Maximum PC

Desktop/Icon software

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Notepad2 - Open-source notepad alternative that handles source code files very well

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http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/
play games without the disc just scroll down to the bottom of the page and download the free version called 52% its legal.

Off By One web browser- small,speedy and standalone.
(takes up 2MB of disk space installed)...
http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ob1_download.htm

Security

a-squared - it is a full tool to clean your computer from Malware. Not only Spywares, as detected by classic Anti-Spyware programs, but also especially Trojans, Backdoors, Worms, Dialers, Keyloggers, etc. A-Squared
Blacklight - F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology Blacklight

Email

Incredimail - IncrediMail is a fun, powerful and user-friendly email program available to everyone free of charge. Incredimail

Backup

Cobian - Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. Cobian
Karen's Replicator - Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives. Karen
Mozy - 2GB of free, secure online storage (Or go Unlimited for $4.95/month.) Mozy

Privoxy: a freeware web proxy.You can download it here:
http://www.privoxy.org/

(Note:This is their home page.It redirects you to a Sourceforge page for the download.)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=11118 is the Sourceforge page for Privoxy.

FLV Player-an alternate player for playing FLV files.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/W ... ayer.shtml

Here's a link explaining what FLV files are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLV

I'll try to add the latest soon.

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

and the open source media player Songbird - http://www.songbirdnest.com/

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

Very useful program.

(IMO,the best option would be to download the standalone exe version..as it can be unzipped and used without installing on your hard drive).
Also, ZipGenius 6 is a excellent freeware unzipping program:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/ZipGenius_d4696.html

is winamp de best freee music player????
i want a free lyrics plugin... please suggest one.

Hey wat abt Comodo Firewall? Has anyone tried Version 3.0? wat do you think of it?

SequoiaView is another program that will show contents of your hard drive as a picture.

Compression:
Jzip
Tugzip
Peazip

Security
CWShredder

CD/DVD
Infrarecorder

Email
Ypops

Misc
Unlocker
Mozilla Sunbird

Audio/Video
Slacker
Handbrake
AutoGK

Comodo Firewall 3.0 is great peace of software.
Features like "Installer mode" saved me a lot of nerves and it's just so much better than Zone Alarm or any other firewall....
It's such a bad thing that most of people didn't even heard about it.
They are more oriented to "custom" protection, mostly for larger systems ,rather than home users.
But isn't that pretty cool? I mean, they are giving free software to us (as a promotion tool),and they charge large cooperations for development....

LOL

A few feeware sites:

http://www.tucows.com
http://www.nonags.com
http://www.nextfreeware.com
http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com
http://www.onlyfreewares.com
http://www.topfreeware.net

lol yeah it is pretty cool that they give away full versions of their software to home users!

Thanks for posting this links guys kudos for each member that participate I'm looking for a free tool that can help me enhance my computer specially antivirus.