Audio Players: Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/ Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/ iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/ jetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/ QCD - http://www.quinnware.com/ Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Utilities: CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ dbPowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

CD Recording: ASPI Drivers - http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/softwar…pi_v470_exe.htm CD/DVD Burner XP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ Burn 4 Free - http://www.burn4free.com/

CD Utilities: Daemon Tools - http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php

Download Managers: WackGet - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/ wget for Windows - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Encryption: PGP Freeware Edition - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/

Firewall: ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/ Sygate Personal Firewall - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html

GUI Utilities: Tclock - http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/index.html IconPhile - http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/iphile.html PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/ Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml D-Color XP - http://dliboon.freeshell.org/products/dcolor/index.php CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/ Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/

Image Viewers: IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/ iBrowser - http://ibrowser.fcodersoft.com/ AhaView - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/free.htm

Instant Messaging: Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/ Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/ Yahoo Instant Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/ MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com/ AOL Instant Messenger - http://www.aim.com/ ICQ - http://www.icq.com Jabber - http://www.jabber.org/

Networking: Putty Telnet/SSH Client - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ IP Tools - http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/ Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/ HyperTerminal Private Edition - http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/ Nmap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Programming: ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/ Dev-C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/ MySQL - http://www.mysql.com SciTE - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Publication/Document Manipulation: OpenOffice.org - http://download.openoffice.org/index.html AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/download/

Spyware Protection: Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/ Spybot: Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html Hijack This - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html IE-SPYAD - http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com

System Utilities: BootVis - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664 Resource Hacker - http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/resourcehacker/ PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm Motherboard Monitor - http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00…c/download.html

Video Players: BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/ Core Media Player - http://www.tcmp.org/ Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show…?group_id=82303 VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/ Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml

Video Utilities: KVCD - http://www.KVCD.net TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/ VirtualDUB - http://www.virtualdub.org/

Web Browsers: Mozilla FireFox - http://www.mozilla.org/download.html Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/ Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/ Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Web/FTP Servers: SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/ Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/ Apache - http://www.apache.org/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/

Some more

3D Graphics: Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/ Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/ gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/ Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-s…ple/index.shtml Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

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/ CWShredder - http://www.download.com/CWShredder/…4-10301586.html Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/ HiJackThis - http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

IRC Clients: BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/ BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/ TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/ XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Players: 1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/ iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/ Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/ QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/ Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/ Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools: Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/ GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/ K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/ KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/ ModPlug Tracker http://www.modplug.com/ MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/ mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/ MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/ mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/ MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/ Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/ SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD Burning: Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/ CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression: 7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/ bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/ IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/ QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/ TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/ UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/ UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/ Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software: DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/ OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements: CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/ tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

Download managers: Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/ Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Encryption and data security: Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/ Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/ PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers: 2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/ A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ Gyula’s Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/ JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/ MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery: PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls: Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conte…reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients: Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers: FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/d…pplication=8334 Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors: 1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/ Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/ TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers: Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/ SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/ XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

The freeware list continues….

Instant Messenger: Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/ Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/ PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/ Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends: Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/ MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/ SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs: i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/ Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/ Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs: K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/ POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools: CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/ Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.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/showthrea…=&threadid=2400 RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/ TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/ UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

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

PDF Utilities: Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/ PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/ PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Photo manipulation and image design: ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/ Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/ The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/ Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming: ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/ Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/ jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/ PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/ Python - http://www.python.org/ Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

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: AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/ CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/ Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311 WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA00…c/download.html

Video codes : DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=topta…from_/index.php FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/ Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html Quicktime Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/ Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

Video players : BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/ Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/ MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/ Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/show…?group_id=82303 VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools: DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/ DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/ FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/ VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/show…?group_id=65889 xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers: Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Internet Explorer - http://www.Mcft.com/ie K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/ Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers: Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/ Aprelium Abyss - http://www.aprelium.com/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ CIS WebServer - http://webserver.cisindia.net Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/ Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/ TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software: booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/ Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities: fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/ hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/ md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications: AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/ AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/ Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/ EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html 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 Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/ QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/ png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/ Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/ TClockEx - http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net