MSFN's Official Free Software List

[Gouki]

List updated 12 Apr 08.

Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spyware

Ad-Aware - http://lavasoft.element5.com/index.php

Avast! - http://www.avast.com

AVG - http://free.grisoft.com/

Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - http://www.free-av.com/

ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/

Comodo Antivirus - http://antivirus.comodo.com/

HijackThis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis

Spybot-S&D - http://www.spybot.info/en/home/index.html

SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareGuard - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

Winpooch - http://winpooch.free.fr/

XPY - http://xpy.whyeye.org/

Audio Players

1by1 - http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

DeliPlayer - http://www.deliplayer.com/

Delphamp - http://www.delphamp.com/

Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.com/

MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/

musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/

Poddox - http://www.poddox.com/

Quintessential Player - http://www.quinnware.com/

SongBird - http://www.songbirdnest.com/download

XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/

Audio Tools

Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

AutoFLAC - http://legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&...mp;app=autoflac

BonkEnc - http://www.bonkenc.org/index.php

CDEx - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

Floola - http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/

MP3Gain - http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Mp3tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/en/

Streamripper - http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/

YamiPod - http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/

Yammy - http://yammy.sourceforge.net/

Benchmarking / Hardware Info

CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Futuremark - http://www.futuremark.com/products/

HDDScan - http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/

HD Tune - http://www.hdtune.com/

Nero CD-DVD Speed - http://www.cdspeed2000.com/

Nero InfoTool - http://www.nero.com/nero7/deu/Info_Tool.html

PC WIZARD 2007 - http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

RightMark Utilities - http://www.rightmark.org/

SIV System Information Viewer - http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

SIW System Information for Windows - http://www.gtopala.com/

Bittorent Clients

µTorrent - http://utorrent.com/index.php

Azureus - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php

BitComet - http://www.bitcomet.com/

BitSpirit - http://www.167bt.com/intl/

BitTorrent - http://www.bittorrent.com/

Deluge - http://www.deluge-torrent.org/

Halite - http://www.binarynotions.com/halite.php

Rufus - http://rufus.sourceforge.net/

CD & DVD Burning

BurnAware Free Edition - http://www.glorylogic.com/overview-free.html

Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/

CDBurnerXP Pro - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php

cdrtfe - http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/

DeepBurner - http://www.deepburner.com/

ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/

Infra Recorder - http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Small CD-Writer - unofficial translation - http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=7564

StarBurn - http://www.rocketdivision.com/starburn.html

Compression/Decompression

7-zip - www.7-zip.org

ExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/

Far Manager - http://farmanager.com/

WinUHA - http://winuha.com

UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Universal Extractor - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=62418

Data Backup & Recovery

DriveImage XML - http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

PC INSPECTOR File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Recuva - http://www.recuva.com/

Restoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html

SelfImage - http://selfimage.excelcia.org/

SoftPerfect File Recovery - http://www.softperfect.com/products/filerecovery/

TestDisk and PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Undelete Plus - http://www.undelete-plus.com/

Download Manager

DownThemAll - Firefox extension - http://www.downthemall.net/

FlashGet - http://flashget.com/

Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

LeechGet Personal Edition - http://www.leechget.net/en/

Orbit Downloader - http://www.orbitdownloader.com/

Wackget - http://millweed.com/

Wget - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

wGetGUI - http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/

WinWGet - http://www.cybershade.us/winwget/

Encryption

FreeOTFE - http://www.freeotfe.org/

KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

Steganos LockNote - http://www.steganos.com/?content=locknote&language=en

TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Tools

A43 File Management Utility - http://www.primitus.us/a43/

Ant Renamer - http://www.antp.be/software/renamer

CloneSpy - http://www.clonespy.com/?Features

CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ce/about

Directory Lister - http://www.krksoft.com/index.html

ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/

freeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/

LS File List Generator - http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/

ReNamer - http://www.den4b.com/

UltraExplorer - http://www.mustangpeak.net/ultraexplorer.html

WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/

Firewall

Comodo Personal Firewall - http://www.comodogroup.com/

Outpost Firewall Free - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpostfree/index.php

