FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[racie]

I can't believe Inkscape isn't on this list! It's a terrific vector image editing program.

Inkscape. Draw Freely.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Racie. Inkscape added.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Here's Brink when the weather changes.....



Edit...Or he is on my tail for being bad!

 

[SledgeDG]

Good one, HW
Seven Forums did it again !!!
Only we have a "glow in the dark " Alien
:roflmao::roflmao:

 

[Brink]

Here's Brink when the weather changes.....
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Edit...Or he is on my tail for being bad!

LOL, thank you.

 

[MilesAhead]

Transpose 1.3.0.0

I made a small hotkey program using AutoHotKey to change a few mouse and keyboard hotkeys in programs I use frequently.

The main reason I wrote it was to make Control-t transpose the 2 characters left of the caret. The most common typo I make is reversed characters. By hitting Control-t I can fix it on the fly("thsi" after Control-t becomes "this" as I originally intened.) Since I run that in the Task Tray all the time now, I added a few other changes.

As it is when you download, the Control-t works in
EditPad Lite, Notepad, Treepad, a few other editors, and Firefox and Chrome based Browsers.

Also it changes how links are opened in tabs in Chrome based browsers.

Here's the other thing, I was trying One Click to Open in Windows, but it messed up multiple selection in Explorer. So I went back to double click, but via Transpose, Middle Mouse Click is treated as double click only in Explorer Windows. Kind of best of both worlds.

Your preferences will be different. So I included the AHK source code. You can install AutoHotKey on your system if you don't already have it. It's a free download and free program:

AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText

By following how I did it in the source you can change it to suit yourself, then compile it or just run the script through ahk.

It's pretty neat because you can add editors by adding a line in the AHK script to GroupAdd the editor. The hotkey is only changed when one of those in the group is the active window. Avoids conflict with programs that use Control-t or the other hotkeys.

The download includes the source. You can get it from my site here:

Hotkeys

Just click the Transpose link.

Note that if you are running one of the recent Chromium nightly builds, clicking to open a Tab in Foreground may be broken. I submitted a bug report to Chromium. I'm running Chromium build 63747 and new Tab in Foreground works with this build(and I assume most earlier builds.)

See the Readme for instructions to add programs to the EditGroup.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection contains multiple versions of the free web browser Mozilla Firefox, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. In Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection you can quickly see how your websites look when rendered using different versions of the Gecko render engine. You can specify the filenames or locations (URLs) to open in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox.

Source: Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection Free Download and Reviews - Fileforum

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Good one, HW
Seven Forums did it again !!!
Only we have a "glow in the dark " Alien
:roflmao::roflmao:

Don't laugh to hard your nose and toes will turn RED!

 

[SledgeDG]

That serves me right... it's HILAREOUS
Thank you, Dennis

:haha::roflmao::roflmao:

-DG

 

[The Howling Wolves]

That serves me right... it's HILAREOUS
Thank you, Dennis

:haha::roflmao::roflmao:

-DG

I could go around and do everyone's but my life expectancy would be shortend and I wouln't make it to this week-end let alone x-mas...

 

[tannim]

Kochbook (cookbook)
Cookbook

A german(with english version available) cookbook/recipe collection program that lets you type out, copy and paste, or otherwise insert your recipes and ingredients and instructions. Best/Easiest recipe organizer I've found so far. Installable and portable versions are available.

 

[geeve420]

Could you please add, it is a nice little video converter I came accross while helping someone out earlier:

"The RAD Video Tools are a set of utilities for processing video, animation, and sound data. They include both of our video codecs: Bink Video, our current 24-bit true-color codec, and Smacker, our much older 256-color codec. All modern games now use Bink - Smacker is rarely used now-a-days.
Bink Video is a "better-than-DVD" video codec. That is, it compresses better than DVD at up to three times the playback speed! Bink scales from the low-end Nintendo DS all the way up to HD video on the latest consoles and PCs.
Smacker was designed to compress 256-color video and animation for the previous generation of games. It is now used mostly with games that need to run on very low-end hardware (the education market, for example). It is unlikely that you will need to use Smacker for your videos."

It's called "The RAD video tools" works quite well

Bink Downloads

here is the user guide for it as well:

RAD Video Tools Help

 

[goguta]

THX
Great Job

 

[shamo]

how about AIMP2?
it is a simple great music player (audio only though)
it has shutdown timer/alarm clock/tag editor
works great on my desktop - cool skins too

 

[goguta]

how about AIMP2?
it is a simple great music player (audio only though)
it has shutdown timer/alarm clock/tag editor
works great on my desktop - cool skins too

Aimp, good. But sound ... Not so happy with it. U can not compare it with wmp or winamp. I'm using it because it's small & more user friendly, at least in my opinion.

 

[polycue]

DiffMerge

DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files and folders on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

• Diff: Graphically shows the changes between two files. Includes intra-line highlighting and full support for editing.
• Merge: Graphically shows the changes between 3 files. Allows automatic merging (when safe to do so) and full control over editing the resulting file.
• Folder Diff: Performs a side-by-side comparison of 2 folders, showing which files are only present in one file or the other, as well as file pairs which are identical, equivalent or different.
• Windows Explorer/Shell Integration: Right-click on any two files or folders in Windows Explorer to diff them immediately.
• Configurable: Rulesets and options provide for customized appearance and behavior.
• International: DiffMerge is a UNICODE-based application and can import files in a wide range of character encodings.
• Cross-platform: Identical feature set on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
• Portable or Installer

PS. Use WinMerge as external tool within DiffMerge and xdocdiff WinMerge Plugin -Compare Word, Excel, PowerPoint, pdf

 

[Brink]

Thank you Patrick. Added.

 

[bassfisher6522]

Suggestion for the list. Could we might set this list into different categories for each subject matter.....Like a section for maintenance for utilities software, one for bugs to include spyware, adware, malware and viruses....and so on. I think it would make posting a link to this page with a direct subject title for that particular section for members who looking for such apps easier to find. Instead of having to scroll threw the list all willy nilly. Just a thought....

 

[MilesAhead]

Suggestion for the list. Could we might set this list into different categories for each subject matter.....Like a section for maintenance for utilities software, one for bugs to include spyware, adware, malware and viruses....and so on. I think it would make posting a link to this page with a direct subject title for that particular section for members who looking for such apps easier to find. Instead of having to scroll threw the list all willy nilly. Just a thought....

That would be a good suggestion if that was the raison d'être for the forum. But Brink already does 10,000 other things. If only interested in a category, search. You should get hits in the descriptions.. as in "editor" or "syntax highlighting editor" or "firewall" or other area of interest.

 

[bassfisher6522]

Suggestion for the list. Could we might set this list into different categories for each subject matter.....Like a section for maintenance for utilities software, one for bugs to include spyware, adware, malware and viruses....and so on. I think it would make posting a link to this page with a direct subject title for that particular section for members who looking for such apps easier to find. Instead of having to scroll threw the list all willy nilly. Just a thought....

That would be a good suggestion if that was the raison d'être for the forum. But Brink already does 10,000 other things. If only interested in a category, search. You should get hits in the descriptions.. as in "editor" or "syntax highlighting editor" or "firewall" or other area of interest.

The point was to categorize the list. So that when the list was referred to for help, it could be referred to a specific area of the list. That's all I was trying to suggest.