Free or Open Source software

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Orbit DownloaderThis software can download video/music/streaming media from sites such as Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare and supports RTMP.It a...

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nLite, a program that removes unnecessary Windows programs, such as Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, etc. It also gives an option to create an image after removing all these programs.

Screenshots.

Recommended for intermediate to advanced users.

I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your Windows if you remove any components without much research or thinking.

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XAMPP

XAMPP stands for Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. X is just one of the operating systems around that uses the X window system.

This software will turn your PC into a server for learning purposes. If you want create PHP scripts, Perl scripts and test whether they work, download XAMPP, set up the server, run the script and you are done!

Read the Readme file provided to set up XAMPP. Cool

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PrimoPDF, to create PDF files.

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ERUNT, to back up your registry before making any changes to it.

See the instructions on this site on usage of this software. Start from Step 5 onwards.

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Belarc Advisor 7.2k
Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes and software serial numbers, and shows the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any Web server. Version 7.2k may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

http://www.download.com/Belarc-Advisor/3000-2094_4-10643403.html?tag=lst-0-4

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.4
Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And it's absolutely free.
Version 1.1.4 improves the application's memory usage; fixes and improves shared modules; fixes a few problems in language resources.

http://www.download.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10670668.html?tag=lst-0-1

FreeRAM XP Pro 1.52
FreeRAM XP Pro includes automatic memory monitoring and optimization; advanced tray support; fast, threaded freeing with a stop option; multiple system-metric monitors; a simple and attractive GUI; memory reporting and diagnostic logging; and real-time memory information. FreeRAM XP Pro's AutoFree feature intelligently scales how much RAM is freed with your current system status, thus optimizing RAM without slowing down your computer. Additionally, FreeRAM XP Pro's unique Global Memory Compression technology frees memory instantly in a way that is completely unlike other memory managers. FreeRAM XP Pro has been designed to be easy to use yet highly customizable by computer novices and experts alike.
Version 1.52 enables Global Memory Compression by default for all memory freeing operations (this can be disabled through the Settings); adjusts AutoFree to be slightly more conservative when freeing RAM; and fixes a minor installation bug.

http://www.download.com/FreeRAM-XP-Pro/3000-2086_4-10516960.html?tag=lst-0-1

SpeedFan 4.28
SpeedFan monitors voltages, fan speeds, and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. It can even access SMART information for hard disks that support this feature, and show hard-disk temperatures if that's supported. SpeedFan fully supports SCSI disks and can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but mainly it can control fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your PC, thus reducing noise and power consumption.
Version 4.28 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

http://www.download.com/SpeedFan/3000-2094_4-10540297.html?tag=lst-0-1

ALZip 6.7
ALZip is a one-stop archiving and compression program designed for speed and ease of use. Beginners can easily perform advanced tasks, while power users can do things faster. With support for more compression and archiving formats than any other major utility, ALZip is the only ZIP utility you'll ever need. You can open 36 archive and compression file formats, open CD image files (ISO, BIN), open virtual CD files (LCD), create 8 archive and compression file formats, create self-extracting files (EXE), split files for easy transfers, recover lost passwords from ZIP files, integrate antivirus software, automate tasks with ALZip command-line functions, and get more done faster. The ALTools family of free PC utilities share the same cute Egghead characters, are a fun addition to any computer, are ideal for children, and powerful enough for IT pros.
Version 6.7 adds cuter Windows Vista style icons, stronger command line functionality, as well as other minor improvements.

http://www.download.com/ALZip/3000-2250_4-10631836.html?tag=lst-0-1

Windows Essentials Media Codec Pack 1
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video DirectShow codecs and filters. With Windows Essentials Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all movies and music files that you download off the Internet, stay up to date with the latest codecs with the Audio/Video Codec Update Service, and eliminate the many conflicts and errors caused by using multiple codecs to decode the same file types.
Windows Essentials Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly near complete solution for all your video and audio needs, with it you can play audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, and XCDs on the fly, and it adds support for 3GP, AAC, AC3, APE, AVI, DivX, 3ivx, DAT, h.264, x264, Nero Digital, DTS, FLV, FLAC, HD-MOV, MPEG-1/2, M4A, MP3, MP4, MO3, MOD, MKV, OFR, TTA, OGG/OGM, S3M, Vorbis, VOB, XviD, XM, WV, and UMX formats so you could play any video/audio file with your favorite DirectShow media player or with the (included) Media Player Classic.

http://www.download.com/Windows-Essentials-Media-Codec-Pack/3000-2140_4-10662710.html?tag=lst-0-3

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FastStone Image Viewer 3.2
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.
Version 3.2 added option 'Print current page only' in Print dialog, improved 'Rotate by any Degree', and fixed some bugs.

