Listing of useful freewares (by daonlyfreez)
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Listing of useful freewares (by daonlyfreez) |
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| Free software for DOS Extensive listing of free DOS/commandline programs. No longer updated, but very useful. Listing » http://members.cox.net/dos/ |
| lm "lm" is a nice, free, extensive file or stream line manipulator (commandline). Not for the faint of heart! Download » http://www.cit.uws.edu.au/~zhuhan/zjfiles/lm213.zip Download » http://www.cit.uws.edu.au/~zhuhan/zjfiles/lm206b.zip |
| locate Home of "locate", an excellent freeware file/directory finder (commandline) Homepage » http://www.highfiber.com/~raster/freeware.htm |
| wget With "wget" you can retrieve http and/or ftp content (commandline). Homepage » http://www.wget.org/ |
| Horst Schaeffer's Software Pages Site with lots of excellent freeware commandline utilities. Get them all! Homepage » http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/ |
| Interesting DOS programs A regularly updated page with DOS/commandline programs. Mostly freeware Listing » http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/ |
| blat "blat" is a commandline emailer. There is also a blat-users group. Homepage » http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html Group » http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blat/ |
| MultiRes A resolution-switcher that can run in the system tray, or be invoked from the commandline Homepage » http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ |
| Outside The Box freewares A site with many interesting freewares, mostly commandline Homepage » http://kickme.to/OTBSoft/ |
| Juan M. Aguirregabiria's home page Yet another site with many interesting freewares, including "Command Line Shell". Mostly commandline Homepage » http://lcpx07.lc.ehu.es/jma.html |
| cURL cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks. Homepage » http://curl.haxx.se/ |
| Unix Utils Ports of common Unix utilities to Windows. Homepage » http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Other » http://www.braindonors.net/products/unxutils.asp |
| Minitrue MiniTrue is a versatile program which combines a fast and powerful search/replace functionality with a full-featured textviewer, enabling quick and efficient browsing, searching and/or modification of a large number of files. Homepage » http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/ |
| Ldzip One (of many) commandline zip/unzippers. This one has long-file-name support though and many other extras you won't find in the common commandline zippers/unzippers. Nice... Homepage » http://ldzip.port5.com/ |
| Breeze, Bigtext Ebooks Site featuring the Breeze Wordprocessor, Bigtext Ebooks and others Homepage » http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/oldfav.html |
| Enhanced DOSKEY.COM An enhanced, drop-in replacement for the DOSKEY.COM that ships with MS-DOS and Windows 9x/Me. Although enhanced, it has a smaller disk and memory resident footprint. It is a great addition to DOS boot diskettes, and to the Win 9x/Me environment if the DOS box is used frequently. The primary added feature is command and file "auto-completion" via the tab key. Depending on the context, either a matching command or filename (or path) will be supplied. This is a huge timesaver when using the command line. Homepage » http://members.aol.com/paulhoule/doskey.htm |
| XMS/EMS RAM disk Dos RAM disk installable and resizable from command line. You can choose the drive letter. Up to 2 Gbytes supported. Download » http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/4825.html |
| UPX, the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks. Homepage » http://upx.sourceforge.net/ |
| CuteMouse CuteMouse is an open source mouse driver, which supports many mouse protocols both serial and PS/2. CTMOUSE was written to use as little memory as possible, the TSR currently takes up about 3.5k. Homepage » http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/ |
| Henrik Haftmann's freeware page Yet another site with many interesting freewares, including "DOSLFN", the long-file-name driver for DOS, the best choice if you want to create a bootdisk with long-file-name support. Very nice... The descriptions are in German, but there's a listing in English too. Homepage » http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/freew.html |
| AbiWord Free wordprocessor with all the features you'd expect. Homepage » http://www.abisource.com/ |
| Ad-aware Get rid of those pesky spyware/adware you dl'ed. Homepage » http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ |
