1by1
Company: mpesch3's mp3 tools
Author: Martin Pesch
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.mpesch3.de/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No registry entries. Requires MP3 ACM system codec (present in XP) or mpglib.dll
Languages: English; German
Description: Tired of creating and updating playlists? 1by1 is a small, fast and handy player which is not only small: It provides powerful tools to handle your files and listen to your tracks. Features: Directory Player (needs no playlists); Explorer like file navigation; Full Resume (remembers last played track and position); ACM (MP3) and mpglib (MP3/MP2) support; Winamp input plugin support; Audio dynamics and stereo enhancer; Directory searcher (plays whole drives); Cue sheet support; Playlist support; Favorites.
Home Page:
http://www.mpesch3.de/
download page v 1.57 (2006-09-14) [ 1by1_157.exe (100 KB)]
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

2xExplorer
Company: --
Author: Nikos Bozinis
(Donationware) (free),
http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Lightweight and powerful, fully shell integrated and extremely usable for increased everyday productivity, 2xExplorer is an ideal dual-pane replacement for explorer, compatible with all 32-bit windows platforms.
Home page:
http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
download (English) v 1.4.1.12) [ 2xex1412.zip (392 KB)]
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/2xexplorer.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/2xexplorer.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-11 by Peggy - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

40tude Dialog
Company: Softwareentwicklung M.Mönnig
Author: Marcus Mönnig
(Donationware) (free for personal use),
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: 40tude Dialog is a feature loaded, multi-server, multi-threaded Windows newsreader with Unicode character support. It supports multiple servers and identities, has filtering/scoring support, integrated email functionality and binary support including support for multiparts.
NOTES: To run 40tude Dialog on Windows 95 you need the "Winsock 2" update (see site). The time limitation has been removed (beginning with v 2.0.9.1 (Beta 32)).
Home page:
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
download v 2.0 Beta 38 (Built 2.0.15.1) (2005-02-07) [ 4d2b38.exe (3913 KB)]
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

4DOS
Company: JP Software Inc.
Author: Rex Conn
(Freeware) (unsupported) v. 7.5,
http://www.jpsoft.com/
Windows OS: n/a NOTES: Windows-based installer.16-bit DOS application for any DOS version 3.0 or higher (MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME, PC-DOS, Novell DOS, FreeDOS, etc.
Other OS: DOS
Languages: English
Description: Command line shell, supports LFN. "Far more powerful than the built-in Windows or DOS command line, 4DOS make the C:\ prompt flexible and robust, and give you hundreds of new batch file tools as well! Familiar standard commands such as COPY and DIR are still fully supported, so you'll find them easy to use immediately without a long learning period. A thorough and extensive help system is instantly accessible to assist you at any time."
Home page:
http://www.jpsoft.com/
download page v 7.50 build 130 (freeware release date 2004-08-26) [ 4dos.exe (1252 KB)]
http://www.jpsoft.com/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-18 by Bjorn Simonsen - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

7-Zip
Company: --
Author: Igor Pavlov
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU LPGL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
NOTES: has 32 bit, 64 bit and command line versions - v4.43 beta 2006-09-14 is out on the Sourceforge link below.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description:
The main features of 7-Zip: Highest compression ratio in new 7z format; 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL; Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB; For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip; Self-extracting capability for 7z format; Integration with Windows Shell; Powerful File Manager; Powerful command line version; Plugin for FAR Manager,
Home page:
http://www.7-zip.org/
download page:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
download v 4.42 (2006-05-14) [ 7z442.exe (818 KB) 32 bit Windows]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14481
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AbiWord
Company: SourceGear Corporation
Author: Dom Lachowicz
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. It can also import Microsoft Word 97 and RTF (Rich Text Format) documents, as well as support headers/footers, superscript/subscript, widow/orphan control and newspaper-style columns. Many plug-ins are available. Support for tables is currently limited.
Home page:
http://www.abisource.com/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword/
download page v 2.4.5 (2006-07-08) [ abiword-setup-2.4.5.exe (5270 KB) Windows]
http://www.abisource.com/download/index.phtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AceHTML 5 Freeware (v 5.09.1)
Company: Visicom Media
Author: --
(Liteware) (Nagware) (free) was keyed Registerware but the app can no longer be registered) LFW v5.09.1,
http://softwares.visicommedia.com/softwares/en/acehtml/acehtml5free.exe
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Experience this powerful free HTML editor which comes fully-packed with outstanding features. Although completely free, its collection of solid tools helps novices and professional webmasters build Web sites with speed, ease, and convenience. Simply put, AceHTML 5 Freeware beats hands down many other paid-for HTML editors.
Home page:
http://freeware.acehtml.com/
download v 5.08.5 (2003-10-03) [ acehtml5free.exe (3.7 MB)]
http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
http://softwares.visicommedia.com/softwares/en/acehtml/acehtml5free.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ad-Aware
Company: Lavasoft
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use),
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the next level. With Lavasoft's all new Code Sequence Identification (CSI) technology, you will not only be protected from know content, but will also have advanced protection against many of their unknown variants. To further protect you, Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition also has the capability to scan and list Alternate Data Streams (ADS) in NTFS enabled volumes. In combination with the new scanning engine, Ad-Aware SE will scan your computer faster and more thoroughly than ever before! NOTES: check Home Page for updated ref files or use RefUpdate.
Home page:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
download v SE 1.06 (as of 2006-11-07) [ aawsepersonal.exe (2788 KB)]
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php
(desc. rev: 2006-11-07 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Agent Ransack
Company: Mythicsoft
Author: David Vest
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.mythicsoft.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; (help file available in French)
Description: Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file! Agent Ransack provides compelling advantages over similar search tools: Regular expressions that allow complex rule based searches. Immediate contents results view. Various wizards to walk the user through the searching process. NOTES: registration requested, but not required (name and e-mail)
Home page:
http://www.mythicsoft.com
download page v 1.7.3 (build 332) (c. 2004-04) [ agentran.exe (792 KB)]
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 by Ron May - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Agnitum Outpost Firewall (Free) (v 1.0.1817)
Company: Agnitum Ltd.
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 1.0.1817),
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1056.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; (documentation in German; Hungarian; Russian and Italian)
Description: Agnitum Outpost is a personal firewall. It's standard personal firewall features include "system and application level filtering", "detailed information on all connections and open ports"; "predefined system and application settings for all common tasks (browsing the web, allowing ICQ, allowing DNS or DHCP, etc )"; a built-in log viewer; stealth mode; ICMP filtering; NetBIOS rule creation; wizard mode for automatic rule creation; MD5 authentication, etc. In addition, it supports plug-ins for tasks such as Intrusion Detection, Advertisement Blocking, Content Filtering, E-mail Guard and Privacy Control. The interface is highly customizable. For the plug-ins, it supports online automated update against new attacks. Finally, it needs no configuration before using and it starts protecting your system as soon as it's installed.
Home page:
http://www.agnitum.com/
download page v1.0.1817 [ OutpostInstall.exe (2556 KB)]
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/index.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Aida32
Company: Aida32
Author: Tamas Miklos
(Freeware) LFW (v 3.94.2),
http://www.hardwareoc.hu/index.php/p/download/st/.-download--teszt-PC-AIDA.html
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; Hungarian; language packs for other languages
Description: AIDA32 is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It can display information on the screen, print it, or save it to file in various formats like HTML, CSV or XML. For corporate users, AIDA32 offers command-line switches, network audit and audit statistics, remote system information and network management.
NOTES: Starting with version 3.00, AIDA32 is released in 3 different variants: Enterprise Edition, Personal Edition, Network Edition.
download page v 3.93 (2004-02-23) [ aida32pe_393.exe (3223 KB) Personal edition (English)] [ aida32ee_393.exe (3451 KB) Enterprise edition (English)]
http://www.hardwareoc.hu/index.php/p/download/st/.-download--teszt-PC-AIDA.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

All-Purpose Spell Checker (APSC) (v 4.0)
Company: Palware
Author: --
(Freeware) LFW (v 4.0),
http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/apscinst.exe
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English (American)
Description: With APSC Spell Checker, spelling correction is made easy for just about any document that you display on your computer. With just a few mouse clicks, you can correct that spelling in your Web mail, simple text editor, or anywhere where a spell checker is needed that doesn't have one already!
download v 4.0 [ apscinst.exe (4.8 MB)]
http://www.math.mcgill.ca/rags/apscinst.exe
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/spellcheck.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AllChars
Company: --
Author: Jeroen Laarhoven
(Freeware),
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; French (user manuals available in Russian and French)
Description: AllChars is a tool that makes non-keyboard characters (accents, typos, currency symbols, etc.) easily accessible within any Windows application. Just type the Ctrl-key followed by two characters that in combination specify the character. AllChars also supports macros. You can type short names, resulting in AllChars sending long text bits to your application. Support for macros include secure macros for logins, insert date/time strings and more. NOTES: If you have problems with v3.6.2, install the v3.6.3 patch.
Home page:
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
download page: v 3.6.2 [ allchars362setup.exe (474 KB)] [ allchars362.zip (361 KB)]
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/download.html
download: [ allchars363patch.zip Patch for v3.6.2: ]
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/download/allchars363patch.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AM-DeadLink
Company: --
Author: Martin Aignesberger
(Freeware),
http://aignes.com/products.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can verify it in the internal preview and delete it from your Browser. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks. AM-Deadlink works with Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Firefox.
Home page:
http://aignes.com/products.htm
Program description; download page v 2.81 (2006-10-11) [dlsetup.exe (1087 KB)]
http://aignes.com/deadlink.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ant Movie Catalog
Company: --
Author: Antoine Potten
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.antp.be/Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: GNU/Linux using WinE
Languages: English and approx. 30 other languages
Description: AAnt Movie Catalog is a free (really free, i.e. the source code is available) program made to manage your collection of movies DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, ...) and tapes. NOTES: I recommend to REGULARLY DO A BACKUP COPY OF YOUR CATALOG FILE (.amc/.xml file), especially before testing a new version.
Home page:
http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/
download page: v 3.5.0.2 (2006-07-29) [ amc_install.exe (3588 KB)] [ amc_full.rar (3397 KB)]
http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-16)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic (AntiVir Personal Edition)
Company: Avira GmbH (was H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH)
Author: --
(Liteware) (Nagware) (Registerware: keyed) (free for personal use),
http://www.free-av.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English; German
Description: Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic reliably protects your private computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers. COMMENTS: Antivir provides a resident Virus Guard which provides real time antivirus protection. It handles macro viruses and detects unknown malware using heuristics. Automatic and manual updates of the signature database are available. It does not provide email scanning , or detection of adware.
Home page:
http://www.free-av.com/
download page v 7.00.00.47 (2006-09-13) [ antivir_workstation_win7_en_h.exe (13653 KB) Win 98/ME] [ antivir_workstation_win7u_en_h.exe (13043 KB) Win NT/2000/XP]
http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-02)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Any Password
Company: RomanLab Software
Author: Roman Nikolaev
(Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use),
http://www.anypassword.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Any Password is an easy-to-use tool that lets you store and arrange all your passwords, user IDs, and related information in a tree form. The program saves this information in encrypted files which can be protected by a password. So, the only thing you need to remember is the password for the file. Any Password can also generate random passwords with specified parameters (length, used characters, etc.). You can find any stored information using the incremental search feature.
Home page:
http://www.anypassword.com/
download page v1.44 (2005-06-20) [ apw.zip (640 KB)]
http://www.anypassword.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ArtRage
Company: Ambient Design Ltd
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.ambientdesign.com/
Windows OS: Windows XP/2000/Tablet PC NOTES: 95/98/Me should work but are unsupported.
Other OS: Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Languages: English, French and German
Description: ArtRage is a painting package that lets you play around with realistic painting tools in a simple, intuitive environment. ArtRage lets you paint your own picture from a blank canvas, or load an image to 'trace' using any of its painting tools, letting you recreate your own images as paintings. ArtRage has a different 'look' and graphics tablets can be used. Note: Comes in free and full editions. See download page for comparison.
Home page:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/
Program description:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
download page v 2.11 (2006-10-12) [ ar2winfree.exe (2910 KB)]
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-04 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Atlantis Nova
Company: Rising Sun Solutions
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/download/atlant10n_en.exe
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French
Description: Atlantis is designed to provide power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding word processing tasks with the greatest of ease. With its small size and memory footprint, Atlantis will easily launch from a floppy for maximum portability. A whole array of functions give you complete control over the handling and viewing of documents. Wheel mouse fans will be delighted to find support for their mouse advanced functions. The Zoom function will provide instant adequate magnification. A dual set of standard toolbar commands (Main & Alternative) provides instant access to most Atlantis commands. In addition to the usual text editing facilities (Column Block selection, Drag & Drop editing), a whole array of formatting commands are available, whole files and pictures can be inserted, allowing you perfect control over the layout and style of your documents. Support for Styles is comprehensive. The 200 Hot Keys will give power users all the instant control they require from the keyboard. Atlantis provides a special facility for storing clipboard items, the Clippy Bank. Correction is always possible. All editing can be undone or redone. Atlantis will create backup files of original versions of your documents.
download v 1.0.0.68 (2005-11-17) [ atlant10n_en.exe (767 KB) English]
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/download/atlant10n_en.exe
Home page ($ware):
http://atlantiswordprocessor.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 by Helium - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AtNotes (v 9.5)
Company: --
Author: Thomas Ascher
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) LFW (v 9.5),
http://atnotes.free.fr/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: ATnotes is a FREEWARE program which creates Post-it like notes on the Windows desktop. The user interface is provided through an icon in the taskbar Notes are fully customizable in fonts, colors, sizes and in many other aspects of appearance (e.g., text color and border color for each note, each setup appearance can be saved as a profile to be restored quickly). Each note can have a single or repeated alarms, with visual and audio alarm signal. Notes can be hidden until manually activated or until a specified date/time. You can minimize notes to the first line of text and restore the note size to fit the whole text. It supports opening URLs, e-mail adresses and file shortcuts in notes with the associated program. An overview of all current notes in the note list is provided, with the features of note searching, folder organizing of notes. There is Hotkey support for important functions. The program also support note sending, to other computers in a local network. NOTES: ATnotes requires COMCTL32.DLL version 4.71 or higher. If you are using Windows 95/NT4 and don't have the file in the required version, you can download it at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q186/1/76.asp
Home Page:
http://atnotes.free.fr/
download page v 9.5 (2005-01-16) [ atnsetup.exe (708 KB)]
http://atnotes.free.fr/download.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/ATNotes.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AtomTime95 (v 1.4b)
Company: --
Author: Bruce Adelsman
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.4b),
http://www.visi.com/~badelsman/Software/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98
Languages: English
Description: AtomTime95 is a 32-bit Win95 Internet (Winsock) application which will connect to the Atomic Clock time server in Boulder, CO and fetch the current atomic clock time value. It compares this value to your PC time and displays the difference. You then have the option of updating your PC clock to match the atomic clock value. There is also a command line option to have AtomTime automatically set the clock and exit.
download v 1.4b [ atmtm14b.zip (104kb)]
ftp://ftp1.fkkt.uni-lj.si/atmtm14b.zip
alternate download v 1.4b [ atmtm14b.zip (104kb)]
ftp://ftp.glasnet.ru/pub/Internet/windows95/atmtm14b.zip
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.visi.com/~badelsman/Software/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl (no change))   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Audacity
Company: --
Author: Dominic Mazzoni
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Other OS: Macintosh OS 9/X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects. NOTES: You must download the LAME MP3 Encoder Library for Audacity to create MP3 files. http://mitiok.free.fr/
Home page:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
download page v 1.2.4b (2005-12-01) [ audacity-win-1.2.4b.exe (2273 KB) Windows] [ audacity-win-1.2.4b.zip (3209 KB) Windows]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6235
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/audacity.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AutoHotkey
Company: --
Author: Chris Mallett
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.autohotkey.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: AutoHotkey has four primary features: 1) automating repetitive tasks by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks (you can write such macros by hand or use the macro recorder); 2) creating hotkeys for keyboard, mouse, joystick, and handheld remote controls (virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey); 3) expanding abbreviations as you type them (for example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way"); and 4) creating custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. AutoHotkey's secondary features include changing soundcard settings (like volume or mute); using a joystick or keyboard as a mouse; remapping keys; launching programs/documents; making any window transparent, always-on-top, or altering its shape; manipulating the clipboard; customizing the tray menu's icon and menu items; displaying dialog boxes to interact with the user; running existing AutoIt v2 scripts; and converting any script into an EXE file that can be run on any computer. NOTES: abbreviation expansion and mouse button hotkeys require NT/2000/XP.
Home page:
http://www.autohotkey.com
download page v 1.0.45 (2006-11-04) [ AutoHotkey104500_Install.exe (1784 KB)] [ AutoHotkey104500.zip (1794 KB)]
http://www.autohotkey.com/download/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-06 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AutoIt
Company: Hiddensoft
Author: Jonathan Bennett
(Donationware) (free) (open source),
http://www.hiddensoft.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; (documentation in Russian; Spanish; Italian)
Description: AutoIt v3 is an opensource BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). NOTES: Unlike AutoIt v2, the new v3 language has a much more standard syntax -similar to VBScript and BASIC - and now supports complex expressions, user functions, looping and everything else that veteran scripters would expect.
Home page:
http://www.hiddensoft.com/
download page: v 3.2.0.1 (2006-08-13) [ autoit-v3.2.0.1-setup.exe (2.8 megs)] [ autoit-v3.2.0.1.zip (3.6 megs)]
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/downloads.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Autoruns
Company: Microsoft (was Sysinternals)
Author: Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
(Freeware),
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Includes 64-bit versions. Installation is not required. A command-line equivalent is included in the download package..
Languages: English
Description: This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP. Autoruns' Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc. You'll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!
Home page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Program description; download v 8.54 (2006-11-01) [ Autoruns.zip (479 KB]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/Autoruns.mspx
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-07 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Avast!
Company: ALWIL Software
Author: --
(Liteware) (Registerware: keyed) (Trialware: time limited (1 year) renewable) (free for personal use),
http://www.avast.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users. New version of avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (the ones what are really spreading amongst people) and very good detection of Trojan horses, all that with only a minimum number of false alarms. avast! Home Edition contains resident protection of the computer file system and resident module for e-mails.
Homepage:
http://www.avast.com/
Download page v 4.7.892 (2006-09-25) [ setupeng.exe (11816 KB) English ]
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-06 by Little Girl - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AVG Anti-Virus System
Company: Grisoft
Author: --
(Liteware) (Registerware: name: e-mail: address) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use) (unsupported) ,
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English
Description: AVG Free is easy-to-use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include: Automatic update functionality; The AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run; The AVG E-mail Scanner, which protects your e-mail; The AVG On-Demand Scanner, which allows the user to perform scheduled and manual tests; Free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product; AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.
Home Page:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php
download page v 7.5.428 (2006-10-18) [avg75free_428a818.exe (16804 KB)]
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/avg.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

AxCrypt
Company: Axon Data
Author: Svante Seleborg
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/axcrypt/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish
Description: AxCrypt is free and easy to use open source strong file encryption for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP, integrated with Windows Explorer. Encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks. Cryptographic primitives are AES-128 and SHA-1. Encrypted files have a ".axx" extension added to their names, and are shown with a new icon. To encrypt a file, right-click it in Windows Explorer and select 'AxCrypt | Encrypt'. To edit or view an encrypted file - just double-click it. To decrypt, right-click and select 'AxCrypt | Decrypt' instead. No configuration is necessary. Run the installer, and AxCrypt is ready to use. English, German, French, Spanish, Italian or Swedish will be used for messages and dialogues depending on the language of the system. Documentation (this document) and installation scripts are in English. COMMENTS: This is the most reliable and effective encryption program I've tried, and it is easy to use. But when done working with your encrypted files, you need to remember to right click and select 'clear passphrase memory' to make your file inaccessible again.
Home page:
http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/axcrypt/
download page v 1.6.3 (2006-06-16) [ AxCrypt-1.6.3.exe (or) AxCrypt-Setup.exe (1043 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40359
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-20 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Belarc Advisor
Company: Belarc
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses),
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES : Requires IE 3+ or Netscape 3+ or Opera; Mozilla; Firefox
Languages: English
Description: The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays 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.
Home Page: download v 7.2a (2006-08-25 ) [ advisor.exe (1028 KB)]
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-20 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Blender
Company: Blender Foundation
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.blender3d.org/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Other OS: Mac OSX;.Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Blender is the essential software solution you need for 3D, from modeling, animation, rendering and post-production to interactive creation and playback. Professionals and novices can easily and inexpensively publish stand-alone, secure, multi-platform content to the web, CD-ROMs, and other media.
Home page:
http://www.blender3d.org/
download page: 2.42 (2006-07-25) [ blender-2.42a-windows.exe (7380 KB) Windows] [ blender-2.42a-windows.zip (7108 KB) Windows]
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender.31.0.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Bulk Rename Utility
Company: --
Author: Jim Willsher
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: Bulk Rename Utility is a utility which allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extemely flexible criteria. Add date-stamps, replace numbers, insert strings, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and subfolders....plus loads more!
Home Page:
http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/
Program description:
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
download page v 2.4.0.0 (2006-10-01) [ BRU_NoInstall.ZIP (676 KB)] [ BRU_Setup_Win98.exe (680 KB) Win 98/ME] [ BRU_Setup_WinNTx32.exe (686 KB) Win NT/2000/XP/Vista/2003]
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Calendar Magic
Company: EuroSoft
Author: Alex Balfour
(Freeware),
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/XP NOTES: Requires VB6 runtime
Languages: English
Description: Full year and monthly calendars for 23 different calendar systems. Alternative planning calendars. A month-by-month, side-by-side comparison of any two of the 23 calendar systems supported. The display remains synchronised as you change day, month and year values in either calendar system being viewed. Date conversions among the 23 calendar systems supported. British regnal date conversion. Lists of Western Christian, Eastern Orthodox, Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Baha'i and Sikh festivals. "Observed Days" for any year from 1990 for around 230 countries worldwide. "Date Detective" command button to tabulate the weekday on which a specified Gregorian date d/m occurs for each of the years in the specified range y1 to y2. The ability to create, display, update and delete reminders for events (birthdays, anniversaries, meetings etc.). A Quick Notes facility. Alarm clock and stopwatch facilities. A time calculator for performing arithmetic with times. "This is your life" information including day-of-the-week on which you were born, number of days you have lived etc. Continuously updated display of date, time and Julian day. Number of days between any two dates in the Gregorian calendar. Calculation of the date n days, weeks, months or years before or after a specified Gregorian date, where n is a whole number. An analysis of the Gregorian 400-year cycle, after which the Gregorian calendar repeats itself. Special calendars for 1582 and 1752. Solar and lunar astronomical data. Shortest (great circle) distances between any two of 8000 locations across the world. Current local time and date in any of these 8000 locations. Seven major utilities (scientific calculator, expression calculator, geometry calculator, factor calculator, pregnancy calculator, unit converter, magic squares).
Home page:
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com
download page v 16.3 (2006-10-28) [ calmag163.zip (2151 KB)]
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=136
alternate download page
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/55320.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Catfish
Company: Equi4 Software
Author: Jean-Claude Wippler
(Freeware) (open source),
http://www.equi4.com/catfish/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: No installation required. No registry entries.
Languages: English
Description: CatFish is a disk catalog browser. It allows you to save snapshots of the directory/file structure of your disks and to search through them at anytime. The catalog files maintained by CatFish are very compact and fast, and can easily handle the huge directory trees often found on large disks, removable disks, and CD-ROMs. CatFish will calculate total subdirectory sizes, and lists the date of the newest file found inside each directory. You can search all catalogs by file name (wildcards), size, and/or date. When used in Win 95/NT, CatFish will recognize and store long file names. Furthermore, CatFish can be used as an application or document launcher.
Home page:
http://www.equi4.com/
Program description:
http://www.equi4.com/catfish/
download v 1.9 (1999-12-20) [ catfish.zip (113 KB)]
http://www.equi4.com/pub/cf/catfish.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-24 by bambam - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Cathy
Company: --
Author: Robert Vasicek
(Requestware) (free),
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Single file executable, no install needed.
Languages: English; earlier version available in French; German; Spanish; Italian; Dutch
Description: An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CD-ROMs, LS120, Iomega Zip and Jaz disks, or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media. Searching capabilities are based on file name, date and size. Additional features include filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customizable date format, etc. Found files can be opened (executed) or deleted directly, if they are present. Drag and drop support. Directory trees, MP3 album/song lists can be printed, disk space usage can be investigated.
Home Page: download v 2.24 (2006-06-24) [ Cathy.zip (46 KB)]
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner)
Company: Piriform Ltd. (was CCleaner
Author: --
(Donationware) (free) the standard build is bundled with Yahoo's IE Toolbar (installation is optional) ,
http://www.ccleaner.com/Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English; German; French; Spanish; Italian and other languages
Description: CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It's fast (normally taking less that a second to run). It cleans: Internet Explorer (Temporary files, URL history, cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat); Firefox (Temporary files, URL history, cookies, download history); Windows (Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files); Registry cleaner (Advanced features to remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... also comes with a comprehensive backup feature.) Third-party applications (Removes temp files and recent file lists (MRUs) from many apps including Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, MS Office, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and many more...)
NOTES: The Yahoo Toolbar is NOT included in the "Basic" and "Slim" builds (the builds labeled "for system admins and advanced users")..
Home Page:
http://www.ccleaner.com/
download page v 1.34.407 (2006-10-20) [ ccsetup134_basic.exe (598 KB) Basic - no toolbar] [ ccsetup134_slim.exe (441 KB) Slim - no toolbar (English)]
http://www.ccleaner.com/downloadbuilds.asp
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

