bbLean- Shell Replacement
Dark Files- Security
Directory Lister- Information of files in a directory
DirMonitor- monitor changes in directories
DScaler- software to watch tv
EssentialPIM Pro- Contacts manager
Everest- pc information
Filemon
FlashGet- download manager
GetRight-download manager
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004-
Miranda IM- messenger
Nero- burn cd
OpenExpert- "open with" selected programs
Paragon Mount Everything Professional- NTFS read and writer
PDF Reader- Alternative to Adobe PDF reader
Process Explorer- task proccess
Program Protector- password to exe files
Regmon- monitor changes in registry in real time
TrayIt!- minimize any program to tray place
VideoLAN- Very good player
Aston- Shell Replacement
Babylon- translate
Barca Pro- Very good email program
eMule-P2P
EvilLyrics- download song lyrics
eXescope
FullRemover- total uninstall
IM2- messenger
Irfan View- image viewer
Media Player Classic- video player
Mozilla Firefox- browser
Opera- browser
ps2rate- mouse smooth
RadLight- video player
RegCleaner- Registry cleaner
Resource Hacker
Resource Workshop
Shareaza-P2P
SIM- messenger
Skype- voIP
TaskInfo
Acronis True Image- Image partitions
WinRAR
xplorer2- File manager
Java2SE RE 5.0- Sun java
Acronis Disk Director

Hey, nice list. I just discovered a few new useful apps from it.

Here's mine:

bbLean 1.16 - Shell Replacement
Nod32 - Antivirus
Spybot S&D - spyware remover
AdAware SE - spyware remover
xplorer2 - File Manager
Everest - Sys Info
GAIM - Multi-protocol IM
Opera 8.01 - Browser (default)
Mozilla Firefox - Browser
Mozilla Thunderbird - Email
Foobar2000 0.8.3 - Audio Player
Codestuff Starter - Task Manager
Process Explorer - Task Manager
eMule - P2P
ABC - BitTorrent
Adobe Photoshop 7 - Image Editor
Irfanview - Image Viewer
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - Codecs
WinRAR - Archive Program
Resource Hacker
eXeScope
Flashget - Download Manager
Registry Mechanic - Registry Cleaner
OpenOffice.org - Office suite
Adobe Audition - Audio Editing
The Proxomitron (+ updated filters by Gryphen) - Local Proxy/Ad Blocker
FlashFXP - FTP
Media Player Classic - Media Player (default)
BSPlayer - Media Player
Foxit PDF Reader -
Nero 6 Ultra Edition - CD Burning
Exact Audio Copy - CD Ripping
Kerio Personal Firewall
X-Setup Pro - Windows Tweaking
MetaPad - Notepad Replacement
Atlantis Nova - Wordpad Replacement
TMPGEnc - Video Encoding
Agent Ransack - File Search

AVG Free Edition - Anti-virus
Outpost Firewall - Firewall
HostTool - HOSTS file maintenance (my HOSTS is 3 MB)
eDexter - Provides blank images to satisfy localhost requests
Free Download Manager - Download manager
Spybot S&D, CCleaner - Anti-spy
Daemon Tools - ISO/etc. mounter
CDBurnXP - CD burner
VIDE-CDD, SHSUCDX - DOS CD support
XMSDSK - RAM disk
NANSI - ANSI support
QUICKEYS - Speeds up typematic rate
LW86, LW286 - Pop-up assembly language documentation for DOS
Winamp 5.08, RealPlayer - Media player
HighlyExpermental, HighlyAdvanced, NotSoFatso - Music format plug-ins
SynthFont - MIDI player
InfranView - Image viewer
1st Impression - Cycles boot logos
Webshots Desktop - Cycles desktop backgrounds & screensaver
Firefox, Opera 8.0b3 - Web browser
Network Lights - Makes keyboard blink on network transfers
BLE - Boot log examiner
Startup.cpl - Control startup programs
Emule MorphXT - P2P
Ranish Partition Manager 2.44 - Disk partitioner
Savepart - Disk partition imager
DriveRescue - Data recovery
Eraser - File deleter
Dimension 4 - Time synchronizer
7-zip, TUGZip, IZarc - (De)compression programs
FreshUI - Tweaking

Hi gsjunker,

What is the best audio player?
Winamp or Foobar2000

Why do you prefer Foobar2000?

Hey lleoliveira,

I prefer Foobar by a mile because it's so extendible and customizeable, not to mention blazing fast. WinAmp 2.91 was great but version 3, and later 5, are slow as molasses and full of features I don't need or want.

Worth a try.

Hi,
Recently i downloaded a program called DirMonitor: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~eschoofs/
(DirMonitor will enable you to automatically monitor files, folders, registry keys, services and processes.)

But i'm having problems with this program.
Anyone knows a program like Dirmonitor? with the same functions.

check the Ultimate Freeware Machine thread

Speaking of Spybot S&D, version 1.4 has now been officially released. I've been beta testing the beta & RC releases of Spybot 1.4 for several weeks and commented on them at their forums. This new version is a major improvement over the previous one [v1.3].

Download Spybot S&D 1.4 final here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Also newly released is Ad-Aware SE version 1.06:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

I'll second erpdude's recommends on the updates, they're worth the time dlding[for dialup users like me], much improved & seem to have less drain on resouces too. May I also suggest for Firefox users the Deer Park 1.1alpha1, I have had for 3 days w/no probs yet, its a fast somebitch, I can tell you that, even on dialup Can be had at Beta News:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Mozil...ws/1032985422/1
Enjoy!

...and well, to anyone interested, here's my open source software list @ ReactOS wiki (contributors & testers needed too...).

Winamp 3 & Winamp 5 slow??? yeah right? are u using a slow computer, gsjunker?

