2bad,you'll just have to make the thread here. I'll bring everything ya want over from FH

cool,we'll be shouting at eachother bout which prog is better to do the same stunn, in no time

:shy: I kinda abandoned this thread thinking someone would post the FH stuff or something. Im confused

AntiVirus/Spyware

AVG Anti-Virus Antivirus
!Avast Antivirus
AntiVir Personal Edition Antivirus
Clam Win Free Antivirus
BitDefender Free Edition free anti-virus (also palm version available)
Bazooka Adware and Spyware scanner
Spybot Search & Destroy Spyware
Ad-Aware Spyware
SpywareBlaster Spyware
HijackThis essential tool for finding whats running on your PC
HijackThis Log Analyzer 1 - site to post up log file from HijackThis
HiJackThis! Log auto analyzer V2 newer site for info

Rootkits *New Catagory

Rootkit Revealer finds files that are hidden from windows (be warned Alcohol120 and Daemons tools use rootkit technology and show as false positives)
F-Secure BlackLight Free detection till May 1st - beta version
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool detects certain Rootkits
RootKit Hook Analyzer will check if there are any rootkits installed on your computer which hook the kernel system services
pcsupportadvisor.com Site with information about Rootkits and a proggie called
IceSword which is more advanced , but shows an aweful lot of hidden information

Firewalls/IP Blockers

Sygate Personal Firewall free personal firewall
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall
Safety.Net personal firewall
Peerguardian: IP filter program which can block IP's from certain anti-p2p companies
ProtoWall Ip-Block
The Blocklist Manager Ip-Block-List
XP-Antispy no talk home m$

Data/Password/Registry/StartUp - Delete/Recover/Encrypt/Clean/DeFrag

FreeUndelete data recovery program for deleted files
Eraser sensitive data eliminator
RegSeeker powerful registry cleaner
Easy Cleaner
GNU Privacy Guard complete and free replacement for PGP Encryption
TrueCrypt Creates a virtual encrypted disk/Encrypts entire hard disk
KeePass Password Safe easy-to-use password manager
Revelation from Snadboy Password Revealer
System Safety Monitor Monitor Reg changes etc.
RegMon what proggies are accessing what in real time (from sysinternals)
info system cleaner
Darik's Boot and Nuke formating utlity - destroys data from hard drives
CCleaner - crap cleaning utility
StartupControlPanel Control Startup Programs
StartUp Monitor Monitor Startups
Ranish Partition Manager Partition Manager
Dirms Defragmenter

Explorer Alternatives:

2xExplorer free explorer
geoshell explorer alternative
freeCommander Explorer Alternative

Office Replacements:

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Office Suite
ThizOffice Office Suite

system info:

System Information for Windows detailed information about computer properties
aida32 system analysis
Motherboard Monitor sensor readouts
Speedfan sensor control
CoolMon display system stats
Samurize pc stats
DVD Identifier reads out info
XP System Uptime Utility displays system uptime
Netmeter Bandwidth monitor
Nero Tools Drive Speed Infos
Kapsules Free Desktop Widgets
XP SysPad makes access to Windows system utilities

Tweak Utilities & GUI Enhancements:

nLite Windows Installation Customizer
BartPE bootable live windows CD/DVD
X-Setup Tweaker
M$ Powertoys ... yeah Billy G. Tools 4free
TweakUI MS Tweaking Utility
Copy Handler copy/move files and folders between different storage medias
CD Drive Tool system tray control for all CD drives
SlickRun floating command line utility for Windows
RockXP 3.0 RetrieveXP key , change it , save activation file , etc.
Windows Enabler Enables disabled controls and buttons in Windows
PowerMenu adds "Always On Top", "Minimize", "Priority" and "Transparency" sub menus to all..
FrontMotion replacement logon interface for Windows .
Bootskin change boot screen
LogonStudio change logon screen
DMEXBar new toolbar to the explorer with many nice features
FolderBox Displays additional folders in Explorer ,can view 2 folders in one window
Folder Size adds a new column to the Details view , showing size of folders
AveDesk add interactive icons and tools, called desklets to your desktop
LClock Longhorn Style Calander Proggie
rainlendar desktop calendar
sunbird stand alone calender
EarthClock Clock With Realtime view of the Earth
Citrus Alarm Clock Wake up to your own music
FlyakiteOSX Gives Windows the OSX look and feel
Dexpot Virtual desktop manager
ShirusuPad utility to have post-it like notes on your desktop
ATnotes another post-it note proggie
.ionEngine sort, categorize and move all your files .Strictly for power downloaders
Launchy cleans desktop - can launch your docs, folders, and bookmarks w/ just a few keystrokes!

