What "little" program could you simply not do without?

I noticed the number of views this thread had was reset to '0'. I'm not sure why exaclty, but no matter.

I thought of another great program that I love. It's actually not a program, per say. It's actually a bundled group of video and audio codec's (including divx) and is excellent if you download a lot of videos over the net and then find that you can't watch them because you don't have the proper codec.

It's called Nimo Codec Pack and they're up to version 5.0 build 9.

Enjoy

@ PhiloVance HDValet is available HERE

Webshark -

I don't think the post count number was reset to 0, (at least intentionally), I think it can't display numbers over 10,000.

That is my best SWAG at it. (Scientific Wild A%$ Guess)

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newme. If you want you can delete the wrong one posted.

Just go back to that thread and use "edit" at bottom of screen under your post. The window that comes up, at the top, will hav a delete button. put check in box, and hit delete.

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will do thanks..

Only one of Karen's Power Tools mentioned so far. Well here is another that is a MUST have on my machines. Karen's Replicator, a free and highly configurable backup program.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp
I like the slack checker and a couple others she has.

Sorry folks, the "views count" glitch was my fault, I merged a couple of posts into this one that were posted as seperate topics and used the wrong thread as the "base" so it inherited the new thread's views count.

Now here's one i picked up from Fred Langa's list.
http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/index.html
Drive letter re-assigner.
Haven't tried it myself yet,but sounds like a good tool for us "simpler is better" users...:)

"Turbine Video Encoder" for those of you into that kind a thing.I dont think it has been mentioned though it may have been and I missed it getting goofy eyed trying to read and ck out all these goodies
http://www.blue-pac.com/products/tur...ad/default.htm

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@ PhiloVance HDValet is available HERE

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Ok, thanks.

Neogeek, I'd totally forgotten about Karen Kenworthy. She has a lot of neat tools. Thanks for reminding me.:)

forgot a great one (or maybe i didnt see it)

tsuname mpg encoder

tmpgenc

best encoder/re-encoder/re-muxer out there

and its free

I don't think my programs will fit in with your party, but in anycase here they are from the largest to the smallest:

Just type these in a search and you'll find.


Calypso - Free email client. Company went ch11.
Anvil Studio - For creating MIDI music
Lynx - For fast text based browsing, nothing could be better.
pine - Client I use on my slow 486.
Emblish -Efficently written Graphics program like Photoshop (although it works with objects instead of layers) Although native to OS/2, a Win32 version is compiled. Company Dadaware Sunk, but they make their software free.
GNUplot -not gnu related, but free advanced math langauge
-available for all operating systems, even OS/2.
FractMus2000 - Make MIDI music based on fractal algorytms.
jpegcrop -GNU crop and rotate
mpxplay - Most efficent MP3 player. Works on slow 486.
jpegtran -GNU commandline image rotate and transform.
SawCutter -Most versitle sythensizer program (tight and efficent too!) I make my own rythms and sound effects with this small program.
go to http://jpegclub.org/ for DOS compiled version.
lxpic - Most efficently written command line image viewer (30k)
DocStyles - Download the latest on MLA and APA changes

Ahh... I found a nice one today, it's called Drempels v1.4 . What it does, is replace the desktop wallpaper, and replaces it with a screensaver like effect. Looks really nice.

It will also work with Windows XP, but if you want "Drempels Desktop" to run at Startup, you'll need to place a copy of "Run Drempels Desktop" shortcut (icon) in the Startup folder under All Programs. Don't select if from the "Configure Drempels" option. :)

What about MouseImp from TV4studios?

It allows you to right-click and drag a page up and down, rather than scrolling with the wheel or seeking out the scroll bars. Even on long pages like this forum, you grab it in the middle of the screen and drag it all the way to the top or bottom in one pass.

I like it so well, I went back to ME after discovering it wouldn't work in XP.

