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.
Thanks
Dudelive