Free software (sorted)
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This is a sorted, compiled list of Freeware you can't live without (v2.0). I went through it one night and recorded instances of recommendations. I didn't record "Oh wow, this program really does kick ass!" responses.
Current list here.
| Firefox | 21 |
| uTorrent | 18 |
| Winamp | 10 |
| Thunderbird | 9 |
| Media Player Classic | 8 |
| Opera | 8 |
| Foobar2000 | 7 |
| Putty | 7 |
| Foxit Reader | 6 |
| GAIM | 6 |
| OpenOffice.org | 6 |
| AppRocket | 5 |
| AVG | 5 |
| Gimp | 5 |
| SpaceMonger | 5 |
| Spybot S&D | 5 |
| Sysinternals | 5 |
| VLC | 5 |
| Ad-Aware | 4 |
| Audacity | 4 |
| CDex | 4 |
| Filezilla | 4 |
| Hamachi | 4 |
| mplayer | 4 |
| Rainlender | 4 |
| Trillian | 4 |
| TweakUI | 4 |
| vim | 4 |
| VirtualDub | 4 |
| WinSCP | 4 |
| 7zip | 3 |
| Adium | 3 |
| Amarok | 3 |
| CDBurnerXP | 3 |
| Daemon Tools | 3 |
| DefilerPack | 3 |
| Eclipse | 3 |
| Emacs | 3 |
| GCC | 3 |
| GDB | 3 |
| KeePass | 3 |
| Launchy | 3 |
| LogMeIn | 3 |
| Miranda | 3 |
| Music cube | 3 |
| Notepad++ | 3 |
| Notepad2 | 3 |
| OpenSSH | 3 |
| PC Inspector | 3 |
| Process Explorer | 3 |
| Quicksilver | 3 |
| Samurize | 3 |
| Sizer | 3 |
| SSH Secure Shell | 3 |
| Synergy | 3 |
| Unlocker | 3 |
| WinRoll | 3 |
| AllSnap | 2 |
| Allway Sync | 2 |
| Azureus | 2 |
| BCDC++ | 2 |
| BHT | 2 |
| BitComet | 2 |
| Blackbox | 2 |
| Burnatonce | 2 |
| CCleaner | 2 |
| Colibri | 2 |
| Crimson Editor | 2 |
| Cygwin | 2 |
| DeskView | 2 |
| Dev-C++ | 2 |
| DynDNS | 2 |
| EditPlus | 2 |
| Evil Lyrics | 2 |
| FastStoneCapture | 2 |
| Folder Size | 2 |
| FreeBSD | 2 |
| Ghostscript | 2 |
| Gimpshop | 2 |
| Google Earth | 2 |
| Grabit | 2 |
| ID3-TagIt | 2 |
| IrfanView | 2 |
| ISORecorder | 2 |
| iTunes | 2 |
| KDE | 2 |
| KeyNote | 2 |
| LAME | 2 |
| LaTeX | 2 |
| Media Monkey | 2 |
| MediaCoder | 2 |
| Microsoft Powertoys | 2 |
| mIRC | 2 |
| Nano | 2 |
| Network Stumbler | 2 |
| Nvu | 2 |
| ObjectDock | 2 |
| Paint.NET | 2 |
| Panorama | 2 |
| Password Safe | 2 |
| PDF Creator | 2 |
| Picasa | 2 |
| Pine | 2 |
| Pocket DivX Encoder | 2 |
| PowerMenu | 2 |
| QCad | 2 |
| RDC | 2 |
| RegSeeker | 2 |
| ReNamer | 2 |
| SciTE | 2 |
| Screamer Radio | 2 |
| Scribus | 2 |
| Seamonkey | 2 |
| SpywareBlaster | 2 |
| Strokeit | 2 |
| SuperCopier 2 | 2 |
| TCPMP | 2 |
| Textpad | 2 |
| TightVNC | 2 |
| TrayIt | 2 |
| Universal Extractor | 2 |
| VirtuaWin | 2 |
| VNC | 2 |
| WinDirStat | 2 |
| WinRAR | 2 |
| Wizmo | 2 |
| XaoS | 2 |
| XPize | 2 |
| xplorer2 | 2 |
| Ycopy | 2 |
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| 4d Rubik's Cube | |
| AC3Filter | |
| Adobe Reader | |
| Adrem | |
| Adwanced WindowsCare | |
| AF5 Renamer | |
| Aire Freshener | |
| Album Cover Art Downloader | |
| Alcohol 120% | |
