FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[StalkeR]

Yes,I'm just confirming that.

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

Cryptainer LE

Cryptainer LE is a freeware utility from Cypherix. It is a 128 bit disk encryption software that is a "miniature" version of Cryptainer PE and Cryptainer. It creates encrypted containers (vaults) of upto 100 MB each to store any type of data. You can encrypt files and folders by simply dragging and dropping them into this vault. Additionally, it lets you create secure e-mail files that you can send to anyone.

Cryptainer LE includes a 'Mobile' feature, which allows it to encrypt all media (including, USB, CD ROM etc). It works on all 32 bit as well as 64 bit versions of Windows.

The Best Part - this award winning encryption package is totally free and never expires.

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Cypherix® Products. Encrypt Any Data. Any Windows PC. Any Media™ using Cypherix LE, Cypherix PE, Cypherix SE, Secure IT

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

Internet Download Accelerator

The distinguishing features of Internet Download Accelerator are superior overall performance and convenient user interface.
Internet Download Accelerator lets you to noticeably increase the speed of file download from the Internet using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols. The acceleration is achieved by splitting a file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time. Internet Download Accelerator resumes broken downloads from where they left off from both HTTP, HTTPS and FTP servers.
To increase usability Internet Download Accelerator integrates with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Nescape and others, replacing the standard download modules. Moreover, the program monitors the system clipboard and detects URLs in the clipboard. With IDA you can download & save video from popular video sharing services.

Internet Download Accelerator | Information

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

Fresh Download

Key features of Fresh Download:​

• Turbo charges downloading files in FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols using your current internet connection (dial-up, cable, DSL / ADSL, satellite, T1, etc).​
• Pause and resume broken downloads, recovers from a dropped Internet connection.​
• Multiple connections download manager. To get the highest possible speed, this powerful tool uses 4 simultaneous connections (up to 8 connections) for the same file, while many other similar software only support single connection download. Based on user reports, this method may speed up your downloads by up to 400%.​
• Easy integration into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firebird, Firefox, Netscape Communicator, Opera, Avant Browser, Crazy Browser, Maxthon / MyIE2, Slim Browser, in any Windows operating system (95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7). Simply grabs any URL from these popular browsers and Fresh Download will take over.​
• Schedule your downloads for low traffic periods.​
• Clipboard monitoring and drag & drop features. Easily grabs any URL from any applications.​
• Antivirus support. Scan downloaded files from any viruses using your current antivirus software.​
• Ability to download from password protected sites, in both HTTP and FTP protocols.​
• Proxy Server support in both HTTP and FTP protocols.​
• Support for the latest browsers including Mozilla Firefox 4, Opera 11, Internet Explorer 8.​
• Plus now it has a built-in Zip file extractor.​

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Fresh Download - Free Download Manager now supports Mozilla Firefox 4, Opera 11, Internet Explorer 8, netscape, mozilla, firebird, firefox, crazy browser, maxthon, myie2, avant browser

 

[yowanvista]

Another free AV
Antivirus Home « ZenOK

 

[aussiecriminals]

Can Spider Player be added here?

