Here I will share some of the neatest downloads that can be found on the internet, from security, to just fun stuff. The cool part is that I have tested all these programs, so they are all reccomended. If you find any links that are down, please do let me know so I can fix it. All these programs are free, so enjoy!
(Last Updated on: July 31, 2007)
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Windows Defender (Microsoft) |
Windows Defender is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, and a new streamlined interface that minimizes interruptions and helps you stay productive. |
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (Microsoft) |
This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month. |
AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files. |
| AVG Anti-Spyware (Grisoft) |
| AVG Anti-Rootkit is a powerful tool with state-of-the-art technology for detection and removal of rootkits. Rootkits are used to hide the presence of a malicious object like trojans or keyloggers on your computer. If a threat uses rootkit technology to hide itself it is very hard to find the malware on your PC. AVG Anti-Rootkit gives you the power to find and delete the rootkit and to uncover the threat the rootkit is hiding. |
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The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Download Firefox now and get the most out of the Web. |
SpywareBlaster can help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the "good side" of the web. |
Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer with other users. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system. For advanced users, it allows you to fix registry inconsistencies related to adware and to malicious program installations. The handy online-update feature ensures that Spybot always has the most current and complete listings of adware, dialers, and other uninvited system residents |
| CWShredder (Trend Micro) |
Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch – the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackers– from your PC. CWShredder removes these browser hijackers. |
ZoneAlarm Firewall (Zone Labs) |
ZoneAlarm is designed to protect your DSL- or cable-connected PC from hackers. This program includes four interlocking security services: a firewall, an application control, an Internet lock, and Zones. The firewall controls the door to your computer and allows only traffic you understand and initiate. The application control allows you to decide which applications can and cannot use the Internet. The Internet lock blocks Internet traffic while your computer is unattended or while you're not using the Internet, and it can be activated automatically with your computer's screensaver or after a set period of inactivity. Zones monitor all activity on your computer and alert you when a new application attempts to access the Internet. |
| Comodo Firewall (Comodo Group) |
| As Internet access becomes vital to all business organizations, network security and privacy affects everyone. Comodo, a leading global provider of trust and assurance services for the Internet, provides the highest level of protection for networks and home users alike. Comodo Firewall is one of the smartest firewalls you can ever see. |
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| CCleaner (Piriform) |
CCleaner is a free system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. |
| Driver Collector |
| Driver Collector is a tool designed to find and collect installed windows drivers for the hardware you select on your PC. Once you tell it which type of drivers you want to collect, it will copy them to a specific folder. This can be very handy when preparing for a format and reinstall of Windows, especially when you or a client have since lost the computers driver disks. |
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| AutoPatcher (Antonis Kaladis) |
| We all know that to stay safe, we have to frequently update windows. Sometimes doing so online can take ages, especially if your on 56k, and you have mulitple computers to update. With this awesome program, you no longer need to go to Microsofts website to install the updates. With AutoPatcher, just download it once, burn it to a CD, and run it on as many diffrent computers as you like! |
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| EULAlyzer (Javacool Software) |
| License agreements can provide information about the intentions of software, and other bundled components. Have you ever installed a program, only to have your desktop taken over by advertising? It may have been noted in the license agreement that you simply clicked past. This program will help you analyze the programs EULA, and give you a review and a rating on how safe the program is. A must have for avid downloaders. (Thanks Aisdeck) |
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| Process Explorer (Sys Internals) |
| Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. To simplify, it's basically like the Task Manager, but is much more powerful with more options. |
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| AutoRuns (Sys Internals) |
| This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP. |
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| Eraser (Chip Online) |
| Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. |
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Communications |
Skype (Skype Limited) |
Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype.
All calls from Skype to landlines and mobiles within the US and Canada are also |
Windows Messenger Live (Microsoft) |
Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emotions, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus a lot of cool new stuff like inexpensive PC-to-Phone Calling, Sharing Folders, Windows Live Contacts, and more. |
Trillian (Cerulean Studios) |
Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. |
This is an awesome program that helps you 'hack' Windows Live Messenger, with over 70 custamizale feathers! A-Patch boasts a tremendous amount of customization to better your Windows Live/MSN Messenger experience. Remove advertisements and buttons you don't need, cut down on wasted space, sign-in to more than one e-mail address at the same time and even more features just waiting for you to take advantage of! Click here to review all it's feataures. A must have download if you use Windows Live/MSN Messenger. |
Imaging Software |
Photo Story 3 (Microsoft) |
Bring your digital photos to life with Photo Story 3 for Windows. Create a photo slideshow of your life's most memorable moments. You can capture your memories just the way you want them - with the a single click, you can touch-up, crop or rotate pictures. It's that easy. Then, add stunning special effects, sountracks and personalize your stories with titles and captions. The file size makes it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail or take them with you on a Window Mobile based portable device. Start sharing your stories today. |
Image Resizer (Microsoft) |
This program enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click or your mouse! |
Picasa (Google Corporation) |
Find the pictures you forgot you had with this neat program. Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date. You can also
move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa.
Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa. You can also create star ratings, and password protected albums, retouch old images, and add amazing effects like black and white, sepia tone, and much much more! |
Google SketchUp (Google Corporation) |
Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you. |
Gimp (The Gimp Team) |
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. Version 2.2.11 is a bug-fixing release. |
Adobe Flash Player 9 (Adobe) |
Installed on over 700 million Internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash Player enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users. |
Paint.NET (Rick Brewster) |
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It's like Photoshop, but it's free! |
Blender (blenderfoundation) |
Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems. This free software has also been used in Spiderman 3! |
| JPEG Enhancer (VicMan) |
| Jpeg Enhancer is a program that can restore or undo the damage to images resulting from low-quality Jpeg compression, including "jpeg artifacts" and the "blotchy look". It features a before and after dual pane interface and straightforward manipulation of the processing filter. |
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| Autostitch (Matthew Brown) |
| Autostitch isthe world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical). |
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| FastStone Image Resizer (FastStone Soft) |
| FastStone Image Resizer is an image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. |
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Misc. |
Google Earth (Google Corporation) |
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. |
Google Toolbar (Google) |
The new combination of a search bar, RSS feed, a spell checker, safer browsing capabilities, automatic form filler, and much much more... |
Download for FireFox or Internet Explorer |
Webcam Timershot (Microsoft) |
This program lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate. |
Power Calculator (Microsoft) |
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions. |
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads. |
Adobe Reader 7.0 (Adobe) |
Upgrade today by downloading free Adobe Reader 7.0 software to view, print, and search Adobe PDF files. Whether you use it at home or in your business, on your computer or on a mobile device, upgrading to Adobe Reader 7.0 helps you work faster and better. |
Audacity (Dominic Mazzoni) |
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to editing, recording, splitting, effects and much more. |
Logon Studio (Stardock) |
LogonStudio allows Windows XP users to edit, change, and apply new logon screens. LogonStudio comes built with a visual editor to make it easy to create your own logons which can then be uploaded to websites to be used by others users. |
Boot Screen (Stardock) |
Safely and easily change your Windows boot screen. It allows you to replace your Windows bootup screen with a screen you can download from Web sites such as WinCustomize.com or one you create yourself. It works on Windows 2000 and XP and replaces no system files. |
Wallpaper Changer (Microsoft) |
Make your computer desktop more dynamic, interactive, useful, and fun. The Wallpaper Changer PowerToy allows your desktops wallpaper to change automatically. You can choose how fast / slow you want it to change. For example you can set it to change every 15, 30, 60 minutes etc... It also lets you choose which images to display. To download wallpapers, click here. |
Open Office (OpenOffice.org) |
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community. |
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes! |
| Xfire (Xfire Inc) |
| If you're a gamer, then this is an awesome must-have peice of software for you. It includes a friend tracker, that tells you when your friends are online, and what they're playing. You can also send and receive messages from inside games without having to minimize (Alt+Tab) the game window. Your IMs appear right on the screen. Xfire's voice chat also lets you talk one on one, or in groups during game play. Superior voice quality and custom bandwidth settings ensure your gaming will still go on lag-free. |
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| DVD Flick (Dennis Meuwissen) |
| DVD Flick is a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take several video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. |
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| Super © (eRightSoft) |
| If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need. It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click. |
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| Windows Media Player 11 (Microsoft) |
| Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home-all from one place. |
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| Audio Recorder for Free (Audio-Tool) |
| Audio Recorder for Free is real-time, sound-recording software that lets you record any sound from your sound card and save the recording directly to MP3, WMA, or WAV files. It supports input from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, and audio from external input devices (CDs, LPs, audio cassettes, phone lines), as well as audio from other applications, such as Winamp and Media Player. With a built-in, advanced, audio-recording engine, the recorder produces high-quality recordings. With predefined recording qualities, you can set and manage recording parameters. |
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| TCP Optimizer (Freeware Genius) |
| TCP Optimizer is a free program that provides 1-click acceleration of your internet connection through optimizing your internet registry settings. |
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| FlightGear (Curtis L. Olson) |
| FlightGear is a free flight simulator project. It is being developed through the gracious contributions of source code and spare time by many talented people from around the globe. Among the many goals of this project are the quest to minimize short cuts and "do things right", the quest to learn and advance knowledge, and the quest to have better toys to play with. |
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| Ares (Ares Galaxy) |
| Ares is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. |
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| Pivot Stickfigure Animator (Peter Bone) |
| This animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. |
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| Burrrn (Burrrn.net) |
| This tool is for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files from wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. |
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| Rainlender (Rainy) |
| Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together. |
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| StrokeIt (TCB Networks) |
| StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor.” This utility allows you to make mouse gestures to perform certain actions on your computer. When it recognizes the gesture it will fire off a set of commands. |
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| Weather Watcher (Singers Creations) |
| Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon. |
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| Citrus Alarm Clock (Ornj.net) |
| A simple program that has whatever audio program you pick start playing music at a set time. It will play any music choice, has a fade in feature, lets you choose day of the weeks and times. Cheap way to replace that alarm clock. |
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| Adobe Reader SpeedUp (Joseph Cox) |
| Adobe Reader Speed-Up significantly decreases the amount of time required for Adobe Reader to start by disabling most of the least used plugins. |
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| DVDStyler (Alex Thüring) |
| DVDStyler is a cross-platform DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. (Similar to DVD Flick) |
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| ImgBurn (Lightning UK) |
| A lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application. Burn pictures, videos, music, data, anything! |
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| iColorFolder (KemenAran) |
| With iColorFolder, give some color to WindowsXP folders. With just a right-click, colorize your folders, and discover a new intuitive way to classify your files. |
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| Foxit (Foxit Software Company) |
| Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. This great software is a much faster alternative to Adobe's PDF reader (Acrobat). |
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