Text/HTML/Clipboard/SFV/PDF - Editor/Tools & File Renamer/ID Tagging Tools

FART Find and Replace Text - Command Line util that can be used in batch files
APSC Spell Checker small little app that works well
3d Clipboard clipboard tool
JEdit Editor
pspad text editor
SciTE text editor
WinMerge Text file comparison and merging utility
Xint Text Editor
MAX's HTML Beauty++ HTML editor
Ant Renamer tool for renaming multiple files
Renamer File/MP3 tag & renamer
CLCL Clipboard Caching Utility
HAPedit Html Asp Php editor
ieSpell IE Spellchecker
NoteTab Light Notepad replacement , handy HTML editor
Nvu complete Web Authoring System
Easy MD5 Creator/Easy SFV Creator SFV
hkSFV SFV
Foxit Reader PDF reader/printer
foxit reader PDF viewer

Compression:

7-Zip nice WinRAR alternative
TUGZip powerful compression proggie

Router:

Freesco Free Router

Input Devices:

Ghost Mouse create Macro's for mouse movements
JoyToKey program joypad
PPJoy Joystick Driver for Classic Gaming Controllers (requires soldering iron)

Bin/Cue/ISO/etc.:

Daemon Tools image mounter
DiscDump create BIN/CUE/ISO files
Isobuster recover CD & DVD Data
CueMaster cue
Bin2iso Bin files to Iso files, no cue files needed

Screen Capture: *New Catagory

FastStone Screen Capture screen capture utility

Image/Comics/3-D Viewers & Editors:

The Gimp image manipulation - with many features of pay for proggies
CDisplay Sequential Comics Viewer
Picasa scan and organize all pics on your PC (from Google)
Artrage Nice painter program (Ver.1 is freeware)
Irfanview image viewer/editor/batch converter
FastStone Image Viewer image browser, converter and editor
FastStone MaxView tiny, fast and innovative image viewer
FastStone Photo Resizer image converter/resizer , many batch commands
Photoplus photo editor
UnFREEz Gif animator
StripFile GIF/JPEG/PNG/HTML optimization
Terragen Quality photorealistic landscape generator
blender 3D modeling software
Sodipodi Vector Image Editor
Inkscape Vector Image Editor
Paint.NET Image Manipulation Software - Needs .NET framework installed
XnView multimedia viewer, browser and converter.
RawShooter | essentials 2006 Free Image Workflow Application

Media Players:

WinAMP free basic player
Media Player Classic Media Player
Zinf Media Player
Xenorate Media Player
VideoLan player
Zoom Player player
Foobar player
MPlayer Media Player
GlobFX Flash Player
Quintessential Media Player
musikCube mp3 player for the modern generation

Audio Ripper/Extractors/Tools:

dBpowerAMP Converts anything for free if you have the codecs installed (says 30 day trial,sorta sneaky)
Exact Audio Copy audio extractor
CDex audio extractor
Monkey's Audio lossless audio
MP3Gain audio editor
The GodFather Rename,update Tags, create/merge play lists,encode-decode,etc.
VBRFix Utility for fixing mp3's (not strictly VBR)
MP3Ext useful shell extension for mp3 files
mp3tag mp3 tagger
MP3 Tagger
MP3BookHelper MP3 Tagger
MPEG Audio Collection MP3 Database Tool
DSP Winamp Plugin
Winamp Deskband run WinAMP and WMP through your taskbar
EvilLyrics Searches for lyrics as your song is played
Disclib CD Collection Organizer
BuzzMachine Free Audio Sequencer (ala FruityLoops)
Audacity Cross-Platform Sound Editor (ala Cool Edit)
myOrganizer Archives directory/file information , Browse contents of CDR's
AudioIcons Icons for audio files - dead link!
Lame with Cuesheet Input modified lame 3.90.3 - convert from cue sheets directly

Burning Software

Feurio CD Ripping & Burning
Burrrn burn software
BurnAtOnce burn software
cdburner burn software
DeepBurner burn software
Burn To The Brim make selection of files to optimally fill a CD a breeze.

Video/Mixed-Media Ripper/Extractors/Encoders/Tools

Dr DivXlets you create DivX video from any source
AotuGK tool for DivX / XviD backup utility.
Mediacoder extensive audio and video converter, has already replaced my various other programs and it is open source.
DVDShrink dvd shrinker
DVD Decrypter dvd extractor
IfoEdit DVDTool
SubCreator
Subsync tool for subtitling
Subtitle Workshop sub editor
DVDSubEdit make modifications to the subpics directly inside the VOB files
Gordian Knot extracting/encoding utilities
VirtualDub encoder
VirtualDubMod encoder
AviSynth create processing scripts
nandub encoder
VCDGear re-encoding and coverting movie files
Shorten Audio
AntMovieCatalog Media Database
DivFix watch partly downloaded movies
WinDV for capturing videos from DV device (camcorder)
GSpot supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
CDCheck prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files on CD/DVD's
DScaler Deinterlacer/Scaler converts a PC into a good-quality line doubler/scaler/upconverter machine!

