Freeware Replacements For Common Commercial Apps

[SamanthaJones]

Audio Applications

 

• Audacity - a free audio editor. - tg911
  
• Coolplayer - Sourceforge alternative to Winamp. - Yourhighness
  
• dBpowerAMP Audio Player - "dAP plays Mp3s, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Monkeys Audio, Real Audio, Wave and Midi, and many more" - tg911
  
• eags on! - an easy to use ID3v1 tag editor, that offers single or batch renaming of mp3 files, based on ID3 information or custom parameters.
  
• Evil Player - a fast, powerful and flexible media player for windows - File_Knight
  
• foobar2000 - an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. - agitarius
  
• GNUitar - guitar effects software that allows you to use your PC as guitar processor. Compatibility: 32-bit Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) - BlackSpyder
  
• iTunes - Music Player, Organizer, Tag Editor and online store. Only works with Windows XP. - Phawgg with clarifications from Jeservices
  
• K-Lite Codec Pack - a collection of codecs and related tools. - nosnhoj#3
  
• Kristal Audio Engine - audio recorder/editor - BlackSpyder
  
• MediaMonkey - a music file manager that will rip CDs, convert audio files, edit ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags, automatically organize & rename files, create playlists, export playlists to m3u files, burn Audio CDs, burn MP3 (Data) CD/DVDs, play CDs, correct volume levels, create statistics & other reports, and synchronize with iPods, MP3 phones & other Portable Audio Devices. - kellydgk
  
• MP3 Album Maker - combine multiple mp3's into one album. Requires the DotNet Framework. Compatibility: Windows 98/ME/NT(Service Pack 6a)/2000/XP - Yourhighness
  
• Mp3Decode - a real handy app to have in your Send To menu, it simply converts MP3 into WAV, quick and lightweight. - nosnhoj#3
  
• mp3DirectCut - a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for MP3. - HitSquad
  
• MP3Gain - analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume - Yourhighness
  
• MP3 Shield - can rapidly scan vast MP3 collection for corruptions and automatically detects corrupted MP3 files while being downloaded - Walkman
  
• Switch Soundfile Converter - Converts sound files to many other formats (WAV, MP3, OGG, and more) - BlackSpyder
  
• TagMaster - lets you edit the ID3 tag in MP3 files, which contains information like the name of the artist, song, album, etc. - Bluie
  
• The GodFather - a multi-function audio tag editor, and organizer - sitalchauhan
  
• WavePad Audio Editor - audio recorder/editor - BlackSpyder
  
• winLAME - an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface. - nosnhoj#3
  
• WinMP3Shrink - encode or re-encode your MP3s by using the Lame encoder. - idk
  
• XMPlay - an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. - Yourhighness
  

[SamanthaJones]

Video Applications

 

• Aegisub - an advanced subtitle editor Compatibility: Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X - skyfuser
  
• ALShow - a movie player that will let you automatically find/download/install any codecs that may be needed Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista (32/64-bit) - rowal5555
  
• AVI2DVD - an All In One tool used to convert, with just few clicks, an Avi/Ogm/Mkv/Wmv/Dvd to Dvd/Svcd/Vcd. - Yourhighness
  
• AVIcodec - Gives the codecs needed to play the file, and where to download those codecs if they are missing on your system.
  
• Avidemux - video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types Compatibility: Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X - skyfuser
  
• AviSynth - a scripting language and a collection of filters for simple (and not so simple!) non-linear video editing tasks. It frameserves video to applications - skyfuser
  
• DScaler - a piece of software that captures video, processes it, and scales it for presentation on a projector or computer monitor. - turbines
  
• DVD Flick - a simple but powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks as well as subtitles of your choice. - Yourhighness
  
• DVD Shrink - DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs
  
• EMDB - Eric's Movie Database - a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7 - henceforth
  
• FFDShow Video Decoder - a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, H.264, FLV1, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, MPEG-4 movies. - DaChew
  
• HandBrake - an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder Compatibility: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X - skyfuser
  
• IfoEdit - allows users to parse VOB files, remove and add video, audio and subtitle streams to VOBs, create new IFO files, create DVD images. Also basic DVD Authoring. - Walkman
  
• Movienizer - movie collection organizer - Yourhighness
  
• Movie Organizer - a movie collection organizer. Download movie information and images online using UPC, title, actors or MOODb ID. - Walkman
  
• MovieTrack - a freeware dvd database and general movie collection organizer, for Windows. - Ronbo
  
• MPlayer - a movie player which runs on many systems - skyfuser
  
• PSP Video 9 - a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP. - bilko
  
• Swiff Player - a standalone Flash player, that allow you to view .SWF files.
  