CDBurnerXP Pro
Company: --
Author: Stefan Haglund
(Freeware),
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Windows OS: Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP
Languages: English
Description: The program can write CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs. The main features are: Write CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs (as Data, Video and Audio); Burn on the fly / Burn-proof; Supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives; Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive, obtain track-information (ID3-tags) from Internet; Burn and create ISO-files; Convert wav to mp3 and vice versa; Audio Editor, bin/nrg->ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more!
Home page:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
download page v 3.0.116 (2004-12-23) [ cdbxp_setup_3.0.116.zip (10.8 megs)]
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

CDCheck
Company: --
Author: Mitja Perko
(Donationware) (Registerware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use),
http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: No install version available.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: CDCheck is utility for prevention, detection and recovery of damaged files with emphasis on error detection. It can check each of your CDs and DVDs and indicate which files are corrupted. CDCheck reporting features tell you exactly where the problems are. CDs can get damaged in a number of ways, so the program helps you determine whether your data is safe before it's too late. The program also provides a comparison option that lets you select a reference directory on your hard drive (or some other device). CDCheck ensures that the contents on a disc match those in the directory, and effectively alerts you of differences. Besides that CDCheck supports creation of CRC files which provide extra safety that files on your CDs are still exactly the same as they were. In addition to CD-ROMs, the program can be used with all other local or removable media (disk drives, floppy disks, ZIP drives...) visible by the operating system (Windows Explorer).
Home page:
http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/
download page v 3.1.12.0 (2006-07-13) [ CDCheckSetup.exe 1459 KB)] [ CDCheck.zip (1404 KB)]
http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

CDex
Company: CDex
Author: Albert Faber
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting, things like turning your home Compact Disc collection into an mp3 collection on your hard drive become extremely easy. CDex Feature List: Easy to use interface. Media File Player. Create PLS and M3U playlist files. Advanced jitter correction. Support for many file formats/audio encoders (WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc). Support for ID3 V1 and V2 tags. Support for normalization of audio files. Support for transcoding of compressed audio files. Support for CDDB. Support for recording from the analog input line. NOTES: There are several newer beta versions listed in the last link. Users report that the CDRIP.DLL file in version 1.51 may be defective - a copy of that file from v 1.50 or earlier may be used as a replacement
Home page:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
download page v 1.51 (2003-09-09) [ cdex_151.exe (1953 KB)] [ cdex_151.zip (1878 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=567
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Chainsaw
Company: --
Author: Gerhard Schmeusser
(Freeware),
http://www.frankenwandern.de/software/chainsaw.html
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English; German; Danish; French; Portugese; Spanish; Swedish; Indonesian; Italian and Dutch
Description: Split large files into smaller ones. Features: Intuitive user interface, Chunk size up to 2GB, with the parts there is a batch file which puts them together again, All settings are saved between sessions, Redirect output to different drive or path, Can always stay on top of desktop, Realistic chainsaw sound!
Home Page: download v 3.7 (2006-01-14) [ chainsaw.zip (107 KB)]
http://www.frankenwandern.de/software/chainsaw.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

CLCL
Company: --
Author: Nakashima Tomoaki
(Freeware) (open source),
http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.htmlWindows OS: Windows
Languages: English, Japanese, Russian, Galician
Description: CLCL is clipboard caching utility. All clipboard formats are supported. Template can be registered. Pop-up menu is displayed by "Alt+C." Menu can be customized. Item is paste automatically. Picture is displayed on a menu. Tool tip is displayed on a menu. The format to leave and the format to save can be set up. The ignored window can be set up. The paste key for every window can be set up. Function is extensible with plug-in. COMMENTS: All clipboard formats are supported including images, text, folders etc. Stores screen caps when the PrintScreen key is pressed. Plugins extend funtionality to include quote stripping, case changing, etc. Clipboard cache can be accessed by mouse or hot key. CLCL can also be configured as an app launcher, with a hotkey bringing up a launch menu wherever the cursor is positioned.
Home page:
http://www.nakka.com
Program description; download v 1.1.2 (2005-02-11) [ clcl112_eng.exe (181 KB) English] [ clcl112_eng.zip (145 KB)]
http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Clipomatic
Company: --
Author: Mike Lin
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.mlin.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Clipomatic is a clipboard cache program - it remembers what was copied to the clipboard even after new data is copied, and allows you to retrieve the old data. While there are many programs that do the same, none are quite so convenient, simple to use, or efficient as Clipomatic. Using Clipomatic is simple. All you have to do is start it up, and it will start monitoring the clipboard and recording its changes. When you want to paste an old item, you just put the keyboard cursor where you would like to paste and press Ctrl-Alt-V instead of Ctrl-V. A menu pops up with your clips - you can select one with the mouse or with a single keystroke. The menu then disappears, and the item is pasted with no further work on your part.
COMMENTS: The program has a very small memory footprint. It only copies text.
Home page:
http://www.mlin.net/
Program description; download v 2.01 (1999-10-23) [ Clipomatic20.zip (96 KB)]
http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ClipTorrent
Company: --
Author: Richard Wakelin
(Donationware) (free),
http://cliptorrent.com/
Windows OS: Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP
Languages: English Interface. 18 Spell Check Languages
Description: Clip Torrent is an advanced Unicode text-only clipboard utility and spell-checker designed for programmers and other frequent clipboard users. Interface is English, but there are 18 available languages for spell check dictionaries. Highly configurable, minimizes to system tray, sound on/off feedback, always on top (or not), and caption buttons on title bar to toggle certain features. Easily edit, add, delete clips, and move clips up/down within lists. Use ClipTorrent to store code snippets and other useful pieces of text. Stores up to 2000 clips (1000 regular and 1000 favorites.) The list and editor text are held in sperate locations. This allows the list to be used for titles or labels while the editor displays the text to be pasted. One click pastes clip OR SELECTED PORTION of clip into your target application ClipTorrent allows you to copy filenames from Windows Explorer and compatible programs. Simply select the file(s) or folder(s) whose names you wish to copy and press Ctrl+C. The full file path will be copied including the short (DOS) version if any part is longer than 8 characters. Even if you have no requirement for a general clipboard application, ClipTorrent can still be a useful tool (e.g., used as a simple text database for any information you need quick access to, or as a simple URL organiser that can open links in your default web browser with a single click.
Homepage:
http://cliptorrent.com/
download v 1.4.2.3 (2006-??-??) [ ctsetup.exe (1.55 MB) ] [ cliptorrent.zip (1.53 MB) ]
http://cliptorrent.com/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

CloneSpy
Company: CloneSpy
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.clonespy.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98se/NT/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: CloneSpy is a Free Duplicate File CleanUp Tool
Home Page:
http://www.clonespy.com/
download page v 2.3 (2006-10-21) [ cspy23.zip (644 KB)]
http://www.clonespy.com/?Download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Cobian Backup
Company: --
Author: Luis Cobian
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/index.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Cobian Backup exists in 2 versions: An Unicode version that works on NT based systems only and an ANSI version which works in all versions of Windows (v 7). No new features will be added to version 7.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). Cobian Backup exists in two different versions: application and service. The program uses very few resources and can be running on the background on your system, checking your backup schedule and executing your backups when necessary. Cobian Backup is not a normal backup application: it only copies your files and folders in original or compressed mode to other destination, creating a security copy as a result. So Cobian Backup can be better described as a "Scheduler for security copies". Cobian Backup supports several methods of compression and strong encryption.
Home page:
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/index.htm
Program description; download v 8.1.0.162 (2006-08-25); v 7.6.0.353 (2006-06-27) [ cbSetup.exe (7705 KB) Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 ] [ Cb7Setup.exe (5929 KB)]
http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Convert
Company: --
Author: Joshua F. Madison
(Donationware) (free),
http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003, Vista
Languages: English
Description: Convert is an easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!
NOTES: registration requested, but not required (name and email) COMMENTS: Small, easy to use, comprehensive, a wonderful program.
Home page:
http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/
download page v 4.10 (1999-10-30) [ convertsetup.exe (780 KB)] [ convert.zip (153 KB)]
http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Crypt Edit (v 4.10)
Company: PolySoft Solutions
Author: Ulyanov Ilya Andreevich
(Freeware) LFW (v 4.10) discontinued,
http://www.woundedmoon.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Crypt Edit is a very powerful multidocument word processor with enhanced cryptography features. It can easily save texts as HTML, DOC, RTF, ASCII (DOS, WIN, UNIX, MAC), WRI, UNICODE and PRT (Protected Text Format with 3 security levels), encrypt/decrypt binary files with compression, create desktop shortcuts for your documents, insert OLE-objects and pictures (gif, jpeg, bmp, emf, wmf). The program includes an advanced e-mail client with an address book, a spelling checker, a built-in clipboard viewer, various converters (Lowercase, Uppercase, ROT-13, OEM etc.), a character map, an autoformat tool and much more. Microsoft IntelliMouse is also supported. Other notable features are several numbering and underline styles, minimization to the system tray, a drag-and-drop interface, lines sorting operations and html-highlighting.
NOTES: Plug-ins (autoscroll; conversion; hex editor and internet import) language packs and dictionary files are available on the download page.
Program description:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ce/cedit.html
download page v 4.1 (2001-04-14) [ cedit.zip (1.1 MB)] [ update41.zip (535 Kb) 4.1 Update (2001-06-23)]
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ce/ceditdl.html
Author's Home page:
http://polyedit.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DAEMON Tools
Company: THE DAEMONs HOME
Author: --
(Donationware) (free) LFW (v 3.47) Later versions are bundled with Adware (installation is optional).,
http://www.daemon-tools.cd/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running BACKUP copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom or Laserlock protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (Generic DVDROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection. Please note that it's recommended NOT to install DAEMON Tools on a system where Roxio/Adaptec EasyCD is or was installed. See the site for more details! NOTES: Version 3.47 is Adware-free. Later versions are bundled with Adware. You must UNCHECK the installation of the "Daemon Tools Search Bar" to avoid installation of the adware.
Home page:
http://www.daemon-tools.cd/
download page v 3.47 (2004-08-29) [ daemon347.exe (492 KB)]
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) (v 10.1)
Company: Illustrate
Author: --
(Freeware) LFW (v 10.1) last version with free mp3 encoder,
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/bin/dMC-r10.exe
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux (using Wine)
Languages: English
Description: Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dMC is able to: Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats, dMC is the Fastest CD Ripper and now AccurateRip Compatible. Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others [Codec downloads], whilst preserving ID Tags. Volume Normalize audio files, Windows Explorer Integration - right click Convert To & popup useful information on audio files (such as bitrate, length). ID tag editing [Power Pack Option], Record from LPs or anything [optional Auxiliary Input install],
Direct download v 10.1 (2004-01) [ dMC-r10.exe (1484 KB)]
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/bin/dMC-r10.exe
Home page: Liteware; bundled with Trialware
http://www.dbpoweramp.com
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

dBworx
Company: PLWorx Software Development
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.plworx-software.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No registry entries.
Languages: English
Description:
dBworx is a small, versatile database manager - and more. In addition to standard field types (numeric, text, date, time) dBworx supports additional types such as lookup and relational fields, external fields and graphic fields (which combine images, text and drawings). Records can be sorted, searched, filtered and output as reports, labels, charts and HTML tables. dBworx also allows importing and exporting data in a variety of formats. Plus dBworx is easy to use and fits on a single diskette!
Home page: download v 3.8 (2006-09-27) [ dbworx38.zip (1228 KB) ]
http://www.plworx-software.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Deep Paint
Company: Right Hemisphere
Author: --
(Freeware) earlier version of $ware program,
http://www.download.com/3000-2191_4-10398243.html
Windows OS: Win 2K/XP, (can be used in Win 98 but is not stable)
Languages:
Description: Deep Paint offers a realistic painting experience for digital artists and graphics professionals. Deep Paint intergrates stroke-by-stroke artistic photo-cloning, fully editable brush and canvas settings, and paint functionality for realistic and stunning paint effects. Experience thickly textured oils, bold acrylics, and dramatic watercolors. Deep paint simplifies your artistic workflow as a Photoshop plug-in or standalone application, with special support for the Wacom Intuos or compatible pressure sensitive pad. Deep Paint has a 3-D way of representing the painting, with light from a source which can be moved. This gives a unique possibility for using wet oil colors with a fantastic realistic shiny 3-dimensional look.
Home page:
http://www.righthemisphere.com/
download page: 2.00 (2005) [DeepPaint.zip (59475 KB) Windows]
http://www.download.com/3000-2191_4-10398243.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DeepBurner Free
Company: Astonsoft Co. Ltd.
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use),
http://www.deepburner.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP NOTES: A no install, no registry entries version is available.
Languages: English
Description: DeepBurner Free can create and burn regular data CDs/DVD, have AudioCD recording functionality, and can burn and build ISO Images. It supports IDE/EIDE, USB, SCSI, Fire wire CD/DVD Writers. Some specific features are: Dynamically adjustable drive buffer size, High performance file/disc Caching, Supports Long File Name (Joliet) File System. Can create ISO (100% DOS/Windows) compatible Data CDs / DVDs. Support for multiple simultaneous recorders. Comes with easy to use wizards to help you with creation of any type of burning projects. Autorun making wizard makes it easy to create effective autoruns for your CDs. Features covers/booklet/case insert making wizard.
Home page:
http://www.deepburner.com
download page v 1.8 (2006-03-24) [ DeepBurner1.exe (2797 KB)] [ DeepBurner1_Portable.zip (2902 KB)]
http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Dependency Walker
Company: --
Author: Steve P. Miller
(Freeware),
http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES:Can process any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module, including ones designed for Windows CE. Can be run as a console application.
Languages: English
Description: Advanced module dependency explorer and function lister for any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.). Great tool to detect missing or outdated modules. Supports advanced profiling mode to detect dynamically loaded dependencies or acquire additional (e.g. debug) information. Automatic profiling of child-processes is possible.
NOTES: Dependency Walker can create log files for later or external analysis.
Home page:
http://www.dependencywalker.com/
download v 2.1.3623 (2002-04-28) [ depends21_x86.zip (405 KB)] and Win64/older versions
http://www.dependencywalker.com/depends21_x86.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DialogMate2 (DM2) (was DialogMate)
Company: --
Author: Weird; flyfancy
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dm2/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP
Languages: English (other language files available)
Description: Turn windows into floating transparent icons that you can move around the desktop, so you don't have so many programs on the taskbar (alt-tab alleviation). Also wonderful for multiple monitors. Comes with a ton of plugins to add much more functionality (but you can disable these plugin files by renaming them with a different extension).
Homepage:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dm2/
download v 1.22 (2006-09-14) [ dm2-1.22.zip (154 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134504
(desc. rev. 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Dimension 4
Company: Thinking Man Software
Author: Rob Chambers
(Donationware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses),
http://www.thinkman.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Dimension 4 is the fastest and easiest way to synchronize your PC's clock for Windows-based operating systems. Once Dimension 4 is installed, you'll most likely forget that it's even running. It's that automatic. Dimension 4 will monitor your Internet connection and automatically adjust your PC's clock when you're online at an interval you specify.
Home page:
http://www.thinkman.com/
download page v 5.0.35.0 (2004) [ d4time50.msi (206 KB)]
http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

dirhtml
Company: --
Author: Eric Nitzsche
(Freeware),
http://home.pacbell.net/nitzsche/dirhtml/dirhtml.html
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP NOTES: v 4.73 is the last version that supports Windows 98
Languages: English
Description: Dirhtml builds index.html files from a folder branch, optionally using a built in scripting language. It runs from a GUI or the command line and creates customizable index files. Dirhtml is xhtml compliant. With dirhtml, your index pages can have anything valid in html or xhtml, including: a title; a background image; inline or <head> based styles; meta tags; any kind of external scripts, including perl, javascript, php
Home Page, download v 4.78 (2006-10-27); v 4.73 (2006-01-15) [ dirhtml.zip (319 KB) Windows NT/2000/XP] [ dirhtml_4-73.zip (307 KB) Windows 98/NT/2000/XP]
http://home.pacbell.net/nitzsche/dirhtml/dirhtml.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 Ron May)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DLExpert
Company: --
Author: Chen Ying
(Freeware),
http://yesterday.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ftp/dlexpert099.exe
Languages: English
Description: DLExpert is a multi-thread resuming downloading software. It makes full use of the resources of the client and the server to download files from Internet at the fastest rate available. DLExpert's powerful multi-thread function makes it download different parts of the same file simultaneously. Namely it can divide the file into parts. Each part will be downloaded by one thread, so different parts can be downloaded simultaneously. DLExpert supports HTTP and FTP, also HTTP and FTP proxy. Its function of auto-dial, auto-hang up, schedule downloading and auto- shutdown make it convenient and quick to download files. NOTES: The download file on the home page is corrupted (noted on 2006-03-03), and again on (2006-10-31).
Home Page; download v 0.99 (2001-12-20) [ dlexpert099.exe (768 KB)]
http://www.yanew.com/english.htm ( <--- the corrupted file!)
alternate download v 0.99 (2001-12-20) [ dlexpert099.exe (768 KB)]
http://yesterday.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/ftp/dlexpert099.exe ( <--- the good file)
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/dlexpert.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DLL Archive
Company: --
Author: Analog X
(Freeware),
http://www.analogx.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: AnalogX DLL Archive is super-simple to use, just click search and let it do it's thing - once done, you'll be presented with a list of all the DLL's that don't have references in the system! Then just select which ones you think aren't necessary anymore and archive them; it's that simple! Make a mistake? No problem, restoring DLL's from the archive is just as simple - nothing is deleted until YOU delete it.
Home page:
http://www.analogx.com/welcome.htm
Program description:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/dllarch.htm
download v 1.00 [ dllarchi.exe (227 KB)]
http://www.analogx.com/files/dllarchi.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22)
  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DoubleDesktop
Company: Fat Free Software (was MidStream Inc.)
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use),
http://www.fatfreesoft.com/
Windows OS: Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP
Languages: English
Description: DoubleDesktop installs a small arrow icon on Windows Tray. With a single mouse click on that icon or a keystroke you can switch between "left" and "right" parts of the desktop. This way you can easily rearrange all your application windows between the two desktop parts. To move a window from "left" part of the desktop to the "right" and vice versa, simply drag the window beyond right or left screen boundaries and then switch the desktop. In program's Options dialog box, you can configure a key combination to toggle between the desktop parts, and specify different bitmaps for wallpaper.
Homepage:
http://www.fatfreesoft.com/
download v 2.0 (2000-08-12) [ 2desk20.zip (202 kb) ]
http://www.fatfreesoft.com/2desk.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DriveImage XML
Company: Runtime Software
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use),
http://www.runtime.org/
Windows OS: Windows XP/Windows Server 2003
Languages: English, German, Spanish, French and Hungarian
Description: DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to:
# Backup logical drives and partitions to image files
# Browse these images, view and extract files
# Restore these images to the same or a different drive
# Copy directly from drive to drive
# Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler
Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a useless backup! Restore images to drives without having to reboot. DriveImage XML runs under Windows XP Home, XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 only. The program will backup, image and restore drives formatted with FAT 12, 16, 32 and NTFS.
Home Page:
http://www.runtime.org/
Download v 1.18 (2006-04-16) [dixmlsetup.exe (1.6MB)]
http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

DVDSig
Company: --
Author: Dariusz Stanislawek
(Freeware),
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: DVDsig is a files verification software for DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, CD-ROM and other removable media. It will scan all files and directories of a new disk compilation and create a list of reliable MD5 file signatures. DVDsig is small enough to be conveniently included on any disk compilation and offers immediate, independent verification of the files after burning is completed. The inclusion of DVDsig along with the signature list it generates is a simple, quick and effective way of validating your data at any time and anywhere.
Homepage:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/
download v 1.01 (2004) [ dvdsig.exe (10 KB)]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Easy Gallery Generator (EGG)
Company: Ian's EGG Page
Author: Ian Print
(Freeware),
http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: The basic idea of this program is to take some picture files, and build a gallery suitable for uploading to the web. The gallery consists of a main page which shows "thumbnails" (smaller versions) of the original pictures, and a page for each individual picture. Clicking on a thumbnail in a web browser brings up the individual page which has links to the next picture, previous picture and back to the main thumbnail page.
Home page:
http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/
Program description: download v 2.1 [ InstallEgg21.exe (729 KB)]
http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

EasyCleaner
Company: ToniArts
Author: Toni Helenius
(Donationware) (free),
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: EasyCleaner is a small program which searches Windows' registry for entries that are pointing nowhere. Deleting these entries will speed your computer up. But as you already might know, deleting entries from registry can be dangerous for your computer, so it is wise to make a backup of your registry. On my computer, deleting entries which were pointing nowhere, speeded my computer up! EasyCleaner also lets you delete all kinds of unnecessary files like temps, backups etc. You can search for duplicate files and you can view some intresting info about your disk space usage! Deleting invalid shortcuts from start-menu is possible as well.
Home Page, download v 2.0.6.380 with blacklist #9 (2005-12-26) [ EClea2_0.exe (2883 KB)] [ EClea2_0.zip (1316 KB)]
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/
alternate download location:
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=165
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/easycleaner.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-03 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

EditPad Lite
Company: --
Author: Jan Goyvaerts
(Liteware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses),
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English; Dutch; Italian; German; Portuguese
Description: EditPad Lite is a light text editor and Notepad replacement. It has all the features a solid text editor needs without any bloat. You can open as many files at a time as you want, with no arbitrary file size limit. Each file will have its own tab. You can convert between ANSI, ASCII, and Unicode, and work with Unix and Mac files. You can search and replace across all open files. It has unlimited undo and redo and powerful print preview. Additional features include hyperlink support, auto-indent, line numbering, word wrap, column block selection (supported by ALT key), external browser support, customizable font and color, ROT- 13 encoding and more. You can have EditPad store its settings in an .ini file instead of the registry. This allows portability (you can carry around EditPad on a disk) and it keeps the registry clean. EditPad fully supports double byte character systems (DBCS) so you can edit texts written in Far East languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean, as easily as those written in European languages.
Home Page: download v 6.1.2 (2006-10-27) [ SetupEditPadLite.exe (2888 KB) Windows]
http://www.editpadlite.com/editpadlite.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Emergency Recovery Utility NT (ERUNT)
Company: --
Author: Lars Hederer
(Freeware),
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Use the no install (.zip) version on Windows NT 3.51. The install version won't work.
Languages: English; German; language packs for other languages
Description: Erunt allows a complete backup and restore of the Registry for Windows NT 4.0 and all following versions based on the NT kernel (2000, XP)
Home Page, download v 1.1j (2005-10-20) [ erunt-setup.exe (772 KB)] [ erunt.zip (501 KB)]
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ePrompter
Company: Tiburon Technology Inc
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.eprompter.com/
Windows OS: Win 9x/ME/2K/XP
Languages: English
Description: ePrompter automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves your e-mail messages from up to 16 web based or POP3 password-protected e-mail accounts. EPrompter can check most popular web accounts such as AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, GO, Gmail, Email.com, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, OneBox, Rediffmail, USA.net, among others. ePrompter acts as a text-only mini-client that lets you compose, forward, and reply to your retrieved messages, but it also gives you the ability to delete spam or other unwanted mail without having to launch your e-mail program or having to go to your Web mail's site. On a per account basis, you can choose to view the text or headers only. ePrompter notification features include a unique rotating tray icon and a choice of five screensavers that let you know at a glance the number of new messages in each account, as well as audio alerts for new messages. You can automatically check all accounts at a specified time inteval, or manually check all of your accounts at once or individually
Homepage:
http://www.eprompter.com/
Download page v 2.0 Build 2 SR 94 (2006-09-18) [ epsetup.exe (903 KB) ]
http://www.eprompter.com/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-06 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Eraser
Company: Heidi Computers Limited
Author: Sami Tolvanen (original author); project team
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Other OS: DOS
Languages: English
Description: Eraser is an advanced security tool which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser's source code is released under GNU General Public License. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Guttmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive. Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods. Note: If you have an older version of Eraser installed on your system, make sure you uninstall it before installing the latest version. Instructions for doing so are available on the home page. Additional Note: Since there are quite a few reports of crashes and system instability with Eraser v5.8, it's advised to stick with Eraser v5.7 until the bugs causing these problems are ironed out. The Eraser forums are available here.
Homepage:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/eraser.html
Download page v 5.8 (2006-08-13) [ eraser58setup.exe (2344 KB) ]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=37015
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-08 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ESBCalc
Company: ESB Consultancy
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.esbconsult.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: ESBCalc (TM) is a Scientific Calculator for Win32 Platforms with Infix Notation, Brackets, Scientific Functions (Trigonometric, Hyperbolic, Logarithmic - including Base 10, Base 2 and Natural - plus more), Memory, Paper Trail, Result History List and more.
Home page:
http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.html
download v 5.11 (2006-03-07) [ esbcalc.zip (803 KB)]
http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

