced security program, designed for Windows 95/98/ME Operating Systems. - acklan
- Eraser - an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. - jgweed
- Hide & Protect any Drives - Hide or restrict access to any drives, deny access to partitions, and stop unauthorized software installations and data leak by removable media. - acklan
- iProtectYou - allows parents to control which web sites can be visited, which programs can have Internet access, block e-mails, chat sessions and instant messages with inappropriate words, stop annoying ads, and/or restrict internet time to a predetermined schedule. - acklan
- MaxCrypt - an automated computer encryption tool that protects your PC. - tg1911
Hard Drive Utilites- Digital Dolly - hard-disk-partition, image, and cloning software that runs completely from a bootable CD-ROM. - acklan
- Ranish Partition Manager - Partition resizer, create, manager similar to Partition Magic but free!
- SequoiaView - an excellent utility to help you figure out what is taking up so much space on your hard drive. - ddeerrff
Web Browsers- Firefox - a highly customizable web browser, with tabbed browsing - JEservices
- Maxthon Internet Browser - tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine. - wng_z3r0
- Mozilla - " Web-browser built for 2004, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application--Mozilla." - Jgweed
- Netscape - Includes a browser, email client, and html composer - Bizrus
- Opera - JEservices
Email Clients & Tools- Eudora - Free mail client but is ad sponsored. ( Eudora has a lite version available... just download the current version, and if you can live without the spellchecker, you dont have to live with the ad screen, being there. Go to the help menu, after installing, and select "payment and registration". Then select "lite mode", and it will ask if you can live without all of the extras, just click on "reduce features" - rexifelis)
- Pegasus Mail - Bizrus
- Thunderbird - Open Source email client. - Jgweed
- OE Quick Backup - Backup Outlook Express mailboxes, settings, mail rules, etc.
Spell Checker & Dictionary- IESpell - A spelling checker for Internet Explorer. Works like the spell checker in M$ Office, right click and select Check Spelling. - Ronbo
- Magical Jellybean Dictionary - a freeware dictionary client for Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP, that connects to a dictionary server, and retrieves the definition from a database on the server. - Herk
- tinySpell - easily and quickly check the spelling of words in any Windows application. Monitors your typing on the fly, and alerts you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It also checks the spelling of every word you copy to the clipboard. - Wink
- Word Web - a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, that can be used to look up words from within most programs. - tg1911
Audio Applications- Audacity - a free audio editor. - tg911
- dBpowerAMP Audio Player - "dAP plays Mp3s, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Monkeys Audio, Real Audio, Wave and Midi, and many more" - tg911
- foobar2000 - an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. - agitarius
- iTunes - Music Player, Organizer, Tag Editor and online store. Only works with Windows XP. - Phawgg with clarifications from Jeservices
- Media Player Classic - The application has the same look and feel as the old light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4, but is a completely different application which has all the options and features one might expect from a modern media player. (Media Player Classic comes bundled with Real Alternative, so if you'd like both, just get RA) - WhyBeNormal
- Real Alternative - designed for playing RealMedia files, which normally require Real Player - WhyBeNormal
Video Apps- AVIcodec - Gives the codecs needed to play the file, and where to download those codecs if they are missing on your system.
- DVD Shrink - DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs
- MovieTrack - a freeware dvd database and general movie collection organizer, for Windows. - Ronbo
- TMPGEnc - converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.
- VideoLan - Stream DVDs and Videos over a network
- VirtualDub - " VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)"
CD & DVD Applications- CDex - a CD ripper and converter for Windows - tg1911
- Deep Burner - "A CD/DVD burning software that lets you create Data Cds, Bootable CDs, and Audio CDs as well as data DVDs. In addition, it lets you burn ISO files, and create ISO images. Also lets you design an auto start menu to launch documents or programs from the CD" - tg911
- DeepRipper - can convert music files from AudioCDs into practically any format you'd like, including: MP3, WAV, OGG, and others.
- TagMaster - lets you edit the ID3 tag in MP3 files, which contains information like the name of the artist, song, album, etc. - Bluie
Graphics Design and Editing- @icon sushi - "@icon sushi is an icon convert tool that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit icons."
- BatchRename - allows you rename all files or all image files in a folder, batch change extensions, and will automatically number each item in a series. - jgweed
- Blender - the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
- Dogwaffle - "A program designed for creative individuals who want to get down and dirty with their pixels." - tg911
- Dup Detector - will scan pictures within a file (including subfolders) and present potential duplicates for deletion. - jgweed
- FastStone Image Viewer - An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. - nosnhoj#3
- Gimp - " GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring."
- Icon Snatcher - "This one can pull icons from your own files to use to customize your folders." - Ronbo
- IrfanView - "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003." - ColdinCbus
- Paint Shop Pro - Free Trial
- PhotoPlus 6 - image editing software that enables you to create, manipulate and enhance photographs, bitmap graphics and web animations. (Registration Required) - cybormoron
- Pixia -"Pixia is the English version of a popular Japanese painting and retouch software for full color graphics. It supports mask, layer and many other editing functions." - tg911 and Ataryu
- Terragen - a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations.
