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Here some of the freeware, open-source or other software I daily use on my PC. The description of each has been taken from their respective homepage, thus it represents exactely what it's author wanted to express.

1st QuickRes

1st QuickRes controls your display settings, wallpaper, screen savers, and color schemes from a convenient system tray icon.

http://www.greenparrots.com/aqr.html http://www.greenparrots.com/aqr.html
Acrobat Reader

Thank you for your interest in Adobe® Reader® _ free software for viewing and printing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Created from applications like Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Adobe Photoshop® Album 2.0, and more, Adobe PDF files can be viewed on most major operating systems. Adobe Reader 6.0 is the newest version of the familiar Adobe Acrobat® Reader software. It also replaces Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader, software for viewing high-fidelity eBooks on your notebook or desktop computer.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Ad-Aware

Ad-aware Standard Edition is THE award winning, free*, multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability.

http://www.lavasoft.com/ http://www.lavasoft.com/
Adobe Reader Speed-Up

Adobe Reader Speed-Up (ARSU) was created in an effort to automate the process of speeding up Adobe Reader's launch time by disabling the majority of plugins that are, quite franky, completely useless for most users.

http://software.bootblock.co.uk/?id=adobereaderspeedup http://software.bootblock.co.uk/?id=adobereaderspeedup
Apache

The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

http://httpd.apache.org http://httpd.apache.org
Audacity

Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net http://audacity.sourceforge.net
AVG Free Edition

AVG provides comprehensive antivirus protection for personal computers. The unique combination of detection methods (heuristic analysis, generic detection, scanning and integrity checking) ensures that your computer receives the maximum protection possible on multiple levels (Resident Shield, Email Scanner plugins, Personal Email Scanner, On-Demand and other tests, etc.).

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
CDex

CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting, things like turning your home Compact Disc collection into an mp3 collection on your hard drive become extremely easy. With built in support for many encoders you wont find any shortage of options for your media files. Below is a more in-depth explination of CDex features.

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net http://cdexos.sourceforge.net
Daemon Tools

DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for multiprotection emulation. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running Backup Copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom, Laserlock, CDCOPS, StarForce and Protect CD (and many others) protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (Generic DVD-ROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc http://www.daemon-tools.cc
DBDesigner4

DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment. It combines professional features and a clear and simple user interface to offer the most efficient way to handle your databases.

http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4 http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4
DeepBurner

DeepBurner is a powerful CD and DVD burning package that utilizes power and efficiency. It takes away the hassle of making CDs, DVDs, autoruns, creating and printing labels and booklets. The program supports a very wide range of internal and external (USB 2.0 and FireWire) CD and DVD writers. Burn audio, data and ISO CDs and DVDs with just one FREE program called DeepBurner.

http://www.deepburner.com http://www.deepburner.com
Delphi PE

Borland® Delphi 6 Studio is a complete design-to-deploy, Model Driven Architecture solution that integrates the modeling, development, and deployment of business and e-commerce solutions based on Windows®. Delphi 6 delivers new, fully integrated technologies for increased developer productivity.

http://www.borland.com http://www.borland.com
Dia

Dia is designed to be much like the commercial Windows program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net
Eudora

Welcome to Eudora® Email 6.1! Eudora Email is a comprehensive electronic mail (email) software program that accesses your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network to receive and send your email messages.

http://www.eudora.com http://www.eudora.com
FileZilla

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Inno Setup

Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

http://www.irfanview.com http://www.irfanview.com
IZArc

IZArc is the ultimate archive utility suports many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BZ2, BZA, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.

http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm
Mozilla

The Mozilla project maintains choice and innovation on the Internet by developing the acclaimed, open source, Mozilla 1.6 web and email suite and related products and technology.

http://www.mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org
MySQL

The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Its architecture makes it extremely fast and easy to customize. Extensive reuse of code within the software and a minimalistic approach to producing functionally-rich features has resulted in a database management system unmatched in speed, compactness, stability and ease of deployment. The unique separation of the core server from the storage engine makes it possible to run with strict transaction control or with ultra-fast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation.

http://www.mysql.com http://www.mysql.com
MySQL Front

MySQL-Front is a easy to use, compact and very fast graphical tool to manage your MySQL database anywhere in the world.

http://www.mysqlfront.de http://www.mysqlfront.de
OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org is both an Open Source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

http://www.openoffice.org http://www.openoffice.org
PDF995

Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer. Pdf995 supports network file saving, fast user switching on XP, Citrix/Terminal Server, custom page sizes and large format printing. Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter. The pdf995 printer driver and a free Converter are available for easy download.

http://www.pdf995.com http://www.pdf995.com
Php

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

http://www.php.net http://www.php.net
PS Tools

The PsTools suite includes command-line utilities for listing the processes running on local or remote computers, running processes remotely, rebooting computers, dumping event logs, and more.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/pstools.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/pstools.aspx
Putty

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RagTime

The professional business publishing software.

http://www.ragtime-online.com/link.cgi?download_rts_program http://www.ragtime-online.com/link.cgi?download_rts_program
The GIMP

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

http://www.gimp.org http://www.gimp.org
VirtualDub

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

http://www.virtualdub.org http://www.virtualdub.org
Winamp

Winamp is more than just a player. It's your window to the multimedia world. From MP3s to streaming video, Winamp is the one place you go to feed your audio/video habit.

http://www.winamp.com http://www.winamp.com
WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows using SSH (Secure SHell). Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic function, WinSCP manages some other actions with files.

http://winscp.sourceforge.net http://winscp.sourceforge.net
XmlCookTop

Cooktop is an editor and development environment for XML, DTD, and XSLT documents.

http://www.xmlcooktop.com http://www.xmlcooktop.com
XnView

Come to discover XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use ! Support of more than 400 graphics formats ! It's free, so do not hesitate !

http://www.XnView.com http://www.XnView.com
Xp-AntiSpy

XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authentication 'features' in WindowsXP.

http://www.xp-antispy.org http://www.xp-antispy.org
Zinf

The Zinf audio player is a simple, but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32. It supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD playback, with a powerful music browser, theme support and a download manager.

http://www.zinf.org http://www.zinf.org