Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Top Freeware Picks

Have one free tool to tweak or enhance my pc:


 Advanced System Care 3
 IObit Toolbox
 X-Setup
 Glary Utilities
 SSD Tweaker


 Scan & protect my computer for Malware - Malicious software (Pick at least two):


 Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 
 IObit Security 360 
 SUPERAntiSpyware
 Emsisoft HiJackFree
 Sandboxie
 PC Tools ThreatFire
 SpywareBlaster
 Secunia Personal Software Inspector

 Protect my computer from viruses : (Pick only one)

 AVG Free Edition
 Avira AntiVir Personal 
 Comodo AntiVirus 
 Avast! Home Edition
 Kingsoft Free Antivirus

 Remove specific or stubborn malware: (Pick at least two)

 Assassin
 Combofix
 Kaspersky Free Cleaner
 avast! Virus Cleaner Tool
 Kill2me
 CWShredder
 Trend Micro CWShredder
 WinPatrol
 Pocket Killbox
 Hijack This!
 Hijack Hunter
 StreamArmor
 AIMFix for AIM

 Check for Rootkits: (Pick at least one)

 Sophos Anti-Rootkit
 Trend Micro RootkitBuster
 F-Secure BlackLight
 Gmer

 Block spam or find a better email tool: (Pick one)


Mail clients:

 Pegasus Mail
 DreamMail
 Thunderbird
 Sylpheed
 Pop Peeper
 Koma-Mail

Spam or mail management:

 Magic Mail Monitor
 MailWasher
 K9
 Gmail Growl
 Gpg4win


 Protect my computer with a firewall: (Pick only one)

 Online Armor Free
 PC Tools Firewall Plus
 Zone Alarm Free
 Outpost Free
 Comodo Personal Firewall
 Privatefirewall

 Monitor or run diagnostics to find a problem: (Pick as many as needed)

 IObit Toolbox 
 UBCD4Win
 Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities
 Speedfan
 Ultimate Boot CD
 Bart's PE Builder
 Bootzilla
 Windows Error Messages
 BlueScreenView

 Test the memory in my PC: (Pick one or more)

 Memtest86
 Memtest86+
 Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic
 Video Memory Stress Test
 FreeRAM XP Pro 
 OCCT 

 Free up hard drive space: (Pick one or more)

 Wise Disk Cleaner
 CCleaner Slim (Also registry cleaner, startup manager)
 CCenhancer
 MRU-Blaster
 Empty Temp Folders
 Duplicate Cleaner
 Cyber-D's Autodelete
 PC De-Crapifier

 Clean or manage my registry: (Backup first, registry editing can be dangerous)


 Wise Registry Cleaner
 RegSeeker
 RegCleaner
 Registry Distiller
 Simnet Registry Defrag
 Quicksys RegDefrag

 Better defragment my hard drive: (Pick one at a time)

 Iobit SmartDefrag
 Puran Defrag Free Edition
 MyDefragPowerGUI
 Defraggler
 Lexun DrvCareXP
 Power Defragmenter GUI
 Diskeeper Lite
 Auslogics Disk Defrag
 AML Disk Defrag

 Find a better Browser: (Pick one or more)

 Mozilla Firefox
 Google Chrome
 Opera
 Slim Browser
 Maxthon
 Avant Browser
 K-Meleon

 Find out what is inside my computer: (Pick one or more)

 Everest Free Edition
 AIDA32
 PC Wizard
 SIW (System Info)
 WinAudit
 SIV (System Information Viewer)
 Belarc Advisor
 HWiNFO32
 Process Explorer
 WinAudit

 Recover deleted files or photos: (Pick one or more)

 Glary Undelete
 Recuva File Recovery
 Undelete Plus
 PC Inspector Smart recovery
Free Undelete
 Test Disk & Photo Rec
 Unstoppable Copier


 Backup data including CD's or DVD's: (Pick one or more)

Backup:

 Yadis!
 DriveImage XML 
 Karens Replicator
 Cobian Backup

CD\DVD\BluRay Tools:

 BurnAware Free
 FinalBurner
 DVDFab
 CDBurnerXP
 ShrinkTo5
 ImgBurn
 RipIt4Me

 Find tools to manage or optimize my multimedia: (Pick one or more)


Players:

 1by1 - The Directory Player
 WinAmp Full
 JetAudio
 VLC media player
 Gom Player
 KMPlayer
 MPlayer
 Foobar

Edit and organize:

 Audiograbber
 mp3DirectCut
 Mp3tag
 Super@
 MediaMonkey
 myFairTunes (DRM removal)
 EncodeHD
 The Godfather
 MusicBee

Other (Codec packs, converters):

 iTunes
 iTunes Agent
 QuickTime Alternative
 K-Lite Codec Pack Full
 Vista Codec Package 
 x64 Components 
 Win7codecs
VirtualDub
XMedia Recode
Format Factory

 Edit or organize my photos: (Pick one or more)

 XnView
 FastStone Image Viewer
 Picasa
 IrfanView
 Paint.NET
 PicSizer
 WinSnap

 Find tools to Manage or remove installed software: (Pick one or more)


 Revo Uninstaller - Remove any unwanted application installed on your computer.
 JavaRa - Update Sun Java, remove older versions and tweak install.
 Norton Removal Tool - Remove Norton including things the uninstaller might miss
 McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool - Remove Mcafee including things the uninstaller might miss
 Brute Force Uninstaller (BFU) - Uninstall programs that are hard to remove, uninstall improperly or simply unwanted.
 Remove Hotfix Backup Files - Removes Hotfix Backup files and the Add/Remove Programs Registry entries.

 Find tools to improve office productivity: (Pick one or more)


 OpenOffice.org - Complete office suite
 OxygenOffice Professional - Complete office suite
 Abi Word - Wordpad replacement
 Notepad 2 - Notepad replacement with HTML support
 Notepad++ - Notepad replacement that supports many programming languages
 Qjot - Notepad, Wordpad replacement that can be portable
 Money Manager Ex - Personal finance software like MSMoney
 EverNote - Note taking application
 FoxIt Reader - Create, edit and read .PDF files
 Mobysaurus Thesaurus - off-line English thesaurus
 Tomahawk PDF - Create, edit and read .PDF files

 Know what other freebies you guys love?: (Pick one or more)

Multimedia:
 DVD Flick - Turn your video files into a DVD.


Password related:
 AI RoboForm - A killer password manager for websites
 KeyFinder Thing Lite - Retrieve many Microsoft program serial numbers
 Jalapeno Keyfinder - Retrieve and decrypt your Microsoft serial keys
 Protected Storage PassView - Reveals Internet Explorer and Outlook passwords
 EMCO OS License Modifier - Change your Operating System license information.


Everything else:
 ieSpell - spell check text input boxes on a webpage
 3DMark 06 - (Benchmark and compare your PC
 RemoveWGA - Remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool
 Skype - Make phone calls over the internet
 BootVis - Speed up XP boot times. Note, it is heavily debated whether this helps.
 Clipdiary - A freeware utility for keeping the clipboard history.
 DriverMax - Export and reinstall your drivers.
 Trillian - IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger in one client.
 Weather Watcher Live - A real-time Windows desktop weather station.

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