EssentialPIM (EPIM)
Company: EPim Ltd.
Author: --
(Betaware) (Freeware),
http://www.essentialpim.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/Me/NT/2003/XP
Languages: English with extensive language support
Description: EssentialPIM Free is a personal information manager with Calendar/Scheduler/Reminder, To Do List, Outliner (for notes) and Contact Manager. It has versatile import/export capabilities, color-coded day/week/month schedules, easy printout of days, weeks and months and export to HTML, To Do list can be sorted by a variety of categories. Notes outliner has tree-like multilevel structure capable of unlimited number of folders and notes into which you can insert pictures, tables, any formatted text (fonts, subscripts/superscripts, colored text background, multilevel bullets and numbering, Unicode, background images.) Program comes in desktop and portable editions.
Home Page:
http://www.essentialpim.com/
download v1.91 (2006-10-11) [ EssentialPIM1.exe (1.48 MB)]
http://www.essentialpim.com/index.php?r=download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
Company: Eusing Software
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.eusing.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Eusing Free Registry Cleaner allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems with a few simple mouse clicks. Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will scan your Windows registry for invalid or obsolete information and provide a list of the errors found. After fixing the invalid entries, your system will be more stable and run faster. For maximum safety, Eusing Free Registry Cleaner will make a backup of the repaired entries. You will be able to restore any changes made using the software by choosing Restore registry backup.
Home Page:
http://www.eusing.com/
Program description; download v 1.1 (2006-07-17) [ EFRCSetup.exe (860 KB)]
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-03)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

EVEREST Home Edition (v 1.51.195)
Company: Lavalys Consulting Group Inc.
Author: --
(Liteware) (Registerware) (free for personal use) LFW (v1.51.195) last uncrippled version,
http://www.oldversion.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 Note: Includes 64-bit versions.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: EVEREST Home Edition is a system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information. Note: Press Release | 2005-12-05 Lavalys announced today that it leaves the freeware market by halting the development of its EVEREST Home Edition (the successor of AIDA32) system diagnosis product. Lavalys leaves freeware development efforts dedicating all resources to its EVEREST commercial products line.
download v 2.20.405 (2005-08-18) [ everesthome220.exe (4081 KB) (Last freeware version) ]
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=everesthome
Homepage ($ware):
http://www.lavalys.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
Company: Exact Audio Copy
Author: Andre Wiethoff
(Betaware) (Donationware) (Requestware) (free),
http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: EAC is a new audio grabber for CD-ROM drives. Features: Both SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported. Hidden sector synchronization (jitter correction). Support of external encoders for automatic compression after extraction. Batch compression and decompression of/to WAV files. Automatic detection of drive features, sample Offsets for drives with no accurate streams. Filename editing with CDDB database. Record and Loop Record functions for recording from LP, radio, etc. Automatic rename of MP3 files according to their ID3 tag. Small WAV editor with functions for delete, trim, normalize, pad, glitch removal, pop detection, interpolation of ranges, noise reduction, fade in/out, undo and more NOTES: If you encounter problems with this version you should step back to v0.85b4 or 0.9pb11
Home page:
http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/
download page v 0.95 beta 4 (2006-02-21) [ eac-0.95b4.exe (1180 KB)] [ eac-0.95b4.zip (1526 KB)] [ eac-0.95b4-cdrdao.exe (1816 KB) with cdrdao] [ eac-0.95b4-cdrdao.zip (2352 KB)]
http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/eac6.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ExamDiff
Company: PrestoSoft
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: ExamDiff is a tool for visual file comparison of two text or html files. After selecting the two files to compare, ExamDiff will display them in a split screen and highlight all the differences The program offers a variety of handy features, like copying of text from the comparison panes via drag and drop and one push re-compare function which attempts to leave the viewer's focus in the same place as before the re-compare. ExamDiff can also remember a user specified number of last compared first and second files and saves the file differences in a standard UNIX DIFF file. The interface is clean,compact and there are several options to customize the comparison process, for example by ignoring white spaces and more.
Home page:
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp
Program description: download v 1.6n (2006-02-24) [ ed16n_setup.zip (467 KB)] [ ed16n.zip (212 KB)]
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff#download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Exifer
Company: --
Author: Friedemann Schmidt
(Requestware) (free),
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; German
Description: Exifer is a software with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras. Often image processing software destroys metadata when saving files, with Exifer you can create a backup of the metadata before editing it in any software, and restore it back into the processed file very easily. Features: Supports EXIF (up to 2.2) and IPTC data in JPEG and TIFF files; Reading and displaying of makernotes by Canon, Casio, Fuji, Minolta, Nikon and Olympus; Backing up, restoring and comparing metadata (EXIF/IPTC); Editing of metadata (for JPEG files only); Inserting EXIF data from THM files (for JPEG files only); Creating/inserting/rotating EXIF thumbnails (for JPEG files only); Customizeable view of metadata; Export/import of metadata (CSV, Canto Cumulus, descript.ion files); Renaming and redating with various formats; Lossless rotation (for JPEG files only); Cropping (with aspect ratio); Watermarks; Slideshow.
Home page:
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/
Program description; download v 2.1.5 (2002-09-18) [ exifersetup.exe (1663 KB)]
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/
Download from Tucows: http://www.tucows.com/adnload/281273_106644.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Extended Character Map (v. 1.41)
Company: AriTech Development Indonesia
Author: Sony Arianto Kurniawan
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.41),
http://www.woundedmoon.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: Extended Character Map is like the Windows Character Map utility but uses much bigger, easier-to-see characters. The utility is especially useful for viewing the pictures in a symbol or Dingbat font. Characters can be seen up to 100pt size. No more squinting at Webding characters trying to figure out "is that a race car or a textile factory?". The keystroke name is displayed in the program's status bar. The Decimal/Hex/Oct/Binary values are also displayed. Additionally, you can view the fonts with one or more attributes selected (Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout). Using ExtendedCharacterMap, any character or series of characters can be quickly copied to the clipboard.
Program description:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,6166,00.asp
download v 1.41 [ extended.zip (189 KB)]
http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/desktop/fonts/extended.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 byVegard Krog Petersen - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

F-Prot Antivirus for DOS
Company: Frisk Software International
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use),
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/98
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: F-Prot Antivirus for DOS is easy to use, with a simple yet practical interface that offers great flexibility for the user, but can be run in command-line mode as well. The user can scan floppy disks, local hard drives or network drives as well as individual folders and files. Among features included in F-Prot Antivirus for DOS is an effective heuristic scanner to scan for new viruses and suspicious files. F-Prot Antivirus will scan inside compressed files, as well as in Word documents and Excel workbooks.
NOTES: The usage of F-Prot for DOS on Windows NT based systems (including Windows 2000, Windows XP) is not recommended. Full system scans on these OS versions will likely miss a couple of files, especially from system folders and deep nested directories. Scanning of top-level (e.g. "Download") folders usually works fine, though. Results should be logged to file (/Report option) in such cases to check completeness of the scan, afterwards.
Development of the engine has been terminated. Signature file updates are still available, regularly.
Home page:
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/
download page v 3.16f (2006-06-22) [ f-prot.zip (4692 KB)]
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
(desc. rev.:2006-11-05 by BeAr)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

FastStone Image Viewer
Company: FastStone Soft
Author: Andrew Lu
(Donationware) (free for personal use),
http://www.faststone.org/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: A image browser, viewer, converter and editor wich features resizing, renaming, cropping and color adjustments. Other features: Full-screen mode, quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser, magnifier, slideshow (with 150+ transitional effects), lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram, several different skins, red-eye removal. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, RAW, EMF, PSD and TGA.
Home Page:
http://www.faststone.org/
download page v 2.8 (2006-10-26) [ FSViewerSetup28.exe (2914 KB)] [ FSViewerSetup28.zip (2902 KB)]
http://www.faststonesoft.org/download.htm
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/faststone.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-27 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Filemon
Company: Microsoft (was Sysinternals)
Author: Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
(Freeware),
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: FileMon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon's timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome. FileMon is so easy to use that you'll be an expert within minutes. It begins monitoring when you start it, and its output window can be saved to a file for off-line viewing. It has full search capability, and if you find that you're getting information overload, simply set up one or more filters. NOTES: Filemon and Regmon have been replaced by Process Monitor on versions of Windows starting with Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista. Filemon and Regmon remain for legacy operating system support, including Windows 9x.
Home page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Program description: download v 7.04 (2006-11-01) [ Filemon.zip (280 KB)]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Filemon.mspx
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-07 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

FileNote
Company: Moon Software
Author: Ahto Tanner
(Freeware),
http://www.moonsoftware.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: FileNote is a little shell extension that allows you to add textual descriptions to your files. It adds one command to the shell context menu of a file object. This command lets you easily edit or create a text file that has the same name as the initial file, but with the extension TXT. For example, if you have a file, MyImage.jpg, you right-click on that file and choose the FileNote command from the context menu. A new text file called MyImage.txt is created and Notepad is opened to edit that text file. If a text file with that name already exists, it will be opened for viewing/editing.)
Home page:
http://www.moonsoftware.com/
Program description; download v 1.1.0 (1999-01-03) [ FileNote_110.exe (206 KB)]
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

FileZilla
Company: --
Author: Tim Kosse
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP NOTES: v 2.2.22 is the last version that supports Windows 95/98/ME
Languages: English; French; German; Hungarian; Polish; Spanish
Description: FileZilla has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable. The main features of FileZilla are: Ability to resume Uploads/Downloads (if the server supports it), Custom Commands, Site Manager with folders, Keep Alive system, Timeout detection, Firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support, SSL secured connections, SFTP support, Upload/Download Queue, Drag and Drop, Multi-language support, GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos.
Home Page:
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
download page v 2.2.28 (2006-09-29) [ FileZilla_2_2_28_setup.exe (3457 KB)] [ FileZilla_2_2_28.zip (4532 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/filezilla.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Free Agent (v 1.21)
Company: Forte Internet Software
Author: --
(Liteware) LFW (v 1.21) last uncrippled version (fa32-121.exe),
http://papa.indstate.edu:8888/ftp/main!Windows95!News.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Free Agent is your guide to news, fun and information in the Usenet newsgroups.
download page v 1.21 (2000) [ fa32-121.exe (1079 KB)]
http://archive.mysteryfcm.co.uk/?f=Internet/News/Free_Agent
alternate download page
http://papa.indstate.edu:8888/ftp/main!Windows95!News.html
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Free Digital Camera Enhancer
Company: MediaChance
Author: Roman Voska (aka Oscar)
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.mediachance.com/search.htm
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Free DCE does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance control for you. The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already fine, you won't see much difference. DCE makes very delicate changes... One thing makes DCEnhancer different from other tools - reducing the noise and skin smoothing algorithm. It makes DCE ideal for making cool portraits and close-ups!
Home page:
http://www.mediachance.com
Program description: download v 1.3 [ dcenhanc.zip (524 KB) ]
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-13 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Free Download Manager (FDM)
Company: FreeDownloadManager.ORG
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Note: IE 5.0 and above
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. You can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. FDM has an intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can resume broken downloads (and it warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers). You can schedule the following operations: set or hang up the Internet connection, exit from the program and shutdown the computer. If you want to browse web pages faster with a low speed connection FDM lets you adjust traffic usage. Note: Avoid v 1.45 beta. It contains NavHelper (malware) (installation is optional).
Home page:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
download v 2.0 (2006-08-10) [ fdminst.exe (1641 KB)]
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

freeCommander
Company: --
Author: Marek Jasinski
(Freeware),
http://www.freecommander.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: freeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager. The program helps you with daily work in Windows. Here you can find all the necessary functions to manage your data stock. You can take freeCommander anywhere - just copy the installation directory on a CD, USB-Stick or even a floppy disk - and you can even work with this program on a foreign computer. Main features: dual-panel technology; optional tree view for each panel; built in file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format; file viewer inside archives too; built in archive handling: ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write), RAR (read); nested archive handling; easy access to system folders, control panel, desktop and start menu; copy, move, delete, rename files and folders; file splitting; file properties and context menu; calculation of folder size; folder comparison / synchronization; modification of file date and attributes; folder / program favorites; file searching (inside archive too); file filters for display; DOS command line.
Home page:
http://www.freecommander.com/
download page v 2006.06b (2006-09-17) [ fc_setup_.zip (1635 KB)]
http://www.freecommander.com/fc_downl_en.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-02)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

FreePDF and FreePDF XP
Company: --
Author: Stefan Heinz
(Donationware) (free),
http://freepdfxp.de/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Requires GhostScript; requires msvbvm50.dll on Win2003
Languages: English; German and other (FreePdf XP freely customizable)
Description: Easy to control GUI wrapper to GhostScript, RedMon, and the Windows printing system to create *.pdf files from any application with printer output. Provides support for the conversation of *.ps files (Windows Shell extension) and for combining *.pdf files.
Profiles can be defined for different resolutions, color and font handling, encryption, watermarks (needs PdfTk: www.accesspdf.com/pdftk),... Output as picture (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG) is also supported.
NOTES: The web pages are in German. English translations via Babelfish. Use the "English" link at the top of the home page to view/navigate a translated version of the web site.
Home page:
http://freepdfxp.de/
download page: [ v 3.07 (2006-05-19) FreePDFXP3.07.EXE (826 KB) Win 2000/XP]
[ v 2.11 (2004-01-11) freepdf211.exe (1005 KB) Win 9x/NT/ME]
http://shbox.de/fpx732.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-05 by BeAr)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Frhed
Company: --
Author: Raihan Kibria
(Betaware) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) Marked as Beta for years. Stable.,
http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Frhed (free hex editor) is a small, fast and powerful binary file and disk editor. Features include search and replace for any combination of binary and text data, file comparison, bit manipulation, customizable display colors and font size, ANSI or OEM character set, cut and paste, bookmarking and more. With Frhed you can also apply binary templates for structured information, load files partially (for working on huge programs), and export as hexdump to file or clipboard. Frhed currently does not support Undo. NOTES: Other version downloads are obsolete except for very special purposes
Home Page, download v 1.1 Beta 1 (2002-04-16) [ frhed-v1.1.zip (628 KB)]
http://www.kibria.de/frhed.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-05 by BeAr)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

FTPpie
Company: --
Author: David Taylor
(Freeware) (free for personal use),
http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Delphi runtime library. No installation required.
Languages: English
Description: Your ISP offers you 30MB of disk space, but doesn't tell you how much space is used! This tool enables you to get a usage piechart from your FTP service, showing which directories are taking the most space, and to drill down into those directories to see which are the largest files. Simply double-click on a pie segment to drill down!
Home page:
http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Program description; download v 1.4.0 (2003-03-26) [ ftppie140.zip (248 KB)]
http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/software/net.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

GhostScript
Company: artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises)
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: AFPL or GNU GPL),
http://www.ghostscript.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: Command line interface
Other OS:Macintosh; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides: * An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in; * An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities; * The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; and * A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language. NOTES: Requires having a Postscript printer driver installed
Home page:
http://www.ghostscript.com/
download page v 8.54 (2006-05-17) [ gs854w32-gpl.exe (12671 KB) Windows]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

GOM Player
Company: Gretech
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.gomplayer.com/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP
Languages: English Note: Handles subtitles in many languages.
Description: GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in. No need to install codecs separately! GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you won't have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you can't play a certain video format. Watch video files while you are downloading them! GOM has a registered patent for playing broken AVI files and files that are still being downloaded. So try one of your broken AVI files or one that you are downloading right now. GOM supports a lot of advanced features for advanced users.
Homepage:
http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
download v 2.0.11.3373 (2006-10-18) [ GOMPLAYERENSETUP.EXE (3.94 MB) ]
http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-04 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Google Toolbar
Company: Google
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.google.com/downloads/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP NOTE: Requires Internet Explorer or Firefox
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux
Languages: English and other languages
Description: Keep the power of Google search close at hand. Google Toolbar puts a search box in your browser, making it easier than ever to find anything you want on the Web. Features: AutoLink; WordTranslator; Address Bar Browse by Name (Internet Explorer only); Customize your Toolbar layout (Firefox only); Pop-up Blocker (Internet Explorer only); AutoFill; SpellCheck; PageRank Display; Highlight Search Terms; Word Find Buttons; Google Suggest (Firefox only) NOTES: Google Toolbar has an automatic program update feature that cannot be disabled. The IE version requires download of an installer, which in turn downloads the IE Toolbar.
Home page:
http://toolbar.google.com/
download Google Toolbar for IE v 4.1070.3054 (2006-10-31) [ Google Installer.exe (498 KB) (English)],
http://www.google.com/downloads/
download Google Toolbar for Firefox v 2.0.20060713W (2006-07-13) [ google-toolbar.xpi (775 KB) (English)]
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Google_Toolbar_for_Firefox/996950052/2
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

GParted LiveCD
Company: --
Author: Bart Hakvoort; Patrick Verner; project team
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/
Windows OS: n/a NOTES: No installation required.
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: GParted LiveCD uses Xorg, the lightweight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
Home Page:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Program description:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
download page v 0.3.1-1 (2006-09-12) [ gparted-livecd-0.3.1-1.iso (29212 KB)] [ gparted-livecd-0.3.1-1.iso.zip (28413 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-02)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

GrabIt
Company: --
Author: Ilan Shemes
(Betaware) (Donationware) (Liteware) (free),
http://www.shemes.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: binary-newsgroups downloader Features: Easy to use and familiar looking user interface; Fast selecting, downloading and decoding of binary attachments; Download and decode multiple articles at once; Pause function to free bandwidth; Exact resume (after pause or stop); Advanced error checking; Multiple server support; Incremental group update; Post articles Notes: Probably the best freeware available for downloading with .NZB files. Software offers free trial to Grabit Usenet Search and Browser, but the software itself is fully functional without using the service. Free binary usenet searches and .NZB creation are available on web pages such as http://yabse.com/
Home Page:
http://www.shemes.com/
download page v 1.6.2 ßeta  (2006-06-11) (GrabIt162b.exe) (1.20 MB)
http://www.shemes.com/index.php?p=download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Graph Paper Printer (v. 4.21)
Company: Clinical laboratory software
Author: Philippe Marquis
(Requestware) (free) LFW (v 4.21) last uncrippled version,
http://fwg.raum108.de/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Graph Paper Printer is a software application designed to print numerous kinds of graph papers, music manuscripts and pattern papers, with user-defined sizes and colors. The options are available through dropdown pick-lists. An uninstaller is provided in the package.
Program description; download v 4.21 (2001-01-03) [ gpaper421.zip (366 KB)]
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/gpaper421.html
download page v 4.21 (2001-01-03) [ gpaper421.zip (366 KB)]
http://fwg.raum108.de/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

GSpot
Company: --
Author: Steven Greenberg
(Freeware),
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: GSpot codec information appliance establishes what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play an AVI file. Determines whether these codecs are installed on your system. Isolates problems associated with these codecs. Simple operation - Basic use: "File > Open", then read results Identifies download induced problems (truncated files, "cooked" files, etc.) Shows framerate, duration, aspect ratio, bitrates, AVI structure info, and more. Displays and allows editing of RIFF info (title, etc); displays "hidden" ASCII info. Drag and Drop and "Send To" support, multi-file (batch) processing support Copy/Paste or text export GSpot information - format is user configurable. Built-in database of 350 video and 150 audio codec types Advanced UI including "dual-mode" and hyperlinked "persistent" tool tips Full support for OGG media files as well as AVI stream formats Identification (only) of non-AVI files (.mpg, .mov, .qt, .rm, .swf, .wmv, .asf, etc.) Supports VFW, ACM, DirectShow and DMO codec types (audio and video)
Home page:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
download v 2.21 build 030711 (2003-07-03) [ gspot221.exe (213 KB)] [ gspot221.rar (123 KB) no install]
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/download.html
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/gspot221.rar
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Hamster
Company: --
Author: Juergen Haible; Thomas G. Liesner and many other
(Freeware) (open source),
http://home.arcor.de/tgl70/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Hamster is a local server for news and mail. It's a windows-32-bit-program. It allows the use of multiple news- and mailserver and combines them to one mail- and newsserver for the news/mail-client. It load faster than a normal newsreader because many threads can run simultaneous. It contains scorefile for news and mail, a build-in script language, the GUI allows translation to other languages, it can be used in a network and that's not all ...
Home page:
http://home.arcor.de/tgl70/
download page v 2.1.0.11 (2006-03-28) [ Hamster.2.1.0.11.zip (3017 KB)]
http://home.arcor.de/tgl70/misc/hamster_en.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

HelpMaker
Company: Vizacc
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.vizacc.com/Windows OS: Windows 32-bit
Languages: English and other languages
Description: HelpMaker is an application to create help files without an expensive word-processor, without having the manage multiple files. Writing help files is called help authoring. You can make whole help files using HelpMaker. HelpMaker makes WinHelp, RTF and HTML-Help files. Notes: HelpMaker has no limitations, no time-outs, no nags, no adware, no banner ads and no spyware. It is 100% free. Other than this product, there is no free help authoring tool for WinHelp and HTML-Help.
Home Page:
http://www.vizacc.com/
Program description: download v 7.02.019 (2006-09-06) [ vahelp72019.exe (12 MB) Windows 32-bit]
http://www.vizacc.com/gen_download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-02)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Hosts File
Company: --
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine. Another feature of the HOSTS file is it's ability to block other applications from connecting to the Internet, as long the the entry exists. You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, cookies, web bugs, and even most hijackers. The HOSTS file now includes most major parasites, hijackers and unwanted Search Engines! In many cases this can speed the loading of web pages by not having to wait for these ads, banners, hit counters, etc. to load. This also helps to protect your Privacy by blocking servers that track your viewing habits, known as "click-thru tracking".
Home Page: download v (2006-10-30) [ hosts.zip (118 KB)]
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Hosts Toggle
Company: HostsToggle
Author: Mike Meyer
(Freeware) (open source),
http://accs-net.com/hosts/HostsToggle/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: The Hosts file can be useful for blocking ads, but sometimes it can also interfere with normal web browsing and downloading. HostsToggle makes turning the Hosts file "on" and "off" as easy as clicking a button. The Hosts file can also be automatically restored after a specified amount of time--great if you keep forgetting to turn the Hosts back on! And finally, you can easily load alternate Hosts files (saved with the extension .tgl) so that instead of completely turning off the Hosts file, you can load one without the entries that are causing you trouble. HostsToggle comes with the Visual Basic 6 source code so you can see exactly what it's doing. You are free to modify the code to suit your needs. NOTES: Requires VB6 runtime files for Win9x/NT4 (not neccessary for Win ME/2K/XP) See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=28337
Home page:
http://accs-net.com/hosts/HostsToggle/
download v 2.1 (2002-05-31) [ 30 KB)]
http://accs-net.com/hosts/Downloads/hoststoggle.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

HostsMan
Company: --
Author: R.J.Governa; R.Loureiro
(Freeware),
http://www.abelhadigital.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: HostsMan is an application to manage your Windows HOSTS file. It is mainly intended to block specific domains (mostly advertising servers) by redirecting them to localhost, but can also be used to add any other domain/Ip combination that you want to be included in the HOSTS file. In addition to the editing features, HostsMan can prevent other programs from writing to the HOSTS, create encrypted backups of your hosts file, enable/disable usage of hosts file, import and merge hosts files, resolve IP addresses and scan hosts for errors, duplicates and possible hijack entries. This program assumes that you have basic understanding of the HOSTS functionality.
Home Page:
http://www.abelhadigital.com/
download v 3.0 beta 1 (2006-08-21) [ hostsman30beta1.exe (1415 kb)]
http://hostsman.abelhadigital.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

HTML-Kit
Company: --
Author: Chami.com
(Freeware),
http://www.chami.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: HTML-Kit is a full-featured editor and an integrated development environment designed to help HTML, XHTML, XML and script authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Newcomers to web page development can benefit from letting it point out errors and provide suggestions on how to create standards compliant pages. Experts can save time spent on common tasks using the highly customizable and extensible editor while maintaining full control over multiple file types including HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSL, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, PHP, JSP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB, C/C++, C#, Delphi / Pascal, Lisp, SQL, and more. In addition to the user friendly environment that support multiple file types and standards, HTML-Kit includes internal, external, server-side and live preview modes; FTP Workspace for uploading, downloading and online editing of files; and the ability to use hundreds of optional add-ins through its open plugins interface. The latest release adds the ability to run batch actions such as global search and replace on multiple files and web sites, Internet Explorer and Mozilla / Netscape side-by-side previewing, W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines checking through HTML Tidy, internal Command Prompt, TimeTracker, translations, Text to Speech Wizard, UnicodePad and more...
Home page:
http://www.chami.com/
Program description:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
download page Build 292 (292-2005.11.23) [ HKSetup.exe (2868 KB)]
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/press/pricelessware/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

HTMStrip
Company: Wayne Software
Author: Bruce Guthrie
(Freeware),
http://users.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm
Windows OS:
Other OS: DOS
Languages: English
Description: HTMSTRIP: Processes and removes embedded HTML commands from Web pages downloaded from the Web. Reflows paragraphs, processes tables, etc as straight ASCII text. Can function on individually-saved pages or else process your entire disk cache. Ideal tool for resending via e-mail or dozens of different uses. Written and compiled in DOS, not Windows. HTMSTRIP should work fine under Windows but forget handling things like long file names under Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, and WinNT. COMMENTS: Very configurable - via both ini-file and command line switches. Handles tables very well!
Home Page: download v (2004-08) [ HTMS0208.ZIP (126 KB)]
http://users.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-31 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

