Thursday, February 17, 2005

Useful Freeware

Here's a list of programs (all free) that I find useful, and use on a daily basis :

Process Explorer 9.0 (Process Manager)
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

QCD Player 4.51a (Audio Player, sounds better than WinAmp)
http://www.quinnware.com/

ATNotes 9.5 (Sticky Notes, Alarms)
http://atnotes.fr.st/

Kerio Personal Firewall 4.1.2 (Firewall)
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

AutoHotkey 1.0.26.1 ( Automation / Hotkeys / Scripting language. A must have for hotkey / automation aficionados like me ;) )
http://www.autohotkey.com/

CLCL 1.1.1 (Clipboard Manager)
http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html

Copy Handler 1.26 (Explorer Shell extension for quick file copy / move operations)
http://copyhandler.com/

DialogMate 1.54 (Minimize to tray, shorcuts in Open / Save dialogs etc)
http://www.weird173.net/apps/dlgmate.html

Maxthon 1.1.120 (Web Browser [Yes, I actually prefer this to FireFox])
http://www.maxthon.com

ThunderBird 1.0 (Email / Newsgroup client)
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

NetMeter 0.8.6 (Bandwidth Monitor)
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

PowerPro 4.01 (Hotkeys, Application launcher, scheduler and lots more)
http://powerpro.webeddie.com/

MJ RegWatcher (Registry Monitor. Prevent spyware / trojans from making harmful registry changes)
http://www.jacobsm.com/#downloads

SlickRun (Application Launcher. Another must-have. Try it, will change the way you work.)
http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

SpywareGuard (Real-time spyware hijack protection)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

TrayWizard (System Tray Manager)
http://www.gratilog.net/systeme1.htm

xplorer Lite (File Manager)
http://www.zabkat.com/x2lite.htm

AVG AntiVirus 7.0.3 (Anti - virus software)
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

PSPad 4.3.2 (Text editor)
http://www.pspad.com/

HandyFind (Incremental global search in IE, Outlook, Notepad etc.)
http://www.handykeys.com

Locate32 (Indexed Desktop Search)
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml

Hope you find these links useful.

Note that some of the above are not free for commercial use. So please check the license before use.