Freeware alternative list

[sanctified Veteran]

Updated by ultima 10/2/2005

Originally compiled by [sanctified], thanks to the Neowin members.

Items marked in red are new additions.

3D Graphics:

3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm

Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/

Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/

Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/

gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/

Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html

Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtml

Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm

OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org

SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/

Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/

Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:

AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/

Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html

AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/

ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:

Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html

Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/

SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/

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.silverex.org/news/

Audio Players:

1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch

Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy

CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/

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/

XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

Audio Tools:

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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/

K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/

KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/

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

Compression / Decompression:

7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/

bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html

ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/

FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/

IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/

QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/

TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/

UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm

Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:

DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/

OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:

AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372

CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html

Kapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/

MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/

Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html

Rainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendar

Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/

tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/

Download managers:

Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html

Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php

wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/

wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

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-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/

PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:

2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/

A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/

ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com

Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/

JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/

MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:

PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:

Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:

CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/

Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html

SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:

FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com

GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334

Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/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.acehtml.com/download.html

Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/

NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.html

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.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe

Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/

Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php

SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/

XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:

Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

IM2: http://www.im2.com

Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/

Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/

PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/

SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/

Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:

Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/

SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs:

Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/

i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/

Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/

Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/

PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/

Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/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/

NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/

NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Ntop - http://www.ntop.org

PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com

PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/

TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/

UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:

602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html

AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/

OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:

Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/

Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/

TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:

Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm

Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/

PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/

PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:

ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/

Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/

Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/

The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/

Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:

ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl

Crimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Context - http://www.context.cx/

Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/

Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/

Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/

ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff

Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/

JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm

jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/

Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/

Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm

PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/

PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/

Python - http://www.python.org/

Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html

SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Pop-up Blockers:

Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/

NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/

PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html

Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/

Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:

Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm

RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/

System Information and monitoring:

CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1

Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/

Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311

SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com

WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

Video codecs :

DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php

FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

XviD - http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :

BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/

Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads

Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/

DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/

MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303

VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:

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.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889

Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:

Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com

K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/

Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers:

Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/

Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/

Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/

Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/

SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm

TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software:

booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/

Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:

fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/

hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/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/

Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia

CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com

Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com

Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/

EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/

Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com

MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net

Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis

Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/

QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/

png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico

Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/

Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/

Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/

TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about

Turbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/

Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net

Edited February 10, 2005 by ultima

[heathrowe]

Here's one for Programming, dot net preferably - Web Matrix, a handy free tool for those who don't have Visual Studio.Net

cheers

heathrowe

[SIG]

How about Samurize?

It could go on Desktop Enhancements or perhaps System Information/Monitoring

[qqqqllll]

So much softwares.

Thanks!!

[I need Zoloft]

Crystal Video Player:

Free Version http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads

[atchou]

Antivirus

Inoculate IT http://antivirus.cai.com/

Audio Players

PCDJ RED http://www.visiosonic.com/

Audio Tools

LAME http://mitiok.free.fr/

RazorLAME http://www.dors.de/razorlame

Monkey Audio's http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

Musepack http://www.musepack-source.de/

Encryption

ScramDisk http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/ | http://www.samsimpson.com/

E4M http://www.e4m.net/ | http://www.samsimpson.com/

FTP Clients

LeechFTP http://linux.fh-heilbronn.de/~debis/leechftp

FTP Servers

Cerberus FTP Server http://www.cerberusftp.com/

IM

Messenger2 http://www.messenger2.com/

EasyMessage http://www.easymessage.net/

Office Suites

Atlantis http://www.rssol.com/

RSS

KlipFolio http://www.klipfarm.com/

Abilon http://activerefresh.com/

Network

Hopster http://www.hopster.com/

FreeAgent http://www.forteinc.com/

Grab It http://www.shemes.com/grabit

PDF

CutePDF http://www.cutepdf.com

Image

Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/

CAD

FreeCad 5.0 http://www.askoh.com/

TurboCAD LE http://nct.digitalriver.com/fulfill/0002.16

Video Players

1337player http://www.daansystems.com/

Video Tools

analyzerDRF http://www.geocities.com/analyzerDRF

WebServers

Xitami http://www.xitami.com/

Text Editors

EmEditor http://www.emurasoft.com/ (free for students and freeware developers)

ConTEXT http://www.fixedsys.com/context

SciTe http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Rename

Quick File Rename Personal Edition v3.0 http://minimice.cjb.net/

Lupas Rename http://go.to/lupas2000

Flexible Renamer http://go.to/lupas2000

Misc

TreeSize http://www.jam-software.com/

SequoiaView http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview

Dema Post It http://desoft.cjb.net/

DaemonTools http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php

Columbus http://columbus.arup.com/

MACBETH http://www.umh.ac.be/%7Esmq

--

Atchou

[LOC Veteran]

RSS

RSSOwl http://www.rssowl.org/

[trigger_my_passion]

DAMICON'S LIST OF OPEN SOFTWARE

http://damicon.com/resources/opensoftware.html

[trigger_my_passion]

FAQGenie (free) - Website FAQ Manager

FAQGenie is a tool that takes the hassle out of writing and maintaining a FAQ on a website. You simply enter your questions and answers, arrange them according to your preferences, select a suitable layout and with a click you have a professional looking FAQ page. You have the option to have the document on a single page or in frames - both horizontal and vertical options are supported. You can have the answers all on a single page or one per page - the latter being very useful for cases where you have a long document which takes forever to download. Other options include FAQ import, extra headers and footers, meta-tags, JavaScript to auto-frame automatically and much more.

http://virdi-software.com/faqgen/desc.shtml

===

PagePlus 5 is the easiest way to get professional desktop publishing results - in print or on line. With your PC, printer and PagePlus, you can save time and money - no experience required!

