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The Big Useful List Of Free Useful Programs To Use Usually For Free
So here's my attempt at such a list.
I'm certain that there are others with several suggestions, which I would be waiting to get. Disk Defrag - Disk Cleanup - Disk/File Management/Recovery/Encryption/Backup - System Information Click this--->
File Compression/Decompression - Media Players, Codecs and Media Servers- Media Files Conversion, Creation and Editing - Video Card Utilities Go click go!
Internet Browsers - Desktop Customization - Productivity Suites - Image Editors Nothing else to do but click 'Show'...
Security - Emulation/Burning Software - Networking - Instant Messaging/Voice Chat You should know by now what to do.
E-Mail Clients - Benchmarks - Miscellaneous Click me, bro.
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can we add http://raptr.com/
it kind of brings together the multiplayer of all of the games across consoles and pc's alike - very usefull
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Good idea! A program I'm using frequently due to it's simplicity is Bluescreenview which simply shows data about BSOD's. You can see this without the program, but it's so easy to use I've fallen in love with it.
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Props for hilariously awesome thread title.
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KMP and VLC should be included in media players.
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perhaps add NINITE?
its not really a program by itself, but its extremely useful and related. http://ninite.com/ Definitely add VLC, best media player ever created ever, and thats a *fact ![]() Virtual CloneDrive - alternative to daemon tools. http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html Ultimate Defrag http://www.disktrix.com/ TotalMedia Theater - Blu Ray playback. not free... but the best program i have found yet. http://www.arcsoft.com/estore/softwa...ductCode=TMT5P Micro Torrent AKA - U Torrent - Best torrent software known to Slyfox. http://www.utorrent.com/ Steam - For all your gaming needs http://store.steampowered.com/ Winamp - could be the next best thing since sliced bread? http://www.winamp.com/ Teracopy - Stolen from digibucc i +1 this programhttp://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php Futuremark - For all your benching E-PEEN needs http://www.futuremark.com/download/ Skype - ..... apparently people like to call other people to talk to them? http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home *you may not agree with the facts. if this is the case, then you are wrong.
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teracopy
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php replaces/co-exists with windows file copy dialog. more accurate, more stable, faster. get it. image resizer for windows http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ adds right-click context menu file resizing, simple and fast. mozilla sunbird http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird// great calendar app. add provider for google calendar to sync it to your gmail calendar. will not sync tasks with gmail. cutepdf writer (printer) http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp prints from any program to a pdf file you save. great to save docs without a printer bacula http://www.bacula.org/en/ open source, pc/network automated file backup foldersize http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/ open source, allows a folder size column quicktime alternative http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm allows playing of quicktime files without... quicktime autoit http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ windows batch scripting, much more robust and capable than bat cmd scripting sharpkeys http://www.randyrants.com/2008/12/sharpkeys_30.html remap any key on your keyboard with another, or a combo fast duplicate file finder http://www.mindgems.com/products/Fas...nder-About.htm what it says fast file renamer http://www.fastfilerenamer.com/ what it says filemenu tools http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html customizeable context(right-click) menu .. menu. tons of options filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/ ftp client folder menu http://foldermenu.sourceforge.net/ adds a folder menu into your taskbar(by clock), recent places, registry, etc. quicker. picasa http://picasa.google.com/ photo gallery/editor pidgin http://www.pidgin.im/ multi-network im app. i use it for sms2pc, to do texting with a keyboard and not my phone ![]() tightvnc http://www.tightvnc.com/ best, fast, simple vnc client/server spiceworks http://www.spiceworks.com/ network monitoring tool z-screen http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/ screen/text capture software, advanced clipboard replacement hedgewars http://hedgewars.org/ worms-like game, 2d, highly customizeable.
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Title words capitalized and thread stickied.
Very useful list, Entropy, thanks.
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Seamonkey is another great browser in fact like it over Firefox. Other apps that are good free ones Treesize, Cerbeus and Open Hardware Monitor.
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nice list, I picked up a 3 allready
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@Entropy : If you remove the CR/NLs after the links and uses something like " - ", you can tighten up the original post so it's not so long.
for instance Great Web Sites TPU - TechPowerUp! Website. Unparsed it looks like ... [url="http://www.techpowerup.com"]TPU[/url] - TechPowerUp! Website. You don't have to do that, it's just a suggestion.
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someone sticky this....like NOW
---- Oh shit -- someone beat me to it
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hamster
http://www.hamstersoft.com/ video convertor burning studio software zip archiver cdburnerxp http://cdburnerxp.se/en/home for burning cds/dvds etc |
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@Entropy ... are you aware you can change the text of a spoiler tag?
Internet Browsers
[spoiler="Text before button"] Stuff [/spoiler]
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TriXX for GPU utilities?
(well....ATi/AMD only GPUs)
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Yes, the text are slightly smaller and cannot be underlined however.
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Hmm ... you can underline it, but font resizing doesn't work. Oh well. Carry on.
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Speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
FoxIt http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com/
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System Information Viewer SIV
http://rh-software.com/ Quote:
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you should put comodo internet security
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This little baby patches 32-bit .exes so they can use up to 4GB of memory. The possibilities are now slightly less limited.
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Sumatra PDF
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Great List, but its missing two little things
Media Centers: http://mediajukebox.com/ CD Ripping: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ |
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Added "Benchmarks", and I'll check out your suggestions and add them later.
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