I recently found a great little application for WIN2K and XP that can add scripts to a fully customizable display: weather, CPU usage etc... and of course, it's Freewaree.

http://www.samurize.com/


...dauf

Metapad is a replacement for Windows Notepad, with a great deal more functionality, including;

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Persistent window placement
Dirty file notification
Intelligent Find and Replace
External viewer support (e.g. web browser)
Usable accelerator keys (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, etc.)
Dual customizable font support
Optional Quick Exit (Esc key)
Configurable tab stop setting
Auto-indent mode
Go to Line/Column
Seamless UNIX text file support
Block indent and unindent (Tab, Shift+Tab)
Recent files list
WYSIWYG printing
Snazzy status bar & funky toolbar
No file size limit! (under Win9x)
Hyperlink support

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Just thought that I would add another one to the list:

Broken Cross CD manager, it is a great program that catalogues cds. Makes it easy to find the rest of my programs. :D
Yuri.

great little freebie for boosting ram..
fast defrag

I've been following this thread with much interest, and have noted a lot of programs I already use (irfanview, spybot S&D, CDex, and more) as well as dozens more programs that I've never heard about but plan on trying out!

Here's my 2 bits:

Flexible Renamer Yes, I know that there was another renamer utility (rjhsomethingorother), but I tried it and couldn't get it to work, so I did a search and came across this. Was a breeze to use, and no install!

Smart FTP Excellent FTP client.

GuildFTPd Just learned of this one, but it's working great, and no problems thus far!

Zonealarm I don't remember if someone has already plugged it, but hey, it's so good it deserves another mention as the easiest (but still highly effective) firewall out there! (hope the link works)

Notetab Quick and powerful MS Notepad replacement

Nautilus

my favorite small programs -

polyview - the slide show is a great feature for
finding that pic you forgot the name of
and/or viewing an entire collection of
pictures. select the length of time each
photo is viewed(1-15 seconds).

1by1 - i recently found this mp3 player, all it does
is play mp3. something like 45kb download.
who needs all the flash and tinsel when all
i really want is to hear the music .

both require win95 minimum and
these can be found at download .com ie cnet.

ALICE keeps me happy!

I ran into RegVac the other day that really cleans the registry. It is only 185k or so. It found 183 registry settings that were nothing after norton windoctor and jv tools was finished.

It's not free however. Around 29.00

Great thread you got going here.

cheers, mac :cool:

If you are into making games and 3D animation, I'd say Blender is an absolute must have little do everything program. It's only 1.7 megs yet you can create film quality 3D animation that looks real.

It's amazing. The interface is not neccessarly intuative, but after reading the manual and getting use to it, you would be amazed how quickly you can do stuff. The manual empashizes having one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse.

Of course, this program is GNU.

Use should definitly check it out if you're into anykind of animation or game making.

the site is blender3d.org

Go to education section to learn the basics how it works.

I found this program useful to me:

Popup AD-Filter or PAF

However, I was told that a certain program call Popup Cop is better. Is it true?

Also, since I dl lots of mp3 and sw, I found this program particularly useful. I can schedule and resume downloads. Great for multiple downloads.
Reget Deluxe

Both are available for a trial.

Fumiya

Best tool for passwor recovery

EDR Commander 2002

I second the vote for ERD Commander. It gives you the ability to recover from a lot on a dead server. It is a little expensive, but will repay itself (in labor alone) when it helps you save a downed or inaccessible server.

Hello,

Here is a link to a Little killer Internet conection program that uses no DLL's or any other intrusive files. It just has a .exe file that you double click to execute the file.

It allows you to use one internet connection to link a couple of computers together through a null serial cable. No need for any other external hardware or elaborate networking setups! Veryt simple to use. Netfor2 ;)

When I was in High School I took a C++ Course. The program we used wasn't bad, but for all of you out there who have been looking for a great little C++ Builder/Compiler, I recommend Dev-C++ by Bloodshed Software.

It actually detects errors much better than any other C++ builder I've ever used before. I used it just recently to make a probibility program. It's easy to use and free to try.

Cool Thread!

Since I work in Desktop Publishing and use my computer more for that type of work maybe I can add some programs besides the great ones already mentioned.

Run-It - http://www.magister-lex.at/RUNit/ - the beta version is a really small & unobtrusive launch pad that is quite configuable, allows launching of documents, folders, shortcuts, etc.

