Cool Free Software

[Meursault]

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regeditpe http://regeditpe.sourceforge.net/
this is a small program meant to load a remote registry you point it to. it's rather limited, but perfect for having on a bart cd if you need to remove some startup entries from the registry of a hosed machine.
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ADSSpy http://www.merijn.nu/programs.php#adsspy
find and remove unwanted alternate data streams from an actual gui. this is the same guy who made 'hijack this', so he might have something else useful too....
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Restoration http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
scans for deleted files and restores them to another drive. also removes file records afterward, so is good for cleaning (if you have the time)
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Recuva http://www.recuva.com/
another good one for recovering deleted files
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Banshee screamer http://www.hanovsolutions.com/?prod=alarm
alarm clock. lets you set multiple alarms, each able to trigger a wav/mp3 of your choice. one of many, but i liked it better than the others. needs its own volume control tho
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Unknown Devices http://www.halfdone.com/Devedlopment/UnknownDevices/
queries firmware in various devices to find out chipset identification. useful for working on those old machines you cant find drivers for. there are other similar progs, but this one is small and clean and updated frequently.
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Dirms http://www.dirms.com/home/download/dirms_cl.asp
command line defragger. it's all i use regularly
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uTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/
tiny and efficient bt client. becomes portable once you copy files from Profiles dir to program dir.
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Firefox
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kMeleon http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
another web browser. smaller footprint than ff, and very customisable.
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OffByOne http://offbyone.com/offbyone/
TINY browser. won't render fancy pages, but it worth having around for really low-resource environments or to quickly test basic connectivity
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FileZilla http://filezilla-project.org/
decent ftp client
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Pidgin http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable
multi-protocol chatter. handles yahoo, msn, etc.
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httrack http://www.httrack.com/
steals webpages for offline viewing
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hfs http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/
direct puter-to-puter file sharing via http.
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xNews http://xnews.newsguy.com/
free newsreader that handles binaries
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Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
powerful (tho not completely 'intuitive') audio editor.
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dvd shrink http://www.dvdshrink.org/
backup and re-author dvd files. removes most copy-protection
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GordianKnot http://www.autogk.me.uk/
for ripping dvd to avi
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cd-ex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
clean free portable cd ripper
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deepburner http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download
cd burner almost as good as nero. but free (i still need nero to work with custom boot sectors tho)
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GimpPortable http://portableapps.com/apps/graphic.../gimp_portable
yes, THAT gimp. windows version. portable. may not seem handy if you're used to photoshop, but it'll do the same stuff, for free, once you get used to it.
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DiskInvestigator http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html
"Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data. Display the true drive contents by bypassing the operating system and directly reading the raw drive sectors. View and search raw directories, files, clusters, and system sectors. Verify the effectiveness of file and disk wiping programs. Undelete previously deleted files."
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media player classic http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
simple. patterned after windows media player, circa 1997. vlc's much more flexible, but some people like having this around just because of the interface.
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g-spot http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
if you can't play a particular video, this will tell you what codecs it needs
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vlc http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
having this removes the need for codecs. if vlc won't play it, i just delete it.
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irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/
small viewer and light editor for graphics files
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xnview http://www.xnview.com/
another lightweight viewer/editor. some ppl prefer this to irfanview (not me tho)
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mwsnap http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
screen capture prog with good options. i used to use it to make windows tutorials. it'll snap whatever window or part of window you want, then let you place a cursor in the resulting image...
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nvu http://www.net2.com/nvu/
full-featured wysiwyg html editor
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foxit reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
small portable pdf reader
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jj mp3 renamer http://software.jensjj.dk/uk/mp3renamer.html
mass-change mp3 tags
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unstoppable copier http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29
one of many roadkil programs great for recovery discs. browse the site, collect em all.
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vdub http://www.virtualdub.org/
captures video, writes to avi
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winamp http://www.winamp.com/
there are lots of audio players out there. this is still the king
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crapcleaner http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=885
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ds http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulif...ezip/freeware/
like the sysinternals and roadkil links, this is one that might have several things for you. this guy's all about encryption. browse away....
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HD Hacker http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/
backs up and restores mbr
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megairc http://ironfist.at.tut.by/megairc.htm
tiny irc client with enough features to get by
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mp3dc http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html
cut mp3s quickly without resampling
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mp3gain http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
"Tired of reaching for your volume knob every time your mp3 player changes to a new song?
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume.
MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear.
Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding."
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music file merger http://www.sofotex.com/Music-File-Me...ad_L60174.html
batch-merge mp3s quickly without resampling or (usually) fucking up the tags
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command prompt portable http://portableapps.com/apps/utiliti...rompt_portable
cmd prompt with portable comspec, runs on any windows you put it on, runs any prog cmd.exe will
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uniextract http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
"Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package...."
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viewchmPE http://www.bootcd.us/BartPE_Plugin_D.../View-CHM.html
if you remove internet explorer with nlite, you'l need this to view chms
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SUPER http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
"Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer --SUPER © does for FREE what other encoders CAN'T do for money."
do-everything video converter
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HiNetRecorder http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Hi-Net_Recorder
grabs streaming video off the web. there may be better progs for this. let me know....
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MediaCoder http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
another ok video converter
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annnnd, this oughtta be enough to keep you guys busy for a while....

[Meursault]

annnd i may now be the first person besides possibly tiki to exceed the 10k word limit on a post. AND i'm a post whore for making THIS post. i rock

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Meursault

annnd i may now be the first person besides possibly tiki to exceed the 10k word limit on a post.

Frayed knot, tw does it all the time

AND i'm a post whore for making THIS post. i rock

Yes you do.

[glatt]

Yeah, that list was good. I need to study it again when I have more time.