thanks smart defrag added and tagged
ive not added windows one care as it has a reg cleaner in it ,i know , that app will not cause any harm ,but if i added it i would feel obliged to add other registry cleaners ,and they could cause harm in the wrong hands ,
thanks

pete21, that is a FANTASTIC list of freeware!!! Thanks to you and Badog for your hard work!!

Great List,,, But I would Leave OUt AVitra. I got done unilstalling it and moving over to AVG Much better. Avira did NOT detect any viruses or malware at all. After I installed AVG and started a scan it found tracking cookies wich Avira did not find at all. I would reccommend leaving it out..... All to be advised of this info.
Thanks Many

Master Mind

avira+avast are the most highly recommended ,and appear to hold up better than avg ,

as for tracking cookies they are nothing much to base a determination on what av is better than the other.
and thanks for liking the thread

ps

Tracking cookies may be used to track internet users' web browsing habits. This can also be done in part by using the IP address of the computer requesting the page or the referer field of the HTTP header, but cookies allow for a greater precision. This can be done for example as follows:

1. If the user requests a page of the site, but the request contains no cookie, the server presumes that this is the first page visited by the user; the server creates a random string and sends it as a cookie back to the browser together with the requested page;
2. From this point on, the cookie will be automatically sent by the browser to the server every time a new page from the site is requested; the server sends the page as usual, but also stores the URL of the requested page, the date/time of the request, and the cookie in a log file.

By looking at the log file, it is then possible to find out which pages the user has visited and in what sequence. For example, if the log contains some requests done using the cookie id=abc, it can be determined that these requests all come from the same user. The URL and date/time stored with the cookie allows for finding out which pages the user has visited, and at what time.

Third-party cookies and Web bugs, explained below, also allow for tracking across multiple sites. Tracking within a site is typically used to produce usage statistics, while tracking across sites is typically used by advertising companies to produce anonymous user profiles (which are then used to determine what advertisements should be shown to the user).

A tracking cookie may potentially infringe upon the user's privacy but they can be easily removed. Current versions of popular web browsers include options to delete 'persistent' cookies when the application is closed.

Nice list pete !!!

the point of this thread is to provide free software that will help the community,
im a big believer in things for free

if
you find any of these apps that are very good or just ok please comment
as i would like to rate them based on your findings,thanks

,Ok ★

,Fair★★

,Good ★★★

,Excellent ★★★★

,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★


criteria
it needs to be windows apps and free of adware and malware full versions only as in not limited trial versions for 30 days ect, and no registry cleaners

linux users go here ,thanks badog

a freeware site found by Black_Bilbo nice find mate

this site found by solerida nice find m8

another great site for freeware Bleeping computers


Antivirus Applications


avira,,Excellent ★★★★

Avast Free,,Excellent ★★★★

AVG Free - at the bottom of the page.
,Ok ★

Bitdefender Free
BitDefender Free Edition is your chance to use one of the world's most effective antivirus engines for free!
BitDefender
Free Edition uses the same ICSA Labs certified scanning engines found
in other BitDefender products, allowing you to enjoy basic virus
protection for no cost at all.

Comodo
Download
our free Firewall and AntiVirus to take the first step in protecting
your PC from malware, viruses, worms, and more. * Install the AntiVirus
as a standalone * Install the Firewall as a standalone* Install both
Firewall and AntiVirus
,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★


ThreatFire is
the perfect complement to your existing antivirus, and will protect you
between antivirus updates. It is fully compatible with most traditional
antivirus programs, and can run side-by-side with these programs
without conflict.[except avg] While the traditional programs will
protect only against known threats included in their signatures,
ThreatFire goes beyond and protects against new or unknown zero-day
threats as well.,
,Excellent ★★★★



Rising Antivirus Free
Edition 2009 protects your computers against all types of viruses,
Trojans, worms, rootkits and other malicious programs. Ease of use and
Smartupdate technology make it an "install and forget" product and
entitles you to focus on your own jobs with your computer.


Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft
Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that
guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
,
,Excellent ★★★★
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ThreatExpert Memory Scanner

ThreatExpert Memory Scanner
TEMS
provides a "post-mortem" diagnostic to detect a range of high-profile
threats that may be active in different regions of a computer’s memory.
This tool is designed to assist in answering a common question asked by
many customers whose systems have been infected by a threat: "Is my
system still infected?"


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anti malware apps for usb devices

Ninja Pendisk awaits
quietly in the system tray for the times whenever a USB pendisk is
inserted on the computer which will be examined to uncover the commonly
malicious or virulent files known as "autorun.inf" and "ctfmon.exe"
amongst many others.
To keep everything simple, Ninja Pendisk is self-contained, fully portable, and will require no installation.
Besides
removing known virulent files, Ninja Pendisk will also immunize your
pendisk and create a folder called autorun.inf with special protection
permissions to protect your pendisk from being infected again when
plugged on contaminated computers.