HTTRACK (WinHTTrack)
Company: --
Author: Xavier Roche
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.httrack.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English and other languages
Description: WinHTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your computer. WinHTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the 'mirrored' website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. WinHTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. WinHTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. NOTES: WinHTTrack is the Windows release of HTTrack.
Home page:
http://www.httrack.com/
download page v 3.40-2 (2006-04-09) [ httrack-3.40-2.exe (3345 KB) Windows] [ httrack-noinst-3.40-2.zip (3552 KB) Windows]
http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ICEOWS (was ArjFolder)
Company: --
Author: Raphaël et Béatrice Mounier
(Freeware),
http://www.iceows.com/
Operating Systems: Win 9x/ME/NT/XP
Languages: Available in eleven languages and one international multilanguage version
Description: ICEOWS (formerly Arj Folder) is written to compress or extract archive files easier. With ICEOWS you can extract, test, read properties and comments or view files stored in ICE, ARJ, ZIP, GunZip, TAR, Microsoft CAB, RAR, ACE, MIME, Mac HQX, UUEncode, XXEncode, Base64, JAR, EAR, WAR, LHA, IMP, BZ2 files without an external program. If the archive is an ICE, ARJ or ZIP, you also can add, update and delete files stored within the archive. It integrates all of these functions in the same explorer interface that Windows 9x, Me, NT or XP has. ICEOWS adds a new ICE format which is excellent for reducing the size of text files.
Home Page: http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html
Download Page: http://www.iceows.com/Download.htm
Filename: ice420u.exe (English) ice420.exe (International)
Version: 4.20b
Size: 739kb (English) 1.14MB (International)
(Desc. 2006/10/11)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

IconShop
Company: Lion Tech
Author: Peter Stuer
(Freeware),
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: IconShop is an icon librarian that offers the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Read and write ICL icon libraries. Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them. Drag and drop icons or icon images between IconShop windows. Extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP bitmaps, GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables and libraries. Export icons to icon, cursor BMP or TIFF bitmap format.
Home page: download v 1.13 (1999-06-07) [ IconShop.zip (88 KB)]
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

IE Privacy Keeper
Company: UnH Solutions Inc.
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.unhsolutions.net/
Windows OS: 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003
NOTES: Browsers Supported: Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher and Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and higher
Languages: English, German, Russian, Dutch, French, Italian
Description: IE Privacy Keeper (which also supports Mozilla Firefox) is a simple, fast, and efficient browsing-history cleaner. It automatically cleans up all traces of your Internet activity when you close the browser or shut down the computer. You can select to clean the URL history, typed URLs, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies (keep the ones you need), Recent Documents, Auto-complete history, Windows temporary files and the recycle bin. The program allows you to specify entries (and cookies) to be excluded from the cleaning. In addition, you can choose to clean custom folder locations as well as registry keys and even use secure deletion method to permanently wipe from your disk. IE Privacy Keeper can perform the cleanup automatically, or manually from the Tools menu in Internet Explorer. IE Privacy Keeper can correctly clean up the index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart. There is also a TakeAlong version that is especially designed for cases when you cannot or don't wish to install IE Privacy Keeper using the setup program. For instance, when you are renting a computer in a cyber cafe or when you have restricted rights on your computer at work. Special unique features of IE Privacy Keeper allow you to conceal the cleanup. You can keep selective items in the browsing history and hide the program form the list of running applications. Secure deletion will make any attempts to recover deleted items fail.
COMMENTS: To get the most out of this utility, spend some time tweaking all of the available options.
Home Page
http://www.browsertools.net/
Program Description
http://www.browsertools.net/IE-Privacy-Keeper/index.html
Downloads Page
http://www.browsertools.net/downloads1.html
Version (release date): 2.7.3 (2005-12-3)
File name (size): ieprivacykeepersetup.exe (1.2 MB)
(desc. rev. : 2006-10-13 Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

iICO (compiled)
Company: Mintra Systems (compiler)
Author: Carles P. V.
(Freeware) (open source),
http://www.mintrasystems.com/
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 98 or later
Languages: English
Description:
A free, fully featured icon editor that can handle anything from 1 to 32 bit icons. iICO is an extremely versatile free icon editor for Windows. It is capable of handling both icon and cursor files, plus the semitransparent icons in Windows XP. It can accept input from a wide variety of formats, converting them smoothly to icon size with very little loss of clarity. Many Mintra Systems product icons (including the one for iICO) were made using this program. This is in our opinion one of the best (and certainly the best you can get for free) icon editors currently available on the internet. A full set of help pages is included with the product.
Home Page:
http://www.mintrasystems.com/products/mintra/product.php?p=iico
download v 1.3.1 (2006-06-15) [setupiico131.exe (1372 KB)]
http://www.mintrasystems.com/products/mintra/product.php?p=iico
Original source code (v.1.2.5): http://www.pscode.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=54968&lngWId=1
desc. rev. 2006-10-12 by Wish; added information by Vegard Krog Petersen 2006-10-28)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Index.dat Suite
Company: Ur I.T. Mate Group
Author: Steven Burn
(Freeware),
http://www.it-mate.co.uk/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: Index.dat Suite is a rather unique program that allows you not only to delete the index.dat files, temporary internet files, temp files, cookies and history, but it also allows you to view the index.dat files on your system. Index.dat Suite's current features include; View and delete index.dat files ; View and delete Temporary Internet Files (TIF) ; View and delete Cookies ; View and delete History ; View and delete Temp files ; View and delete Recent Documents ; Delete Typed URL'; s ; Delete Prefetch folder contents ; Auto-generation of batch file to assist in deleting the index.dat files in DOS. ; Optional add to RunOnce registry key ; Optional deletion of swap file (9x users only) ; Optional defrag after file deletion ; Full application logging
Home Page:
http://www.it-mate.co.uk/
Program description:
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=index.datsuite
download page v 2.9.5 (2006-08-26) [ idsuite.exe (2490 KB)]
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&act=DL&p=index.datsuite
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Info-Rapid Search & Replace
Company: --
Author: Ingo Straub
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use),
http://www.inforapid.de/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently available for Microsoft Windows. With its built-in converters, it's excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search is over. The search and replace process can be automated with the help of batch files to replace several phrases in one step. The found documents can be opened in a preview window, in which the matches are highlighted. A special feature is that InfoRapid can use Microsoft Office converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus and other documents and preview them in their original layout. The advantages of InfoRapid Search & Replace lie in the diverse search options and in the simple operation and handiness. A click on a hypertext link in the search result list opens the corresponding file in the text viewer and jumps directly to the marked passage. Another click, this time with the right mouse button, brings you back to the search result list. You can browse through the search result list with the function keys F5 and F6, without shifting between the file viewer and the search result list every time. If you discover a word you want to look further on, a double click on it is sufficient to take it as new search expression and start a new search. Up to 999 search result pages and search parameters can be stored in a database, from where they can be recalled via a register.
Home page:
http://www.inforapid.de/
download v 3.1f (2003-07-12) [ sr.exe (1014 KB)]
http://www.inforapid.org/sr/sr.exe
alternate download v 3.1f (2003-07-12) [ sr.exe (1014 KB)]
http://www.inforapid.de/sr/sr.exe
(desc. rev.: 20065-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Inno Setup
Company: Jordan Russell's Software
Author: Jordan Russell
(Donationware) (free) (open source),
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Inno Setup is an installer for Windows programs. Features include support for all 32-bit Windows versions in use today -- Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Me, NT 4.0. Support for Windows NT 3.51 can also be optionally included. (An older 16-bit version of Inno Setup is still available.) Supports creation of a single EXE to install your program for easy online distribution. Disk spanning is also supported. Standard wizard interface, including support for the latest Windows 2000/XP wizard style. Customizable setup types, e.g. Full, Minimal, Custom. Complete uninstall capabilities. Installation of files: Includes integrated "deflate" file compression (the same compression .zip files use) and also supports bzip2 compression. The installer has the ability to compare file version info, replace in-use files, use shared file counting, register DLL/OCX's and type libraries, and install fonts. Creation of shortcuts anywhere, including in the Start Menu and on the desktop. Creation of registry and .INI entries. Silent install and uninstall. Full source code is available (Borland Delphi 2.0-5.0).
Home page:
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
download page v 5.1.8 (2006-10-11) [ isetup-5.1.8.exe (1353 KB)]
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

IPNetInfo
Company: NirSoft
Author: Nir Sofer
(Freeware),
http://www.nirsoft.net/
Windows OS: 98/ME/2000/XP/2003
Languages: English and many other languages using downloadable .ini files
Description: IPNetInfo is a small utility that allows you to easily find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more. IPNetInfo is standalone program, so it doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, simply unzip and copy the executable file (ipnetinfo.exe) to any folder you like, and run it. Note: A version with install/uninstall support is also available for download.
Homepage:
http://www.nirsoft.net/
download v 1.09 (2005-11-05) [ ipnetinfo,zip (47.3 kb)]
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-13 by Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

IPResolve
Company: Zone 17 Software
Author: Benoit Bousquet
(Freeware),
http://software.zone17.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 Note: No installation required; no registry entries.
Other OS: BeOS 5.x x86/PPC
Languages: English
Description: A simple application which resolves IP addresses to their DNS names as well as the other way around. It can be useful when trying to trace the originator of spam e-mail, or simply just for the heck of it. Note: A BeOS 5.x version is also available from the website.
Homepage:
http://software.zone17.com/
Program description: download v 1.0 (2000-08-26) [ IPResolve-1.0-Win32.zip (4 KB) Windows]
http://software.zone17.com/ipresolve.htm#downloads
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-04 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

IrfanView
Company: --
Author: Irfan Skiljan
(free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) bundled with toolbars (installation is optional),
http://www.irfanview.com/
Windows OS: Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English; German; language packs for other languages
Description: The first graphic viewer with Multiple (animated) GIF support, one of the first graphic viewers with Multipage TIFF support and the first graphic viewer with Multiple ICO support. Features: Thumbnails, Preview, Drag and Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through directory), Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch conversion, change the color depth, audio CD player, Capturing, Cut/Crop, Effects (Blur, Sharpen etc.) and many many more ... other features: Many supported file formats, Thumbnail/preview option, Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD), Drag and drop support, Batch conversion (with image processing), Email option, Multimedia player, Print option, Change color depth, Scan (batch scan) support, Cut/crop, IPTC editing, Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Photoshop filter factory), Capturing, Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, Lossless JPG rotation, Many hotkeys, Many command line options, Many plugins, Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, No registry changes without user action/permission! and many more
Home page:
http://www.irfanview.com/
Mirror site:
http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
download page v 3.98 (2005-12-24) [ iview398.exe (884 KB) English] [ iview398.zip (860 KB) English] [ irfanview_plugins_398.exe (5033 KB) English]
http://www.irfanview.com/download_sites.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

IZArc
Company: --
Author: Ivan Zahariev
(Betaware) (Donationware) (free),
http://www.izarc.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English and many other languages
Description:
IZArc is the ultimate archive utility suports many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BZ2, BZA, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support. IZArc is the most complete archive utility available today.
Home page:
http://www.izarc.org/
download page v 3.5 beta 3 (2005-09-06) [ IZArc35.exe (3114 KB)]
http://www.izarc.org/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

JAlbum
Company: --
Author: David Ekholm
(Donationware) (free),
http://jalbum.net/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires v1.4 of Suns Java runtime or newer.
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages (German help file available)
Description: This software makes web albums of your digital images. With JAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just color theme and basic layout, making an album is just a matter of drag and drop + a button click if you prefer to use one of the many existing looks. JAlbum will process your images, make index pages and slide show pages and even upload the final album to the Internet for your friends to see. No extra software is needed to view the albums, just your web browser.
Home Page:
http://jalbum.net/
download page v 6.5.4 (2006-09-15 ) [JAlbum-install.exe (18196 KB) Windows] [JAlbum6.5.4.zip (8507 KB) Windows]
http://jalbum.net/download.jsp
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/jalbum.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

JPEG Cleaner
Company: Rainbow Software and PiT
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.rainbow-software.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Other OS: DOS
Languages: English
Description: JPG Cleaner is simple but powerful utility for cleaning JPG files from anything that is not picture data. Commonly used programs such as Adobe Photoshop are writing additional information into JPG file that isn't needed for correctly displaying the picture. Texts such as File written by Adobe Photoshop, Creator: PolyView® Version 3.32 by Polybytes, LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01; picture previews (sometimes even bigger than main JPG data!); Color Management data. All this data is useul only when opening the file in program that created it. Other programs such as Internet Browsers are just skipping this data, so the data is downloaded ant then thrown away! Just use this program when publishing JPG files on the Internet and your JPG files become smaller (if they contain non-picture data) with NO QUALITY LOSS.
Home page:
http://www.rainbow-software.org/
Program description: download v 2.6 (2002-07-30) [ jpgcln26.zip (284 KB)]
http://www.rainbow-software.org/programs.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

JR Screen Ruler
Company: Spadix Software
Author: --
(Liteware) (free) bundled with the $ware version,
http://www.spadixbd.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.
Home Page:
http://www.spadixbd.com/
Program description; download v 1.4 (2001-09-11) [ jruler.zip (494 KB)]
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

jv16 Powertools (v 1.3.0.195)
Company: --
Author: Jouni Vuorio
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.3.0.195) last uncrippled version,
http://htmole.altervista.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: jv16 PowerTools is a full set of tools to keep your computer up and running. Until now your computer might have been the one who was in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take control. The program contains all the tools you need for cleaning, controlling and tuning up your computer. Including a registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, temp file finder and much much more! Installation notes: Do NOT run the program before you have copied it to its final destination. If you move the program after you have used it even once it starts asking for a password and you must re-install the program before you can use it again. COMMENTS: Version 1.3.0.196 expired on 2004-01-01
Program description; download v 1.3.0.195 [ jv16-1.3.0.195.zip ( 2146 KB)]
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/
alternate download v 1.3.0.195 [ jv16pt_setup.zip ( 2146 KB)]
http://digilander.libero.it/rareware/jv16pt_setup.zip
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.macecraft.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

K-meleon
Company: Contributors to the K-Meleon project
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Windows 9x/ ME/NT 4.0 are generally supported with updated Microsoft libraries.
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). It supports customization for toolbar, menu, context menu, and keyboard shortcuts, uses themes and skins, provides plugins and advanced macro capabilities. NOTES: Optimized for speed and small memory footprint
Home page:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/
download page v 1.0.2 (2006-09-22) [K-Meleon1.02.exe (5012 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14285
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

K9
Company: --
Author: Robin Keir
(Donationware) (free),
http://keir.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; Guides available in several languages
Description: K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis that can result in extremely high accuracy over time. K9 learns from its mistakes and becomes better and better at being able to identify spam. More importantly it learns to recognize what you consider to be spam. K9 is for standard POP3 email accounts only. It does not directly support Hotmail, AOL or any other kind of webmail type systems, nor does it support SSL or secure authentication as used by MSN.
Home page:
http://keir.net/
download v 1.28 (2004-04-18) [ k9v1.zip (77 KB) English] [ k9v1setup.exe (113 KB) English]
http://keir.net/k9.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Karen's Replicator
Company: --
Author: Karen Kenworthy
(Donationware) (free for personal use) (source code included),
http://www.karenware.com/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Visual Basic Runtime v6.0 (available on-site)
Languages: English
Description: Automatically backup files, directories, even entire drives! Karen's Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network. Files larger than 2 GB are supported. Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, or as long as several months, copy only files that have changed, and the replication of file deletions. Specify which files should not be copied, and also which days a file should be skipped!
Home page:
http://www.karenware.com/
Program description: download v 3.3.4 (2005-11-19) [ ptreplicator-setup.exe (1472 KB)]
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-10 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

KeePass Password Safe
Company: --
Author: Dominik Reichl; project team
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Other OS: WINE
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). KeePass doesn't use any functions that require the latest Windows operating system, such like theming on XP or like a .NET application that requires a .NET framework (KeePass supports XP themes, but doesn't require this operating system capability). Features: Highly encrypted databases. Support of master passwords and key-disks.Runs on all Windows operating systems and doesn't need to be installed.Export password list to TXT, HTML, XML or CSV files. Import from CSV, CodeWallet(Pro) TXT and Password Safe v2 TXT files. Easy database transfer. Support of password groups. ime fields and entry attachment support. Auto-type, global auto-type hot key combination and drag-n-drop support. Intuitive and secure Windows clipboard handling. Searching and sorting. Multi-language support. Strong random password generator. Low memory requirement. Plugin architecture. Open-Source!
Home page:
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/
download page v 1.06 (2006-10-16) [ KeePass-1.06-Setup.exe (992 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95013
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Kerio Personal Firewall (v 2.1.5)
Company: Kerio Technologies Inc.
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 2.1.5) earlier version,
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) is a software agent that builds a barrier between your personal computer and the Internet. KPF is designed to protect your PC against attacks from both the Internet, and other computers in the local network. KPF controls all data flow in both directions from the Internet to your computer and vice versa, and it can block all attempted communication allowing only what you choose to permit. This makes KPF an ideal solution for notebook computers that freely travel in and out of the corporate network, facing exposure to various risks as they connect from different locations. Kerio Personal Firewall protects against information theft, modification or destruction, Trojan horse applications, spyware, unauthorized access from within the local network, denial of service attacks to applications or services.
Program description; download: v 2.1.5 (2003-05-09) [ keriopf215.zip (2018 KB)]
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

KeyNote
Company: --
Author: Marek Jedlinski
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keynote/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Keynote is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. With its (optional) trayicon feature, it can be accessible with a single keypress. You can include many separate notes within a single Keynote file. This means that you can create only one file and hold all your notes inside it and make it a three- dimensional notebook: many notes within one file and a multi-level, nested pages within a single note. Optionally, KeyNote can encrypt your data securely using the Blowfish or Idea algorithms. Keynote's interface and behavior are extremely configurable (e.g., full hotkeys support, customizable toolbars buttons). The feature of "virtual nodes" allow linking of a tree node to a file in the drive. Importing and exporting notes from richedit format and text formats are supported. The program also supports per-file configuration settings, multiple backups and WordWeb dictionary integration. More features are included such as styles, macros, plugins, and templates. It can be used as a NOTES keeper, a diary, an outliner, a knowledge base and other different types of information managers as the user prefers. Note: Keynote home page has statement saying "20 Oct 2005: All projects are closed down." Program is still available for download at Sourceforge.
Home page:
http://www.tranglos.com/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keynote/
download v 1.6.5 (2003-11-13) [ kntsetup.exe (1630 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23214
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

KNOPPIX
Company: --
Author: Klaus Knopper
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.knoppix.org/
Windows OS:
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English; German
Description: KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it (over 8GB on the DVD "Maxi" edition).
Home page (German page - English page is available):
http://www.knoppix.org/
download page v 5.0.1 (2006-06-02) [ KNOPPIX_V5.0.1CD-2006-06-01-EN.iso (712926 KB) English]
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

KompoZer
Company: --
Author: Fabien Cazenave (aka KaZé) (lead developer)
(Freeware) (open source: GPL/ LGPL/ MPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; OS/2
Languages: English and many more
Description: KompoZer is a wysiwyg HTML editor (Nvu/Composer fork) aimed towards advanced users. It is an unofficial bug-fix release for Nvu.
download page: v 0.77 (2006-07-23) [kompozer-077-win32.exe (6347 KB) Windows] [kompozer-077-win32.zip (7.7 MB) Windows]
http://kompozer.net/
Forum:
http://forum.nvudev.org/viewforum.php?f=8
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

LAME (compiled)
Company: --
Author: Dmitry Kutsanov (aka mitiok)
(Freeware) (open source: GNU LGPL),
http://mitiok.maresweb.org/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder. LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding.
Home Page: download v 3.97 (2006-09-24) [ lame-3.97.zip (425 KB)]
http://mitiok.maresweb.org/
Project Page: Lame source code
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/
(desc. rev.: 2007-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

LeechFTP (v 1.3 Build 207)
Company: --
Author: Jan Debis
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.3 Build 207) discontinued; unsupported,
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/leechftp.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: LeechFTP is a easy to use freeware multi-threaded FTP client for Windows. LeechFTP can also do HTTP file downloads. Other features: Resuming of incomplete transfers, transfer of entire directory treesd., integrated ZIP and RAR archive testing of downloaded files, drag & drop support, queue Timer for performing unattended transfers, URL support.
Program description: download v 1.3 Build 207 (1999-04-16) [ lftp13.zip (623 KB)]
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/leechftp.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

LetMeType
Company: clasohm.com
Author: Carsten Clasohm
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.clasohm.com/lmt/en/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description:
Like Microsoft's AutoComplete, LetMeType helps you enter text, but regardless of the program you use. Running in the background, it analyses what you type. After some time it has collected enough information to guess a word after you have typed the first two or three letters. A list of the most probable words is displayed, and you can select one with a single keystroke or just continue typing.
Home page:
http://www.clasohm.com/lmt/en/
download v v1.81 [ lmt181en.exe (592 KB)]
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Lister
Company: C. Ghisler & Co.
Author: Christian Ghisler
(Freeware),
http://www.ghisler.com/tools.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows 3.x (16 bit) with less functionality
Languages: English; (16-bit version also in German)
Description: External version of Total Commander's built-in viewer. Lister is a standalone viewer for text (ASCII, ANSI, Unicode, UTF-8, RTF), html files (formatted text and links), bitmaps and certain multimedia files. Any file can be browsed with a fixed length binary and a hex view. Lister can display pictures and other multimedia files using Irfanview or XNView as a filter. Lister Plugins written for Total Commander are supported, too. These plugins are available for a broad variety of file formats (executables, databases, CAD, GIS, office documents, archive files, fonts, Palm files, torrents, playlists,...), making Lister an excellent multi-format viewer. Some plugins also add edit facilities. Documents can be searched for text and hexadecimal strings. Text can be selected, copied to clipboard and printed. Customization is possible via command line and (if necessary various) *.ini file(s). COMMENTS: Lister is very fast and handles files of nearly unlimited size without problems. Plugins should be tested after installation. Some are not stable, yet, and may crash Lister.
Home page:
http://www.ghisler.com
Program description: download v (2005-06-20) [ lister32.zip (196 KB) 32-bit version]
http://www.ghisler.com/tools.htm
Lister extensions (plugins) descriptions: downloads
Official Plugins site:
http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm
Plugins (includes new and beta versions):
http://www.totalcmd.net/directory/lister.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-05 by BeAr)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Locate32
Company: --
Author: Janne Huttunen
(Betaware) (Freeware),
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
NOTES: Works with Windows 95 if Internet Explorer 3 is installed.
Languages: English; French; German; Spanish; Swedish; Chinese (simplified)
Description: This program saves names of all files in your hard drives to file database. After that you can locate files. Very fast. This program works like updatedb and locate in Unix systems. COMMENTS: Locate32 indexes all filenames on your disk. Contents are not indexed, minimizing the burden on the system. Type in any string, and Locate32 will quickly list all files that contain that string in the filename. Advanced search options are available. Unlike other seearch programs, all right-click options for the listed files are available from within Locate32.
Home Page:
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/
Program description: download (old versions)
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml (32 and 64 bit versions))
Program description: download v 3.0 Beta 6 (2.99.6.10220) (2006-10-22) [ locate32-2.99.6.10220.exe (1196 KB)]
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Locate/1044509669/1
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Magic Mail Monitor
Company: --
Author: Marco Gulino; Wendell Travis Watford; original author Valeriy Ovechkin
(Betaware) (Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmm3/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English
Description: Magic Mail Monitor 3 - Windows mail checker with multiple mailboxes support, ability to preview and delete messages. Based on original code of Magic Mail Monitor from Valeriy Ovechkin.
Home page:
http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmm3/
download page v 2.94 b13 (2006-03-09) [ magic-294-b13.zip (183 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69252
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Mailwasher (v 1.33)
Company: --
Author: Nick Bolton
(Freeware) LFW (v. 1.33) (v. 2beta28) last uncrippled versions,
http://www.pcrescue.ws/publicdomain/mailwasher133.exe
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: MailWasher is a powerful email checker with effective spam elimination. Discover the safe way to stop unwanted viruses and e-mails before they get to your computer.
download v 1.33 [ mailwasher133.exe (1575 KB)]
http://www.pcrescue.ws/publicdomain/mailwasher133.exe
download v 2beta28 [ mailwasher2b28.exe (1428 KB)]
http://digilander.libero.it/molearchive3/mailwasher2b28.zip
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.firetrust.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Maxthon (was MyIE2)
Company: Mysoft Technology
Author: Bloodchen
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.maxthon.com/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Internet Explorer or Mozilla (Gecko engine).
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer engine (Trident) which means that what works in IE, works the same in Maxthon but with many additional efficient features like... Tabbed Browsing Interface; Mouse Gestures; Super Drag&Drop; Privacy Protection; AD Hunter; Google Bar Support; External Utility Bar; Skinning; And Much More
Home page:
http://www.maxthon.com/
download page v 1.5.8 build 120 (2006-10-24) [ mcombo.exe (5186 KB) Combo] [ msetup.exe (1925 KB) Standard]
http://www.maxthon.com/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MD5summer
Company: --
Author: Luke Pascoe
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.md5summer.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French (earlier version)
Description: MD5summer is an application for Microsoft Windows which generates and verifies md5 checksums. Its output file is compatible with the output of the Linux GNU MD5Sum and it will also read Linux generated files.
Home Page:
http://www.md5summer.org/
download page v 1.2.0.5 (2003-09-28) [ md5v12005.exe (451 KB)] [ md5v12005.zip (387 KB)]
http://www.md5summer.org/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Meazure
Company: C Thing Software
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.cthing.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT 4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Measure is a utility for measuring, magnifying and capturing arbitrary portions of the screen. Measures images, windows and icons, up to 32X magnification of screen, reads the color of a screen pixel in RGB, hex RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSL, YCbCr, YIQ, display rulers anywhere on the screen, can measure using a number of units including pixels, points, twips, centimeters, or user-defined.
Home Page:
http://www.cthing.com/Meazure.asp
Program description; download v 2.0 (build 158) (2004-01-11) [ meazr20.exe (3516 KB)]
Download from SIMTEL: http://www.simtel.net/product.download.mirrors.php?id=75607
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Media Player Classic
Company: --
Author: Gabest; Rob Schultz; J. VICTOR
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Media Player Classic is the perfect substitute for Windows Media Player. Estetically is identical to version 6.4 and has the same lightness in terms of ram occupation, but it has much more useful functions. Features: With right and left keys it's possible to go forward/backward of one single frame. With ctrl + right/left it's possible to skip one predefinite quantity of frames. With ctrl + up it's possible to change faster the speed of reproduction. It's possible to visualize with media player Quicktime and RealMedia movies (but that programs must be installed). In full screen modality it's possible to show a scroll bar putting the mouse in the lower portion of the screen. In full screen it's possible redimension images and adopt a cinema format or a tv format. It work as a DVD player too. Keys are completely customizable. It can show subtitles.
Home page:
http://www.gabest.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
download page v 6.4.9.0 (2006-03-20) [ mpc98me6490.zip (1877 KB) Win 98/ME] [ mpc2kxp6490.zip (2172 KB) Win 2000/XP]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Memtest86
Company: Memtest86
Author: Chris Brady (original author)
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.memtest86.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: DOS; Linux
Languages: English
Description: Memtest86 is a thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. Since Memtest86 is a standalone program it does not require any operating system support for execution. It can be used with any PC regardless of what operating system, if any, is installed. The test image may be loaded from a floppy disk or may be loaded via LILO on Linux systems. Any Unix, Windows or DOS system may be used to create a boot floppy or bootable CDROM.
Home Page: http://www.memtest86.com/
Download v 3.2 (2004-11-11) [ memt32.zip (58 KB) Windows, DOS]
[Bootable CDRom ISO: memtest86-3.2.iso.zip (38.9 KB)]

