Not a program but an INSTALL BUILDER that lets you pick your favorite freeware programs and creates a run-once installer that fetches and installs all your selected programs. Remarkable, convenient, free for personal use, and just plain cool. For all software we are recommending that is available in the Ninite ecosystem, we suggest that you download and install it using Ninite. We use the professional version to provision our labs and it is a solid, stable and trustworthy tool.

Allows you to manage compressed files like .zip, .rar., .arj, .7z
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Cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. Basically, AIR lets you run cool programs others have written with Adobe tools.
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Good ol' Adobe reader for reading PDF files.
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A secure, efficient and extensible Web server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/apache/httpd/binaries/win32/httpd-2.2.19-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8r.msi
More download locations: http://www.apache.org/mirrors/

Manage your iPod/iPad
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Quicktime video and image viewer.
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Audiograbber is a program that copies music and stores it on your computers harddisk. Its main purpose is to copy music from CD's. This process copies the music digitally and thus you will get perfect copies. It includes functions to check that the copies made are true to the original.
http://www.audiograbber.org/downloads/agsetup

A digital audio editor application
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LAME mp3 encoder: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3
Plug-ins for additional effects and filters: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/beta/ladspa/ladspa-0.4.15.exe

Good, solid, free anti-virus protection for personal, non-commercial use.
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Generates COMPLETE hardware and software profile of your system. Used to come up with this software list.
http://www.belarc.com/Programs/advisor.exe

CDBurnerXP is a great CD/DVD burning tool.
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A free sequential image viewer utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a comic book.
http://cdisplay.techknight.com/setup.zip

Allows printing to a PDF file from any application; useful if you want to save a Web page as a PDF.
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A much better text editor than Notepad; free for personal use. Notepad++ below may be a better choice
http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/SetupEditPadLite.exe

Harddrive search utility locates files and folders by name instantly; uses NTFS native indexing, so it has no index of its own.
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A free proprietary CD ripping program for Microsoft Windows.
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac-0.99pb5.exe

FLV Player is a program to play Adobe Flash Video (FLV and H.264 / MPEG-4) files with Windows 2000, XP and Vista, supports both local and internet streaming content, has full screen mode and it's free.
http://flv-player.en.softonic.com/download

A multifunction media converter, converting between most popular video, audio, and image formats. Can reduce multimedia file sizes and supports iPhone and iPod multimedia file formats. Also acts as a DVD ripper, allowing transfer of DVD video to your hard drive.
http://format-factory.en.softonic.com/download

Allows remote command-line login and uploading/downloading files securely via the Internet from a remote location.
http://www.freesshd.com/freeSSHd.exe

Fast and easy Web browser from Google; seems to always let me watch YouTube when Firefox chokes.
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DVD "ripper" allows you to copy DVDs to your harddrive; optimized for creating iPod compatible video
http://handbrake.fr/rotation.php?file=HandBrake-0.9.5-Win_GUI.exe

"Offline browser" allows you to download an entire Website to your local harddrive
http://download.httrack.com/cserv.php3?File=httrack.exe

ID3 TAG Editor for MP3-Files; downloads album information from online
http://www.audio-toolz.de/download.php?id=70001

Freeware vector graphics/drawing program.
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Manual (36 chapters!): http://en.flossmanuals.net/inkscape

Allows you to control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer; very handy if you set your notebook PC up next to your desktop.
http://www.inputdirector.com/downloads/InputDirector.v1.2.2.zip

Graphics viewer/converter/printer
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Plug-ins: http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/plugins/irfanview_plugins_430.zip

Quick and easy full-featured word processor built on top of Windows Wordpad
http://www.jarte.com/downloads/jarte_44_setup.exe