| AlfaClock | |
| Always On Top Maker | |
| Asap-utilities | |
| Astrogrep | |
| ATI Tool | |
| ATNotes | |
| aTuner | |
| Audioshell | |
| AutoHotKey | |
| Automatix | |
| Avast | |
| AVI2DVD | |
| bbLean | |
| belight | |
| Billy | |
| binutils | |
| Bitmeter | |
| Bluefish | |
| Bulk Rename Utility | |
| CCCP | |
| ChopperXP | |
| Clam Win Free Antivirus | |
| Clipedit | |
| ClipX | |
| Code::Blocks | |
| ColorCop | |
| Converber | |
| Convert | |
| Cpick | |
| CPL Mouse Acceleration Fix | |
| Cream | |
| CrystalXP | |
| CUPS | |
| Cyrus | |
| D2X-XL | |
| Daisy | |
| DAMN NFOViewer | |
| Dark Room | |
| DBPowerAmp | |
| DC++ | |
| DCleaner | |
| DD-WRT | |
| Dead Pixel Buddy | |
| Desktop Manager | |
| Desktop restore | |
| Dexpot | |
| Dial a fix | |
| DiceMage | |
| Digiguide lite | |
| Digital Clock | |
| Dirkey | |
| DivX codec | |
| DOSBox | |
| DrDivx | |
| Drive Manager | |
| DriverGuide Toolkit | |
| Duplicate File Finder | |
| DVD Shrink | |
| DVD2AVI | |
| EAC | |
| Econsultant | |
| Emule | |
| ERD Commander 2003 | |
| Erightsoft super | |
| Ethereal | |
| Evolution | |
| Exim | |
| FairUse Wizard Light | |
| Fiddlertool | |
| FileMon | |
| FineCrypt | |
| Firefox Portable | |
| FLAC2mp3 | |
| FlashMute | |
| Float's Mobile Agent | |
| Floppy office | |
| Free download manager | |
| Free Launch Bar | |
| FreeBasic | |
| FreeCommander | |
| freeguide-tv | |
| Freemind | |
| FreeNX | |
| FreeRam XP Pro | |
| FullSync | |
| Function Lock Fix | |
| FungusTabs | |
| Gedit | |
| Genius | |
| Glass2k | |
| Gnome | |
| google browser sync | |
| Google Desktop | |
| Google Notebook | |
| Google Talk | |
| GraphEdit | |
| Growl | |
| Handbrake | |
| HandyRecovery | |
| Hawkeye ShellInit | |
| HDAT2 | |
| HdTach | |
| HDTune | |
| HFS | |
| Holding Pattern | |
| Hott notes | |
| hping | |
| ICEOWS | |
| IconID | |
| IconTweaker | |
| iEx | |
| ImageN | |
| ImgBurn | |
| Inkscape | |
| Installpad | |
| Iperf | |
| IZArc | |
| JBidWatcher | |
| JCreator | |
| JoyToKey | |
| K3B | |
| Kerio | |
| KisMAC | |
| kmeleon | |
| KMplayer | |
| Kristal | |
| KXProject | |
| LightsOut | |
| LiteShell | |
| Litestep | |
| Look@Lan | |
| LordPE | |
| LyX | |
| Massid3lib | |
| MBM5 | |
| MediaPortal | |
| Meebo | |
| Memtest86 | |
| MenuShade | |
| Microburner | |
| Microsoft IIS 6 | |
| Microsoft Paint | |
| Microsoft Remote Desktop Client | |
| miniaim | |
| Motion Picture Screensaver | |
| Mozilla | |
| mp3directcut | |
| mp3tag&rename | |
| MPUI | |
| Multimon | |
| Multishow | |
| MWSnap | |
| MyEpisodes | |
| MythTV | |
| MyViewPad | |
| NativeCS | |
| NCFTP | |
| netcat | |
| NetCPS | |
| NetMeter | |
| NetSpeed | |
| Newzbin | |
| Nexus Font Manager | |
| Nirsoft | |
| nmap | |
| NOD32 virus scanner | |
| NoteDab | |
| oidua | |
| OllyDbg | |
| Onyx | |