| Agnitum Outpost Firewall Get the free version of this excellent firewall. Highly customizable, plugins and lots more (best results in many tests) Homepage » http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/ |
| Aida32 All the information about your system you could imagine. There's a DOS version too. Homepage » http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php |
| AM-DeadLink Check your browser favorites/bookmarks. Homepage » http://www.aignes.com/products.htm |
| AnalogX Downloadpage Site containing a large collection of useful freewares. Homepage » http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm |
| AntiVir Personal Edition Another free and good anti-virus program. Homepage » http://www.free-av.com/ |
| ArsWare Loads of useful freewares. Just take a look every now and then. Listing » http://www.arsware.org/ |
| Aspell Free spellchecking. Homepage » http://aspell.net/win32/ |
| Audacity Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects. Homepage » http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ |
| AutoIt Easy automation for everyone, with this simple scripting language. AutoIt can create small executables or even smaller scripts. Try it! (I use AutoIt in combination with Gui4Cli every day, couldn't do without it). There is also a users group, where you can get help and useful utilities that enhance AutoIt's functionality Homepage » http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit/ Group » http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AutoItList/ |
| AVG AntiVirus Another free and good anti-virus program (free registration required). Homepage » http://www.grisoft.com/ |
| AXCEL216's MAX Speeed WinDOwS ©Tricks Secrets Bugs Fixes Huge site with tricks, secrets, bugfixes for all Windows OS'ses Homepage » http://users.aol.com/axcel216/ |
| Backup Genie Easy backup program with zip support. Homepage » http://backupgenie.nerim.net/ |
| Barry's Emacs Barry's Emacs is a freeware text-, html-, programmerseditor with syntax highlighting for most programming/scripting languages. Many extras. Nice... There is also a users group, where you can get help and useful utilities that enhance Barry's Emacs' functionality Homepage » http://www.barrys-emacs.org/ Group » http://groups.yahoo.com/group/barrysemacs/ |
| BASK Advanced backup and synchronisation tool. Homepage » http://swoosiesoftware.homestead.com/ |
| BookmarkPriest Bookmark converter from and to Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera. Homepage » http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csab3666/ |
| BurnAtOnce A CD-Writer program. Very easy to use. Homepage » http://www.burnatonce.com/ |
| Camstudio Records your screen to an avi-videofile. You can record sound too, and even create your own annotations to appear in the video. Homepage » http://www.rendersoftware.com/products/camstudio/ |
| Camtech 2000 homepage Site with many useful freewares. Homepage » http://www.camtech2000.net/ |
| Cathy Creates catalogs from disks or CD's. Fast and small. Homepage » http://rvas.webzdarma.cz/ |
| CDBurnerXP Pro A CD-Writer program. The program can write CD-R and CD-RW discs. It can also write discs directly from an ISO image file, and save image as an ISO image file (*.iso). CDBurnerXP can also erase CD-RW discs, other features are: Create fully compatible ISO9660 and Joliet CD's. Supports BURN-PROOF technology. Write ISO images for raw writing by other applications. Import ISO images from other applications. Import multi-session data tracks. Supports creation of multi-session disks. Supports use of high write speeds. ASPI not required for NT/2000/XP. Supports use of re-writeable discs. Burn Audio CD's, only WAV-files supported. Rip Audio CD's to MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV. Beware: The installer is about 8 MB big! Homepage » http://w1.737.telia.com/~u73702956/ |
| CMenuExtender Create your own context menu (right-click menu). Homepage » http://www.geocities.com/revenger_inc/ |
| ConTEXT ConTEXT is a freeware text-, html-, programmerseditor with syntax highlighting for most programming/scripting languages. Homepage » http://www.fixedsys.com/context/ |
| Crimson Editor Crimson Editor is a freeware text-, html-, programmerseditor with syntax highlighting for most programming/scripting languages. Built-in FTP. Nice... There is also a users group, where you can get help and useful utilities that enhance Crimson Editor's functionality Homepage » http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Group » http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crimson_editor_users/ |
