FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[SledgeDG]

Nice little Tool, thanks, rebs

 

[SIW2]

Hi Ciara,

You were right to bring that up.

Paragon BR free 11 is the only 3rd party app. to create correctly aligned partitions in accordance with windows 7 partitioning rules.

Ooops

 

[Monsoon]

I recently did a new blog post for the company I work for. I'm sure a fair amount of you have already heard of most of these programs, but on the off chance you haven't, could be worth taking a look, eh? ^_^"
All of these I have used, or am currently using with Windows 7, and they're pretty useful.


Tis all freeware [links and descriptions are in the post]
List [To save you time if you know of them all already]:
-Avast
-Microsoft SE
-CCleaner
-Recuva
-Hamachi
-ObjectDock
-Rainmeter
-Pidgin
-KMplayer [Not really too much need for this one with Win7. They did a great job with Windows Media Player.]

I can vouch for ObjectDock. I've been using it for a few years, and it's a wonderful shortcut tool with rss feed, weather feed, and you can add any shortcut to it that you want.
It works perfectly with Windows 7, and there are thousands and thousands of icons and icon packages for it. Enough to match virtually any wallpaper that you're likely to use.

All available from Stardock for free.


I've got to add a caveat for that KMPlayer though. It's NOT 64 bit ready.
Very buggy.

 

[front243]

Freemake Video Downloader

I found this video (youtube, etc) downloader accidentally. I have a license key for Save2PC which is a similar program but actually Freemake is much better. Save2PC is very buggy and will often hang either downloading or converting videos. Not any problems with Freemake so far.

Freemake has also released a video converter but I can't tell how good it is, but I assume it is based on some of the same codebase as the downloader.

 

[SledgeDG]

Here is a little gem that lets you edit the title and certain Metadata of a PDF (Yes I mean the Title not the Filename .
Thats very important for certain readers like Moby or my Sony since those readers don't use the filename but the internal description/Title which might be something completely different depending om how good the guy was who created the PDF.
In my periodicals it's so bad that the files are out of order and all I can see from those very long names would be "Microsoft Document -" Quite useless as you will understand. Some others again have no title at all. That's why I was looking for a solution

BeCyHome: BeCyPDFMetaEdit

-DG

 

[StalkeR]

Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file.

Download

 

[Bongo]

Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file.

Download

Thanks StalkeR this works great
Jerry

 

[Rebs]

Close All Open Windows

Close All Open Windows with a Single Click

This program lets you close all running applications with just a single click. It doesn’t use system resources because it only flashes a ‘close’ signal to all open applications on the desktop and then ceases. Just create a shortcut to the tool in the Start Menu, Quick Launch, Windows 7 Taskbar or elsewhere.

Close All on Windows 7 Taskbar/Superbar
You can always add a hotkey to this shortcut. It is really very handy if you are running ~20 applications and want them all to quit instantly. It works just as if you were pressing the close button for each application.


Close All Open Windows with a Single Click - NTWind Software

 

[StalkeR]

Thanks StalkeR this works great
Jerry

You're welcome Jerry. And thanks for the rep!

 

[StalkeR]

AIMP is a full-featured free music player designed with sound quality and wide,
customizable functionality in mind. Over twenty audio formats are supported.
Audio is processed in 32-bit for crystal-clear sound. The player features a 18-band
graphics equalizer with extra built-in sound effects. You can extend the existing
functionality adding Input, DSP and Gen plug-ins from Winamp. All local and global
hotkeys are customizable. Full Unicode support. You can convert AudioCD to MP3,
OGG, WAV or WMA. Similarly, you can grab sound from any audio device on your
PC to MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA formats.
Read CNET editors' review