(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 by Retief)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MetaPad
Company: --
Author: Alexander Davidson
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Metapad is a small, fast, 32-bit Notepad replacement. It includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more - without sacrificing any of Notepad's speed! Plenty of features for casual use and simple programming tasks alike. These include unlimited file size, drag and drop editing, auto-indent, support for Mac/Unix text files, enhanced find and replace, external viewers and more than 50 keyboard shortcuts. Metapad also features hyperlink support, favorites menu, stay on top window mode, custom font and background colors, a rich set of formatting commands and more. Additionally, you can set 10 quick buffers to paste frequently-used snippets of text. Recent additions include transparent mode and native Windows XP theme support. For spellchecking, one of Metapad's viewers can be configured for use with the freeware Aspell (http:/aspell.sourceforge.net/).
Home page:
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
download v 3.51 (2005-11-27) [ metapad351.zip (46 KB)] [ metapad351LE.zip (44 KB) light edition]
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MiKTeX
Company: --
Author: Christian Schenk
(Donationware) (free) (open source),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miktex/
Windows OS:
Languages: English
Description: MiKTeX is an up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system. TeX is a typesetting system written by Donald E. Knuth, who says that it is "intended for the creation of beautiful books - and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics". MiKTeX offers a complete set of utilities, macro packages and fonts, e.g., LaTeX, pdfTeX, ConTeXt, just to name a few. Notes: You can choose between three package sets: Small MiKTeX is a basic MiKTeX system which gets you started. Large MiKTeX gives you the most important macro packages and fonts. Total MiKTeX includes all available packages. Choose Small MiKTeX, if you are downloading MiKTeX over a slow Internet connection or if you want to conserve disk space. It is possible to configure MiKTeX in such a a way, that missing packages are automatically installed later (during run-time). You can download MiKTeX either with the help of MiKTeX Setup Wizard (setup.exe), or manually with the help of an FTP client.
Home page:
http://www.miktex.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miktex/
download page v 2.5.2471 (2006-10-08) [ basic-miktex-2.5.2471.exe (43.6 MB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10783
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MoffSoft FreeCalc
Company: Moffsoft
Author: --
(Donationware) (Litewae) (free),
http://www.moffsoft.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Moffsoft FreeCalc has a simple, easy-to-use interface that allows a user of any level to start crunching numbers immediately. In addition to basic calculator functions, Moffsoft FreeCalc has a printable/savable tape, visible memory value displayed on the calculator status bar, double and triple zero keys, sizing capabilities, color schemes, a system tray icon option, international support for thousand separators, and more.
Homepage:
http://www.moffsoft.com/
Program Description:
http://www.moffsoft.com/freecalc.htm
download v 1.2.0.6 (2004-08-28) [ mofffreecalcsetup.exe (765 KB) ]
http://www.moffsoft.com/downloads.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-15 by Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MotherBoard Monitor (MBM) ( v 5.3.7.0)
Company: --
Author: Alex Van Kaam
(Freeware) (discontinued) LFW (v 5.3.7.0),
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mbm.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Motherboard Monitor is a very detailed and powerful system monitoring utility that should enlighten the heart of any computer geek. It can monitor fan speeds, temperatures, voltages and more. In addition, it provides detailed system information about your chip and memory. It also includes alarm features that can send e-mail alerts, initiate an FTP transfer or even send a pager message if conditions exceed the user defined condition.
Home page:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
download page v 5.3.7.0 (2004-06-18) [ mbm5370.exe (1253 KB)] [ MBM5370_1.exe (327 KB) MBM 5.3.7.0 patch 1]
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl (no change))   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MouseImp Pro Live!
Company: --
Author: aoleg
(Freeware) (open source),
http://www.mouseimp.com/
Windows OS: Not Stated, presumed: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description:
MouseImp is a handy tool that helps you to use your conventional mouse more efficiently. The AutoShrink feature increases your available workspace by removing toolbars from the screen so that only caption bars remain. To access a toolbar, just point to its caption, and it will be restored immediately. The Direct Scroll feature makes it easier to scroll through windows. Instead of using a scroll bar, you can activate MouseImp and scroll by moving the mouse up or down anywhere in the window.
MouseImp also gives you the ability to shrink windows temporarily.
Home page:
http://www.mouseimp.com/
download v 0.0.0.0 (2006-04-19) [ MIProLive.exe (296 KB)]
http://www.mouseimp.com/download/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MozBackup
Company: --
Author: Pavel Cvrcek
(Freeware),
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla Thunderbird or Netscape
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: MozBackup is a utility for creating backups of Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup mail, favorites, contacts, etc.
Home Page:
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
download page v 1.4.5 (2006-08-25) [ MozBackup-1.4.5-ENG.exe (875 KB) English] [ MozBackup-1.4.5-ENG.zip (1208 KB) English]
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
Download translations:
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/translations.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Mozilla Firefox (was Mozilla Firebird) (was Phoenix)
Company: Mozilla.org
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source),
http://www.mozilla.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: MAC OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Mozilla Firefox is a speedy, full-featured browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes: comprehensive popup controls to keep unwanted advertising off your desktop; a tab browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on; integrated search (powered by Google); industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that lets you see more of the page than any other browser while at the same time being more configurable; a large variety of free downloadable extensions and themes that add specific functionality and visual changes to the browser; ...and a number of other details that work together with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Home Page:
http://www.mozilla.com/
download page v 2.0 (2006-10-27) [ Firefox Setup 2.0.exe 5.6 megs) Windows (English)]
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/firefox.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-27 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Mozilla Thunderbird
Company: The Mozilla Organization
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License),
http://www.mozilla.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. Thunderbird tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail. View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your e-mail. Thunderbird provides enterprise and government grade security features such as S/MIME, digital signing, message encryption, support for certificates and security devices. Thunderbird gives you IMAP/POP support, a built-in RSS reader, support for HTML mail, powerful quick search, saved search folders, advanced message filtering, message grouping, labels, return receipts, smart address book LDAP address completion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts. Thunderbird lets you add additional features as you need them through extensions. Extensions are a powerful tool to help you build a mail client that meets your specific needs.
Home page:
http://www.mozilla.com/
Program description:
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
download page v 1.5.0.7 (2006-10-27) [ Thunderbird Setup 1.5.0.7.exe (6 megs) Windows (English)]
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/all.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-27 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

mp3DirectCut
Company: mpesch3's mp3 tools
Author: Martin Pesch
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.mpesch3.de/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux Note: No installation required; no registry entries. Requires MP3 ACM system codec (present in XP) or mpglib.dll
Languages: English; German
Description: mp3DirectCut is a small tool for editing mpeg audio directly. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to new files. All without the need to decompress your mp3 into pcm/wav. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions. Trim your CD grabbings or directly to mp3 recorded vinyls or tapes. Cut favorite songs from long mp3 radio or live recordings. Make multiple cuts and fades. mp3DirectCut is very fast and gives you extensive control over your mp3s: Several prelisten functions; MP3 visualisation and VU meter; Easy navigation; Fading, volume setting, normalizing; Pause detection; Direct recording of MP3 (ACM and Lame encoder supported); Layer 2 support; ID3v1.1 support; Cue Sheet support
Homepage:
http://www.mpesch3.de/
download v 2.04 (2006-10-24) [ mp3DC204.exe (SFX Zip - 163 KB) ]
http://www.mpesch3.de/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MP3Gain
Company: MP3Gain Team
Author: --
(Donationware) (free) (open source: Library or LGPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3gain/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Microsoft Visual Basic run-time files
Other OS: Macintosh; Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Home Page:
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
download page v 1.2.5 (2005-01-08) [ mp3gain-win-1_2_5.exe (652 KB)] [ mp3gain-win-1_2_5.zip (735 KB) w/ VB run-time] [ mp3gain-win-full-1_2_5.exe (1932 KB)]
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/mp3gain.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-14 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

mpTrim (was mp3Trim)
Company: mp3Trim
Author: Jean Nicolle
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.mptrim.com/
Windows OS: Win98/Me/NT4/2K/XP.
Languages: English and multiple language support with localization files.
Description: mpTrim (was MP3Trim) is a simple and easy to use MP3 editor. It can automatically or manually trim MP3s, removing silent or unwanted parts from beginning or end of songs, fade in/out, and adjust (normalize) volume. mpTrim keeps the music quality intact, no matter how many times you process an MP3, because it works directly in the MP3 format without having to decode/re-encode. That also makes it very fast. (NOTE: Liteware version handles individual songs up to 7 minutes long.)
Home Page:
http://www.mptrim.com/
Download Page: v 2.12 (2006-09-09) [ mptrim.zip (213 KB)]
http://www.mptrim.com/mpTrim.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-04 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MultiRes
Company: EnTech Taiwan
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses),
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: MultiRes is a small, 32-bit alternative to QuickRes, with refresh rate and multi-monitor support for up to nine display devices. Supported resolution and refresh rates are accessible from the command-line or from a simple menu that pops up from the system tray. An optional timed confirmation prompt - enabled by default in the program About box - ensures that any changes you make can be reversed safely, without fuss. While MultiRes does not allow you to define new display settings, it does give you quick and easy access to the ones the driver makes available.
Home page:
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/
download page v 1.58 (2006-09-12) [multires.exe (99 KB)]
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/multires.shtm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MWSnap
Company: Mirek's Free Windows Software
Author: Mirek Wojtowicz
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.mirekw.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter. MWSnap does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system.
Home page:
http://www.mirekw.com/
Program description; download v 3.00.0.74 (2002-07-06) [ MWSnap300.exe (643 KB)] [ MWSnap300.zip (601 KB)]
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

My Own Backup (MOB) (v 2.1)
Company: --
Author: Fredrik Johansson
(Freeware) LFW (v 2.1),
http://htmole.altervista.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98
Languages: English
Description: My Own Backup is an easy and powerful backup program. It supports most computer media, including CD-RW, Zip and Jaz disks, even floppies. You can store the backed-up files uncompressed for easy access, or compressed in .zip format for more efficient storage. The Explorer-like interface enables you to select files with ease, and a backup log helps you keep track of each transaction. Backups are performed in sets, so you can back up all of your data at one time, or break it down into specific categories. Like most programs, you can have the program back up at certain intervals, or drag and drop files manually. Other features include diskspan, backup multiple sets simultaneously, auto-save backup sets, password-protect backups, command-line support, and much more. The program is for local devices only, and cannot be used with network drives.
Home page:
http://www.cyberiapc.com/
download page:
http://www.cyberiapc.com/backup.htm
download v 2.1 [ 1.9 MB)]
http://www.cyberiapc.com/downloads/MOBv21.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl (no change))   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

MyAlbum
Company: MyAlbum
Author: Pierre Meindre
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.myalbumpro.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; language packs for other languages
Description: MyAlbum is: A free picture cataloger for building easily digital photo albums. Build self-running "all-in-one" albums. Supported picture formats JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, animated GIF, TIFF, TGA, PCX and WMF files. Supported video formats AVI, MOV (QuickTime), MPEG (all the video formats supported by the Windows Media Player). Other format : HTML (IE 4 or above needed). Comment and keywords can be added to each picture. Searching on file name, comment or keyword. Full screen display, zoom, unzoom, fit to screen. Manual, automatic, random and multiple slideshow with background music. Easy printing of the thumbnail pages and the pictures. Poster printing on several sheets of paper. Build contact sheets and HTML pages (online demos: Film strip, Automatic slideshow (IE 5.5+) and Metal). Easy convert, resize of the pictures. Special features for building CDROM album. Extracts information from images taken with digital cameras. Integrated script tool (VBScript, JavaScript, Perl,...). Screen saver to play albums.
Home Page: download v 2.5 (2006-03) [ MyAlbumSetup.exe (2072 KB) standard international]
http://www.myalbumpro.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

NetMeter (was Haim's Net Meter)
Company: NetMeter
Author: Haim Gelfenbeyn
(Betaware) (Donationware) (free) an older non-beta version is also available,
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English
Description: NetMeter is a small, customizable network bandwidth monitoring program. COMMENTS:A perfect download looks like a solid red rectangle moving to the left. Pauses or disturbances in the transmission or low speeds are easy to see. Netmeter can be customized in many ways. The title line and text line can be disabled leaving only a rectangle diagram. The possible top speed of your connection can be set to be at the top of the diagram. The graph window can be dimensioned and moved easily to any size, shape and position. Rightclicking on the tray icon shows a menu with functions like options and statistics for daily, weekly and monthly up and download numbers.
Home Page: download v 0.9.9.9 (beta 2) (2004-03-04) [ NetMeter_v0999beta2.exe (602 KB)]
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/netmeter.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-05)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

NetStumbler
Company: --
Author: Marius Milner
(Donationware) (free),
http://stumbler.net/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP or later Note: See the Release Notes for compatibility and earlier versions of Windows
Languages: English
Description: NetStumbler is a tool for Windows that allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. It has many uses: Verify that your network is set up the way you intended. Find locations with poor coverage in your WLAN. Detect other networks that may be causing interference on your network. Detect unauthorized "rogue" access points in your workplace. Help aim directional antennas for long-haul WLAN links. Use it recreationally for WarDriving.
Homepage:
http://stumbler.net/
download v 0.4.0 (2006-04-21) [ NetStumblerInstaller_0_4_0.exe (1.26 MB) ]
http://stumbler.net/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-04 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Neutron
Company: --
Author: Robin Keir
(Donationware) (free),
http://keir.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Neutron is a very simple and small time synchronizing program that retrieves the accurate time from one of several specialized time servers on the Internet. Once the network time has been retrieved the program can set your computer's clock to match it. Options in the program enable you to automatically obtain the time from the time server and set your clock appropriately at program startup. It is also possible to have the program automatically exit after the time has been set.
Home page:
http://keir.net/
Program description: download v 1.03 (2002-03-12) [ neutron.zip (6 K)]
http://keir.net/neutron.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-01 by Mark Carter - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

nLite
Company: --
Author: Dino Nuhagic (nuhi)
(Donationware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses),
http://www.nliteos.com/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Requires .NET 1.1 or newer. A no-install package with just the necessary components of .NET Framework is available at the site
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Have you ever wanted to remove some Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger... How about not even to install them with Windows? nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn't include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components.
Home page:
http://www.nliteos.com/
download page v 1.0.1(2006-07-13) [ nLite-1.0.1.installer.exe (1850 KB)] [ nLite-1.0.1.exe (1692 KB) self-extracting archive]
http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

nnCron LITE
Company: nnSoft
Author: Nicholas Nemtsev
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.nncron.ru/#nncronlt
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Small, freeware, full-featured scheduler, that can launch applications and open documents at specified time or with specified frequency. nnCron LITE can be started as a system service or as a regular standalone application. This is a UNIX Cron/Anacron ported to Windows. It is not resource demanding, and it can run even on very older PCs without any noticeable performance degradation. We have never seen it's service to allocate more than 150k of operative memory.
Home page:
http://www.nncron.ru/#nncronlt
download page: v 1.17 build 119 (2005-07-09) [ nncronlt117.exe (242 KB) English and Russian help files are included]
http://www.nncron.ru/download.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 Ron May)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Notepad++
Company: --
Author: Don HO
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and (currently) more than 30 other
Description: Multipurpose text (ANSI, UTF-8, CS-2) editor, developed on basis of the Scintilla engine. Supports tabbed windows, syntax highlighting, bookmarks, folding, auto completion, and zooming. Text input direction can be changed to RTL (e.g. for Arabic, Hebrew).
Additional functionality provided with plugins. The main program already contains plugins for advanced text editing, visualization, and conversation, a function browser, a file manager and a hex editor.
Powerful search functionality is provided by the main program (RegEx search and replace, incremental search, highlight all, find in files) and extended with a plugin (multiline RegEx).
Recurring tasks may be simplified using the internal macro recorder. Notepad++ is highly customizable with external configuration files, styler configurator, user define dialog for new languages, and shortcut mapper.
Home page:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
download page: [v3.9 (2006-10-03) npp.3.9.Installer.exe (1210 KB)]
[v3.9 (2006-10-03) npp.3.9.bin.zip (896 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95717
(desc.: 2006-11-05 by BeAr)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

NoteTab Light
Company: Fookes Software
Author: Eric G.V. Fookes
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.notetab.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available (v 4.9.2.2)
Languages: English
Description: The ultimate free Notepad replacement and a handy HTML editor. Handle a heap of files with a simple tabbed interface. Search files, strip HTML tags and format text quickly. Build libraries of text macros to speed up your work
Home page:
http://www.notetab.com/
download page v 4.951 (2005-10-19) [ NoteTab_Setup.exe (1411 KB)] [ ntfree.zip (1419 KB)]
http://www.notetab.com/download.php
download page v 4.9.2.2 (2003-01-15) [ tiny_notetab.zip (953 KB)]
http://www.fookes.com/ftp/free/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Nvu
Company: Linspire Inc.
Author: Daniel Glazman (lead developer)
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License/LGPL/GPL tri-license),
http://www.nvu.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Linspire
Languages: English
Description: Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web page editing. Nvu is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
Home Page:
http://www.nvu.com/
download page v 1.0 (2005-06-28) [ nvu-1.0-win32-installer-full.exe (6729 KB) Windows] [ nvu-1.0-win32-full.zip (7821 KB) Windows]
http://www.nvu.com/download.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/nvu.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-11 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

OffByOne
Company: Off By One Productions
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.offbyone.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest web browser with full HTML 3.2 support, and now also a tabbed browsing interface. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component.
Home page:
http://www.offbyone.com/
download: page v 3.5.d (2006-01-02) [ OffByOneSetup.exe (1011 KB)] [ OffByOne.zip (839 KB)] [ OffByOneNoSSL.zip (469 KB)]
http://offbyone.com/offbyone/ob1_download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Open Object Rexx
Company: Rexx Language Association
Author: Rick McGuire
(Donationware) (free) (open source: Common Public License),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Notes: Command line interface
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Open Object Rexx is an enhancement of classic Rexx; a powerful, full-featured programming language which has a human-oriented syntax. The Open Object Rexx interpreter allows you to write programs procedurally as well as in an object-oriented fashion. Its main benefits include: Easy to use and easy to learn ; Upwardly compatible with classic Rexx ; The ability to issue commands to multiple environments ; Offers powerful functions ; Based on English-like commands ; Enhanced with full object orientation ; Designed for object-oriented programming, and also allows Rexx conventional programming ; Provides a standard Rexx API to develop external function libraries written in C
Home Page:
http://www.oorexx.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oorexx/
download page v 3.1.0 (2006-08-15) [ ooRexx310.exe (9137 KB) Windows]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Gert van der Kooij - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

OpenOffice.org
Company: OpenOffice.org
Author: --
(Donationware) (free) (open source; GNU LGPL),
http://www.openoffice.org/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages (support for complex text layout (CTL) languages (such as Thai; Hindi; Arabic; and Hebrew) and vertical writing languages)
Description: With OpenOffice.org you can create dynamic documents, analyse data, design eye-catching presentations, produce dramatic illustrations, and open up your databases. You can publish your work in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and release your graphics in Flash (.swf) format. If you're used to using other office suites - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. You can continue to use your old Microsoft Office files and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either. Components: WRITER Is a powerful tool for creating professional documents, reports, newsletters, and brochures. You can easily integrate images and charts in documents, create everything from business letters to complete books with professional layouts, as well as create and publish Web content. CALC is a spreadsheet which can calculate, analyse, and visually communicate your data quickly and easily. Use advanced spreadsheet functions and decision-making tools to perform sophisticated data analysis. Use built-in charting tools to generate impressive 2D and 3D charts. IMPRESS creates multimedia presentations which will truly stand out with special effects, animation and high-impact drawing tools. DRAW will produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects. The Database User Tools give you all the tools you need for day to day database work in a simple spreadsheet-like form. They support dBASE databases for simple applications, or any ODBC or JDBC compliant database for industrial strength database work.
Home page:
http://www.openoffice.org
download page v 2.0.3 (2006-06-26) [ OOo_2.0.3_Win32Intel_install.exe (94524 KB) Windows (English)] [ OOo_2.0.3_Win32Intel_install_wJRE.exe (110148 KB) Windows (English)]
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html
alternate download page
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index-nojs.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-05 by Whirled Peas - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Opera
Company: Opera Software
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.opera.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse.
Home page:
http://www.opera.com/
download page v 9.02 (2006-09-21) [ Opera_9.02_Eng_Setup.exe (4758 KB) Windows (English)]
http://www.opera.com/download/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-07)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Oscar's File Renamer
Company: MediaChance
Author: Roman Voska (aka Oscar)
(Freeware),
http://www.mediachance.com/search.htm
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: The Renamer takes and enhances the idea of editing files in directory in a full featured Text editor and then writing all the changes at once into the files. Open Renamer, select directory and the files will appear in the File Name Editor which is a normal full featured text editor with some additional changes (f.e. you can't add or delete [a line or enter invalid characters in a filename]). You can use all the editor functions like Quick find, Replace, multiple Undo/Redo, Macros and of course normal editing [as well as various tools like Upper Case/Lower Case or sequential numbering]. Each file is on a new line and [you] can easily move with arrows like in a normal text. When the files you wanted to rename are done simply click Apply Changes and all files will be physically renamed. COMMENTS: Sometimes the easiest way to change filenames is just to directly edit them. If the changes are repetitive, then use the keyboard macro feature. The Renamer offers minimal help as part of the site description, but if you know how to use an editor, who needs more? Oscar's File Renamer is the most intuitive renamer of the bunch.
Home page:
http://www.mediachance.com/free/renamer.htm
download v 1.1 (2002-08-06) [ Renamset.exe (542 KB)]
http://www.mediachance.com/free/Renamset.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Partition Saving (was Savepart)
Company: --
Author: D. Guibouret
(Freeware),
http://www.partition-saving.com/
Windows OS: n/a
Other OS: DOS
Languages: English
Description: Partition Saving is a DOS program that is used to save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk and DOS devices. With this program you could save all data on a partition to a file (such as you could save this file on a CD for example). Then if something goes wrong, you can completely restore the partition from the backup file. You no longer have to reinstall every piece of software from scratch. All you have to do is restore the partition from the backup file and then update any software that was modified since the backup was created.
Home page:
http://www.partition-saving.com/
download page v 3.11 (2006-04-22) [ savepart.zip (485 KB)]
http://damien.guibouret.free.fr/en/telechargement.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Password Safe
Company: --
Author: Bruce Schneider.(original author); project team
(Freeware) (open source: Artistic License),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/
Program Name: Password Safe
Category: Password Manager
Author: Originally by Bruce Schneider.
Company: Sourceforge OS Project Admin Rony Shapiro
Ware Type: Freeware (Open Source)
Operating Systems: Win 9x/ME/2K/XP (See website for other OS)
Languages: English (V3.2) Seven other lasnguages in older versions
Description: Password Safe stores your passwords in an encrypted file, allowing you to remember only one password (the "safe combination"), instead of all the username/password combinations that you use. It has one-click toolbar buttons to browse to URL, perform autotype of username/password, or you can copy username, password or notes to clipboard individually, or clear the clipboard. Databases can be organized in a treelike structure with groups and subgroups, or, if you prefer, in a flat file. Password Safe can be used to store other types of records alongside your email and online password records.
Home Page: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
Download Page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41019
Filename: pwsafe-3.02-bin.zip or pwsafe-3.02.exe
Version: 3.02
Size: 1.31 MB (zip) 1.37 MB (exe)
(Desc. Rev 2006/10/27 Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Path Copy (PathCopy)
Company: Ninotech
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description:
Ninotech Path Copy is a shell extension for Windows that enables to copy the path of a file or directory to the Clipboard. You can then paste the path in to your document, e-mail, etc. You copy the path of a file or directory by right-clicking it in the Windows Explorer and choosing Copy Path from the context menu. The context menu then offers nine standard ways of copying the path, in addition to the user defined copying methods that you create yourself: - Short Name: File/folder name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Name: File/folder name - Short Folder: Parent folder name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Folder: Parent folder name - Short Path: Full path name converted to 8.3 characters - Long Path: Full path name - Short UNC Path: Full UNC path name converted to 8.3 characters (only enabled in network environment) - Long UNC Path: Full UNC path name (only enabled in network environment) - Internet Path: Full UNC path name converted to Internet path (only enabled in network
Home page:
http://home.worldonline.dk/ninotech/freeutil.htm
download page v 4 (2001-12-04) [ pathc400.zip (155 KB)]
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/downloads/pathc400.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PC Inspector File Recovery
Company: Convar
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and other languages
Description: PC INSPECTOR File Recovery is a data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. Finds partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased or damaged (does not work with the NTFS file system). Recovers files with the original time and date stamp. Supports the saving of recovered files on network drives. Recovers files, even when a header entry is no longer available. NOTES: To be able to use PC INSPECTOR File Recovery you need a working WINDOWS System. Never install the current version on the drive from which you intend to recover data! The software must be installed and run on a second, independent drive.
Home page:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
download page v 4.0 (2005-03-11) [ pci_filerecovery.exe (5971 KB)]
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PDFCreator
Company: Sector7g
Author: --
(Donationware) (open source: GNU GPL) Spyware-free version (no toolbar),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; German; language packs for other languages
Description: PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine
Home page:
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
download page v 0.9.3 (2006-08-25) [ zPDFCreator-0_9_3-AD_DeploymentPackage-WithoutToolbar.msi (15541 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PE Builder
Company: Nu2 Productions
Author: Bart Lagerweij
(Freeware),
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: An original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD is required to build a CD.
Languages: English
Description: Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
Home page:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
download page v 3.1.10a (2006-02-17) [ pebuilder3110a.exe (3229 KB)] [ pebuilder3110a.zip (3307 KB)]
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/download/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-24 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Pegasus Mail
Company: --
Author: David Harris
(Freeware),
http://www.pmail.com/index.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; German
Description: Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. A proven product, it has served millions of users since it was released in 1990. It is extremely feature-rich and powerful, yet remains small and fast.
Home page:
http://www.pmail.com/index.htm
download page v 4.41 (2006-07-16) [ w32-441.exe (6996 KB) English]
http://www.pmail.com/downloads.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PhotoFiltre
Company: --
Author: Antonio Da Cruz
(Donationware) (Liteware) (free for non-commercial use),
http://www.photofiltre.com/
Windows OS: Windows Note: A no install version is available in French
Languages: English; French; Dutch; Czech; language packs for other languages
Description: PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.
Homepage:
http://www.photofiltre.com/
download v 6.2.6 (2006-10-04 ) [ pf-setup-en.exe (1638 KB) English]
http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-10 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