Yankee Clipper - http://www.yankee-clipper.net/ - A great clip cache freeware program, although I turned off the option to save bitmaps, since in my work that is a very large amount of stored data.

FreeShade - http://www.hmmn.org/FreeShade/ - A utility that rolls the window up so that the blue bar is only visible, making the PC's windows act like a Mac. Great for Pitstop Pro where the windows are almost to big to allow editing of PDF files while the Pitstop Inspector is open. BEWARE - do not close the window while rolled-up If you do quit FreeShade then open the window again.

Quite A Box of Tricks - http://www.quite.com - A non-crippeling Demo Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. It will tell the resolution of a highlighted picture and also what the highlighted font is & whether it is embedded.

ADC (Advanced Disk Cataloger) by Elcom - a great disk cataloging shareware that is a stand alone program, does not integrate into the OS which slows down searching & also slows the boot-up.


I have alot more, but these are the "little" programs, mostly freeware that I use everyday.

e-sword v. 7 FREE

e-sword has everything a person would need in a Bible, and there are many many extras for it. Such as more than 30 different versions of the Bible, plus Commentaries, Dictionaries, Graphics (Maps), Devotions, Step Libraries, and many Extras.

In my opinion, if a person was to buy e-sword in a store, they'd pay at least $100 for it, 'cause it'll be well worth it.

Trinity Rescue Kit is a very small linux distro with networking support used for system rescue (linux and windows), you'll need to know a little linux but it's a very useful tool.

Just burn it to a bootable cd-rom.

RB :)

A lot of great stuff in here! Here are a couple that haven't been mentined:

BaseConv 3.5 - Decimal/Hex/Binary/Octal/Bcd/ASCII Conversion Calculator. Saves TONS of time when programming. I couldn't live without it. http://www.rwsoft.co.uk/

ZSNES - great super nintendo emulator http://www.zsnes.com/

i second znes gotta love playin mario or donkey kong on the comp =)

Quick SD and it's free for now. Hmm how about this link instead editted for link that works :rolleyes:

There sre lots of good options here but we need them put on a site we can read and also tells us what these downloads do for us???

any chance???

Arnie:confused:

these are utility downloads or websites that are currently running on my machine daily,some for more than 2 years. with the exception of FOTKI.COM,all are free to use/download.



MyImager:
http://www.myimager.com/

an image management website. optimize,edit images in many ways here.


GROUP MAIL FREE:
http://www.infacta.com/gmdifferences.asp

Group Mail Free Cost: Free - Download Now
Ideally suited to the home user who only intends to send to smaller groups. This version of Group Mail has all the features you will need to get you started with group messaging. Powerful, yet easy to use, and if you ever need to upgrade your data will be maintained and ready to use in the Pro or Plus edition.
Personal Send Mode only
Limited Address Book Import support
No Plug-in support
Send to a maximum of 100 recipients at a time



SNIP URL:
http://www.snipurl.com

cut those bulky,url's [specially pagebuilder's] to a more manageble size.
register [FREE] and have your own snip url center wher you can customize your url's and read how many hit's each url has received through the autoresponder built into each url header.

ECAPTURE:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/down...em/capture.htm

capture desktop or window screenshote.
this app saves your screenshot in a very large format [often 350 to 500,000 bytes].
it is STRONGLY reccomended that you download 602PRO to work with this software to downsize those screen captures to a more manageble size.


FOTKI:
http://www.fotki.com/
a complete photo storage center. each photo gets it's own FOTKI web url. I've used this service [$30 per year,USD] for 3 years now and never disappoints me. 1 at a time or batch upload.


602pro:
http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/tour3.html

602Photo's effective and easy-to-understand user interface makes it an unbeatable graphics editor for beginners and experienced users alike. It is designed for accessing graphics files directly, through a digital camera or scanner. Simply load your picture into 602Photo and then rotate, flip or resize it. You can decrease or increase number of colors or convert your picture to black and white. Then apply the built-in effects and finally print it with fill-to-page feature. With 602Photo you have full control of your picture resolution and file format.

