share your best freeware
 

i started this so if you have some realgood freeware you
can share it with the rest of us ok me to start

irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com
far and way the best picture viewer you will find

Speakonia
http://www.cfs-technologies.com/home/?id=1.4


CFS-Technologies Speakonia is a FREE Text-To-Speech (TTS) GUI (graphical User-Interface) Program which uses the Microsoft ® Speech Technology.
The easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) is similar to Notepad. Speakonia reads aloud any given text with just one mouse click!
The reading can be paused, resumed and can be exported to a wave file. In addition Speakonia is able to fetch webpages through an internal http interface and read them aloud for you. You can even have your mails read to you using the "Clipboard Reading" feature

winamp
http://www.winamp.com/
the best way to Listen to Music on your pc

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Spyware blaster - www.spywareblaster.org for me...... Its great.......

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Ad Aware WWW.lavasoft.de Looks for spyware on your system

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http://www.netcomputing.de/html/main.html

AnyJ, excellent Java IDE

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not freeware, but shareware with just a nag screen. This program is called Outtray, and it puts outlook into the system tray.

http://www.loft.dk/Welcome/Products/...arewareuk.html

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Mine has to be Grisoft AVG, great free antivirus for XP with regular updates.

http://www.grisoft.com

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My best freeware would be avg from http://www.grisoft.com/

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Spybot and most of the stuff that has been mentioned already

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I nominate Power Desk from Vcom. The 'free-download' button is on the RHS.

This is an excelent Windows Explorer replacement.

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http://www.miranda-im.org/ (as a previous trillian subscriber I gave away my licence after finding this.. it's that good)

http://www.leechget.net/ (my favourite download manager without the adware or spyware you get with other similar products)

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ (easily the best free FTP client - and getting better all the time)

http://www.avantbrowser.com/ (the best of the large number of tabbed IE front end browsers currently available) http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ -> the best of the rest ;)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ (my email client of choice)

http://www.openoffice.org/ (no introduction required here)

http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/download.htm (the most comprehensive and highly optimised file archiver - use the 7-zip format.. trust me you'll like it ;) also a good time to remove that illegal copy of winzip you've had past it's shareware limit)

http://www.almico.com/speedfan410.exe (similar to motherboard monitor.. but better in my opinion.. )

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...id=zadb_zadown (by far and away the best free personal firewall)

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Not all free, and I borrowed the list from another forum but still good all the same and worth posting IMHO that is :) many thanks to Rollin Rog for his time and effort

Best Online Scanners:

HouseCall
Panda
RAV AntiVirus Online

Libraries and further information:

Symantec
Trend
McAfee
Sophos
Panda

Security Intelligence (a broad collection of informational sites)
sleekluxury's Guide to Internet Security

Free fix and removal tools:

Viral:

Grisoft AVG Free Download
Specialized Removal Tools from Grisoft AVG
Symantec
Trend Micro Damage Cleanup Services (uses the latest definitions, downloadable)
BitDefender
McAfee AVERT Stinger (Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses)

Specialized Trojan Removal Applications (trial versions):

Wilders Security Advisors

Parasitic:


Spybot Instructions and Download
Ad-Aware Home Page and Ad-Aware 6: Reference Guide by Winchester73
HijackThis Instructions, download, and Tutorial
lspfix (Layered Service Protocols) repairs damaged Winsock2 vxd associated with connectivity problems
SpywareInfo: Detection, Prevention and Removal Tools, SpywareBlaster and others
Parasites
RapidBlaster Removal
CoolWebSearch -- Information and Removal Tool
Kazaabegone and other downloads from Merijn

Alternate Download Sites for HijackThis, Spybot, CoolwebShredder:

Lurkhere
HijackThis at Spychecker
Spybot download and Turtorial at Safer-networking
CoolWebShredder at Majorgeeks

Free Firewalls:

ZoneAlarm
Sygate
Kerio
More FireWall help and info

Vulnerability testing, Information and Fixes:

Steve Gibson's Homepage

Are you safe? Gibson's site is a world of its own, with tests and fixes for many Windows security vulnerabilities.

Security Test Sites

Microsoft Security Information:

Security and Privacy

Home Security Risk Assesment and Protection Steps

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Thanks Bobdude....

Admins - Can you add this great info to - http://forum.nthellworld.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6152

Thanks :)

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Just passing on some good ( I hope ), wish I could take the credit :pp but I cant

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The Ad-Aware 6: Reference Guide by Winchester73 from Bop's list above is well worth a read. I scanned using adaware's custom scan and found a lot of stuff that this mornings scan didn't :eek:
Read the guide and do it now, you might be shocked, I was!