Codecs/Filters/drivers:

AC3 filter ac3 decoder
ASPI 4.60 aspi
ATI Tool overvlock ATI gfx cards
DVD Inmatrix MPEG2 filter DVD Decoder Filter
ffdshow decoder
Flac - Lossless Audio Codec
XViD Koepi's MPEG4 Codec
Koepi's Media Development Homepage assorted media filters/tools
Real Alternative decoder
RefreshForce lock refreshrates
QuickTime Alternative decoder
Omega's Drivers Tweaked drivers for Nvidia/ATI cards.
Elecard mpeg2 filter for MPEG2 - Shareware
Speex Speech codec

Codec Packs:

Combined Community Codec Pack
Matroska Pack full pack for most common codecs or lite pack for just adding matroska support

Developer Tools

Resource Hacker View/Edit contents of 32 bit Windows apps
Java Sun Java Sun Environment
Ethereal software protocol development analyzer
MinGW GNU C/C++ libraries and compiler
Msys Linux style front to run on windows (ie. linux commandline and response)

Web Software:

Xampp easy ampp package (apache/mysql/php/perl) incl filezilla, mercury mail...
The Uniform Server. Web development system
AppServ Server software package
Blue's Port Tool simple universal TCP/UDP Client/Server
Abyss Webserver Webserver
WebMon Webpage Monitoring
Copernic meta search
Biet-O-Matic tool to watch and bid on auctions
Flash-Saving-Plugin
Klipfolio uses Klips to intelligently monitor remote data sources
Klipfarm free Klip directory

Browsers/Mail/RSS Clients/Readers:

Mozilla Firefox Browser
MozBackup Backup Mozilla preferances
Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Client
Opera Browser
Maxthon formerly MyIE2 - free web browser
Maxthon Plugins
Feedreader RSS and Atom reader
FreePOPs a POP3 daemon plus a LUA interpreter
POP Peeper email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar
Popfile Spam Sorter for email clients
FastStone 4in1 Browser Browser (IE front end) , Screen Capture Device , FTP and Web Server
Democracy Player grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds)

p2p/Usenet/FTP/Messenger apps

Bitcomet
Ed2k-Linker A Program to send ED2K-Links over LAN
NEW Ed2k-Linker rewritten added new features
HFS - Http File Server Swap files with friends
Lphant Compatible with emule/edonkey/BT *Warning Adware
Filezilla ftp client
Xnews Newsgroup client
GrabIt News Group Reader
SmartFTP ftp client
Miranda IM open-source multi protocol instant messenger client
Gaim Messenger
Simple Instant Messenger Messenger
TightVNC remotely control pc
RealVNC remotely control pc
PuTTY SSH client
YahooPops access yahoo mail via pop3
SSH Tectia SSH Client
Trillian 3.1 Free Messenger Client

Download Managers

LeechGet Download Client - free version limited to 8 concurrent downloads*
Net Transport Download Manager
Wackget Download Manager
Star Downloader Free and pay for versions available
Free Download Manager full-featured download accelerator and manager
HTTrack Offline Browser - site downloader

Games

Visual Pinball
FuturePinball
Simple Sudoku (free for home/private use)
Battle for Wesnoth turn based stragtegy game
Cube First Person Shooter
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Free Multi-Player FPS
Americas Army Free Online Multi-Player
96kB FPS,.kkrieger and free 3D engine for presentations
Chromatron A free game of laser beams and mirrors
Trackmania Nations fun racing game
Turbo Cars (3.7MB) cool race track game - Direct download link
Runescape free rpg game
Xenon 2000 Great looking vertical shooter - Cheats available

Emulators *New Catagory

ZSNES Super Nintendo emulator
ScummVMrun certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games*
DOSBox DOS-emulator*

*There are lots of sites with old games that will run in these, Home of the Underdogs (one of the best) is having domain name problems at the moment but can be reached at http://209.120.136.195

IRC

HydraIRC open source IRC Client
X-Chat 2 unofficial free X-Chat (UNIX IRC client) build for Windows

Portable Freeware

Portable Thunderbird carry your whole email client and all your contacts with you in your pocket
Portable Firefox take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.
The Core Pocket Media Player media player for Palm OS-based and Windows CE / Windows Mobile-based devices.
PocketDivXEncoder encode any video clip with optimized parameters for handled devices
Portable Opera take Opera along with a USB-Stick / USB Flashdrive
Portable Gaim take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. The Off-the-record plugin is also included for secure, encrypted messaging.
DeepBurner Portable Just plug your flash and burn your disks, using your favorite DeepBurner.

Open Source Compilation

GNUWin II free software and Open Source software, over 50 free proggies on one ISO
Opensource-CD almost 200 programs on one ISO Original non-translated page
Ultimate Boot CD repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem (Windows Version)
Ultimate Boot CD many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD (all OS)


Sites/Lists With Freeware

Who needs to pirate software with a list like this? topic says it all
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
Extended list 36 more utilities
Wingeek
Framasoft
Finally Free
Portable Freeware Collection
gentoo-portage Linux Freeware
FreewareWEB
freeDOWNLOADScenter not all free
Pricelessware Best Freeware voted by Usenet users - nice site
Merijn.org free security apps by the creator of HijackThis
Opensourcewindows More cool stuff , make sure you check out page 2

Other Interesting Sites/Projects

ReactOS The ReactOS? project is dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows? XP compatible operating system.

FART Find and Replace Text - Command Line util that can be used in batch files

You should try out VLC media player. It supports every file format except RM and doesn't require codecs.