Freeware Alternative List

[Si Veteran]

Updated by kinetix63, 15th December 2006

Originally compiled by sanctified, and updated by Simon thanks to Neowin members.

Note: If you are going to contribute to this list please ensure there is a line in your post in the following format:

Application - http://url/to/homepage

This makes updating the list so much easier :)

Items marked in bold are new additions, the previous revision of the list can be found here.

3D Graphics:

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

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

Art Of Illusion - http://www.artofillusion.org/

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

Freestyle - http://freestyle.sourceforge.net/

Gelato - http://www.nvidia.com/page/gz_home.html

Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com...3&Itemid=89

Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...&id=7639525

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

OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org

Pointshop 3D - http://graphics.ethz.ch/pointshop3d/downloadPS3D20.html

POV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/

SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/

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

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

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

Anti-Virus:

a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

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

Avast - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

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

BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com

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

Anti Spyware:

Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Arovax AntiSpyware - http://www.arovaxantispyware.com/

Arovax Shield - http://www.arovaxshield.com/download.php

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

Browser Hijack Retaliator http://www.zamaansoft.com/products/bhr/

Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Microsoft Windows Defender - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx

Sentinel - http://www.runtimeware.com/sentinel.html

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

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

Spyware Terminator - http://www.spywareterminator.com/

Super AntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/index.html

ToolbarCop - http://windowsxp.mvps.org/toolbarcop.htm

Watcher - http://www.donationcoders.com/kubicle/watcher/index.html

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

Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/page/home.php?lang=en&page=home

Audio Creation

Gungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

HammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtml

Jesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.php

Jungulator - http://www.iamthemightyjungulator.com/downloads

KRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php

LoopBe1 - http://www.nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html

MIDI Pattern Generator 64 - http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/

orDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/

Reaper - http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

Smart PC Record - http://www.voiceemotion.com/smartrecorder.htm

Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/tu2.html

Audio Players:

1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

Apollo 37zx - http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/[/b]

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

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

DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.asp

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

Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Jet Audio Basic - http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/

Juke - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/juke/index.html

Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/

Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/

monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.html

MoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/

MPXPlay - http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/

Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/

musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/

QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/

Screamer Radio - http://www.screamer-radio.com/

VUPlay - http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Xion - http://xion.r2.com.au/

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

Zinf - http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:

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

Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Audiograil - http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?kmp3

AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htm

Balthers Graphic Groove Box - http://www.balther.dk/gboxenter.html

beatharness - http://www.beatharness.com/

BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

CUE Splitter - http://www.shareup.com/CUE_Splitter-download-30218.html

dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

EffecTV - http://pbx.mine.nu/effectv/

Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/software.htm

Gephex - http://www.gephex.org/index.php

GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/

iTunes Agent - http://ita.sourceforge.net/index.html

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

M4a/Flac/Ogg/Ape/Mpc Tag Support Plugin for Media Player & Media Center 2005 - http://www.softpointer.com/WMPTagSupport.htm

MediaInfo - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/

MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/

Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/

mp3DirectCut - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

mpTrim - http://www.mptrim.com/

MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/

opcode - http://www.opcode.co.uk/opd2d/default.asp

SC Free Audio Extractor - http://www.download-up.com/download-SC_Fre...tractor-60.html

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/

TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/

Vibe Streamer - http://www.vibestreamer.com/

Whorld - <a href="http://whorld.org/"'>http://whorld.org/" target="_blank">http://whorld.org/

CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation:

Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/

Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/

Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/

CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/

CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/

Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/

DVDAuthor GUI - http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl

DVDStyler http://dvdstyler.sourceforge.net/

eCover - http://www.esoftware.it/eCover/index.html

GUI for dvdauthor - http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd/

ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

ISO Recorder - http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

MediaCD - http://www.botproductions.com/mediacd/index.html

SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO Burner - http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html

Smart CD-Menu Creator - http://www.cupidsystems.com/products/smart...eator/index.php

Ultimate CD/DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm

Compression / Decompression:

