TECHIES...The best Freeware for Windows? Post your favoties!

[alnitak]

It's your lucky day....there is a big thread over at OS News about this very subject.

[Drammach]

Open Office v1.1

http://www.openoffice.org/

This is a full office suite, FREEWARE...
It's essentially Windows Office 97, or Sun's StarOffice..( formerly freeware, bought by Sun, now sold by them in enhanced form.. )
There is NO E-MAIL in the freeware versions.. Use Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Thunderbird ( Firefox compliment e-mail program..)

Windows version is approx. 64 megabytes...

Also some good download managers, like GoZilla, etc.. on download page..

[Drammach]

Depending on how informed you are about the internet, you might want to google a search for "Internet Maniac"...
Does stuff like "ping" sites, & junk like that..

[Quilla]

I planned to mention grisoft's AVG antivirus program as well. The program updates automatically when necessary and even these updates are free. So I'll second your recommendation.

[Cronos]

TECHIES...The best Freeware for Windows?

Linux....

[Cronos]

Linux -- it cures clippityitis

[Drammach]

And here's a good Freeware Site to start your own personal search for software that piques your interest..

http://www.freewarefiles.com/

http://www.jumbo.com/

http://freewarearena.org/PHPNuke/index.php

http://www.tusafe.com/nonags/index.html

http://www.freeware-guide.com/

[Flashlight]

with Audiograbber you can record streaming audio to listen to later, or to burn to cd. (If you're interested in streaming audio, you'll also want/need the latest Real Player, Winamp, and of course Windows Media Player).

go to publicradio.com for a tv-guide of streaming public-radio programs, and links to their sites (many archive their programs).


also Kazaa Lite, for file-exchange of music files.

[Flashlight]

also, see download.com. you can set the search criteria for "freeware".

[djf]

Cygwin.

[asgardshill]

If you're referring to Spybot Search and Destroy, I don't believe its being supported any more. I haven't seen any updates for it in months.

I switched over to Ad-Aware for my spyware nuking pleasure.

[woofer]

Network Stumbler.

War Driving or Chalking?

I use, or have available, almost all of the security and drive clutter clearing software mentioned on this thread. What a serious internet-surfer absolutely needs:

AVG Antivirus
Adaware
Spybot
System Security Suite

I also use Add-Remove Pro rather than the Add-Remove in Windows control panel. Tweakui XP is a good one to have, as is Reg Cleaner.

Once a month I run msconfig to keep the start-up programs to a minimum.

With a cable connection running on average at 350kbs, I don't want to see the "hourglass" thingy on my screen at all.

[Capitalism2003]

thanks to everyone...lots of great stuff. Keep em coming! :)

[Slump Tester]

MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation! Play 4000+ original arcade games on your PC!

No knock-offs - but the actual games coded into roms on the original arcade boxes. All done in the name of history preservation.

Must be seen to be appreciated!

[Sloth]

If you're referring to Spybot Search and Destroy, I don't believe its being supported any more. I haven't seen any updates for it in months.

??? I just checked for updates after reading that & there was a new one.

[LiberationIT]

A brand of cereal?

[Sloth]

FTP Commander is a very easy & small program for uploading files. http://www.internet-soft.com/

[asgardshill]

Interesting. I checked a couple of days ago and there hadn't been any updates for weeks. That's why I dumped it and got Ad-Aware.

[csvset]

I don't believe its being supported any more. I haven't seen any updates for it in months.

Spybot had an update yesterday. It found a trojan, StartPage-EH, that Ad-Aware SE didn't detect.

[asgardshill]

MAME

Yes indeed. I've got a quarter of one 200 gig hard drive devoted solely to ROM storage, care, and feeding. Love it.