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12-Mar-2007, 09:21 PM #1276
This is one of my favorites. Pixresizer is a freeware image resizing program that lets you change the size of one or an entire folder of pictures at once. Excellent program!

http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm
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12-Mar-2007, 09:32 PM #1277
not sure if anyone has already mentioned Handy Bits voice mail, free programme to use in e-mail
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12-Mar-2007, 10:55 PM #1278
reg cleaner works good. it can uninstall,disable start up things, easy to use but i dun have link cuz im noob. i can google it unless your internet is craped up by someone *cough* please HELP me in my post in operating systems/windows xp/living hell
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12-Mar-2007, 11:10 PM #1279
How 'bout an easy way to change the text XPs Start Button, or hide it altogether. Click here.
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14-Mar-2007, 05:33 AM #1280
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Does anyone know a freeware program that will automatically set/reset computer clocks? I have WinMe on another comp and no update for DST.
How about just doing this the old fashion way....use your fingers & a mouse !!!
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How about just doing this the old fashion way....use your fingers & a mouse !!!
I thought this place was for Q&A, not snide remarks.
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14-Mar-2007, 07:33 AM #1282
No comment. Would still like to have a program that will set/reset the clock.
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14-Mar-2007, 01:00 PM #1283
maybe searching google will help.

the link i found just customizes the clock. it says nothing about the 'current update'.

Last edited by jcd1957; 14-Mar-2007 at 01:07 PM..
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14-Mar-2007, 05:55 PM #1284
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How 'bout an easy way to change the text XPs Start Button, or hide it altogether. Click here.
Have you tried this? Comment indicates if you use something other than "start", you can put only three letters in? Just curious.
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15-Mar-2007, 01:31 AM #1285
My favourite freeware has got to be Lavasoft's Adware remover. Without it, I'd probably have to reformat every month.
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My favourite freeware has got to be Lavasoft's Adware remover. Without it, I'd probably have to reformat every month.
Sounds like you need to regularly clean your computer with .....
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
especially before scanning for malware.
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15-Mar-2007, 07:27 PM #1287
Someone asked for this awhile ago .. Was it Candy ??

I haven't tried it so your on your own ..

Senriska 0.3 build 319

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Software for camera surveillance with motion detection; works with any USB or IP camera. When Senriska detects motion it will start recording the video and a message will be sent to you via email and/or SMS.
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15-Mar-2007, 10:39 PM #1288
I thought I would put a end to all the reposts. I only made it to page 14.

Startup Control Panel

1: Ad-Aware SE (best adware remover ever IMO)
http://www.download.com/3001-8022_4-10399602.html

2: spywareblaster (keeps spyware OFF)
http://www.download.com/3001-8022_4-10396039.html

3: spywaregaurd (works with spywareblaster)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.net/dow...eguardsetup.exe

4: hijack this (good to diagnose browser hijacks)
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip

5: XBConnect (the free alternative to XBlive)
http://www.xbconnect.com/index.php?topic=Downloads

6: AIM 5.2.3292 (the last virus/spyware free version)
http://oldversion.com/download.php?i...976ee2d9d52861

7: WindowBlinds (not 'free' but it's an unlimited free trial with a periodic 5 sec. nag screen.
http://www.download.com/WindowBlinds...-10026826.html

8: PDF Reader and Printing Program.
FOXIT
http://foxitsoftware.com/

9: ShortKeys is a utility that allows you to set up replacement text or paragraphs for any given number of user defined keystrokes
http://www.shortkeys.com/lite.htm

10: System Information for Windows
http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/abo...ll_screen.html

11: HDDlife is a usable program that will allow you to control the health of your hard drive http://www.hddlife.com/

12: control your audio levels without havin to click on anything
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html

13: Quintessential(good audio player)
www.quinnware.com

14: Trilllian( if you have aol msn yahoo or irc this combines them all)
www.ceruleanstudios.com

15: Cheetah Audio Converter(converts audio and also rips)
http://www.cheetahburner.com/

16: kmp3(great for naming mp3's)
http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?kmp3

17: sticky notes thingy
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...scription.html

18: Themes Without Windowblind
http://www.alienware.com/Standalone_Pages/darkstar.aspx

19: E-Mail Remover. It allows you to check your mail and delete at your ISP's site
http://eremover.bizhosting.com/

20: Don't want anybody to know what you were doing on your PC?
http://browsertools.net/IE-Privacy-Keeper/

21: Protects registry by notifying you when a reg entry is being made.
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=regprot

22: Bazooka™ Adware and Spyware Scanner detects a multitude of spyware, adware, trojan, keylogger, foistware and trackware components
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner...ource=appvisit

