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  • #1

    The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

    according to

    http://www.techsupportalert.com

    couple of them are discussable, but nevertheless a good list if you search for something.


    R.
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  • #2
    I'd add a couple of things.

    Best PDF viewer: Last week a coworker found a program called foxit. It's a PDF viewer that is unbelievably fast, and seems to read complicated PDFs (bookmark linking, embedded images).

    Explore2fs: A very handy program that lets Windows read ext2/ext3 file systems. It doesn't appear to allow writing, though.
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    • #3
      Along these lines techreport has a thread based on this same premise. http://www.techreport.com/forums/vie...+software+list

      I recently refound it because i was looking for it because I want a list of good free opensource software. ie something that can be used in a corporate environment on a wide scale.
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      • #4
        Kinda sad where we live in a world where the best free stuff is protection for all the crap out there:
        Antivirus, spyware, popups, firewall, trojan/rootkit scanner, spam filter, etc.

        Didn't those types of lists comprise mostly of productivity software before?
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        • #5
          I thought it would be fun to reopen this thread. What is everyone using these days?

          I'm still using:
          Firefox
          AVG Free
          Daemon Tools
          ImgBurn
          CutePDF
          Filezilla
          MediaMonkey
          VLC Media Player
          PeerGuardian
          XVid
          Paint.net
          WinDirStat
          Paint.net
          LogMeIn

          Trillian (paid for pro though)
          Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
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          That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.

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          • #6
            AVG Free
            Daemon Tools
            VLC Media Player
            PeerGuardian
            XVid
            Rivatuner
            Winamp
            Fraps

            Thats about it i think...
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            • #7
              Winamp
              Riva tuner, ATI tray tools, ATI Tool (each has its own purpose, depending on what card you have...)
              Driver Cleaner and more recently Driver Sweeper (it has a save desktop icons position option, yey!)
              Daemon Tools
              Firefox
              RegEdit and CC Cleaner
              Yahoo Messenger
              HD Tach and Dtemp
              Sisoft Sandra
              CPU-Z, Crystal CPUID, more recently GPU-Z
              Prime 95 and Orthos (about the same thing)
              7zip
              3DMark (still has a use for testing video card overclocks)
              Spybot Search & Destroy

              and I'm certain there are many other

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              • #8
                Ones that I use all the time:

                Firefox
                Thunderbird
                Foobar2000
                XnView
                7-Zip
                Notepad++
                TreeWalk
                Media Player Classic
                ffdshow
                Emu48 (HP48 emulator)
                Hugin
                GPicSync

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                • #9
                  Without repeating other choices...

                  Opera

                  Seamonkey (when website isn't coded for standards, but for IE & Gecko only, I prefer Seamonkey over Firefox, feels much more polished)

                  Miranda IM (for all the local IM networks of "me too!" variety...)

                  Skype

                  Google Talk (nevermind it's convienent when beeing Jabber user already, having Gmail account and wanting to keep logs of chats in a neat way; it also has IMO best audio quality when using it on low speed connections)

                  Irfanview (just love the roadkill cat icon )

                  uTorrent

                  Foxit pdf reader

                  SMplayer (based on Mplayer with QT gui...remarkably low resource (cpu) usage (for some reason much lower than other Mplayer frontends/offshots, not sure why...))

                  Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP ; when using direct show based players, best choice among codec packs IMHO...perhaps because it isn't a "pack of codecs" causing mess, just carefuly chosen version of ffdshow with filters for mkv files/etc.)

                  Speedfan (light and does what it should do)

                  Last.fm player

                  edit:

                  Dscaler 4 (best TV app for BT848/etc. cards)

                  Picasa
                  Last edited by Nowhere; 12 November 2007, 15:03.

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                  • #10
                    Opera
                    AVG Free
                    Pear Guardian
                    WinAmp
                    Daemon Tools
                    Azureus
                    FFD-Show
                    Media Player Classic
                    Real Alternative
                    Speedfan
                    Fraps

                    Also use VLC Mediaplayer on occasion
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                    • #11
                      Have to concur with 7-zip, that one is really great, especially their <500Kb stand alone command line version! Alongside, SendEmail.exe, stand alone at less than 1500Kb with support for to, cc, bcc, multiple attachements etc was a great find for me as well.
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                      • #12
                        Opera
                        Miranda-IM
                        µTorrent
                        Paint.NET
                        UltraVNC or whatever this VNC server/client package is called these days
                        WinAmp
                        AVG Free (though I'm inclined to switch to a paid version of NOD32)
                        MBM 5
                        Daemon Tools 3.47
                        Media Player Classic
                        Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.something
                        MS Windows Desktop Search 3.0.1 (is this considered freeware?)

                        Codec packs:
                        Dscaler5
                        FFDshow
                        Quicktime and Real Alternative (probably not 'legal' to use though)
                        Haali Media splitter
                        CoreAVC 0.0.0.4 alpha (debatable wether it's freeware)

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                        • #13
                          dzeus's version choice of Daemon Tools brings up an interesting question.

                          Do people stick with older versions of software because it's jumped the shark? gotten bloated? Just haven't updated? Prefer an older 'cleaner' interface?

                          Daemon Tools now has a rootkit to hide from software that disables it. Do you consider that acceptable due to need or are all rootkits bad?
                          Wikipedia and Google.... the needles to my tangent habit.
                          ________________________________________________

                          That special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts, Or maybe below the cockles, Maybe in the sub-cockle area, Maybe in the liver, Maybe in the kidneys, Maybe even in the colon, We don't know.

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                          • #14
                            Firefox
                            TBird
                            Total Commander (not free, but great)
                            IrfanView
                            OpenOffice2
                            Notepad ++
                            Super Video Converter
                            STOIK video converter
                            Media Player Classic
                            AVG Free
                            Spyware Doctor
                            Spybot
                            Ad-Aware
                            Free Download Manager
                            CDex
                            DVD Shrink
                            DVD Decrypter
                            Stellarium planetarium & telescope software
                            Celestia spaceflight simulator
                            Debugmode Frameserver, WinMorph and Wax effects tools
                            VirtualDUB video effects and script processing tool
                            Subtitle Workshop
                            AVISynth (video scripting tool)
                            AVS Edit (AVISynth video script editing tool)
                            BincSoft Bitrate Calculator
                            Riva FLV encoder & Riva FLV player
                            Blender 3D (never enough of these tools)
                            Anim8or 3D software
                            Persistance of Vision (POV-Ray) raytraciong 3D tool

                            And maybe 2 dozen others....
                            Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 12 November 2007, 14:56.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Claymonkey View Post
                              dzeus's version choice of Daemon Tools brings up an interesting question.

                              Do people stick with older versions of software because it's jumped the shark? gotten bloated? Just haven't updated? Prefer an older 'cleaner' interface?

                              Daemon Tools now has a rootkit to hide from software that disables it. Do you consider that acceptable due to need or are all rootkits bad?
                              yeah I've read about the rootkit in daemon tools. The reason I use the old version is that I am not using it to play games with copy-protection features, and therefor don't need the rootkit-embedded version to hide the tool from such copy-protection features.

                              I haven't found a good reason to update to a newer version of Daemon Tools yet, and if it isn't broken, don't fix it. As the Sony rootkit debacle showed that it's potentially exploitable, the less rootkits needed on my system, the less potential security risks? Although I would not dare to conclude that the absence of a single rootkit would have a significant effect on my system's _real_ security risk status.

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