• TMPGEnc - converts .AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality.
  
• VCDGear - a tool written to effortlessly extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VideoCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, create (Super)VideoCDs and more. - Walkman
  
• VirtualDub - VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)
  
• Wimpy - a cross platform (Mac and PC), standalone Flash Video FLV player, which will allow you to watch your FLV, and SWF videos, from your desktop.
  

[SamanthaJones]

Audio/Video Applications

 

• CamStudio - records activity from your screen and audio from a microphone into AVI video files and can also convert the AVIs into Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Compatibility: Windows NT/2000/XP - skyfuser
  
• FormatFactory - a multifunctional media converter Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista - KingOfIdiocy
  
• MediaInfo - supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio files Compatibility: Windows 32 bit 95/98/2000/XP, Mac, Linux - skyfuser
  
• Media Player Classic - The application has the same look and feel as the old light-weight Windows Media Player 6.4, but is a completely different application which has all the options and features one might expect from a modern media player. (Media Player Classic comes bundled with Real Alternative, so if you'd like both, just get RA) - WhyBeNormal
  
• Quick Media Converter - a universal audio/video converter) Compatibility: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista (32/64-bit) - KingOfIdiocy
  
• QuickTime Alternative - will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
  
• Real Alternative - designed for playing RealMedia files, which normally require Real Player - WhyBeNormal
  
• SUPER - a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click - idk
  
• SysTrayPlay - an MP3 and CD playing application that is based on being light-weight on both design and on impact on system resources - skyfuser
  
• VLC - a free cross-platform media player.
  
• Winamp Full - a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows Compatibility: Windows 2000 sp4/XP sp2, or higher - rowal5555
  
• YamiPod - an application to efficiently manage your iPod. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation Compatibility: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux - nigglesnush85
  

[SamanthaJones]

Graphics Design & Editing

 

• @icon sushi - an icon convert tool that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit icons.
  
• Apophysis - a windows application for creating, editing and rendering fractal flames. Compatibility: 32-bit Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP - Vaerli
  
• Avery Design Pro Limited - Customize and print professional looking labels, cards, dividers and more in minutes. - Ronbo
  
• Beneton Movie GIF - an animated GIF editor Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista - skyfuser
  
• Blender - the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
  
• Dogwaffle - A program designed for creative individuals who want to get down and dirty with their pixels (Scroll to the bottom of the page for free version). - tg911
  
• Dup Detector - will scan pictures within a file (including subfolders) and present potential duplicates for deletion. - jgweed
  
• Easy Thumbnails - can resize your pictures physically either larger or smaller, or you can keep the physical size and downgrade the quality
  
• EclipsePalette - a color palette and screen color capture program Compatibility: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Server 2003/XP/Vista - Dialer
  
• FastStone Image Viewer - An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. - nosnhoj#3
  
• FastStone Photo Resizer - An image converter / resizer intended to enable users especially digital camera owners to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermark to images in a quick and easy BATCH mode. - quietman7
  
• ForceVision Image Viewer - bitmap image viewer and browser with an attractive ease of use and advanced graphics manipulation capabilities. - Yourhighness
  
• Gimp - " GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring."
  
