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nCleaner

nCleaner is a system cleaner that allows you to clean both your system and applications, free more disk space, boost your system's speed and get more stability and privacy protection. nCleaner contains an advanced system and application cleaner with over 90 cleaning items available, a Registry Cleaner , a Tweak Manager , an advanced Startup Manager , a Junk Finder , a Free Space Shredder , a System Resource Monitor , a System Adviser , supports logging and statistics as well as advanced Scheduling. nCleaner has the best cleaning ration on the market due to an advance detection algorithm, also providing security and stability. With nCleaner you can free up to 2 GB of unnecessary disk space. nCleaner supports and handles all major Internet browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer (and all derived browsers like Avast), Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera. It also supports and handles all major Instant Messaging applications like Yahoo Messenger, Windows MSN Messenger, ICQ, ...

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :) Links : Homepage , Download

Recuva

Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Links : Homepage , Download

Restoration

Restore files which are deleted from the Recycle Bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You can use it after deleting confidential documents, embarrassing files, and so on. You don't have to install it, so it doesn't leave any garbage in the PC. (You also can run it from a floppy disk.) Even if a file seems to be restored, there is no guarantee the contents are correct. After you run the program, please check the files. You can probably restore it correctly if the drive has enough free space and if it's just after deletion. If you restore a folder, there is no guarantee that all files or folders that used to belong to the folder will be in it. If you can't find them in it, please search and restore them one by one. If you still can't find them, it's impossible to restore them. It will be almost impossible to restore any deleted files i...

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit! It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task: Read - Read a disc to an image file Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc Write - Write an image file to a disc Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro , you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing Links : Homepage , Download

Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins . It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe ® Photoshop ® , Corel ® Paint Shop Pro ® , Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, ...

KMPlayer

The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The player provides both internal and external filters with a fully controlled environment in terms of connections to other splitters, decoders, audio/video transform filters and renderers without grappling with the DirectShow merit system. Internal filters are not registered to user's system to keep it from being messed up with system filters. The KMPlayer includes almost all the essential decoders required for media playback. Furthermore, to get beyond the limitation of internal decoders, the external ones such as commercial h.264 decoders or cyberlink/intervideo audio decoders can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization. Even though the KMP i...

VMware Player

Run virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware Player . This free desktop virtualization software application makes it easy to operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Server or VMware ESX Server, as well as Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disks. Links : Homepage , Download

XenExpress

XenExpress is a free, production-ready virtualization platform that enables everyone to quickly get started with Xen virtualization. Easily installed and seamlessly upgradeable, XenExpress is your on-ramp to Xen and the XenSource v4 product family. XenExpress v4 offers all of the base performance, tools, and easy to use features of XenEnterprise v4 and is built to run on the broadest range of standard server hardware. It supports dual socket servers with up to 4GB of RAM and can host up to four virtual machines on each system. XenExpress v4 can be quickly upgraded to the richer capabilities of XenServer or XenEnterprise by the simple addition of a license key, with no need to reinstall software or convert guests. Links : Homepage , Download

VMware Server

Begin enjoying the benefits of server virtualization with the free VMware Server . VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Streamline software development and testing and simplify server provisioning as you utilize the ability to "build once, deploy many times." Provision a new server in minutes without investing in new hardware Simplify IT testing of patches, new applications and operating systems The benefits of server virtualization can be realized by a company of any size Links : Homepage , Download

Microsoft Virtualpc 2007

Virtual PC lets you create separate virtual machines on your Windows desktop, each of which virtualizes the hardware of a complete physical computer. Use virtual machines to run operating systems such as MS-DOS, Windows, and OS/2. You can run multiple operating systems at once on a single physical computer and switch between them as easily as switching applications—instantly, with a mouse click. Virtual PC is perfect for any scenario in which you need to support multiple operating systems, whether you use it for tech support, legacy application support, training, or just for consolidating physical computers. Links : Homepage , Download