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

Alzip - http://www.altools.net/Downloads/DownloadA...88/Default.aspx

bzip2 - http://www.bzip.org

Compress it - http://www.rg-software.de/

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

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

Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/

IZArc - http://www.izarc.org

KGB Archiver - http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

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

SimplyzIP - http://www.dpaehl.de/

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

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

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

Defrag Software:

Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

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

JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

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

Whitney Defrag - http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/?item=Defrag

Desktop Enhancements:

Autohotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/

AutoSmall - http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~wingdog/soft1.html

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

Clocktrayskins - http://www.drive-software.com/windowsclock.html

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

Desktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/

Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

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

Launchy - http://www.launchy.net/#intro

Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/

Lost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/

Menu Inventor - http://micron.ic.cz/menuinventor

MouseIMP - http://www.mouseimp.com/

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

Qliner Hotkeys - http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/default.htm

Rainlendar - http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

RKLauncher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/

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

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

Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/

Taskix - http://taskix.robustit.com/

TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/

Trip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/

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

WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) - http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Download managers:

Flashget - http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm

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

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

Gigaget - http://www.gigaget.com/

LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/

Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.html

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

Sun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xml

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

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

WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/

WinBITS - http://www.darvin.de/english/

wxDownload Fast - http://dfast.sourceforge.net/index.html

Educational Utilities:

Kicad - http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/

Molecular Workbench - http://mw.concord.org/modeler/

Periodic Table - http://paulalanfreshney.com/education/pt/

SciCraft - http://www.scicraft.org/

Scilab - http://www.scilab.org/

XCCalc - http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Calc/XCCalc.html

Encryption and data security:

Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm

ccrypt - http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

CRYPTAINER LE - http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_le_download_center.htm

Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

fseKrit - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/fSekrit/

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

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

Lock Note - http://locknote.steganos.com/

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

PicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.html

TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Managers:

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

A43 - http://http://www.primitus.us/a43/

BarracudaDrive - http://barracudaserver.com/examples/BarracudaDrive/

CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/

ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com

freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

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

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

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

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

File repair and recovery:

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools - http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html

Avira UnErase Personal - http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassic/avira_unerase.html

FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

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

VAIOSoft Recovery Manager - http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

Firewalls:

Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

Filseclab Personal Firewall - http://www.filseclab.com/eng/products/firewall.htm

Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm

NetVeda Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm

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

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

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

FTP Clients:

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

FFFTP - http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~sota/ffftp-e.html

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

Flash Wanderer - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/ftp_wanderer.html

miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/products/miFiles/miFiles.htm

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

FTP Servers:

Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/

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

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

GuildFTPD - http://www.guildftpd.com/

Quick 'n Easy FTP Server Lite - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...ftp_server.html

SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

TYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/

WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

zFTP Server - http://www.zftpserver.com/

HTML Editors:

1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml

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

Blocknote - http://www.blocknote.net/index.shtml

Elfima Notepad - http://www.elfima.com/enotepad.php

FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/

FTP

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

JoJoThumb - http://www.jojosoftware.de/jojothumb/english/default.htm

Notetab light - http://www.notetab.com/

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

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

Selida - http://selida.camelon.nl/

SuperEdi - http://www.wolosoft.com/en/superedi/

Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/

TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

visualEdit - http://www.activecampaign.com/visualedit/

WeaverSlave - http://www.weaverslave.ws/weaverslave.31.html

WebDwarf - http://www.virtualmechanics.com/products/dwarf/

WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.html

Image viewers:

Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe

ALSee Picture Viewer - http://www.altools.net/Default.aspx?tabid=54

BlueMarine - http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it/

FastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Futurix Imager - http://www.futurix.co.uk/imager/

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

Picasa - http://picasa.google.com

Shell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/

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

Instant Messengers:

AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php

Fomine LAN Chat - http://www.fomine.com/lan-chat.html

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

Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/

Mercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/

MiniAIM - http://miniaim.net/

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

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

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

qip - http://www.qip.ru/

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

SIM - http://http://sim-im.org/wiki/Main_Page

TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/

Trillian Basic - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:

AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/

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

Green Browser - http://www.morequick.com/indexen.htm

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

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

IRC Clients:

BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/

BitchX - http://bitchx.org/

HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/

NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/

TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/

XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:

Cobian Herald - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobherald.htm

Evolution for Windows - http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

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

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

Koma-Mail - http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=c...=5&Itemid=6

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

NMZ Labs Mail Chekcer - http://www.nmzlabs.com/mail_checker

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

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

Revolver Mail - http://www.revolversoft.com/en/products/mail/index.php

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/

Spam Experts Home - http://www.spamexperts.com/products-servic...perts-home.html

SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/

Network Tools:

ACMP - http://www.aagon.com/English/default.asp?A...em=JR40c089fpo9

BeyondCopy - http://beyondcopy.sourceforge.net/

CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/

Fomine NetSend GUI - http://www.fomine.com/net-send-gui.html

FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org/

Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.html

hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/

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

PRTG Traffic Grapher - http://www.paessler.com/prtg

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

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

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

Remote Reboot - http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/05/r...ur-network.html

Tango Dropbox - http://tangoftp.com/

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

Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

WinIPConfig - http://www.pkostov.com/wipcfg.html

WinNG - http://montaro.bur.st/winng/

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

Office Application:

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

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

qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.php

Scribus - http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sect...id=2&page=1

TextMaker Viewer - http://www.officeviewers.com/

TreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htm

Partition Managers:

Dubaron - DiskImage http://www.dubaron.com/diskimage/

g4u - http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4u/

GParted LiveCD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Partition Logic - http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

Partition Resizer - http://www.zeleps.com/

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

SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htm

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

PDF Utilities:

Brava! Reader - http://www.bravaviewer.com/reader.htm

Cool PDF Reader - http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html

CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Free Image Converter - http://www.downloadhotfile.com/download-do...rter-33715.html

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

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

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

pdf24-creator - http://www.pdf24.org/en/pdf24-creator.htm

PDF/Textbox - http://www.pdftextbox.com/default.aspx

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

PDFTK Builder - http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/

PDFRedirect - http://www.exp-systems.com/

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

Photo manipulation and image design:

3D Box Shot Maker - http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm

ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

Beneton Movie GIF - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php

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

Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7

Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/

Faststone Photo Resizer - http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/

Imagicon - http://www.download3000.com/download_9302.html

iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico

Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/

JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/

Movie to Animated GIF Converter - http://www.evanolds.com/movtogif.html

Paint .NET - http://www.getpaint.net

Pixia - http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

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

Pixrev - http://pylab.altervista.org/pixrev.html

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

PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net

Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3

Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/

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

Tuxpaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org

Watermark Creation - http://www.leolasoft-herter.de/Download.html

Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

Programming:

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

BlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html

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

Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/

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/

Enigma - http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm

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/

Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

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

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

Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/

PaseoExpress - http://www.paseosoft.com/

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

PHP Designer 2007 Personal - http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php

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

Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/

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

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

Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org/

Screenweaver - http://screenweaver.com/download

SE|PY ActionScript Editor - http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php

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

WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/

WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

XML Copy Editor - http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/

Pop-up Blockers:

Google Toolbar for Firefox - http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer - http://toolbar.google.com/T4/?rd=f

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

BlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html

Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/

FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/

GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/

klipfolio - http://www.serence.com/site.php

RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/

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

RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/

RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=

SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/

[Si Veteran]

System Information and monitoring:

AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html

ATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/

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

Free Disks monitoring - http://www.tools4ever.com/products/free/fr...oring-software/

Gkrellm - http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/...lm/gkrellm.html

HWiNFO - http://www.hwinfo.com/

K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=en

MonitorApp - http://www.desktopapps.co.uk/monitorApp.html

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

MSKeyViewerPlus - http://www.toddandkeelee.com/software.html

PC Wizard - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

SIW - http://www.gtopala.com/index.html

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

Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com

Systemware Task Manager - http://www.mediaware.at/

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

WhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx

WINAUDIT - http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm

Why Reboot? - http://www.exodus-dev.com/products/WhyReboot/

XPSysPad - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/xpsyspad.php

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 :

AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filter

alltoavi - http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/

AVS DVD Player - http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx

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

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

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

Democracy - http://www.getdemocracy.com/

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

Flash Movie Player - http://www.eolsoft.com/freeware/flash_movie_player/

GOMPlayer - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

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

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

MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

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

Video tools & converters:

AV DVD Player Morpher - http://www.download-up.com/download-AV_DVD...rpher-2595.html

AVI2DVD - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html

AVIDemux - http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

AVI Screen Capture - http://www.evanolds.com/sc_main.html

AVI Trimmer - http://solveigmm.com/?Products&id=AVITrimmer

AVS TV Box Free - http://www.download-up.com/download-AVS_TV..._Free-6192.html

CaptureFlux - http://paul.glagla.free.fr/captureflux_en.htm

DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/

DVDx - http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net

FlowPlayer - http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/

GB-PVR - http://www.gbpvr.com/index.html

GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

iPodTVShow - http://members.verizon.net/pucklock/iPTV/iPodTVShow.html[/b]

HDTVtoMPEG2 - http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/

Mediacoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

MeGUI - http://megui.sourceforge.net/

MobileVideo For iPod - http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo-for-i...-converter.html

Movica - http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movica

PSP Video 9 - http://www.pspvideo9.com/

Riva FLV Encoder 2.0 http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?downloads&L=3

ScreenCoder - http://www.merage.uci.edu/~dvdotnet/screencoder.html

STOIK Video Converter - http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Video...ter07070016.htm

Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Taksi - http://taksi.sourceforge.net/

The FilmMachine http://members.home.nl/thefilmmachine/

TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_main.html

Transana - http://www.transana.org/index.htm

TVTagger - http://tvtagger.wordpress.com/

VCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.html

Video DVD Maker - http://www.videodvdmaker.com/

Video Tools - http://www.bobyte.com/

Videora iPod Converter http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

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

Flock - http://www.flock.com/

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

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

Netscape - http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/

Opera - http://www.opera.com

Web servers:

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

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

Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/

HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

NetworkActiv Web Server - http://www.networkactiv.com/WebServer.html

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

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

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

Smart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/

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

Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Webcam Software:

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

Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/

grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/

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

Splitcam - http://www.splitcamera.com/index.html

Checksum Utilities:

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

HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/

ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html

md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/

QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/

QuickSFV - http://www.quicksfv.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:

AdShield - http://www.adshield.org

AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/

AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/

Attribute Changer - http://webplaza.pt.lu/~rpetges/

AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/

BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php

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

CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com

ClipGuru - http://clipguru.com/

ClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/

Cobian Backup - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htm

Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com

dd for windows http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

Dir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/

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

DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/

Doc Converter - http://www.dbtalk.net/doc-convertor/

EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

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

ERUNT - The Emergency Recovery Utility NT - http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

EssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner - http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleane...try_cleaner.htm

Everyday Auto Backup - http://www.backupsoft.net/everydayautobackup.htm

Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/

Fab's Autobackup - http://fabs.dyndns.org/index2.php?lang=en&...ction=freewares

File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.html

Folder Marker - http://www.foldermarker.com/

Folder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/

Freeproxy - http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org/index.p...ry&cat_id=2

Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/

HDCleaner - http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/hdcleaner_e.htm

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

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

iWeb Album - http://www.eunq.com/

KeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html

Language Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/

Launch Admin - http://launch-admin.sourceforge.net/

Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/

Locate32 - http://locate32.webhop.org/

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

MISPBO Free Registry Cleaner - http://www.mispbo.com/registrycleaner.htm

Money Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.asp

Multi Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/

MV Reg Clean - http://www.velasco.com.br/mvregcln-installer-br.zip

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

NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net

NMZ Labs File Eraser - http://www.nmzlabs.com/file_eraser

Notebook BatteryInfo http://www.batteryinfo.de.vu/

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

OpenContacts - http://www.fonlow.com/opencontacts/

Open Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.html

OpenWengo - http://www.openwengo.org/[/b]

