Software Extravaganza (Mostly FREE!)

This is a site created by Jason McFeetors and has a section dedicated to tools and utilities which are available as freeware to users. There are two main differences between his site and other freeware sites:
This is what he has to say:-
1) All of the applications that are available are used by me personally so that their usefulness is properly understood.

2) All applications must be freeware or freely available. This means that the software is accessible by everyone. In fact, much of the freeware is intended to replace actual retail software.

The list is significantly smaller than most freeware websites but I see most of the software in the list as "crucial". In fact, I have removed software from the listing which was more trouble than it was worth (which, since it was freeware, was nothing)!

I have not updated the website in a couple of months but I am presently working on an updated site with search capabilities and a "What's New" option. Since it will be a while before it is updated, here is a complete list of all the software and services which are presently in my new website database (which is not yet published to the internet). All changes will be available in the future at my site http://www.mcfeetors.com/downloads.asp [note: this link is not currently active] but here is the list until that time:

Name: 602Pro PC Suite
Description: Seamless compatibility with Microsoft Office is a must today. 602Pro PC SUITE 2000 is composed of three components 602Text (word processor), 602Tab (spreadsheet) and 602Photo (graphic editor). 602Text is a powerful word processor compatible with Microsoft Word (.DOC 9x/2000) and many other document file types. 602Tab is a Microsoft Excel (.XLS 9x/2000) compatible spreadsheet with over 150 available functions. 602Photo is a graphics editor designed for digital camera and scanner image editing with support for over 15 graphic formats.
Homepage: http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/

Name: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Description: Adobe Acrobat Reader is free software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. With Acrobat Reader, you can also fill in and submit Adobe PDF forms online. And now Acrobat Reader for Palm OS lets you view Adobe PDF files on the go.
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

Name: AI RoboForm
Description: AI RoboForm is a one-click web form filler and password manager with some serious Artificial Intelligence (AI) inside. It works as an add-on to Microsoft Internet Explorer ver 4 or later, all browsers based on IE, and Netscape.
Homepage: http://www.roboform.com/

Name: AutoIt
Description: AutoIt is a simple tool that can simulate key presses, mouse movements and window commands (maximize, minimize, wait for, etc.) in order to automate any windows based task (or even windowed DOS tasks). AutoIt was primarily designed to assist in automatically installing software that cannot be automatically installed by other means. This is most useful during a PC rollout where hundreds or thousands of client machines need to be automatically installed. However, AutoIt is not limited to software installation and can be used to automate most simple windows tasks.
Homepage: http://www.hiddensoft.com/

Name: BgInfo
Description: How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version. If you manage multiple computers you probably need BgInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows NT/2000 computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.
Homepage: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/bginfo.shtml

Name: BigFix
Description: BigFix is a great new application that drastically reduces the number of bugs and conflicts that affect your computer. Using its proprietary Relevance Engine, BigFix can automatically check your computer for bugs, configuration conflicts, and security holes, and let you fix them with a simple mouse-click. Most of the time, BigFix can even alert you to a problem before any damage is done, helping you avoid painful downtime. BigFix is a great way to worry less about computer problems, and focus on more important things.
Homepage: http://www.bigfix.com/

Name: Filemon
Description: Filemon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon's timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome. Filemon is so easy to use that you'll be an expert within minutes. It begins monitoring when you start it, and its output window can be saved to a file for off-line viewing. It has full search capability, and if you find that you're getting information overload, simply set up one or more filters.
Homepage: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

Name: FREESCO
Description: FREESCO (stands for FREE ciSCO) is a free replacement for commercial routers supporting up to 3 ethernet/arcnet/token_ring/arlan network cards and up to 2 modems. Why should you use Freesco? Ease of use - it's insanely easy to set up Thoroughly documented - it's more or less self contained, read one doc and you're off and running Like most players in this field, it runs off one floppy Freesco runs in as little as 6 Mb RAM. Unique Web Control Panel Freesco is the easiest to use, one disk Linux system available.
Homepage: http://www.freesco.org

