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I found this on another site, but thought it would be usefull for all those people who are considering upgrading to Windows 7.
Some kind sole has gone out of his way to try all these progs on Windows 7, I would have given him the credit he deserves, but there was no mention of an author.
The list is compiled as an A-Z
AbiWord - AbiWord
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below:
Foxit Reader - Foxit Software
Some kind sole has gone out of his way to try all these progs on Windows 7, I would have given him the credit he deserves, but there was no mention of an author.
The list is compiled as an A-Z
AbiWord - AbiWord
AbiWord is a free multi-platform word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
Active ISO Burner - http://www.ntfs.com/iso_burner_free.htm
Active ISO Burner is a application that will allow you to burn an ISO image file to CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, DL DVD+RW, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Ad-Aware Free - Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition - Reviews and free Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition downloads at Download.com OR Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition Free | Anti-spyware Tools Download | PC World
Ad_Aware Free - Anniversary Edition helps give you real-time protection against spyware, trojans, rootkits, hijackers, keyloggers, and more with real-time monitoring, threat alerts, and automatic updates.
Adobe Flash Player - Adobe - Adobe Flash Player
A browser add-on that allows you to watch flash videos online in your web browser.
Adobe Reader - Adobe - Adobe Reader Download - All versions
A PDF file viewer that also installs a add-on for your web browser.
AnVir Task Manager Free - Downloads | Manager, Task, Processes, Version, Free
A replacement for the Windows 7 Task Manager that provides more detailed information about the processes running on your PC with an advanced startup manager.
Any Video Converter Free - Free Video Converter - Any Video Converter Free Version - convert video to any formats, avi to MPEG, avi to MP4, flv to MPG
Any Video Converter Free is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! This free version supports DVD NTSC, DVD PAL, MPEG-I, MPEG-II, MPEG-4 and Flash FLV video profiles.
A-Squared Free - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
This program helps to remove infections of Trojans, Spyware, Adware, Worms, Keyloggers, Rootkits, Dialers and other malicious programs.
Audacity - Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
Auslogics Disk Defrag - Disk Defrag - Reclaim the Speed Of Your Disks
Defrags your hard drive. It has a progress graph so you can see what is going on. Also gives you a full detail report with a percentage of performace increase.
AutoRuns - AutoRuns for Windows
NOTE: You will need to right click on the autoruns.exe file and click Run as administrator for the program to run properly.
This utility shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond MSConfig.
Avast Antivirus Home Edition - FREE avast! antivirus 4.x Home Edition, anti-spyware & anti-rootkit for Windows This utility shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond MSConfig.
NOTE: You must register this program even though it's free. The registration will be good for a year. After that, you must re-register. It is still completely free though. You can get free skins for Avast here: Free download - new skins for your avast! 4 antivirus program
A great antivirus program that auto updates the definitions and optionally the program itself. Has a VRDB (Virus Recovery Database) that you set to help in recovering from a virus if infected. It also includes anti-spyware and anti-rootkit protections. Full of other features.
AVG Antivirus - AVG Free - Download installation files & documentation A great antivirus program that auto updates the definitions and optionally the program itself. Has a VRDB (Virus Recovery Database) that you set to help in recovering from a virus if infected. It also includes anti-spyware and anti-rootkit protections. Full of other features.
Another great antivirus program that provides basic antivirus and antispyware protection.
Avira AntiVir Personal - Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
A antivirus program that helps protect your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.
Batchrun - Outertech - computer memory and cache optimization, tuneup and internet utility software
Batchrun is a nice little software to help making batch files easier.
Belarc Advisor -Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit
Builds a very detailed profile of your hardware and software with serial numbers and product key numbers. Very informative.
BIMP Lite - Cerebral Synergy: Downloads / General Applications & Utilities / BIMP Lite - 1.62
BIMP Lite is a small and simple batch processor for image files, that allows you to perform various functions on multiple images. It can be used to create thumbnail images from your pictures, add a prefix/postfix (with meta variables), rename using a sequential number, change the case of filenames, replace/remove spaces & underscores, flip or rotate images and also apply anti-aliasing, inverse, greyscale and bevel effects. The thumbnail resizing allows you to force a specified width or height and keep the proportions, or define fixed image dimensions. Images can have text overlayed on them at any corner or side, as well as the center of the image. This text can include meta variables such as image height, width, number of colours etc. In addition, the program can also convert the file format to GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, MIFF, TIFF, PCX or TGA. All of the actions can be performed individually, or combined. BIMP now also includes an FTP client, so you can automatically output images to a remote server via the File Transfer Protocol.