picture-shark
Company: picture-shark
Author: Wolfgang Geiss and Christian Zink
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.picture-shark.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Picture-shark is the first choice for people who want to "stamp" visible logos or text on their image files. Some of picture-shark's features: With its wizard like interface it is super easy to use Create real watermarks. Choose transparent color, opacity, position and much more. Use the "feather"-feature to make the edges between the stamp and the picture smarter (as with any other tool, just by one mouse-click). Very fast (processing hundreds of pictures each minute). Support for different output formats and quality settings. WYSIWYG preview-mode for all settings. Support for preserving jpeg-headers. Copy and paste between other applications and picture-shark.
Home page:
http://www.picture-shark.com/
download v 1.0 pre (2002-05-26) [ setup.exe (0.79 MB)]
http://www.picture-shark.com/setup.exe
download v 0.95 beta (2002-01-04) [ setup095.exe (0.73 mb)]
http://www.picture-shark.com/setup095.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Ron May - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Pixia
Company: Tacmi Co.
Author: Isao Maruoka
(Freeware),
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Pixia is a small, fast and very capable paint program. The user interface is very compact, leaving most of the screen for painting, and there are no disturbing toolbars. Easy to use layers support. Pixia opens and saves to all common image formats (except for GIF) .Excellent HTML help file (available as a separate download). After installing it it works independently on changes in the operating system or registry (windows).Tutorials, user made brushes, and art galleries available on the homepage. Pixia is available in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean and Hungarian.
Home page:
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
download page v 3.3b (2005-09-26) [ pix33be.exe (3883 KB) English]
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-24 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

POP Peeper
Company: Mortal Universe Software Entertainment:
Author: Jeff Meier
(Freeware),
http://www.poppeeper.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: Requires IE 4+ for certain features (Webmail and for viewing HTML).
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, or RediffMail accounts. Send mail using your SMTP server or through your webmail account directly from POP Peeper. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your email the same way as you would in your email client. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). If you share your computer, you can password-protect your accounts or password-protect access to POP Peeper.
Home page:
http://www.poppeeper.com
download page v 3.0 (2006-10-30) [ POPPeeper-Install.exe (996 KB)] [ POPPeeper.zip (1341 KB)]
http://www.poppeeper.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-06 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PowerArchiver (v 6.11)
Company: eFront Media Inc.
Author: Ivan Petrovic.
(Freeware) LFW (v 6.11),
http://www.woundedmoon.org/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Full built-in support for ZIP, CAB, LHA(LZH), TAR(+TAR.GZ, +TAR.BZ2) and BH (BlakHole) archives and XXE and UUE Internet encoded files. Built-in support for reading and extracting: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZIP and BZIP2 archives. Multiple disk spanning, passwords, comments, renaming files in archive, installing archive, checking archive for viruses, integrated viewer with support for TXT, RTF, BMP, JPG(JPEG), ICO, WMF and EMF files. Create ZIP, RAR, ACE, ARJ, LHA and BH SFX archives. Complete integration with Windows Explorer: d&d, powerful Explorer Shell Extensions. and more . . . NOTES: An updated unrar.dll file (available at http://www.rarsoft.com) may be needed to download .rar files. During installation, this program asks if you'd like http://www.powerarchiver.com to be your home page. If you'd rather not have it change your home page, just say no during this portion of the installation.
Program description:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/powerarc611.html
download v 6.11 [ powerarc611.exe (2,148,823 bytes)]
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/powerarc611.exe
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.powerarchiver.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PowerPro
Company: PowerPro Company
Author: Bruce Switzer
(Freeware),
http://powerpro.webeddie.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: PowerPro gives you a compact and powerful launch bar, menu, and tray icon facility. But this is just the start. With a little experimenting with its configuration, you'll find that you can use PowerPro to change the way you work with your Windows system. The source of its power is the way PowerPro integrates three capabilities: Running commands: Tool bars, tray icons, hot keys, mouse actions, menus, timer, scheduler. Controlling other program's windows: Close, minimize, maximize, roll-up to caption, tray minimize, position. Providing utility functions: Send keystrokes to programs, run commands when windows first open, virtual desktops, clipboard extender, keyboard macros, shutdown, show all folder files in a menu,sounds, wallpaper, and screensaver activation and randomization.
Home page:
http://powerpro.webeddie.com/
download page v 4.5 (2006-06-23) [ pwrpro45.zip (2.8 megs)]
http://powerpro.webeddie.com/xdownload.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Process Explorer
Company: Microsoft (was Sysinternals)
Author: Mark Russinovich
(Freeware),
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.
Home page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Program description: download page v 10.21 (2006-11-01) [ ProcessExplorer.zip (1503 KB)]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-07 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Process Guard (ProcessGuard)
Company: Diamond Computer Systems Pty. Ltd.
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use),
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/processguard/index.php?page=download
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Protect your system and other security programs from attacks by other processes. Liteware version: Control Application execution; Protect applications from termination; Protect applications from modification; Protect applications from viewing
Home page:
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/processguard/
download v 3.410 (2006-09-18) [ pgsetup.exe (1.52 MB)]
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/processguard/index.php?page=download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-27 by Little Girl)
  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Programmer's File Editor (PFE) (v 1.01)
Company: --
Author: Alan Phillips
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.01),
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/98/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: Programmer's File Editor (PFE) is a large-capacity text file editor, oriented towards those who use Windows as their program development environment, and so incorporates many features that make it a convenient work management system. Although it's primarily oriented to program development, it makes a very powerful general editor for any purpose at all. PFE's capacity is essentially limited only by the total amount of memory available on your system. There are no editor-imposed limits on the number of files that you can edit simultaneously, nor on the number of edit windows that you may have open. There is no limit on the size of file that can be handled, and none on the number of lines that a file may contain. PFE adheres strictly to the Windows MDI conventions. You can invoke most commands and facilities from menus; you can move around with a mouse or with the standard keyboard shortcuts; you can cut and paste from the clipboard, and so on. COMMENTS: Works well on XP Home too.
Home Page:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/
download page download v 1.01 (1999-02-01) [ pfe101i.zip (607kb) Win 95/98/NT/2000] [ pfe101.zip (545kb) Win 3.1]
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-18 by Bjorn Simonsen - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PSPad
Company: --
Author: Jan Fiala
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.pspad.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: PSPad is for you if you need to: work with plain text - it has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker; create web pages - PSPad contains many unique tools to save you time; use a good IDE for your compiler - editor. There is no complex install process, PSPad is ready to work immediately, without requiring customization. It supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetitive activities. An integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, code page conversion, are just some of the many possibilities that PSPad can offer you. NOTES: Spell check dictionaries are available on the download page..
Home page:
http://www.pspad.com/
download page v 4.5.2 (2240) (2006-10-20) [ pspad452inst _en.exe (3.3 megs)]
http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

PUI (Program Uninstallation Information)
Company: Ur I.T. Mate Group
Author: Steven Burn
(Freeware),
http://www.it-mate.co.uk/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Notes: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: A small utility that has been developed with the sole intention of allowing users to view and modify the uninstall string for installed programs without having to enter the registry, and additionally allow simple removal of such programs from a simple to use interface. PUI additionally identifies programs that cannot be uninstalled, and lets you know if this is the case, without the need for extra long hours spent looking on authors homepages, just to be told "you can't remove it". As an added bonus, PUI has been setup to detect certain spyware and adware components and let you know if these are installed, and if applicable, remove them, without having to call in the big boy's (although, it is always reccomended to keep your Antivirus and Anti-spyware software uptodate, and to run a scan on your system on a daily basis, just incase). IMPORTANT: Although PUI is able to detect certain malware, it is NOT an anti-malware application and thus, should not be treated as such.
Home Page:
http://www.it-mate.co.uk/
Program description:
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&p=pui
download page v 1.1.3 (2006-07-28) [ puisetup.exe (1.61 MB)]
http://support.it-mate.co.uk/?mode=Products&act=DL&p=pui
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Python
Company: Python Software Foundation (non-profit)
Author: Guido van Rossum (BDFL); e.a.
(Freeware) (open source: Python License),
http://python.org/
Windows OS: Windows; Windows CE (Pocket PC)
Other OS: DOS; Mac OS X; Mac OS 9; Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code. Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.
Home page:
http://python.org/
download page v 2.5 (2006-09-19) [ python-2.5.msi (10445 KB) Windows]
http://python.org/download/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-03)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

QuickTime Alternative
Company: KL Software
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.codecguide.com/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/XP64
Languages: English
Description: QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install QuickTime Player from Apple. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. It is highly recommended to uninstall all existing QuickTime related software, like QuickTime Player, before installing. This way your system stays clean and potential problems will be avoided.
Homepage:
http://www.codecguide.com/
download [v 1.76 (2005-09-20) quicktimealt176.exe (12.8 MB) Win 2000/XP] [v 1.54 (2005-11-14) quicktimealt154.exe (8348 KB) Win 98/ME/2000/XP]
http://www.codecguide.com/download_qt.htm
alternate download page
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

R
Company: R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Author: - project team
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.r-project.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English; Japanese and other languages
Description: Comprehensive interactive statistical and scientific computing package. Builtin object oriented programming language, GUI front ends (http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/), manuals, comprehensive help pages, 2D and 3D graphics (gallery at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/), online RNews newsletter, books and other publications, regular conferences, high volume mailing lists, 800 free addon packages (up from 600 and 400 last year and the year before).
Home page:
http://www.r-project.org/
download page v 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) [ R-2.4.0-win32.exe (28618 KB)]
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-06)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ragtime Solo (v 5.6.5)
Company: RagTime GmbH
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 5.6.5),
http://home.drenik.net/rola/Bug_Free_Software/FW_Office/RagTime%20Solo%205.6.5/?M=A
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Mac OS X; Mac OS 8/9.
Languages: English; German; French; Dutch
Description: RagTime is a frame-oriented application for Windows and Mac OS, which combines typical features from office programs such as spreadsheet calculations and text processing with the rich layout capabilities of DTP (desktop publishing) programs. With RagTime you design photo albums, travel diaries, invitations, budgetary plannings, financial statements for associations and much more. With RagTime, you have a single convenient layout environment in which you can process text, tables, drawings, pictures and graphs. The intuitive user interface simplifies your quick access to all of RagTime's functions. NOTES: Dictionaries for spell checking and hyphenation are not included.
download page v 5.6.5 (2004-) [ RagTime_Solo_565_en.exe (32924 KB) Windows (English)]
http://home.drenik.net/rola/Bug_Free_Software/FW_Office/RagTime%20Solo%205.6.5/?M=A
download patches and updates:
http://www.ragtime-online.com/Content/free_updates/free_updates.html
Home page:
http://www.ragtime-online.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Rainlendar
Company: --
Author: Lee Patterson (Rainy)
(Donationware) (Liteware) (free) (open source),
http://www.rainlendar.net/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English; language packs for many other languages
Description: Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.
Home Page:
http://www.rainlendar.net/
download page v 2.0 (2006-10-30) [ Rainlendar-Lite-2.0.exe (2038 KB) Windows] http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_download&Itemid=30
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/Rainlendar.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31 Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ranish Partition Manager
Company: Ranish
Author: Mikhail Ranish
(Freeware),
http://www.ranish.com/part/
Windows OS: Windows 98/NT/XP
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users a high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 98/NT/XP, Linux, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. The latest version can create, copy, move, and resize up to 32 primary and extended partitions. There are, also, included command line interface similar to gdisk and a simulation version that works with the large files instead of messing with the real disks.
Home page:
http://www.ranish.com/part/
download v 2.40 (2001-02-08) [ part240.zip (93 KB)]
http://www.ranish.com/part/part240.zip
alternate download v 2.40 (2001-02-08) [ part240.zip (93 KB)]
http://users2.ev1.net/~mranish/part/part240.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Real Alternative
Company: KL Software
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.codecguide.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player from Real Networks. Supported are: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt) and ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. It is highly recommended to uninstall all existing Real related software, like RealPlayer or RealOne Player, before installing. This way your system stays clean and potential problems will be avoided.
Homepage:
http://www.codecguide.com/
download v 1.51 (2006-10-18) [ realalt151.exe (6.69 MB)]
http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm
alternate download v 1.51 (2006-10-18) [ realalt151.exe (6.69 MB)]
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Registrar Registry Manager (was Registrar Lite)
Company: Resplendence Software Projects Sp.
Author: Daniel Terhell
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.resplendence.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Registrar Lite is a powerful and flexible freeware registry editor. It offers an explorer style interface which supports the clipboard and allows you to drag and drop registry keys and values. It offers background search and replace, a bookmark editor which allows you to add descriptions to registry keys as well as advanced registry value data editors which support all existing registry data types. An address bar allows you to access registry keys and values quickly. Registrar Lite offers registry key import and export functionality which supports all native registry file types. When running on Windows XP,2000 or NT, all security features are supported by offering editors which allow you to set registry keys, permissions, auditing and ownership.
Home page:
http://www.resplendence.com/
Program description:
http://www.resplendence.com/registrar/
download v 4.04 (2006-04-10) [ rrtri.exe (2258 KB)]
http://www.resplendence.com/downloads/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-07)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

RegMagiK (v 3.26.4)
Company: --
Author: Boris Guzner
(Freeware) LFW (v 3.26.4),
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/last_freeware_versions.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: RegMagik is a fast and sleek registry editor with a number of nice advantages. It provides an excellent in-pane search results display, with sortable columns. It has a convenient bookmarks system, with drag and drop support to your desktop. Its forward and back keys make navigation quick; and the whole registry editing process is simplified by its display of only those sub-branches accessed during a current session. Its most special feature, found nowhere else, is its GUID jump capability. When a value contains a GUID, RegMagik can auto-jump to its correspondent definition key. This editor is light, polite, and happy to serve.
Program description; download v 3.26.4 (2004-02-11) [ RegMagik.zip (379 KB)]
http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/LFWV/RegmagiK.html
Home page ($ware):
http://www.regmagik.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-03 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

RegMon
Company: Microsoft (was Sysinternals)
Author: Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
(Freeware),
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that will show you which applications are accessing your Registry, which keys they are accessing, and the Registry data that they are reading and writing - all in real-time. This advanced utility takes you one step beyond what static Registry tools can do, to let you see and understand exactly how programs use the Registry. With static tools you might be able to see what Registry values and keys changed. With Regmon you'll see how the values and keys changed. NOTES: Filemon and Regmon have been replaced by Process Monitor on versions of Windows starting with Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Vista. Filemon and Regmon remain for legacy operating system support, including Windows 9x.
Home page:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Program description; download v 7.04 (2006-11-01) [ Regmon.zip (265 KB)]
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/Regmon.mspx
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-07 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

RegSeeker
Company: Hover Inc.
Author: Thibaud Djian; Russ Schwenkler
(Freeware) (free for personal use),
http://www.hoverdesk.net/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; French; German; Spanish; Hungarian; Italian and 19 other languages
Description: RegSeeker is a perfect companion for your Windows registry ! RegSeeker includes a powerful registry cleaner and can display various informations like your startup entries, several histories (even index.dat files), installed applications and much more ! With RegSeeker you can search for any item inside your registry, export/delete the results, open them in the registry. RegSeeker also includes a tweaks panel to optimize your OS ! Now RegSeeker includes a file tool to search for duplicate files, bad shortcuts and more !
Home page:
http://www.hoverdesk.net/
Program description; download v 1.52 (2006-10-20) [ RegSeeker.zip (458 KB)]
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ReNamer (2)
Company: --
Author: Denis Kozlov
(Freeware),
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP
Languages: English
Description: ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes, as well as remove contents of brackets, add number sequences, change file extensions, etc. For advanced users, there is a PascalScript rule, which let users program their very own renaming rule. The program allows you to combine multiple renaming actions as a rule set, applying each action in logical sequence, which can be saved, loaded and managed within the program. In addition, ReNamer supports Meta Tags, such as: ID3v1, ID3v2, EXIF, OLE, AVI, Hashing and more; has an ability to rename folders, can process Regular Expressions, and supports Unicode filenames.
Home Page:
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/projects.php
download v 4.17 (2006-10-13) [ ReNamer.exe (1077 KB)]
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/projects.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Resource Hacker ( v 3.4.0)
Company: --
Author: Angus Johnson
(Freeware) LFW ( v 3.4.0) discontinued,
http://www.angusj.com/
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English NOTES: versions are available in Simplified Chinese; Traditional Chinese; Japanese
Description: Resource Hacker(TM) is a utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler. Cursor, Icon, Bitmap, GIF, AVI, and JPG resource images can be viewed. WAV and MIDI audio resources can be played. Menus, Dialogs, MessageTables, StringTables, Accelerators, Delphi Forms, and VersionInfo resources can be viewed as decompiled resource scripts. Menus and Dialogs can also be viewed as they would appear in a running application. Resources can be saved as image files, as script files, as binary resource files, or as untyped binary files. Resources can be modified by replacing the resource with a resource located in another file or by using the internal resource script compiler. Dialog controls can also be visually moved and/or resized by clicking and dragging the respective dialog controls prior to recompiling with the internal compiler. Resources can be added to an application by copying them from external resource files.
Home page:
http://www.angusj.com/
Program description; download v 3.4.0 (2002-03-24) [ ResHack.zip (541 KB) English]
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Restoration (v 2.5.14)
Company: --
Author: Brian Kato
(Freeware) LFW (v 2.5.14),
http://www.webattack.com/get/restoration.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. You can use it after deletion of confidential documents, embarrassing files and so on.You don't have to install it, so it doesn't leave any garbage in the PC. (You can also run it from a floppy disk.) Even if a file seems to be restored, there is no guarantee that the contents are correct. After you run the program, please check the files. You can probably restore it correctly if the drive has enough free space and if it's just after deletion. If you restore a folder, there is no guarantee that all files or folders which used to belong to the folder will be in it. If you can't find them in it, please search and restore them one by one. If you still can't find them, it's impossible to restore them. It will be almost impossible to restore any deleted files if you run the complete deletion function. To be exact, fragments of deleted files can be in last clusters of existing files or allocated and unwritten files. (Note that this function is not suitable for TOP SECRET information.) Even if you find the information of completely deleted files, their contents must be erased. If you want to erase the information too, please run the function again.
Home page:
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/ (currently 404)
download [ REST2514.EXE (193 KB)]
http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/REST2514.EXE (currently 404)
Alternate Links:
http://woundedmoon.org/win32/REST2514.EXE [234,966 bytes]
http://www.webattack.com/get/restoration.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Revelation
Company: SnadBoy Software
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.snadboy.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Reveals passwords hidden beneath the asterisks
Home page:
http://www.snadboy.com/
download v 2.0 [ RevelationV2.zip (219 KB)]
http://www.snadboy.com/RevelationV2.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

RoughDraft
Company: --
Author: Richard Salsbury
(Freeware),
http://www.richardsalsbury.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: British and American English
Description: RoughDraft is a word processor. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing: novels, short stories, articles, plays and screenplays. It's designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use.
Home Page:
http://www.richardsalsbury.com/
Program description;
http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/rd.htm
download page v 3.0 (2005-04-04) [ RDraft30.exe (1232 KB)]
http://www.salsbury.f2s.com/rd_download.htm
(desc. rev: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

