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This is a list of software that I have compiled from various websites that I thought would be useful here. I will be changing the list alot when I can catch up with everything else going on. So if there are duplicate entrys or if anyone has software recommendations just let me know and I will update.

3D Graphics:
3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax – http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. – http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services…_maya_ple.shtml
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP – http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
Trendmicro HouseCall – http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Free scanning and cleaning, no download required.
Pandasoftware – http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
Mcafee FreeScan – http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/
Symantec Online Scan – http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/vc_scan.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym&plfid=23&pkj=LRFSYHGBYNCJEIMXQKC
AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://free.grisoft.com/
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/
BitDefender – http://www.bitdefender.com (free for personal use)

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware – http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka – http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Hijackthis – http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321CD7A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en
SpyBot Search & Destroy – http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster – http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard – http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol – http://www.winpatrol.com/

Audio Players:
1by1 – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy – http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer – http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 – http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic – http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik – http://musik.berlios.de/
musikCube – http://www.musikcube.com/
QCD Player – http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique – http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp – http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay – http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
Zinf – http://www.zinf.org/

Audio Tools:
Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex – http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter – http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC – http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 – http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder – http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 – http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer – http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper – http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag – http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain – http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim – http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz – http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares – http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free – http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner – http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather – http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
TigoTago – http://www.tigotago.com/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free – http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce – http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP – http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDRDAO – http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend – http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner – http://www.deepburner.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD – http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 – http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow – http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip – http://www.filzip.com/
Info-Zip – http://www.info-zip.org/
IZArc – http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip – http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip – http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX – http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go – http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius – http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw – http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS – http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk – http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP – http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Desktop Sidebar – http://www.desktopsidebar.com/
Glass2k – http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
Kapsules – http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
MobyDock – http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama – http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar – http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj…ject=rainlendar
Samurize – http://www.samurize.com/
SlickRun – http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
TaskSwitchXP Pro – http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/
Weather Watcher – http://www.singerscreations.com/
WinRoll – http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
free Dexpot: http://www.dexpot.de/en/index2.html
free ObjectDock: http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager – http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download – http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Star Downloader – http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget – http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget – http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
WellGet – http://www.wellget.com/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt – http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser – http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder – http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass – http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG – http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware – http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
TrueCrypt – http://www.truecrypt.org/
WindowsCleaner – http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer – http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 – http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP – http://www.explorerxp.com
Gyula’s Navigator – http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer – http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander – http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery – http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Jetico Personal Firewall – http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) – http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) – http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) – http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall – http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp…reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP – http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla – http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles – http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP – http://www.smartftp.com/
free AceFTP: http://software.visicommedia.com/en/products/aceftpfreeware/
free DeluxeFTP: http://www.deluxeftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server – http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD – http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v…pplication=8334
Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server – http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd – http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD – http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 – http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML – http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia – http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit – http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU – http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida – http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE – http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder – http://www.tsware.net/

Viewers:
Ahaview – http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
FastStone Image Viewer – http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
Irfanview – http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa – http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
SlowView – http://www.slowview.at/
XNView – http://www.xnview.com/
free Picajet: http://www.picajet.com/en/index.php

Instant Messenger:
Gaim – http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Miranda IM – http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion – http://www.pandion.be/
PSI – http://psi.affinix.com/
SIM – http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic – http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser – http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon – http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser – http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

IRC Clients:
BersIRC – http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX – http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC – http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC – http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat – http://www.silverex.org/news/

Mail programs:
Foxmail – http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe – http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail – http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail – http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray – http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 – http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile – http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes – http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility – http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer – http://www.ethereal.com/
hamachi – http://www.hamachi.cc/
NetMeter – http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles – http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap – http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop – http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter – http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats – http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC – http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC – http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC – http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP – http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition – http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord – http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org – http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer – http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager – http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk – http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
Foxit PDF Reader – http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Free PDF – http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView – http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 – http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF – http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic – http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Delineate – http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
Paint .NET – http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia – http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie – http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre – http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodiodi – http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp – http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint – http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
ActivePerl – http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Crimson Editor – http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Context – http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ – http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse – http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff – http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal – http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE – http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit – http://www.jedit.org/
Metapad – http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 – http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Pelles C – http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser – http://www.php.net/
PSPad – http://www.pspad.com/
Python – http://www.python.org/
Ruby – http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop – http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
WinMerge – http://winmerge.org/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar – http://www.google.com/
NoAds – http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper – http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy – http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron – http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:
Ablion – http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
RssBandit – http://www.rssbandit.org/
RSSOwl – http://www.rssowl.org/
RssReader – http://www.rssreader.com/
SharpReader – http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Information and monitoring:
CPU-Z – http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest – http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p…ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm – http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan – http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix – http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID – http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

Video codecs :
DivX Codec – http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD – http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :
BsPlayer – http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player – http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer – http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player – http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD – http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan – http://www.videolan.org/
free ZOOM player standard: http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink – http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler – http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG – http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot – http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub – http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor – http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox – http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon – http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape – http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Opera – http://www.opera.com
Avant Browser – http://www.avantbrowser.com/
AM Browser – http://www.ambrowser.com/

Web servers:
Firefox – http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Abyss – http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache – http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar – http://www.sambar.com/
Savant – http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW – http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
TinyWeb – http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam – http://www.booru.net/
Pryme – http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum – http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv – http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum – http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer – http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX – http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket – http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia – http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin – http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey – http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite – http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack – http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup – http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
KeyNote – http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
Memtest-86 – http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap – http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime – http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer – http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian – http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickPar – http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
QuickSFV – http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico – http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Restoration – http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
Stickies – http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals – http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox – http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TuneXP – http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad – http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Vim – http://vim.sourceforge.net

Cleaners:
RegScrubXP – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2048
CCleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com/
RegCleaner – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=460
Cleanup – http://cleanup.stevengould.org/

Stress testing

Prime95 – http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
Processor stress-test. Useful for overclocking or seeing how well your heatsink performes under load.
Memtest86 – http://www.memtest86.com
Standard memory stress-test. This will certainly evaluate your RAM to see if you bought a lemon or not.
3DMark 2003 – http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark03.shtml
3D Performance benchmark utility. Useful for stress-testing pretty much every component of your computer.

Internet/Networking

LSP-Fix – http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Winsock XP Fix – http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html

Miscellaneous

Dead Pixel Test – http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixels.html
Dead Pixel Buddy – http://www.laptopshowcase.co.uk/downloads.php?id=1
dead pixel = A pixel on an LCD monitor that remains unlit, or black, when it should be activated and displaying a color. Each pixel on an LCD screen is made from three separate subpixels—one red, one green and one blue—that when combined form the colors that the users see on the monitor. A dead pixel occurs when the transistor that activates the amount of light that shows through all three subpixels malfunctions and results in a permanently black pixel. Dead pixels are rare and largely go unnoticed by the user.

Data backup and recovery
SyncBack – http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html
CasperXP – http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/
RescuePro – http://www.lc-tech.com/software/rprowindetail.html
PC Inspector Recovery – http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
(Best thing about it – it’s 100% free!)

Windows/Tweaking Utilities
X-Setup Pro – http://www.x-setup.net/product/home.asp?lang=ENA
A free “tweaker” program for all versions of Windows accessing >1,700 settings in an easy to use interface.
X-Setup 6.3 – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=127
Same functionality as above but without the license.
PricelessWare – Excellent site – www.pricelessware.org

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