| Dirkey Dirkey is a freeware "pushdir/popdir" for Open/Save-dialogs and Windows-Explorer. If you are tired of browsing your disk every time you save/open a document, try this one... Homepage » http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ |
| DustBuster A garbage file removing utility. It searches for junk files and temp files that are of no use and are just taking space on your hard drive. Based on a "fuzzy logic" scanning technology, DustBuster cleans over 700 different types of useless temporary files and directories in a single click, detecting and deleting all these unneeded garbage files automatically. Download » http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?6500000036264 « DustBuster 2.6.2 (98/ME/2k/XP) Download » http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/utilities/hard_disk/standard.zip « DustBuster 2.8 (2k/XP) |
| Eraser Secure file erasing for DOS and Windows Homepage » http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ |
| File Library Looking for older or even ancient software? Try the File Library, no longer updated, but it's still online and maintains an extensive listing of useful softwares. Listing » http://www.filelibrary.com/ |
| FixEm Fixes your Start-menu. Homepage » http://www.int8.com/cristofer8/ |
| fmod A nice, small, fast audio player. Plays MP2/MP3/MOD/S3M/XM/IT/OGG/WMA/ASF/AIFF. Homepage » http://www.fmod.org/ |
| FOLDOC, Free Off-Line Dictionary Of Computing A downloadable off-line dictionary of computing ;-) Homepage » http://www.foldoc.org/ |
| Foxmail Excellent E-mail client. Supports Hotmail accounts too. Homepage » http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english.htm Homepage » http://uchzeichen.de/fpo/fox.htm |
| F-Prot Get the free DOS version of this virus-scanner. Homepage » http://www.f-prot.com |
| F-Update and FP-Up F-Update simplifies the updating of the F-Prot for DOS package. Automaticly updates the program/virus definitions if newer found. FP-Up creates Emergency Boot Disks with F-Prot. Homepage » http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg/ |
| Freelang Dictionary Free dictionaries for many languages Homepage » http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/index.html |
| FreeSpell Free spellchecker, based on Aspell Homepage » http://hcidesign.com/freespell/ |
| FreshDevices Site offering "Fresh UI", "Fresh Download" and "Fresh Diagnose", all excellent and free programs (requires free registration) Homepage » http://www.freshdevices.com |
| GigAlarm Tiny alarm program with all the functionality you'd expect. Homepage » http://www.sinnercomputing.com/ |
| GnuWin32 A listing of links to free Windows programs. Mostly GNU of course and free! Listing » http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/links.html |
| Gui4Cli Homepage of the "not-so-commonly-known" freeware GUI-creation scripting language "Gui4Cli". Small, fast, and free. Maybe a bit too difficult to comprehend if you are an absolute beginner (try AutoIt first if you're new to programming/scripting), but very useful if you want to create your own graphical user interfaces. There is also a users group, where you can get help and useful utilities that enhance Gui4Cli's functionality Homepage » http://www.gui4cli.com/ Group » http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gui4Cli/ |
| Hosts files If you are tired of ads or adult-content appearing while surfing, try this site. It contains a regularly updated "Hosts"-file, which will block those sites... Homepage » http://www.smartin-designs.com/ |
| HTTrack Website Copier Nice website downloader/ripper with Gui (see also wget in commandline utilities) Homepage » http://www.httrack.com |
| Iceows Free Winzip-clone with support for many archive file types. Very nice... Homepage » http://www.iceows.com/ |
| ID-Blaster Randomly replaces your Program ID's (Windows OS, Internet Explorer, Media Player etc.) for higher security. Homepage » http://www.wilderssecurity.com/idblaster.html |
| Inno Setup Create your own custom installer. Homepage » http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php |
| Internet Sweeper Use Internet Sweeper to clean your system/internet tracks. "Nagware", but still very useful. Latest (and last) version is 1.8.4. Homepage » http://www.bmesite.com/ |
| IrfanView The best graphicsviewer I came across. Don't forget to download the plugins for various graphic file formats. Homepage » http://www.irfanview.com/ |
| IZArc Free Winzip-clone with support for many archive file types. Very nice... Homepage » http://izsoft.cjb.net/ |