Spider Player
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Features
32-bit sound processing for crystal clear sound
Spider Player can process sound with double precision internally. So even if your sound card is not capable of output in such resolution, the sound quality is still improved. The difference is especially noticeable, if DSP effects (such as peaking equalizer) are enabled.
Streaming audio support
Stream files from the Internet or LAN and listen to Internet radio.
Internet radio recording
Spider Player FREE can continuously record any Internet streams for up to 5 minutes to MP3 format, while in Spider Player PRO recording time is not limited. PRO version also allows to achieve the best possible quality by using lossless recording for any MP3 and AAC+ streams, i.e. an exact audio copy of an Internet stream is created, with both format and bitrate preserved.
Radio Directory
Discover thousands of radio stations around the globe with fast and easy search in Shoutcast and Icecast radio directories right within Spider Player.
Custom Hotkeys
Assign up to four local or global hotkeys of your choice to any program's action and have all of the tools and functions at your fingertips. Multimedia keyboards are supported as well as regular ones.
Multiformat Playback
Audio formats supported are: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, M4A, AAC, AAC+, AC3, MPC, MP+, MPP, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, TTA, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDDA, WMA, MID, RMI, KAR, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX.
Converter and CD Ripper
Any supported audio file (see the list of supported audio formats above) or Audio CD track can be easily encoded to MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC or WavPack format. FREE version allows to encode only one track at a time, while PRO version can be used for batch encoding. With Spider Player PRO you can also use any command-line encoder with STDIN support. There is even a help on encoders' command line options and a preset manager.
Support for custom MIDI soundfonts
Spider Player allows you to choose SF2 soundfont used for MIDI playback to vary how your MIDI files sound. It is also possible to convert MIDI files to MP3 and other formats using soundfonts that suit them best.
DSP Effects Manager
DSP effects manager allows you to apply several high-quality 32-bit DSP effects simultaneously in any order. Winamp DSP plugins are supported too.
Unified Tag editor
Edit ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis, FLAC tags and WMA metadata (support for additional tag types and file formats can be added via plugins).
Portable version
You can place Spider Player on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without the need of installation or administrator rights.
Special version for U3 Smart drives (PRO version feature)
Multichannel Audio support
Crossfading support
Full Unicode support
Advanced Title Formatting support
Multilingual interface
Skin support - vary the player's look and feel by changing skins and their color tones
CD-Text and FreeDB support
Ten-band Equalizer with Preset Manager
Icon Sets feature lets you have a separate icon for each audio file type
Built-in Visualizations: customizable spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope
M3U, PLS and ASX playlists support
Incremental Playlist Search
And more!

DRM-protected WMA and AAC files are not supported.

Download Spider Player

A beautiful simple player, just installed it on my system, thanks!

 

[StalkeR]

You're welcome!

 

[pacinitaly]

Cryptainer LE

Cryptainer LE is a freeware utility from Cypherix. It is a 128 bit disk encryption software that is a "miniature" version of Cryptainer PE and Cryptainer. It creates encrypted containers (vaults) of upto 100 MB each to store any type of data. You can encrypt files and folders by simply dragging and dropping them into this vault. Additionally, it lets you create secure e-mail files that you can send to anyone.

Cryptainer LE includes a 'Mobile' feature, which allows it to encrypt all media (including, USB, CD ROM etc). It works on all 32 bit as well as 64 bit versions of Windows.

The Best Part - this award winning encryption package is totally free and never expires.

More...

Cypherix® Products. Encrypt Any Data. Any Windows PC. Any Media™ using Cypherix LE, Cypherix PE, Cypherix SE, Secure IT

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[D3ftOn3Z]

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What's wrong? :huh:

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

SliderDock

SliderDock is an application launcher that will allow you to easily drag and drop icons
to access them later on by double clicking on them.
It is a unique dock where you won't have to chase behind you icons to run an application.
Just rotate your mouse wheel and let the icons come to you.
It will be a nice customization that will add some life to your desktop.

Features :

• Simple drag and drop function to add an icon

• quickly launch an application

• use the mouse wheel to let the icons come to you

• multiple rings to allow you to group the icons any way you wish

• smooth animations during icons rotation

• support drag and drop of virtual folder such as "my computer" and "recycle bin"

• Highlight effect around selected icon

• customizable icons(compatible with objectdock and rocketdock icons)

• Hide/Unhide application with the use of a shortcut key

• Possibility to control the dock with keyboard shortcuts.

• Different set of icons and configuration for each user.

• Reordering icons through simple drag and drop feature.

• Fully Customizable.

• Shader Effects when the mouse enter an icon.

• low memory footprint when hidden

• advance portable mode included.

• easy to use.

The next evolution of dock application launcher - Sliderdock

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

CurrPorts

CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications.

CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

 

[y0himba]

CurrPorts

CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.

In addition, CurrPorts allows you to close unwanted TCP connections, kill the process that opened the ports, and save the TCP/UDP ports information to HTML file , XML file, or to tab-delimited text file.

