Freeware Tools - Your favourites/recommendations...?

[neljan]

Hello,

Thought it might be good to see what freeware people use/recommend?

I'll start the ball rolling with a few that managed to avoid immidiate uninstallation for me:

4t Tray Minimizer http://www.4t-niagara.com/tray.html
Handy little program that adds 2 extra boxes to the top right hand corner of any open window, whereby you can minimize that window to the system tray instead of the taskbar (saving space)

AxDecrypt http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40359&package_id=111525
File encryption program to protect your files - adds commands to context menu

HTML Beauty http://www.htmlbeauty.com/
HTML editor/viewer

Open Expert http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html
Adds an 'open with' option to the context menu, enabling user to select different programs (which it remembers) to open a file with. If you have a graphic image for example, you could right click it & add the option to open it with paint/photofiltre etc etc instead of searching for the program

Plenty more where that came from... I'd love to find a spell checker that adds 'check spelling' in the context menu - be well handy.

[Broni]

My little, and bigger utilities:

[neljan]

Oooooo... you freeware slut you!

Thanks, some of them look very interesting, googling now!

[soybean]

ComputerHope.com has an extensive list in the FAQ section of the forum: see http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,19999.0.html

I'm using some of them, including CCleaner, Irfanview, Everest Home Edition, Audacity, Ad-Aware, AVG Free, Spybot Search & Destroy, and PrimoPDF.  Some don't get used often but these are ones on that list I have installed.  I also have pdf995, another PDF conversion program, similar to PrimoPDF (which is on the list), and I have SpeedFan (temperature monitoring program) and M8 Free Multi Clipboard installed. 

[Broni]

I'd love to find a spell checker that adds 'check spelling' in the context menu

I use "TinySpell":
http://tinyspell.m6.net/
Very small, and works great. It sits in your taskbar, and every time you misspell something, it'll warn you with a sound, and changing its icon color. You can also add words to its dictionary.
It works with any application.
I love it.

[Broni]

you freeware slut you

LOL....I love freebies!!!

[neljan]

ComputerHope.com has an extensive list in the FAQ section of the forum: see http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,19999.0.html[/url]

Nice one... I'll check it out.

I use "TinySpell":
http://tinyspell.m6.net/
Very small, and works great. It sits in your taskbar, and every time you misspell something, it'll warn you with a sound, and changing its icon color. You can also add words to its dictionary.
It works with any application.
I love it.

Sounds good thanks for that. I'd prefer an option to open a spell checker in the context menu though, so it wouldn't have to be running in the bg all the time, but if I can't find one I'll give that a whirl.

[JPH]

Sounds good thanks for that. I'd prefer an option to open a spell checker in the context menu though, so it wouldn't have to be running in the bg all the time, but if I can't find one I'll give that a whirl.

Firefox has a built-in spell checker in the context menu. 

[neljan]

Hello matey

I use IE though

I know, I know - IE's crap, but McAfee site advisor works with IE (don't know if it works with Firefox, I know it doesn't work with Opera).

[Broni]

The advantage of TinySpell is, that it works with ANY application, and

I'd prefer an option to open a spell checker in the context menu though

it has this option, too.

[Broni]

but McAfee site advisor works with IE (don't know if it works with Firefox

It does:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html

[neljan]

Nice one Broni 

[soybean]

Here's one I use that I forgot to mention: AM-DeadLink

"AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks."

[patio]

What no WinPatrol ? ?

http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

[dairyman]

Gee Broni. You pick out better software then me.
Going to try AusLogics Registry Defrag.

I removed the link due to spam from Ashampoo.