[SteelTrepid]

Just thought I would start the topic and pin it. Hopefully either Littl or I will get around to compiling all the information into this one location.

[stidyup]

The Ultimate List of Freeware and some Shareware Apps and Tools

Updated: 19-Oct-05

Scan Supect files here - http://virusscan.jotti.org/ or http://www.virustota...scan.jotti.org/ or ...virustotal.com/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.c...ww.free-av.com/ Current rating http://www.virusbull...xml?antivir.xml
Avast - http://www.avast.com...i_idt_1018.html Current rating http://www.virusbull...s.xml?avist.xml
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/ Current rating http://www.virusbull...cts.xml?avg.xml this may be for V7, the free one is V6
AVG GUI - http://www.paehl.de/english.php
GUI for the Free Editon and the full/trial version from the AVG Virus scanner. The free edition doesn't support SCAN one or more drive and other settings.

Trojan Hunters, can be used alongside existing AV software
A2 - http://www.emsisoft..../software/free/
Ewido - http://www.ewido.net/en/

Anti-Virus On Demand Scanners Only:://http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.htm... Scanners Only:
Bit Defender 7 http://www.bitdefend...ts.php?p_id=24#
Bit Defender also offer other free AV utilities see http://www.bitdefend....php?menu_id=21 for current list
Clam AV for Windows - http://www.clamwin.c...o...d=5&Itemid=
MicroWorld's Free Antivirus Toolkit Utility http://www.mwti.net/...e_utilities.asp

Anti-Virus Scanners Online:
Bit Defender http://www.bitdefend...can/licence.php
Command OnDemand http://www.command2....od_ev/codie.htm
eTrust http://www3.ca.com/s...sinfo/scan.aspx
Freedom Online Virus Scan http://www.freedom.n...viruscheck.html
Panda Active Scan http://www.pandasoft...n/principal.asp
RAV http://www.ravantivi...scan/indexn.php
Symantec (Norton) Security Check http://security.syma...t...e&venid=sym
Trend Micro http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Anti Virus Removal Tools:
Avast Virus Cleaner http://www.avast.com...st_cleaner.html
McAfee Stinger - http://vil.nai.com/vil/averttools.asp
Panda Removal Tools - http://www.pandasoft...pqremove_en.htm
Sophos SAV32Cli Command line - http://www.sophos.co...on/worms.html#2

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft....ftware/adaware/
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
CWSShreddar - http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/
Elite Toolbar Remover - http://www.simplytech.it/ETRemover/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpyDefense (Beta) - http://www.everestlabs.com/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacools...areblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wildersse...ywareguard.html
Spyware Terminator - http://www.spywareterminator.com
SuperAntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/
Xblocker Mirco Cleaner - http://www.xblock.co...clean_micro.exe

Free Web Scan\Clean
Trend Micro AntiSpyware Scan - Trend Micro

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CD-DA X-Tractor - http://www.mp3-conve...da_xtractor.htm uses Lame MP3 Encoder
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
GoldWave - http://www.goldwave.com
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
Best and Free MP3 Encoder Lame3.95.1 - http://www.doom9.org...l?/software.htm
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr
SmallCDWriter - http://ordoss.progra...riter112eng.rar (English Version)
SmallCDWriter - http://www.avtlab.ru (Russian Version)

CD Tools:
CD2ISO - http://www.dubaron.com/cd2iso/
CD Manipulator V2.70 - http://www.aptv38.ds...ist/CDTools.htm

CD ISO Burners:
BurnCDCC - http://www.terabyteu.../utilities.html
CreateCD - http://isorecorder.a...om/CreateCD.htm

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redha...zip2/index.html
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
NewZip - http://www.paehl.de/english.php
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
Simply Zip - http://www.paehl.de/english.php
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
WinRAR - http://www.rarsoft.com
WinZIP - http://www.winzip.com
Zip Central - http://zipcentral.iscool.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DefragNT - http://andreigaceff....m/DefragNT.html
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
Diskeeper lite V9 - http://rapidshare.de...per.v9.lite.rar
Diskeeper lite V7 - http://www.diskeeperlite.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft....re/freeware.asp
Power Defragmenter - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfa...ks/?item=Defrag

Defrag Software + Source Code
Defrag - http://www.programme...at407/40882.htm
Homepage for above software
FragExt - http://www.mutexed.c...#defrag-manager
Kessel Defrag - http://www.kessels.c...frag/index.html


Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock....p/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach....ck2/tclock2.htm

