Most useful freeware

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Thank you, all, for such very good replies. These are fine
introductions to some new titles (for me).
 
Andy< said:
Hi,

Is there a list of the programs that almost everyone should install on
their new computer? What freeware programs do you find most valuable.
Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thank you.
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hth,
-Craig

For Linux...
SeaMonkey
GAIM
OpenOffice
GIMP
Scribus
Audacity
Nvu


Or, for a Winderz system. Shamelessly ripping off Duddit's useful format...

System
IZArc
Unison
Comparator
Xplorer2
Belarc Advisor
CCleaner
Atomic Clock Sync
IPNetInfo
Cygwin

Graphics
GIMP
IrfanView
Picasa2

Audio
Exact Audio Copy
Lame
Mp3Gain
XMPlay
Audacity

Video
K-LiteMegaCodecPack
Media Player Classic

Internet
Mozilla/SeaMonkey
FileZilla
Gaim

Productivity
World Time Clock
Adobe Reader
Ghostscript/GSview
Java
Flash
PDFCreator
OpenOffice
Scribus
Palm Desktop
PSPad
Nvu
AMP Font Viewer
PrintKey 2000


Security
Clamwin AntiVirus
Sygate Personal Firewall 5.5
Spybot S & D
SpywareBlaster
Ad-Aware
KeePass
Password Safe
 
Seems to me that given the impending euthanization of Windows 98 come
June 30, a useful category would be survival tools for those who don't
want to (or can't) downgrade to XP.
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I think W98 will last for ages; the software exists for all I want, and so
does the hardware for a long time to come.

Easily till I can have a look at Vista, or try to get enough smarts to do
linux

mike
 
What freeware programs do you find most valuable.
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Sygate Personal Firewall
Avast
Adaware
SpyBot Search & Destroy
Miranda IM
Exact Audio Copy
Mozilla Thunderbird (Quote Colors)
Mozilla Firefox (Adblock, Filterset.G Updater, BBCode, Fasterfox,
NoScript)
Media Player Classic
ffdshow
QuickTime Alternative
Power Defragmenter
Process Explorer
TCP View
Xnews
XPAT Range
UltraVNC
gVim
Irfanview

These are some of the freeware programs I've got installed. In the
near future I'm probably going to add Open Office, 7-ZIP and The Gimp
to this list.
 
Once Upon A Time (on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:17:34 +0100), in alt.comp.freeware,
by way of Message-id said:
An antiivirus,firewall,and antispyware should be the first
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He** yes. Security _before_ "flashy" convenience.
 
Once Upon A Time (on 28 Mar 2006 08:22:48 -0700), in alt.comp.freeware, El Gee
<[email protected]>, by way of Message-id
wrote: said:
O&O Defrag is better, but
almost impossible to find now.
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[snip]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/O&O_Defrag_2000_Freeware_Edition_d4545.html
http://www.filehippo.com/download_oo_defrag/
http://www.filehippo.com/download_oo_defrag/tech/ (shows filename & spec's)
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1470 (shows description)
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?screenshot=1&ID=1470
(screenshot)
 
Il Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:55:01 GMT, >Andy< ha scritto:
Is there a list of the programs that almost everyone should install on
their new computer? What freeware programs do you find most valuable.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
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I've just began from scratch last week
At the moment I have installed on a XP professional OS

