Hi All I recently noticed that there was a similar post for Macs and thought we could do with one as well. Post your favourite bits of freeware below and discuss.
ummm Firefox? ah what the...here's mine: Firefox Irfanview (for viewing) XNview (for processing) CDex (yes, I still use them round silvery thingy's) Winamp (cause i'm oldschool) AVG Antivirus Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema edition (prefer the simplicity and discreetness over WMP) Truecrypt (sneakeeeh....) Winzip/Winrar That's about it really, could probably do without half of it with Win7
Sure there's been a thread like this before, but still, get AeroSnap if you're on XP still. Give you the ability to fill half the screen with a program, much like Win7's snap feature. I can't live without it.
MS Home Defender is ace and FREE we love that word ...FREE see it just sounds warming and bit lovely doesnt it
7Zip AVG Spybot Notepad++ VLC GOM SMPlayer not really a program but AutoIT Firefox WinSplit Revolution That's about all I can think of right now, probably many others that have slipped my mind
Yeah one of these threads comes up every couple of months could do with one being stickied. In addition to those above. foobar2000 nice simple audio player that plays just about any format sumatrapdf light weight pdf viewer that's perfect if all you want to do is open pdfs to view them. MSE or Avira both good free lightweight anti viruses. Gimp for image editing Libre office if all you need office programs for is to type up documents or keep simple spreadsheets Also ninite installer makes installing them all alot easier.
ok here goes 7Zip IMGBurn Opera VLC Gimp NotePad++ MSE Malwarebytes AlbumartDownloader Handbrake MIRC SpaceMonger pretty much makes up the free stuff on my box (would also include SQLServer express and VS Express) Oh and new one this weekend ChronoLapse
Firefox Chrome MediaCompanion (for pre-scraping my media collection for my HTPC) Afterburner Vuze Dropbox Rainmeter GIMP 7-Zip FastPictureViewer EASEUS Partition Manager Belvedere Any Audio Converter Handbrake Skype VLC Oracle VM
Freemake (video conversion, CUDA option. Works great for Android/iPoo stuff) Winrar or 7z Foobar VLC and WMP-HC (prefer features in both) FF/Chrome MSN (sadly) Skype Spacemonger Comparator (old one) Filezilla Flash Player (a given)
All the great features of wordpad, tabbed, documents, plus fancy editing tools for working with things like .ini files, etc
F.lux It's a bit weird at first, but your eyes will thank you. Absolutely a must for those late-night internet marathons. http://stereopsis.com/flux/
The thread everyone is on about is here. Post #71 has a list showing the number of times each program had been suggested and therefore its popularity. I will update it with subsiquent additions at some point. That thread really needs to be stickied.
edit: Pointless Now! Whats happening here is your just going to end up with everyone listing all their software and its gonna be a pain to find anything because its gonna be full of repeats. I think either someone needs to concatenate it into one post or just post software thats not already been done. On that note... Daemon Tools Comodo Firewall CCleaner Spybot Search and Destroy Foxit Reader Free Teracopy < replaces windows file transfer. love it
