Recommended Programs

[Slater]

Yeah well I'm thinking TPU should put up a "Recommended Programs" sticky.

Mainly System tweak/upkeep


Oh yeah FREEWARE/SHAREWARE ONLY
(Inlcuding commercial programs that have free versions).

Adware/Spyware Cleaners:
Ad-Aware Personal
ADS Scanner
AVG AntiRootkit BETA
BHO List
BHO Scanner
BlackLight
HijackThis
IceSword
RootkitRevealer
SOPHOS AntiRootkit
Spybot S&D
Spyware Blaster
Windows Defender Beta 2

Antivirus Free Online Scanning:
Infected Or Not, www.infectedornot.com (owned by Panda software)

Audio/video tools:
Audiograbber
dBpowerAMP Music Converter
DVD Shrink
Easy Video Converter
McFunSoft Video Solution
Total Video Converter
Video Converter 2005

Benchmarking:
3DMark 2005 Free Version
AquaMark 3
Everest Home
ScienceMark 2.0
TPUBench

Browsers:
Firefox
Opera

Codecs:
3ivx
Gordon Knot Codec Pack

Compression:
7-Zip
WinRAR

Disk Defraggers:
Auslogics Disk Defrag

Driver Cleaners:
DH Driver Cleaner Professional

File Recovery/unlock:
PC File Inspector
Restoration.exe
Restore My Files
Roadkil Unstopable
Unlocker

Firewalls:
Comodo
Sygate Personal Firewall
ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall

Image/File Viewers
Foxit
Irfanview

Memory Testing
Rightmark

Overclocking/System Control:
ATiTool
Speedfan
SysTool

Registry Backup
ERUNT

Registry Cleaners:
RegSeeker

System Cleaners:
CCleaner

System Information:
Belarc Advisor
Cpu-z
Everest Home
Sandra

Torrent:
Azureus
UTorrent

Tweaks:
WinGuides Tweak Manager

Virtual CD/DVD Emulators:
Daemon Tools

Virtual Enviorments:
Sand Boxie

Virus Scanners:
AntiVir
Avast! 4 Home Edition
AVG Antivirus
McAfee STINGER


Let's get a good list going.

& feel free to include more categories.

 

[zekrahminator]

Audio conversion tool-
Dbpoweramp.
That's about all I can add to such a nice well rounded list. Depending on how many more people post, I'll sticky it for you . If nobody really cares, just stick a linky in your sig. That'll keep it popular.

 

[gamer210]

You might want to and Sandra to the list. Another one I use from time to time is Belarc Advisor. Both are great if you want to find out a lot of info about your system.

 

[Slater]

added

 

[ktr]

for codec, i like gordon knot codec pack 1.9. it contains all the codec of xvid and divx and with out the spyware.

compression:
7z

torrent:
utorrent

 

[Canuto]

Browsers:
Opera

 

[Slater]

Updated

And categorized in Alphabetical order for both categories and program names.

 

[Canuto]

You should include firewalls, i recomend Sygate personal firewall v5.6

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

For torrents, azureus, so much better than utorrent.

 

[Slater]

You should include firewalls, i recomend Sygate personal firewall v5.6

Is it free?

 

[zekrahminator]

Okay it's earned a sticky, just make sure to add "ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall" to the firewall list, and to not add any bittorent clients, we'd hate to have the public think TPU does anything illegal .

 

[Canuto]

Is it free?

Totally It's great

 

[Slater]

Totally It's great

Added

 

[ktr]

For torrents, azureus, so much better than utorrent.

nope, well not any more that is. according to maxiumpc, utorrent is better... and i usually get 500kbs on utorrent, while 200 on azureus.

 

[Canuto]

Let's not get off topic gents

 

[Slater]

I'm off to play some BF2, keep posting and I'll update tomorrow/later tonight.

 

[ktr]

speedfan 4.29
daemon tools
dvd shrink
sand boxie
unlocker
roadkil unstopable copier
hijackthis

sry, but you may need to do research on this...

 

[cdawall]

well i see you found dbpoweramp its cool i didnt know anyone else who had it and here are some other freebies http://www.oldversion.com/ i like the site and have never gotten any spy/ad-ware off it plus its free and legal i think at least

 

[Slater]

speedfan 4.29
daemon tools
dvd shrink
sand boxie
unlocker
roadkil unstopable copier
hijackthis

sry, but you may need to do research on this...

Added, but is Sandboxie a antivirus? And what should I put unlocker and roadkil under?

 

[ktr]

sandboxie - Virtual surfing without the need to create a virtual environment. its a program where you can put a virtual fence around program so that any data processed by the program can stay in the fence. if the data is harmfull, you can purge it from your machine without affecting anything. but dont know how to classify it.

unlocker - Delete those pesky "undeletable" folders and files...very useful. (utility)

roadkil unstoppable copier - Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end. (recovery)

 

[Slater]

Alrighty classified it as Virtual Enviorment

 

[ktr]

here is a site full of freeware: http://bearbottoms1.com/default.aspx


and a massive site of well...everything: http://www.lostcoders.net/


some time back i have found off a forum (will not give it out) a complied list of 165 usefull software. the package has some pirated software there for i am not gonna give it out. BUT!! it has a good list of freebie software which you can look and see what is good to put on that list.

 

[GLD]

Google Earth and Neo Trace?

 

[ktr]

neo trace aint free...

 

[GLD]

neo trace aint free...

http://www.download.com/NeoTrace-Pro/3000-2648_4-7139158.html