Good free software links!

[MadMedic]

I'm going to post a link to my must have software in terms of convenience and performance. Everyone feel free to add to the list. Also this isn't in any particular order, just the order they are in on my HD.

AIM Ad Hack - http://aftermath.dyndns.org:8888/~aimadhack/
removes all adds and spyware related stuff from a fresh AIM install. There is a version for AIM triton and AIM 5.9, just look around

Mediaportal - http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
for those of you who have a TV tuner card you cannot beat this free software. My gaming PC duals as my HD theatre due to this software

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spyware removal....free and delightful

Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
my bittorrent client of choice (+safepeer plugin)

MS bootvis - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/BootVis.shtml
MS program that improves boot time. i love this thing

Crap Cleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com/
remove all the crap from your computer in one click, also fixes registry problems

Driver Cleaner - http://www.drivercleaner.net/
If you are like me and install new drivers every second they come out then use this, it will save you lots of time

Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
you better know about this by now

Google earth - http://earth.google.com/
free and fun, find directions, etc

Image resizer powertoys - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
simple image resizer given for free by MS...yay!

MS antispyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Free (for now) antispyware. use in tandem with adaware

TuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_download
awesome tweaking program to get every last bit out of your computer


That is the main ones i can think of for now. of course there is winzip and winrar, some CD burning software, and antivirus software. Add on yall!

[MadMedic]

Here a few more, I found the forum looking for  irfranview for photoediting. 

Total Commander. A complete file manager unlike Windows Explorer. Once you use this you will never use Windows Explorer again. used it now for almost 10 years. Does it all from on the fly drive mapping, compression tools, FTP client, text editing, viewers, search, etc. - http://www.ghisler.com/index.htm

Irfanview. The ultimate image editor/viewer. http://www.irfanview.com/

Top Style Lite - Cascading style sheets (CSS) editor. So easy to use. ...FREE http://www.bradsoft.com/download/

AVG Anti-virus software. Have used it for years. protects email and even web browsing. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Nucleus Blogging software. Large user base so many customizable options and plugins available. I knew nothing about setting up a blog and this one is so easy. This is what i use for my own website. http://nucleuscms.org/

SpyBot Search and Destroy. Another good spyware program. http://www.spybot.info/

Google Desktop. An awesome search tool that is use to search hundreds of tech support support emails a day at work. I couldnt do my job as easily without it. http://desktop.google.com/

DIVX. codec for playing divx movies. http://www.divx.com/

GIMP. the freeware opensource version of Photoshop. http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

StarOffice. The freeware opensource version of MS Office. compatable with MS office files as well. http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp

[Gunner{MEOW}]

boy i can see you have alot of time on your hands so when you going to start gaming again with us??????

[NighEve*{MEOW}*]

Wow.. one stop shopping.  Thanks a bunch for sharing.

[THEKATZ*{MEOW}*]

Wow Some of this I have seen and use which is good freeware.  I am checking out the others.  Thanks MM.  I would like to move this to the tech area if you don't mind

[Kitty*{MEOW}*]

I would like to add Open Office     


Its like Microsoft Office yet FREE i use it its great softwar.

www.openoffice.org

[NighEve*{MEOW}*]

I found this ..might be useful
http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=90