Freeware Alternative List (2009/10)

BonkEnc is a free audio converter and CD ripper which integrates various popular formats and encoders. It currently supports MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and Bonk files.

BonkEnc makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3v2 or Vorbis comment tags.

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3,512 · October 22, 2009

Programming:

Diffuse - http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side and gives users the ability to manually adjust line-matching and directly edit files. Diffuse can also retrieve revisions of files from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion, and SVK repositories for comparison and merging.

3,512 · October 26, 2009

System Tools:

RegCool - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registr...k/RegCool.shtml

RegCool is a full-featured Registry editor and manager. In addition to all the standard features, RegCool adds a variety of powerful features that allow you to work faster and more efficient with registry related tasks.

RegCool enables you to copy, cut, paste, move, delete, and rename registry keys and values.It offers an explorer style; interface remote Registry editing; .reg and hive (Regedit and RegEdt32 compatible) file editing; import, export, backup, and restore functionality; and flexible property pages for setting keys and values.

An addressbar allows you to access registry keys and values quickly. Especially practical is the option to compare various registries.

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3,512 · October 28, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

PeerBlock - http://www.peerblock.com/

The PeerBlock application was developed to be a new version (aka a "fork") of the popular Peer Guardian 2 software. It blocks "known bad" computers from accessing yours, for example governments, corporate entities, and those flagged for anti-p2p activities.

Peer Block maintains the functionality of the original Peer Guardian 2 program, but includes fixes for various issues that remain unaddressed in the latest (~2 year old) version of PG2.

PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either.

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October 29, 2009

Are there any genuinely good alternatives to Nero please?

I used to use Nero 7 purely to wipe my CD-RWS before burning MP3 CDs in iTunes - I'm now trying InfraRecorder as it was free and highly recommended, but the wipe time has gone from about 5 seconds in Nero, to about 5 minutes with this program (and counting!) so was wondering if there are any decent alternatives.

Thanks!

1,286 · October 29, 2009

CDBurnerXP?

3,512 · October 31, 2009

Are there any genuinely good alternatives to Nero please?

Ashampoo has a quick erase option. It's interface is similar to Nero Express. You can find the free version here.

Desktop Enhancements:

VistaSwitcher - http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html

VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks with their names and preview snapshots and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch to a task, minimize, maximize, restore the main window or close the process.

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3,098 · November 3, 2009

Are there any genuinely good alternatives to Nero please?

I use ImgBurn and it quick erases in seconds.

How to get there:

Tools -> Drive ->Erase Disc -> Quick

3,512 · November 3, 2009

I have a huge list of programs waiting to be added to this list.

So if you're feeling bored, send me a PM and I'll give you a link to a program to post here. :p

I also built a list of all the programs added so far, to make it easier to figure out if a program has already been suggested or not.

3D Graphics:

Anti-Virus:

Anti-Spyware:

KeyScrambler Personal - http://www.qfxsoftware.com/products.htm

Returnil Virtual System - http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/products

SafeSpace - http://www.artificialdynamics.com/content/...al-edition.aspx

Audio Creation:

Audio Players:

MusicBee - http://www.getmusicbee.com/

Radio Sure - http://www.radiosure.com/

Audio Tools and Converters:

Audio_Grail - http://majorgeeks.com/AudioGrail_d4342.html (Fixed link)

BonkEnc - http://www.bonkenc.org/index.php

Backup and Synchronization:

EASEUS Todo Backup - http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/

LojiklSweep - http://www.fungusware.com/LojiklSweep/Main.aspx

Mailstore - http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

CD/DVD Burning/Cover Creation:

BurnAware Free - http://www.burnaware.com

Nero 9 Free - http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php

Checksum Utilities:

Compression / Decompression:

ArcConvert - http://archivconvert.sourceforge.net/

Defrag Software:

Desktop Enhancements:

Jumplist Launcher - http://en.www.ali.dj/jumplist-launcher/

VistaSwitcher - http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html

Wallpaperizer - http://www.gardenerofthoughts.org/ideas/wa...rizer/index.htm

Download Managers:

Educational Utilities:

Convert for Windows - http://joshmadison.com/software/convert-for-windows/

Encryption and Data Security:

DiskCryptor - http://diskcryptor.net/index.php/DiskCryptor_en

R-Crypto - http://www.data-security-software.com/

File Managers:

FlexTK Express - http://www.flexense.com/flextk/

File Tools: (New Category)

