FREE Great Programs for Windows 7

[pacinitaly]

After a long search for suitable podcast manager I finally decided to stick with gPodder. It provides audio and video podcast download from RSS feeds, YouTube films download, mobile device (e.g. iPod) sync, podcast directory. Actively in development so you might encounter some bugs or broken features; however runs flawlessly on my Win7 installation (x86). Simple, without playback features (I've got other stuff to take care of this anyway).
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Seems to me it has two slight drawbacks. Firstly, its UI might feel uncomfortable or odd to regular Win users as it's build with GTK. Secondly, Win binaries are updated with considerable delay; however, you can download the source and compile it yourself then.

Oh, and it's in several languages. My screens show the Polish translation, so don't freak out

great find

 

[MilesAhead]

WinCDEmu

I saw a good review of WinCDEmu on PC World by chance. I gave it a try. I like it. Nice and simple. Double click a supported image file to mount, select Eject from the drive letter context menu in Explorer to unmount.

Another thing I like is pressing the Open Button with the drive letter selected in my Tray app unmounts the image. Can't get much more convenient.

I was using the free version of MagicISO without any problems. But I saw that WinCDEmu not only does not use a drive letter until you mount an image, but it also supports mounting more than one image.

WinCDEmu - A free CD/DVD emulator for Win32 and Win64

I installed on both Vista64 and Windows Seven 32 bit without having to reboot.
Nice.

 

[jbarr]

I saw a good review of WinCDEmu on PC World by chance. I gave it a try. I like it. Nice and simple. Double click a supported image file to mount, select Eject from the drive letter context menu in Explorer to unmount.

Another thing I like is pressing the Open Button with the drive letter selected in my Tray app unmounts the image. Can't get much more convenient.

I was using the free version of MagicISO without any problems. But I saw that WinCDEmu not only does not use a drive letter until you mount an image, but it also supports mounting more than one image.

WinCDEmu - A free CD/DVD emulator for Win32 and Win64

I installed on both Vista64 and Windows Seven 32 bit without having to reboot.
Nice.

Sounds similar to the free Virtual Clone Drive from Slysoft.com.

 

[BWK]

Hello everybody...On my trips around the net I came across something that should intrigue you. So if your into open source projects or this seems like something you have been looking for or needed grab it and give it a try.
tortoisesvn.tigris.org

Here's a little item we all need sooner or later, and it's available for 32 and 64bit, it's an open source file and archive manager.
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/index.html

Don't know if this is listed anywhere either...watch and download HD videos , pod cast , it downloads video so you can watch your videos anywhere.
http://www.getmiro.com/
your going to need this little helper as well for your new videos you grabbed with Miro...
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/

 

[Gornot]

PeaZIP looks awesome, thank you for that BWK

 

[derekimo]

PeaZIP looks awesome, thank you for that BWK

It works great, I used that for a long time.

 

[Gornot]

Now I can finally get rid of WinRAR X)

Open source is always my preference whenever I can find it.

 

[MilesAhead]

ErrMsg 1.2

I made a small utility for my own use as a programmer, to display Windows system error messages from the code number. I called it ErrMsg. I enhanced it in v. 1.2 to use an EditBox so that the error text may be copied and pasted using the clipboard.

Note that it has only been tested on English versions of Windows Vista and W7. It should work on anything XP or later. It has also been recompiled to remove the msvcr100.dll dependency. Note that it only returns Windows system error messages. Be sure to prefix HRESULT error codes with 0x (those ones with 8 digits like 80070005.)

You may download from my page here:

Faves Downloads

Search on "Windows Error Code Lookup Tool"
to find the download link.

It is free for you to use at your own risk. Donations gratefully accepted via About Box.

 

[CGA1]

Dual Display Mouse Manager, DDMM

When I switched to a dual monitor display I got irritated by the way my mouse pointer sometimes unintentionally slid over to my second monitor. With this program you can make the pointer stick to the side of the screen for a configurable amount of time before it goes to the secondary screen. Very nice and handy.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

I made a small utility for my own use as a programmer, to display Windows system error messages from the code number. I called it ErrMsg. I enhanced it in v. 1.2 to use an EditBox so that the error text may be copied and pasted using the clipboard.

Note that it has only been tested on English versions of Windows Vista and W7. It should work on anything XP or later. It has also been recompiled to remove the msvcr100.dll dependency. Note that it only returns Windows system error messages. Be sure to prefix HRESULT error codes with 0x (those ones with 8 digits like 80070005.)

You may download from my page here:

Faves Downloads

Search on "Windows Error Code Lookup Tool"
to find the download link.

It is free for you to use at your own risk. Donations gratefully accepted via About Box.

Good Tool !

