Applications & Fixes

dahamsta

Apps

• File Sharing Apps
• Y's Dock

Hacks & Fixes

• Lost your Show Desktop icon?
• Windows Registry Guide
• Messenger Popup Spam: Windows XP, Windows 2000

Shareware / Freeware

• Simtel
• SourceForge.net
• aFreeGo.com
• FileLibrary.com
• WindowsPC.com
• Total Shareware
• 2000Shareware.com
• Download FreeTrial
• Tucows
• WebAttack.com
• Majorgeeks.com
• NewFreeware.com

Shamelessly Stolen From Lockergnome

• kelly's Korner
• Doug Knox
• Black Viper
• Bob'sXpTweaks
• Annoyances
• Bootdisk
• Fastboot
• Kernal Enhancements
• Windows Corporate Update
• Virtual Memory in Windows
• Windows Shutdown Troubleshooting
• WinXp Support
• Pagefile Opt
• Ted's Tech Site
• Windows Reinstall
• Backups
• TCP/IP
• Active Windows
• Ad-Aware
• Inside Outlook Express
• Tweak OutlookXP
• Tweak3D
• WebAttack
• Axels 216

If you'd like something added here, please post it below.

Fabre

for Freeware/Shareware

http://www.tucows.com
http://www.webattack.com
http://www.majorgeeks.com

Ancient1

www.newfreeware.com very good site.

BigEejit

I've used www.thefreesite.com several times without suffering any ill consequences .... it even has a page showing other freebie websites ... (a lot of the sites are for tangible freebies ... but nonetheless, I like it)

Capt'n Midnight

How to run Windows ME well, 5.0
http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/36435.html
Lots of tips that also apply to Win95/98 and links to various utils & KB articles

Adaware from http://www.lavasoft.nu/ or Spybot from http://security.kolla.de/ scans your system and removes spyware, often a cause of system problems.

Sisoft Sandra from www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra analyses and troubleshoots your system, e.g. Bios, 3D rendering, OpenGL, Direct X, CPU, performance, overclocking etc

Regcleaner is often recommended and for good reason.

WCPUID from www.h-oda.com reports details of your chipset, CPU and motherboard. Handy before installing new drivers.

Motherboard Monitor from http://mbm.livewiredev.com monitors system temperature, fan health and warns of failure. Handy if you overclock.

Xteq Systems X-Setup from www.xteq.com/downloads/index.html helps you to change hard to reach games and system settings.

Belarc Advisor from http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html analyses and reports on all details of your system and can identify with serial numbers most of your hardware components. Great if you’ve lost the details of your modem or video card etc.

type hwinfo /ui and press enter


Personal firewalls are a good idea to block unwanted access to your PC. Zone Alarm is available at www.zonelabs.com/products/za/index.html while Tiny Personal Firewall is available at www.tinysoftware.com Sygate free personal firewall available from www.sygate.com and is the free firewall which I have found best with Windows ME (recommended by other forum users to me).

System restore remover does just that http://defsoft.iwarp.com/

http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ gives you a free virus check

Pop-up stopper helps to control ad banners and pop-ups www.panicware.com, as does Adshield from http://www.adshield.org/

Win Rescue helps crash recovery and registry restoration http://regvac.com/frescuem.htm

Rampage frees up RAM when overload is reached http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/

sci0x

Office addins has loads of handy plugins for Office. Such as Advanced Excel Find which lets you run a find command once, returning a listing of every result and its location on all open workbooks.

sci0x

Microsoft Producer is a free add-on for Powerpoint 2002 and 2003 which lets you enhance slides with a narrative track or audio and/or video resulting in a side-by-side demonstration.

sci0x

1Tabview is a plug-in for IE which lets you define sets of web pages that, with one click, will open at once within the 1Tabview window.

Capt'n Midnight

www.openoffice.org

open source replacement for WORD, EXCEL , POWERPOINT
~ 70MB download - but that's only half the size of SP3 for Office 2000
Allows you to save files as .pdf too & menus are as close as you can get with getting sued for "look and feel"

Note: it does not replace Access - Outlook - but if you have an Exchange server the CAL's will allow you to run Outlook.

sci0x

IMSecure is designed to keep instant messaging secure. It supports AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Trillian messenger but not IRC or ICQ.