All Popular Image Formats Support


Convert images between different file formats with ease (over 15 image formats supported: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCD, PSD, TGA, TIFF, WMF, MSP, PCT and more). Gain control over the DPI (Dots Per Inch) resolution for True Scale Printing

CAUTION !
LONGGGGGG DOWNLOAD,COUPLED WITH TEXT EDITOR.




EPROMPTER:
http://download.com.com/3302-2369-8986018.html?tag=mta
import your yahoo [pop3] mail with this software. yes! it works and can accept up to 15 other e-mail accounts. send/receive from this. text only,no images [they're stripped].

HIDE OUTLOOK:
http://www.webattack.com/download/dlhideoe.shtml
put an outlook express icon into tasktray

FREE ANTI-VIRUS [AVG]:
http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_dwnl2...7305f9930bdf9f


QUICK SHUTDOWN:
http://www.winutility.com/qsd/

Quick ShutDown™ - fast and easy-to-use shutdown tool that allows you to shutdown, reboot, hibernate, logoff, standby or lock your computer with the one mouse click. When QSD is running, an accurate miniature icon appears on the taskbar on the end opposite the "Start" button. You can choose to click or double click it with the left mouse button, and it shutdowns or reboots your computer. You can set a keyboard shortcut for any action - shutdown, reboot, hibernate, standby, lock, logoff and media eject. Quick ShutDown allows you to set your own tray icon to be displayed. Click it with the right mouse button to view the context menu. Also, QSD can automatically terminate applications if they are not responding making shutdowns both quicker and safer. In addition, Quick ShutDown can eject removable media drives at shutdown preventing you from losing your disks and CDs by leaving them in the drive when you leave.




WEBKEY:
http://webkey.virtualave.net/webkey.html

WebKey2000 allows you to visit your favorite websites at the touch of a keyboard button. With one-touch access, you can also launch your default email client using an email template, execute any applications (even with shortcuts), open any registered documents, and a whole lot more. With the new features added to version 1.2, WebKey2000 can be an extremely useful utility. Now you can do things such as hide or show a series of active windows on your desktop, execute an action command from the clipboard buffer, and open a default browser with an url using the existing opened window. WebKey2000 has a very nice GUI interface to let you define a hotkey and the action associated with it. Using modifiers like Ctrl, Alt and Shift, you can specify a variety of hotkeys and duplicate entries will be detected. The program runs as a convenient icon in the system-tray area of the windows taskbar and can automatically run at windows startup. A context menu can easily be accessed from this tray-icon to allow you to enable or disable all the hotkeys quickly. This simple freeware program is easy to use and could be a great time-saver if you have a handful of websites that you frequently visit, program or files that you constantly open, or even friends that you often send emails to.

AD-AWARE:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,7423,00.asp

spyware with the latest version of this free tool. Ad-aware scans your system--including removable drives--for the most common types of advertising spyware and safely removes offending software. The program works through intuitively designed wizards. Currently, the utility detects small ad programs from Adware, Aureate/Radiate, OnFlow, Comet-Cursor, Cydoor, Doubleclick, EverAd, Flyswat, OnFlow, TimeSink 5.0, and others.

Version 6.0 offers improvements (like a redesigned user interface) and safeguards for users who may be overzealous in removing adware/spyware components. Because many ad-supported programs won't function if you remove their ad modules, you may occasionally want to overrule an earlier decision to remove one of these components. Version 6.0 addresses this problem in two ways: It stores adware components in your Recycle Bin, where you can later retrieve them; and it provides a backup archive viewer for reviewing--and if necessary, restoring--components you've removed

REGISTRY CLEANER;
http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml

Brief Introduction
RegCleaner is the most advanced registry editor and cleaner yet it's very easy to use.

