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7-zip

7-Zip is a mutli-platform file archiver with a high compression ratio. Best of all it's free.

Acronis True Image	Acronis True Image complete PC protection: back up your entire PC, including the OS plus your data, applications, pictures, video, financial documents, settings and everything! Acronis True Image is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster.
Apache Software Foundation	The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects.
AutoIT v3	AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. 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). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying "runtimes" required!
AutoPatcher	An easy way to keep your Windows installation up to date.
Avast!	avast! Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! This company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in their opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many user are not able to or do not want to pay for antivirus software.

BartPE	Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Pre-installed 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.
BitDefender Online Scanner	Scan your PC for free. BitDefender Online Scanner is an on-demand virus scanner which incorporates the award-winning BitDefender scanning engines. You can use it to scan your system's memory, all files and drives' boot sectors, and to automatically clean infected files.
Blender	Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, availabel for all major operating systems.
Broadband Genie	Broadband Genie is a free-to-use, broadband consumer advice website. They've been going since 2003 and regularly appear in the national media as an independent consumer spokesperson on broadband, including BBC Radio 2, The Times, and The Telegraph, as well as numerous Government sites.
Broadband Suppliers	Broadband suppliers website is a home for all the leading UK broadband providers. Find cheap broadband provider deals and offers.

Calendar of updates	List of security updates for many applications.
CCleaner	CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
Comodo AV Scanner	Comodo AV Scanner is a free service that lets you quickly find out whether your computer is infected with viruses and spyware.
CSS Reference	Cascading Style Sheet reference. For web designers. Learn how to use CSS to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once.

Data Wiping Myth Put to Rest	The reason why you only need to do a single pass wipe to securely erase a Hard Disk Drive.
DigiGuide	DigiGuide is a TV guide for Windows (and Linux using WINE) that allows you to search, organise and get reminders for your favourite programmes without ever opening a web browser.
Digital Spy	Digital Spy is the UK's largest independent entertainment website, having grown over nine years to over 90 million monthly page impressions (August 2008) and a unique audience reach of over 5 million unique users (Google Analytics). Digital Spy has many useful public forums i.e. Sky Satelitte TV PC Gaming etc...
Down for eveyone or just me	See if there is a problem with a website. Use this when you're not sure if a connection problem is worldwide or local.
Driver Sweeper	Driver Sweeper is a fast tool to remove driver leftovers from your system. It's very important to remove your drivers on a proper way, because driver leftovers can cause problems like stability and startup problems. You can use it if you want to update/remove drivers from your system.
Dropbox	Sync your files online across computers. Get at least 2GB free on-line storage. You can subscribe for more space if needed (up to 100GB). Get an extra 256MB of free space if you use my referral. You must install the Dropbox application before the extra free space is issued. For: Windows/Mac/Linux/Mobile
DVD43	DVD43 is a free DVD decrypter that runs in the background and decrypts DVDs on the fly.
DVD Flick	DVD Flick aims to be a simple but at the same time powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files stored on your computer and turn them into a DVD that will play back on your DVD player, Media Center or Home Cinema Set. You can add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles as well as a menu for easier navigation.

Eraser

Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it with carefully selected patterns.

FFDShow	FFDshow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters.
File-Extensions	A searchable, daily updated computer filename extension database with thousands of file extensions records. Every extension entry contains information about the file extension, a short description of the filetype, and programs that use them. You can quickly search by extension, or click to view file type categories including audio and music files, multimedia, graphic and image file types etc.. .
FILExt	If you have a file with an of a type neither you or the computer recognise then this site probably can help. FILExt is a database of file extensions and the various programs that use them. If you know the file extension you want to learn about simply enter it into the search box and click on the Search button. If it's in any of the FILExt databases the data held on that file extension will be shown on a results page. If it's not in any of the databases you will be given a link to a page with hints on how to do further research.
FileHippo	With FileHippo.com our aim is to provide you with the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software - without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software.
FileHippo Update Checker	The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to FileHippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.
Firefox	Multi-platform Web browser with many availabel add-ons to at 1,000's of extra features.
Firing Squad	Home of the Hardcore gamer.
Foxit	As a small and fast PDF viewer, Foxit Reader currently has over 50 million users all around the world. After keeping users waiting for almost two months, Foxit Reader 3.0 has been released and introduces many fascinating new features such as multimedia design and Foxit OnDemand Content Management.
Free Download Manager	Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is absolutely free! Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before!
Free Software Download	Free Software Downloads - The main benefits in a free software download are you can freely download software without any cost. You can easily download free software from SoftwareDownload1 also you can download free trial software so that you can try out the software without cost before you buy it.