| Jackass JoeJoe's freeware Collection of nice freewares. ArsClip, a clipboard enhancer. StartRight, a startup manager. Rename Master, to bulk-rename files. And more... Homepage » http://jackass.arsware.org/ |
| jv16 PowerTools Clean up your registry and more with this (true) powertool. Homepage » http://www.jv16.org |
| Keep-It Create compressed archives of your data which you can "update" (they call it "snapshot"), meaning: adding the changes. Then you'll have a backup of the data AND you can go back to previous versions/snapshots. Comes in very handy if you are working on a project with lots of changes. If something goes wrong you can always return to a previous instance. Can be used as a common backuptool too. Homepage » http://www.keep-it.com/ |
| Liontech Site offering a few excellent freewares like IconShop and ResThief Homepage » http://users.pandora.be/liontech/ |
| MCL - Mike Lin's Home Page Home of MCL (and other excellent freewares, including Startup Control Panel and it's complementary program Startup Monitor), a commandlinewindow for mouse-haters. Has macro-functionality, autocomplete, history, plugins and more... Homepage » http://www.mlin.net |
| MRU-Blaster Erases the MRU's (the references to files and folders you opened) found on your computer. For higher security. Homepage » http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/mrublaster.html |
| MWSnap Creates snapshots of your screen, windows, menus etc. Homepage » http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/ |
| Net Activity Diagram Shows the current dataflow (internet, network). Homepage » http://www.metaproducts.com/ |
| NSIS Create your own custom installer. Homepage » http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/ |
| nu2 Site dedicated to building bootable Disks and CD's. Homepage » http://www.nu2.nu/ |
| Opera A better browser. Fast, small and secure (certainly compared to Internet Exploder). Latest version has a fullblown email- and newsclient built-in. Get rid of your other bulky browsers, get Opera! (Adware, but you could block those ads with the Outpost Firewall, or a contentfilter like Proxomitron or WebWasher) Homepage » http://www.opera.com |
| PC Magazine Home of many useful utilities, including "EndItAll". (You need to login to be able to download) Listing » http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2737,00.asp |
| PolderBackup Easy backuptool with zip-support Homepage » http://www.xs4all.nl/~philippo/PolderBackup.htm |
| POP Peeper POP Peeper is a utility that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN or Yahoo accounts. You can also use POP Peeper to read and delete your email. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your email the same way as you would in your email client. Homepage » http://www.poppeeper.com/ |
| PowerArchiver 2001 v 6.1x Excellent free archive-handler (WinZip-clone). Supports many archive file types. Latest versions are shareware, so you'll have to find the last freeware version somewhere on the Net (v 6.1x, the file is called "powarc61.exe") Search » http://www.google.com/search?q=powarc61.exe&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=n |
| Proxomitron Contentfilter to get rid of ads, malicious content etc. Homepage » http://www.proxomitron.org/ |
| PuTTy PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Homepage » http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ |
| QuoteCat Ticker A program to receive stock quotes on your desktop. Realtime! Homepage » http://www.quotecat.com/ |
| Rain Cools your processor by giving "hlt" instructions on idle time. Extend the lifetime of your processor with this tool. No homesite found, search for it on the internet. Search » http://www.google.com/search?q=rain 2.0 leading wintech&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=n |
| RefreshEm Refreshes your icons when their display gets corrupted (needs the VB6 Runtime). Homepage » http://www.camtech2000.net/ |
| RegShot Take a quick snapshot of the Registry before and after to see what values were changed. Homepage » http://regshot.ist.md/ |
| Registrar Lite Alternative to the built-in RegEdit. Homepage » http://www.resplendence.com |
| SAC Looking for softwares nowhere to be found? Try the SAC Archives... Listing » http://www.sac.sk/logs/mirrors.htm or |
| ScramDisk With ScramDisk you can encrypt files and even a whole partition. Requires registration to download. Homepage » http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/ |