Flash Disinfector
is free autorun.inf trojans and USB/Flash disks trojans remover. This
is a program designed and developed by sUBs (author of combofix) to
clean autorun.inf trojans that are running on the system.
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Free Online Virus/Trojan/Spyware Scanners



Anubis
Anubis
is a service for analyzing malware. Alternatively, submit a suspicious
URL and receive a report that shows you all the activities of the
Internet Explorer process when visiting this URL.

BitDefender - virus scanner

ESET Online Scanner is a user friendly, free and powerful tool

eTrust - Virus scanner

F-Secure - virus scanner

HouseCall - virus scanner

Jotti's scan - submit files to be scanned by multiple scanners

kephyr.com - PopUp Killer Test

McAfee - virus, security and Wi-Fi scanners, under "Free Services"

PC Pitstop - several scans, on the left, under "Tests and Scans"

SpywareGuide - spyware scanner, on the right

Virustotal - submit suspicious files to be scanned by multiple Antivirus/Spyware scanners
SUPERAntiSpyware Online Scan.
The scanner will detect AND remove over 1,000,000 spyware/malware
infections. The scanner does NOT install anything on your Start Menu or
Program Files and does NOT need to be uninstalled.solerida


WindowSecurity - trojan scanner

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Spyware/Malware 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.",,Good ★★★

Ad-Aware Real-time protection against spyware, trojans,rootkits, hijackers, keyloggers, and more!,Ok ★

comodo
removes malware and registry entries, doesn't require a reboot to
remove all traces, daily malware database updates, optional rollback of
update to an earlier version, sweeps and detects INSTANTLY in the
background,

Combofix is
a freeware (a legitimate spyware remover created by sUBs), Combofix was
designed to scan a computer for known malware, spyware (SurfSideKick,
QooLogic, and Look2Me as well as any other combination of the mentioned
spyware applications) and remove them.
ComboFix allows the manual
removal of spyware infections . It 's a specialized effective cleaning
tool, which is useful compared to other malware and spyware removers.
After Combofix finished,a report will be created. You can use
guide for using combo fix


CWShredder
removes these browser hijackers. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of
bookmarks–mostly to porn Web sites–on your desktop, changes your home
page without asking, and continually changes it back if you attempt to
correct it. Furthermore, it significantly slows down the performance of
your PC, and introduces modifications which cause Microsoft Windows™ to
freeze, crash or randomly reboot.,,Good ★★★

FREE Dr.Web CureIt!® Utility
Easy
to use FREE curing utility to clean your computer infected with viruses
and various unwanted codes by the Dr.Web Anti-virus updated once or
several times an hour.

GMER
GMER is an application that detects and removes rootkits .

IObit Security 360
IObit
Security 360 is an advanced malware & spyware removal utility that
detects, removes the deepest infections, and protects your PC from
various of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, bots, worms,
and hijackers. With the unique "Dual-Core" engine and the heuristic
malware detection, IObit Security 360 detects the most complex and
deepest spyware and malware in a very fast and efficient way. IObit
Security 360 has a real-time malware protection and frequent updating
for prevention of zero-day security threats. Designed for Windows® 7,
Vista™, XP and 2000 (32bit and 64bit), IObit Security 360 can work with
your Antivirus for a superior PC security.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a surprisingly effective freeware antimalware tool.",,Excellent ★★★★

RemoveIT Pro program
is specific because he detects malicious files and viruses that many
other popular programs does not detect. It also offers you full report
of active processes with full paths and full windows startup list of
files that starts on windows startup.
with vista run as administrator,,Ok ★

Spybot - Search & Destroy Application to scan for spyware, adware, hijackers and other malicious software.,,Good ★★★

Spywareblaster - prevents spyware from being installed on your PC.
,,Good ★★★

Spyware Terminator
- Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page
hijackers and other malware threats. Real-Time Protection is included
in the basic version. -,Ok ★

SuperAntiSpyware - free edition bottom right,,Good ★★★


VundoFix.exe
VundoFix.exe is a removal tool developed to remove Virtumonde infections.
If
you are infected, you will be bombarded with popups for WinFixer,
Amaena, WinAntiVirus, ErrorSafe, SystemDoctor and DriveCleaner.
Downloading
and running these Fraudware applications will result in a fake scan
telling you that you are infected with malware then telling you that
you need to buy their program to remove the malware that it found. DO
NOT BUY THESE PROGRAMS. They are scams and will not remove anything but
could possibly make your infection worse. ,,Good ★★★

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.

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Specific Virus Removal Tools - if you know what Virus you have, try here.

