Most used Freeware Programs?

jb · Apr 3, 2006

Ecco Pro? Eew, gross!

Mark Carter · Apr 3, 2006

MetaPad
Emacs

Ian Anderson · Apr 3, 2006

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

[INTERNET]
Opera
K-Meleon
Privoxy
YPop`s
FreePOPs

[MULTIMEDIA]
WinAmp
Real Alternative

[SECURITY]
Ad-Aware
SpyBot S&D
Spyware Blaster
Windows Defender

[SYSTEM UTILITIES]
WinZip

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Notepad++
DynaSpeller

Duddits · Apr 3, 2006

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

Every day -

DESKTOP

FILE UTILITIES

Agent Ransack
Ant Movie Catalog
Disk Explorer Professional
QuickPar

GRAPHICS IrfanView
PhotoFiltre
DPIC

INTERNET

Firefox
GAIM
Pegasus Mail
Dimension4

MULTIMEDIA

Foobar 2000 (v8.3)
Media Player Classic
VLC Player
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
VirtualDub
DVD2SVCD
AVIResizer Calculator 1.0.0.2
VCDEasy
DVDShrink

ORGANIZERS Event Manager

PROGRAMMING

SECURITY

Eraser
AntiVir Classic
TrueCrypt
Sygate Personal Firewall

SYSTEM UTILITIES

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PDF Creator
Open Office
Foxit Reader
Avery Label Designer
yBook/Microsoft Reader

WEB DESIGN

The list grows much larger if I list bi-weekly/weekly/monthly programs.

regards

Dud

Helen · Apr 3, 2006

Win Patrol
AVG
IrfanView
Kerio
PopUpStopper-PanicWare
Spybot S&D
CCleaner

I have other freeware programs, but these I use daily.

Helen

john stamatakis · Apr 3, 2006

Susan Bugher said:
Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

FILE UTILITIES TUGZip
freeCommander

Paint.Net

INTERNET

Green Browser
PopTray
Free Download Manager
BitTorrent
Screamer Radio

MULTIMEDIA

SECURITY

Windows Defender
MVPS Hosts
Peer Guardian

Whirled Peas · Apr 3, 2006

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

DESKTOP
Gnome
Gdesklets
Conky

FILE UTILITIES
Nautilis

INTERNET

Firefox
Thunderbird
Pan
Pure-ftpd

John Corliss · Apr 4, 2006

Susan said:
Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

I will presume that non-freeware types which are discussed in ACF can be
included. Also, some of the programs I use were freeware when I
downloaded them but no longer are (mostly PC Magazine stuff), so I'll
leave them out.

DESKTOP

Brutus 2006: http://www.proffs.nu/brutus.htm
(kind of a combination system tweaker and shutdown program)
TClock (*not* TClockex) http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

FILE UTILITIES

Iceows: http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html
Empty Temp Folders: http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp/
Rename Master: http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/
Batchrun: http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=1

GRAPHICS

Irfanview: http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
Mostly I have commercial programs for graphics.

INTERNET

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Grabit: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

MULTIMEDIA

XMPlay: http://un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Quicktime Alternative: http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm
Real Alternative: http://www.codecguide.com/about_real.htm
Media Player Classic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

ORGANIZERS

Guess I'm organized enough not to need such things.

PROGRAMMING

Don't program.

SECURITY

AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
Kerio 2.1.5 No longer around I think.
Spybot S & D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Adaware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

SYSTEM UTILITIES

Process Explorer: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
CloseCD:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/open_cd/download.shtml

TEXT

Usually, I just use Notepad.

WEB DESIGN

Not every day, but very often I use NVu: http://www.nvu.com/

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I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett, Doc (who uses sock puppets)
or Roger Johansson, for instance. No adware, cdware, commercial
software, crippleware, demoware, nagware, PROmotionware, shareware,
spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses or warez for me, please.

Semolina Pilchard · Apr 4, 2006

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

DESKTOP

World Time Clock

FILE UTILITIES

Free Commander

GRAPHICS
XnView

INTERNET

Opera
40tude Dialog

MULTIMEDIA

Foobar2000 0.8.3

ORGANIZERS

PROGRAMMING

SECURITY
Adaware
Spybot
ZoneAlarm

SYSTEM UTILITIES
Regseeker

TEXT

Win32Pad
OpenOffice

jb · Apr 4, 2006

John said:
I will presume that non-freeware types which are discussed in ACF can be
included. Also, some of the programs I use were freeware when I
downloaded them but no longer are (mostly PC Magazine stuff), so I'll
leave them out.

Brutus 2006: http://www.proffs.nu/brutus.htm
(kind of a combination system tweaker and shutdown program)
TClock (*not* TClockex) http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/

Iceows: http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html
Empty Temp Folders: http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp/
Rename Master: http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/
Batchrun: http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=1

Irfanview: http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
Mostly I have commercial programs for graphics.

Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Grabit: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

XMPlay: http://un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Quicktime Alternative: http://www.codecguide.com/about_qt.htm
Real Alternative: http://www.codecguide.com/about_real.htm
Media Player Classic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Guess I'm organized enough not to need such things.

Don't program.

AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
Kerio 2.1.5 No longer around I think.
Spybot S & D: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Adaware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
CloseCD:
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/entertainment/open_cd/download.shtml

Usually, I just use Notepad.

Not every day, but very often I use NVu: http://www.nvu.com/

NVU is great for learning css

BoB · Apr 4, 2006

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

DESKTOP

FILE UTILITIES

Oscar's File Renamer
RunIt

GRAPHICS
IrfanView

INTERNET

Dial-Up Networking Monitor
Firefox

MULTIMEDIA

Kool Playa

ORGANIZERS

PROGRAMMING

SECURITY

a2squared
Ad-Aware
BitDefender
F-Prot for DOS
HostsManager
Kerio 215 FW
SpywareBlaster
WinPatrol

SYSTEM UTILITIES

InControl5
KeyNote
YankeeClipper III

TEXT
Atlantis

WEB DESIGN

BoB

KinKade*~ · Apr 4, 2006

Seconds before spontaneously combusting <Susan Bugher> at

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every*
day?

ZoneAlarm
WordWeb
AVS
Quote fix

There are many more I use but not every day.

KKade

Susan Bugher · Apr 4, 2006

Ivan said:
Susan Bugher wrote:

FoxitReader (I guess this is the right category for that program)

That's where I'd put it => it MUST be right.

Susan
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Garrapata · Apr 4, 2006

DESKTOP

Iconoid, tclock, Ship's Bell

FILE UTILITIES

AllChars, IzArc

GRAPHICS
Irfanview

PopTray,GMail

1x1

Rainlender

PROGRAMMING

SECURITY

Ad Aware, SpyBot S&D

SYSTEM UTILITIES
SpeedFan

TEXT

Metapad, Atlantis Nova, Word Web

Susan Bugher · Apr 4, 2006

The list grows much larger if I list bi-weekly/weekly/monthly programs.

Yup.

There are lots of essential programs that don't get used every
day.

Susan
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Susan Bugher · Apr 4, 2006

Semolina Pilchard wrote:

Hi Sem. Good to hear from you.

Susan
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perro · Apr 4, 2006

daily usage...there is another list of freeware that I like but don't
use daily. Okay here is the daily list:

DESKTOP
Windows PowerPro (http://powerpro.webeddie.com/)

FILE UTILITIES
dsdel (http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware/)
dscrypt (http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware/)

GRAPHICS
irfantview

INTERNET
privoxy

MULTIMEDIA
mpc
kmplayer (http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php)
xmplayer

ORGANIZERS
Palm Desktop 4.1 (only becuase I use a sony clie)
EssentialPIM

PROGRAMMING
none

SECURITY
AVG Free Edition
Ad Aware
Spybot Search & Destroy
SpywareBlaster
Keepass

SYSTEM UTILITIES
Regseeker
ccleaner

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metapad
neomem
mempad
tombo ( http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/)

WEB DESIGN
none

TerryP · Apr 4, 2006

DESKTOP
None

FILE UTILITIES
XYExplorer
File Finder

GRAPHICS
Cam2PC
Photofiltre

INTERNET
Avant Browser
PopPeeper

MULTIMEDIA
XMplay
Windows Media Player Classic

ORGANIZERS
VisualCD

PROGRAMMING
None

SECURITY
Ad-aware
Spybot Search & Destroy
AVG Anti-virus

SYSTEM UTILITIES
SIW

TEXT
PSPad

WEB DESIGN
NVU

Noip · Apr 4, 2006

Susan Bugher said:
Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?

INTERNET

Firefox (plus MozBackup)
K9
POP Peeper
Tor
YPOPs

MULTIMEDIA

K-Lite Codec Pack Standard
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative
Winamp

SECURITY K9
ScripTrap
SpywareBlaster
Tor
WinPatrol

SYSTEM UTILITIES

ArsClip
CDX -- Command Prompt
Dimension4
ERUNT
Power Pro
Startup Control Panel
StartupDelayer
Startup Monitor

TEXT

PSPad
WordTabs 3.30

MLC · Apr 4, 2006

lunedì 3 aprile 2006 Susan Bugher ha scritto:

Would anyone like to share? What Freeware programs do you use *every* day?
SlickRun
Clipomatic

FILE UTILITIES

Cobian Backup

GRAPHICS HoverSnap
Irfanview

INTERNET

Opera
Dialog
Power-Grab 2002
html2pop3
FreeDownloadManager

MULTIMEDIA
KeyNote
TreePadLite

PROGRAMMING

VisualBasic 2005 Express Edition
Object Pascal

SECURITY

Kerio 2.1.5 (again!)
Ad-Aware

SYSTEM UTILITIES

Erunt
Total Uninstall 2.35
RegScanner
Safarp

TEXT

EditPadLite
Adobe Reader

WEB DESIGN

EditPadLite
xampp

Most used Freeware Programs?

jb

Mark Carter

Ian Anderson

Duddits

Helen

john stamatakis

Whirled Peas

John Corliss

Semolina Pilchard

jb

BoB

KinKade*~

Susan Bugher

Garrapata

Susan Bugher

Susan Bugher

perro

TerryP

Noip

MLC