 

[WindowsStar]

When I switched to a dual monitor display I got irritated by the way my mouse pointer sometimes unintentionally slid over to my second monitor. With this program you can make the pointer stick to the side of the screen for a configurable amount of time before it goes to the secondary screen. Very nice and handy.

Neat! Thanks!

 

[jamestison72]

Thanks. Added to my bookmark.

 

[Airbot]

UltraDefrag - An Open Source Defragmenter

 

[MilesAhead]

MD5Hash 2.8

MD5Hash now includes a 32 bit stand-alone exe as well as x64 64 bit.

Enhancements for 1.4 include:

displaying error messages in the output EditBox instead of stopping processing and showing an error dialog. Now the About Box default button is set to No so that you can close it by pressing Enter without taking a trip to my web page. But clicking Yes to Donate is definitely encouraged.

The 32 bit version seems to run as fast on my quad core as the 64 bit version. Only difference is the 64 bit exe does the same work with fewer cpu cycles. Neither one should hog the machine though.

edit: btw, it processes files, not folders. There are other freebies out there that recurse directories. If a file turns out to be a folder or has 0 length, the processing continues with the next file, if there are any left in the queue. The msg is just copied to the output EditBox.. for example IS FOLDER if that file is a folder etc..

another edit: updated to 2.0. Now a filename or folder name may be specified on the command line. Currently it does not recurse into subfolders. I may change that and just set a maximum on the size of the job queue. Also included are AutoIt3 scripts so that you can add and remove MD5Hash from the Explorer Context Menu. Right click a folder or file and launch MD5Hash that way. Drag & drop also accepts folders in the drop.

I think I will go with some recursion so that subfolders will be included. I'll have to play around with it to set a reasonable max. Obviously it's insane to right click on the Windows folder and compute MD5 sums for 50,000 files. I'm thinking a max of 1000 may be reasonable.

The AutoIt3 scripts require you have the latest AutoIt3 installed on your system. But if you don't care about Context Menu then MD5Hash is totally portable.

edit: 2.2 bug fix release. Progress bar not used on small files. Fixed caption bar update. Sub-folder processing is enabled with a max job queue size of 4096 files.

Yet another edit: Version 2.3 now has /main switch for single instance control. You can have a main or master instance do all the processing when launching from Explorer context menu, instead of multiple copies each with one result. See the Readme in the x64 folder for details.

edit: v. 2.8 As of v. 2.7 the "/main" command line switch is no longer used. The first copy to run tries to set itself as the "main instance" of the app. As of v. 2.8 if you subsequently open an additional copy of the app with nothing on the command line, it will remain open so you can process something as a separate job. For example, if you have a file on a separate physical drive, there's no need to wait for the jobs on the main instance to complete. Just drag & drop the file onto the 2nd copy etc..


It's free for you to use at your own risk. You may download here:

Faves Downloads

Windows 7 screen shot:

 

[Tepid]

For a Hash app, I am more partial to http://keir.net/hash.html
even though there is not a 64bit version


Link Fixed

 

[MilesAhead]

For a Hash app, I am more partial to http://keir.net/hash.html
even though there is not a 64bit version

For some reason I have to manually type in your link or else I'm redirected to 7 forums.
Strange.

Yeah, I was just looking at one today when searching for algorithms. It recursed subdirectories and did a whole bunch of other nice features. But what I use it for is to check a few downloads. It's not designed to detect changes in the file system etc..

There are tons of nice free ones. Just go to Softpedia.

 

[derekimo]

For a Hash app, I am more partial to http://keir.net/hash.html
even though there is not a 64bit version

For some reason I have to manually type in your link or else I'm redirected to 7 forums.
Strange.

Same here. :huh:

 

[Tepid]

Then you might be more interested in winMd5Sum
It provides a compare box to paste in a hash from the net and then compare the one from the file itself.

 

[MilesAhead]

Then you might be more interested in winMd5Sum
It provides a compare box to paste in a hash from the net and then compare the one from the file itself.

You're not having much luck with links. They are updating the site. heh heh heh

My program you can copy and paste from the EditBox. But the nice thing about MD5 is, if the first few digits are the same you don't usually need to look any further. Any difference generates a wildly different string.

I did an earlier version of this program using Delphi 5. It's not as fast as this one, since I used vc++ 2010, but it's just as reliable. One thing about simple loop logic is, it's robust. Once you start to get into threading, recursion and all the rest, it takes a long time for all the bugs to show up. Esp. in Windows it's a real pita to write a directory walk function. Probably the best general purpose one I've seen is in Python. I tried to translate it into Delphi but the file attribute stuff in Windows doesn't always work as documented. The python dude must have used some undocumented tricks to get it right.

 

[Brink]

UltraDefrag - An Open Source Defragmenter

Thank you Aaron. Added.