Outlook Linker - http://www.teamscope.com/otherpro/utilities.asp#linker

Overdisk - http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html

Peerguardian - http://phoenixlabs.org/

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

QuickUninstaller - http://quninst.batoufflet.info/index.html

RegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

Rename Master - http://www.joejoesoft.com/rm.php

Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

RunItAll - http://www.maliprogramer.com/index.php?str...hp&jezik=EN

RunWithParameters - http://rwparam.whyeye.org/

ShellExView v1.14 - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Space Monger - http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html

Starter - http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/

Startup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Stellarium - http://www.stellarium.org/

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

StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

Sudo for Windows - http://sudowin.sourceforge.net/

Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html

SyncToy - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

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

Task Coach - http://taskcoach.sourceforge.net/index.html

TextHarvest - http://members.aol.com/getmydata/pc-sample.htm[/b ]

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

TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

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

ubSpawn - http://www.unitedbytes.de/go.php?site=ubspawn

Udpix - http://udpix.free.fr/

UninstallSmith = http://rihh.info/usmith/

Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.html

Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net

WakeUpOnStandby - http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=WOSB

WeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermain

Windows Snapshot maker - http://www.ntwind.com/winsnap/index.html[/b]

WordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/

X-Ecutor - http://www.xpertdesign.de/english/sw_xecutor_info.php4

X1 Desktop Search - http://www.x1.com/products/xds.html

XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/

YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm

Z-Cron - http://www.z-cron.com/

ZoomIT - http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/zoomit.html

[+BudMan MVC]

Addition for the list.

CD/DVD Burning/Cover creation:

Infra Recorder - http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

edit:

Also ethereal is now Wireshark

Wireshark - http://www.wireshark.org/

and g4u is not a partition manager, its a ghost replacement - ie disk imaging/cloning.

Adding to disk imaging/cloning would also be

PING - http://ping.windowsdream.com/

DriveImage - http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

Edited December 16, 2006 by BudMan

[Slimy]

Good work Simon! So much for my offer, I see you are still actively updating the list :)

[AaronMT]

Developement seems purged on Infra Recorder which is sad because it deemed to be an excellent alternative to Nero.

Latest release doesnt burn or even DVD write for me unfortunately.

[CoolCatBad]

System Information and monitoring:

CopyMessageBox http://www.thyante.com/index.php?id=3,0,0,1,0,0

* CopyMsgBoxText allows you to easily copy texts or screenshots of message boxes and dialogs into the clipboard.

* Useful for documentation/bug reports etc: Instead of copying a messagebox's (or any dialog's) text by hand, simply strike a key (configurable to your choice) - and the text is copied to the clipboard. The "Paste" command of your editor inserts the message to your document!

[Ghostdraconi]

3D Graphics

DAZ Studio - http://www.daz3d.com/program/studio/

Great free alternative to Poser and you get free models with it.

[apul]

Woaw, upated. Awesome job. ;)

[CoolCatBad]

System Information and monitoring:

ServiceView http://www.nativecs.com/page.en.php?f=data...erviceview.desc

A new approach to services and device driver controlling.

[Copernic Reporter]

Ashampoo Internet Accelerator

http://www.ashampoo.com/frontend/products/...p;idstring=0023

[CoolCatBad]

Mail programs:

Mulberry http://www.mulberrymail.com/about.shtml

Full-featured email-client for Win32, Mac and Linux.

New release v4.0.7: 11-December-2006.

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_(e-mail_client)

[CoolCatBad]

File repair and recovery:

MjM Free Photo Recovery http://www.mjm.co.uk/freephotorecoverysoftware.html

The software will only recover jpg photographs from formatted memory cards, deleted photos or corrupt memory cards. It is unable to recover photos from memory cards that are not recognised by windows as a device.