Whether you want a classy logo, attention grabbing text or an artistic masterpiece, DrawPlus 4 has the power and tools to help you. Beginners and professionals have praised this as one of the best design programs, ever!

PhotoPlus is your number one choice for working with photographs and paint type images, whether for the Web, multimedia, or the printed page. Once you've got your image into PhotoPlus, you can enhance and alter its on screen appearance with a diverse toolkit of functions and effects.

Ready to add a new dimension to your Web graphics projects, presentations, or desktop publishing? 3DPlus 2 will take you there! 3DPlus puts all the tools and resources you'll need within easy reach. The professional-quality results will amaze you!

If you thought creating Web pages was difficult, think again! With WebPlus' Web Page Wizards you'll be designing and publishing professional looking Web sites fast. Whether you're a professional or novice you'll come to appreciate the easy to use atmosphere in WebPlus.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/products.asp

[war]

Pop Up Blocking:

Ad Muncher

[Ghatak]

good list

[I need Zoloft]

Video player

Viplay

http://www.urusoft.net/downloads.php?lang=1

Somegood websites for freeware

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

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/

[Emon]

HTML Editor: Nvu

http://www.nvu.com/index.html

Nvu is based on Gecko, the layout engine inside Mozilla; it's a super-fast, very reliable, standards conformant engine maintained on a daily basis by a wide community of developers. Its remarkable support of XML, CSS and JavaScript offers the best authoring platform on the market. Its architecture based on XUL makes it the most extensible editing tool ever.

[Spitfire_x86]

Audio Player:

Coolplayer

coolplayer website

[scotoma]

Sorry if these repeat, but I didn't see them in the main list on the first page. At some point I might actually scroll through all 16 pages of postings.

Media Encoder

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...er/default.aspx

SSH Client

http://www.ssh.com/support/downloads/secur...commercial.html

Screen Saver?

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

I forgot what about SlickRun

http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

[Slimy]

CCLEANER

the best there is

google it

[Khaine]

You'll have to remove NetTransport as it just became shareware :(

[uratewl]

First off...Great List!

Next, here are a few freeware apps that I use regularly that I haven't seen.

RSS Reader - http://www.pluck.com/

Image Manipulation(?) - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.

[Flexhoy]

Lots of those programs were ones that were very good, but some of them were not as hot. Such as Netscape. Netscape is free, but for what you get and how slow it is, they shoudl pay YOU to use it. Anyways, a job well done. Keep up the good work :)

[DigitalN.]

Firebird is no more, it is now Firefox ;)

also, take off AIDA 32, it is also no more

[Viserov]

Firebird is no more, it is now Firefox ;)

also, take off AIDA 32, it is also no more

It's Everest now.

[Viserov]

CCLEANER

the best there is

google it

I like CCleaner :yes:

Doesn't the creator post here on Neowin?

[Ulpian]

Encryption and data security:

http://www.dekart.com/products/file_disk_e...ate_disk_light/

Private Disk Light is a solution, which creates one or more secure virtual disks on your hard drive. Information stored in this secure area is automatically encrypted and may only be decrypted by entering the correct password. Without the password, the information from a secure disk cannot be accessed and decrypted.

Private Disk Light employs an AES standard encryption algorithm. This technology ensures a high level of encryption, which does not hinder the computer`s performance in any way. Important note: Dekart Private Disk contains No spyware, No adware, No viruses and it's freeware.

DPDL uses AES-128, maximum password lenght is 63 chars...

[Ulpian]

Please update AIDA - it is now Everest, it is on website: http://www.lavalys.com/products.php there is free version...

[trigger_my_passion]

Harddisk Search & Stats

Harddisk Search & Stats is a freeware Search Engine for your harddisk. It enables you to search large numbers of text/ascii-based files simultaneously.

Harddisk Search & Stats can search (inside) text/ascii-based files in all levels of a folder (recursive), or just one level. Also: select files to be searched by file name and/or file type, do not search inside files but just by file name/type.

You can specify as many search terms you want, and there is no limit to the number of file types you can add for searching.

For each search-term entered, the program will display an additional column in the search results. Double-clicking on a file in the search result will open the internal or an external viewer.

More features:

- search by file name and/or file type

- search inside files and/or by file name/type

- filter file types based on extensions

- import file types from a folder

- view/search individual files with the internal or an external viewer

- zero-installation, easy uninstallation

- the program does not write anything into the registry

- run directly from CD-Rom

Installation and use

Harddisk Search & Stats does not need to be installed. Just copy the program files onto your harddisk, double click on the .exe file and the program will start.

License and platforms

Freeware for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP. (Linux version in the make!) This program is freeware for corporate and personal use, so you can run this program in any commercial or non-commercial setting.

http://www.freebyte.com/harddisk_search_and_stats/

Forum thread: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=186117

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

A back-up suggestion:

Karen's Replicator ( http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp ):

I have used this for years. It is perfect for synchronizing between drives (and folders on drives). I don't like the idea of backing up my data in some compressed form or really in any form that requires me to have a proprietary program to access it. I have Karen's Replicator set up in my work laptop thus:

1. Daily backups to a Compact Flash card (here, I only back up my current workfiles)

2. Weekly backups to a USB hard drive (here, I back up all of my files)

What I finish up with in both cases is an exact copy of my data. I can take this to other computers without a problem (no need to unzip compressed proprietary backup files, etc.).

Anyway, it's a cool and free tool that I would NEVER do without, so I thought I'd mention it here. :)