AVG

BitDefender

McAfee

Panda?
Symantec

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Firewalls

PC Tools Firewall Plus is
a powerful free personal firewall for Windows® that protects your
computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your
computer through the Internet or a network.,,Excellent ★★★★

Comodo Firewall -,The Mutz-Nutz ★★★★★



Jetico Personal Firewall

Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5 (last freeware version)
OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2000/XP
Kerio
Personal Firewall is a small and easy to use system designed for
protecting a personal computer against hacker attacks and data leaks.
It is based on the ICSA certified technology used in the WinRoute
firewall. The firewall itself runs as a background service, using a
special low-level driver loaded into the system kernel

Outpost Firewall Free

Online Armor Free
Online
Armor's broad range of features help keep you safe when suring the
internet. Not all features are available in Online Armor Free. For a
list of which features are not included


sunbelt firewall

R-Firewall
R-Firewall
is an effective and easy-to-use solution to secure your on-line
activity. It protects a computer connected to a local network and/or to
the Internet against any intrusions, attacks, trojans, spyware, and
other external and internal threats. R-Firewall also filters out
inappropriate Internet pages content and blocks dangerous active
components you may get while browsing over the Internet or receiving
e-mail massages



Sygate Free,,Good ★★★

Windows 7 Firewall Control Free (32-bit version)
Want
fine-grained control over the firewall built into Windows 7 and Windows
Vista--especially the way it blocks outbound connections? Good luck.
Even if you manage to unearth the controls buried deep in Windows menus
and applications, you'll be baffled. Windows 7 Firewall Control Free
solves the problem for you.


Windows 7 Firewall Control Free (64-bit version)
Windows
7 Firewall Control Free lets you tell the Windows firewall to block
applications from making outbound connections to the Internet, or to
customize the way they make those connections. Outbound filters like
this are important, because if you've been infected with a Trojan or
similar software, that malware makes an outbound connection without
your knowledge, letting someone else take control of your PC. Some
malware can also turn your PC into a spam-spewing robot, sending out
email without your knowledge.


zone alarm firewall,
,Good ★★★
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LIVE CD'S

Avira AntiVir Rescue System
Avira
AntiVir Rescue System is a Linux-based application that allows
accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible
to:repair a damaged system,, rescue data,scan the system for virus
infections.
Just double-click on the rescue system package to burn it to a CD/DVD. You can then use this CD/DVD to boot your computer.

F-Secure Rescue CD
Rescue CD scans the computer and renames all files containing malware to .virus file extension.
Rescue
CD will by default scan: all hard drives in the computer: all USB
drives attached to the computer:Windows FAT and NTFS drives : Virus
definition databases are updated automatically if the computer has an
internet connection

Dr.Web LiveCD!
If
your Windows or Linux system has been rendered non-bootable by malware,
restore it for FREE with Dr.Web LiveCD..Dr.Web LiveCD will clean your
computer of infected and suspicious files, help you copy important
information to a removable data storage device or another computer, and
then attempt to cure infected objects.

Hiren's BootCD
Hiren's
BootCD is a live CD containing various diagnostic programs such as
partitioning agents, system performance benchmarks, disk cloning and
imaging tools, data recovery tools, MBR tools, BIOS tools, and many
others for fixing various computer problems.[2] As it is a bootable CD,
it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted.
Hiren's Boot CD has an extensive list of software. Utilities with
similar functionality on the CD are grouped together and seem
redundant; however, they present choices through different UIs and
options in what they can do.





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PC Security

Active@ KillDisk -
powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data
on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of
future recovery of deleted files and folders

Core Control - a full featured advanced security program, designed for Windows 95, 98, and ME Operating Systems

DBAN
Darik's
Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely
wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and
completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect,
which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data
destruction.


DeleteOnClick -
completely deletes files in one click rather than sending the file to
the recycle bin. The data becomes unrecoverable. For this reason you
must use this program carefully.[4th one down]

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.

EULAlyzer -
can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed
listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the
software you're about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits
personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers to track
you, or much much more.

heidi Eraser is
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. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME,
NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.