• Google Picasa - Locate, edit, add effects, and share your photos - TMacK
  
• Google SketchUp - a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. - need TOS
  
• Icon Snatcher - "This one can pull icons from your own files to use to customize your folders." - Ronbo
  
• ImageForge - Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more. - Poru
  
• Image Resizer - gives you the ability to resize an image/picture in 2 clicks, by adding the option to the Context Menu. - nosnhoj#3
  
• Inkscape - an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. A powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. - nosnhoj#3
  
• IrfanView - "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003." - ColdinCbus
  
• Just Color Picker - a stand-alone, full featured color picker Compatibility: Windows (32 and 64 bit) 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008 - henceforth
  
• Mobile Photo Enhancer - a program that's perfect for anyone who takes pics with a cellphone and needs to clean them up a bit. Also, it's very simple to use for the tech challenged. - frankp316
  
• Paint.NET - image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. - nosnhoj#3
  
• Panorama Tools - Photoshop plug-in for panorama creation, editing and remapping Compatibility: MacOS, Win32, Unix - CrampFish
  
• Phatch - user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface Compatibility: Windows/Linux/Mac Os X - nigglesnush85
  
• Photobie - a free image editing software with multilayer support. Photobie is customized for photo editing.
  
• PhotoPlus 6 - image editing software that enables you to create, manipulate and enhance photographs, bitmap graphics and web animations. (Registration Required) - cybormoron
  
• Photoscape - photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Compatibility: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista - Yourhighness
  
• Picture Resizer - An easy-to-use tool for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos. - El_Tel
  
• Pixia -"Pixia is the English version of a popular Japanese painting and retouch software for full color graphics. It supports mask, layer and many other editing functions." - tg911 and Ataryu
  
• SharpControl - Image Sharpening Utility (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines
  
• Terragen - a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations.
  
• UnFREEz - a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images.
  
• VSO Image Resizer - offers various "profiles", manual resize, several file formats and plenty more. Compatibility: Windows 2000 / XP / Vista - Yourhighness
  
• Wings 3D - a 3D subdivision modeller Compatibility: Windows 2000 or higher, Mac OS X, and Linux - webrat
  
• Xnview - you can quickly and easily view, process and convert image files. Will read more than 400 graphic file formats, and write to about 50. Will also display video formats. Also offers more advanced features such as Web page creation, contact prints, multiple conversion (format and transformation), slide shows, screen capturing and Twain support for scanners and digital cameras. - Herk
  

[SamanthaJones]

Screen Capture Applications

 

• Capture - a screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the active window, or the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing. - Herk
  
• Cropper - a screen capture utility written in C# - Yourhighness
  
• Fastone Capture 5.3 - (last freeware version) a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages, plus additional features. - HitSquad
  
• Gadwin Print Screen - an easy to use utility, that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard, print it or e-mail it to a recipient of your choice. - cybormoron
  
• MWSnap - Screen & Window Capture (Will run on USB Drive) - turbines
  
• Screenhunter - screen capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. - cybormoron
  
• ScreenPrint32 - allows you to print, and/or capture to disk, or clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen. - rowal5555
  

[SamanthaJones]

CD & DVD Applications

 

• Active@ ISO Burner - a simple-to-use dialog-style software to burn CD/DVD/Blue Ray ISO images. Compatibility: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/2003/NT/XP/Server 2008/Vista/Windows 7 - acklan
  
• AudioGrabber - audio CD ripper - Current Resident
  
• BwgBurn - a Windows XP .NET 2.0 application that can be used to burn CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD+R DL/BD-RE. It includes the ability to burn both data disk, audio disk and video disk (include VCD and DVDs) - twardnw
  
• CDBurnerXPPro 3 - can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs - Yourhighness
  
• CDex - a CD ripper and converter for Windows - tg1911
  
• CDRom-Lock - blocks the eject button on almost every CD/DVD drive. Compatibility: 32-bit Windows NT/2000/XP - acklan
  
• Deep Burner - "A CD/DVD burning software that lets you create Data Cds, Bootable CDs, and Audio CDs as well as data DVDs. In addition, it lets you burn ISO files, and create ISO images. Also lets you design an auto start menu to launch documents or programs from the CD" - tg911
  
• DeepRipper - can convert music files from AudioCDs into practically any format you'd like, including: MP3, WAV, OGG, and others.
  
