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Luigi-San
Posted on 05-15-07 10:22 PM (rev. 10 of 09-25-07 11:11 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 35607


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Useful Software for Microsoft Windows



This list aims to provide you with links to Useful Software for Microsoft Windows. It also aims to provide links to useful Windows related websites.


Web Browsers
Internet Explorer -- Windows' default browser. Comes bundled with Windows.
Mozilla Firefox -- Cross-Platform goodness.
Opera -- More Cross-Platform goodness



Mail Clients
Outlook Express -- Windows' default mail client. Comes with Windows and IE.
Microsoft Outlook -- Microsoft's more robust mail client. Supports Exchange Server.
Mozilla Thunderbird -- Cross-Platform goodness.



Instant Messaging, VOIP, Chat and IRC
Pidgin -- free, opensource multi protocol IM.
Trillian -- multi-protocol IM. Free and Pro versions.
Skype -- VoIP software
Xchat -- IRC client
SilvereX -- Shareware-free XChat build
Miranda IM -- Tiny multi-protocol IM
XFire -- allows you to IM while gaming, amongst other features.
Google Talk -- IM using the Jabber protocol, with voice chat.
mIRC
Josh Dick's Irssi 0.8.11 Standalone for Windows



RSS Readers
Please let us know if you know any good RSS Aggregators / Readers!!



Peer to Peer
Azureus -- Powerful, Java based BitTorrent client
BitTorrent -- Official (and original) BitTorrent client.
LimeWire -- Free Gnutella client. Cross-platform
uTorrent



FTP Clients
FileZilla -- open-source FTP
CuteFTP -- easy to use FTP client
WS_FTP -- FTP Client
Core FTP Lite
SmartFTP



Video and Audio
Windows Media Player -- bundled with Windows.
QuickTime -- Apple's Media Player.
iTunes -- Music and media for OS X and Windows. May support the iTunes Music Store if it's available in your country. Part of the iLife suite of products.
VLC -- Media Player which supports most audio and video, DVD's, VCD's and streaming
WinAmp -- Versatile, skinnable media player for Windows
Extract Audio Copy -- A freeware CD ripper that exports to WAV, instead of MP3 or Ogg Vorbis like most other rippers.
CDex -- rip CDs using the LAME codec.
Audacity -- great for recording and editing sounds
BS Player
FooBar2000



Codecs
Combined Community Codec Pack
QuickTime Alternative
Real Alternative



Photo Editing / Graphics
Adobe Photoshop -- Adobe's powerful, professional digital imaging software.
Painter IX -- Powerful Natural-Media software (emulates real painting and drawing materials)
the GIMP -- funny name, powerful open-source image editing.
Paint.net -- because Photoshop's not free. "Advanced" version of Paint.
Irfanview
Grafx2
GraphicsGale
Cosmigo ProMotion



Office / Productivity Software
Microsoft Office -- Microsoft's Office Suite.
OpenOffice.org -- open-source alternative to Office.
Mozilla Sunbird -- Calendaring, based on the Mozilla framework



Text / HTML / etc Editors
TextPad -- powerful shareware text editor
Metapad -- Unlike the other "notepad clones" this is probably one of the very few that can actually claim that title
UltraEdit-32 -- The ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers!
Notepad++
EditPlus
Notepad 2



Antivirus / Anti-spyware Solutions
AVG Free Edition -- Free Antivirus for your PC
Avast Antivirus -- More Free Antivirus for your PC
McAfee -- not-so-free Antivirus
Norton AntiVirus -- also not-so-free AV.
ZoneAlarm Basic -- free, software firewalling for your PC.
AdAware -- Spyware Detection and Removal
Spybot Search and Destroy -- Spyware Detection and Removal
Windows Defender -- AKA Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta, AKA Giant AntiSpyware
Hijack This! -- Great for finding out what your computer is up to



Developer Tools
WAMP -- Simple installation of Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows.
Dev-PHP -- A PHP IDE
JCreator



Utilities (ie, Zip Tools, VNC.. etc.. etc)
Diskeeper -- an alternative to Windows' built in defrag
7-Zip -- Free Zip utility. Excellent compression with native 7z format.
WinRAR -- opens and creates RAR files, also supports Zip, etc.
NirSoft -- handy free windows utilities
HyperNova Software -- more handy free windows utilities and ROM hack tools
Parallel Port Joystick (Driver) -- A freeware driver to recognise console controlers via your parallel (aka "printer") port, such as NES or SNES controllers. I'm guessing you'll need to do the hard work of messing with the wires yourself
Memtest86 -- Extensive memory testing
Portable Application Suite -- Take your stuff with you on a thumb drive!
SysInternals Process Explorer



Fun Stuff
Google Earth -- See the world!