HijackThis™is
a free utility that generates an in depth report of registry and file
settings from your computer. HijackThis makes no separation between
safe and unsafe settings in its scan results giving you the ability to
selectively remove items from your machine.>>Badog


Hotspot Shield.
* Access all of your favorite content privately
* Secure your web session with HTTPS encryption
* Hide your IP address for your privacy online
* Protect yourself from snoopers at Wi-Fi hotspots, hotels, airports, corporate offices and ISP hubs.
* Secure your data & personal information online,,Good ★★★

iSpy
iSpy
uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or
sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting
services. Any media that is captured is compressed to flash video and
available over the web or via the built in web server. iSpy can run on
multiple computers simultaneously and you can use the built-in
webserver or this website to view captured media, live webcam feeds and
control iSpy remotely. iSpy is free, open-source software, so if you
want it to do anything else, please download the source code and
customise it to your requirements.
more info on how to set it up here

ItsHidden.
ItsHidden.com
is the ultimate FREE surfing privacy service on the Internet with huge
capacity and no complicated software to install, you already have
everything you need on your computer right now! * ItsHidden.com is fast
and reliable with over 5 Gigabits of Dedicated Bandwidth
Instant
access,Total Privacy, no records of your surfing are kept by us,No
Software is needed.128 Bit Secure Connection to ensure privacy over all
networks,,Good ★★★





Rohos Mini Drive creates
hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work
with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special
program. Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive
and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB
stick without the hidden volume that is created using this tool.


KL-Detector- detect keylogging activity on your computer!

TimeSnapper is
an Automatic Screenshot Journal. It runs in the background of your
computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week
long.

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File Encryption


AxCrypt -
a powerful, yet extremely easy to use file encryption program. It
integrates directly with Windows Explorer, enabling encryption,
decryption, viewing and editing of any file with just a few clicks of
the mouse.

Cryptainer
Phenomenally
easy to use, Cryptainer LE's encryption works with all 32 bit versions
of Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista) and with all
known file types. Cryptainer allows you to password protect and secure
any file or folder on any media, including removable drives (Flash
Drives, CD ROM's etc.)


PowerCrypt -
a powerful file encoder. Make sure your files are protected with a 100%
secure encryption algorithm, which is not resolveable by NSA nor CIA.

True Crypt - # Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed


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Hard Drive & System Utilites

Auslogics Disk Defrag - designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks.

Clonezilla
You're
probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package
Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The
problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to
massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard
of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate
Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone
system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and
multicasting!



Defraggler
It
differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to
quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to
process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment
in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool! freekjason


BootSafe takes
the hassle out of rebooting in Safe Mode or back to Normal mode.
BootSafe is 100% free and contains no adware, spyware or malware! No
more fighting with the F8 key or MSCONFIG!

DAMN NFO Viewer
is an utility designed for viewing text files containing ASCII Art
(e.g. nfo files), and it proved itself to be handy.,,Good ★★★


Drive Manager - has been written to help you easily identify drives which are of the same type

S.M.A.R.T.
(Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is implemented
into almost all of the modern hard disks. A special program inside the
disk constantly keeps tracking the condition of a range of the vital
parameters: temperature, disk heads, surface state, electronics, etc.
At the present time, S.M.A.R.T. technology is able to predict up to 70%
of all hard disk problems! However, to use this information, you have
to retrieve it from the disk and analyze it. This is one of the
DriveSMART program's tasks.

DShutdown- a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many specific options.

EasyBCD dual-booting
EasyBCD
is NeoSmart Technologies' multiple award-winning answer to tweaking the
new Windows Vista bootloader. With EasyBCD, almost anything is
possible. Setting up and configuring Windows boot entries is simple,
and there is no easier way to quickly boot right into Linux, Mac OS X,
or BSD straight from the Windows Vista bootloader - on the fly, no
expert knowledge needed!


ERUNT - registry backup tool -

GParted -
an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing,
moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them.
This is useful for creating space for new operating systems,
reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and
mirroring one partition with another

HDDScan -
a freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics. Supports
IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard
disks, flash cards.

HDTune -software for testing the HD in the PC. Gives good analysis of the drives sector issues.

JkDefrag - disk defragment and optimization utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64

MicroSoft's Memory Test - tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors.
PC INSPECTOR - a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

Process Explorer - shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded

ProcessLibrary -
Gain insight on any process through easy and quick search feature that
queries over 9000 entries in processlibrary.com database directly -
Windows 2000/2003/XP

Ranish Partition Manager - Partition resizer, create, manager similar to Partition Magic but free

Smart Defrag
Keep your hard disk running at peak performance.
Designed for Windows 7, Vista™, XP, 2000, and Windows Server Editions (32bit and 64bit),,OnTimeTechGuy

SpeeDefrag - a program, which restarts your computer and runs only defrag.exe with optimized windows settings

Swissknife -
can create, delete and format partitions on your hard disk drives.
Supports Internal interfaces such as IDE and SCSI and External
interfaces such as Hi-Speed USB, Parallel port, PCMCIA, USB On-The-Go,
Firewire®, SATA interfaces etc. Creates Fixed and Removable Disk Format
types. - Windows 98/XP/Mac OS/Linux

Unknown Device Identifier -
Identify unknown devices not recognized by Windows in your system
especially after you reinstall your system and cannot figure out what
all those yellow question mark labeled devices really are.