RUNit
Company: --
Author: magister-lex
(Betaware) (Freeware) (open source),
http://www.magister-lex.at/RUNit/index.html
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: RUNit is a simple but yet powerful launchpad. RUNit gives you quick access to applications, documents, folders and shortcuts. Unlike many other launchpads RUNit doesn't occupy any space on your screen - you only see it when you actually use it. RUNit defines a "hot area" on your screen where a click of the right mouse button makes the RUNit launch-menu appear .The "hot area" can be any border of the screen or even the whole screen. (you have to hold down the CRTL or SHIFT key while right clicking in "whole screen mode")
Home page:
http://www.magister-lex.at/
Program description; download v 2.1Beta 6a (1999-09-26) [ runit21beta6a.zip (66 KB)]
http://www.magister-lex.at/RUNit/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Screamer Radio
Company: Starduck.net
Author: David Zidar
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.screamer-radio.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English (other language packs are available)
Description: Screamer Radio is a freeware Internet Radio player for Microsoft Windows. There is little reason to listen to commercial FM radio anymore, it is an old medium that provides little choice of music and is saturated with ads. For the last couple of years there has been an alternative, streaming internet radio. An alternative that has been somewhat complicated to use. Screamer Radio attempts to remedy this problem by bringing most of the required steps into a single, easy to use, freeware program.
Home Page:
http://www.screamer-radio.com/
download v 0.3.8 (2006-02-26) [ screamer038.exe (732.9 KB)]
http://www.screamer-radio.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Script Defender
Company: --
Author: Analog X
(Freeware),
http://www.analogx.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: AnalogX Script Defender will intercept any request to execute the most common scripting types used in virus attacks, such as Visual Basic Scripting (.VBS), Java Script (.JS), etc and can even be configured to intercept new script extensions as needed! It's very simple to use and helps to ensure that you do not inadvertently run a script no matter what email program you use, or even if you get it via another method.
Home page:
http://www.analogx.com/
Program description; download v 1.02 (2000-05-21) [ sdefendi.exe (222 KB)]
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/sdefend.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 Ron May)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Script Sentry
Company: --
Author: Jason Levine
(Donationware) (free for personal use),
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Script Sentry allows safe scripts to run on your system while alerting you if a script might harm your system. In addition, Script Sentry prevents against malicious scripts hidden in ShellScrap (hidden SHS and SHB extensions) files, Word/Excel macro viruses, malicious HTA files, and accidentally run REG files. You can specify which scripts/files should be allowed to run and Script Sentry will invisibly allow those to run. Script Sentry is a "set it and forget it" application so it takes up exactly 0MB of memory unless it's needed. Note: Script Sentry is not a replacement for a good anti-virus program, but a supplement to it. An anti-virus program might stop a script virus once you update it's virus definition files, but before you do that the virus has a window of opportunity. Script Sentry simply helps close that window. Requires Visual Basic 6 Runtimes and Windows Scripting Host.
Homepage:
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/
Download page v 2.7.1(2002-07-04) [ 164 KB)]
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/scriptsentry.asp
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ScripTrap
Company: --
Author: Robin Keir
(Freeware),
http://keir.net/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: ScripTrap traps scripts when they attempt to run on your computer and provides the option of blocking them or letting them continue to run. You can also check the intercepted script with your anti-virus program before you decide to run it or not. ScripTrap will also warn you when Microsoft Word and Excel files are about to run, possibly saving you from executing documents that could contain malicious macro code by giving you that important second chance after inadvertently opening an email attachment! ScripTrap provides you with filtering capabilities so you can choose to automatically accept or reject selected script files without prompting. You can also choose to only intercept scripts that try to run from temporary directories, having most likely been placed there when about to be run from an email attachment. Unlike similar offerings ScripTrap will remove all traces of itself upon uninstalling including removing all associated registry entries and folder/file deletion.
Home page:
http://keir.net/software.html
Program description; download: v 1.03 (2000-08-18) [ strap.exe (46 KB)]
http://keir.net/scriptrap.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-03 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SeaMonkey
Company: Mozilla.org
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: Mozilla Public License) (sucessor to Mozilla),
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Windows OS: Windows 95*/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Note: With DCOM for Windows 95
Other OS: MAC OS X; Linux, OS2/BeOS
Languages: English
Description: Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite".
Home Page:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Wiki HomePage:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page
download Windows 1.05 (2006-09-14) [seamonkey-1.0.5.en-US.win32.installer.exe (11912 KB) Windows] [seamonkey-1.0.5.en-US.win32.zip (10601 KB) Windows]
Direct download:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.0.5/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-23 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SimpleOCR
Company: --
Author: Cyril Cambien (original author)
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses),
http://www.simpleocr.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English (Languages recognised: English (US & UK), French and Dutch)
Description: Do you dread having to retype that document you are holding in your hand? If only you had the electronic file, your life would be so much easier. With SimpleOCR, you could easily and accurately convert that paper document into editable electronic text for use in any application including Word and WordPerfect. With optical character recognition up to 99% accurate, there is no better OCR application for the price. This increased accuracy greatly reduces the need for post-recognition proof reading and correction. SimpleOCR works with all versions of Windows. Your scanner need only a TWAIN driver, the driver that comes with a majority of all scanners sold. In short, SimpleOCR will most likely work with the PC and scanner you already have. NOTES: Based on WOCAR by Cyril Cambien
Home page:
http://www.simpleocr.com/
Download v 3.1 (9.3 MB)[InstSocr.exe]
http://www.simpleocr.com/download/InstSocr.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 by Retief)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Skype
Company: Skype Technologies S.A. (Sharman Networks)
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.skype.com/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP/Windows CE (Pocket PC)
Other OS: Mac OS X/Linux/Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. *NOTES*: The video feature requires Windows XP.
Homepage:
http://www.skype.com/
download v 2.5.0.151 (2006-10-18) [ SkypeSetup.exe (12.2 MB)(Win 2000/XP) ]
http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SoftCAT
Company: FNProgramvare
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.fnprg.com/softcat/download.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: SoftCAT is a database program designed to help you organize your software. Not only will SoftCAT help you know what you have and where it is, but it will also help you keep track of important information like serial number, registration name, and other registration information. You never know when you NEED this information! More than 20 data fields will help you track information like program title, version, publisher, platform, type (commercial, freeware, shareware, etc.), category (Desktop Enhancements, Games, Utilities, etc.), price, installation date, installation folder, product homepage, serial number, and registration name.
Home page:
http://www.fnprg.com/
download page v 2.10 (2005-11-29) [ softcat_setup.exe (4788 KB)]
http://www.fnprg.com/softcat/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-03 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SpaceMonger (v 1.4.0)
Company: Sixty-Five Software Inc.
Author: Sean Werkema
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.4.0),
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English (American); English (British); French
Description: SpaceMonger is a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system. The program supports popup info-tips that can display the full filename, the icon, the date, size, and attributes of any file or folder. You can delete files from the right click menu and customize the number of files to be shown as well as the color scheme.
Home page:
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
download page (the Free Software tab) v 1.4.0 [ spcmn140.zip (102 KB)]
http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/
alternate download page v 1.4.0 [ spcmn140.zip (103 KB) ]
http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/18198.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Spamihilator
Company: --
Author: Michel Krämer
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamihilator/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English, language packs for many languages
Description: Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.
Homepage:
http://www.spamihilator.com/
download v 0.9.9 (2005-01-28) [ spamihilator_0_9_9_9.exe (1.39 MB)]
http://www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SpamPal
Company: SpamPal
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.spampal.org/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; German; (partial translation into French)
Description: SpamPal is a mail classification program that can help separate your spam from the mail you really want to read. SpamPal sits between your email program and your mailbox, checking your email as you retrieve it. Any email messages that SpamPal considers to be spam will be "tagged" with a special header; you simply configure your email client to filter anything with this header into a separate folder and your spam won't be mixed up with the rest of your email anymore! But how does SpamPal know what is spam and what isn't? Well, it uses what are called DNSBL lists. Patterned after the famous MAPS RBL, these are lists of parts of the Internet that in one way or another facilitate spam. Any email you get from a machine on one of these lists has an increased probability of being spam. Some ISPs already block all email from machines on some of these DNSBL lists, but many do not. This is where SpamPal comes in. You can choose to use any or all of the freely-usable DNSBL lists; SpamPal will look at the machines each email message passed through on its way to your mailbox, and if any of those machines is on one of the DNSBL lists you have chosen then that message will be tagged as spam. Because not everyone who uses a machine on a DNSBL list will be a spammer, SpamPal has a powerful whitelisting feature that allows you to ignore DNSBL listings for certain senders or for parts of the Internet. SpamPal does not work with: AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Juno, MSN, Or any other proprietry mail system. NOTES: the manual must be read online or downloaded separately.
Home page:
http://www.spampal.org
download page:
http://www.spampal.org/download.html
download v 1.594 (2005-10-24) spampal-1.594.exe [788 KB) (includes RegExFilter v3.0 and UrlBody v0.05 plugins)]
http://www.spampal.net/spampal.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SpeedFan
Company: --
Author: Alfredo Milani Comparetti
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.almico.com/
Windows OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Languages: English
Description: SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. can change your computer's fan speeds, read the temperatures of your motherboard and your hard disk, read voltages and fan speeds and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or SCSI attributes
Homepage:
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
download v 4.31 (2006-10-12) [ installspeedfan431.exe (1.43 MB) ]
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Spybot Search & Destroy
Company: PepiMK Software
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.spybot.info/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; that is, little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. Many of these modules also transmit information, including your surfing behavior on the Internet. If SpyBot-S&D finds such modules, it can remove them. Another feature of Spybot S&D is the removal of usage tracks, which makes it more complicated for unknown spybots to transmit useful data. The list of last visited websites, opened files, started programs, cookies, all that and more can be cleaned. Supported are the three major browsers Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator and Opera. Spybot-S&D also contains some routines to find and correct invalid entries (regarding links left over from software uninstalled long ago, for example) into the registry (the global Windows database for settings).
Home Page:
http://www.spybot.info/
download page v 1.4 (2005-06-01) [ spybotsd14.exe (4919 KB)]
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/spybot.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher- no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Spyware Terminator
Company: Crawler LLC
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use),
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish
Description: Free 100% Real-Time Protection is included in Spyware Terminator basic version an essential function most other applications charge you extra for. Effectively remove spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, home page hijackers and other malware threats. Suspect files found during the scan are moved into Quarantine. Spyware Terminator prevents them from functioning and causing further damage to your computer. You can review and choose to permanently remove suspect files or safely store essential files. Spyware Terminator lets people of all skill levels detect and eliminate spyware. If you remove a program by mistake, you can easily put it back. Scan your computer manually or schedule an in-depth scan to be performed on a regular basis. The scan process runs in the background so that you will not be disrupted while working on other tasks. Spyware Terminator can be set to automatically download updates, ensuring the most effective protection for your computer. NOTE: the main download link (download.com) goes to an older version of the program.
Home Page:
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
download Page: v 1.6.00.824 (2006-11-07) [ SpywareTerminator.exe (2450 KB)]
http://www.spywareterminator.com/dnl/landing.aspx
desc. rev. : 2006-11-07 by Allan Higdon)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SpywareBlaster
Company: Javacool Software LLC
Author: --
(Donationware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses),
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed. By setting a "kill bit" for spyware ActiveX controls, SpywareBlaster can prevent the installation of any spyware ActiveX controls from a webpage. It does this while not interfering with "friendly" ActiveX controls - so your browser can work correctly and you can have peace of mind! You won't get any more annoying "Yes/No" boxes popped up, asking you to install a spyware ActiveX control (which can increasingly be found in pop-up ads!). In fact, Internet Explorer will never even download or run the spyware ActiveX control! In addition, SpywareBlaster can prevent many of these spyware ActiveX controls from running, even if they are already installed on your system.* The newest SpywareBlaster version can even block spyware/tracking cookies! And SpywareBlaster does not need to be running in the background to provide this protection! The SpywareBlaster database contains information on these known spyware Active-X controls. Make sure you run the Check For Updates feature frequently to get the latest database! (And make sure you check the new items to protect your system against them!) SpywareBlaster also provides the exclusive System Snapshot! - Take a snapshot of your computer in its clean state, and use System Snapshot later to revert many changes made by spyware and browser hijackers!
Home page:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Program description:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
download page: v 3.5.1 (2006-01-01) [ spywareblastersetup351.exe (2507 KB)]
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Start-Up Monitor (Startup Monitor)
Company: --
Author: Mike Lin
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.mlin.net/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: StartupMonitor is a small utility that runs transparently (it doesn't even use a tray icon) and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup. It prevents those utterly useless tray applications from registering themselves behind your back, and it acts as a security tool against trojans like BackOrifice or Netbus.
Home Page: download v 1.02 [ StartupMonitor.zip (60 KB)]
http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Startup Control Panel
Company: --
Author: Mike Lin
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.mlin.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It's simple to use and, like all my programs, is very small and won't burden your system. A valuable tool for system administrators!
Home Page: download v 2.8 (2003-01-03) [ StartupCPL.zip (59 KB)] [ StartupCPL_EXE.zip (34 KB)]
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-10 by Ron May - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

StrokeIt
Company: --
Author: Jeff Doozan
(Donationware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses),
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Windows OS:
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description:
StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor. What is a mouse gesture? Mouse gestures are simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen using your mouse. When you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the "action" associated with that gesture. In short, it's a nifty little program that lets you easily control programs by drawing symbols with your mouse. StrokeIt can currently recognize more than 80 unique mouse gestures and can be easily trained to recognize many more. For each gesture recognized, StrokeIt can execute a user-defined set of commands within the active application. StrokeIt commands are defined within plugin libraries that can be easily created by third parties to do nearly anything.
Home page:
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
download v 9.5 (2005-02-17) [ StrokeIt_9_5.exe 105 kb)]
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/downloads.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SUPERAntiSpyware
Company: SUPERAntiSpyware.com
Author: Nick Skrepetos
(Liteware) (free for personal use),
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Superantispyware scans your hard-disk for Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers and many other types of threats. Multi-Dimensional Scanning detects existing threats as well as threats of the future by analyzing threat characteristics in addition to code patterns.Superantispyware is also able to remove many threats that resist automated removal by other antispyware tools.
Home Page:
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Program description:
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
download page v 3.2.1028 (2006-07-21) [ SUPERAntiSpyware.exe (5075 KB)]
http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-03)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Sygate Personal Firewall (v 5.6.2808)
Company: Sygate Technologies Inc.
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 5.6.2808) (was Registerware),
http://www.oldversion.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Sygate Personal Firewall provides best of breed security in a user friendly interface, protecting your PC from hackers, trojans and DoS attacks. New features include full-ICS support, protocol driver level protection, enhanced logging, and more. Sygate Personal Firewall is the first FREE personal firewall to offer protection from malicious code intrusions, keeping the information on your PC safe and private.
Program description: download v 5.6.2808 (2004-10-28) [ spf.exe (9012 KB)]
http://www.simtel.com/product.php[url_fb_product_page]53687
alternate download page v 5.6.2808 (2004-10-28) [ sygate562808.exe (9012 KB)]
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=sygate
Home page ($ware):
http://www.sygate.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

SyncBack Freeware
Company: 2BrightSparks
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.2brightsparks.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 Note: No installation required. The NT scheduler cannot be used with SyncBack.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: SyncBack helps you easily backup and synchronise your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive.
Homepage:
http://www.2brightsparks.com/
download v 3.2.13 (2006-09-??) [ SyncBack_Setup.zip (1787 KB)]
http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

System Information for Windows (SIW)
Company: --
Author: Gabriel Topala
(Donationware) (free for personal use),
http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/
Windows OS: Win 98/ME/NT4/2K/XP and other (see description)
Languages: English and multi-language versions
Description: SIW performs extensive computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings and detailed specs for Software, Hardware, Network as well as real-time monitors for CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic. SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode. SIW is a standalone tool that does not require installation and you can run it directly from a USB flash drive (Portable Freeware). In addition to 98/ME/NT4/2K/XP, SIW can run on Tablet PC, Windows 2003 Server R2 & x64, Vista, Win RE, Bart PE and Winternals ERD Commander
Home Page:
http://www.gtopala.com/
download v 1.64 (2006-10-28) [ siw.exe (1.22 MB)(English version) ] [ siw.exe (1.36 MB)(Multi-language version) ]
http://www.gtopala.com/siw_download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

System Safety Monitor (SSM) (SysSafe Monitor)
Company: System Safety Limited (was Max Computing)
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.syssafety.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English; translate tool utility; help files in some other languages
Description: System Safety Monitor (SSM) allows you to track down Microsoft Windows operating system activity in real-time and to prevent undesirable actions from various malware and spyware programs. SSM's main goal is to discover and block malicious actions of any application.
Homepage:
https://syssafety.com/
Program description:
https://syssafety.com/product.html
download v 2.0.8.583 (2006-10-27) [ ssm-2.0.8.583-free.exe (3311.5 KB)]
http://www.syssafety.com/files.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TClockEx
Company: --
Author: Dale Nurden
(Freeware) (open source),
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French
Description: TClockEx enhances the standard Windows taskbar clock, adding the ability to display the date, time and lots of other information in any format you like. TClockEx is highly customizable, from the format to the font and colour, and even the tooltip information (e.g., CPU usage and system resources).
Home page:
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/
download page v 1.4.2 (2000-03-09) [ tclockex.exe (457 KB) English] [ tclockex.zip (190 KB) English]
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TCP Optimizer (TCP/IP Optimizer)
Company: Speed Guide Inc.
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
Windows OS: Windows 9x/ME/2K/XP/XP-SP2/2k3
Languages: English
Description: The TCP Optimizer is a free Windows program designed to help optimize your Internet connection. Just download and run, no installaion required. The program makes it easy to find the best MaxMTU value, test latency and tweak all the important broadband related registry parameters. The Optimizer can be helpful with tuning any Internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+ :)
Home page:
http://www.speedguide.net/
Program description:
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
download v 2.03 (2006-01-06) [ 596 KB)]
http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TED Notepad
Company: --
Author: Juraj Simlovic
(Donationware) (free),
http://jsimlo.sk/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Languages: English; other languages in alpha version only
Description: TED Notepad is a fast and small plain-text editor and notepad replacement. Provides many innovative features and tools for quick and advanced editing, all on hotkeys. Fetaures include second search, selective search, line and word completions, more clipboards, favourites, mru, relative goto, extensive text statistics, full view scrolling, system tray minimization, drag and drop, dual font, .LOG, etc. Tools include several types of search&replace, case and newlines converters, several types of indentation/quoting, unindentation/unquoting (even from the end of lines) and tabifying, tools for text/lines/words reversing, lines uniqueing, the best sorting and columns cutting out there, wrapping and unwrapping, etc. Also offers Filters Architecture, for any user-defined textual programs like grep. Fully supports Unicode characters and bi-directional editing. Recognizes Unicode, Utf-8, Ansi; Win, Unix and Mac file formats. Despite the amount of offered tools, exe file is only 118kb, optionally portable.
Home page:
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
Download: v 5.0.1 Final (2006-07-12) [ tnp501le_uni.exe (172 KB)(Win NT/2000/XP/Vista)] [ tnp501le_9x.exe (173 KB)(Win 95/98/Me)]
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/download.php
Manual wiki:
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/manual/wiki/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

The Font Thing
Company: --
Author: Sue Fisher
(Betaware) (Freeware),
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT
Languages: English
Description: With The Font Thing you can: Browse installed and uninstalled fonts; Browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list; View sample text and individual characters in your choice of colours; Change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch between your own standard text samples; View detailed font information; Print font samples; Associate notes with fonts; Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once; Load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary use; Copy or delete any number of font files at once; Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts; Filter fonts according to their type; Group fonts into collections for easier management; Use multiple font windows simultaneously for easy font comparison and management.
Home page:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
download v 0.80 (beta 2) (1999-12-22) [ tft.zip (483 KB)] [ tfti.zip (1126 KB) with installer]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft/tftdownloadmain.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

The Gimp
Company: The Gimp
Author: Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.gimp.org/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, a expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc. GIMP is extremely expandedable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plugins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. NOTES: Because of patent issues with the LZW compression algorithm the installer does not install the ability to save GIF files. (Yes, I know that the Unisys patent has expired in the US. Not so in other countries, though.) To be able to do this, make sure that either you are in a country where Unisys doesn't have a patent on the LZW algorithm, or that you have a license from Unisys. Then download the file gimp-gif-1.2.5.zip (http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/gimp-gif-1.2.5.zip) (from a server in Finland). Unzip and put the gif.exe in your GIMP plug-ins folder.
Home page:
http://www.gimp.org/
The Gimp for Windows information:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
download page: [ v 2.3.12 (2006-10-18) gimp-2.3.12-i586-setup.zip (13 933 KB) (Windows)] [ GTK+ 2.10.6 (2006-10-10) gtk+-2.10.6-setup.zip (5523 KB) (Windows)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

The Network Clipboard
Company: --
Author: Ranieri Argentini
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netclipboard/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP. Also all POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)
Languages: English
Description: The Network Clipboard is a simple multiplatform utility that allows clipboard synchronization between multiple machines on a subnet, enabling cut-and-paste between different computers.
Home page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netclipboard/
download page v 0.60 (2004-05-11) [netclip.exe (104 KB)]
Needs the QT3 + MSVC Runtime Library: runtime-libraries-0.60+.zip (2870 KB)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/netclipboard/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

The Proxomitron (v 4.5J)
Company: --
Author: Scott Lemmon
(Freeware) LFW (v 4.5J June),
http://www.proxomitron.info/index.shtml
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; Korean (documentation available in other languages)
Description: Using special HTML filters, the Proxomitron can transform web pages on the fly - changing most anything you wish. Speed your browsing by saying goodbye to slow loading cyber spam and other web-gimmickry. Customize pages to suit your tastes. Take control of your web viewing, and don't be slave to some web-master's whims. Works with any browser to eliminate cyber-spam like pop-up windows, alerts, banners, animated GIFs, auto-play music, sounds, dynamic HTML, and more. Replace background images with your own, rewrite JavaScripts, even filter normally hidden HTTP header messages.
Program description:
http://www.proxomitron.info/index.shtml
download page:
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/index.shtml
download page v 4.5 (2003-06- ) [ ProxN45j.exe (1380 KB)] [ ProxN45j.zip (1110 KB)]
http://www.proxomitron.info/files/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-03 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

THE Rename
Company: --
Author: Hervé Thouzard
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English; French; Italian
Description: THE Rename is a program designed to help you to rename files and folders en masse with a number of possibilities and options. You can rename a series of files with a counter: pict0001.jpg, pict0002.jpg, pict0003.jpg... You can rename files so the prefix is in upper case and the extension is in lower case. The program is useful for people who publish pages on Internet and need to convert file names to lower case. The file attribute changer is a very useful option for anyone using a CD recorder. You can rename pictures with their width and height. You can rename audio files (MP3, VQF, OGG and WMA files) based on their internal tags. You can rename files and folders If you have a digital camera, THE Rename can use (EXIF) tags that your camera include inside photos NOTES: Uninstall old versions before updating. COMMENTS: Adds a lot of entries to the registry,
Home page:
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/
Program description:
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=3
download page v 2.1.6 (2004-02) [ therename.zip (2.9 MB) ]
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=2
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no change)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TheSage
Company: Sequence Publishing
Author: Franc Morales and Leah Gilner
(Freeware),
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language. The program offers a unique structured display, as well as wildcard search, anagram search and more. You can copy the entire lookup, or portions of it to the clipboard, switch between results using the tabbed interface, and customize the interface to your preference. *NOTES*: The Sage is based on Princeton University's WordNet 2.0 database.
Home page:
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/
download v 1.4.0 (2006-09-26) [ TheSage_Setup_1-4-0.exe (8060 KB)]
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-08)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TightVNC
Company: TightVNC Software
Author: Constantin Kaplinsky (lead developer)
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.tightvnc.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: TightVNC is a free remote control package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.
Home page:
http://www.tightvnc.com/
download v 1.2.9 (2003-08-02) [ tightvnc-1.2.9_x86.zip (691,916 bytes)]
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
download v 1.2.9 (2003-08-02) [ tightvnc-1.2.9-setup.exe (967,486 bytes)]
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

tiny hexer
Company: --
Author: Markus Stephany
(Freeware),
http://www.mirkes.de/
Windows OS: 98/2K/XP
Languages: English, German (Deutsch)
Description: Tiny Hexer is a free of charge hex editor for binary files. It allows you to edit multiple files (MDI), sectors of disks and other data media (disk editor) and modifiy virtual memory of other processes. Tiny Hexer is scriptable, lets you view data structures in a special browser in human readable format and has a plugin interface for third party extensions. Notes: Simpler "medium" edition available for those who do not need plugin and scripting support, and "small" edition (with fewer features) for bartpe/winpe. Both also freeware.
Home Page:
http://www.mirkes.de/
download v 1.7.1.4 2006-07-16 [ mpth_17.exe (2.16 MB)]
http://www.mirkes.de/en/freeware/tinyhex.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-17 Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TortoiseSVN
Company: --
Author: Tim Kemp and Stefan Kueng
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP Notes: Minimum required "shell" version is 4.72 = IE4 shell extensions
Languages: English, language packs for many other languages
Description: TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like.
Home page:
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
download page v 1.4.0 (2006-09-20) [ TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-win32-svn-1.4.0.msi (8.71 MB) 32 Bit] [ TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7501-x64-svn-1.4.0.msi (8.61 MB) 64 Bit]
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Total Uninstall (v 2.35)
Company: --
Author: Gavrila Martau (Gabi)
(Freeware) LFW (v 2.35),
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=234
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Total Uninstall can help you to monitor any changes that were made to your system during installation of a new software product and allow you to perform a complete uninstall without having to rely on the supplied uninstall program (which may leave files or changes behind). To use it, you simply launch the installation program from the Total Uninstall interface and select the system areas to be monitored. The program will then create a snapshot of your system before it installs the new software and an additional snapshot after install completes. It then compares the two snapshots and displays all changes in a graphical tree view, marking all values and/or files that have been added or changed as well as some before/after details. Total Uninstall will save these changes and if you decide to uninstall the application, it will reverse all changes to the previous state.
Program description: download v 2.35 (2005-02-15) [ tun235.zip (684 KB)]
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=234
alternate download v 2.35 (2005-02-15) [ tun235.zip (684 KB)]
http://digilander.libero.it/molearchive3/tun235.zip
Home Page (Sware):
http://www.martau.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Transparent (v 4.2)
Company: --
Author: Jay Guerette
(Freeware) LFW (v 4.2),
http://www.computerhope.com/download/win98.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT
Languages: English
Description: Turn your desktop icon text backgrounds transparent; allowing your wallpaper to show through. It will also allow you to easily change the icon text to any color.
Program description: download v 4.2 (1998-09-15) [ Transparent42.zip (55 KB)]
http://www.computerhope.com/download/win98.htm
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TreePad Lite and TreePad Asia
Company: Freebyte
Author: Henk Hagedoorn
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.freebyte.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English
Description: TreePad Lite and TreePad Asia are very intuitive, small yet powerful personal database programs. They allow you to store all your notes, emails, texts, hyperlinks, etc. into one or multiple databases. With the look and feel of the familiar Windows explorer, editing, storing, browsing, searching and retrieving your data can not be easier! TreePad can be run directly from a floppy, if necessary, including data. To find any article you previously created or imported, you can browse the tree, in the same way as you browse directories/folders in the Windows explorer. You can also use the internal search engine to find any piece of information swiftly. While TreePad Asia supports non-western/Asian fonts through the Windows IME system, TreePad Lite is made for Western users.
Home page:
http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/
download page TreePad Lite v 3.0 (2006-04-15) [ treepad.zip (864 KB)]
http://www.treepad.com/download
download page TreePad Asia v 3.0 (2006-06-17) [ treeasia.zip (862 KB)]
http://www.treepad.com/download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-04 by Susan Bugher - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Trillian
Company: Cerulean Studios
Author: --
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Trillian Basic is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.
Home page:
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
download page v 3.1 build 121 (2005-03-15) [ trillian-v3.1.exe (8790 KB)]
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TrueCrypt
Company: TrueCrypt Foundation
Author: Ennead; Syncon
(Freeware) (open source),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP/Windows Server 2003 Note: Includes Windows XP/2003 64-bit versions
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English and various other language packs
Description: TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before it is loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read without using the correct password or encryption key. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to be nothing more than a series of random numbers. The entire file system is encrypted (i.e., file names, folder names, contents of every file, and free space). TrueCrypt never writes decrypted data to any storage device (it only temporarily writes data being decrypted to RAM).
Homepage:
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/
download v 4.2a (2006-07-03) [ truecrypt-4.2a.zip (1388 KB)]
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TUGZip
Company: --
Author: Christian Kindahl
(Freeware),
http://www.tugzip.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: TUGZip is a powerful award-winning archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
Home Page:
http://www.tugzip.com/
download page v 3.4.0.0 (2005-09-19) [ tugzip34.exe (3920 KB)]
http://www.tugzip.com/downloads.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/TUGZip.shtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-20 by REM)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TWEAK UI
Company: Microsoft
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: With the Tweak UI 1.33 update, you can adjust your Windows User Interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer. NOTES: versions for XP (Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher is required).: 32-bit: http://windows-help.net/cgi-bin/2003/6.26.cgi?62605 (TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe) (147 KB) 64-bit: http://windows-help.net/cgi-bin/2003/6.26.cgi?62606 (TweakUIPowertoySetup_ia64.exe) (224 KB)
Home page:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp
download v 1.33 [ Tweakui.exe (64 KB)]
http://download.microsoft.com/download/winme/Install/1.0/WinMe/EN-US/Tweakui.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-22 by Little Girl (no change))   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