CurrPorts also automatically mark with pink color suspicious TCP/UDP ports owned by unidentified applications.

CurrPorts: Monitoring TCP/IP network connections on Windows

And while you are there you should really check out the rest of his software. I have been using his utilities for YEARS, all free and all just simple and incredible. These easily compare with Sysinternals utilities.

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

And while you are there you should really check out the rest of his software. I have been using his utilities for YEARS, all free and all just simple and incredible. These easily compare with Sysinternals utilities.

Thanks. I just came to know abt their software. Currently testing currports now.

 

[XNemesis]

I've got a whole bunch of unknowns in CurrPorts, what's the method to find out if these ports are unwanted and need to be closed?

 

[seekermeister]

I don't know an easy way, but you can get some idea from this:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

 

[Mike Connor]

I've got a whole bunch of unknowns in CurrPorts, what's the method to find out if these ports are unwanted and need to be closed?

If you are worried about open ports etc. Run this;

https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Don't believe EVERYTHING it tells you! The Ping service is usually harmless.




This is a text summary of the above, and the sort of result you want from such a test;

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif,MS Sans Serif][SIZE=-1][FONT=courier new,courier]GRC Port Authority Report created on UTC: 2011-04-05 at 11:41:42 Results from scan of ports: 0, 21-23, 25, 79, 80, 110, 113, 119, 135, 139, 143, 389, 443, 445, 1002, 1024-1030, 1720, 5000 0 Ports Open 0 Ports Closed 26 Ports Stealth --------------------- 26 Ports Tested ALL PORTS tested were found to be: STEALTH. TruStealth: FAILED - ALL tested ports were STEALTH, - NO unsolicited packets were received, - A PING REPLY (ICMP Echo) WAS RECEIVED. ( This is what causes the "failed", but you can ignore it. MC)[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT]

You can run the other tests there to check specific ports etc.

You can also check a port by using this; https://www.grc.com/PortDataHelp.htm

You can only obtain results like this if your firewall is set up correctly. Best is a good router firewall. This will prevent ANY third party from accessing your machine without using tunneling protocols and your express permission.

It does not protect against viruses etc. If you open an e-mail with a virus, or download a program with a virus etc. Then you have effectively given that virus access to your machine. A good anti-virus program should guard against most things like this, but nothing is 100% perfect, so you also need to use sensible operating procedures.

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[SledgeDG]

Correct, Mike! It doesn't protect you from anything. (well, it shows that those guys that run port scans to fit you out with some sort of payload run into your Firewall right now
It just gives you a snapshot of the actual situation.
But like you said, if one clicks and opens all kind of junk, those people get what's coming to them. Because then the attack starts from the inside and that's a totally different story. Stealth ports from the outside don't help you there.
But nonetheless a useful test!
Thanks
-DG

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

XBMC.

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, and Windows. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.

While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.

Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

XBMC

 

[seekermeister]

I had run into this program before, but didn't pay too much attention, because that was before I got interested in running videos on a HTPC. Just scanning the description of the program interested me, because it sounded as though it might have the potential to replace the programs that I'm now using. However, the first sniggle that I ran into was in scanning my video archive. It seems to be able to only scan within one folder at a time, and I have far too many to want to go through that routine. I guess I could dump all of my videos into one folder, but that is an idea that I'm not fond of either. Can this program scan more efficiently that I have found so far?

 

[D3ftOn3Z]

I had run into this program before, but didn't pay too much attention, because that was before I got interested in running videos on a HTPC. Just scanning the description of the program interested me, because it sounded as though it might have the potential to replace the programs that I'm now using. However, the first sniggle that I ran into was in scanning my video archive. It seems to be able to only scan within one folder at a time, and I have far too many to want to go through that routine. I guess I could dump all of my videos into one folder, but that is an idea that I'm not fond of either. Can this program scan more efficiently that I have found so far?

Hi, i can't comment much of this software atm. I have not tested it myself. Just posting though. Sorry can't help... However XMBC has it's own forum, maybe you can ask them there?