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I was just looking throught the forums at Neowin and found a great list of freeware. You should go and sign up over there as well as they have a lot of great content on that site as well as a lot of information in the forums. so if you are looking to burn some time you can really do a lot of reading in the forums on that site.
I have only included the freeware here that I have used in the past and really like:
Anti-Virus:
AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
CWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr…r_download.html
Hijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
Audio Players:
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Desktop Enhancements:
Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/info
File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/
Firewalls:
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
FTP Clients:
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/
FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
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
Image viewers:
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/
Mail programs:
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Network Tools:
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
PDF Utilities:
Foxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.phpPDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
Photo manipulation and image design:
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
RSS Readers:
SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/
RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/
Feedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/
System Information and monitoring:
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html
There are a bunch more on the Windows Ultimate Boot CD as well as the Dos Boot CD
Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com/
Web servers:
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/
Network Tools:
TCP Optimizer -http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
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