Safety.Net - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htm

SoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/

FTP

Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Graphics

ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/

Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?artweaver_en

AveIconifier2 - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=15304

Blender - http://www.blender.org/

Color Detector - http://www.cosmin.com/colordetector/

Color Cop - http://prall.net/colorcop/features

ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/

Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/

hugin - Panorama Tools GUI - http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

InkScape - http://www.inkscape.org/

Instant Eyedropper - http://instant-eyedropper.com/

IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/

Jahshaka - http://www.jahshaka.org/

OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org/

Paint.NET - http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/

Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/

Google SketchUp - http://www.sketchup.com/

Scratch - http://scratch.media.mit.edu/

TuxPaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org/

XnView - http://www.xnview.com/

GUI

Adolix Wallpaper Changer - http://www.adolix.com/wallpaper-changer/

AveDesk - http://www.avedesk.org/

Caledos Wallpaper - http://www.caledos.com/lab/Caledos/Caledos.aspx

CD Art Display - http://www.closetosoftware.com/

Crawlpaper - http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawlpaper/

Deskloops - http://www.xilokit.com/deskloops/deskloops.html

Desktop List View - http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/index.php

Dexpot - http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=home

DM2 - http://dm2.sourceforge.net/

Flickr Wallpaper Rotator - http://www.rushfrisby.com/apps/Flickr-Wallpaper-Rotator.aspx

FlyakiteOSX - http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

John's Background Switcher - http://www.johnsadventures.com/backend/BackgroundSwitcher/

ObjectDock - http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/

Pitaschio - http://pitaschio.ara3.net/index.htm

Power Dimmer - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/

PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/

QTTabBar - http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/

RK Launcher - http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/

RocketDock - http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock

Switcher - http://insentient.net/index.html

Tango Shell Patcher - http://vertigosity.benpbrown.com/?page=start

Taskbar Shuffle 2.2 - http://www.freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm

TaskSwitchXP - http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html

XPize - http://xpero.msfn.org/

Yahoo! Widgets - http://widgets.yahoo.com/

VirtuaWin - http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/

Vista Transformation Pack - http://www.windowsxlive.net/?page_id=15

Instant Messaging

aMSN - MSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php

Gaim - Multi-Protocol support - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

miniaim - AIM - http://miniaim.net/

Miranda - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.miranda-im.org/

Trillian - Multi-Protocol support - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

IRC Client

Bersirc - http://bersirc.free2code.net/index.php/home/

HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/

KVIRC - http://www.kvirc.net/

X-Chat - http://www.xchat.org/

X-Chat 2 - http://www.silverex.org/news/

Network Tools

Ethereal - Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/

Knocker - Port Scanner - http://knocker.sourceforge.net/index.php

NetStumbler - http://stumbler.net/

Hamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/

OCS Inventory - Inventory - http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/

OmniPeek Personal - http://www.omnipeek.com/omnipeek_personal.php

PuTTY Tray - http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/

Show Traffic - Traffic Analyzer - http://www.demosten.com/index.html

SmartSniff - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/smsniff.html

Snort - IDS - http://snort.org/

SoftPerfect Network Scanner - http://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

Spiceworks - http://www.spiceworks.com/

The Dude - http://www.mikrotik.com/thedude.php

Wireshark -http://www.wireshark.org/

Notepad Replacements

metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Office

AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/

doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com/

Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Gnumeric - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

Nvu - http://www.nvu.com/index.php

OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/

PDFCreator - http://www.pdfforge.org/

RSS

FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/

GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/index.html

RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/

System Utilities

Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

CamStudio - http://www.camstudio.org/

CCleaner - http://ccleaner.com/

Convert - http://joshmadison.net/software/convert/

Event Log Explorer - http://www.eventlogxp.com/

Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/

HashTab - http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/

JkDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Neoshooter - http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=161346

nCleaner - http://nkprod.ro/ncleaner/

NirSoft Utilities - http://www.nirsoft.net/

Revo Uninstaller - http://www.revouninstaller.com/index.html

Rumshot - http://shellscape.org/rumshot/

Sandboxie - http://www.sandboxie.com/

Sizer - http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html

Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...itiesindex.mspx

System Info for Windows - http://www.gtopala.com/

Microsoft Virtual PC - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...pc/default.mspx