Capt'n Midnight

Winzip is not Free..

These however are ..
PowerArchiver 6.1 - http://www.sfsu.edu/ftp/win/utils/powarc61.exe (2MB)
7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/ (898KB)
Win-GZ http://www.crispen.org/src/ - took ages to go through the adds.. on download site so here it is (50KB)


http://www.spambayes.org - spam blocker for Outlook - as you move files to the Junk folder the program learns what you consider spam ..

Capt'n Midnight

Long filenames under pure DOS http://www.odi.ch/prog/prog.php

Am using this to make a Win98 recovery CD.
Boot from the CD and then Lcopy * C: /a /r /s /y
You can also use it to "mirror" your OS to a folder on a different partition. - Unlike Ghost or Partimage you can see every file native. I have not tried it with NTFSDOS yet..

Capt'n Midnight

From Phaxx on linux thread - only 102KB zipped
Tres cool - visual representation of space usage on your HDD
http://sleepygeek.org/~phaxx/spacemonger-linux/

Capt'n Midnight

On the gateway site there is an update utility that sometimes works (esp is you have an intel m/b eg: Dell) - if it doesn't get upset at the BIOS or IE version then it will try to download drivers for recognised devices from thier FTP site.
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/assistant/default.asp
also http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com sometimes has drivers

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.freebyte.com - gonna take a while to go through this
http://www.freebyte.com/reference/

woolymammoth

Sequoiaview

possibly the same as this posted by Capt'n Midnight above..
a visual representation of your hard disk for windows..

Pic ~ Download Page

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
http://www.agnitum.com/download/OutpostInstall.exe 2.6MB

Thanks to Asok for reminding me of this
It's a free windows firewall that is not limited to "personal use only"

I tried Sequoiaview - but am sticking with Spacemonger because it allows you to right click and RUN / Open a folder / file so you can have a look see etc

Preview of Word 97 CD ( 63K )

Karoma

apologies if it's already been said, i can't see (it)

Windows updates/patches on CD:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp

pro: handy for modem users, or when you want to do a clean install...
con: as expected, the updates/patches may be somewhat outdated...

mickeyboymel

I found this little gem today called the Tray Wizard, freeware from http://www.traywizard.com .

It allows you to minimise running applications to the notification area, by right clicking on minimise, so they do not take up room in the taskbar.

Its great for outlook and the likes.

Nick_oliveri

xp- Antispy
So those mofo's aint got jack on u azz

mickeyboymel

The Crap Cleaner is freeware and as well as cleaning out your internet stuff, it also cleans all your Temp files and index.dat files that slowly build up, as well as removing all bits left over from uninstallations.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.mdgx.com/vir.htm
FREE ONLINE VIRUS + SECURITY SCANNERS

mickeyboymel

Snapfiles has a great list of freeware in an easy to read categorised series of links to pages with details of hundereds of downloads.

This site is very user friendly and full of useful stuff http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html

Capt'n Midnight

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP
Registry Optimization for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP

Capt'n Midnight

Enabling Backup program for Windows XP home

the_syco

Don't know if this belongs here, but anyhoo's...

Can't find a codec for your video's?

VideoLan plays any video I throw @ it, including a few which Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime, Media Player Alternative, BSPlayer, or DivX couldn't. Also a few which they could. All worked. And this is free.

Works under Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Debian GNU/Linux, Mandrake Linux,Fedora Core, Familiar Linux, YOPY/Linupy, Zaurus, SuSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, WinCE / PocketPC, and a few more.

thebutlerdidit

Apologies if I'm a little green on this. I ran a program called hijackthis and it produced a list of data of MRU's. It tells you to be careful before you delete anything in case it something from the operating system. IS this the right place to get some help? If not could you re-direct me in the right direction please

odie

Could I suggest this as it got me out of a hole, found everything none of the rest could find.