WinDirStat - http://windirstat.info/

File Repair and Recovery:

Firewalls:

Online Armor Free - http://www.tallemu.com/free-firewall-prote...n-software.html

PCTools Firewall - http://www.pctools.com/firewall/

Windows7 Firewall Control - http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html

FTP Clients:

FTP Servers:

Cerberus FTP Server - http://www.cerberusftp.com/download.html

HTML Editors:

Image Editing and Design:

Image Tools and Converters:

ImageKonverter - http://imagekonverter.sourceforge.net/

Microsoft Image Composite Editor - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/red...groups/ivm/ICE/

ZScreen - http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/

Image Viewers:

Imgv - http://imgv.sourceforge.net/

Instant Messengers:

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:

IRC Clients:

Mail Programs:

eMailaya - http://www.emailaya.com/

Mail Spam Filters:

Network Tools:

AnalogX Netstat Live - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/N...sl/Freeware.htm

Office Application:

Partition Managers and Imaging Tools:

PDF Utilities:

PDFill Free Tools - http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

Programming:

Diffuse - http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/

TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

RSS Readers:

FeedDemon - http://www.newsgator.com/individuals/feeddemon/default.aspx

Small Business:

FreeMind - http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

OpenProj - http://openproj.org/

uTodo - http://veetosoft.com/uTodo.html#features

Visifire - http://visifire.com/

System Information and Monitoring:

Yet Another Process Monitor (YAPM) - http://yaprocmon.sourceforge.net/

System Tools:

ClickCutter - http://www.clickcutter.com/

RegCool - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registr...k/RegCool.shtml

Types - http://sourceforge.net/projects/types/

Windows SteadyState - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ss/default.mspx

Video and Audio Codecs:

Video Players:

Video Tools and Converters:

FFCoder - http://teejee2008.wordpress.com/ffcoder/

Virtual Drives:

ImDisk - http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk

Virtual Machines and Emulators:

Web Browsers:

ChomePlus - http://www.chromeplus.org/

Web Servers:

Webcam Software:

General Utilities and Other Applications:

Duplicate Cleaner - http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/content/duplicate-cleaner

ESET SysInspector - http://www.eset.com/download/sysinspector.php

JauntePE (JPE) - http://sites.google.com/site/jauntepe/Home

MojoPac - http://www.mojopac.com/

PatchWise Free - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/P...Wise-Free.shtml

PeerBlock - http://www.peerblock.com/

SUMo - http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System...eous/SUMo.shtml (Fixed link)

RightLoad - http://rightload.org/index.php/download.html

Programs to Move:

TeraCopy -> to File Tools

Xinorbis -> to File Tools

Programs to Remove:

IOBit Security 360 - https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=841206

PeerGuardian - There is a new program based off PeerGuardian called PeerBlock

Thanks for the program submissions:

ajua, biorK, BlueFlame, Growled, jnr, lamchopz, Skullpture, th3rEsa, Windbag, yxz

1,286 · November 3, 2009

SUMo: I would propose the <a href="http://www.< < spam > >.com/index.php?sumo" target="_blank">< < spam > >.com</a> link.

RichCopy: Is not a file manager either.

:)

edit: WTF, why does the board software hide kcsoft ware s.com?

3,512 · November 3, 2009

I see the spam filter got you too :p

I'll make a note for RichCopy next time. I'll also move Free Disk Analyzer, SequoiaView, and SpaceSniffer into File Tools.

General Utilities and Other Applications:

RealWorld Cursor Editor - http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-maker

RealWorld Cursor Editor can create and edit static and animated Windows cursors. Cursors are created from images using a simple wizard.

Images in cursors can be modified by drawing tools such as Lines, Curves, Rectangles, or Ellipses. A drag-and-drop based interface allows users to easily reorder, duplicate, or append frames to animated cursors.

RealWorld Cursor Editor contains several predefined filters covering color corrections, softening, sharpening, motion blur and other effects.Selected filters (for example drop shadow) can be applied on multiple images at once.

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3,512 · November 6, 2009

Image Tools and Converters:

Foto-Mosaik-Edda - http://www.sixdots.de/mosaik/en/

With Foto-Mosaik-Edda you can create mosaic-pictures, which are composed of many small pictures (tiles), from your own photos.

The single pictures will be analysed and copied into one or more databases. You can use your holiday photos, pictures of the last family celebration or even take over whole picture-CDs into the database.

