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MediaCD 3.5 is a complete solution for creating customized, autorun-enabled media discs for archival or distriubtion. It is aimed at digital media enthusiasts and video production professionals, but can be used by anyone for a variety of purposes:

* Create a customized collection of music videos and songs by your favorite artist.

* Distribute discs of promotional or informational videos about your business and its products.

* Quickly produce discs containing educational or training videos.

* Create albums of videos and pictures of your family.

3,512 · May 2, 2006

For anti-spyware -
Spywaredoctor 3.8 - http://www.download.com/Spyware-Doctor/300...4-10293212.html

Spyware Doctor isn't freeware.

UDPixel http://udpix.free.fr/

Simple app which helps to locate and fix stuck / dead pixels.

18,941 · May 2, 2006

The free edition of Spyware Doctor 3.2.1.359 is here :

http://www.klitetools.com/comments.php?id=...=Spyware+Doctor

The official site download does NOT clean spyware, it is scan only. This free version of Spyware Doctor ONLY CAN scan and remove spywares. The other features (OnGuard, Immunize, Real-time protection, etc) are only for paid version. The same free version was posted on Download.com too long time ago but disappeared very fast .

http://softvb.com/Soft/security/spywareremovaltools/Spyware%20Doctor%20Free%20Edition%203.2.1.359.rar

4,972 · May 2, 2006

Desktop Enhancements

Qliner hotkeys http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/default.htm

* Smart Application Launching

* Smart Application Instance Switching

* Drag and Drop Configuration using an Onscreen Keyboard

* Support for 100+ International Keyboards (making it a handy tool for international keyboard users).

* Support for Dvorak keyboards

* Support for laptop or other Keyboard layouts.

* Volume Control tool

* Clock tool

* Optionally maps Caps Lock key to Window key (handy if your keyboard does not have a Windows key or if you just hate the default bahavior of Caps Lock)

22,661 · May 2, 2006

HDCleaner - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secu...HDCleaner.shtml - link is dead

Homepage: http://home.tiscali.de/zdata/hdcleaner_e.htm

Proper link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secu...HDCleaner.shtml

4,972 · May 3, 2006

General Utilities And Other Applications

Fab's Autobackup http://fabs.dyndns.org/autobackup/index-en.htm

Fab's Autobackup is a program wich allows users to backup and restore personal settings like emails, documents, internet browser bookmarks... You can use it as Windows PE plugin (developped for Bart's PE Builder) and as a standalone program for Windows.

Here are the items handled by the actual version 2.0 for backup and restoration:

Shared Documents

My Documents folder

User's Windows desktop's content (Files, Shortcuts, Wallpaper)

Internet Explorer's Favorites

Internet Explorer cookies (this option is available only with Win PE version)

Outlook Express messages and settings

Wab Adress Book (used by Outlook Express to store your contacts)

Office Outlook PST file (contains your messages, contacts...)

Windows Activation file (if you install Windows XP over 3 times, you won't have to phone MS to reactivate it)

Office XP/2003 activation files

Opera bookmarks, settings and cache

Mozilla Firefox bookmarks, settings and cache

Mozilla Thunderbird profiles

Lotus Notes "Data" foldes (users id's and settings)

Rasphone.pbk file (internet dialup settings, except logins and passwords)

Windows fonts folder (usefull to keep special fonts)

TCP/IP parameters (only tested under Windows XP)

4,972 · May 3, 2006

General Utilities And Other Applications

RockXP http://korben.othersystem.net/web/RockXP.html

RockXP allows you to retrieve and change your XP product key that you used when you installed Windows XP. This can come in very handy if you need to reinstall but have misplaced or lost the CD cover with the serial sticker. In addition, the program also lets you save the product activation to a file, enables you to recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage, recover your Microsoft Windows Products keys and have password generator RockXP 3.0 allows you to : - To retrieve and change your XP Key - To retrieve all Microsoft Products keys - To save your XP activation file - To retrieve your lost XP system passwords - To retrieve your lost RAS (Remote Access Settings) passwords - And to generate new passwords.