Total Copy - http://www.ranvik.net/totalcopy/

Tera Copy - http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

WinAPIOverride32 - http://jacquelin.potier.free.fr/winapioverride32/

Window Clippings - http://www.windowclippings.com/

Web Browsers

Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Opera - http://www.opera.com/

VoIP

Gizmo - http://www.gizmoproject.com/

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

VoipStunt - http://www.voipstunt.com/

WengoPhone - http://www.wengo.com/

Video Players

GOM Player - http://www.gomplayer.com/main.html

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

MoolPlayer - http://tinyapps.co.uk/moolplayer/

MPUI - http://mpui.sourceforge.net/

KMPlayer - http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php

rulesPlayer - http://rulesplayer.lessequal.com/

VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Zoom Player (Standard) - http://www.inmatrix.com/

Video Tools

Any Video Converter - http://www.any-dvd-converter.com/

AutoGK - http://www.autogk.me.uk/

BeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/

Dr.DivX - http://labs.divx.com/DrDivX

DVD43 - http://www.dvd43.com/

DVDFab Decrypter - http://www.dvdidle.com/free.htm

DVD-Rebuilder - http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/

GSpot Codec Information Appliance - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

MediaCoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

MKVToolnix - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

RatDVD- http://www.ratdvd.dk/download.htm

StaxRip - http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/

Videora Converter - http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/

VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/

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Edited April 12, 2008 by DigeratiPrime

[atomizer]

nice job!!!

little update: .DOT NET is not required for CD burner xp pro. see here. enough people complained about their switch to DOT NET that they decided to offer an alternitive.

also very worthy of mention is ClamWin, a FOSS and *very* good, very light anti-virus. note that isn't for newbs however, as it does not do real-time scanning (which is one of it's better assets IMO). ClamMail is the counterpart for e-mail.

PopTray is, by far, the very best e-mail checking util i've ever found. very simple, yet LOADED with useful features. FOSS, but it's Delphi.

KeyPass Password Safe, FOSS, and the best PWD manager i've yet come accross.

Filezilla, one of the better FOSS FTP clients/servers.

[alsiladka]

Just one ques. before even i included to the list?

Only open source ones or even the normal freewares?

http://www.voipstunt.com

It gives you free calling to USA and many Other countries . Really usefull for everyone.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Support for a lot , literally lots of formats.

[Gouki]

@ atamozier - Thanks for the heads up. List edited.

@ alsiladka - As you can see on the topic description, the list is made of Free and Open Source Software. So yes, the "normal freeware" is acceptable.

[Jeremy]

IrfanView is free, so it should be on your list. I use it and it rules.

[atomizer]

i don't think IrfanView is OSS

[alsiladka]

i don't think IrfanView is OSS

The topic is not just a list of OSS but also some good freewares.

[Jeremy]

F/OSS = Free / Open Source Software

IrfanView is Free as in you don't pay anything, nor are you encouraged to donate. Nothing complicated here...

[DigeratiPrime]

we could add irfanview, whats the difference between that and xnview though?

[WolfX2]

i know i tunes is free and it falls under the catagory of [Audio Players]

[Jeremy]

Yeah, well you wouldn't use ITunes unless you owned an IPod.

[Gouki]

i know i tunes is free and it falls under the catagory of [Audio Players]

iTunes is something that everyone knows about. The main reason for this list is to provide some alternatives to the 'well known software'.

However, I want to thank everyone for the submissions. Some will be added, some will not. However, there will be no confirmation (post) by me nor DigeratiPrime about a user's submission. Mainly to prevent useless posts.

Feel free to submit as many applications as you want. After all, the list is made by all of you.

Thank you all.

[WolfX2]

@Gouki - ohhh ic now, thanks for the info

Edited March 29, 2006 by wolf74481

[EchoNoise]

What about DVD Shrink?

[atomizer]

F/OSS = Free / Open Source Software

IrfanView is Free as in you don't pay anything, nor are you encouraged to donate. Nothing complicated here...

might want to check the defanition of F/OSS

@DigeratiPrime - the differance between IrfanView and XnView is that the latter is primarily geared toward graphics only, where Irfan does audio and video as well.