Best Free Software for Windows(old version)

On the notebook hardware control program, the original cpu speed when plugged in was set at dynamic switching, it was running at around 780mhz, i turned it to max performance and it said about 1800mhz (in red letters), is it safe to turn it to max performance just while its plugged in? If so, what should i set it for while using battery. Thanks

 

This is not the place to ask this question (go to HP/compaq forum).
Running the CPU at max speed will increase its temperature. You must be extremely picky if you can notice the delay with the dynamic mode, which is recommended.

 

KeePass - a VERY SECURE password manager, no install necessary
http://keepass.sourceforge.net

XMouse - handy utility to utilize the 4th and 5th buttons of your Intelli-mouse
http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

StrokeIt - for mouse gestures
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

Eclipse - TOP IDE for JAVA ... and a lot other
http://www.eclipse.org/

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express - Freeware top-class IDE (C++, C#, VB.NET)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

MinGW - minimalistic GCC for Windows
http://www.mingw.org/

NSIS - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, minimalistic installer creator for Windows
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

Programmer's Notepad - resource light notepad replacement
http://www.pnotepad.org/

Miranda IM - multiprotocol IM, no install necessary
http://www.miranda-im.org/

Skype - VoIP, no install necessary
http://www.skype.com/

XnView - Image Viewer/converter
http://www.xnview.com/

Process Explorer - Task manager replacement from Sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Virtual CloneDrive - Virtual CDRom to load almost any type of CD images
http://www.elby.ch/products/clone_dvd/manual/drive.html

RocketDock - Highly efficient, processor light dock!!!
http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock

 

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp I've used several of these and they work great.

 

Oh Sorry about that Im New to the forums, Thanks for answering my question though. I understand it now, wasnt sure what dynamic mode meant before but after playing around with the software it makes better sense.

 

DiGit_S Regarding ......... "Nvu: WYSIWYG HTML editor "

1) is it integrated with FireFox?

2) the nvu.com web site lists a version that is over a year old, V1.0. Is there a later version to download?

Thanks

 

uTorrent
I was a strong supporter of Bittornado for a long time, but uTorrent has seriously impressed me as a .torrent client. It'll organize and store all .torrent files (So I was able to get rid of my Torrent folder that held just .torrent files), it allows for you to set the priority of files within a torrent and the bandwidth priority of individual torrents. It has a speed wizard to help you chose the best max download/upload/connections to maximize speeds, and allows you to limit upload/download on the fly to free up bandwidth. With all the features of uTorrent, it's amazing how little CPU it uses.

I'm, of course, running uTorrent right now and it's managing 4 .torrents and it's mem usage is only 7,768 K!

 

What are the benefits of downloading the Installation Program over the Standalone package and vice versa?

 

i got Malware Killer it has lots of tools try it
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm
contains:
nod32
ad-aware
spybot 1.4 search n destroy
CWShredder
SpywareBlaster
and couple more .

 

Launchy
A great prog launcher I'm just starting to use. I may be getting rid of my menus and using this once I get comfortable with it.

http://www.launchy.net/

 

Thanks for this tip!

Just installed Launchy, and so far, it seems excellent!

 

No one seems to have mentioned a free partitioning software.

GParted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

It is an ISO of a free partitioning software. Partitions Linux partitions and looks like Partition Magic.

Abiword: http://www.abisource.com/

Reads and writes word docs and other formats. Better than Wordpad and smaller than Open Office and Microsoft Word and it is free.

And I can't even believe no one has mentioned this piece of very usefull software.

nLite: http://www.nliteos.com/

If you have a full Windows XP CD or Windows 2000, make an unattended installation CD easily. Great for constant reinstalls, customizes the installation for your needs according to how you want it and if you want you can even create scripts to install software automatically for you, makes the installation of Windows XP plus the drivers compressed into popping in the CD and hitting the "any key".

 

Im looking for a video program that would let me combine clips from different movies, add music and basic visual effects, like slow motion. Does a program like this exist for free?

 

Thanks for the link to nLite! That looks like exactly what I've been looking for! I've been wanting to create an un-attended Windows XP install, but I've not had the will to do so (always looked like it would take to much effort ).

Does GParted work for all partitions (NTFS, FAT, FAT32)? I'm interested in partition software like that but for Windows environments.

Thanks!

 

Which is better AVG or avast ? Why? They're both free, but which has better performance and accurate detection rating?

 

Launchy is great! thanks for the link!

 

If there is someone that always works with flash, there is one new program. It's called flash develop. I put some links to people interesed.
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/
http://www.osflash.org/
I haven't used it, but I have seen that is possible to do a lot of things

 

U can partition ur windows disk as well. I did, but u might need the help of windows,s built in disk management tool as well after partitioning.

 

I'll try not to name anything already mentionned.
GB-PVR Media center. (Turn your comp into a TV)

DM2 Minimize windows to try, to floating icon, semi-transparency, etc.

CacheMan Tweak various cache/ram settings. Very useful on old computers without much ram.

FrostWire Free, open-source alternative to limewire (no ads).

A-Patch (for MSN Messenger) Make MSN messenger (or windows live messenger) compact, remove ads, unneeded uglyness, bloatedness.

AutoHotkey Macro-making tool with simple scripting language.

REAPER Awesome multi-track audio recorder/editor.
Edit: as of version 1.0, it is no longer freeware, but shareware. However you can still download version 0.999 from the site. And if you're not worried about the legality of things, the never versions are still free to try, full-featured, and don't expire.

Gdow Gmail notifier.

FileZilla FTP client.