Vision - Reports all open TCP and UDP ports and maps them to the owning process or application.

WinDriversBackup Personal
Edition 1.0.9 (last freeware version) - for backing up your Windows
system driver files. It can also scan for, and back up, third party
non-Microsoft drivers.


HashTab -
Very handy if you do lots of file transfers and want to check to ensure
the file hasn't been corrupted. Adds a tab to the file properties
window with the files hash (or signature) information (such as md5 and
sha). freekyjason

ToolTipFixer - fixes the annoying bug where the tool tips sometimes come up underneath the taskbar instead of on top! (Win95 -> WinXP) freekyjason

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System Information

Belarc Advisor -
builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware,
including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web
browser.

CoolMon
CoolMon
is a program for monitoring vital system stats and almost anything else
you wish to display on the desktop. It can also display stats from
remote pc's and publish real-time stats on a webpage. The application
can display CPU, RAM and page file usage, hard drive usage, MotherBoard
Monitor temperatures and fan speeds, various network stats and much,
much more.


CPU-Z - gathers information on some of the main devices of your system; CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and System

GPU-Z - Like CPU-Z but for Graphics cards. freekyjason


pc wizard Since
1996 PC WIZARD is among the most advanced system information programs
on the market. PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially
for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to
identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest
technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually
once per month) in order to provide most accurate results. ,,Good ★★★

Double Driver -
you can view which drivers are installed in your system and you can
backup the drivers you choose, save and print the drivers list, and more

EVEREST Home
Edition is a freeware system information, system diagnostics and
benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning
EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate system
information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features,
memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware
information.


Free PC Audit
is a freeware system, hardware and software information tool. It
extracts details of all components of the PC, shows installed software
with version and product key. Free PC Audit does not require
installation and can be used as a portable application. It can be run
from a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM drive, USB flash
drive, flash card, or floppy disk.


SIW - This program performs computer configuration, analysis, and diagnostics.

SpeedFan - monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips

System Spec -
lets you can see, save and print a complete spec of your PC with this
no-install, system information utility and perform various windows
functions. Additional advanced info includes CPU, drives, apps,
display, memory and more

VSO-Inspector
is a free add-on to report various information about your hardware
configuration. Using this freeware, you can check the listed cd and dvd
readers and writers connected to your computer, check the firmware
used. The details about the media used and the speed supported by a
given writer with this media. Also you can scan a burnt media for read
errors and be confident about the readibility of your fresh backup.brundlfly


What's Running -
a product that gives you an inside look into your Windows 2000/XP/2003
system. Explore processes, services, modules, IP-connections, drivers
and much more

WinAudit -
a self-contained (no setup required) PC audit, and inventory of
software, licenses, security configuration, hardware, network settings

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File Compression and Archiving

7-Zip - a file archiver with high compression ratio.

ExtractNow - will let you extract multiple archives with the ease of a single click.

FilZip - an
archiving utility (zip tool) that can open various archive types. It
offers Windows integration, drag and drop, encryption, multi-extract
and more.

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
,Good ★★★

Zipeg
Zipeg
allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives,
preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only
the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails.
Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose
what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop
them. Windows: XP and Vista, Mac OS X: Tiger and Leopard.


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File/Folder Utilities

3DMark03 Free Version
3DMark03
Free Version - a benchmarking program that includes a collection of 3D
tests, a set of CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tests, and
sound tests,ect

AllDup
AllDup is a free tool that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your PC.


Cobian Backup -
a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your
files and directories from their original location to other
directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your
network

Delete Doctor - Delete files that are difficult to delete, such as some files left by viruses and trojans, or files with corrupted file names


Digital Dolly - hard-disk-partition, image, and cloning software that runs completely from a bootable CD-ROM.

Gizmo Central
Gizmo
Central is a unified set of utilities designed for powers users.
Included with this free suite of tools are some essential features that
make your daily computational chores a little bit easier and a lot more
fun. Gizmo allows you to mount ISO, VHD, and BIN images to a virtual
CD-ROM device. You can create encrypted virtual hard drive images to
protect your important files from prying eyes. The hashing module gives
you the ability to calculate MD5 and SHA-1 values for any file on your
computer, or for an entire CD-ROM disc. The script module automates
your repetitive day-to-day tasks by simulating mouse movements and
keystrokes. Database tools are included too, as well as a handy launch
bar, synchronization tools, and an editor that supports hex editing and
syntax highlighting (PHP, PERL, JavaScript, HTML, XML).....SoulOfANewMachin...


