Sanchez Posted November 26, 2006 Posted November 26, 2006 Adware/Spyware Removers Windows Hitman Pro (2.5.3) *Recommended* Adaware SE Personal Free Edition - 2.27MB Spybot Search & Destory - 4.15MB Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta 2 - 6.23MB Anti Virus Windows Avast! 4 Home Free Edition -11.54MB Codec Packs Windows Combined Community Codec Pack - 5.5MB FFDShow - 3.4MB Firewall Windows Zonealarm Free Edition - 6.34MB Torrent Clients Multi Platform Azureus (2.5.0.0) - 8.4MB Windows uTorrent (1.6) - 170KB *Recommended* Chat Clients Multi Platform GAIM(1.5.0) - Various Sizes Windows Miranda IM (0.5.1) - 1.03MB Trillian (3.1) - 8.6MB*Recommended* Audio Players Multi Platform Quicktime + iTunes 7 - 35.1MB Windows Winamp (5.32) 5.6MB *Recommended* Windows Media Player 11 - 25MB Foobar2000 (0.9.4.1) 1.6MB Linux Amarok (1.4.4) - Various Sizes Video Players Multi Platform VLC Player (0.85) - Varied Sizes MPlayer (Linux/Windows) Windows Media Player Classic (6.4.9.0) - 2.1MB *Recommended* Internet Browsers Multi Platform Firefox (2.0) - 5.6MB *Recommended* Opera (9.02) - 6.3MB Windows Slimbrowser (4.08) - 1.8MB (De)compression Windows 7-Zip (4.42) - 0.8MB I shall update this tomorrow with some more categories, feel free to suggest programs and categories.
Mr_Odwin Posted November 27, 2006 Posted November 27, 2006 Personally I would recommend Foobar2000 over WinAmp, but that's just me. I would suggest using notepad2 over notepad. I've even replaced the notepad.exe on my comp with it. There are more I'd say, but I'm feeling lazy.
Bogbas Posted November 27, 2006 Posted November 27, 2006 The antivirus and firewall sections needs more software. And does zonealarm work with the nintendo wifi dongle? Few months ago it didn't. Anyhow, firewalls: Sunbelt kerio personal firewall: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio-Download.cfm It has 30 day trial period, after which it shuts down some features. Like web- filtering and ad blocking. They're mostly useless, the only feature that I would've liked to have after 30 days is gateway mode. Jetico v 1.0 freeware http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htm It's a resource friendly and small firewall. But it's a total bitch to configure. It's very effective though. I wouldn't recommend it unless you know pretty much about computers and networks. Comodo http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/ I don't know much about this. It requires a free registration. But it's quite good from what I've heard. For windows users: quicktime and real alternative http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm Real alternative is much better than realplayer. And the official quicktime has broken my system more than once (thanks a lot, apple! ) And I would put vlc as the recommended video player. Codec packs usually cause more problems than they solve. CCCP looks ok, but it's for mainly anime? VLC is fine if one's just viewing video's. For encoding one'd need to install the needed codec. Antivirus AVG free 7.5 http://free.grisoft.com/
Marshmellow Posted November 28, 2006 Posted November 28, 2006 CCleaner This was posted by Arab Freak a while ago I downloaded it on my pc got rid of half a gig at least. Downloaded on me mum's sadly got rid of 8gb... no joke very pathetic but extremely good program. Download
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