FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[Brink]

Ah I see. Added.

 

[SIW2]

Hi ,

I just downloaded it from here - it's much faster

Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition Free | Anti-spyware Tools Download | PC World

Haven't tried it out yet .

SIW2

 

[Brink]

Added.

To bad the download link for it doesn't seem to work from Ad-Aware's site. I would prefer it instead. Oh well.

Ad-Aware Free - Lavasoft

 

[Sparatan117]

Hey I donno know if anyone else knows about this but I was lookin for a program to control my CPU fan from my desktop and stumbled into it. It manages your Fans for you and also tells you your average CPU temperature. along with the temperature of every component in the PC

SpeedFan

 

[Digger]

Added.

To bad the download link for it doesn't seem to work from Ad-Aware's site. I would prefer it instead. Oh well.

Ad-Aware Free - Lavasoft

I installed it yesterday, cancelled the reboot and didnt boot until this morning... Free version am talking about here.... anyways, i got THE weirdest looking boot screen i have YET to see on 7. I didnt get a pic of it, but i'll try to describe.

 "45/45 C:\windows\something\something\something"

of course the "something" i forget what directories it was showing as it flashed real quick while i was grabbing a cup of coffee and caught it out of the corner of my eye. The windows logo was still present, but this "code" was right beneath it. I booted up just fine, so far. I am guessing that it has to do with the ad-watch included with it (reg watcher). Although when i pull it up, its disabled. I cant remember if I did that myself, or if windows wouldnt load it prior to boot or just what exactly was going on to throw up that code message i gave. no bsod tho

 

[Dwarf]

Hi Digger,

This is nothing to worry about as I had the same on my system. It is probably the installer finishing creating/writing data to the registry, which is not too dissimilar to some Windows Updates. Lavasoft is a well-established company, and I have used variants of their Ad-Aware product for many years without any problems.

 

[Digger]

Hi Digger,

This is nothing to worry about as I had the same on my system. It is probably the installer finishing creating/writing data to the registry, which is not too dissimilar to some Windows Updates. Lavasoft is a well-established company, and I have used variants of their Ad-Aware product for many years without any problems.

Yea, now remember seeing "windows is updating .... "

I too have used adaware for a long time, actually since birth, lol. Just only on XP, not a new OS 7

well on 98 too, but i'm lucky to remember that far, hahaha

 

[Barman58]

Hi all, just out of interest I did my first full shut down and Boot for a few days earlier and also noticed an extra line of text during the graphic screen stage.

The interesting thing is that I have not installed ad-aware on this machine maybe the mystery text comes from a MS update ? and of course the same as Digger I noticed it was there but not enough to actually read the text - I guess I drink too much coffee

 

[Digger]

Hi all, just out of interest I did my first full shut down and Boot for a few days earlier and also noticed an extra line of text during the graphic screen stage.

The interesting thing is that I have not installed ad-aware on this machine maybe the mystery text comes from a MS update ? and of course the same as Digger I noticed it was there but not enough to actually read the text - I guess I drink too much coffee

arrrgh.... yes, a few MS updates i noticed... but now I have my old disk corruption issue once again!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! trying to extract a file that I ALREADY extracted on this new install, worked perfect.... but not now.... once again

so, i'm gonna first do an sfc, then chkdsk, if that fails, wiping both adaware and those updates off..... the agony

 

[robertguda]

Glad to have joined this forum. very informative. thanks a lot & keep up this good work !!!

 

[Airbot]

Hi robertguda and welcome,

We're glad to have you here. Have fun...

 

[hybridfan]

Irfanview works like a charm, great forum guys very informative stuff.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Hybridfan for confiming. It has been added to the list.

Shawn

 

[SIW2]

Hi Shawn,

Forgot to mention Faststone Image Viewer.

FastStone Image Viewer - Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter

SIW2

 

[Brink]

Thank you SIW2. Added.

 

[Blackstickman]

Hello Brink,

The free version of Anvir Task Manager has many useful features and runs without problems on Win7 x64: Freeware Task Manager, Freeware Windows Task Manager | Manager, Task, Windows, Startup, Fr.

 

[hybridfan]

AMD Dual Core Optimizer seems to run fine, not sure if it is actually needed, but I wanted to try it out anyway as I think it can improve some games with regards to fps.

Anyone know if ACDSee Pro works?

Oh yes and Media Player Classic works great too.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Blasktickman. Added.

 

[Jv5T W3]

You can add LogonStudio Vista by Stardock there. They have a free version too, which only allows you to create logon screens by using jpg, bmp, gif, png files.

 

[Hybrid]

Maybe add F.lux: software to make your life better ?
It's my favourite little piece of software atm.
It makes a difference though.