Prime quality freeware

[Morgan Ohlson]

For me 1'st rank freeware has to fill the following:

# High stability
# Do what they are intended to
a) efficient (only usable functions)
b) productive settings (only fully functional settings)
# No dead ends. Never put owner in any trouble.

For instance the Zipgenius makes a little to much hang-ups. Good free zip
application requested.

Also a stable quick screen resolution changer wanted.

Here are some 1st ranked (may have been recomended here). I use win98se.
List yours!

IrfanView (pic viewer)
XnView "
Cashman (ram-manager)
12 ghost wash
CloneSpy (scans for copies)
Cathy (simple CD-database)
Motherboard monitor
Win32pad
Everst home ed. (analyst)
FreeCommander
Morpheus (p2p)
Tweak UI

 

[Lennart]

Op Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:52:34 GMT schreef Morgan Ohlson:

For me 1'st rank freeware has to fill the following:

# High stability
# Do what they are intended to
a) efficient (only usable functions)
b) productive settings (only fully functional settings)
# No dead ends. Never put owner in any trouble.

For instance the Zipgenius makes a little to much hang-ups. Good free zip
application requested.

Also a stable quick screen resolution changer wanted.

Here are some 1st ranked (may have been recomended here). I use win98se.
List yours!

Keynote! Has many functions, but once configured, very useful (or, even
without configuring useful Hope there's coming quick a new release
(portable) Firefox

Oh, and besides your wishes, i'm also looking for 'portability'

 

[André Gulliksen]

For instance the Zipgenius makes a little to much hang-ups. Good free
zip application requested.

Tried TugZip?

 

[Mel]

For instance the Zipgenius makes a little to much hang-ups. Good free zip
application requested.

7-Zip is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio.

The main features of 7-Zip format:
- Open architecture
- High compression ratio
- Strong AES-256 encryption
- Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method
- Supporting files with sizes up to 16GB
- Unicode file names
- Solid compressing
- Archive headers compressing

http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[Mel]

Also a stable quick screen resolution changer wanted.

MultiRes works very much like a 32-bit version of the venerable
Microsoft's QuickRes 16-bit applet for Windows 95, with administrative
scripting facilities and extended capabilities to handle refresh rates
and multiple monitors. Supported resolution and refresh rates are
accessible from the command-line or from a simple menu that pops up from
the system tray. An optional timed confirmation prompt – enabled by
default in the program About box – ensures that any changes you make can
be reversed safely, without fuss. While MultiRes - unlike EnTech’s
PowerStrip - does not allow you to define new display settings, it does
give you quick and easy access to the ones the driver makes available –
in a simple, compact and conservative package.

Scripting examples:

- Applying display settings to multiple monitors:

multires.exe /1:800,600,32,75 /2:1024,768,16,60 /3:640,480,8,85

where the first set of display settings (800,600,32,75) is applied to
monitor number 1, the second set (1024,768,16,60) is applied to monitor
number 2, and the third set of display settings (640,480,8,85) is
applied to monitor number 3.

- Restoring previous display settings:

: Command Line
multires.exe /restore

MultiRes always stores current display settings prior to making any
changes, so that they can be easily restored on demand. This faciliates
batch file processing, where it is desireable to run a specific
application at a specific color depth and/or resolution, and then
restore
normal display settings when the application is closed. In the example
below, assume the system is normally run at 1024,768,16 but it is
desireable to run Internet Explorer at 800,600,32.

: Batch File
multires.exe /800,600,32
start /w iexplore.exe
multires.exe /restore

For more examples and explanations, please refer to the documentation
included with MultiRes.

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/multires.shtm

 

[vbMark]

For me 1'st rank freeware has to fill the following:

# High stability
# Do what they are intended to
a) efficient (only usable functions)
b) productive settings (only fully functional settings)
# No dead ends. Never put owner in any trouble.

For instance the Zipgenius makes a little to much hang-ups. Good free
zip application requested.

Also a stable quick screen resolution changer wanted.

Here are some 1st ranked (may have been recomended here). I use
win98se. List yours!

IrfanView (pic viewer)
XnView "
Cashman (ram-manager)
12 ghost wash
CloneSpy (scans for copies)
Cathy (simple CD-database)
Motherboard monitor
Win32pad
Everst home ed. (analyst)
FreeCommander
Morpheus (p2p)
Tweak UI

Hi there,

I keep a list of my favorite freeware on my website
http://www.vbmark.com

Check it out.

 

[Bob Adkins]

IrfanView (pic viewer)
XnView "

FastStone Image Viewer

Cashman (ram-manager)

Not recommended for XP because they do nothing.

12 ghost wash ~

CloneSpy (scans for copies) Dupelocater

Cathy (simple CD-database) ~

Motherboard monitor Speedfan

Win32pad

BDV Notepad, MetaPad

Everst home ed. (analyst) Agreed

A43

Morpheus (p2p) WinMx

Tweak UI

Agreed

You can find the rest of my favorites here:

http://webpages.charter.net/bobad/best.htm

 

[Bob Adkins]

For instance the Zipgenius makes a little to much hang-ups. Good free zip
application requested.

I prefer IZArc, by a wide margin. It's 1 of the most under-rated programs on
the Web.

 

[(ProteanThread)]

TugZip is THE free zipper these days in my opinion.

totally agree. tugzip rocks.

 

[Francesco Ghirlanda]

Il Sat, 20 Aug 2005 08:22:16 -0500, Bob Adkins ha scritto:

I prefer IZArc, by a wide margin. It's 1 of the most under-rated programs on
the Web.

I totally agree, IZArc is great.

 

[Morgan Ohlson]

WinMx

Really must say.... I tried WinMX some months ago...

I found somewhere around 2-10x as many files with Morpehus. I dumped WinMX
to go Morpheus!


Morgan O.

 

[Morgan Ohlson]

Op Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:52:34 GMT schreef Morgan Ohlson:

Keynote! Has many functions, but once configured, very useful (or, even
without configuring useful

Had it on hdd allready. Have not yet learned it...

Do you use KeyNote for projekts, ideas or larger texts?


Morgan O.

 

[Lennart]

Op Sun, 28 Aug 2005 08:37:35 GMT schreef Morgan Ohlson:

Had it on hdd allready. Have not yet learned it...

Do you use KeyNote for projekts, ideas or larger texts?


Morgan O.

You can better ask: for wich task you don't use Keynote I've stored
most data in Keynote. Of course, a paper for college or a letter is written
in Office. But the "administration" of different projects I store in
Keynote, my wishlist, a PHP-wiki, jokes, a tab full of PC information.

Badly, Keynote isn't very good with pictures and tables (it is possible,
but it could be better)

Lennart

 

[FTR]

7-Zip is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio.

The main features of 7-Zip format:
- Open architecture
- High compression ratio
- Strong AES-256 encryption
- Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method
- Supporting files with sizes up to 16GB
- Unicode file names
- Solid compressing
- Archive headers compressing

http://www.7-zip.org/

It's excellent, I use it , too.
Frank