Ewido security suite
http://www.ewido.net/en/

Update signature files are here
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/updates/

ando

anyone know of an application that will shut a pc down automatically at a certain time of the day?

dahamsta

Which version of windows? Is shutdown.exe available? (Open a command prompt and run `shutdown /?` to find out.) If it is, you should be able to use the Scheduler to run it.

adam

ando

ah yea, forgot about that file. thanks its working a treat

watsgone

Hey

any one no of a free publishing software for making booklets out there.

Thanks

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.scribus.net
http://openoffice.org

Capt'n Midnight

Utils to manage windows

http://www.sysworksoft.net/support/scripting.html - list of some very useful tools for scripting Windows NT/2000:

http://www.systemtools.com/free.htm Free Utilities from SystemTools Software - includes copying users and passwords !

Overheal

PDF - Microsoft Official Vista Performance and Tuning Guide.

Many here will already know it all already, but its a well put together guide.

Overheal

You may or may not have noticed that after the SP1 update you can no longer use Search in the right-click context menu:



.......Yeah I only noticed it today, too :rolleyes:

But here is a fix:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/restore-the-search-item-to-the-folder-context-menu-in-windows-vista-sp1/

got the registry, find HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find and delete the LegacyDisable Key or change its value to 0.

Thats it.

Galen

Free Partition Imaging / Backup Software

Drive Backup 9.0 Express http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/

Easeus Disk Copy - http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy

DriveImage XML - http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

Macrium Reflect Free Edition - http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

mastermichael20

football manger post moved to
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055463155

Jonathan

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Enabling Backup program for Windows XP home

Obviously posted before becoming the windows mod :P

Capt'n Midnight

Secunia Software Inspectors are the first internal vulnerability scanners that focus solely on detection and assessment of missing security patches and end-of-life programs.
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning
Scans most common programs and then gives links to the patches for them.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.pdfsam.org PDF split and merge.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=267028 - lots of software on the Laptops sticky.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
Everyday it has a new piece of software that usually cost money for free.
Not always good software but always worth checking every day.

Capt'n Midnight

Mukki's Vista Tweaks - adding to sticky


vista is not a crappy OS


when you install vista on a pc you have 36 processess running in the background (taskmanager bottom left corner)


when you buy a vista pc or laptop they usually have so much crap installed that you have well over 80 background processess

1) uninstall norton and mcafee and reboot
2) use autoruns (google it) to disable all non microsoft items
except
anything on drivers tab
dell quickset if installed
lexmark printing service if installed

3)run services.msc and disable...
server
computer browser
error reporting service
readyboost
security center
windows defender
superfetch (only if you have less then 1gb ram)

4) run msconfig and disable
all items on startup tab
on tools tab disable UAC
on tools tab lauch security center and set it not notify or display icon

5) run firewall.cpl and make sure the firewall is on
6) install an antivirus

optional
7)right click my computer
properties
advanced system settings
performance settings->settings button
click adjust for best performance
tick the last 3 and tick show thumbnails instead of icons

optional
8) right click desktop and hide desktop icons, right click on taskbar and add the desktop toolbar instead

optional
9) remove back ground wallpaper

10) on a laptop click on the battery icon (beside time) and make sure its set to performance on balanced, NOT the "power saver" setting as it tries to reduce precessor speed by 50%

Note: if you encounter any problems tap f8 while booting up launch startup repair and run system restore

(edit on request)

doing all of the above will make vista fly even with only 512mb ram.



but if you are still not happy buy more ram, its dirt cheap, and easy to change

Fysh

The official Microsoft SysInternals page has lots of useful little goodies. Highlights include:

• the Windows XP Powertoys (particularly the Alt-Tab & Desktop Manager powertoys)
• Desktops - a brilliant & tiny app (62K!) for Vista/Win7 that lets you have 4 desktop panels by giving each one its own explorer.exe process instead of the elaborate juggling game that other tools like Virtual Desktop Manager use to simulate the same effect
• Autoruns - gives you proper visibility & control over what runs at startup
• Disk2vhd - great for test environments, lets you create a VHD from a physical disk that you can then use in a virtual machine for testing changes, etc.

Probably more useful for technically-minded folk than the average user, but well worth a look either way.

Scruff

Fantastic piece of software to help diagnose BSOD issues.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html