| Script Sentry Protects your system from malicious scripts and/or macros, checks VBS, VBE, JS, JSE, WSH, WSF, HTA, SHS, SHB, REG, DOC and XLS files (requires the Windows Scripting Host and the Visual Basic Runtimes to be installed). Even though I reported this issue several times, AntiVir PE still reports Script Sentry's registry entry as "suspicious". Homepage » http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/scriptsentry.asp |
| Shareaza Peer2Peer-Filesharing Client Homepage » http://www.shareaza.com/ |
| Shell Extension City A site offering loads of links to useful freewares Listing » http://shellcity.net/ |
| Simtel Another ancient source of softwares. Download galore... Listing » http://www.simtel.net/ |
| SmartFTP Free FTP-Client Homepage » http://www.smartftp.com/ |
| SnIco Edit Free icon editor Homepage » http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~meijer/software/icoedit.html |
| SpyBot-Search & Destroy Get rid of those pesky spyware/adware you dl'ed Homepage » http://security.kolla.de/ |
| SpywareBlaster Prevents spyware/adware from installing by blocking certain registry entries, nicely complements SpyBot-Search & Destroy Homepage » http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html |
| Star Downloader Downloadmanager, can resume broken downloads. Speeds up the download by creating multiple streams. Homepage » http://www.stardownloader.com/ |
| Start Menu Cleaner Cleans up all broken shortcuts in the Start Menu and on the Desktop. Homepage » http://www.iceview.com/cleaner.html |
| Sysinternals Freeware Large collection of useful freeware. Homepage » http://www.sysinternals.com/ |
| System Safety Monitor Control which programs are allowed to run on your computer, which registryvalues can/cannot be edited and more... Has Administrator/User mode. Homepage » http://maxcomputing.narod.ru/ssme.html?lang=en |
| Prof. Timo Salmi The absolute Guru of Batch. If you need help on DOS Batch, you need Mr. Salmi... Take a look at the Garbo software repository too. Homepage » http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/ |
| Total Uninstall Use this tool to "completely" uninstall a program. Creates a snapshot before installing and after, then uses the comparison to create a custom uninstaller. Homepage » http://www.geocities.com/ggmartau/projects/projects.html |
| Trillian If you chat a lot, you might like this one. Trillian lets you use MSN, IRC, AOL, Yahoo and ICQ chat all at once. Moreover, you can use it to regularly check your hotmail, yahoomail for new emails and open those webbased emailclients directly in your browser (auto-login). Get the free version. Homepage » http://www.trillian.cc/trillian/index.html |
| UltimateZip Free Winzip-clone with support for many archive file types. Homepage » http://www.ultimatezip.com/ |
| WebAttack THE Nr. 1 source for freewares on the net. Check regularly... Listing » http://www.webattack.com |
| WebMon Lets you check websites for changes/updates. Use it to check for new virusdefinitions, softwareupdates etc. Homepage » http://www.markwell.btinternet.co.uk/webmon/ |
| WebWasher Contentfilter to get rid of ads, malicious content etc. Homepage » http://www.webwasher.com/ |
| WinAmp The best audioplayer I came across. Can play audio: MP3, WMA, MOD, S3M, MID, XM, CD-Audio, Line-In, WAV, OGG Vorbis and VOC. Also video: MPEG, AVI and ASF. Homepage » http://winamp.com/ |
| WordWeb Free english dictionary and thesaurus. Homepage » http://wordweb.info/free/ |
| WS_FTP LE Get the free version of this famous FTP client. Download » http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm |
| Xen Example of what you can do with a .bat-file (meaning, DOS isn't all that dead). Homepage » http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mrx9000/ |
| Xenu Link Sleuth Checks your website for broken links. Homepage » http://home.snafu.de/tilman/ |
| Xteq X-Setup Tweak your system to the extreme with this tool. Homepage » http://www.xteq.com/ |
| YahooPOPs YahooPOPs is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 access to your Yahoo! Mail account. This application emulates a POP3 server and enables email clients to download email from Yahoo! accounts. Homepage » http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ |
| YKill Excellent Taskmanager clone. Homepage » http://www.goblineye.com/projects.php |
| Yankee Clipper III Clipboard enhancer. Up to 100 textitems are remembered. Also handles imagedata and metadata. Homepage » http://www.yankee-clipper.net/ |
| ZipCentral Yet another free zip archive handler. If you only work with zip files, try this one. If you work with other archive files too, try another one... Homepage » http://zipcentral.iscool.net/ |
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