Create and edit drawings, flow charts, and logos by using Draw.
Create and edit presentations for slideshows, meeting and Web pages by using Impress.
Create and edit scientific formulas and equations by using Math.
Create and edit text and graphics in letters, reports, documents and Web pages by using Writer.
Manage databases, create queries and reports to track and manage your information by using Base.
Perform calculation, analyze information and manage lists in spreadsheets by using Calc.
Open Microsoft Office files. Save everything as PDF files.
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Provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vista's Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilises Hardlinks or Symbolic Links. LSE, as its name implies is implemented as a Shell extension and is accessed from Windows Explorer, or similar file/folder managers.
32-bit MS Runtimes & dlls (install first): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en
32-bit Link Shell Extension: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/HardLinkShellExt_win32.exe
64-bit MS Runtimes & dlls (install first):http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=EB4EBE2D-33C0-4A47-9DD4-B9A6D7BD44DA&displaylang=en
64-bit Link Shell Extension: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/HardLinkShellExt_X64.exe

Free anti-virus/anti-malware from Microsoft. May be the best choice for average-risk Windows users.
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Firefox Web browser.
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A free, open source, cross-platform, full-featured POP and IMAP email and news client.
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Video viewer providing access to many channels of online hi-definition video
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/win/Miro_Installer.exe

A cross-platform file manager that will run on any operating system which supports Java. It features a Norton Commander style interface to allow easy manipulation of files with many keyboard shortcuts. Also does FTP and SFTP.
http://www.mucommander.com/download/mucommander-0_8_5.exe

A much better text editor than Notepad; free and Open Source.
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Full-featured virtual machine system; turns a PC into an easy-to-use virtualization platform. Free and open source software that runs on all major operating systems
32/64-bit: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.2/VirtualBox-4.1.2-73507-Win.exe
Extension Pack: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.2/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.2-73507.vbox-extpack

Reasonably full-featured FREE bitmap graphics/paint program.
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Adds some extra menu items to the windows control menu in addition to the standard "Close", "Maximize", etc options. The extra menus are: Always On Top, Transparency and Minimize To Tray; get to them by clicking the icon at the LEFT side of the top bar of a program.
http://www.abstractpath.com/powermenu/PowerMenuSetup_1_5_1.exe

Allows you to paste text and elimate any formatting; same as copying it to notepad, then copying from there to the destination. Use it by pressing the Windows key and V insted of Control-V.
http://www.stevemiller.net/downloads/puretext20_x86.zip

A free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. Allows login to remote hosts using SSH (Secure SHell)
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A desktop publisher. An open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.4.0.rc5/scribus-1.4.0.rc5-win32-install.exe/download

Online videophone program. Call PC to PC for free worldwide.
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A treemapping tool for hard disks and file systems; a tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Displays files and folders as boxes, with sizes relative to space taken on disk.
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/files/spacesniffer_1_1_3_1.zip

Audio/video format converter: simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file. For some reason, they make it really, REALLY hard to download so you may want to see the Download Guide at http://www.erightsoft.com/dlhelp.html
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

The best-tested anti-spyware software out there.
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Adds more choices when you right-click on a file; lets you change the date & time on a file, for example.
32-bit: http://www.sw4you.de/download/swshell32_.exe
64-bit: http://www.sw4you.de/download/swshell64_.exe

Easy to use, customizable application helps you copy, move, rename, delete, and synchronize files between folders and computers.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&DisplayLang=en

A Tweak UI for Windows 7 & Vista. Lets you set ALL kinds of things in Windows 7 & Vista.
http://download.cnet.com/Ultimate-Windows-Tweaker/3000-2094_4-10915128.html

VLC media player - better and more powerful than ever. The only media player you ever need.
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Allows running of VMware Virtual Machines; Server allows creation of VMs as well. Requires registration for download (Sun VirtualBox does not...)
Server: http://www.vmware.com/go/getserver
Player: http://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer/

Full-featured GUI FTP/SFTP client.
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Drag-n-drop audio file converter. Converts to/from ANY digital audio format. Fully functional no-time-limit demo.
http://xrecode.com/setup_xrecode2_1.0.0.176_full.zip

Powerful, general purpose editor for plain text files. Best. Text. Editor. EVER.
Single user TextPad license 16.50GBPounds (About $24.20)