http://www.download.com/FastStone-Image-Viewer/3000-2192_4-10324485.html?tag=hed

Audiograbber 1.83
Audiograbber copies music from CDs or external sources such as radios, cassettes, or turntables. The music is saved on your hard disk as WAV, MP3, WMA, or OGG files. Audiograbber has all the common features of CD-ripper programs, such as normalizing, encoding of external files, track-name downloading and uploading from and to FreeDB, and support for ID3 tags and CD Text.
The line-in-sampling function can automatically split recordings from LPs into separate tracks and use a noise-reduction plug-in from Algorithmix. It also can schedule recordings if you, for example, want to record a radio show when you're not home. Audiograbber is multilingual; the most common languages are included in the setup file, and others can be downloaded from the home page. The latest version adds a function to better deal with copy-protected CDs. Also new is built-in OGG support, and the program now can rip karaoke (CDG) discs.

http://www.download.com/Audiograbber/3000-2140_4-10262582.html?tag=lst-0-1

Quad-Lock Unit Converter 5.2
Unit Converter is a freeware tool that can take care of all your unit conversions even when offline. It has an easy-to-use interface and contains most of the units commonly encountered while solving engineering problems. With more than 650 units, you are likely to find the units you are looking for. Other features include the ability to add user-defined conversions. Everything is built into a single executable file so no uninstaller is necessary. Its small file size makes it easy to distribute among friends and co-workers.
Version 5.2 added unit abbreviations wherever applicable, 76 new units to Distance category, 33 new units in the Time category; corrected the conversion factors for miles/hour-min in Acceleration and for hectare in Area; and changed all unit names to lowercase, except when the name is based on a proper noun.

http://www.download.com/Quad-Lock-Unit-Converter/3000-2054_4-10512876.html?tag=lst-0-1

WordWeb 5
This thesaurus/dictionary can be used to look up words from almost any program. In addition to displaying sense definitions and synonyms, WordWeb can find sets of related words. The database has more than 150,000 root words and 118,000 synonym sets, many proper nouns, pronunciations, and usage tags.

http://www.download.com/WordWeb/3000-2279_4-10652152.html?tag=lst-0-4

Stellarium 0.8.2
Stellarium is a free software available for Windows 95/98/2000 and Linux. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

http://www.download.com/Stellarium/3000-2054_4-10651655.html?tag=lst-0-1

Celestia 1.4.1
Celestia is a space simulation that allows you to travel within the solar system, out to the stars, and beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Possible destinations include over 100,000 stars, nearly one hundred solar system destinations, and sixty recently-discovered extrasolar planets. Celestia uses OpenGL to render realistic real-time animations of space travel.
Version 1.4.1 adds time zone selection to set time dialog, correct InfoURL for the Moon, and splash screen with a progress indicator.

http://www.download.com/Celestia/3000-2054_4-10521496.html?tag=lst-0-1

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http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/essentials.asp

Some nice tools listed for Internet Explorer.

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Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.

Wubi is a Windows front-end for lupin. Wubi and lupin provide a user friendly installer which allows users to install/uninstall Ubuntu like any other Windows program, without modifying partitions, without replacing the bootloader, and without having to burn a CD. Ubuntu installation is almost identical to a standard dual-boot installation both in terms of behavior and performance.

http://www.download.com/Wubi/3000-2098_4-10689087.html?tag=dl-blog

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Spyware Begone 9.15

Free Spyware Removal Forever--even if you already have a Spyware Remover. Many Spyware Removers can remove only up to 87% of infections. It would be wise to use Spyware Begone for free as a way to ensure that no Spyware is still secretly lurking on your PC. This is our full commercial version, now available absoutely free of charge. All we ask is that if you love this product to please tell others about it. So please consider using our Spyware Begone as a first, second or even 3rd line of defense for your PC.

http://www.download.com/Spyware-Begone/3000-8022_4-10665543.html?tag=lst-2-5

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Although SpywareBegone is no longer on the Rogue or Suspected Antispyware List, I will still caution you guys on downloading and running it.

Please use trusted products when in doubt.

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Stop Windows from auto rebooting after updates

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Can't refrain from posting this...

Some antivirus programs are just too irritating, they never uninstall properly.

Here are the tools to remove them from the system:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe - Norton removal tool for Vista/XP/2000

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool_9x.exe - Norton removal tool for Windows ME/98

Uninstall McAfee VirusScan

Uninstall McAfee Security Centre

Uninstall F-Secure

Uninstall Kaspersky

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Rpg Toolkit 3
http://www.toolkitzone.com/games.php?file=634

RPG game making tool with its own internal scripting language, RPGcode

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Chaos Manager

To handle all your chaos (nicely speaking, all your appointments and what nots).

Screenshots

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JLC Internet TV

Well... those who don't want to pay... here's an alternative. Quite a few channels there.

Just a caution, it does take up quite a bit of RAM.

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FreeMind

A mindmapping software like Inspiration.

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MyTreeDB

More than a database.

Haven't test it, but it may well be something useful.

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Cobian Backup

Name says it all. Tutorial at this link: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial127.html

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