Free, Useful Programs (v2)

[kainashi]

post anything you think should be added along with category and maybe i'll add it.

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Anti-Virus:
AVG - http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
avast! - http://www.avast.com/
Avira AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-1...e-Edition.html
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Microsoft Security Essentials - http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Anti-Spyware:
Ad-aware SE Personal - http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-...e_personal.php
Hijackthis - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Interne...jackThis.shtml
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
Super AntiSpyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/

Application Customizations:
A-Patch for Windows Live, MSN, and Yahoo Messengers - http://apatch.org/
AIM Ad Hack - http://www.aimadhack.net/

Audio Editing:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
ACID Xpress - http://www.acidplanet.com/downloads/xpress/
TiMidity - http://timidity.sourceforge.net/

Audio Players:
Amarok - http://amarok.kde.org/
Banshee (Linux/OS X) - http://banshee-project.org/
foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Songbird - http://getsongbird.com/


Defrag Software:
Defraggler - http://www.defraggler.com/

Emulation (OS)
VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

File Conversion:
Zamzar - http://www.zamzar.com/

Firewalls:
Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com
Outpost Firewall Free http://free.agnitum.com/
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
FireFTP - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
FTP Wanderer - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.co..._wanderer.html

Image Editing/Design:
Paint .NET - http://www.getpaint.net
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/

Image Viewers:
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/en/xnview.html

Instant Messengers:
Digsby - http://www.digsby.com/ (be sure to opt out of the ask.com crap/other stuff at the end. very good multi-protocol im client besides that.)
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pidgin (formerly gaim) - http://pidgin.im/

IRC Clients:
ChatZilla - http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/
mIRC - http://www.mirc.com
XChat - http://xchat.org/

Mail Programs:
Mozilla Thunderbird - http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/
Evolution (Windows) - http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/

Office Applications:
AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

PDF Utilities:
Cool PDF Reader - http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html
Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
PDF-XChange Viewer - http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_...ls/pdfx_viewer

Programming/Text Editors:
Eclipse - www.eclipse.org
Geany - www.geany.org
Netbeans - www.netbeans.org
Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
TextPad - http://www.textpad.com/

Remote Desktop:
TeamViewer - http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx

System Information & Monitoring:
Blackbox - http://blackbox.hardwaremania.com/en/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
GPU-Z - http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/
HWMonitor - http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
Process Explorer - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb896653.aspx
Speccy - http://www.piriform.com/speccy
System Explorer - http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/

System Tools:
Autoruns - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

Video and Audio Codecs:
CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) - http://www.cccp-project.net/
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab...rom_/index.php
XviD codec - http://www.xvid.org/Xvid-Codec.2.0.html

Video Editing/Conversion:
LinCoder - http://lincoder.sourceforge.net/

Video Players:
BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
GOMPlayer - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
Media Player Classic - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...er_Classic.htm
Media Player Classic Home Cinema - http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
MPlayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
VLC Media Player - http://www.videolan.org/

Web Browsers:
Apple Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/
Google Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
Opera - http://www.opera.com/
Seamonkey - http://www.seamonkey-project.org/