Here's a list of the best freeware programs in my humble opinion.
All of them are freeware/open-source. Feel free to continue to add
to this list. Lots of these I have tried and some I never heard of so
explore the list and check them out. Some of the real good stuff is free.

AD-Aware - Find spyware on your computer http://www.lavasoftusa.com

2XExplorer - Best explorer replacement http://www.netez.com/2xExplorer

Anmanie SMP - Best image morpher program
http://tiry73.free.fr/anm/anmanie.htm

Audacity - WAV/MP3 sound editor http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Avant Browser - Best browser http://www.avantbrowser.com

Avast! - Antivirus http://www.avast.com

BMP 2 ASCII - Convert BMP 2 ascii,very good.
http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk

CDEX - CD Ripper http://cdex.n3.net/

CD-RUN - Best lightweight CD player http://www.amberror.lt/

CDSpeed - CD benchmark tool http://www.cdspeed2000.com

Cheetah - Help file creator http://www.jansfreeware.com

dBPowerAMP - music files converter http://www.dbpoweramp.com

DupeLocator - Best duplicate search tool http://www.midnightblue.com

EasyCleaner - Best system cleaner
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts

EDXOR - Versatile text utility
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulif...are/index.html

Filemon/Regmon/Procexp - Useful system tools
http://www.sysinternals.com

FontMagic - Best 3D text animator - http://www.mattcawley.com

FontPage - Good font manager http://bluefive.pair.com/

FTPWanderer/Webbuilder - RECOMMENDED!! Good freeware such as FTP tool
and WYSIWYG HTML builder http://www.pablovandermeer.nl

Gamemaker - Makes 2D games http://www.gamemaker.nl

GIF2SWF - Convert GIF 2 SWF http://www.segon.com

ICEOWS - Best ZIP file extractor http://www.iceows.com

Iconedit/RTF editor - http://www.ranfo.com

IconShop - create icon libraries http://www.ping.be/liontech

Irfanview - Best image viewer http://www.irfanview.com

Kerio Firewall - Good firewall. The limited edition is free.
http://www.kerio.com

LiquidXP - Good icon editor http://www.x2studios.com

LS - Best directory lister
http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/

LupasRename - Best rename tool http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/

HorstTools - Very good DOS and windows tools,small website
http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/

Metapad - Good text editor http://liquidninja.com/metapad/

MODPlug/Tracker - Play/Create tracked music http://www.modplug.com

MW-Snap - Best screen capture utility http://www.mirekw.com

NKMapMaker - Good HTML map tool
http://users.otenet.gr/~nkourkou/index.html

Notepad++ - Very good text editor with syntax highlite

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

PhotoFiltre - Best photo/image editor http://www.photofiltre.com

Powerbullet - Best flash animator http://www.powerbullet.com

Pixia - Best image editor http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

Purrint - Auto screen capture tool http://bcheck.arsware.org/

QJOT - Best RTF editor http://www.xtort.net/xtort/xtort.php

REGShot - Registry snapshot tool http://regshot.yeah.net/

Restoration - Restore deleted files
Scrollbar Skinner - Makes HTML pages scrollbar colorful
http://www.survivorx.com

SmartMorph - Morph images http://meesoft.logicnet.dk

Siren - Another file renaming tool http://www.scarabee-software.net/

SR98 - text replace tool on all files http://www.htmlworkshop.com/

SOX - Sound utility http://sox.sourceforge.net/

SSRC - Another sound utility http://shibatch.sourceforge.net/

SSMM - Best slideshow creator www.joern-thiemann.de/tools

STILE - Best texture creating tool http://www.harmware.com

Toolbar paint - Best image editor for toolbar graphics
http://donkey.visualassembler.com/

TextView - Best text viewer http://www.flos-freeware.ch

VanBasco Karoke - MIDI player/Karaoke compatible
http://www.vanbasco.com

Unfreez - String single GIF into animated GIF file
http://www.whitsoftdev.com

UPX - Compress EXE http://upx.sourceforge.net/

VisualIRC - Best IRC chat program http://www.visualirc.net

Winamp - MP3 player http://www.winamp.com

XMPlay - Best MOD/S3M/IT/XM player http://www.un4seen.com/

ZPaint - Best 3D button/texture creator
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware

Have fun and explore alot.

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