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Written by Gary Littleton   
Sunday, 25 March 2007
List of Windows Freeware that I am currently updating and editing to distill down to the best applications.

Windows Freeware List

Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spyware
 ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
Ad-Aware - http://lavasoft.element5.com/index.php
Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - http://www.free-av.com/
Comodo Antivirus - http://antivirus.comodo.com/
HijackThis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis
Spybot-S&D - http://www.spybot.info/en/home/index.html
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/
XPY - http://xpy.whyeye.org/

!Audio Players
1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer - http://www.deliplayer.com/
Delphamp - http://www.delphamp.com/
Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.com/
MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/
musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/
Quintessential Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
SongBird - http://www.songbirdnest.com/download
XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/

!Audio Tools
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
AutoFLAC - http://legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&...mp;app=autoflac
BonkEnc - http://www.bonkenc.org/index.php
CDEx - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
Mp3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

!Benchmarking / Hardware Info
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
PC WIZARD 2007 - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
Futuremark - http://www.futuremark.com/products/
HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/
Nero CD-DVD Speed - http://www.cdspeed2000.com/
Nero InfoTool - http://www.nero.com/nero7/deu/Info_Tool.html
RightMark Utilities - http://www.rightmark.org/
SIW - System Information for Windows - http://www.gtopala.com/

!Bittorent Clients
µTorrent - http://utorrent.com/index.php
Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php
BitComet - http://www.bitcomet.com/
BitSpirit - http://www.167bt.com/intl/
BitTorrent - http://www.bittorrent.com/
Deluge - http://www.deluge-torrent.org/
Halite - http://www.binarynotions.com/halite.php
Rufus - http://rufus.sourceforge.net/

!CD & DVD Burning
CDBurnerXP Pro - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php
Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/
DeepBurner - http://www.deepburner.com/
ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
Infra Recorder - http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
Small CD-Writer - unofficial translation - http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=7564

!Compression/Decompression
7-zip - www.7-zip.org
ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/
Far Manager - http://farmanager.com/
WinUHA - http://winuha.com
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Universal Extractor - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=62418

!Data Recovery
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
Recuva - http://www.recuva.com/
Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
TestDisk and PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/
Undelete Plus - http://www.undelete-plus.com/

!Download Manager
DownThemAll - Firefox extension - http://www.downthemall.net/
FlashGet - http://flashget.com/
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
LeechGet Personal Edition - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Orbit Downloader - http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
Wackget - http://millweed.com/
Wget - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
wGetGUI - http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/
WinWGet - http://www.cybershade.us/winwget/

!Encryption
FreeOTFE - http://www.freeotfe.org/
KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
Steganos LockNote - http://www.steganos.com/?content=locknote&language=en
TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

!File Tools
A43 File Management Utility - http://www.primitus.us/a43/
Ant Renamer - http://www.antp.be/software/renamer
Directory Lister - http://www.krksoft.com/index.html
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/
freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/
LS File List Generator - http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/
ReNamer - http://www.den4b.com/
WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

!Firewall
Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.comodogroup.com/
Outpost Firewall Free - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/index.php
Safety.Net - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/
ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/

!FTP
Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

!Graphics
ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/
AveIconifier2 - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=15304
Blender - http://www.blender.org/
Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
hugin - Panorama Tools GUI - http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
InkScape - http://www.inkscape.org/
IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/
Jahshaka - http://www.jahshaka.org/
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org/
Paint.NET - http://www.getpaint.net/index.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/
Google SketchUp - http://www.sketchup.com/
TuxPaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org/
XnView - http://www.xnview.com/

!GUI
Adolix Wallpaper Changer - http://www.adolix.com/wallpaper-changer/
AveDesk - http://www.avedesk.org/
CD Art Display - http://www.closetosoftware.com/
Desktop List View - http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/index.php
Dexpot - http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home
DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/
Flickr Wallpaper Rotator - http://www.rushfrisby.com/apps/Flickr-Wallpaper-Rotator.aspx
FlyakiteOSX - http://osx.portraitofakite.com/
John's Background Switcher - http://www.johnsadventures.com/backend/BackgroundSwitcher/
PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
RK Launcher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/
RocketDock - http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock
Tango Shell Patcher - http://vertigosity.benpbrown.com/?page=start
TaskSwitchXP - http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html
XPize - http://xpero.msfn.org/
VirtuaWin - http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
Vista Transformation Pack - http://www.windowsxlive.net/?page_id=15

!Instant Messaging
aMSN - MSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php
Gaim - Multi-Protocol support - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
miniaim - AIM - http://miniaim.net/
Miranda - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Trillian - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

!IRC Client
Bersirc - http://bersirc.free2code.net/index.php/home/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
KVIRC - http://www.kvirc.net/
X-Chat - http://www.xchat.org/
X-Chat 2 - http://www.silverex.org/news/

!Network Tools
Ethereal - Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
Knocker - Port Scanner - http://knocker.sourceforge.net/index.php
Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/
OCS Inventory - Inventory - http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/
OmniPeek Personal - http://www.omnipeek.com/omnipeek_personal.php
Show Traffic - Traffic Analyzer - http://www.demosten.com/index.html
[b]SmartSniff - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/smsniff.html
Snort - IDS - http://snort.org/
SoftPerfect Network Scanner - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/
The Dude - http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php
Wireshark -http://www.wireshark.org/

!Notepad Replacements
metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

!Office
AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/
Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Gnumeric - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/
Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/index.php
OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
PDFCreator - http://www.pdfforge.org/

!RSS
FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/
GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/index.html
RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/

!System Utilities
Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php
CamStudio - http://www.camstudio.org/
CCleaner - http://ccleaner.com/
Convert - http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/
Event Log Explorer - http://www.eventlogxp.com/
HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/
JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
Neoshooter - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=161346
NirSoft Utilities - http://www.nirsoft.net/
Rumshot - http://shellscape.org/rumshot/
Sandboxie - http://www.sandboxie.com/
Sizer - http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html
Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...itiesindex.mspx
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/
Window Clippings - http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/t...gs/default.aspx

!Web Browsers
Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Opera - http://www.opera.com/
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

!VoIP
Gizmo - http://www.gizmoproject.com/
Skype - http://www.skype.com/
VoipStunt - http://www.voipstunt.com/
WengoPhone - http://www.wengo.com/

!Video Players
GOM Player - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/
MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/
KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php
rulesPlayer - http://rulesplayer.lessequal.com/
VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Zoom Player (Standard) - http://www.inmatrix.com/

!Video Tools
Any Video Converter - http://www.any-dvd-converter.com/
AutoGK - http://www.autogk.me.uk/
BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/
Dr.DivX - http://labs.divx.com/DrDivX
DVD43 - http://www.dvd43.com/
DVDFab Decrypter - http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm
DVD-Rebuilder - http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/
GSpot Codec Information Appliance - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
MediaCoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
MKVToolnix - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/
RatDVD- http://www.ratdvd.dk/download.htm
StaxRip - http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
Videora Converter - http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

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