Introduction
RegCleaner is an easy to use program. With RegCleaner you can easily get rid of those old and obsolete registry entries created by software that you have destroyed ages ago. And by easily, I mean easily. You don't have to be any expert to use this program.

you can find my contributions as well as others at:
http://www.earlea.com
select computer section.

http://www./freelink.org
a FREE bookmark service i've built my website around. can't do without it !

in account name,type whatever you would like to have appear as the page title,NOT your name oe e-mail address [there's places for those].

select clear page [no pre-set categories]
using add categories,create web type categories in title box.
type website name in left box,wed address in right box.
click BOTH uopdate and done.

need help with this,let me know,i've created 50 + FREELINK pages this way.

not downloads but tool websites that i find handy.
http://tools.pitas.com/

PUT YOUR ICONS INTO A PULL UP MENU IN YOUR TASKBAR,FREEING YOUR DESKTOP BACKGROUND FOR ALL TO SEE;

CLICK ON DESKTOP
SELECT ARRANGE ICONS
CLICK SHOW DESKTOP
[THIS DEACTIVATES THE ICON LIST AND THEY DISAPPEAR].

NOW,
PUT THOSE SAME ICONS ON YOUR TASKBAR IN A POP UP MENU;
CLICK ON TASKBAR
CLICK ON QUICK LAUNCH

THIS ACTION NEEDS REPEATING

NEXT CLICK ON DESKTOP

YOUR ICONS THAT WERE ON THE DESKTOP ARE NOW ON A POP UP MENU LABELED DESKTOP [BUTTON].

BY CLICKING ON QUICK LAUNCH YOU GET A DESKTOP BUTTON AND INTERNET EXPLORER BUTTON IN YOUR TASKBAR.

WHENEVER YOU WANT TO RETURN TO YOUR DESKTOP FROM ANY WINDOW,CLICK ON PC ICON.
WANT TO GET TO ANOTHER FORMER DESKTOP APP,JUST CLICK ON THE DESKTOP BUTTON AND SELECT THE APP TO RUN.

HIDE YOUR TASKBAR;

TO MAXIMIZE YOUR WINDOW SPACE,
CLICK START
CLICK PROPERTIES
CHECK AUTO-HIDE THE TASKBAR AND CLOE OUT.

NOW, YOUR TASKBAR WILL BE UNDER THE WINDOW,INVISIBLE TILL YOU PASS YOUR CURSOR UNDER THE ACTIVE WINDOW TO BE USED.

MOVING APPS TO TASKBAR MENU:
CLICK ON IE OR OE OR WHATEVER ON START PAGE
SELECT PROPERTIES
CLICK SEND TO
SEND TO DESKTOP TO BE ADDED TO YOUR POP UP MENU WITH YOUR OTHER ICON/APPS.

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISABLE THAT SQUAWKING,SQUEALING DURING DIAL-UP?

TWO SECTIONS:
CONTROL
PHONE/MODEM
MODEMS
PROPERTIES
SPEAKER OFF

#2:
CONTROL
YOUR CONNECTION [YOUR ISP]
PROPERTIES
CONNECT USING
CONFIGURE
UNCHECK MODEM SPEAKERS

THAT'S IT ! NO MORE HOWING TO LISTEN TO WHILE DIALING UP.

SAVE SOME DISK SPACE BY DISABLING INDEX SERVICE IN SEARCH.

SAME IN ADMIN.,SYSTEM TOOLS
START
ALL PROGRAMS
ADMIN TOOLS
SERVICES
DISABLE INDEX SERVICES

DISABLE POP UPS PROMOTING A LARGER ? [LOL].

START
ALL PROGRAMS
ADMIN TOOLS
SERVICES
DISABLE MESSENGER SERVICES [NOTHING TO DO WITH WINDOWS MESSENGER AND DOES NOT DISABLE THAT].

USE FEWER CLICKS TO GET WHERE YOU WANT TO GO;
START
MY COMPUTER
TOOLS
FOLDER OPTIONS
CHOOSE SINGLE CLICK

SWITCH USERS:
WINDOWS BUTTON + L

TOP OF PAGE;
HOME BUTTON

BOTTOM SAME:
END BUTTON
SLOW SCOLL UP;
PAGE UP

SLOW SCROLL DOWN:
PAGE DOWN

CONTROL PANEL ACCESS:
WINDOWS BUTTON + C

DESKTOP ACCESS;
WINDOWS BUTTON + D

IN OUTLOOK EXPRESS:

FORWARD:
CTRL + F