ALZip Best archive utility EVER. (superior to all, winrar, 7zip, tugzip... all of em)

Core Force Firewall/system lockdown (file+registry protection). I havn't tried this yet, but if you have frequent virus/malware problems, this looks super-secure.

Belarc Advisor Gives info about your computer, lists CD-keys from installed software.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner Another reg cleaner.

OmegaDrivers Alternative Ati/Nvidia drivers (though the nvidia ones are very outdated I think).

Soulseek Best music p2p app.


Edit: Forgot a few.

IconLab For making icons/ cursors. Supports alpha-channels, importing .png.

RemoveWGA To get rid of the M$ WGA notification, for those of you unfortunate enough to have installed it.

ALSee Image viewer. Can also batch resize, and convert. All the ALTools are very nice software actually, though most of them have better alternatives, I've found ALZip and ALSee to be the best in their fields.


Also, not exactly software, but another alternative to M$ Windows update, WindizUpdate.

 

Great collection, iza!

 

What would undervolting do for your laptop

 

Increase battery life.

 

Copywipe, copy HDD or Wipe it clean www.terabyteinc.com
Spyware software www.Spywareterminator.com

 

I see ----- THANXS CSINTH

 

Props to whoever suggested Autohotkey. What a great program!! It only uses about 3mb of memory and you can do soooooo much. I don't even open the start menu any more except to shut down/restart/standby.

All of my most used programs are at the touch of two keys and I continue to add more as the situation presents.

Good call, when I find you, you get a reputation!

 

Twas me.
And you could probably map shut down/restart/standby to some hotkeys as well.

 

An alternative is to download Brutus ( http://www.proffs.nu/brutus.htm). I am using Launchy and all I have to do is type "shut" and then I just hit enter and shut down starts.

 

MiKTeX and a TeX editor such as WinShell is essential for any university student. (Or anyone else who regularly need to write reports or other nice-looking documents with lots of text)
Writing professional-looking documents is so much easier than with Word/OpenOffice. Especially if you need to include mathematical formulas or other "complex" stuff.

 

hotkey program. looks cool too check it out. http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/default.htm

 

Hmm, does it allow you to remap standard hotkeys, such as windows key + e?

 

That does look a lot easier to use than AutoHotkey, and more user-friendly. However, I bet it uses more RAM (not a huge concern, but still). I've grown so attached to this little script writer, I don't think I'll try the new one.

It looks pretty slick though, definately worth a shot for those who want an easy hotkey program.

 

any free/open source programs that could replace that thing in mac.....garageband? I can't remember if thats it.... the music one with prerecorded instuments.

 

@Jalf: im not sure about that..

@ttupa: im not sure about that either i havent installed it yet but it had very good reviews. also it comes with plugins so people can develop extra plugins/functions to it.

 

any free dvd to ipod rippers that people know about help much appreciated

 

I don't think anyone ihas mentioned these in this post:

Multi-format archive program:
IZArc

And a great dual-panel explorer (Free for private use):
xplorer2

Try them or else!!!

 

xplorer2 is offered in two versions, one free, one not free. The free version is xplorer2 lite. You can get it at this address: http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm.

 

videora ipod converter
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/

 

Good list of programs so far! I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for programs to do the following:

1) Encrypt/password protect a folder in Windows Explorer. (I tried using Axcrypt, but it encrypts every single file in the folder. I want to just encrypt/password the folder).

2) Set a timer to shut down your computer. I don't want to leave my computer on all night, but sometimes I want to finish a download and have it automatically shut off.

Thanks in advance!

 

Use a good download manager like 'Free Download Manager".
Then you can set it to shutdown the PC after the download finishes

 

Ok. I want to edit some mp3 files. Mostly just take some clips of them so I can make them in to ring tones for my phone. I tried audacity....but thats a bit over my head. I just want to open an mp3 file, clip it, and save it as an mp3 (or any other convertible file type). I could use the built in windows editor, but that's a lot of hassle to convert to .wav and back. not to mention its a bit sparse.

Cheers.

 

Nevermind. I just didn't know that it didn't support .FLAC files.

 

RVM Integrator

This program helps you make Windows XP instalation CD with all hotfixes after SP2 release. So you don't have to download them from Microsoft (and get something before yoy are able to patch all holes), but there are other advantages as well.
For details see here:
http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html

 

The first two free applications (without repeating what others said) which come to mind are:

Keepass - best password manager I used
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

Cropper - free and simple screen capture utility
http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx

 

Can anyone post a link for more screen capture utilities?

 

prt scr and paste it into irfanview or any other graphics app?

 

Gadwin printscreen. Lets you select what you want in the screen cap.

 

So just because we have more capable computers, it's okay to write bloated slow software?

Last time I tried iTunes it installed 2 services that ran even when the program wasn't working, and used 5x as much memory as Winamp when minimized and playing.

No thanks.

 

winroll
very handy. Rolls up your window by right-clicking titlebar. (should be built into windows in my opinion. None obtrusive. close to zero memory comsumption. You wouldn't even know if it was there, if you didn't know about it)
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winroll.html


RK Launcher
the best program ever. Runs really smoothly without bugs. Low memory consumption. Equivalent to Mac's dock. I posted the link to it's nightly build because I found that the previous release had some minor bugs that were fixed in the nighty build.

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=24982


Previously posted softwares that I support/recommend
firefox (must have)
Ccleaner (Crap cleaner - works flawlessly)
thunderbird
avg / avast
Ad-aware personal
VLC player

 

Ohh no! NOT TWO MORE SERVICES! We all know how hard it is to disable a service....

 

I believe we shouldn't have to disable services. If iTunes wasn't such a POS and assume you wanted them run, you wouldn't need to disable those two processes.