- Xnview - you can quickly and easily view, process and convert image files. Will read more than 400 graphic file formats, and write to about 50. Will also display video formats. Also offers more advanced features such as Web page creation, contact prints, multiple conversion (format and transformation), slide shows, screen capturing and Twain support for scanners and digital cameras. - Herk
Office Applications- Abiword - Free word processor that can open and edit OpenOffice, Word, Rich Text Format, HTML, Wordperfect documents, Palm, web pages and many more
- CutePDF - Create PDF Documents
- EasyOffice - EasyOffice is an office suite compatible with Mcft Word and Excel, and Adobe PDF files. It functions as a complete standalone office suite, but also will co-exist well with Mcft Office. - tg911
- Open Office - Free Mcft Office alternative. Has the ability to open most mainstream document types and edit them. - JEservices
- PDF Creator - Freeware PDF creation through any Windows based program. - ColdinCbus
- Wink - A presentation program designed to make tutorials on how to use software. Can export these tutorials in Flash, EXE, and HTML.
- Rainlendar - Desktop calender for Windows, that's skinnable and able to synchronize with M$ Outlook's calender so you may see what your appointments are, without opening Outlook. - Ronbo
- Sunbird - Calendar program
File Compression and Archiving- ALZip - File compression utility that supports most standard compression formats.
- IZArc - File compression utility that supports most standard compression formats.
- WinRAR - click on the downloads tab and download the trial version (not the beta). You can use the full functionality forever. - Lanscader
Time & Weather- Atomic TimeSync - synchronize your system clock with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). - Herk
- ClocX - An analog clock application for Mcft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. - tg911
- ForecastFox - "This great little extension allows you to set it up so you can always view your local forecast in your Firefox Browser itself. The forecasts come straight from the Weather Channel's website." - tg911
- SysMetrix - Highly customizable, and skinnable clock. Can be customized to monitor the weather, your e-mail, cpu, memory usage and many other things, in addition to the time. - Ronbo
- Weather Pulse - A weather application
- WebTime2000 - WebTime 2000 is a small utility program that will synchronize your PC's internal clock with one of the several atomic clocks maintained by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Utilities- AM-DeadLink - detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. Checks Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape. - Ronbo
- Belarc Advisor - builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Mcft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. - Ronbo
- CoolMon 2 - a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else you wish to display on the desktop. - nosnhoj#3
- EVEREST Home Edition - a freeware system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users. Similar to Belarc, but much more comprehensive. - Herk
- Fass - a forum post editor & automated post generator. It also has a "Post Preview" feature, which shows your post as it will appear on forums. Designed for use with Invision Power Board, compatible with most forum software.
- HandyNotes - a small software program, that makes it easy to keep all your notes organized, in one easily accessible place. - Herk
- Magical Jellybean Keyfinder - a utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. - Herk
- MyUninstaller - Free app to remove entries from your Add/Remove Programs list.
- Netstat Live - a small, easy to use TCP/IP protocol monitor which can be used to see your exact throughput on both incoming and outgoing data - whether you're using a modem, cable modem, DSL, or even local network. Will also graph the CPU usage of your system. - Herk
- Pow - trainable, popup blocker for Internet Explorer. - Herk
- RealVNC - makes it possible to view, and fully-interact with, one computer from any other computer, or mobile device, anywhere on the Internet. - acklan
- TweakUI - This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. - Ronbo
Screen Capture Applications- Capture - a screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the active window, or the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing. - Herk
- Gadwin Print Screen - an easy to use utility, that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient of your choice. - cybormoron
- Screenhunter - screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. - cybormoron
Windows Desktop Customization- BootSkin - "These two are the full version and never expire, but are unsupported by the company. The bootskin will not work on every computer, from their literature; "Some drivers and bios makers "break the rules" which can cause BootSkin to not work correctly. If you experience that, you can try these alternative versions:" Unfortunately my HP was one of the ones that broke the rules so I don't know how this one works, but I can vouch for the rest." Information contributed by Ronbo
- CursorXP - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo
- Iconoid - Iconoid is a small program that helps reduce the clutter and confusion of the Windows desktop. - tg911
- Logon Studio - Never expires - Ronbo
- ObjectDock - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo
- WindowsBlinds - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo
Chat ClientsHTML & CSS EditorsWebsite Creation- ewisoft - Website creation tool. - CowsGoneMadd3
- Jalbum - "This one is pretty cool for making photo layouts for your website." - Ronbo
- SiteGenWiz - Site Creation Program. - Ronbo
File Transfer ProgramsProgramming Languages & IDE/EditorsTelnet Clients- Putty - Telnet and SSH Client
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