TwistedBrush Free
Company: Pixarra
Author: --
(Freeware) older version of a commercial program,
http://www.pixarra.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: The digital paint software with complete natural art tools. Software for artists without the complexity of other art programs. Compare us to the other "natural media" art programs. Oil paint feels thick with color. Airbrushes feather their spray the further they are from the page. A variety of blenders range from dry dust to wet to semi dry smudging. Oil pastels mix and smear. Incredible effects.
Home page:
http://www.pixarra.com/
download page v 3.5 (2006-10-03) [ tbrush35.exe (1792 KB)]
http://www.pixarra.com/download.html
Program description; alternate download page
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-03)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

UK's Kalender
Company: --
Author: Ulrich Krebs
(Freeware),
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs/
Windows OS: Windows Note: A no install version is available.
Languages: English; German
Description: UK's Kalender" is a MS Windows program intended to remind you of upcoming events and todos. There are several views for your dates that are organized similar to a calendar sheet. Dates and appointments can be entered into the calendar via an input form.You can enter a forewarn time, so as long as "UK's Kalender" is running in the background you'll be reminded of your dates as soon as the forewarn time is reached. Independent from the calendar function there is also a todo list where you can enter tasks with a deadline and a forewarn time. If the forewarn time is reached, "UK's Kalender" will inform you of the due tasks with symbols and colors.
Home page:
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs/
download page v 2.1.3 (2006-08-28) [ Setup.exe (1246 KB)] [ Kalender_English.zip (319 KB)]
http://www.8ung.at/ukrebs/english/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ulead GIF Animator (v 2.0)
Company: ULEAD
Author: --
(Freeware) LFW (v 2.0),
http://encoderx.co.uk/imageeditors/index.php
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Everything you need to start making those adorable little animated gif files... NOTES: if having difficulties accessing the file, go to the Future Net FTP Directory and download file from there.
Program description: download v 2.0 [ GifAnimator.zip (4642 KB)]
http://encoderx.co.uk/imageeditors/
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.ulead.com
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ultimate Boot CD
Company: --
Author: Charles Appel; Scott Wares; Victor Chew
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ubcd/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: This boot-cd has its own operating system, DOS and Linux
Languages: English
Description: A boot-cd with a lot of rescue utilities and diagnostic tools.
Homepage:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
download iso image v 3.4 (2006-02-14) [ (From 83 to 204 MB, depending on version and download package) ]
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4Win) (was Windows Ultimate Boot CD)
Company: --
Author: Benjamin Burrows
(Freeware),
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Windows OS: Windows XP Notes: Additional requirements are shown on the author's web site.
Languages: English
Description: UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer problem. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows�. UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE� to boot into a Windows� "pre-install" environment, basically Windows� booted from CD. With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scanning hard drives for viruses, etc. this project is almost everything you need to repair your system problems. There are many other types of utilities included to allow you to recover and/or repair a damaged system. Additional applications included are CD Burning, Backup/cloning, Defragmenter's, Password recovery, the list goes on!!
Home page:
http://www.ubcd4win.com/
download v 3.0 (2006-06-05) [ UBCD4WinV30.exe (136682 KB)]
http://www.ubcd4win.com/downloads.htm
How To Use UBCD4Win: A linear approach to the creation of an Ultimate Boot CD 4 Win.
http://www.woundedmoon.org/UBCD/UBCD.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

UnderCoverXP
Company: Wicked & Wild Inc.
Author: Eric Heeseakkers
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.undercoverxp.tk/
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP
Languages: 24 Languages
Description: UndercoverXP is a free program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes. Other formats can be easily added via a graphical format editor. UnderCoverXP is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn't need a .NET framework or any other external libraries.
Homepage:
http://www.undercoverxp.tk/
download v 1.12 (2006-08-18) [ undercoverxp.zip (790 KB) ]
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/undercoverxp.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Unlocker
Company: --
Author: Cedrick Collomb
(Donationware) (free),
http://ccollomb.free.fr/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program." Ever had such an annoying message given by Windows? Unlocker is the solution! Simply right click the file or folder and select Unlocker. If the file or folder is locked then a window will appear with a list of processes locking the file or folder. Select the locks and click Unlock and you are done. It is recommended to Unlock wisely and to close open processes locking files or folder if any, but if only Explorer.exe is the culprit, do not hesitate!
Home page:
http://ccollomb.free.fr/
Program description; download v 1.8.5 (2006-09-07) [ unlocker1.8.5.exe (191 KB)]
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

UnxUtils
Company: --
Author: Karl M. Syring
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL) ,
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Compilation of common GNU commandline utilities to native Win32. The executables only depend on the C runtime library already installed on Windows systems. (No need for Cygwin or the like.) Compared to other implementations, the UnxUtils compilation consists of very stable and fast tools with exceptional support of command line switches. NOTES: The installation directory should be added to the Windows search path to use the tools from anywhere. Look here for a description: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 (The Path variable consists of a list of fully qualified directory names, separated by semicolons.) The collection contains: agrep.exe, ansi2knr.exe, basename.exe, bc.exe, bison.exe, bunzip2.exe, bzip2.exe, bzip2recover.exe, cat.exe, chgrp.exe, chmod.exe, chown.exe, cksum.exe, cmp.exe, comm.exe, compress.exe, cp.exe, csplit.exe, cut.exe, date.exe, dc.exe, dd.exe, df.exe, diff.exe, diff3.exe, dircolors.exe, dirname.exe, du.exe, echo.exe, egrep.exe, env.exe, expand.exe, expr.exe, factor.exe, fgrep.exe, find.exe, flex.exe, fmt.exe, fold.exe, fsplit.exe, gawk.exe, gclip.exe, gplay.exe, grep.exe, gsar.exe, gunzip.exe, gzip.exe, head.exe, id.exe, indent.exe, install.exe, join.exe, jwhois.exe, less.exe, lesskey.exe, ln.exe, logname.exe, ls.exe, m4.exe, make.exe, makedepend.exe, makemsg.exe, man.exe, md5sum.exe, mkdir.exe, mkfifo.exe, mknod.exe, mv.exe, mvdir.exe, nl.exe, od.exe, paste.exe, patch.exe, pathchk.exe, pclip.exe, pr.exe, printenv.exe, printf.exe, ptx.exe, pwd.exe, recode.exe, rm.exe, rman.exe, rmdir.exe, sdiff.exe, sed.exe, seq.exe, sh.exe, sha1sum.exe, shar.exe, sleep.exe, sort.exe, split.exe, stego.exe, su.exe, sum.exe, sync.exe, tac.exe, tail.exe, tar.exe, tee.exe, test.exe, touch.exe, tr.exe, tsort.exe, type.exe, uname.exe, unexpand.exe, uniq.exe, unrar.exe, unshar.exe, unzip.exe, uudecode.exe, uuencode.exe, wc.exe, wget.exe, which.exe, whoami.exe, xargs.exe, yes.exe, zcat.exe, zip.exe, zsh.exe
Home page:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net
download page: [(2003-04-14) UnxUtils.zip (3287 KB)]
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUtils.zip
[(2003-10-25) UnxUpdates.zip (859 KB)]
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUpdates.zip
(desc.: 2006-11-05 by BeAr)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

vim
Company: Vim
Author: Bram Moolenaar
(Requestware) (free) (open source: CharityWare (a GPL-compatible license)),
http://www.vim.org/
Windows OS: Windows 3x/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: also MS-DOS
Other OS: Macintosh; Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Home page:
http://www.vim.org/
download page v 7.0 (2006-05-08) [ gvim70.exe (7973 KB) Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP]
http://www.vim.org/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-04)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Visual Thought
Company: 2000 Confluent Inc. and E*TRADE Inc.
Author: --
(Trialware: 13-year license) (free) (unsupported) licence key: 4687 5261 1375 3152 2773 94 ,
http://tersesystems.com/vt14/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Visual Thought is a cross-platform diagramming and flowcharting tool for the enterprise that runs on Windows 95/NT and UNIX. It lets you effortlessly create technical and documentation graphics, network diagrams, flowcharts, org charts, software design diagrams (UML, Booch, OMT, Objectory, etc.), circuit and logic diagrams and business and presentation graphics. Choose from a library of drag-and-drop palettes, or create your own with user-definable shapes. Edit your work easily with 100 levels of undo. Publish your diagrams into Word or FrameMaker documents or right onto the Web with GIF and JPEG output and instant clickable imagemaps. NOTES:For windows the following licence key is good for 13 years: 4687 5261 1375 3152 2773 94
Program description:
http://product-support.web.cern.ch/product-support/sdt/visualthought.html
download page v 1.4 (2000-10-06) [ VT14.EXE (6966 KB)]
http://tersesystems.com/vt14/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

VNC
Company: RealVNC Ltd
Author: --
(Donationware) (free) (open source),
http://www.realvnc.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English
Description: VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing desktop environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
Home page:
http://www.realvnc.com/
download page v 4.1.2 (2005-05-12) [ (vnc-4_1_2-x86_win32.exe (722 KB) Windows] [ vnc-4_1_2-x86_win32.zip (698 KB) Windows]
http://www.realvnc.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-30 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WAssociate
Company: --
Author: Wilbert Hengst
(Freeware),
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; (documentation available in French)
Description: WAssociate manages the associations between file name extensions and file types stored in the Windows registry. These stored file types determine the appearance and actions supported for a file by Windows. WAssociate is about being in control when double or right clicking a file, quickly editing context menus, associated commands and changing icons and descriptions. Control freaks have easy access to the Windows registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and more... NOTES: NT, 2000 and XP users must have the proper rights to edit the registry.
Home page:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/
Program description; download v 3.4.3 (2006-03-30) [ setup_wassociate.exe (595 KB)]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-18 by Bjorn Simonsen - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Weather Watcher
Company: Singer's Creations
Author: Mike Singer
(Donationware) (free) the bundled version contains Adware,
http://www.singerscreations.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon. Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition image in a tray icon, designate which weather information is displayed in the Weather Watcher system tray tooltip, convert the weather data using almost any conversion, display a weather map as your desktop wallpaper, log the weather data in any format, export the weather data in any format, customize the look of the Weather Watcher interface and icons via skins, and much more.
Homepage:
http://www.singerscreations.com/
Download page v 5.6.14 (2006-10-13) [ WW5614SETUP.EXE (2257 KB) ]
http://www.singerscreations.com/AboutWeatherWatcher.asp
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-09 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Wherever Change Directory (wcd)
Company: --
Author: Erwin Waterlander
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
Windows OS: Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP Notes: Command Line interface
Other OS: DOS; Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Wcd is a command line program to change directory fast. It saves time typing at the keyboard. One only types a part of a directory name and wcd will jump to it. Wcd has a fast selection method in case of multiple matches and allows aliasing and banning of directories. Can also create and remove directories. Support for UNC path names under Windows makes it useful on networks too. Notes: Many windows versions are available (two are noted below).
Home Page:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
download v 3.2.1 (2006-04-05) [ wcd321pm.zip (153 KB) Win 95/98] [ wcd-3.2.1-win32.zip (109 KB) Win NT/2000/XP]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-08 by ggrothendieck - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WinAmp Classic
Company: Nullsoft
Author: --
(Freeware),
http://www.winampheaven.net/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Winamp is an audio player for CDs, MP3s and streaming files. It combines extensive functionality with an intuitive interface. Winamp features a versatile playlist editor, a ten band graphic equalizer and built-in pre-amplifier.
download page v 2.81 (2002-08-21) [ winamp281_lite.exe (496 KB)] [ winamp281_std.exe (1.12 MB)] [ winamp281_full.exe (1.72 MB)]
http://www.winampheaven.net/
Home Page (later versions):
http://winamp.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-12 by Spacey Spade - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WinDirStat
Company: --
Author: Oliver Schneider
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL),
http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English and other languages
Description: WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for MS Windows. WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: the directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size; the treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away; the extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types.
Home Page:
http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/
download page v 1.1.2 (2005-07-16) [ windirstat1_1_2-exe-ansi.zip (726 KB) Win 95/98/ME] [ windirstat1_1_2-exe-unicode.zip (731 KB) Win NT4/2000/XP/2003]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=91252
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-20 by bambam - no changes)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WinDriversBackup Personal Edition (v 1.09)
Company: Jermar Software Corp
Author: --
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) LFW (v 1.09),
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=172
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: WinDriversBackup is a handy tool for backing up your Windows system driver files. Use this program to find and identify all drivers or optionally limit it to non-Microsoft drivers and then copy them to a backup directory of your choice. You can choose to copy all or only selected drivers.
Program description:
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=172
download v 1.09 (2003-10-14) [ wdrvbck1.exe (2505 KB)]
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=172
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Wink
Company: --
Author: Satish Kumar
(Freeware),
http://www.debugmode.com/
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Various versions of Linux (x86 only)
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software. Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
Homepage:
http://www.debugmode.com
download v 2.0 build 1000 (2006-04-12) [ wink20.zip (2832 KB)]
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 by Little Girl)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WinPatrol
Company: BillP Studios
Author: Bill Pytlovany
(Liteware) (Trialware: some features expire) (free) ,
http://www.winpatrol.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; Spanish; Italian; German; French; languages packs for other languages
Description: WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Traditional security programs scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. WinPatrol takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge. You'll be removing dangerous new programs while others download new reference files. WinPatrol isn't the only software we recommend for complete safety but with Scotty on Patrol you'll find yourself informed on what's going on inside your computer. WinPatrol puts you back in control of your computer so you'll know what programs are and should be running at all times. NOTES: Win 95 Users Only: Download msaardk.exe See http://www.winpatrol.com/win95.html
Home page:
http://www.winpatrol.com/
download page v 10.0.5 (2006-10-09) [ wpsetup.exe (5537 KB) English]
http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WordWeb
Company: --
Author: Antony Lewis
(Liteware) (free),
http://www.wordweb.info/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: WordWeb includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs. Features include: Definitions and synonyms, Proper nouns, Related words, New Pronunciations, 142 000 root words, 117 000 synonym sets,
Homepage:
http://wordweb.info/free/
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/dictionary.html
Download page v 4.5 (2006-04-24) [ wordweb.exe (6176 KB) ]
http://wordweb.info/free/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-08 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

WorldTime
Company: PawPrint
Author: --
(Donationware) (free),
http://pawprint.net/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Dubbed "The 'Swiss Army Knife' of world clocks" with unlimited configurable clocks, each with it's own time zone, configurable Daylight Saving Time, Lat Long, and description in a 12 or 24 hour analog/digital user configurable display, that minimizes to the system tray; 2D/3D World Map with day/night display and ability to plot any/all locations. SwatchBeat support, unlimited time zone savvy alarms with AutoSnooze, and repeat for display, Sync, Dial, and Launch App; Uses NTP to synchronize your computers system time (UTC) to a time server; Allows user configurable optional chimes every 60, 30 and/or 15 minutes. Calculates and displays the Julian Date, Sun Rise, Sun Set, Moon phase, Hours of Daylight, Provides unlimited count up/down stopwatches accurate to 1/100 sec with unlimited lap times and lap average - hidden until used, and a module that tracks the amount of time since or until an unlimited number of events specified date down to the second at any location.
Home page:
http://www.pawprint.net/
Program description:
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/
download page v 6.0.0.941 (beta) (2004-02-10) [ wt600941.exe (2364 KB) ]
http://www.pawprint.net/wt/beta.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-01 Ron May)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

X-Setup Pro (was Xteq X-Setup) (v 6.6)
Company: --
Author: Michael 'TeX HeX' Tröger
(Betaware) (Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) LFW (v 6.6),
http://freeware.it-mate.co.uk/?Cat=System#147
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: X-Setup PRO is a so-called "hacker" or "tweaker" program. It allows you to change more than 1.600 settings that are normally hidden deeply in some configuration-files like the registry fast and easily. X-Setup Pro is clutter-free, easy to use, extensible, powerful, covers any aspect of your computer and has more configuration options than any other tweaker.
Program description: download v 6.6 (2004-05-28) [ xqdcxsp-setup-en.zip (4651 KB)]
http://freeware.it-mate.co.uk/?Cat=System#147
alternate download v 6.6 (2004-05-28) [ xqdcxsp-setup-en.zip (4651 KB)]
http://digilander.libero.it/molearchive3/xqdcxsp-setup-en.zip
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.x-setup.net/
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher - no change)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Xenu's Link Sleuth
Company: --
Author: Tilman Hausherr
(Requestware) (free),
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Xenus Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on normal links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.
Homepage:
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
Download page v 1.2i (2006-10-01) [ XENU.ZIP (536 KB)]
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-07 by Little Girl - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Xnews
Company: --
Author: Luu Tran
(Donationware) (free),
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; Italian
Description: Xnews features Plonk file (aka bozo bin), quick filter, score file for advanced filtering, support for multiple servers/identities, subscribed groups can be organized into categories, remappable keyboard, binaries handling (mime, base64, uuencode, what have you), optional header and article caching and, finally, folders for permanent archival.
Home Page: download v 5.04.25 (2002-04-25) [ xnews.zip (680 KB)]
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
download test version 2006.08.24 (2006-08-24) [ TEST.ZIP (582 KB) (update file)]
http://xnews.newsguy.com/test/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-20 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

XnView
Company: --
Author: Pierre-E Gougelet
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses),
http://www.xnview.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES : No install versions are available. A version is available for Windows 3x
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. Fatures : Import about 400 graphic file formats. Export about 40 graphic file formats. Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support. Resize, Copy/Cut/Crop Adjust brigthness, contrast... Modify number of colors, Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...), Apply effects (lens, wave, ...), Fullscreen mode, Slide show, Picture browser, Batch convert, Thumbnail create, Screen capture, Contact Sheet create, Multi-page file create (TIFF, DCX, LDF), TWAIN support (Windows only), Print support (Windows only), Drag and Drop support (Windows only), 36 languages support (Windows only), And many many other things... NOTES: Many file packages are available for download, see the site for details.
Home page:
http://www.xnview.com
download page Windows v 1.82.4 (2006-03-07) [ XnView-win-small.exe (1658 KB) Minimal: English, German, French] [ XnView-win.exe (3554 KB) Standard: Multi-language] [ XnView-win-full.exe (7791 KB) Complete: Multi-language]
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)  desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

XXCopy
Company: Pixelab
Author: Kan Yabumoto
(Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use),
http://www.xxcopy.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
NOTES: Command line interface
Languages: English
Description: XXCOPY is a command line utility for easily backing up files and folders. It provides more that 200 advanced features for even the most seasoned user. Probably the most popular use of XXCOPY is as disk- cloning tool. It can duplicate an entire system drive that can boot Window 9X/ME (though not NT/2000/XP). When converting files with long file names to the DOS 8.3 file-name convention, XXCOPY handles the long file name correctly and doesn't give the two files the same 8.3 name. XXCOPY can be used to synchronize directories and overwrite read-only files. With XXCOPY, you can back up up directories incrementally without the use of archive bit. Exclude directories or files from copying by wild cards. Qualify file by file date/time (Before, On, or After). Copy hidden/system files. Flatten a directory tree into files in one directory. Copy only the first n bytes and more. XXCOPY comes with a 16-bit version (XXCopy16).
Home page:
http://www.xxcopy.com/
download v 2.93.1 (2006-08-24) [ xxcopy.zip (242 KB) XXCOPY and XXCOPY16 are packaged in one file]
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm#download
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28 Ron May)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

XYplorer (wasTrackerV3) (v 4.50.0018; v 4.50.0022)
Company: --
Author: Donald Lessau
(Freeware) (free for personal use) LFW (v 4.50.0018; v 4.50.0022),
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ftp/Programs/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No files are added to your system and your registry is not touched. A no install version is available. You may need to install GdiPlus.dll (GDI+) for OS that are older than Windows XP. See the download page for details.
Languages: English
Description: XYplorer is an Advanced File System Explorer. It comes with an Windows Explorer-like interface but has a far broader scope: you get much more information and you get it all on the fly, plus variously enhanced functionality and ease of use, tabbed browsing, extended file find, reporting features, and instant preview of font, HTML, image, audio, and video files, plus ASCII/binary file viewer.
Program description: download v 4.50.0018 (2006-03-03) [ xyplorer_full.zip (633 KB)]
http://freeware4u.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=178
download: v 4.50.0022 (2006-03-09) [ xyplorer_full-4.zip (722 KB)]
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ftp/Programs/xyplorer_full_noinstall.zip
Home page ($ware):
http://www.xyplorer.com/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Yankee Clipper III
Company: InteleXual Software LLC
Author: Joe LeVasseur and Konrad Krupa
(Registerware: name) (Requestware) (free),
http://intelexual.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English
Description: Magic Mail Monitor 3 - Windows mail checker with multiple mailboxes support, ability to preview and delete messages. Based on original code of Magic Mail Monitor from Valeriy Ovechkin.
Home page:
http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmm3/
download page v 2.94 b13 (2006-03-09) [ magic-294-b13.zip (183 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69252
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-21 by bambam - no changes)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

yWriter
Company: Spacejock Software
Author: Simon Haynes
(Freeware),
http://www.spacejock.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; Spanish; German; French; Galician; Italian; Netherlands
Description: This novel writing program has evolved over the years into a powerful piece of software, allowing you to break your book into chapters and scenes. Tracking progress is easy with the 'status' flags you can apply to each scene: outline, draft, 1st edit, 2nd edit or done. Because losing work is the pits, this program will also create autobackups by date and time, as frequently as once a minute if desired. These can be browsed at will, making it easy to revert to an earlier version of your work. Includes a text editor, project overview, daily change log and much more. I've used this program to write three complete novels of 90,000+ words each. I would never have finished them without it.
Home Page:
http://www.spacejock.com/
Program description:
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
download page v 2.3.27 (2006-08-22) [ yWriter2.exe (3076 KB)]
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter_Download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-09)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ZipGenius
Company: M.Dev Software
Author: Matteo Riso
(Freeware),
http://www.zipgenius.it/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP NOTES: Older version available for Windows 95/NT4
Languages: English; Italian
Description: ZipGenius isn advanced zip/unzip application and solution for anyone who needs to archive and protect its files and projects. Advanced features: support for TWAIN device (scanners and digital cameras), files extraction to CD-R writer (only under Windows XP), a FTP client (FTPGenius). ZipGenius makes use of the right button of the mouse in this way: the most important functions have been replicated there. ZipGenius integrates with Windows Explorer shell and it takes advantages from using Windows XP features (among them built-in support to CD-R writers). Archive history file can be encrypted, most recently used files list can be enabled (always or per session) or disabled, and CryptoZip 2.1 gives better encryption algorhythms to lock your archives. NOTES: ZipGenius 5 cannot be installed under Windows 95 and NT4: use ZipGenius 1.4 SR3.
Home Page:
http://www.zipgenius.it/
download page v 6.0.3.1130 (2006-10-22) [ zg603std.exe (5224 KB) standard] [ zg603sui.exe (8900 KB) suite]
http://downloads.zipgenius.it
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/zipgenius.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

ZoneAlarm (Zone Alarm)
Company: Zone Labs
Author: --
(Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use),
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/znalm/zaReleaseHistory.html
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: Win 98 (SE only).
Languages: English; German; Spanish
Description: ZoneAlarm protects automatically from the moment it's installed - no programming required. ZoneAlarm barricades your PC with immediate and complete port blocking. And, then runs in Stealth Mode to make your PC invisible on the Internet - if you can't be seen, you can't be attacked. ZoneAlarm delivers simplicity without compromising your security. A getting started tutorial explains controls and alerts to get you up and running quickly. And, to keep you confident that you're always protected, intuitive color- coded alerts rate security risks - in real time.
Home page:
http://www.zonelabs.com/
Release History, download v 6.5.737.000 (2006-08-31) [ zlsSetup_65_737_000_en.exe (13393 KB)]
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/znalm/zaReleaseHistory.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-02 by Susan Bugher)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

Zoner Draw 3
Company: Zoner
Author: --
(Registerware: product key) (free) earlier version of $ware ,
http://www.zoner.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000
Languages: English; German
Description: Zoner Draw 3 is an ideal graphics program for a broad range of applications. Use it to create powerful brochures and leaflets, as well as illustrations for documents, business cards, price tags, letterheads, postcards, signs, blueprints, greeting cards, and more. One new feature of the product is the ability to create graphics for Internet presentations, including vector animations. NOTES: Registration is via email. You must obtain a registration number to make this program run as a full version,
Home page:
http://www.zoner.com/
download page v 3 [ zd3.exe (9027 KB) English]
http://www.zoner.com/download/
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-27 by Vegard Krog Petersen)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments

µTorrent
Company: --
Author: Ludvig Strigeus
(Donationware) (free),
http://www.utorrent.com/
Windows OS: Windows Notes: A no install version is available.
Languages: English; language pack for other languages
Description: uTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients. With BitTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth.
Home Page:
http://www.utorrent.com/
download page v 1.6 (build 474) (2006-07-02) [ utorrent.exe (171 KB)] [ uTorrent-1.6-install.exe (631 KB)]
http://www.utorrent.com/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-29 by Vegard Krog Petersen)
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