Good FREE Programs

[vass0922]

www.opera.com --- IMO the best Free Web Browser (yes the free version is supported by Google ads, but it is in no way spyware)

[The Real Bingo]

Motherboard Monitor
Xfire
SnagIt [trial]
Daemon Tools
SiSoftSandra
K-Lite
Shareaza
Weather Watcher
Mozilla

I would provide links and descriptions, but I'm too tired.

[ben-the-slacker]

Oh yeah...

mIRC
AIM / DeadAIM
CWShredder
Pop-Up Stopper
NoAds
DivX

[crouse]

Note Tab Light

Best free text editor ever (well ..... for windows )

Otherwise, best free programs all run on Linux and Linux is FREE

but you were PROBABLY refering to Windows programs.....

ERASER
NOTETABLIGHT
BK COLOUR CODER
TIGHT VNC

[Atomic Rooster]

NaDa 0.5.

[Bizkitkid2001]

Shareaza

My favorite P2P program. Connects to gnutella, gnutella2, and edonley2000 all at once. Its also a Bittorent client and a Download Manager.

www.shareaza.com

Hide Folders XP

Great program if you want to hide files from people who are using your computer(Great for keeping people out of your computer at lan parties as it hides the drives from the netowrk as well)

http://www.fspro.net/

Trillian

Awsome little chat program. Connects to AIM, Yahoo, irq, and MSN Messenger.

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Fraps

Tiny program for capturing videos in game. Works for most popular games.

www.fraps.com

AVG Anti Virus

I think its better than Norton, also its less of a system resource hog.

http://www.grisoft.com

Seti Hide

Small little app to view your statistic for the seti command line client

http://www.scheit.de/seti/setihide.html

Network Traffic Monitor

Simple network monitoring program

http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa112903a.htm

SpyBot S&D

Great adware&spyware remover to run along side of Ad-Aware 6

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1

Ace Mega Codec Pro

The most complete codec pack, includes BS Player, the most stable player that I have used.

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/...1-2-7-10.shtml

[HeadBand]

accually the gimp is avalible to download
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

[Gilthanaz]

I will second vass about Opera, the best browser out there IMO.

EasyCleaner. multipurpose utility for cleannig up files and registry entries and keeping your system all nice and tidy.

Aida32. Good system info tool.

Gaim- awesome IM client, better than Trillian IMO. clean user interface, supports all major protocols.

[Sixpac_XP]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bizkitkid2001

Shareaza

My favorite P2P program. Connects to gnutella, gnutella2, and edonley2000 all at once. Its also a Bittorent client and a Download Manager.


Ace Mega Codec Pro

The most complete codec pack, includes BS Player, the most stable player that I have used.

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/...1-2-7-10.shtml

WARNING! don't install that codec pack.. it killed my WMP 9/10 and I had to do a system restore.. yikes it was ugly.

[dunbar]

www.sourceforge.net has many Open Source programs that are developed for Windows (eck!).