PrimoPDF

PrimoPDF is a free tool for high-quality PDF creation, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF from virtually any Windows application. Features Completely free, not just a trial version, and no user registration is required. Ability to optimize PDF output for screen (online viewing), print (standard laser printers), ebook, and prepress. Resultant PDF output conforms to the PDF 1.4 specification. Secure PDF files with 40- or 128-bit encryption. Add document information (e.g. title, author, subject, keywords) to converted PDF files. Full support for 64-bit machines. Double byte character support. Support of non-TrueType fonts. Enhanced support for Microsoft Windows 98, ME, XP and Vista as well as improved PDF viewing support on non-Windows platforms. Ability to merge/append PDF files upon conversion. Links : Homepage , Download

PSPad - a freeware code editor

PSPad - editor for developers for Microsoft Windows systems The universal freeware editor, useful for people who: work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker create web pages - as a web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools that save your time want to use a good IDE for their compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more... There is no complex installation process, PSPad is ready to work immediately without requiring customization. The editor supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion... these are just some of the many ...

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL ( that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence. This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there's no guarantee that I'll implement it. You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language. Links : Homepage , Download

GOM

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in. No need to install codecs separately! Try one of your broken AVI files or one of the files that is being downloaded with GOM. GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one and direct you to a place where you can download open source version of the codec. That way, you won't get stuck with unnecessary codecs on your system. AVI files can't be played if the index is broken, or the file isn't completely downloaded. This is because index is located at the end of the file. GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken index or that are still being downloaded. GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can specify margin, location, size, resolutio...

PDF reDirect

Create Standard PDF Files Create universal, standard, reliable and secure PDF files, recognized by industries and governments around the world. Perfect for sharing information with others. Easy to Use Compatible with virtually all Windows programs. Simply select "Print", choose the PDF reDirect virtual printer and your PDF file is created automatically. Live Preview Preview of PDF is displayed so you can optimize your settings on the fly. (Pro version provides an enhanced preview with greater detail) Optimize Quality and File Size Optimize your PDF files for your intended audience, from high quality for desktop publishing to creating small web-friendly files. Merge PDF Files Combine any PDF files together like a Word report with your Excel Charts into a single PDF...

Free Download Manager

What is Free Download Manager ? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license. Links : Homepage , Download

FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG). Links : Homepage , Download , Tutorial

Ekspos Image Viewer

Ekspos is platform independent Java image viewer program. It support most popular image format: JPEG, PNG, and GIF, where additional image format can be added through Java ImageIO plugin. It consists of 2 parts: shell browser and viewer. Shell browser allows you to navigate your image collection and you'll be able to browse images in tree, detail, list, icon and thumbnail view. The viewer provide progressive view of images with zoom and pan capability. Links : Homepage , Download

IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years). IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support. Some IrfanView features : Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats ) Multi language support Thumbnail/preview option Toolbar skins option Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR...

jEdit

jEdit Features General Combines the best functionality of Unix, Windows and MacOS text editors. Runs on any operating system with a Java 2 version 1.3 or higher virtual machine - this includes MacOS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows. Efficient keyboard shortcuts for everything Comprehensive online help Unlimited undo/redo Copy and paste with an unlimited number of clipboards (known as "registers") Register contents are saved across editing sessions "Kill ring" automatically remembers previously deleted text Rich set of keyboard commands for manipulating entire words, lines and paragraphs at a time "Markers" for remembering positions in files to return to later Marker locations are saved across editing sessions Any number of editor windows may be open, each window may be split into several areas, each area can view a different file. Alternatively, different locations in one file can be viewed in more than one area Multiple open windows and split windows ...

MPlayer

MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies.. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antiali...