ADVANTAGES OF AIMP:​

• totally FREE
• Support for a large number of music formats
  MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC / MP+, AAC, AC3, Ogg, FLAC,APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDA, WMA, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX
• Great functionality and intuitive interface
• 18-band EQ and built-in sound effects
  Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed
• 32-bit audio processing
  to achieve the best quality
• Usage of multiple playlists at once
• Support for functionality enhancement modules
  You can add new features and expand existing, connect such plugins as Input, Gen, DSP from Winamp
• Shutting down the computer
  You can sleep under favorite music, setting the timer to switch off the computer.
• Online radio
  Listen and save!
• Creation of bookmarks and playback queue
• Hot keys
  Set up local and global hotkeys to your taste!
• Multilingual interface
• Multiuser mode
  Several users are using one computer? That's not a problem.
• Full Unicode support
• File search
  Search files on all open playlists
• Flexible program settings
• Small size of program distribution
• Audio Converter
  Allows you to convert music from a variety of formats to wma, mp3, wav, ogg
• Audio Grabber
  You can convert AudioCD (CDA) in MP3, OGG, WAV or WMA
• Soung Recorder
  Allows you to write sound from any audio device in your system and save as mp3, ogg, wav and wma files
• Tag Editor
  You can easily edit tags of audio files, rename group of files, sort out by required template or apply tags' values to a group of files.
• Audio Library
  Represents the organizer of music files, which allows you to easily sort your music, mark listened audios.

Download

 

[gogreen]

Not sure if it's been suggested yet, but Syncback Freeware http://www.2brightsparks.com is a great program. I'm using it to replace Synctoy which for me missed a lot. I think it should be on the list.

 

[Airbot]

CCAuto Updater

 

[Maxxwire]

AIMP is a full-featured free music player designed with sound quality and wide, customizable functionality in mind. Over twenty audio formats are supported. Audio is processed in 32-bit for crystal-clear sound.

What a great Recommendation from StalkeR! Not only does AIMP 2 sound and look great, but it uses a small fraction of the system resources that WMP does while doing it...

~Maxx~

 

[StalkeR]

Yeah,AIMP2 is great. I'm using it already 2 years.

 

[yowanvista]

Another Free Antimalware with real time scanning and Automatic Updates
Orbitech

Hazard Shield is a free anti-spyware program designed to detect, remove, and prevent spyware, trojans, backdoors, adware, rootkits, and many other threats. Hazard Shield includes features found in many paid security applications, such as scheduled scans and automatic updates. Hazard Shield also has powerful real-time protection that can prevent the installation of malicious programs. Free tech support is also available at any time, should you ever have any problems.

Features

• Fast multi-threaded scanning engine
• Automatic, incremental database updates
• Free real-time protection that blocks malicious programs
• File killer with secure shredder
• Alternate data stream (ADS) scanner
• Process manager shows full process paths and modules
• Hosts file manager with suspicious entry detection
• Fully supports Windows XP, Vista, and 7

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[IownAmoneyPit]

Added to the list.

Speckie is an add-on to the Internet Explorer web browser. It provides an inline spell checking capability similar to that found in other web browsers such as Firefox and Chrome.

Brink the 1st snip below was posted by our yowanvista over at neowin forums that this add on wont work in the reply box on vbulletin forums (thats us/vista/seven/eight forums) and only works in the title box (see 2nd screenshot as test by me).

 

[Brink]

Thank you sir. Removed.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

I have found a good free screen capture program called PicPick that is free for home users and has tons of features. (see link)

PicPick is user friendly and full of features for creating your image, suitable for software developers, graphic designers and home user.

It is an all-in-one program that provides full-featured screen capture tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair and even whiteboard.

It has not only everything what you need, but it loads fast, sits quietly in the system tray until needed.

This software is provided as freeware for only personal use. In this case, you are granted the right to use this program free of charge.

For All Windows (Fully support Windows 7)

Note: The Scrolling Window feature works perfectly on IE 9 RC and also works on FF 3.6.13 (although scrolls slowly).

The only successful way I have found to use the Scrolling Window feature in FF beta 12 is to right click PicPick icon then navigate to > screen capture > show capture bar. After you see capture bar enable full screen in FF beta 12. On the screen capture bar select Scrolling Window move hand to bottom of screen and click to begin capture.

Otherwise all of the rest of the features seem to work well.

 

[Mallowigi]

CursorFX

Don't know if it can enter into this category but I can suggest the CursorFX tool from Stardock, which give the possibility to replace Windows cursors by custom animated cursors.

The program is free but there is a pro version which gives you more features such as adding sounds to the clicks, adding custom trails, etc...

Stardock.com - Your Edge In Software

Besides, I've created a cursor pack which contains Mario hand cursors:
Stardock.com - Your Edge In Software

 

[abedrax]

Hi All

As an alternative to Windows Media Player why not try XBMC Media player, it works well on Windows 7.
Site Link About | XBMC
Take a look...........

Abedrax