I have Winamp 5.09 on my P3 766 mhz machine and my bro's P3 1.2 Ghz machine and it loaded fast & ran ok. I downloaded the lite version (uh yeah, Winamp comes in different editions so if you want to use the version of Winamp without the unnecessary features, get the Lite version of Winamp 5 instead of downloading the basic or full edition of Winamp 5). The latest release of Winamp fixes recent security flaws found in previous releases.

The creator of Spybot has written some articles & reviews on certain types of programs.

Go here to see a list of download managers:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/article...d-managers.html
the one I use is Download Express from Metaproducts; freeware

Go here to see a list of file sharing apps:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/article...aring-apps.html
ones I recommend are WinMX & Shareaza; both are free

it's more likely gsjunker must have installed the full edition of winamp 5, which might take a little longer to load than the lite edition of winamp 5. i even installed winamp 5.09 lite on my neighbor's win98 pc (pentium 75mhz with 64 megs of ram), and it loaded for about 3 seconds. the lite edition of winamp 5.09 mostly has the basic winamp player and nothing else.

azagahl, Opera 8.0b3 is no longer available as it reached the final release in late April. Go to the Opera web site and download the final version of Opera 8.0.

My Computer - Enterprise

xplorer2 lite 1.3 and WinRAR 3.50 beta
Process Explorer 9.11, Autoruns 7.01 and Contig 1.52 (all from Sysinternals)
PSPad 4.3.2
Adobe Reader 7.0.1 and PDFCreator 0.8.1 RC

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 and Java2SE RE 5.0.3
GetRight 5.2d
FileZilla and BitTorrent 4.0.2
Trillian Basic 3.1

Nero Burning Rom 6.6
IsoBuster 1.8
DVD Identifer 4.0
DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 and DVD Shrink 3.2
Media Player Classic 6.4.8.4 (DivX 5.21, QuickTime 6.52, Real Alternative 1.40 and XviD 1.0.3)

foobar2000 0.8.3 and PhotoFiltre 6.1.2
XnView 1.80 RC and IrfanView 3.97

SpeedFan 4.24 and ATITool 0.24
Xteq X-Setup Pro 6.6 and Driver Cleaner Pro 1.2
RegCleaner 4.3
Everest 2.0.327beta and SiSoft Sandra Std 2004 SP2b

Avast Antivirus Home Edition 4.6
Spybot 1.4 and Ad-aware SE 1.06
HijackThis 1.99.1

hmmm theres too much to list....

azagahl, Opera 8.0b3 is no longer available

Are you sure? I dug it up on some ftp site a while ago even after 8.0 was released.
I saved a copy of 8.0b3 because unlike 8.0 final, it works with the c't Magazine promotional registration.

BTW, I like Winamp more than Foobar. Foobar won't even play MIDI files. I also need certain Winamp plugins to listen to some strange music formats like gsf, usf, nsfe, etc.. There are no foobar alternatives AFAIK for these formats.

For MIDI files the shareware SynthFont is still the best. It does accurate sound font synthesis on your CPU. My old SoundBlaster Live! hardware is also great but isn't capable of handling more than about 50 MB of soundfonts. (Some freely available soundfont files are > 200 MB.)

Lately, with Winamp full they've been releasing a different free music tracks every few versions... Does anyone know what they all are called, or where you can get them all?

Does this work on 9x ? I have never tried it as it is labeled as NT, 2000, XP only by its makers Sysinternals.

Adobe Reader 7.0.1

This also doesn't support 9x...

Unfortunately doesn't, and it is much better than 6.0.2. Maybe kernelXP project could help - there are only few simple functions not supported. Any progress with AR7 Tihiy?

Petr

I've got it to load even w/o KernelXP with some simple enough modifications, but it fails to display EULA - looks like EULA module is checking OS and wants XP.
When version emulation will work, i'll give AR7 a try.

it fails to display EULA

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

Currently I use Acrobat Reader 5.1 (it's much less bloated) or 6.0.3. Also I use "arspeedup" project.

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 is the last one to work under Win95, 98 FE & NT4. Acrobat 6.x requires Win98 SE (NOT FE), 2000, Millennium or XP/2003. I'm not going to get Acrobat 7. more bloated than versions 5.1 & 6.x. Currently I have Acrobat Reader v6.02 and have installed the 6.03 Update.

Recently released today or late yesterday---
New version of Opera browser available: 8.01
http://www.opera.com/download/
fixes a bunch of security problems and some display & javascript problems.

New version of Netscape browser available: 8.02
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/default.jsp
this one should fix most of the crashing problems found in 8.0 & 8.01.

btw - Winamp 5.09 lite loaded less than a second on my WinME & WinXP machines [both using pentium 3 cpus]. updated release mentioned at the majorgeeks.com site which should fix some recent security problems.

The size of my "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader" and "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader" folders is almost the same, about 85 MB for full install.

Adobe Reader 7.0.1 is much much faster than 6.0.3.
It requires Windows 2000 SP2+ or Windows XP.

Adobe Reader 6.0.3 works on Windows 98 FE fine, only the installer fails. There is very easy workaround - just copy kernel32.dll form SE to FE (surprisingly it works), then install and configure Adobe Reader 6, and then move back the original (FE) version of kernel32.dll.

Petr

What the hell with adobe! Use Foxit!

Foxit? And why? It displays documents much worse than Adobe Reader, the text is often almost unreadable.

And Foxit just caused total system crash due to unsufficient resources.

No, thanks.

Petr

Acrobat 5.1 is alright for me. It loads significantly faster than version 6 and does not GDI crash the OS like 5.0. after 5 or 6 uses. Only problem is that it displays a compatibility warning box before displaying documents that have been created by Acrobat 6 and upwards. I haven't found an option to disable that.