FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[weh]

A great utility for locating duplicate files . . .

A great utility for locating (and eliminating) duplicate files . . .

Duplicate Cleaner from DigitalVolcano.co.uk
See: Duplicate Cleaner - Find Duplicate files - Freeware

I've been using this since Win98 days. Still appears to work perfectly in current versions, including 7000, 7068 and 7077.

 

[Barman58]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but looks like it may be of use to some ...

IObit Launches Game Booster to Accelerate PC Games for Free

Direct developer Link ...

Game Booster | Better Play Experience | Game Accelerator

Shawn, Not sure if this is better here or in gaming or news Feel free to tidy up and move as you see fit

 

[MilesAhead]

Yet Another Explorer Folder Monitor

Folder Cache 1.5

I guess I'm stubborn. I kept creating these MRU lists for Explorer folders until I came up with one I really like to use. This one sits in the Tray and watches for explorer folder windows. You hit Shift-PgUp hotkey and a window comes up with the recent folders in MRU order.

What makes this one different than others I've done is I made the window wide so that long paths can be read without horizontal scrolling. Because the window isn't open all the time the size isn't a hindrance. Unfortunately some UI that we take for granted cannot be implemented easily on this window. Pressing Enter doesn't launch selections nor does double-clicking the mouse. But pressing the button or right clicking the mouse in the list does. Once you use it a few times I think you will like popping it up with the hotkey. If the hotkey is already in use you can still double click the Tray Icon to open the window.

Also at least in my res on my monitor, 24 folders sits nicely in the list without vertical scrolling. There's a spin button to adjust the max folders in the range 16 to 64. Folder names are saved to a file in the same folder as the exe on close, and read back in on startup.

Multiple items can be selected. When launched the window is destroyed.
Here's a screen shot of the Folder Cache window.

btw if you get a false positive with an av program, see the readme file. It's a compiled AutoIt3 script so that's the reason.

Enjoy.

Edit: oh btw I've tried it on W7 32 bit, Vista 64 bit and XP Pro 32 bit. It's compiled AutoIt3 script so it should run on most any windows XP or newer.

 

[murphy25]

ashampoo burning studio 6.75 works very well in x86 i have used it with every build i have tested and not encountered any problems,later versions are not free but this one is and is available from softpedia-
Download Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 6.75 - Choose your files. Burn your disc. Finished! - Softpedia

 

[Mercurial]

Flashget works too http://www.flashget.com/index_en.htm

 

[BillDoE]

Working Ruby Windows One Click Installer +

Works great:
Ruby 1.8.6 one click installer
WxWidgets 2.8.10
And the apps I wrote with them

 

[swarfega]

Followers of this thread might find Appnews.net | awesome software, relevant reviews useful.

 

[XentrixPL]

Batchrun nice little software to make batch files.
Tested on Windows 7 x64.

 

[swarfega]

nice!

 

[Brink]

Batchrun nice little software to make batch files.
Tested on Windows 7 x64.

Thank you XentrixPL. It has been added.

Shawn

 

[MilesAhead]

ReOpen

ReOpen 2.6 is available for download from Softpedia via this link:
Download ReOpen 2.6.0.7 - Easily launch recently opened files - Softpedia

I've made serveral improvements. See Changelog

 

[Picardilly]

Here is a cute shopping gadget for Windows 7 :

Wootch (amazon browser, mp3 preview and automatic price notification)

http://www.wootch.net

ClickOnce Install : http://www.wootch.de/download/Wootch.application

 

[johngalt]

Apparently, Alex Feinman came temporarily out of hiding and updated ISO Recorder v3 for Windows 7....

(Info courtesy of http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/8613-problem-record-disc.html#post87738 - y'all be sure to thank luffypotter)

 

[Brink]

Sweet.

 

[SIW2]

Thanks John,

Well spotted.

 

[johngalt]

Thank luffypotter - I already gave him rep....

 

[iThaos]

Wow, thanks very much for the list. I picked up a few programs from the list

 

[junkieweb]

mmm, I run build 7022 ... heared about ImgBurn ... it is COOL ... but, CDburnerXP works fine and it identifies my Sony DVD/RW ...

& FileZilla FTP is a free too and works good too ...

Plwase add those 2 apps to te list ...

 

[swarfega]

ImgBurn is already on the list.

 

[ikilledkenny]

I don't see why InfraRecorder doesn't get any notice...

Also, Swarfega, what on earth is your avatar? It's hilarious, but I have no clue what it is