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post #21 of 126
7/27/05 at 8:29pm
free image/video/everything viewer:
Irfanview

text editor, with syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages:
ConText
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post #22 of 126
7/28/05 at 3:58pm
Thread Starter 
Blue screen of death -DOWNLOAD!
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post #23 of 126
8/2/05 at 3:57pm
zipgenius, for compression.

//edited (yes, long time)

I definitely regret my suggestion. I've been following this program for a long time, but no matter what new version is released, it's always filled with bugs, access violations... Don't get me wrong, it has a lot of potential, the UI is great, features are great, but I want something that just works.
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post #24 of 126
8/4/05 at 7:34am

Something Old, Something Not New...

Something very old (but really good) & something that will drive you nuts with geekyfunfunfun...

AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic
for Windows 98/Me and XP (XP&2000&NT)
Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/Solaris
http://www.free-av.com/

Ad-Aware SE Personal
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

ANYTHING by Wayne & Gavin (white hats supreme) at...
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/
especially the TDS -3 *I helped skin one of the betas, many moons ago* (tell 'em Ruby Slippers sent ya) *caveat* Once you start playin' with this bad boy, you will be addicted.

Yep.. it's "one of those." Don't say you weren't warned!
Enjoy.
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post #25 of 126
8/4/05 at 7:40am

in tears... TDS RIP?

...http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/

This proggie was killer. Find one, somewhere...

From Wayne & Gavin's site:

"On the 22nd July 2005 the decision was made to cease development on TDS. This may seem like a strange thing to do, but it was a decision we wouldn't have made if it wasn't in the best interests of our customers, and there were a variety of factors involved that helped us reach this decision. Please allow us to explain ..."
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post #26 of 126
8/4/05 at 11:40am
A few more here: http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=47397
including another nice one from icer: http://aumha.org/free.htm
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post #27 of 126
8/4/05 at 1:41pm
Thread Starter 
There's a good one here:

http://www.freeware4pc.com/
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post #28 of 126
8/31/05 at 8:42am
Thread Starter 
And here: http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotini.../deskpins.html
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post #29 of 126
9/3/05 at 7:04pm
May be that some of these are mentioned already, but anyway:

Mozilla Firefox + AdBlock + Download Manager Tweak + Tabbrowser Preferences

Mozilla Thunderbird

Nvu

HTTrack

FileZilla

WinSCP

PuTTY

BitComet

eMule Plus

Notepad++

IrfanView

GIMP

foobar2000

BSPlayer + DivX +Koepi's XviD + AC3Filter

Real Alternative

QuickTime Alternative

CCleaner

Unlocker
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post #30 of 126
9/6/05 at 5:07am
One of my own:
FreeSecurity - a freeware file encryption and compression utility
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post #31 of 126
9/10/05 at 9:14am
Thread Starter 
http://www.softpedia.com/result.php?...tlci5zaHRtbA==


One of the best, maybe even better than the old Registry Mechanic!

WARNING: Backup your important data before using!
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post #32 of 126
9/13/05 at 12:08pm
Thread Starter 
Few more from Softpedia:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S...er-XP-XG.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S.../BootVis.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...g/Eraser.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/R...egSeeker.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Securit...CCleaner.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/R...NTRegOpt.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/R...mpactNET.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S...dowsCare.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/R...egDefrag.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/R...-RegProt.shtml
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post #33 of 126
9/17/05 at 12:44pm
Thanks! Regcleaner worked well.
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post #34 of 126
9/21/05 at 5:45pm
Just like to inform you guys that the once shareware web browser application Opera is now freeware. Never used it before, but heard lots of good stuff about it.
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post #35 of 126
10/6/05 at 8:53pm
Some of the freeware apps I'm using right now:

Mozilla Firefox (Free web browser)
AVG Anti-Virus (Free antivirus)
Microsoft Anti-Spyware (Adware/spyware cleaner)
Konfabulator (Widget host program)
OpenOffice.org (Free office suite)
FreeRAM XP (RAM freeing app, mostly I use it to monitor free memory)
Centrino Hardware Control (free do-it-all app for centrino chipset. Battery, hard drive, CPU, fan, video card, it controls it all)
NetPerSec (Free hard to find bandwidth monitor/grapher from PC Magazine or something)
Google GMail/GMail Notifier (Hey, it's an application, a web app, and it's free)
Regex Coach (Free regular expression helper, performs colour-highlighted matches in realtime to help in writing regular expressions)
Daemon Tools (Free tool that mounts CD images as if they were in a real CD/DVD drive)
7-Zip (Free file compression tool that compresses better than ZIP/RAR/ACE)

And lots of others. Those are just the ones that came to mind, not even the most important. Just everything I can remember off the top of my head while not even at my computer.
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post #36 of 126
10/13/05 at 12:20am
yeah deffinatley firefox is the best freeware (unless you need some spyware removal progam)
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post #37 of 126
10/13/05 at 11:11am
Konfabulator is free now.... if you like the whole widget thing...
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post #38 of 126
10/20/05 at 3:11pm
Cute PDF Writer

Makes what 80% of Acrobat users want to do which is, well, PDF files; at a fraction of the HDD space required.
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post #39 of 126
10/20/05 at 3:20pm
Vim 6.4
Notepad++ 3.2
KeePass
TrueCrypt
CDburnerXP
BB4Win
OpenSSH win32
GNU Win32 Tools
Putty
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post #40 of 126
11/3/05 at 8:14pm
Found this new freeware backup disk image program called DriveImage XML. I don't know of any other free ones. http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

It runs in windows(XP only), not Dos like many do. I tried running it and it started with a nice interface, detected my drives and partitions right away. Problem is it couldn't detect that MS VSSvc.exe was running (volume shadow service - used to lock the drive), even though Windows reported that VSS was running.

Is anyone else interested in trying this program? If so please download it and give it a whirl. And tell me if you have the same problem, or not.

BTW, they have a plug-in for Bart's Windows PE cd. The combination would make a wonderful, free recovery tool.
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