2,807 · May 3, 2006

Rename master - http://www.joejoesoft.com/rm.php Should be in utilities.

9,118 · May 3, 2006

Nvidia Gelato is now free

http://www.nvidia.com/page/gelato.html

4,972 · May 3, 2006

General Utilities And Other Applications

RunWithParameters http://rwparam.whyeye.org/

Tiny tool, which allows running any application with a parameter. Instead of going to the Command Prompt, users can simply right-click an application and enter the parameters in the pop-up window.

Features:

? integrates into Explorer

? remembers last parameters per application

? supports EXE, BAT, CMD, COM, SCR, AHK, BTM

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21,678 · May 3, 2006

Simon. I just want to congratulate you in public. You have been taking care of this list a lot better than I did at its beggining. (Y)

4,972 · May 5, 2006

General Utilities And Other Applications

Doc Convertor http://www.dbtalk.net/doc-convertor/

* Convert your source code / documents to the following formats :

* HTML

* PDF

* BMP

* PNG

* JPG

* Lotus

* SVG

* QUATTRO Pro

* Excel

* Automatically recognize and highlight 30+ formats, including html, css, php, C/C++, C#, ASP, VB6, Pascal, Perl, SQL and more!

* Print / Create advanced reports using a state-of-the-art printing / report engine

* Convert multiple files at once.

* 100% Free. No spyware. No adware.

4,972 · May 6, 2006

Video tools & converters

alltoavi http://alltoavi.sourceforge.net/

Anime video converter. This project is a tool to convert ogm and mkv files to avi, with subtitle and audio track selection, video resizing, bitrate selection and codec selection. It is centered around mencoder, with a commandline tool as well as a GUI for Window

I First decided to do this after countless of animes became backlogs on my server' HDD simply because i cannot get bothered converting it using tools like virtualdubmod, it simply take way too much time and HDD Space.

4,972 · May 7, 2006

General Utilities And Other Applications

Screenweaver http://screenweaver.org/index.php?option=c...id=28&Itemid=78

With Screenweaver 3 you can make true desktop applications from Flash files. Screenweaver does so, by providing an executable file (the engine) that wraps the Flash player ActiveX. This approach allows for total control over the appearance and behaviour of your Flash desktop application (unlike the default stand-alone projector)

Screen savers are much like regular Windows applications. They differ in extension (scr instead of exe) and they should display specific behaviour when launched with certain command line arguments. The Screenweaver engine comes with a special mode for acting as a screen saver.

4,972 · May 7, 2006

Network Tools

Remote Reboot http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/05/r...ur-network.html

May 8, 2006

Anti-Spyware

You might want to change Microsoft Anti-Spyware to Windows Defender.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx

The old link will automatically redirect anyway.

May 9, 2006

Just wondering, is there a topic like this one but for software that isn't freeware? Just curious. I do like this freeware list - it's how I found Gigaget. I decided to give it a go, as a change to GetRight Pro.

So much software out there though. It's overwhelming, and hard, to know what is the right one to use.

May 9, 2006

Is there a reason the Visual Studio Express tools aren't on the list. They are probably some of the best IDE's out there.

May 9, 2006

Just tried out Free Download Manager - I like it. I especially liked how it's drop box (the lil box thing in the corner of ya screen) can be turned off (FlashGet and Gigaget didn't have this). Didn't notice it's speed potential though (first file i downloaded with it wasn't that big).

Good topic this one is.

8,020 · May 9, 2006

Should the list include only spyware-free and very freeware software. Some of the programs encountered in the list has spyware in it. Good idea to take them down or put a note next to the software to say that it has spyware.

4,972 · May 10, 2006

Video Tools?....maybe, this is stuff for VJ'ing, that is - ambient video presentations

Whorld http://whorld.org/

beatharness http://www.beatharness.com/

Balthers Graphic Groove Box http://www.balther.dk/gboxenter.html

Gephex http://www.gephex.org/index.php

EffecTV http://pbx.mine.nu/effectv/

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