Great Freewares

Here's a list of useful freeware applications, arranged alphabetically by category. Please post your favourite software to this thread....

Antivirus:

AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

Avast - http://www.avast.com/

AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/

Panda ActiveScan - http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan

Audio Players:

Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/

Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/

jetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/

QCD - http://www.quinnware.com/

Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Utilities:

CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

dbPowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

CD Recording:

ASPI Drivers - http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...oduct/ASPI-4.70

CD/DVD Burner XP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Burn 4 Free - http://www.burn4free.com/

CD Utilities:

Daemon Tools - http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php

Download Managers:

WackGet - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/

LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/

wget for Windows - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Encryption:

PGP Freeware Edition - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/

Firewall:

ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/

Sygate Personal Firewall - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm

Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html

Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

GUI Utilities:

Tclock - http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/index.html

IconPhile - http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/iphile.html

PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/

Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

D-Color XP - http://dliboon.freeshell.org/products/dcolor/index.php

CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html

MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/

Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/

Image Viewers:

IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/

iBrowser - http://ibrowser.fcodersoft.com/

AhaView - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/free.htm

Instant Messaging:

Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/

Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

Yahoo Instant Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/

MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com/

AOL Instant Messenger - http://www.aim.com/

ICQ - http://www.icq.com

Jabber - http://www.jabber.org/

Networking:

Putty Telnet/SSH Client - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

IP Tools - http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/

HyperTerminal Private Edition - http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html

RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/

Nmap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Programming:

ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/

Dev-C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/

MySQL - http://www.mysql.com

SciTE - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Publication/Document Manipulation:

OpenOffice.org - http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/download/

Spyware Protection:

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Spybot: Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Hijack This - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

IE-SPYAD - http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD

SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com

System Utilities:

BootVis - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664

Resource Hacker - http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/resourcehacker/

PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Motherboard Monitor - http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00...c/download.html

Video Players:

BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/

Core Media Player - http://www.tcmp.org/

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=82303

VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/

Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml

Video Utilities:

KVCD - http://www.kvcd.net/

TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/

VirtualDUB - http://www.virtualdub.org/

Web Browsers:

Mozilla FireFox - http://www.mozilla.org/download.html

Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/

Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/

Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/

SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Web/FTP Servers:

SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/

Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/

Apache - http://www.apache.org/

Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/

i hope u all would like it