23: analog" clock
http://clocx.fi.cz/

24: RegCompact Pro 0.1.8
http://www.experimentalscene.com/?type=1&id=regcompact

25: Gaim an opensource instant messanging client
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

26: FireFox.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

27: great for music files, doesnt use up much resources
http://www.foobar2000.org/index.html

28: Great for checking out what's running on your comp
http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html

29: Helps you learn the fretboard
http://www.francoisbrisson.com/fretboardwarrior/

30: Lots of cool guitar stuff on this program
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs...tar_Utilities/

31: Fastest web browser on earth
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

32: Virus software
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

33: Control Your Desktop Icons:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,600479,00.asp

34: For controlling some basic StartUp items
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

35: Startup Monitor which warns of items being added to one's StartUp list
http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

36: an in-depth look at exactly all that is running on your computer
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../procexp.shtml

37: Other version of Windows Media Player
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=wmp

38: excellent registry cleaner, jv16pt
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=jv16

39: For a profile of your computer especially of those critical and recommended updates this from Belarc:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

40: Using Outllook Express? Need a spelling checker?
http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/

41:routine maintenance of Disk Cleanup. ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter I use this,
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

42: one of the most popular image viewers worldwide!
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm

43: raw converter for digital camera's
http://www.pixmantec.com/products/ra...ssentials.html

44: PaintShopPro version 7
http://com-puterworks.com/Free_Downloads.htm

45: windows XP powertools
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

46: MS Office's free alternative
http://www.openoffice.org/

47: spyware removal SpyBot-Search & Destroy 1.4
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

48: Simple and FAST text editor
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html

49: keep track of the time zone difference
http://www.qlock.com/

50: DAEMON Tools run files like .iso without having to burn them first. virtual drive.
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/port...tegory&catid=5

51: Converts .bin and .cue files (for a vcd) into .MPG files so you don't have to burn to CD to play the movie.
http://www.vcdgear.com/download.html

52: Pixresizer is a image resizing program
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

53: voice mail, free programme to use in e-mail
http://www.handybits.com/voicemail.htm

54: regularly clean your computer with
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

55: WinPatrol: Watches for newly added startup entries and other things.
http://www.winpatrol.com/

56: EPrompter- Access multiple web based email accounts at one time. They are having problems with HotMail right now. Everything else OK.
http://www.eprompter.com

57: HostMan: Manage the Hosts file-
http://hostsman12.abelhadigital.com/

58: SequoiaView- Graphic view of your hard drive-
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

59: Erunt- Backup and restore registry for Win 2000 (and others)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1267.html

60: xplorer2 lite ditch windows explorer and use this instead
http://www.zabkat.com/x2lite.htm

61:AutoHotkey great scripting tool, saves a lot of time
http://www.autohotkey.com/

62:AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.php

63: if you like Autoit, check out AutoHotkey, its like Autoit on steroids
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...y/1088127602/1

64: Trillian™ is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC
http://www.trillian.cc/

65: Urlbase 5 - This a great little database for all your web links. You can group them into all sites and fav sites (or any other way you can think of).
http://www.terriadev.com/urlbase/downloads/index.html

66: Another tool I use along with that is AM-Deadlink. It goes thru your IE favorites or Firefox bookmarks and flags bad links. It's pretty fast too.
http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm

67: one of my favorite sites for all kinds of freeware is Snapfiles.
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/

68: KeePass Password Safe - An easy to use password manager to keep track of all your usernames and passwords. Has a nice password generator too.
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

69: Cryptainer LE - Strong encryption software, but still easy to use. Creates a 'virtual drive' where you can store sensitive data.
http://www.cypherix.com/index.htm

70: Another great site for freeware is FileForum BetaNews. Also has shareware, but you can filter just the freeware. It also has a good RSS feed that keeps you up to date with all the new releases.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/

71: mind mapping software helps me get lots of random thoughts down in a usable format
freemind.sourceforge.net

72: Total Uninstall 2, installation monitor and uninstaller
http://www.martau.com/tu2.php

73: AutoHotkey is on steroids? then just give Powerpro a try
http://www.ppro.org/

74: MSConfig is a small and helpful tool. It allows you disable programs which are starting with Windows
http://www.get-in-control.com/msconfig-cleanup/

75: Make your folders different colors is neat. It's called Rainbow Folders
http://www.zwnet.bmj.net.pl/~aionel/...l/gb/wstep.htm

76: DG-Defragmenter, a high performance defragmenter which built on top of full DOS based defrag engine.
http://www.beoncorp.com/dgdefragmenter.html

