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Best Free Software Suite
GNUWin II is a free software compilation for Windows. This huge suite features dozens
of programs including free alternatives to many expensive commercial products. There is
Abi Word as an alternative for MS Word, OpenOffice for MS Office XP, The Gimp for
Adobe Ph*tosh*p, Gzip for WinZIP are dozens more. Taken collectively this suite
provides more than enough software to completely set up a PC without spending a cent
on applications or utilities. The suite is available or CD or you download the CD image
and cut your own.




Best Free Notepad Replacement
There are lots of text editors and Notepad replacements. Some of these aspire to be
programming editors while others try to be word processors. What I love about EditPad is
that, unlike the others, it concentrates on simply being a better plain text editor and it
succeeds brilliantly. It has a Notepad like interface combined with tabbed document
windows and the ability to open as many documents as you like with no file size
limitations. I use it every day for tasks as diverse as writing Support Alert Newsletter to
examining my web log files. Some of the latter can be up to 100MB, yet EditPad handles
these huge files with ease. (849KB).




Best Free Hotkey Utility
Hotkeycontrol XP is a free utility that allows you to define your own hotkeys so that a
single key press can launch an application, insert commonly used text, change your
volume, or just about anything else. Hotkeycontrol works with all versions of Windows
from 98 onwards, though some features will only work with Win2K or XP. (0.91KB)

Best Free Registry Cleaner
To keep the registries on my PCs in top running order I use Fix-It utilities This is a
commercial product but I must admit that Toni Helenius' Easy Cleaner performs almost
as well and is totally free. As a bonus, it will also detect duplicate files and help you clean
up temp files to make more disk space. Remember though, as with every Registry
cleaner, to back up your Windows Registry before use. (2.64MB)




The Best Bookmark Cleaner
AM-DeadLink scans your bookmark file for dead links or duplicate links. When I tried it
on my huge favorites file I discovered 17% of my links were dead. I've now got a much
leaner set of favorites and the comfort of knowing that the links actually work. (546KB)




Best Free Route Tracer
3D Traceroute graphically displays Internet route information. You can use it for
technical tasks such as diagnosing slow connections or for general purpose snooping like
determining the location and owner of a web site or tracing spammers. (996KB)



The Best Free Screen Capture Utility
I've used over half a dozen screen-capture utilities and none of them has really satisfied.

Until now. Gadwin screen capture does exactly what I want in the way I want. Further, it
avoids the trap of providing lots of useless and confusing features. It's the little things that
count like making the hot key PrtSc so I don't have to remember it, and automatically
sequentially naming the output files for multiple screen shots. Gadwin will stay on my
PC permanently. (976KB)




The Best Free Search Bar Updated
Dave’s Quick Search Bar is a free utility that gives you the same easy access to Google
searches as Google's own search bar but wait, there’s more. It also provides access to the
excellent Teoma, FAST and other search engines. Because it resides in your task bar, it's
accessible from any application. Comes with a host of other features such as
dictionary/thesaurus access and even a calculator. If that's not enough for you, it's totally
customizable. A serious second choice is the new Google DeskBar which shares many of
the features of Dave's Search Bar but is geared exclusively to Google searches.

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Best Free Download Accelerator Updated
Star Downloader 1.43 is not only free of charge, it's free of ads, spyware and other
undesirable extras packed into most free download accelerators. On top of that, it is
blindingly fast and has a raft of features including automatic mirror site detection,
automatic resumption of failed downloads, download scheduling, anti-virus integration
and more. If you are not yet using a download accelerator, go get this product and start
counting the time you save. The faster your internet connection, the more you will gain.

Users with slow modem connections will, unfortunately, benefit least. (1.4MB)




Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover New
Ewido the best of a new crop of anti-Trojan programs. On my recent tests over at
www.anti-trojan-software-reviews.com it emerged as was one of the few products that
could reliably detect polymorphic and process injecting Trojans that were totally missed
by anti-virus products like Norton and AVG. No, it's not as good as TDS-3 or Trojan
Hunter but you get what you pay for. You see, the free version of Ewido doesn’t have a
memory monitor but the on-demand scanner is so good you'll have no complaints. The
free version download is actually the same as the paid version but after 14 days the
memory monitor becomes non-functional. I recommend all readers download the product
and scan their PCs weekly. I suspect you may be surprised at what you will find. I've also
included a link to my full Ewido review for those who want to know more about the
product prior to downloading.

