S_Doherty

Well, here it is...the first (I think) unofficial freeware alternatives list on this forum....in here you will NOT find any illegal software, cracks, serials, cd/dvd copying tools...if anyone has any other freeware programs that they would like to add...feel free Enjoy....

Network Tools:

Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread...&threadid=2400
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/


Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard – (free online site) http://spywareguard.com/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/de...plication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/

System Information and monitoring:
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...ng=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
Sysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html

Web browsers:
Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com
Opera – www.opera.com
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net

S_Doherty

Has anyone found this useful?

Jas420221

For N00bs it sure is. Most of this stuff, I would think, people already know about. Nice post!!

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b3n

You should have a 'Media Players' list there. Nice list BTW

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17" LCD - 1280x1024@75hz

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Verrona

N also Firewalls, there r a few posts bout Firewalls.

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dlaery

I found it useful.

Thanks!

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red onion

Easyoffice-http://www.e-press.com/

System Information-http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Graphics Viewing-www.irfanview.com/
Paint Replacement-http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Photoshop Replacement-www.gimp.org/
PDF Creator-http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Firewall-http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
File Zipper-www.zipgenius.it/
CD Ripper/Music Format Converter-www.dbpoweramp.com/
Wallpaper Changer-http://www.kanasolution.cjb.net/
MP3 Player-http://quinnware.com/

S_Doherty

Thanks red onion those are some more useful tools in todays computer world...think i'll check out the wallpaperchanger

red onion

Glad I could help. Kanasolution's products are very good stuff; I use their MD5 checker, and character map as well.

Verrona

Thats wot we like 2 c, some good old fashioned helping.

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