[Deke40]

Originally Posted by Space Cowboy

Am I missin somethin?

I don't see where this opens anything but *.zip files? What about the other formats?

I didn't fully understand what WinRar did as I have only needed freezip to take care of anything I have downloaded.

[Space Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Deke

I didn't fully understand what WinRar did as I have only needed freezip to take care of anything I have downloaded.

Additionally to complete RAR and ZIP file support, WinRAR is able to unpack the following popular archive formats:

CAB
ARJ
LZH
TAR
GZ and TAR.GZ
BZ2 and TAR.BZ2
ACE
UUE
JAR (Java Archive)
ISO (ISO9660 - CD image)
7Z
Z (Unix compress)

[hewee]

EULAlyzer 1.0 is something new from Javacool.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html

I was using it and like it.

Note used it on Windows Media Player eula.txt file and got a error but not all of the eula is in English so that is why.

But it is great and helps you out.

[Space Cowboy]

New one just found today.. Haven't tried it yet but it looks kinda cool ?

http://www.hdtune.com/

Dang it Hewee .. You keep postin these good sites and my favorites are getting to big again No time to look into most lately.

Keep em coming my friend

[maswad]

Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/index.html
Paint.net
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

[primetime212]

Originally Posted by josdegr

Don't want anybody to know what you were doing on your PC?

Don't want them to know the web sites you've visited, or the search queries you've made?

IE Privacy Keeper won't let anybody know that!

Whether you are using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, IE Privacy Keeper automatically cleans up the browser history once you are done surfing the net. The program will correctly clean up all index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart.

IE Privacy Keeper

hmmm....what could that be useful for ?? *wonders*

[hewee]

Originally Posted by Space Cowboy

New one just found today.. Haven't tried it yet but it looks kinda cool ?

http://www.hdtune.com/

Dang it Hewee .. You keep postin these good sites and my favorites are getting to big again No time to look into most lately.

Keep em coming my friend

He hee SC, But I did better then you because I can use the software.
Really what you just post sounds great but I can not try it because it will not work on 98.
I like programs like that but got so many I forget what I have and where there at.
It checks the health status by using SMART that is on the drives not. But from what I hear it does not let you know when your drive is getting bad like it should and most of the time your drive goes out and * S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) never said anything to you. Not so smart.
I like to get SpinRite 6.0. Not free but it does great things. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm SpinRite is a single 170 Kbyte downloadable file too so is very small and can be run from just about anything. Read up on it and see the movie on it here. http://www.grc.com/sr/themovie.htm It will recover things that no other program will.

[ymfoster]

Found this site, seems to have some handy Freeware


http://www.moox.ws/tech/freeware/

[lizard]

I've opened a thread over here about this new browser I've been using for about a week. No pop-ups, No pop-unders, turns off flash animation , pages load in a wink , automatically clears your tracks on exit , and I find it a lot faster and much more accomodating than IE. I've also used Firefox and Opera and so far, I'm sticking with Advanced Browser.

http://www.advancedbrowser.com/

[Space Cowboy]

Originally Posted by lizard

I've opened a thread over here about this new browser I've been using for about a week. No pop-ups, No pop-unders, turns off flash animation , pages load in a wink , automatically clears your tracks on exit , and I find it a lot faster and much more accomodating than IE. I've also used Firefox and Opera and so far, I'm sticking with Advanced Browser.

http://www.advancedbrowser.com/

I'm tellin ya .. Avant is better and the author updates it constantly.

Go to http://www.avantbrowser.com/download.html and try the BASIC version. Unless you want a password manager.

I've never had any issues with Avant and been using it for at least a couple years now. No spyware problems either?

Just my opinion.

[lizard]

Originally Posted by Space Cowboy

I'm tellin ya .. Avant is better and the author updates it constantly.

Go to http://www.avantbrowser.com/download.html and try the BASIC version. Unless you want a password manager.

I've never had any issues with Avant and been using it for at least a couple years now. No spyware problems either?

Just my opinion.

Thanks Space Cowboy.
I'm trying it now. Seems almost identical to Advanced Browser, except Avant has Feeds and more Skins. For now, I'll keep trying them both until one gets irritating.

[Space Cowboy]

Your Welcome .. If you have any questions on setting it up just ask. I like my new windows to open in the background so I can continue reading the current page. If you right click on a link you can select open in new window and it opens in the background .. Also .. I like my tabs on the bottom. If you want to close a tab just double click on the tab and it closes.

Lotsa cool tweaks and its fast and small.

Good luck

[jadag]

I downloaded Advanced Browser and am looking at it.

It is very similar to Slimbrowser which I prefer simply because it has a spell checker.

So far I can tell you that it is pretty fast, is small and doesn't hog resources.

However, it doesn't have a spell-checker and tends to "corrupt" my default browser settings.

Once I have run Advanced (and specify that it is NOT my default browser) if I then click on a link in an email, instead of launching Slimbrowser (my default browser) it opens IE but does not load anything - not even my homepage. I find that I then have to open Slimbrowser and make it the default browser again.

I will definitely keep Advanced on hand though - perhaps the bug will be fixed on the next version

[digital1986]

Went through the first 8 pages then just had to come to this page, great thread and keep em coming

[aarhus2004]

Hello,

Original post this thread:

http://forums.techguy.org/tech-tips-tricks/366118-favorite-freeware-post2656023.html

some changes since that list:

Out Hoversnap and its replacement (my view a superior tool)

In http://www.popdrops.com/ name Capture-a-ScreenShot (see attached gif)

Well maybe maybe not on the above.

Out jv16pt one of best freeware reg cleaners ever but JV has done the most efficient cleanup of the web and those of us who had the last viable version of this original freeware woke-up to find it still ran but minus the 'Tools' allied to the registry cleaner.

In and a companion to RegSeeker, the unregistered version of Registry First Aid(RFA) here: http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/reg1aid/

it is an excellent tool and, as long as you can hack the limitations on the number of fixes per run, as far as I can determine it will stay with you as trialware. I am finding that RegSeeker, if used fully, i.e. first delete the History items offered then run the registry cleaner and take those out too will be oh so very close, in terms of results, to RFA. But I'm still checking this.

In From PugeIE (whose superb software was my first purchase of same) comes this free utility called DelinvFile ('Delete Invalid Files') from this page http://www.purgeie.com/delinv.htm works like a treat - check it out.

Cheers.