Windows 7: FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

Cindy · 09 Jul 2009

POP Peeper

This is an e-mail notifier (freeware) that i have used in XP for a long time and now use in Windows 7 RC1, supports POP3, IMAP (including GMail, AOL, AIM, Netscape, FastMail, etc), SMTP, GMail, Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno, NetZero.

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Zidane24 · 09 Jul 2009

Pidgin IM

Universal IM Client. Not much else to say, it supports all the popular chat clients and some older un-used ones. Also comes with a dictionary checker (optional) plugin capabilities, and a email notifier. Truly one of the best IM clients out there

Zidane

Check it out:Pidgin, the universal chat client

ikilledkenny · 09 Jul 2009

Pidgin is really good. Definately add that one.

Brink · 09 Jul 2009

Thank you Cindy and Chris. Pidgin and POP Peeper added. :)

honestjohn · 10 Jul 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by swarfega

KMplayer is a good choice.

Thanks Swarfega, just installed. Excellent Player as I've been looking for an alternative lately.

swarfega · 10 Jul 2009

np, John.

honestjohn · 10 Jul 2009

This one-trick pony does what it was designed to do and does it well under Windows 7. It restores your icons to their last saved position should an app or game pull a fast one on you. There are other utilities which do the same thing, but if this is all you want look no further.

DeskSave - Save and restore the positions of the icons on your desktop

Quote:

Welcome to desksave.de
In Windows, when screen resolution changes, the order of the desktop icons very often gets mixed up. With DeskSave it is quite easy to recover a previously saved icon layout either manually or automatically. Software developers are given the opportunity to test their applications in different screen resolutions without disarranging the desktop icons.

Features of DeskSave 8.2.1:

Saves the icon layout according to current user and screen resolution
Restoring works properly, even if 'Auto Arrange' or 'Align to Grid' (Windows XP/Vista) is activated
Accepts command line parameters
Auto restore after resolution change, program start or resume from standby/hibernation
Auto save at logoff
Unicode support, layouts are saved UTF-8 encoded
Starts with Windows, if desired
Saves icon layouts to files
Undo after restoration
Provides backups of current and saved layouts
Optional portable mode, leaves no traces on the system
Supports multiple displays
Supports English and German language
Optional shell extension for the desktop, thereby easy access to functions without background process (32 bit only)
Very small size (DeskSave.exe: 81 kB, Shell extension: 75 kB)
No setup routine, just unpack the archive and DeskSave is ready
Easy deletion of all saved primary layouts, backups settings, DeskSave is completely removable
Supports Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista, 32 and 64 bit

mustangman16 · 10 Jul 2009

@honesetjohn

If i was still using desktop icons and not rocketdock you'd be my savior with this program. +1 for the info

-stang

Brink · 10 Jul 2009

Thank you John. DeskSave has been added. :)

mtnsteve · 12 Jul 2009

I just discovered JARTE, a word processor with tons of features and small footprint.

It runs great on W7 RC 64bit.

FREE Word Processor Based on Microsoft's WordPad Engine