GameTrailers TV	The ultimate videogame show in HD.
Gibson Research Corporation	The home place of ShieldsUp! The Internet's quick, popular, free Internet security check-up and information service. And much much more...
GIMP	GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Gizmo's	The Best Free Software for PC.
GMail	Gmail is a free webmail and POP email service provided by Google, known for its abundant storage and advanced interface (based on Ajax technology). It is known as Google Mail in the United Kingdom and Germany. Its competitors include AIM Mail, MSN Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail.
Google	Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation in September, 1998, that designs and manages a popular Internet search engine.
GSpot	GSpot is a free utility which identifies the codec required to play an AVI file and supplies other information as well.

Handbrake	Open source video transcoder for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Hiren's BootCD	Hiren's BootCD is a wonderful live CD containing various programs such as Hard drive recovery, Hard Drive Partition, Hard Drive Backup, Hard Drive Testing, RAM (Memory) Testing, System Information, MBR (Master BootRecord), BIOS, MultiMedia, Password, NTFS (FileSystems), Antivirus, AntiSpy, Process, Windows Startup, Registry tools, Windows Cleaners, Optimizers, Tweakers, and many others... As it is a bootable CD, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted. We may call it as an emergency cd which every computer technician or home user must have.
HONGKIAT.COM	100 Free useful Apple Mac applications.
HTML Dog	HTML and CSS Tutorials. And Stuff.

ImgBurn	ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!
IMDB	The Internet Movie Database.
IrfanView	IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).

K9 Web Protection

K9 Web Protection is a free Internet filtering and control solution for the home. K9 puts YOU in control of the Internet so you can protect your kids.

Last.fm	Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love...
Lifehacker	Tips & downloads for getting things done.

Macrium Reflect Free	Free Disk Imaging back up tool.
MailWasher Pro	The ultimate spam blocker software. Stop spam and unwanted email with the award winning MailWasher Pro. It's easy to use and very effective. Save time by only getting the email you want. Over 8 million people use MailWasher Pro as their spam blocker. 30day trial, 90day money back guarantee.
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware	Malwarebytes have created an easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Whether you know it or not your computer is always at risk of becoming infected with viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware, and malware that are constantly evolving and becoming harder to detect and remove. Only the most sophisticated anti-malware techniques can detect and remove these malicious programs from your computer.
Media Player Classic Home Cinema	A media player that will handle most formats. It has many option to improve the output of your media.
Microsoft KB	Microsoft's Support Knowledge Base.

nLite

nLite is a tool for preinstallation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.

OpenDNS	OpenDNS's industry-leading Web content filtering service gives businesses like yours the power to filter undesirable content on your network - quickly and easily. The service is free to use and requires no expensive appliances.
OpenOffice	OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Opt-out	Opt Out of Behavioral Advertising.

Paint.net	Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Partimage	Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported.
PHP	PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
PING	PING is a live Linux ISO, based on the excellent Linux From Scratch (LFS) documentation. It can be burnt on a CD and booted, or integrated into a PXE / RIS environment. Several tools have been added and written, so to make this ISO the perfect choice to backup and restore whole partitions, an easy way. It sounds like Symantec Ghost(tm), but has even better features, and is totally free.
PortableApps	Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind. PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It's open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use.
Process Explorer	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.
Pure Lounge	The PURE Lounge is your passport to an entire world of sound. 1000’s of stations. English language. Foreign language. World music. World sport. Even natural sounds. The live and the recorded. The favourites you missed. Podcasts of anything... and everything. From the cool to the conventional to the crazy whatever your interest.