• Exact Audio Copy - CD ripper - rms4evr
  
• Express Rip - rips CDs to wav or mp3 - BlackSpyder
  
• FinalBurner FREE - a CD and DVD burner Compatibility: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 - david28
  
• ImgBurn - a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application. Compatibility: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 bit/If you use Wine, it should also run on Linux and other x86-based Unixes. - DaChew
  
• InfraRecorder - CD/DVD burning software that will create data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images. Will also burn dual-layer DVDs, and image files. - Yourhighness
  
• ISO Recorder - a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder. - usasma
  
• StarBurn - tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media. Compatibility: Windows XP/2003/Vista (32 and 64 bit) - skyfuser
  

Edited September 14, 2009 by SamanthaJones

[SamanthaJones]

Windows Desktop Customization

 

• AJScreenSaver Clocks - a collection of various clock screensavers - acklan
  
• BootSkin - "These two are the full version and never expire, but are unsupported by the company. The bootskin will not work on every computer, from their literature; "Some drivers and bios makers "break the rules" which can cause BootSkin to not work correctly. If you experience that, you can try these alternative versions:" Unfortunately my HP was one of the ones that broke the rules so I don't know how this one works, but I can vouch for the rest." Information contributed by Ronbo
  
• CursorXP - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo
  
• Dexpot - creates and manages virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows. Compatibility: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista (incl. x64) - Yourhighness
  
• exalead one:desktop - a desktop search utility that's fast, intuitive, and you don't have to have it running all the time for it to be effective - saint satin stain
  
• FlyakiteOSX - a transformation pack that will transform the look of a Windows XP system, to resemble the look of Mac OSX - Ross Zip
  
• Iconoid - Iconoid is a small program that helps reduce the clutter and confusion of the Windows desktop. - tg911
  
• Logon Studio - Never expires - Ronbo
  
• ObjectDock - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo
  
• Picture and Sound Show - a 32-bit screen saver for Windows that enables you to create your own slide shows from pictures and sounds on your computer. - Floydoid
  
• RocketDock - a simple Dock program that you can place at the top, bottom, or sides of your screen, and that gives you quick access to your favorite programs and features Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/Vista - craneop
  
• Virtual Desktop Manager - Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy. Compatibility: Windows XP only - Yourhighness
  
• WindowsBlinds - Limited functionality but never expires. - Ronbo
  

[SamanthaJones]

Website Development

 

• CSS Tab Designer - a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required. - nosnhoj#3
  
• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar - provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. - nosnhoj#3
  
• Jalbum - "This one is pretty cool for making photo layouts for your website." - Ronbo
  
• KompoZer - a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. Compatibility: Linux, Windows and Mac - BlackSpyder
  
• Netdrive - integrates your Website as a drive into your Windows Explorer, so you can easily copy and paste all sorts of files, straight to your website. Only supports Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. - Yourhighness
  
• Nvu - a complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver - saint satin stain
  
• Picture-Shark - a tool to add logo watermarks to your pictures in order to brand them or display copyright information. A stamp can be any GIF, JPEG or BMP image and it can be positioned anywhere on the image and previewed from the interface. You can also specify a transparency level, in order to blend the watermark with the image.
  
• Porta - allows you to create attractive image galleries from your digital photos in just a few easy steps.
  
• SiteGenWiz - Site Creation Program. - Ronbo
  
• WampServer - a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. - nigglesnush85
  
• WindowSizer - Sets a given window to an exact size in pixels. Useful for web developers who want to see what their site will look like at various resolutions. - nosnhoj#3
  

[SamanthaJones]

HTML & CSS Editors

 

• 1st Page 2000 - HTML Editor, Compatibility: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP Requires IE 3.02+ - Bizrus
  
• HTML- Kit - HTML Editor
  
• Notepad++ - a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment. - nosnhoj#3
  
• NoteTab Light - a Notepad replacement and handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work. - acklan
  
• NVU - WYSIWYG HTML Editor
  
• Selida - HTML/WYSIWYG Editor - tg911
  
• Sothink HTML Editor - HTML Editor (Can only edit one page at a time) - Bizrus
  
• Topstyle Lite - CSS Editor
  

[SamanthaJones]