HostsMan - a hosts file manager and editor

HashMyFiles
HashMyFiles
is small utility that allows you to calculate the MD5 and SHA1 hashes
of one or more files in your system. You can easily copy the MD5/SHA1
hashes list into the clipboard, or save them into text/html/xml file.
HashMyFiles
can also be launched from the context menu of Windows Explorer, and
display the MD5/SHA1 hashes of the selected file or folder. Mazuki
File Recovery:
Recuva
- I can't vouch for this one but its made by Piriform (the people who
do Ccleaner & Defraggler (both of which I swear by) so should be
good I reckon.freekyjason


Lupas Rename is a FREEWARE program developed to rename a big number of files.
It works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2K and WinXP.

MDI Viewer - allows you to view .MDI files
It is a simple .EXE file and doesn't need any other external libraries.

ReNamer -
a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the
standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes,
replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add
number sequences, change file extensions, etc

MyUninstaller is
an alternative utility to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows
operating system. It displays the list of all installed application,
and allows you to uninstall an application, delete an uninstall entry,
and save the list of all installed applications into a text file or
HTML file.


Revo Uninstaller helps
you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on
your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot
uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel
applet.,,Good ★★★



SequoiaView - an excellent utility to help you figure out what is taking up so much space on your hard drive.

Snap Backup - The One-Click Backup Utility that makes it simple to protect your important work

FreeUndelete restores
deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In
case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (default for Windows
Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file systems this is the
utility to help.


Unlocker - Remove, hard to Delete, files and folders.,Good ★★★

vLite - Vista Lite
vLite is a tool for customizing the Windows Vista installation before actually installing it.


WinDirStat - a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows - Windows 95/98SE/ME/NT4(SP5)/2000/XP/Server 2003

WinMerge -
a visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms.
It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project
versions, and then merging changes between versions.

WizMouse is
a tiny freeware utility that has a single, simple, function--if you
hover your mouse over an inactive window, and use the mouse scroll
wheel, it will scroll that window while keeping it inactive. This can
be a boon for anyone copying text manually from an inactive window to
an active one, or who needs to see data in one window (perhaps one
partially obscured) while reading or working in another. It even
scrolls applications that don't offer mousewheel support by converting
the wheel to clicks on the scroll bars. In other words, if you spin the
wheel down, WizMouse will virtually click the "down arrow" for you.

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web browsers



Avant Browser
Avant
Browser's user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and
efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have
steadily improved its reliability. Avant Browser is freeware That's
right. 100% Free! No cost to you ever. No limitations. No Adware. No
Spyware.

Firefox
The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.,,Good ★★★


Google Chrome
Google Chrome runs websites and applications with lightning speed.,,SoulOfANewMachin...

K-Meleon
K-Meleon
is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on
the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by
Firefox. K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU
General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft
Windows (Win32) operating systems.

Maxthon
Maxthon
Browser is a powerful tabbed browser built for all users. Besides basic
browsing functionality, Maxthon Browser provides a rich set of features
to improve your surfing experience.,,Good ★★★


KidRocket Web Browser - Internet Filter - Desktop Protection
Protect your kids from the internet and your computer from the kids!..,,SoulOfANewMachin...

Opera
Opera
is Internet browser innovation. Our features, speed and security will
give you the best browser experience available. More than 20 million
people use Opera as their preferred browser of choice. Feel free to
download and judge for yourself,,,Excellent ★★★★

Safari 4.
Safari 4. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser..SoulOfANewMachin...

SeaMonkey
Web-browser,
advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing
made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application

Sleipnir
Sleipnir
is designed to be a highly customizable browser that you can configure
to suit your individual needs. With Sleipnir, you can create your ideal
browser by changing the design, skin, and visual appearance. You can
also add custom functionality to Sleipnir with a wide range of plugins
and user scripts. Users love Seipnir for it's unique blend of
high-performance and customizability!


SRWare Iron:
SRWare Iron: The Browser of the future..,,SoulOfANewMachin...
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WEB BROWSING SECURITY

ClickOff
ClickOff
has been written out of a personal need - like most programs here.
Questions like "are your sure you want to exit the program?" made me go
insane after having seen them a dozen of times. I found a program
called "BuzOff" on a computer magazine CD-ROM which took care of this
situation by simply clicking a button to close the window but it also
displayed nag-screens which annoyed me as well. Being a programmer I
just thought "you can do that yourself" and I started working on
ClickOff. I started looking for functions that windows provided for
clicking on buttons without actually moving the mouse and I was
successful. Meanwhile ClickOff has been improved through bug reports
and suggestions of new features that you sent me. ClickOff is supposed
to be the swiss knife for window handling, not just a simple popup
blocker

CookieWall
CookieWall allows you to quickly and easily decide which cookies can
stay on your system, and which cookies should go - once you let
CookieWall know which ones are unwelcome, it does the rest. CookieWall
can be configured to delete cookies as soon as they arrive, to notify
you of any new ones, or just queue them up for you to check out at a
later date

Finjan SecureBrowsing
Finjan SecureBrowsing provides you with safety ratings of URLs showing in your browser.

