The Best Freeware for Windows?

[psychopomp]

My favorites:


Browser: Mozilla Firefox
File Sharing: eMule
Utilities: TweakUI, Ad Aware
Multimedia: Itunes, Divx player, Stream Ripper
Cursor effects: Tumi Cursor Pack
Screen Saver: Distant Suns

What do you like?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Xteq X-Setup.

SpywareBlaster, SpywareGuard. SBS&D. SafeXP. Anything by AnalogX(The Disk Cacheing software rocks).

[psychopomp]

6. I had SBS and D

and I still had trouble with shortcuts to websites popping up on my desktop. I was using ZoneAlarm, too. I went to the store to purchase NIS2004 right after I reinstalled my system software.

Thanks for the AnalogX link, I had seen it when I was looking for freeware once but since I had just linked to it from another search (I think it was for a video driver) I did not check it out in detail.

[leftyandproud]

21. bump!

I'm compiling a list ;)

[Caution]

2. GAIM Instant Messaging client

SharpReader RSS news reader

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. I like this.... "oops.... not freeware"

it has some cool apps for people who must deal with both unix and windows....

http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/

CygwinTM

Cygwin is a set of powerful tools to assist developers in migrating applications from UNIX®/Linux to the Microsoft® Windows®; platform. Cygwin delivers the open source standard Red Hat GNU gcc compiler and gdb debugger on Windows. In addition, it provides for a standard UNIX/Linux development environment on Windows including APIs and command shells. The Cygwin.dll library, included with Cygwin, delivers the interesting subset of UNIX SVR4, BSD, and POSIX APIs to enable quick ports of UNIX/Linux applications to the Windows platform.

What Can Cygwin Do?

With Cygwin, administrators can easily remote login to any PC, fix problems within a UNIX/Linux shell, on any Windows machine and run shell command scripts. Sophisticated shell command scripts can be created with standard shells, sed, awk, etc. Standard Windows command line tools can even be intermixed within the UNIX/Linux shell script environment to administer the Windows system. Over the years, UNIX/Linux system administrators have developed a large toolbox set of management scripts for their UNIX/Linux machines. Cygwin provides the ability to continue using these scripts on Windows machines.

[jayfish]

4. For Education And Fun...

(if yer into that sort of stuff) it's Celestia.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia

<SNIP>
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
</SNIP>




You can get lost for billions of years with this program.

Jay

[psychopomp]

10. Thanks for reminding me!

I was looking at their website just last week and forgot to download it...it looks really cool.

[jayfish]

11. Make Sure You D/L All...

of the Hi-rez textures available for planets, moons and all that stuff.

Jay

[fsbooks]

5. My favorite:

Linux. Depending on my mood, I might leave Windows as an alternative boot system.

(apologies for the trolling)

[psychopomp]

7. Good one

;-)

[Kellanved]

8. cygwin

:P

[yellowcanine]

9. I had my windows replaced and I didn't know I needed freeware - did

I get ripped off?

[salvorhardin]

12. Windows Privacy Tools

http://www.winpt.org

[mark11727]

13. Some favorites...

PDF Creator at http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/

XNView at http://www.xnview.com/

Crimson Editor at www.crimsomeditor.com

Bulk Rename Utility at http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/BRU_Intro.php

PixelToolBox at www.axiomx.com

[lpbk2713]

14. Irfanview --- Free image viewer and editor.

Link: http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html

[rasputin1952]

19. Irfanview is Great!

Once you get the hang of it, it is fantastic!

:D

[Guy Fawkes]

15. Best program for the extremely paranoid:

"Gotcha" (gatchanow.com) isn't exactly freeware. But it is free to try, and that is nice. It allows you to set up a webcam to start filming when it detects motion. Perfect if you're paranoid.

[Mick Knox]

16. I love firefoxq

never heard of the others

[Deja Q]

17. Maelstrom - Asteroids clone. And another favorite Freeware for windows is

Linux. :evilgrin:

[Berserker]

20. This is one

of the best I have ever found if you use Internet explorer.
CookieWall ...because cookies suck. With this program you can be in control of what cookies you have on your computer.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm?

And for keeping your computer clean of spybots...
I also agree on Spybot S&D...http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Also AdAware...http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Another good program for screen captures is..Screen Hunter..http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

Sygate Firewall...http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
AVG Anti-Virus...http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

[Nlighten1]

18. Ethereal

Capturing in promiscuous mode makes me pop a chubby.