http://ramsinks.com/software

Has a lot of good free or extremely cheap software. All of it has been tested spyware and virus free. Good place to check out.

Dear,
for me i recommended this applications:
Internet Browsing : FireFox
FTP: ALFTP
Media: KLiteCODECS
Download : FDM
i can not imagine my PC without this progs.
they ALL FREE.

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Office Software:
OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org

Regular System Maintenance:
Auslogics Products
I recommend at least picking up the free software, the defrag seems to be much better than the one included with Windows XP
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software

CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Registry Mechanic
One of the few utility programs I've actually purchased, I mostly stick with free programs.
http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/

Anti-virus/Anti-spyware:
AVG Free
http://free.grisoft.com/

Browser:
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Image Editing:
Gimp
http://www.gimp.org/

3d Modeling:
Blender
http://www.blender.org/

Sorry, my 30 min edit window elapsed.

Archiving:
IZarc
http://www.izarc.org/

I like:
Firefox
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

Vipre Antivirus/Spyware (Beta)
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/spyw...N.3.1.2215.exe

Sunbelt Firewall
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Home...wall/Download/

Here is a great site for free downloads...

http://www.freewarefiles.com/

well i was wondering if it was only my pc, but i tryed to install iolo's system mechanics and at some point during instalation i got infected with a virus, and it blocked my FFXi game, if there is a way i can fix this please let me know. (had it uninstalled and cleaned with avg 8)

I'm not gonna ramble on about stuff that I use, but the only Disk utility that can defragment meta-files on NTFS partition is PerfectDisk. I use it for off-line (or boot-time) defragmenting. For the usual defragmenting I use Diskeeper. It defragments 120 gig partition in no-time, unlike most of them, and believe me, I've tried most of them.

Q for all of you here:

Does anyone know of a utility that can edit/erase folders on NTFS partitions? I'm starting to get allot of bloated empty (or almost empty) folders. I'm not talking about files in those folders. I'm talking about folders themselves taking up the space.. NOT the files inside them.

Googleing for those kinds of utilities is like looking for a needle in a world of haystacks..

Anti-Virus and Spyware
AVG Free Edition

Browsers
Opera and Mozilla Firefox

Media Players
Winamp and VLC

IM
Digsby

Virutalization
VirtualBox

Sound recording and editing
Audacity

Uncatergorized
Humanized Enso