Microsoft/Windows Related Websites
Microsoft -- Microsoft's Web Site
Windows Update -- cause sometimes you should update Windows.
Paul Thurrot's SuperSite for Windows -- Lots of Windows Info
M-Dollar -- ArsTechica's Microsoft Blog
Slashdot: Microsoft -- Slashdot's Microsoft articles...



If you have a program you would like to see added to the list, post it and I will add it.

Koitenshin -∞
Posted on 05-15-07 10:32 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35614

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Chalk up UltraEdit on that list.

It should go under Text / HTML / etc Editors
UltraEdit-32: The ideal text, HTML and HEX editor, and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers!

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Luigi-San
Posted on 05-15-07 10:34 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35616


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Done.

Trapster
Posted on 05-15-07 10:50 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35630


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Hm, looks like she forgot BSplayer.

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Katelyn
Posted on 05-15-07 11:08 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35645

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Notepad++ - I use this for text/HTML editing

Luigi-San
Posted on 05-15-07 11:16 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35648


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Both are now on the list.

Black Lord
Posted on 05-15-07 11:34 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35652


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GAIM is now Pidgin...

http://www.pidgin.im

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Tarale
Posted on 05-16-07 12:43 AM Link | Quote | ID: 35661


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Wow... list is old. Might be worth somebody reviewing it all and re-doing it?

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NightKev
Posted on 05-16-07 08:24 AM Link | Quote | ID: 35763


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Core FTP Lite (Shareware and Pay-to-Use versions available).
Smart FTP (don't have link atm, will get one tomorrow).
Also, Programming languages editor EditPlus2 (no link, same reason as above).

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setz
Posted on 05-16-07 05:23 PM (rev. 2 of 05-16-07 05:24 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 35809


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Graphics:
irfanview - Not a pixel-based editor, but it can do effects and saving features which I love.
grafx2 - oldstyle pixel editor
GraphicsGale - Can't say I ever liked it, but alot of people do.
Cosmigo ProMotion - Can't say I ever didn't like it, and so do alot of other people, just wish I could afford it.

chat:
how did mIRC not get listed? o.O

p2p:
uTorrent - <3

FTP:
smartFtp - Simple, works.

Developer Tools:
JCreator - The java IDE I use.



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Luigi-San
Posted on 05-16-07 07:08 PM Link | Quote | ID: 35815


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List updated.

DarkPhoenix
Posted on 05-24-07 07:17 AM Link | Quote | ID: 37955


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Zoom Player and Media Player Classic - both significantly less frustrating when downloaded with the Combined Community Codec Pack

OoBurns
Posted on 05-24-07 07:21 AM Link | Quote | ID: 37957


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And speaking of codecs and such, Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative are extremely useful if you have a file that opens with Quicktime or even (ARGH) RealPlayer.

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Darkdata
Posted on 05-26-07 04:30 PM Link | Quote | ID: 38655


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You can't forget Notepad 2

Also Jcreator is a developer tool not a text editor.


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HydraPheetz
Posted on 06-01-07 01:52 AM Link | Quote | ID: 40286


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Foobar2000 hasn't even been mentioned yet?

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Tyty
Posted on 06-08-07 11:54 PM Link | Quote | ID: 43716


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I'm a Photoshop guy, but it seems that you forgot to mention paint shop pro. It's useful too

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Tail for Win32 is a nice clone of the unix tail utility. Wrapped up inside a very nice UI.

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VU Player -- program that reads CD-Text

Cygwin -- UNIX emulation layer for windows. Great for people who want a UNIX dev environment on Windows.

MiniCompute
Posted on 06-26-07 04:15 AM (rev. 2 of 06-26-07 07:17 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 49601


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Microangelo 6 (Icon editing program) useful when making software applications or to -really modify your favorite software icons

skin studio 5.0 basic or professional
(good for making your windows skins or WMP skins)
(basic is limited a little but you still can tweak alot of skins)

windows blinds 4.5 -5.1 ( great for showing off your skins or others skin) and no its not a resource hog or waster.

NOD32 antivirus (just as good as norton and catches 99% of trojans and viruses that may come flying your way). also is not a resource hog and very quiet.

ACE FTP 3 free or pro (www.visicom.com)

HyperHacker
Posted on 06-26-07 08:54 AM (rev. 2 of 06-26-07 08:57 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 49713

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A variety of programs here. The only one I've used so far is Directory Compare and it is frickin' nice. Interface is a bit rough, but it works very well. As the name implies, it compares directories, to let you quickly see which copy of a file is newer and which files are missing. I suggest disabling "Automatically update main list" in the options if you plan to use it on very large directories though, or it'll rescan every time you copy a file, which can take bloody ages. You can even select multiple source/target directories and then exclude certain subdirectories.
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