Hitware Popup Killer Lite
Hitware
Popup Killer Lite is an intelligent popup killer for Internet Explorer
(5 and up), that runs in the system tray and quietly eliminates most
pop-up and pop-under ads before they appear. You can choose to be
notified via animated tray icon or a sound whenever a popup window is
closed, maintain a WhiteList of allowed sites, and also disable popup
blocking from the tray, if needed.

KeyScrambler
KeyScrambler - a web browser plugin that encrypts your keystrokes to protect your important personal information from keyloggers

AVG LinkScanner®
Antivirus
and firewall software is no longer enough. The threat has evolved. Only
AVG LinkScanner® can protect you from the Data Snatchers and raise your
internet security to the next level.


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REMOTE ACCESS

CrossLoop simplifies the process of securely working with friends located in
different physical locations and across different network environments. CrossLoop
enables you to see the screen and control the mouse and keyboard on a remote
computer. It is as if you are working side by side at the same PC.

You can get up and running with CrossLoop in under 2 minutes. Simply download
and install the application and it will automatically configure itself to your network
environment.

Simply Connected - access your computer remotely from anywhere,pc/mac

TightVNC
TightVNC
is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see
the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse
and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that
compute
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Video Applications

ALShow
FREE
MEDIA PLAYER FOR EVERYONE~! ALShow is the easiest free media player on
the Internet. With codecs already built in, it's the only download
you'll ever need!Play FLV Files - SRT Subtitle Support - MP4 Filter -
H.264/H.263 Upgrades - VobSub Caption Support - CVID & TP
Support... And lots more!

Any Video Converter
is a professional video converter which can convert video files from
various formats with fast converting speed and excellent video quality
. It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV,
rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-I, MPEG-I, DVD NTSC , DVD
PAL, Flash for Video (FLV) , AVI Video and Customized WMV movie
formats. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the
output. It has an unmatchable speed and high quality.


AVI2DVD - an All In One tool used to convert, with just few clicks, an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd


DVD Flick -
a simple but powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video
files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play
back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add
additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice
DVDShrink is
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.,Good ★★★

Free FLV Player
Looking for an easy way to play FLV (Flash Video) files downloaded from
YouTube and other video sites? Get the free Applian FLV Player. It's
easy to use, and you can view videos at 1x, 2x or even full screen.
IfoEdit -
allows users to parse VOB files, remove and add video, audio and
subtitle streams to VOBs, create new IFO files, create DVD images. Also
basic DVD Authoring.
iWisoft Free VideoiWisoft
Free Video Converter can fast convert videos between all popular
formats like AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, XviD, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, FLV,
MKV, RM, MOV, 3GP, and audio MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG.
Directly convert video for playback on your PSP, iPod, iPhone, Apple
TV, PS3, Xbox, Zune, Creative Zen, Archos and other digital multimedia
devices.tutorial

MP4Creator creates
and modifies MP4 files. It combines previously encoded video or audio
tracks, as well as subtitles, chapter information and meta data. While
supporting many formats, the number one choice for video is H.264 and
for audio is AAC. Both formats play on a wide range of devices and are
supported by most software players including Quicktime, Flash and VLC.


PSP Video 9
- a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can
convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files,
as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP

Swiff Player - a standalone Flash player, that allow you to view .SWF files.

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.

VCDGear -
a tool written to effortlessly extract MPEG streams from CD images,
convert VideoCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, create
(Super)VideoCDs and more.

VLC - a free cross-platform media player,Good ★★★

VirtualDub - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)


VobBlanker is
a tool able to blank, replace, cut and strip titles, more specifically,
program chains or individual cells. From release 1.5 VobBlanker is also
able to work (blank, preview, delete..) in the menu domain.
It also
has special features like reduce to still with or without audio
complete PGCs or single Cells, or splitting cells capability
VobBlanker
is strictly an editing tool, designed to be applied in unprotected and
no-copyrighted sources. It has nothing to do with ripping or protection
removing practices.


Wimpy - a
cross platform (Mac and PC), standalone Flash Video FLV player, which
will allow you to watch your FLV, and SWF videos, from your desktop.


