Free Windows Software: Reviews and Links

ImageForge

ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics.

Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more.

Upgrade your ability to edit images with this free paint program.

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
 
Unlock
Useful app that unlocks files from processes, thus allowing you to delete them. ( ie. when you tried delete a video file and it says Access denied)

FastStone Image Viewer

I think this piece of kit is better than ACDSee, mostly because it doesn't rely on that crappy database system to store images etc. It does everything - resizing, rotating, cropping and even RAW file processing.
 
Mod_note - sticky'ed

This could be the beginning of a great thread so as much as possible please try to keep it relevant to the topic at hand :)

In fact please feel free not to respond to this message . . . at all. ;)
 
R4 Winamp Visual Plugin

R4 is a standalone OpenGL accelerated program (created by Gordon Williams of RabidHaMsTeR.Org) which aims to produce animated 3D graphics in real-time that twist and turn with the music. The WinAmp-based precursor to R4 (R2/Extreme) is now used in many nightclubs, at parties, and has been used at many massive events such as Glastonbury (by Psyrcus Wyrd), and the Ministry of Sound New Years event (at the Millennium Dome in London).
The R-series plugins have had around 2 million downloads from the WinAmp Music player website alone.

http://www.rabidhamster.org/R4/main.php
 
SyncBackSE

Easily backup, synchronize, or restore your files to another drive, FTP server, ZIP file, networked drive, or removable media. Highly configurable, SyncBackSE includes: open/locked file copying; fast backup option; true synchronization; Zip64 support; compression filtering; detailed and easy to read log files; email results; simulated backups and restore; file filters; sub-directory selection; copy verification; background backups; auto-close of programs; easy and expert modes; profile groups; compare files, and an extensive context sensitive help file.

http://www.programsdb.com/program/728/26140/SyncBackSE.html
 
VLC Media Player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Get the latest version free from

www.videolan.org/vlc/
 
Some nice tools

Hard Disk LED 2.0
Hard Disk LED simulates hard disk/cd-rom/floppy lights that flash every time there's a disk activity. Hard Disk LED appears on the Windows task bar and flashes every time the system accesses physical, direct access devices.

HDD Regenerator 1.51
HDD Regenerator is a unique program for regeneration of physically damaged hard disk drives. It does not hide bad sectors, it really restores them!

HDD Temperature SCSI 1.4.200
HDD Temperature is monitoring software that protects your IDE and SCSI hard-drives from getting overheated. Temperature Pro can monitor multiple HDDs, work as network service and send e-mail alerts to the system administrators.

They should all be shareware
http://www.softpile.com/Utilities/Disk_Utilities/9index0.html
 
CPU Stability Tester

Benchmark your CPU to find out how stable it is.
Just how tough is your PC? Here's your chance to put it on the treadmill and see what its heart can take. CPU Stability Test is a benchmarking utility that puts your PC's Central Processing Unit through a stress test. CPU Stability Test checks your CPU, hard disks, RAM, caches, and motherboard by running multithreaded tests. It supports multiprocessor systems and it offers error and CRC checking

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,7146-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html
 
Vista Transformation Pack

At last, Vista Transformation Pack has finally come out! Despite the name Vista, you'll get whole new update and more functions. Get the awesome Vista look today!

Vista Transformation Pack will give to your Windows XP system the new and cool look of Microsoft's future operating system: Windows Vista. The pack changes most of the system icons, skins and toolbars and also adds new enhancements to your desktop such as a dock bar or a different system tray clock

You sure will be surprised if you hear this. From now on you can update Vista Transformation Pack without uninstalling and you can even integrate Vista Transformation Pack into Windows setup files. (Still experimental, though but most of them are fine enough to be implemented)

This release has a lot of update covering from build 5472 so you’ll get much more icons update and much better visual styles and WindowBlinds skin, with bugs from earlier release fixed.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Vista-Transformation-Pack.shtml
 
Hip Hop Ejay

Create and record your own hip hop mixes with no musical experience required! Perform 'live' Hip Hop scratching as your mix grooves. It works and sounds just like the realthing, only you control it in real time with the mouse. Create professional sounding Hip Hop mixes by dragging audio loops,samples and sound effects into the 8-track sequencer. Includes over 100 professionally recordedaudio samples to get you started. The full version inlcudes over 1,300! Create your own audio samples in the digital recording studio, then add them to your mixes. You can even record your entire mix as a wav file and play it back,or import it into other applications.

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/WAV_Players_and_Editors/Hip_Hop_Ejay.html
 
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