Free Progarms

[skhips]

Trying to make a CD of totally free useful programs (must be legal)

If anyone can add any useful ones to the list it would be appreciated.
(plus what they think of theirs or others suggestions)
So far

1. AVG - Anti virus - so far seems quite good detected viruses that our corporate copies of Sophos couldnt. Anyone know of any real advantage of going to the paid version and is it worth it.

2. Zone Alarm - firewall, good, anyone know of any real advantage of going to the paid version and is it worh it.

3. Zone alarm analyser - nice program that gives a lot more info on those attacks in zone alarm, Hack or just a bit of friendly handshaking.

4. Adaware - remove spyware.

5. american army operations - excellent shoot em up, with a recuritment to the USA Army theme.

PS Totally free and full versions please

Many thanks :)

[david eaton]

A couple more for your collection:-

Digital camera enhancer fromMediachance (http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm)
useful quickfix for digital camera shots.

Download accelerator Plus.
May not be quicker than the ordinary method, but useful!

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Thread in After Hours Club (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9572&highlight=free+favorite+downloads)

[sleddog]

Treepad Lite - a tree-style database/organizer.
http://www.treepad.com/

Metapad - what Notepad should be but isn't.
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

SciTE - code editor with folding; great for PHP, perl.
http://www.scintilla.org/

AntiVir - resident & on-demand AV scanner.
http://www.free-av.com/

Dawn Address Book Converter - converts to/from many formats.
http://www.joshie.com/projects/dawn/

Inno Setup - superb app for creating software installations.
http://www.jrsoftware.org/

Kerio Personal Firewall - unlike ZA it isn't crippled.
http://www.kerio.com/

TopStyle Lite - darn fine CSS editor.
http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/download/litedload.asp

SpamPal - mail filtering/spam killer.
http://www.spampal.org.uk/

OE-QuoteFix - if you insist on using OE, please use this also.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

F-Prot for DOS - command-line AV scanner with frequent & free sig updates.
http://www.f-prot.com/products/fpdos.html

PuTTY - small but excellent SSH & telnet client.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Motherboard Monitor - monitor temps, fan speeds, assign alerts and shutdown.
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

[rond36]

End-it-All (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp)

This utility, EndItAll 2, lists all the programs running on your system and lets you decide which ones to close down. The processes necessary for basic system operation are protected from termination, though. From the remaining processes, you can choose which to close, which to kill (close down forcibly), and which to protect. Once you know which files you want to shut down, you can configure EndItAll for automatic action via a script or a batch file. This is useful for backups and defrags during off-hours. Options let you block power-management utilities and screen savers during operation.

Sygate Personal Firewall (http://soho.sygate.com/free/default.php)

Protects against Trojans, spy ware, worms and other known & unknown threats
Prevents unauthorized or malicious applications from bypassing the firewall
Enables even inexperienced users to easily customize and fine-tune security policies
Provides best of breed evidence logs for intrusion analysis
Easiest-to-use PC firewall and still free for personal/home use

Hot Lingo (http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=hot+lingo&tg=dl-2001)

Spell checker plug-in for Internet Explorer. Great for checking forum posts for correct spelling.

Windows XP Power Toys (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp)

Open Command Window Here
This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing at the selected folder.

Alt-Tab Replacement
With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open.

Tweak UI
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.

Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.

Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

CD Slide Show Generator
With this PowerToy you can view images burned to a CD as a slide show. The Generator works downlevel on Windows 9x machines as well.

Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.

Taskbar Magnifier

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/tools/Tools/MBSAhome.asp)

Version 1.0 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and 2002. MBSA creates and stores individual XML security reports for each computer scanned and will display the reports in the graphical user interface in HTML.

Belarc Advisor (http://www.belarc.com/Download.html)

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser.

[Budfred]

MailWasher:
Screen multiple email accounts, delete and bounce SPAM.
www.mailwasher.net

PowerDesk
Free version of file manager.
www.ontrack.com

Budfred

[supered55]

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