A simple to use wizard will guide you through the program and will turn the creation of your own photo-mosaic into a piece of cake. Amaze others with this extraordinary effect.

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3,512 · November 9, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

Efficient Diary - http://www.efficientdiary.com/

Efficient Diary is an elegant, easy-to-use and powerful electronic diary software package.

With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding entries! The product has a strong edit function similar to that of Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures, emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color, background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be rich and colorful.

The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA; besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private information is fully protected.

Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries, etc.

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3,512 · November 12, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) - http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/

The Secunia Software Inspector will inspect your operating system and software for insecure versions and missing security updates. A default inspection normally lasts 5-40 seconds, while a thorough inspection may take several minutes.

The Secunia PSI detects installed software and categorises your software as either Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Effectively enabling you to focus your attention on software installations where more secure versions are available from the vendors.

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3,512 · November 15, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

Universal Viewer - http://www.uvviewsoft.com/

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:

Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts
Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers
Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML PDF XML MHT...
Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins
MS Office: all file types of MS Office (if installed): DOC DOCX XLS PPT...
Converters: some types can be viewed as plain text: DOC DOCX PDF PPT ODT...

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3,512 · November 18, 2009

Virtual Machines and Emulators:

ScummVM - http://www.scummvm.org/

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins; Westwood Studios' The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more.

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3,512 · November 21, 2009

I'm making a new category called Information Management / Catalogs. It will be used for things like notes, address books, todo lists, calendars, etc. It will also be used for catalogs like CD / DVD, movies, etc.

Information Management / Catalogs:

CintaNotes - http://cintanotes.com/

CintaNotes is your essential assistant in the daily task of organizing information, such as your own thoughts and ideas, article excerpts, blog postings, quotes from famous people, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia entries, you name it.

It lets you quickly jot down and tag any useful text that you come across. Unlike browser-based tools like Google Notebook, CintaNotes does not require a web browser to work: the text-clipping "magic" works in any application that can copy text to clipboard!

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3,512 · November 24, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) - http://www.ubcd4win.com/

UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows?. Some of the tools inlcuded are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE?. Bart's PE? builds a Windows? "pre-install" environment CD, basically a simple Windows? XP booted from CD. UBCD4Win includes network support and allows you the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc.

3,512 · November 27, 2009

Video Tools and Converters:

Any Video Converter Free - http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Any Video Converter is a professional video converter which can convert video files from various formats with fast converting speed and excellent video quality . It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for iPod/PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the output.

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3,512 · December 1, 2009

Anti-Virus:

Panda Cloud Antivirus - http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/

Panda Cloud Antivirus, the first free cloud-based antivirus thin-client. It consists of a lightweight antivirus agent that is connected in real-time to PandaLabs' online Collective Intelligence servers to protect faster against the newest malware variants while barely impacting PC performance. It is extremely light as all the work is done online in the cloud.

Thanks to Panda Security's Collective Intelligence malware and goodware online database, Panda Cloud Antivirus detects more malware than traditional signature-based solutions which take longer to detect the most recent, and therefore most dangerous, variants.

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3,512 · December 3, 2009

General Utilities and Other Applications:

Precision Helper - http://www.be-precision.com/products/precision-helper/

Tool for creating and managing help projects. It focuses on the organization of existing html files, xml files, scripts, images and other resources so that the help author has the best overview of his project.

Precision Helper works natively with the Microsoft HTML Help projects format (HHP) and allows to publish resulting help to the CHM, WebHelp, PDF and the single html document formats.

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3,512 · December 6, 2009

Desktop Enhancements:

Dexpot - http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=produkt

Dexpot will increase the area of your screen by up to 20 times. It creates several Virtual Desktops to work easier and faster with many running applications on Windows systems.

Every virtual Desktop is independent from the others and can have individual wallpaper, resolution, and icons. Desktops can be switched via hotkey, trayicon, the special Desktop Manager or an automatic slideshow.

Dexpot allows you to move and copy windows among the desktops at any time with an easy to use unified interface, that also offers control over numerous extended features like password protection, transparency, window rules, and profiles.

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1,053 · December 7, 2009

Alexander, VistaSwitcher has been mentioned on the MaximumPC web site.

December 9, 2009

Hi. A little fix. Launchonfly isn?t free anymore. It?s shareware now.

3,512 · December 9, 2009

Hi. A little fix. Launchonfly isn?t free anymore. It?s shareware now.

There's an older freeware version available on the downloads page.

http://arturdev.com/index.php?section=down

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