File Transfer Programs

 

• BlazeFTP - FTP Client
  
• FileZilla Client & Server - FTP Client and Server
  
• FTP Surfer - FTP client - acklan
  
• Leech FTP - FTP client - acklan
  
• SmartFTP - FTP Client
  
• WinSCP - A secure FTP Program and Secure Copy Program for use with SSH
  

 

Telnet Clients

 

Putty - Telnet and SSH Client

[SamanthaJones]

Programming Languages & IDE/Editors

 

• BlueJ - developed at a University specifically for the purpose of teaching object orientation with Java. - jpshortstuff
  
• Code::Blocks - a cross platform C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable - Romeo29
  
• ConTEXT - a small, fast and powerful text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers - scff249
  
• Eclipse - used for Enterprise Development, Embedded + Device Development, Rich Client Platform, Application Frameworks, and Language IDE - jpshortstuff
  
• jEdit - a mature programmer's text editor Compatibility: Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows - nigglesnush85
  
• NetBeans IDE - all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and Ruby Compatibility: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris - nigglesnush85
  
• phpEdit - PHP IDE (Newest version 2.6.0 is pay for. Previous versions are freeware)
  
• PSPad - a code editor that supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion... - phew
  
• Visual Studio Express Products - This includes Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, SQL Server, and Visual Web Dev.
  
• wxDev-C++ - helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer - Romeo29
  

[SamanthaJones]

Time & Weather

 

• Alarm - a digital clock that you can set to display a message and play a sound at a time of your choice. Compatibility: Windows 9*/ME/NT/2*/XP/Vista - Montel89
  
• Atomic TimeSync - synchronize your system clock with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). - Herk
  
• ClocX - An analog clock application for Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. - tg911
  
• DS Clock - a digital desktop clock that displays variable date and time information built from the format string - saint satin stain
  
• ForecastFox - (Firefox extension)This great little extension allows you to set it up so you can always view your local forecast in your Firefox Browser itself. The forecasts come straight from the Weather Channel's website. - tg911
  
• Forecastfox Enhanced - (Firefox extension) Enhanced version of the popular Forecastfox extension that adds 12 improved radar images and the ability to supply an URL for your own radar image.
  
• Neutron - simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. - turbines
  
• Qlock - world time clock - DSTM
  
• SysMetrix - Highly customizable, and skinnable clock. Can be customized to monitor the weather, your e-mail, cpu, memory usage and many other things, in addition to the time. - Ronbo
  
• Weather Pulse - A weather application
  
• Weather Watcher - personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide - 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista - saint satin stain
  
• WebTime2000 - WebTime 2000 is a small utility program that will synchronize your PC's internal clock with one of the several atomic clocks maintained by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology
  

[SamanthaJones]

that's all folks!

 

Please, feel free to suggest any additions to this list, that you might have.

Just abide by these 2 conditions:

 

1. It must be Freeware (free programs).

2. It must not contain any Spyware/Malware.

 

Registry cleaners are not included in this list due to the fact that, in the hands of inexperienced users, they could cause irreparable damage to the Operating System, and render their computer inoperable.

So to be on the safe side, they aren't included in the list.Please do not recommend any registry cleaners for inclusion into this list.

 

 

So, if you have a program that's not on the list, that you use and like, please suggest it.Who knows, it might be "just the program" someone was looking for.All suggestions, will be considered for addition to the list.

If you find any links that don't work, or that don't lead to where they are supposed to, please post them as a reply to this topic, or send me a PM.

[iamnoangel]

Wow you covered it all.

 

Yes I agree that registry cleaners should not be treated as a toy.

This is also true with MBAM. Don't be tempted to delete things other than what MBAM has deleted.

 

I just want to add, the K-lite codec pack also comes with windows media classic (the full version. Also it's free)

 

For a free app that I use a lot

 

TEAM VIEWER - a remote desktop application that supports, remote access, presentation, vpn and file transferring

[-wet-]

Firewall - comodo

System Information - rubber ducky

Windows Desktop Customization - vistamizer and/or sevenmizer (both for XP)

Edited November 3, 2009 by -wet-