Data Emulation and Extraction
Daemon Tools - http://www.daemon-to...rtal/portal.php
Floppy Image - http://www.321downlo...ware/page3.html
ISO Buster - http://www.smart-pro....net/isobuster/
WinISO - http://www.winiso.com/download.htm

Download Managers
Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/
MetaProducts Download Express - http://www.metaprodu...ads_Current.asp

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shiel...ileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/p...s/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsof...rnet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
File Commander - http://www.freecomma...om/index_en.htm
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
Disk Inspector - http://www.theabsolu...are/dskinv.html
Freeundelete - http://www.officerec...elete/index.htm
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspect.../UK/welcome.htm
Handy Recovery - http://www.handyrecovery.com/
Restoration - http://www.aptv38.ds...restoration.zip
UnCHK & FileCHK - http://ericphelps.com/uncheck/
Unstoppable File Copier - http://www.roadkil.net/

Firewalls:
Filseclab Personal Firewall - http://www.filseclab...ts/firewall.htm
Ghostwall - http://www.ghostsecu...?page=ghostwall
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
NetVeda - Safety.Net - http://www.netveda.c...r/safetynet.htm
OmniQuad Personal Firewall - http://www.omniquad.com/pfirewall.htm
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.c...d/outpost1.html
R-Firewall - http://www.r-firewall.com/
Securepoint Personal Firewall & VPN Client - http://www.securepoi...pcfirewall.html
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfe...ducts/firewall/
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.co...pf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs....reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.n...jects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
WS_FTP LE - http://www.webattack...t/wsftple.shtml

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshar...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovand...ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.aceh...m/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.../arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft....ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak...er/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs:
Calypso - http://10xshooters.com/calypso-free/
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.o...ts/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.gr...~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfx...p;threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Notepad Replacements:
Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoned...h/download.html

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software6...s/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Easy Office - http://www.e-press.c...oads/index.html
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Digital Dolly - http://www.download....8-10220909.html
NTFS Resize Tools (Linux) - NTFS Linux Resize Tools
Partition Logic - http://visopsys.org/...ogic/index.html
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
System RescueCD - http://www.sysresccd.org/index.en.php
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurit...l?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com...guy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.n...cts/pdfcreator/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Paint.net - http://www.eecs.wsu....t.net/index.htm
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreeds...re.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activesta...ucts/ActivePerl
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to...y/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpco.../opensource/sd/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware...uct_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/


System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeek...oad.php?det=311
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co....c/download.html

System Tweaking and Diagnostics
X-Setup Pro - http://www.x-setup.n...ome.asp?lang=EN
Speed XP - http://www25.brinkst...oft/speedxp.htm
Startup Mechanic - http://www.startupmechanic.com/
RegCleaner - http://www.majorgeek...ownload460.html
RegSupreme - http://www.webmaster...regcleaner.html
WT RegCleanerXP - http://www.majorgeek...wnload3560.html
EasyCleaner - http://www.majorgeek...ownload414.html
Tweak Now RegCleaner - http://www.tweaknow....RegCleaner.html
MS BootVis Tool - http://www.softpedia.../2/12-2-1.shtml

Video codes :
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/...from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.n...rojects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-dige.../nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

Video players :
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewa...projects/cygmp/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.n...?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/
Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/

Video tools:
BBMpeg - http://www.divx-dige...e/avi2mpg2.html
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.n...?group_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.go...oepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatba...ware/index.html

Web browsers:
Firebird - http://texturizer.ne...bird/index.html
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) - http://www.maxthon.com
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.nets...ers/default.jsp

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.c...yweb/index.html

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com...ple/index.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.li...ng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage...roducts/exp/v3/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-sof...products/hksfv/
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Baby Splat - http://www.syntap.com/products.htm
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
DVD Backup/Editing software/help galore - http://www.doom9.org/
DVD Movie/Video software/help galore - http://www.videohelp.com/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpr...ditpadlite.html
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.co...are/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities...ley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache....reeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.or...tware/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net
Time Stamp - http://www.syntap.com/products.htm
Ultimate Boot CD - http://www.ultimatebootcd.com
Various Freeware Tools - http://www.moox.ws/tech/freeware/
Windows Ultimate Boot CD (Duh!) - http://www.windowsubcd.com

Linux Alternative to WindowsUBCD - http://www.inside-se.../INSERT_en.html
http://trinityhome.org/trk/

source: http://www.neowin.ne...howtopic=119821

More to come and be added...

This post has been edited by stidyup: 11 August 2006 - 02:25 AM