(2.2MB)




Best Free Web Site Ripper New
HTTrack is one impressive product: it's easy to use, has an excellent user interface, offers
every feature you could want, is blindingly fast and free of any adware as well. If you
like to download web sites so that you can "browse them offline", this is the product to
get. (3.23MB)

Best Free DLL Cleaner Updated
Over time most PCs become cluttered up with the unwanted remainders of long deleted
programs. DLL Archive is a free utility that will scan your PC for DLLs that are no
longer referenced. You can then archive the unwanted programs away or delete them
entirely. Archived items can easily be restored to their original location if any problems
arise. (227KB)




Best Free File Cleaner
I've tried quite a few commercial products designed to clean unneeded temporary files off
your hard disk but must say that the free utility "Empty Temp Folders" ranks with the
best. It takes a few minutes to set up but after that, just press a button to recover many
megabytes of disk space. (667KB)




Best Free Resource Meter
This is cute. TinyResMeter is an itsy-bitsy system monitor. Unlike many other monitors,
it doesn't consume a lot of CPU utilization in order to tell you your CPU utilization. In
addition to CPU usage, you can optionally monitor cache, RAM, page file and swap file
usage, running processes and threads, disk space utilization and a number of other
parameters as well.
Also built-in, is a screen grabber that saves the current screen to disk when you press
PrintScreen. How they fit all this into 96KB beats me.

Best Free Spam Filter for the Average User Updated
Mailwasher is for most folk, the easiest way of dealing with Spam. It's a free email
preview utility that allows you to check your email on your mail server before you
download it to your PC. The advantage of this approach is that you can kill unwanted
messages including spam, viruses and large attachments before they get anywhere near
your computer. Mailwasher automatically flags for you any messages containing viruses
and possible spam which makes for quick and easy identification. It also will send a
message back to the spam mail sender saying that their message could not be delivered.
Hopefully this will encourage some spammers to take your name off their mailing list.
The free version only handles only one POP email account but that's sufficient for most
users. If you need multiple account try XTerminator which provides many of the same
features of Mailwasher though with a less elegant interface.

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Best Free Spam Filter for Experienced Users Updated
When it comes to effectiveness, POPFile beats the pants off most other spam filters I've
tried. But this effectiveness takes a little time to develop. POPFile is a statistical filter so
it has to be trained to recognize your spam from your normal mail. It takes a week or so
before it starts becoming accurate and best results may take a month or more. POPFile
works as a proxy mail server so that means that it can be used with any POP email client.
Setup is reasonably straightforward for experienced users but beginners should stick with
Mailwasher. Outlook users should check out SpamBayes, another open source statistical
filter that offers an Outlook plug-in that makes it more more convenient to use.

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Best Free PopUp Stopper Updated Updated
The Proxomitron is not like your average popup stopper. It operates by filtering and
transforming all your Web pages on the fly. As a result you can not only stop pop-ups but
pop-unders, ads, flash animations, status bar scrollers and just about anything else.
Besides, next time you are asked what pop-up stopper you use, you can answer; "why, I
use The Proxomitron" and how cool is that. The first link below is to version 4.5, the last
and final version of this superb utility. The following two links offer useful setup and
usage tips. Note: For Novice PC users I suggest you try the news Google tool bar rather
than The Proxomitron. It's free as well and has an excellent popup filter built in. It's not
as flexible as as The Proxomitron, but it requires no setup. As a bonus it also makes
Google searches easier.







Best Free Sticky Notes Utility New
Some people hate these programs others swear they can't work effectively without them.
I used to be in the first category but with so many things on my plate these days, I'm
slowly being converted. The function that I find really useful is the reminder that pops up
at a designated time and date. I use it for simple things like "put up the latest issue on the
web site." ATnotes is a neat implementation that features configurable alarms, resizable
windows, variable fonts and a host of other useful features. The product is remarkably

similar to the commercial sticky notes utility called, TurboNotes. Is imitation the
sincerest form of flattery? Maybe not. (723KB)


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