BitKinex - Download FTP Client for Windows
BitKinex is a handy network client supporting multiple transfer protocols (FTP, FTP(S), SFTP, HTTP(S) and WebDAV). In contrast to other clients BitKinex uses multiple connections not only for file transfers but for browsing remote directories as well.
BitPim - Welcome to BitPim
BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA (Code division multiple access) phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones. To see when phones will be supported, which ones are already supported and which features are supported, see online help.
BitTorrent - BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a free torrent client program used for file sharing.
Blender - http://www.blender.org/
Blender is a free open source 3D content creation suite.
BlueScreenView - http://nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html
BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version). For each crash displayed in the upper pane, you can view the details of the device drivers loaded during the crash in the lower pane. BlueScreenView also mark the drivers that their addresses found in the crash stack, so you can easily locate the suspected drivers that possibly caused the crash.
Bulk Rename Utility - Introduction - Bulk Rename Utility
Bulk Rename Utility is a file renaming software for Windows. Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!
CCleaner - CCleaner - Home
WARNING: Be sure to verify the scan results in the registry cleaner feature before allowing them to be deleted. Otherwise you could delete important registry entries that could hose your Windows 7 installation.
Cleans junk and temp files for Vista and most other programs. It is also a registry cleaner, cookie manager, program uninstall manager, and a startup program manager. A all in one utility program basically.
CDBurnerXP - CDBurnerXP: Downloads Cleans junk and temp files for Vista and most other programs. It is also a registry cleaner, cookie manager, program uninstall manager, and a startup program manager. A all in one utility program basically.
CDBurnerXP is a application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface.
Core Temp - Core Temp
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. It shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system. You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.
CPU-Z - CPUID
NOTE: Click on the version number towards the bottom to download. This is a standalone EXE program.
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers and displays information for you on some of the main devices of your system. EX: CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and System. See the link for full details on what is does.
DAEMON Tools Lite - Disk-Tools.com - Published Software Download CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers and displays information for you on some of the main devices of your system. EX: CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and System. See the link for full details on what is does.
An advanced application for Microsoft Windows which provides optical media emulation. DAEMON Tools enables you to convert your physical CD/DVD discs into "virtual discs" so called "images". It also emulated up to 4 virtual CD/DVD drives, so you can mount (insert) and unmount (eject) images.
Defraggler - Defraggler - Defragment your files!
Piriform, the makers of CCleaner, Defraggler differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to only process the whole drive unless you want to. Simply run it, select the file defragment in seconds. You can also set Defraggler to run on a schedule.
DeskSave - http://www.desksave.de/index.php?lang=en In Windows, when screen resolution changes, the order of the desktop icons very often gets mixed up. With DeskSave you can easily recover a previously saved icon layout either manually or automatically.
Ditto - Ditto clipboard manager
Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats, .....
DVD Flick - http://www.dvdflick.net/
DVD Flick is a multithreaded free GPL open-source DVD Authoring tool for making dvd's from avi, mpg, mkv etc. 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.
EasyBCD - Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
EasyBCD, by NeoSmart Technologies, is used to tweak the Windows Vista bootloader. You can use it to setup and configure Windows boot entries, and to quickly boot right into Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD straight from the Windows Vista bootloader. You can also add an entry to your old XP partition or create a duplicate for testing purposes, debug the Windows Kernel, or setup multi-booting to have mulitple operating systems.
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/node/6
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
Everything - Everything Search Engine
Everything is a search engine program used to locate files and folders by name instantly on your computer.
FastStone Image Viewer - FastStone Image Viewer - Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter
An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more.
Fences - Fences™ - By Stardock - Clean up your desktop clutter
Fences, by Stardock, is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they're not in use.
FileNote - Download FileNote 1.1 - FileNote is a little shell extension that allows you to add textual descriptions to your files. - Softpedia
FileNote is a little shell extension that will allow you to add textual descriptions to your files. It adds one command to the shell context menu of a file object. This command lets you easily edit or create a text file that has the same name as the initial file, but with the extension TXT.
