Great freeware programs

[Johanna]

Google Toolbar has lots of features like a translator, pop up blocker, autofill, spell check http://toolbar.google.com/

Iespell Internet spell checker http://www.iespell.com/

Privacy Bird Find out exactly what their privacy policy is http://www.privacybird.com/

Adobe Reader You need at least a pdf reader http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Copy Url puts a right click option to save a link to your clipboard http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp

Stripmail Clean up forwards http://www.dsoft.com.tr/stripmail/

Open Office Free Alternative to MS Office http://www.openoffice.org/

Mike Lin's Start up Control Panel add on. Decide what you want to load when you boot the computer. http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Atomic Clock Synch to the World Timeserver

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock/

Weatherbug Get weather alerts and forecasts instantly http://www.weatherbug.com/aws/index.asp

MP3 Extensions adds icons revealing bitrate http://www.mutschler.de/mp3ext/

FavOrg Keep your IE icons (favicons) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,108438,00.asp

WinAmp Versatile Media Player http://www.winamp.com/

( www.Shoutcast.com for some of the BEST Internet radio)

Sun Java http://www.java.com/en/index.jsp

Irfanview Graphics Editor http://www.irfanview.com/

Chainsaw Splits big files neatly http://www.schmeusser.siw.de/software/chainsaw.html

Gadwin Print Screen Easy screencaps http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

Belarc reveals software and product keys. Run & print periodically in the event you need to restore your computer.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Motherboard Monitor puts your system temps in the Notification Area http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

MoveOnBoot Delete stubborn files before Windows starts http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html

TweakUI Features lots of tweaks, and despite the warnings, both versions run well on XP (the two have different tweaks) http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui

Java Tester helpful to diagnose java problems http://www.javatester.org/version.html

All of the above programs are free to use for personal use, spyware free and compatible with XP systems.

Johanna

[BigAlC]

Hi Johanna,

Many thanks for the link:

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Belarc reveals software and product keys. Run & print periodically in the event you need to restore your computer.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.htm

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This has got to be one of the most useful bits of freeware I have stumbled across.

Thanks

BigAlC