Reciva	Reciva brings the world of Internet radio into your home. We provide access to an extremely diverse range of Internet radio stations from around the world, with broadcasts from nearly every country on the planet. We provide both live and on-demand ("listen again") content and we support Real Audio, Windows and MP3 streams.
Recuva	Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!
Revo Uninstaller	Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet. Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs" applet!

Sandboxie	Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Secunia Online Software Inspector	The Secunia Online Software Inspector, or short OSI, is a fast way to scan your PC for the most common programs and vulnerabilities, thus checking if your PC has a minimum security baseline against known patched vulnerabilities.
SourceForge	SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development web site. We provide free services that help people build cool stuff and share it with a global audience.
Spider Player	The ultimate music player. Internal 32-bit sound processing adds extra clarity and fidelity to playback, even if your sound card is not capable of output in such resolution etc...
Spotify	Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you'll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.
Spybot Search & Destroy	Free spyware removal and much much more.
Spyware Warrior	A list of trustworthy anti-spyware products.
Stallarium	Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Start Menu Cleaner	Start Menu Cleaner for Windows XP is a small utility that scans all dead shortcuts and empty folders on your Programs in Start menu.
Steam	Instantly access your favorite games. The full Steam library and all future Steam releases are at your fingertips. After you've purchased a game, download it immediately and start playing. Now available for Mac OS as well as Windows.
Super Grub Disk	PC Boot specialised Disk.
SUPERAntiSpyware	SUPERAntiSpyware will detect and remove thousands of Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans, KeyLoggers, Dialers, Hi-Jackers, and Worms. SUPERAntiSpyware features many unique and powerful technologies and removes spyware threats that other applications fail to remove.

Thunderbird	Multi-platform email, RSS & News Reader with many availabel add-ons to at 1,000's of extra features.
Trend Micro Housecall	Trend Micro™ HouseCall is an application for checking whether your computer has been infected by viruses, spyware, or other malware. HouseCall performs additional security checks to identify and fix vulnerabilities to prevent reinfection.
TrueCrypt	Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Twitter	Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Ubuntu	Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
Unattended	Instructions for performing unattended / silent installations of many popular application installers. Such instructions are useful for automating these installations.
Ultimate Boot CD	Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. New! Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick.
Unlocker	Delete files that are currently being reported as in use by another process.
Update Notifier	The Update Notifier is a small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates. Also you can see the latest updates for applications from your Watch List.

Virgin Media Broadband FAQ	Virgin Media broadband frequently asked questions. (Site maintained and designed by ABCDe.co.uk)
Virtual CloneDrive	Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
VLC media player	VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

W3C Consortium	The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
W3C Markup Validation Service	This is the W3C Markup Validation Service, a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
Wikipedia	Wikipedia (IPA: [/w ki pi di.ə/] or [/wiki-/]) is an international Web-based free-content encyclopedia. It exists as a wiki, a type of website that allows visitors to edit its content; the word Wikipedia itself is a portmanteau of wiki and encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a computer, web browser and Internet connection.
WinDirStat	WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).
Windows Sysinternals	The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications.
Windows Virtual PC	Create a PC within a PC for testing operating systems etc...
Windows Vista Recovery Disk	Download: Windows Vista x86/x64 Recovery Disk.
Windows XP Advice & Information	Lots of useful Windows XP advice, information, utilities, error codes and similar all gathered up in one place.
WinRAR	WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
WinZip	WinZip® is the most trusted way to work with compressed files. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard for file-compression tools.
Wolfram|Alpha	Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
Wubi	Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!

You send it

Send, receive and track large and important files. Much better than sending large files via email. Free for files up to 100MB.

Zonelabs

Internet security products, online safety, software, protection, free basic firewall (Zonealarm).

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