2x Explorer, Windows Explorer replacement, main feature I wanted is that it shows sizes for for a whole bunch of folders
Advanced Subnet (CIDR) Calculator from SolarWinds Tools
Adware/Spyware removal tools
Spy Sweeper [download free trial, ranked better than Ad-Aware and SpyBot in study done fall 2004 -- alice ttlg]
CWShredder [download free trial -- alice ttlg]
Ad-Aware SE Personal - Lavasoft
Spybot Search & Destroy
[use the above programs to check for and remove spyware and adware programs, then if there's still problems, try the ones below -- alice ttlg
HijackThis, CWShredder, & StartUplist [download HijackThis here, plus tutorial and link to support forums to help decide what to delete -- alice ttlg]
Computer Cops - HijackThis Log Tutorial [good details on the logs -- alice ttlg]
Spychecker: HijackThis [another site to download it -- alice ttlg]
Agent Ransack - Home, 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!
Aladdin StuffIt, unzip software for Mac zipped files
Annoyances.org, tips and tricks for Windows users
BetterJPEG Edit JPEG without recompression loss
Carnivorous Creations Cat screensavers
Color Wheel Expert Create Harmonious Color Schemes
Color Wheel Pro: See Color Theory in Action!
Color Wheel Pro: Classic Color Schemes
Color Wheel Pro: Color Theory Basics
Dimension 4 v5.0 at Thinking Man Software [keeps your Windows clock updated to atomic clocks at sites around the web so that it's always accurate -- alice ttlg]
Eric Howes' Privacy & Security Page [links to bunches of anti-virus, anti-adware and anti-spyware programs, he also conducted a study last fall on adware/spyware which is discussed in WindowsSecrets' article, Anti-adware misses most malware -- alice ttlg]
Eric's TelNet98 nifty ssh/telnet program, easy to use and easy to read black on white display
ExamDiff - Visual File Comparison Tool, freeware Windows tool for visual file comparison. It has a number of simple and convenient features that many users have been asking for a long time from a file comparison tool.
FTP Voyager I use this mainly for the FTP Scheduler, which sets up scheduled uploads or downloads from numerous sites, great for backups.
Favicon Creators
IconEdit32 (freeware)
Icon Forge (free trial)
Snico Edit 2 (free for personal use)
IconCool Editor (free trial)
@icon sushi icon converter (freeware)
Chami.com FavIcon from Pics [online favicon creator - no transparent background but otherwise very nice -- alice ttlg]
FileZilla, incredibly fast ftp program - I've tested it and it really is faster than most ftp programs. Good interface, similar to CuteFTP and it gives the count of files and total size at the bottom of each folder pane.
Hello [for sharing pictures and chat with Picasa, haven't used this yet but going to set it up on mom's computer and mine and try it out, it's from the Google Picasa people -- alice ttlg]
Hello : BloggerBot [for publishing photos to Blogger blogs -- alice ttlg]
How to Email Files in Pieces from Norman De Forest's Tips Page, Windows utilities to cut large files into small pieces for emailing and then rejoining at the other end.
iPod - other programs to load and unload music
Kim Komando: No more confusion over iPod music file formats - 09/16/05 [While I knew more than a year ago that iPod would play MP3s and other formats, I didn't know about other programs to load music into iPods -- alice ttlg]
EphPod - iPod for Windows 98+ (and Linux) [if I had only known about this program (and Winamp's plugin) last year when I got my free iPod but still only had a W98 pc! -- alice ttlg]
Winamp.com [great mp3 player that I've used for years and with a plugin, will also load music to the iPod -- alice ttlg]
ml_ipod: Think Dissident [Winamp plugin for the iPod -- alice ttlg]
IrfanView image viewer, also creates favicons from images and extracts icons from exe, dll, icl files
\\mandolux [absolutely amazing blog of wallpapers, large size, from 1024x768 to 1920x1200 and some for double monitors, from a link at aefen's blog -- alice ttlg]
Monitor Calibration | About.com
PCWorld.com - Digital Focus: Calibrate Your Monitor
Praxisoft Wiziwyg Gamma Calibration Software creates the ICC profiles for accurate, reliable color
Bryce Alive Quick Guide to Monitor Calibration
Calibrate Monitor
Monitor Calibration
OnlyTheBestFreeware.com Your source for the web's best freeware [website] [IconEdit32 is here, under Graphics -- alice ttlg]
PC911 - Friendly Computer Help In Plain English
Picasa 2 [the best way to find and organize all those digital photos on your computer, very easy to use, even my mother can do it! Courtesy of the folks at Google -- alice ttlg]
Hello [share photos with family and friends - it's something new from the Picasa/Google people and I haven't tried it yet, but it looks very ineresting - and it's free! -- alice ttlg]
Widget Technologies Freeware - Print Directory V3.1, will print all of the contents of a selected directory, sub-directories, and its contents. Choose from 16 different formatting options like: Full path name or just the file name; Created time; Last access time; Last written to time; File size in bytes or kilobytes. Date formatting options and many more. Program gives the ability to print the listing or saving the listing as a tab or comma delimited file so that it can be opened by Excel.
Random Sig Generators
Pick-a-Tag homepage, random sig generator
Tranglos software: KookieJar, random sig generator
[VP} - Other UI parts/Rightclick options, some not really decorative, but functional stuff to put in your common rightclickmenu plus links to programs to help.
SETI@home Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at home
ScreenMates - Interactive Animated Desktop Inhabitants
SilverAge Software web tools, including Colour Spy for picking out any color anywhere on the screen in any program or webpage
SmartFTP FTP Client, uses scp for fast file transfer
Startup Control Panel a free nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts
Startup Monitor a free 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.
Task List Programs details of programs in the task list, both good and bad plus info on removal of bad ones
Timeless - CD AutoRun freeware to create autorun splash screens for your own CDs
:: w.bloggar ::, an application that targets to be an interface between the user and his blog(s), in other words, is a Post and Template editor, with serveral features and resources that the browser based blog editors can not offer.
WeatherBug free weather software that puts the temperature next to your clock and provides instant access to live weather information (free) - nifty display with lots of info. Does display ads but you can pick the sponsor. Pay version without ads is $20/year.
Web Accessibility Toolbar Version EN 1.0 for IE, similar to the Mozilla/Firefox Web Developer extension
Software Design, Windows Software by Gregory Braun, WebTime, to sync Windows clock with atomic clock websites
WinDrivers.com (printer drivers, cdrom drivers, modem drivers, sound drivers, mouse drivers, monitor drivers, etc.)
WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files
WinSCP Freeware SFTP and SCP client for Windows [website]
Windows Live CD
Why Every Windows User Needs a Linux Windows Live CD [digg article about the Linux Live CD with links to Win Live CD options -- alice ttlg]
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
XP Live CD
Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Windows In Your Pocket [make a bootable Windows USB flash drive]
XXCOPY a Versatile File Management Utility --- Boldly Extended Xcopy (both freeware and proware)
Zempt, Multi-platform posting for Movable Type
This is a truly wonderful little program! It's easier to post thru this than thru MT's interface, especially if you're using multiple categories, in MT it takes multiple saves to add the extra categories, in Zempt I can choose the extra categories while creating the initial post and that's a huge timesaver.