vlc media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - plays almost any type of video and audio file - can be downloaded as an installer or just with all the files in a zip so you can run it straight away.

vlc media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - plays almost any type of video and audio file - can be downloaded as an installer or just with all the files in a zip so you can run it straight away.

VLC is quite big (19MB) but it's the only app I know that reads DVDs correctly (i.e. interactivity, chapters...)

aedit, rather old but good word processor that reads MS Word files (and saves in .rtf):

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/english.html

jaclaz

Edited January 20, 200719 yr by jaclaz

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/english.html

Site does not work in IE or Firefox and shows a blank page with nothing but ads in Opera.

Site does not work in IE or Firefox and shows a blank page with nothing but ads in Opera.

Yep, the page has something wrong today, it seems like it reloads continuosly.

A very fast free word-processor, that includes text encryption and spell checker. It is compact, and simple to use. Everything is within reach.

AEdit 5.0 (beta 1)

- Main features - What is new

- Download (396Kb - freeware).

AEdit SX (v4.0-SX r3)

- Download (1,37Mb - freeware) ultra-fast version, with Spell Checker (+ english dictionary) and Print Preview/Setup

- Download (259Kb - freeware) only the wordprocessor.

Additional modules (please extract them in the folder of AEdit)

Upload date File (download) Version Size Short Description

Dec-06-2001 Zip DLLs 1.6.0 114Kb Document compression

Feb-14-2002 Spell Checker 3.0 r1 187Kb Spell checker module

Feb-14-2002 AXARPrint 1.0 r1 213Kb Print, print preview, and printer setup

Direct links (respectively):

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aedit50.zip

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aedit4_full.zip

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aedit4.zip

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/zipdlls.zip

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aesc.zip

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/soft/aep.zip

Features (v5.0 version):

http://web.tiscali.it/axart/feaeng_ae.html

jaclaz

Site does not work in IE or Firefox and shows a blank page with nothing but ads in Opera.

Yep, the page has something wrong today, it seems like it reloads continuously.

hit the 'Esc' key.

[*]ImgBurn - CD/DVD Image Burner

I love this application, especially since it's under 1 MB and can be portable. However, as it doesn't support DVD Video burning (or burning anything that isn't an image) I can't switch to it from Nero. Otherwise, excellent!

i'd definetly add http://www.sysinternals.com 's software along this list. it was acquired by microsoft not long ago.

i use autoruns, process explorer tcpview etc. etc.. pretty good software!!

Another freeware software that would be good for perhaps the "Customizing Windows" category is MultiMon Taskbar ( http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm ).

MultiMon Taskbar adds tasksbars to secondary montors, and ands other functionality to make better use of a multi-monitor setup. Also, a clipboard extender is included.

The program is also under 1 MB and a great free program for those with multiple monitor setups.

Great list, thanx

Bah winsnap is shareware now, does anyone have the old freeware installer?

Bah winsnap is shareware now, does anyone have the old freeware installer?

Up to version 1.x it is FREEWARE, versions 2.x are SHAREWARE, you can get both here:

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/WinSnap.html

A newish VERY SMALL PDF READER:

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Plugin for BartPE by Joshua:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=20715&hl=

jaclaz

[*]Halite [under 1MB] - Halite is an open-source BitTorrent client and is based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software.

[*]j.a.n.e (just.another.nasty.editor) [under 1MB] - nothing special, it's just another nasty editor, designed to view all kind of ascii files.

[*]Sumatra PDF [under 1MB] - Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows.

[*]RegCompact.NET [under 1MB] - Compact your Windows Registry

Try this:

NTregopt - compact your windows registry. Under 0.5MB

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

And its freeware. Not shareware like RegCompact Pro. (I could not find the RegCompact.NET through your link, maybe it was discontinued)

Edited December 30, 200718 yr by brucevangeorge

DV_IO: Video capture software and also writes to back to camera. Same as WinDV without the preview window and is only 32KBs, standalone.

http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm

Convert: Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions! File size 548KBs, standalone.

http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/

CLCL: A multi saving clipboard utility. Also saves images. File size 180KBs for the installer or 145KBs for the zipped version.

http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html

FileCHK and UnCheck: takes .chk files and renames them to their correct file extension, FileCHK is 21KBs and UnCheck is 67KBs and both programs come with source code.

http://www.ericphelps.com/uncheck/index.htm

Tiny security apps, Steve Gibson's site. Programs written in assembly and are tiny.

http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm

Spacemonger - A tool for seeing what's taking up space on your hard drive. This is the older version, last freeware version. File size is 217KBs. Scroll down the page to find it:

http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

Multi-frontend: A gui that uses audio codecs for conversion from one format to the other. Lossy, lossless and some exotic formats are supported:

BladeEnc, FAAC and FAAD, Fraunhofer Fastenc and MP3Enc, Gogo-no-coda, LAME, MAD, Mpadec, MusePack, NEncode, Ogg Vorbis, Psytel aacenc and fastenc, QuickTime MPEG-4, Speex, TooLAME, FLAC, LA, LPAC, Monkey's Audio, OptimFROG, Shorten, TTA, WavPack. And also for: MP3Gain, ReplayGain for MusePack, VorbisGain, WaveGain and Tag.

Many of the codecs have to be downloaded separately and put in the path of the gui. File size for the frontend is stated at 60KBs but it's really 224KBs when deflated.

http://members.home.nl/w.speek/multi.htm

XMplayer: A small audio player that can handle all common and some exotic formats. Also can play aac/mp4, wma and realaudio formats. File size for the player and a few of the add-ins is 305KBs. Extra add-ins for formats can be added on as well as skins.

http://www.un4seen.com/

Edited January 2, 200818 yr by rjisinspired