77: Clipomatic is a clipboard cache program - it remembers what was copied to the clipboard even after new data is copied, and allows you to retrieve the old data.
http://mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml


78: TinySpell - It is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check the spelling of words in any Windows application.
http://tinyspell.m6.net/


79: SceenPrint32 - A very versatile screen capture program.
ScreenPrint32 allows you to print and/or capture to disk or clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen.
http://www.provtech.co.uk/software/screenprint32.asp

80: Yankee Clipper is another usefull clipboard app
http://www.intelexual.com/products/yc3/

81: LeechGet is a download manager that uses a very nice, modern, Microsoft Outlook-like user interface and seamlessly integrates into Internet Explorer, allowing you to easily start and manage your downloads

82: Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

83: Wallpaper Master allows you to change your desktop wallpaper automatically every X minutes.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/WallpaperMaster.html

84: WPChanger is an easy to use tool to automatically cycle through your collection of desktop wallpapers
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wpchanger.html

85: The Webshots Desktop is an advanced internet-enabled screen saver that combines high quality
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/webshots.html

86: Konfabulator?
www.konfabulator.com

87: KNOPPIX?
www.knopper.net

88: PSP Video 9?
www.pspvideo9.com

89: Microsoft AntiSpyware:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

90: ClearTweak™ allows you to change the contrast setting of the ClearType® setting for Windows XP
http://www.ioisland.com/cleartweak/

91: Secure yourself from spam, ads, spyware and more
All-in-One SECRETMAKER contains everything you need to maintain absolute privacy and security
http://www.secretmaker.com/

92: Convert is an easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!
http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/

93: now Shareware however they still have a link to their "free" version. Great for screen captures/resizing.
http://www.webtree.ca/newlife/printkey_info.htm

94: For Java development and programing
http://www.eclipse.org/

95: move on boot program to move files that you cant delete.
http://gibinsoft.net/

96: Angel Writer is a free text editor allowing you to create impressive documents that contain formatted text, graphics and tables
http://www.angelicsoftware.com/en/angel-writer.html

97: THE Rename is a donationware program designed to help you to rename files and folders en masse with a number of possibilities and options.
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/module...hp?articleid=1

98: MP3 Gain
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

99: FreeRamPro
http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/

100: WordWeb
http://wordweb.info/free/

101: XnView
http://www.xnview.com/

102: MP3 Trim
http://www.mptrim.com/

103: PrintFolder
http://no-nonsense-software.com/download.shtml

104: Anti virus
http://www.hitmanpro.nl/hitmanpro/

105: Flashnote:- resides in the systray (tiny footprint). Click on it or type Alt+s and instantly you have a notepad-like page (any colour background and text). Auto saves everything. Faster than launching notepad, sticky notes etc. Excellent for copy/paste, quick notes, etc. Very fast on slow systems
flashnote.softvoile.com/

106: Filemap :- Keep control over the growing number of phantom files that mysteriously appear on your system for no explained reason ... This is a valuable program which quickly indicates any changes to your root (C:\) Directory, Windows and System Directories each time the computer is booted.
dogkennels.net/filemap/

107: TaskZip:- An oldie but goldie . At scheduled times Taskzip backs up all your critical settings and folders (zipped) to anywhere you specify. Mine backs up: My Documents folder, Word's Normal.dot, My Outlook Express Folders, Registry, Browser settings, Start Menu, OE Address Book, My Favorites Folder, All system Files etc, etc. etc. Simple to use.
pb-sys.com/

108: a handy tool that allows you to close all currently running programs a task often required during software installations to minimize conflicts or during defrag operations
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartclose.html

109: you can set up shortcuts to all your fav. programs/directories/websites etc. it has a little notepad type thing attached as well
http://bayden.com/SlickRun/

110: TClockEx enhances the standard Windows taskbar clock, adding the ability to display the date, time and lots of other information in any format you like
www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm

111: Taskzip is a great little backup program
http://www.pb-sys.com/

Please remember this is only a partial list and this post is intended to stop the reposts of the freeware apps that have already been posted.. A second post will follow when I get time to go through the rest of the posts, But in the meantime Please look through the posts before posting a "new freeware app".
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16-Mar-2007, 01:14 AM #1289
One of my favourite apps of all time.

Strangely Green Chicken Cleanup

http://www.stevengould.org/software/...q-general.html
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16-Mar-2007, 03:26 PM #1290
I feel sure we, and I in particular, want to thank you Paynesmanor for the time you have taken to produce the list you have shown us already. Had to be a difficult undertaking on your part.
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