| OpenBSD | |
| Openpandora | |
| OpenVPN | |
| Optipng | |
| Orb | |
| Pan | |
| Password Store | |
| Peerguardian2 | |
| PEiD | |
| plainGraphPaper | |
| Plucker | |
| PNGCrush | |
| PopTray | |
| Pornview | |
| Portable Audacity | |
| Portable Filezilla | |
| Portable Firefox | |
| Portable Gaim | |
| Portable Gimp | |
| Portable Openoffice | |
| Portable Thunderbird | |
| Portable VLC | |
| Power Bullet | |
| Power Defragmenter GUI | |
| Power Meter Plus | |
| PowerPro | |
| PrimoPDF | |
| Prio | |
| Programmer's Notepad | |
| PSPad | |
| Pstart | |
| PuttyCYG | |
| PWSafe | |
| Quick Command | |
| Quick Menu Builder | |
| QuickPar | |
| QuickPutty | |
| Quickstart | |
| Quicktime Alternative | |
| RAD Video Tools | |
| Random Desktop | |
| RazorLame | |
| rdesktop | |
| readerror - GMXHome | |
| ReadPlease | |
| Real Alternative | |
| Really Slick Screenazers | |
| RealVNC | |
| Rekenwonder - LinkMagic | |
| Remind | |
| ResourceHacker/ResourceEditor | |
| RightFTP | |
| RK Launcher | |
| RMClock | |
| RoyalTS | |
| SamSpade | |
| SANE | |
| sawfish | |
| Scanner | |
| Screen | |
| ScreenHunter | |
| ScummVM | |
| Sequia View | |
| Sharp Reader | |
| Shell Uploader | |
| Simple File Shredder | |
| Simple Socket File Transfer | |
| SlickRun | |
| SlimBrowser | |
| Slimtimer | |
| SmartFTP | |
| Sneaky | |
| Snlco | |
| Spesoft Free CD Ripper | |
| Squirrel SQL | |
| Startup Control Panel | |
| Stellarium | |
| Stickies | |
| StopCounter | |
| strace | |
| Subversion | |
| Sudo for Windows | |
| SUPER | |
| Surbird | |
| Switch Off | |
| Synaptic | |
| Taskbar shuffle | |
| Taskbar++ | |
| TaskSwitchXP | |
| TB Private Disk | |
| TClockEx | |
| TClockLight | |
| tcpfump | |
| TCPView | |
| Terraim | |
| TeX | |
| TeXShop | |
| TextWrangler | |
| Thundaural Jukebox | |
| Tile Studio | |
| Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15 | |
| TMPEGEnc | |
| Torpark | |
| TortoiseSVN | |
| Transmission | |
| Treemap | |
| Treepad lite | |
| Treesize Pro | |
| TrueCrypt | |
| TUGZip | |
| TWSC | |
| TXMouse | |
| Ultra Tag Editor | |
| Ultramon | |
| UltraVNC | |
| Uninstall tool | |
| Unstoppable Copier | |
| Ventrillo | |
| VFAPI Converter | |
| Vitrite | |
| Voicemxi | |
| vPod | |
| Wallpaper master | |
| Weather Watcher | |
| WhoLockMe | |
| WildFire | |
| WinBar | |
| Windows Live Messenger | |
| Windows Media Player | |
| WinDV | |
| Winkey | |
| Winmerge | |
| Winpooch | |
| Winstick | |
| Wintabber | |
| WordWeb | |
| Writely | |
| WS_FTP | |
| www.pandora.com | |
| x11VNC | |
| XDNTweaker | |
| XEmacs | |
| Xenu | |
| XFire | |
| xine | |
| XlXtrFun | |
| Xnews | |
| XNView | |
| Xorg | |
| XP Shortcuts | |
| Xvid | |
| Y'zdock | |
| ZipGenius | |
| ZoomPlayer | |
| ZPlayer |
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