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Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.
(free) Essential sortware for the PC user
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02-09-2004 9:30am#1Right ladies and gents I'm looking to get a list of the free software all you's boarders use for the essential tasks that you's need to perform on your PC's. Anything for cd/dvd burning software, audio , video, web browsers, gaming software, hardware monitors, cleaning ware, office tools, generally the first things that you would install on to your comp if you had to format your hard-drive and maybe if all goes well this could be made into a sticky
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Sygate Personal Firewall
Foxmail (Most popular mail client in...........CHINA!)
Mame32 (Runs thousands of old arcade games)
Deamon Tools
Damn Nfo Viewer (No more dragging .nfo files to notepad
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Treesize (Dead handy for working out whats taking up space on your system)
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RealVNC
spacemonger to see what wasting space
autoruns to stop them autorunnng
spywareblaster
spybot
www.isobuster.com
pdfcreator
powerarchiver 6.1 instead of winzip ( 7-zip compresses better )
winhttrack grabbing websites
netstumbler you can't diag a wifi connection problem without it
procexp
stinger
xpantispy
regclean
adobe acrobat but have to turn lots of auto update options
googlebar
PowerUser
Apache use instead of IIS
voloview express views autocad drawings
isorecorder for XP
most of the sysinternals apps
windump
command line apps
unzip
blat smtp emailer - handy for batch files
choice not in all versions of windows
[Windows CD]
eru / cfgback to take system snapshot of win9x
ntbackup for xp/2k Home
wintop
For Win9x
98lite to remove IE / use win95 desktop
ntfsdos
putinenv
mirror/undelete/unformat from Dos5/6
602pro pc suite haven't really used it smaller than openoffice (only 3 copies per business)
Also a Knoppix CD is dead handy for lots of little tasks like cloniing / resizing partitions / recovery0 -
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Definitely a sticky.
Switch Off - put your PC on switch off timer.(clicky)
I use it when downloading large files before I go out/bed/whatever.
--- These are more for the enthusiast ---
Ogg Vorbis Codec - The new mp3 but free & apparently better (winamp plays ogg files) (clicky)
Xvid Codec - Free video compressor codec (the mp3 for videos) (clicky)
Of course there's also DivX and 3ivx.
VirtualDub - Free video editing tool. (clicky)
Bloodshed Dev-C++ - Free programming editor (clicky)
JCreator LE - Free Java editor (clicky)
Just to second some things:
GIMP - Free Image Editing (for windows)
AVG Anti-Virus
Sygate Personal Firewall
WinCustomize.com - For ObjectDock toolbar and other cool stuff (like bootskin).
I myself will be looking into 7-zip, VideoLAN, ClamWin, and DeviantART.
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great proggy. its not free though.ShiverinEskimo wrote:AnyDVD helps if you watch movies via your pc.
just had a scan through my "Stuff" shortcuts folder, heres all the free stuff i have installed.
AutoGK - foolproof dvd to avi software
AVG 6.0 - free antivirus software... would be great if i could figure out how to delete threats with it
BitTornado - superb BT client
DVD Decrypter - needed for AutoGK, also handy for copying single layer dvds.
DVD Shrink - great for copying dual layer dvds
Fraps - handy for taking screenshots of games and monitoring their performance
K-Lite codec pack - every video and audio codec you could need (and media player classic)
Lavasoft Adaware - essential
Mozilla Firefox - the foxes cajones
Tweak UI for xp - saves a lot of trawling through the registry to get windows set up the way i like it.
Soulseek - the best p2p for dance music
Spybot S&D - essential
Winamp 5.05 - best media player out there, works great with most video types now.
Winbond hardware doctor - came free with my mobo. great for monitoring cpu temps and all that bollox
Zonealarm - great free firewall
Maxlister - handy for catalogueing (sp!) your cd/dvd collection. shame that it hasn't been updated in years 0 -
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cregser wrote:Switch Off - put your PC on switch off timer.(clicky)
I use it when downloading large files before I go out/bed/whatever.
An alternative is to use Task Scheduler to run:
%systemroot%\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
No third party tool needed
First thing that goes on for me (already mentioned though) is WinAmp so I can listen to my tunes while doing the rest.
I also highly recommend:
Mozilla Thunderbird - e-mail client, nightlies has a global inbox, great stuff! Great spam filter.
Mozilla Firefox - No description needed! Like the site re-design.
Belarc Advisor a snapshot of your system details[/url].
Kerio Personal Firewall
AVG Antivirus - Free and ..
AVG E-mail Scanner plug-in for use with Mozilla Thunderbird. Setup instructions here
ID3-TagIT
Real and Quicktime Alternative - so you don't have to install those two particular crappy programs
And for guitar players:
Powertab Editor Best prog out there for tab editing/playback
AP Guitar Tuner0 -
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