FileTypesMan - FileTypesMan - Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows
NOTE: This is a standalone EXE file, and does not install. Be sure to download the correct version for your 32 bit or 64 bit Vista.
FileTypesMan is an alternative to the File Types tab in the Folder Options of Windows XP. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, In New Menu, Excluded, Flags, Browser Flags, Default Icon, and more. FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.
Firefox - Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, & customizable FileTypesMan is an alternative to the File Types tab in the Folder Options of Windows XP. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, In New Menu, Excluded, Flags, Browser Flags, Default Icon, and more. FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.
NOTE: You can get the Beta Firefox version here: Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language
This is an alternative web browser other than Internet Explorer that you can use instead, or with Internet Explorer.
FlashGet - http://www.flashget.com/index_en.htm This is an alternative web browser other than Internet Explorer that you can use instead, or with Internet Explorer.
FlashGet is a download manager that uses a MHT (Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has document management features.
foobar2000 - foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
Format Factory - http://www.formatoz.com/
Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter. Provides functions below:
- All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
- All to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.
- All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/GIF/TGA.
- Rip DVD to video file , Rip Music CD to audio file.
- MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
- Supports RMVB.
A PDF file viewer and browser add-on like Adobe Reader.
Free Audio Editor (FAE) - Free Audio Editor - Completely free audio editor for Windows
Edit audio files visually; Record audio from a microphone or any other available input device; Apply various effects; Burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA, WAV, and OGG; All in one program, simple and intuitive - FAE (free audio editor).
Free Download Manager (FDM) - Free Download Manager - absolutely free download accelerator and manager
Free Download Manager is a download accelerator and manager program. In addition, it allows you to: adjust traffic usage; to organize and schedule downloads; download video from video sites; download whole web sites with HTML Spider; operate the program remotely, via the internet, and more.
Free Registry Defrag - Free Registry Defrag
This is a program used to compact and defragment your registry by removing gaps and wasted space, to help improve the whole system performance.
GIMP - GIMP - Downloads
NOTE: For this program to work properly in Windows 7, you must check Run this program as an administrator in Compatibility Mode for this program's shortcut after it is installed.
GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package program. This page should help you get a taste of what GIMP is capable of.
GOM Media Player - GOM software - Free, Simple, Light, It just plays! - GOM Media Player, GOM encoder GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package program. This page should help you get a taste of what GIMP is capable of.
A media player program that has a lot of features.
GPU-Z - GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility
NOTE: No installation required, this is a standalone EXE program.
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).
HandBrake - http://handbrake.fr/ GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU (Graphics Processing Unit).
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
HashCheck - HashCheck Shell Extension
The HashCheck Shell Extension makes it easy for anyone to calculate and verify checksums and hashed from Windows Explorer. In addition to integrating file checksumming functionality into Windows, HashCheck can also create and verify SFV files (and other forms of checksum files, such as .md5 files).
HashTab - HashTab... is the coolest thing ever!
HashTab is a Windows shell extension which adds a tab called "File Hashes" to the Windows Explorer file properties. The tab contains the MD5, SHA1 and CRC-32 file hashes. These are common hashes that are used to verify the integrity and authenticity of files. Many download sites list the MD5 hash along with the download link. The HashTab makes it very simple for Windows users to check these hashes on any file on the system without using external tools.
HWMonitor - CPUID
CPUID Hardware Monitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed. The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature. Special hardware monitors such as abit® uGuru and Gigabyte® ODIN™ power supplies serie are supported too.
IcoFX - IcoFX - The Free Icon Editor
IcoFX is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files.
IconRemover - IconRemover - freeware tool for complete removal of 'Safely Remove Hardware' Icon
NOTE: You may want to create a Safely Remove Hardware shortcut to use instead though.
A freeware tool for geting rid of 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon.
IconViewer - Download IconViewer A freeware tool for geting rid of 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon.
IconViewer is a Windows Explorer extension that lets you easily view, copy, and save icon (ICO) and PNG files contained within .EXE programs and .DLL libraries. Open a file's Properties box, select the "Icons" tab, and view the icons contained in the file. This program is real handy to have for getting these ICO and PNG files.
ImgBurn - The Official ImgBurn Website
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