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Maybe the rep I just gave you will help :)

Thanks for the links Bobdude !! :tu:

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No-one mentioned Google Toolbar? (or did I miss it?)

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Doh! Forgot about that :dunce:

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Nice piece of freeware :D


Revelation 2.0

Isn't it annoying when you can't remember the password that is staring back at you covered in *****. Well help is at hand :D ... Works on ALL MS OS.

http://www.snadboy.com/RevelationV2.zip

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A handy little utility that I keep on a floppy in my toolbox.

Whilst not a piece of freeware there is a site that I keep on my desktop http://www.all-nettools.com/tools1.htm

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Stu, he's called Bopdude actually sorry :blush:

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And by far the best bit of kit that NO-ONE should ever be without is the Ultimate Boot CD

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

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:mad: :mad: :D :Peace: BOB... BOB ..... I'll Bob ya :)

Yeah he know's Debs but thanks for the defence :) ( can see this being an epic battle ) * runs to check member blocking \ ignore list ....lol:D

PS thanks for the point m8 :)

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My Apologies Bopdude

I will take 50 lines - My bad ....

His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude
His name is Bopdude not Bobdude

Damb - I wish I had copy and pate when I was at school :)

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This has to go down as one of the biggest 'bumps' of the forums life :) but I thought it might be worth it :shrug:

The Best Free Software

94 tools and sites that help you work smarter, communicate better, and have more fun--all great, and all gratis, according to pc world that is :)

link , takes some wadeing through but there's a lot there :D

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Thanks, bop, worth a bump, I reckon :tu:

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well i use something called regseeker every now and again... purges your registry of crud and you can get rid of cookies and so forth ;)

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/5/12-5-22.shtml

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Hi

This is a nice piece of freeware, it examines your machine and reports any security or cosmetic fixes that are available and downloads them. Saves you the trouble of going to windows update, and even catches some fixes that windows update does not report.

http://www.bigfix.com/

Regards.

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You'll find all the freeware you need here , but just in case here's two more:

Opera browser

and

A2 (a squared) Trojan killer

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I swear by Window Sizer:

http://www.voidnish.com/articles/Sho...de=windowsizer

Tiny, simple and yet indispensable for me, writing intranet pages for a business still riddled with 800x600 res monitors, while I enjoy a whopping 1280x1024. All it does is to re-size the active window on your screen to the dimensions you specify. But it saves me a lot of hassle switching my own screen res.

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This is also a useful link.
http://lists.gpick.com/

A good "cleaner" here, http://www.ccleaner.com/

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LOL !! :o Your 'lists.gpick' link was the one I *thought* I'd linked to.

Must remind myself to check links !!! :dozey:

PS: I still use and swear by RegCleaner from the writer of jv16 Power Tools.

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I've used bigfix for over three years and i agree it often tells you of things that windows update doesnt (Microsoft Baseline does as well). However i've not had any updates reported by bigfix in over three months

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Some useful bits to be found here:
http://aumha.org/freeware.htm
Would list a few others but most of them have been named already ;)

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Hi

To be honest, its the first time I've used it in months lol. I'd guess you were using windows 98, the same as me, since windows XP came out there have been very few updates for windows 98 so maybe thats why.

Regards.

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Oppss i forgot to say. Im using XP Pro and Office 2003

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lol Bang go's my theory then, wrong as usual
:erm:

Regards.

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Thats strange and a bit worrying since there have been critical updates recently :confused: do you have the function of updating in the background switched on?

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Tch! Far too much IT and not enough chemistry in this list of freeware. :)

Try this periodic table which allows you to set start and finish temperatures and watch the elements change phase as the temperature rises or falls. Fascinating!

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I think I can safely say that I've not required the use of a periodic table for over 16 years.

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You never can tell when it might come in useful (but don't ask me for an example).

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i do know but i dont let it auto install. Make it let me know what there is.

But bigfix runs as soon as it boots up so should be first in line to tell me

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i cant believe this. I just checked windows updater and it says there are 5 critical updates for me. Neither, windows updater told me of them, nor did bigfix know about them????

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Disable it, reboot and then turn it back on? Might be a file corruption somewhere?
Are you running SP2 at all?

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I don't know if there's a link to this site, but it's a free image hosting site with an 850 kb limit per image, might be of use to those who don't have or want to have there own webspace :shrug:


Link

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nope not SP2