40tude Dialog (newreader)
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 ;-)
Emule (P2P)
Autostitch (a great program to stitch panoramas from British Columbia
University))
Avi2Dvd (to burn AVI on DVD)
D-Tools (daemon for virtual CD/DVD Rom)
DVD Shrink (copy DVD video)
DVDx (DVD to DIVX)
FileZilla (FTP client)
The Gimp (famous GNU graphics software)
Gnuplot (charts and graphics: great!)
AVG Grisoft (free Antivirus)
Ghostscript and GhostView (to manage postscript files)
Inkscape (very good vectorial drawing software)
Internet Explorer ;-)
IrfanView (excellent graphic viewer and converter)
K-Lite Codec Pack
Lazarus [very good Delhi-style visual programming cross-platform tool]
Monkey's Audio (a lossless audio compressor/decompressor software)
Mozilla Thunderbird (e-mail client)
Openoffice (the famous Office suite)
PDFCreator (transforms every output to printer in PDF)
Perl (a programming language)
progeSOFT lite (free autocad 2d clone)
Scilab (great free math software similar to Mat Lab)
TeXaide (to write math formulas in mathML and LaTeX code)
MiKTeX (a TeX typesetting system)
TeXnicCenter (TeX editor)
Microsoft Windows Defender ;-)
Windows Media Player Classic
Zilla CD DVD burner
 
Il Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:00:15 +0200, El Bandolero ha scritto:
At the moment I have installed on a XP professional OS
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I forgot METAPAD! excellent
it can show web links that are clickable, too, so I use it as a sort of
favorites editor
 
Once Upon A Time (on 28 Mar 2006 08:22:48 -0700), in
alt.comp.freeware, El Gee <[email protected]>, by way
of Message-id <[email protected]>,
wrote:

[snip]
O&O Defrag is better, but
almost impossible to find now.
Click to expand...
[snip]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/O&O_Defrag_2000_Freeware_Edition_d4545.html
http://www.filehippo.com/download_oo_defrag/
http://www.filehippo.com/download_oo_defrag/tech/ (shows filename &
spec's) http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1470 (shows
description)
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?screenshot=1&ID=1470
(screenshot)
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I am not sure when I tried to find it, but I googled many many months
ago and no valid links came up. Thanx for your post!


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Why should I install a unit convertor? I am fine with metric.
;-)
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Qualified 'For an American' so am I, but you'd be amazed at the people who
assume 30 degrees is cold! //al
 
New box?

First thing I install is NOT freeware, so we'll skip that (LOL).

Not in this order...

Freeware:

Internet:

ZAFree
Opera (no install)
Proxomitron(no install)
POPFile
uTorrent(no install)
Portable FileZilla(no install)
LeechGet 1.1 (abandoned)
Portable GAIM(no install)
WGet(no install)

etc:

PKMenu(no install)
Notepad++(no install)
EssentialPIM(no install)
AceMoney(no install)
IrfanView(no install)
SyncBack
BitPim(no install)
Foobar(no install)
MediaPlayerClassic(no install)
Cathy(no install)
EAC(no install)

System security:

Spybot(no install)
Adaware
CCleaner(no install)
J.V. PowerTools(abandoned)
A-Squared
FProt AV(no install)

After that we get into a bunch of little utes.....too many to mention
HERE!
 
Should this be first, second and third?

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Nostalgia is living life in the past lane.
 
Andy< skrev:
Is there a list of the programs that almost everyone should install on
their new computer?
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An operating system, perhaps? ;o)

But on a sidenote, I personally think that there are few (if any) single
programs that stand out so far ahead and above all alternatives (free or
otherwise) that the alternatives cannot be considered.

I consider the amount of high quality free software available as source
for almost endless possibilites, and I freely mix and match different
programs. One of the many beauties of "free" is that you really don't
have to consider the alternatives as alternatives: They might as well be
supplements! I.e., if program A has a feature you really really like to
use occasionally, while program B is much more efficient for day-to-day
use, then the choice is actually a lot simpler than it looks: Download,
install and use both. On this computer alone I have at least five
freeware programs capable of playing audio and video, in addition to
those that came bundled with various software and hardware.

Freeware can even be a useful supplement to commercial software. We use
Microsoft Office at work, but I still download and install Open Office.
Not to use instead of MS Office, but to pull out of my sleave in cases
where MS Office falls short. It has turned out to be very useful in
several cases, and a real lifesaver in at least two.
 
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