[CoolCatBad]

Encryption and data security:

miniTrezor http://www.philosoft.hu/en/miniTrezor1.html

The program creates a protected, safe store (so-called vault or trezor) for the user?s data: the data are encrypted, password protected, and physically may be stored in several copies (located on several discs, or even several computers). The size of the trezor is determined by the space available on the discs, otherwise it is capable of accommodating any number of files of any size.

You may deposit common files as well as packages in the vault (the client program may combine several files or entire directory systems into one single unit, this is what is called a package), or you may as well safekeep passwords here along with the pertaining data (username, name of the system, date of expiry, etc.). The data deposited in the trezor (vault) may be systemised as well, in so far as a directory structure may be set up in the program.

[CoolCatBad]

Perhaps a new category, Small Business

Invoicing

Volutive http://www.binarema.com/volutive.html

XS Invoicing http://www.development-x.com/xsinvoicing.html

Invocator http://www.b2ltd.com/databaseplace/invocator.htm

[kinetix63 Veteran]

CoolCatBad: Sounds like a good idea to me. Do you have any others you could add to such a category? Perhaps things like stock management, accounting, etc etc.

[CoolCatBad]

Well, I will be building up a catalog of related links and post them as they become more refined.

[em3]

Some additions.

Checksum Utilities:

RapidCRC - http://rapidcrc.sourceforge.net

Instant Messengers:

RealPopup - http://www.matro.it/site/

General Utilities And Other Applications:

ARen Batch Renamer - http://aren.hulubulu.dk/

Kana Reminder - http://kana.homeip.net/

Audio Tools:

BPM Wizard - http://djmixpro.com

[CoolCatBad]

Small Business

CRM

vTiger http://www.vtiger.com/index.php

[snyper]

Snypers List :)

Virus Software Recommended

Antivirus ( only run 1)

AVG Free Edition Antivirus

Avast Home Edition Antivirus Freeware(snyper uses

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic Freeware

BitDefender 8 Free Edition

Antispyware

Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta (2000,and XP only)

Spybot Search & Destroy

AdAware SE Personal Edition Tutorial

SpyBlaster Tutorial

Trojan Removal Tool

A Squared Free

Online scans

Trendmicro's Housecall Internet Explorer Only

Panda's ActiveScan Internet Explorer Only

eTrust Antivirus Web Scanner Internet Explorer Only

Removal Tools

Kaspersky Removal Tools

AVG Manual Virus Removal tool

Symantec's Viurs Removal Tools

BitDefender Removal Tools Free

Firewalls (Run only one.)

Outpost

Sygate

Zone Alarm

Spam Blockers

ella spam blocker (for Outlook & Outlook Express)

Email Remover™ Ver 3.0 (Freeware)

SpamPal

SpamWeasel Free

[CoolCatBad]

Audio Tools:

MP3myMP3 Recorder http://www.mp3mymp3.com/mp3_my_mp3_recorder.html

Record internet radio and save to mp3 or wav. Record streaming audio from the Internet, microphone, or any other source for that matter. MP3myMP3 Recorder works directly with your system sound card - if you can hear it, you can record it!

[CoolCatBad]

System Information and monitoring:

Inctrl5 http://www.xpefiles.com/download.php?id=12...6893c1918229ce6

Take system snapshots during installation of programs for complete Before-and-After comparison.

[krho]

Mail programs:

si.Mail - http://simail.sourceforge.net

Especially upcoming 1.0 version is going to bring some revolution into e-mail management with its automatic message classification into views. I'm using nightly builds for a couple of days now and I have to say that I'm impressed.

[Cyranthus]

are there any free Media Center programs?

[BuzzSaw]

  Cyranthus said:

are there any free Media Center programs?

MediaPortal

[CoolCatBad]

Small Business

Abykus Spreadsheet http://www.abykus.com/

Abassis Finance Manager http://www.abassis.com/abassis-finance-manager.html

[Copernic Reporter]

Please remove ''IObit SmartDefrag'' - http://www.iobit.com/SmartDefrag/index.html from the list, is full with Google ads.