Foxit Reader - Adobe Acrobat Reader is between 60 and 70mb in size. Foxit Reader is roughly 2mb in size. They both do exactly the same things and Foxit Reader doesn't suffer from ads and requests to add random Yahoo products. So, in short, Foxit Reader is better.

TightVNC - Great for fixing problems on other computers ona network without having to go to that other system.

XChat 2 - Original X-Chat for Windows has an evaluation period on it. This doesn't. It's the best IRC client around.

OpenOffice.org Draw - A great free DTP program.

Look for all of these on Google.

Shell: BlackBox

If you get tired of the windows look try BBlean out. It is really cool looking.

here's some more-

Alcohol 120%- CD image burner and Virtual drive
Ares- p2p
Bittorent- Couldnt possibly tell you
VLC Media Player- very good media player, plays most codecs
Filezilla - very fast ftp - pure and simple

I have written a program called Dial-a-fix which can assist users in registering DLLs, and getting various services working again, etc.

If you have sigs off, here are the links:
http://wiki.DjLizard.net/Dial-a-fix
http://wiki.DjLizard.net/Dial-a-fix_tips

I've always had good results with RegSeeker.

Windows people gotta Have:

TweakUI
Virtual Desktop Manager
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Build Your own Firewall with the works.
PFSENSE
http://www.pfsense.org/

IM Anyone (windows):
Trillian
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Mailserver (linux)
Scalix (free up to 25 users)
http://www.scalix.com/

Thats all for now.

nLite is a very nice software to make automated bootable windows installations ... I made mine which is fully automated ... it installs windows with all the updates and some other useful software without interaction. It'll be nice if you people post some other utilities like this one. I had tested another one but unfortunately I forgot its name.

www.nliteos.com

can any of you recommend a good freeware encryption program and where to get it?

also, how do i get bittorrent?

thanks?

I don't use any encryption software but here's a link that could help you ...
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/se...fwencrypt.html

Please tell us if you find some useful encryption software.

Am I the only one here who uses Avast! antivirus? I find it a pretty good AV package (better than AVG actually) and is ultra light on resources. Plus, the Home Edition is free, and supports Windows XP x64 Edition. It also comes with Script Blocking, Internet Mail Shield, Web Shield, IM Shield, Network Shield, P2P Shield. Adequate protection.