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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Fabre




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭Ancient1


    www.newfreeware.com very good site.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭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)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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 ..


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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 D:* 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..


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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/


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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 )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭Nick_oliveri


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 815 ✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,904 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭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/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,450 ✭✭✭ando


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,450 ✭✭✭ando


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


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