Foobar2000

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Features Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA. Full unicode support. Advanced tagging capabilities. Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component (requires external commandline encoder executables for different output formats). ReplayGain support - both playback and calculation. Customizable keyboard shortcuts. Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player. Links : Homepage , Download , Additional components

Burn4Free

Top features: Burn4Free burn data (CD and DVD) and audio from different files types (WAV, FLAC, WavPack, WMA, M3U ( mp3 winamp compilation) , MP3 , MP2, MP1 OGG and CDA (normal cd audio tracks)) Low cost burning : you can burn and dvd copy - backup data - cd with only 2 clicks CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/DVD-RAM drives (SCSI - IDE/EIDE - USB) are supported Multi languages: many languages are available, choose your favorite Print Compilation, select layout, colors and items to print 4 way to burn your CD/DVD: you can choose the way you prefer to burn a CD/DVD (fly window, right click from explorer, internal add window, derag & drop Burn and save .ISO files DVD dual layer support (check Compatibility menu) Print Compilation Burn MP3 compilation Free online upgrades Easy Interface Easy to use ex: you can store all your movies 1900 + COMPATIBLE RECORDERS Links : Homepage , Download , Tutorial

CDBurnerXP Pro - Free CD Burner

The main features Writes all kind of mediums apart from double-layer DVD (follows in next version). Burning video-DVDs is limited. Burn audio-CDs with and without gaps between tracks Burn on the fly / Burn-proof Supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive, obtain track-information (ID3-tags) from Internet Burn and create ISO-files Customizeable with many settings Data verification after burn, create bootable discs (will be) available in multiple languages 100% freeware - no adware or restrictions bin/nrg->ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more! Operating systems: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server. All features in detail Create Data-CDs/DVDs burn any Data on CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD+RW/DVD-RW burn mp3-CDs to store many audio files on one single disc create bootable discs verify written Data automatically after burning process use either the internal browser to add your files or the intuitive Drop-Box to drag and drop files directly from ...

notepad2 - Yet another Notepad replacement...

The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. Notepad2 works on Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2k and XP. It is written by Florian Balmer Features Customizable syntax highlighting: HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, CSS, Perl/CGI C/C++, C#, Java, VB, Pascal, Assembler, SQL, Python, NSIS INI, REG, INF, BAT, DIFF Drag & drop text editing inside and outside Notepad2 Basic regular expression search and replace Useful word, lin...

Nvu - Web Authoring

Nvu Features WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor. Integrated file management via FTP. Simply login to your web site and navigate through your files, editing web pages on the fly, directly from your site. Reliable HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular browsers. Jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs. Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages a snap. Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates. The easiest-to-use, most powerful Web Authoring System available for Desktop Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh users. Links : Homepage , Download

Thunderbrid

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. Links : Homepage , Download

Audacity - Sound editor

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more! See the complete list of features . Links : Homepage , Download

VLC - Media Player

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVD s, VCD s, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. Links : Homepage , Download

Open Clipart - Drawing Together

This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons . If you'd like to help out, please join the mailing list , and review the archives . Links : Homepage , Download

GIMP - Bitmap Graphics

Introduction to the GIMP GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X . Features and Capabilities This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. Painting Full suite of painting tools including...

ClamWin - Opensource Antivirus

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP and 2003. ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge . It features: High detection rates for viruses and spyware; Scanning Scheduler; Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database. Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer; Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically. The latest version of Clamwin Free Antivirus is 0.91.1 Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware. ClamWin Free Antivirus includes Clam AntiVirus engine and uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation and is free (as in freedom) software. To find out more about GNU GPL , please visit the following link: Philosophy of the GNU Project...

Dia - Diagram Drawing

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape. It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG, and can print diagrams (including ones that span multiple pages). Links : Homepage , Download

FreeMind - free mind mapping software

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations. So you want to write a completely new metaphysics ? Why don't you use FreeMind? You have a tool at hand that remarkably resembles the tray slips of Robert Pirsig, described in his sequel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance called Lila. Do you want to refactor your essays in a similar way you would refactor software? Or do you want to keep personal knowledge base , which is easy to manage? Why don't you try FreeMind? Do you want to prioritize , know where you are, where you've been and where you are heading , as Stephen Covey would advise you? Have you tried FreeMind to keep track of all the things that are needed for that? Links : Homepage , ...

OpenOffice.org - Free Office Suite

OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing , spreadsheets , presentations , graphics , databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers . It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose Great software OpenOffice.org 2 is the result of over twenty years' software engineering. Designed from the start as a single piece of software, it has a consistency other products cannot match. A completely open development process means that anyone can report bugs, request new features, or enhance the software. ...