AutoGK -
I have used this for a long time. Its a pretty good program for
encoding files to .avi. Actually its a frontend for a number of
different progs (all packaged together) which it installs (which leads
to a fairly protracted install) but works great. freekyjason


Handbrake -
Video encoding/re-encoding software. I just discovered this one,
cleaner looking all-in-one install (which looks a little more
professional than AutoGK), also has some extra features like x264
encoding, alternate containers such as MKV and preset setting for
ipod/iphone/psp/ps3/xbox360. If it lives up to appearances, this is
what I'll be using from now on (instead of AutoGK). freekyjason

DVD Decrypter -
An old one but a good one. I still use this lots for doing raw rips of
DVD VOBs (before I feed it into one of the above to create an AVI). freekyjason,,Good ★★★


WinX DVD RipperWinX
DVD Ripper is a free software program that facilitates ripping the
content of a DVD to computer hard disk drive and converting to popular
video formats. It supports all types of DVDs including normal DVDs, CSS
protected DVDs, commercial DVDs, Sony ArccOS DVDs, all region 1-6 DVDs
and most of popular video formats such as FLV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV,
MPEG1/2 as output video formats.

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Video Editing Software


Blender
model • shade • animate • render • composite • interactive 3d
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.



Jashaka
The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.


Virtual dub
A
powerful freeware video editor with lots of features, including a
choice of compression codecs, splitting, addition of audio tracks.
,Excellent ★★★★


WAX
Wax
is a high performance and flexible video compositing and special
effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and
flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can compose your
dream video sequence with ease everytime.

Zwei-Stein
Zwei-Stein
3.01 is a freeware non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and
editing system which offers many advanced features unavailable
elsewhere.
With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio and
still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially.
Cropping, panning and custom effects are easy with automatic key frames.

ZS4 Video Editor
ZS4
Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to
provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media
types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more)
output file(s).



Avedit
It
is a great tool to work with .AVI files. Regardless of small executable
size, this avi editor offers you unlimited power of digital video
processing. Some high-tech tricks included into AVIedit allows you to
perform with ease and fun the many interesting things, like video
warping, color restore, noise reduction and so on...



Avidemux
Avidemux
is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and
encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD
compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks
can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting
capabilities.

AVI-Mux GUI
AVI-Mux
GUI is an application that allows to combine several video, audio or
subtitle files into one file, with out without size restriction,
allowing to configure properties of the output file to a deeper level
than usual for such applications.


DDClip Free 2.23
New version is not free ;-) old one is though.

Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro

iWisoft Free Video Converter
The
video converter also has powerful video editing functions including
crop, trim, merge, adding watermark and special effects. And it's
totally free!

SolveigMM AVI Trimmer
SolveigMM
AVI Trimmer is a free video editor to allow you to AVI movie cut
extremely fast and lossless. This freeware AVI editor software is
small, smart, easy to use and involves no encoding/decoding processes.
Video enthusiasts use AVI Trimmer to cut commercials, cut video files
or edit video for YouTube. AVI Trimmer solves annoying out of sync
problem. It operates with all known types of AVI including DV AVI type
1 and 2.,,Good ★★★

Windows Free Media Editor. Its called Windows Movie Maker.
You
must use IE to download this product as well, Open source browsers will
not allow you to access the site I believe. Windows MovieMaker 2 is a
capable little editor and ships free with virtually all new XP
computers these days, with upgrades available on the Microsoft Website
and other addons available as part of the Plus! package.

Subtitle Workshop
Subtitle
Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware
subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need
and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing
program. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting
tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes
easy to access menus & must have features with advanced functions
and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle
editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video
preview feature which will ease the task even more. The best choice for
the beginner, expert or the fansubber. Have a try, and you'll forget
the rest!

OGMcleaver
OGMcleaver
is a small, simple and easy-to-use program that will enable you to
easily and quickly extract video, audio and subtitle tracks from OGM
and MKV files. It is basically an oversimplified GUI for OGMTools and
MKVToolnix.This download package contains everything needed to extract
tracks from OGM files.OGMcleaver is small, simple, and doesn't even
require any ..

VirtualDubMod v1.5.10.2
VirtualDubMod
(project that combines three popular VirtualDub modifications,
VirtualDubMPG2, VirtualDubOGM and VirtualDubAVS) is a modified version
of the original VirtualDub video editing software. VirtualDubMPG2 adds
several new features to the normal VirtualDub's features, including
MPEG-2 processing and support for various audio formats, such as AC3,
OGG Vorbis and VBR MP3. Also included now is a support for OGM
container format and AVS scripts. How to convert OGM files to AVI,,Good ★★★

Movie to Animated GIF Converter
This
application allows you to load up an MPEG or AVI movie and convert a
section of it to an animated GIF. General usage consists of opening a
movie ("File" -> "Open"), seeking to the position in the movie where
you want to start the animation sequence (use the track bar at the
bottom), setting start and end points (buttons on sides of trackbar)
and then exporting ("Export" -> "Export to animated GIF...").,Fa


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