Name: FTP Explorer
Description: FTP Explorer is a file transfer protocol client for Windows 9x/ME/2000 and NT 4.0, that looks and acts very much like the Windows Explorer, offering a fun way to FTP.
Homepage: http://www.ftpx.com/

Name: InstallRite
Description: Provides "application cloning" as opposed to "disk cloning", simplifying software distribution.
Homepage: http://www.epsilonsquared.com/

Name: InstallWatch
Description: Records modifications made to your PC during the installation of software, hardware, or configuration changes.
Homepage: http://www.epsilonsquared.com/

Name: IntegrityCheck System
Description: Spytech IntegrityCheck is a small, free, wizard utility for quickly checking possible security weaknesses on your PC. IntegrityCheck will quickly guide you through steps which will determine all open ports on your PC that may be possible vulnerable attack points for hackers and trojan software. IntegrityCheck will also check for common backdoor trojans running in your process memory.
Homepage: http://www.spytech-web.com/icheck.shtml

Name: IrfanView
Description: IrfanView is one of the best graphics views available on the internet. It allows you to not only view the majority of bitmap file formats, it also lets you create a slideshow of your pictures. You can even do some basic manipulation of images.
Homepage: http://www.irfanview.com

Name: NetMonitor
Description: Monitor your Internet connection and get an array of vital statistics that will give you a better hold on what's happening with your Internet connection.
Homepage: http://www.modemwizard.com/netmonitor.html


Name: PGP
Description: With millions of users worldwide, PGP is the world's de facto standard for email encryption and authentication. PGP Security is proud to provide freeware versions of PGP products to non-commercial customers. These products provide limited, but important, capabilities including secure e-mail, file encryption and peer-to-peer VPN. Please note that Network Associates and PGP Security do not provide Technical Support for freeware products.
Homepage: http://www.pgp.com/

Name: PowerArchiver
Description: PowerArchiver is the ultimate archive utility for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. With a modern easy-to-use interface, PowerArchiver provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. PowerArchiver is the most complete archive utility available today.
Homepage: http://www.powerarchiver.com/

Name: PowerArchiver Command
Description: Console tools for extracting and creating archives. All formats supported.
Homepage: http://www.powerarchiver.com/download/

Name: SFX Maker
Description: SFX Maker can convert ZIP files into EXE files which allows you to share you ZIP archives with almost anyone with Windows 95/NT 4 or later, regardless of the software installed on their machine or their technical competence. A SelF-eXtracting archive or SFX for short contains everything the end user needs, the ZIP archive, the tool to extract it (so they do not need other software such as PowerArchiver or WinZip) and any information you want to give them, all contained in a single EXE file. Yet, despite its technical capabilities it is remarkably easy to use.
Homepage: http://sfxmaker.cjb.net/


Name: Spytech Eradicator
Description: Spytech Eradicator is a secure file wiping utility. With Eradicator you will never have to worry about others peeping into files that should have been deleted in the first place. Eradicator offers multiple levels of secure deletion for the everyday user. Wipes files clean - permanently Three secure deletion strengths
-Multiple file deletion capability
-Irrecoverable deletion security
Homepage: http://www.spytech-web.com/eradicator.shtml

Name: Spytech PasswordLock
Description: Spytech PasswordLock is an easy to use utility for storing all your sensitive passwords in one secure place. You can add as many passwords to your secure encrypted, password protected list for easy password management. Passwords stored in a secure encrypted list All lists are password protected
-Password Revealer utility for forgotten passwords
-Random Password Generator utility
-Easy password management and copying
-Easy, quick password security
Homepage: http://www.spytech-web.com/passwordlock.shtml

Name: Spytech PortSecure
Description: PortSecure is a simple, Windows port scanner that you can use to scan your IP or remote IP's for open ports as a result of common software or trojans.
Homepage: http://www.spytech-web.com/freeware.shtml





Name: TridiaVNC
Description: With TridiaVNC (virtual network computing) you can view and control a computing desktop from a wide variety of platforms.
Homepage: http://www.tridiavnc.com/


Name: VNC
Description: VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.
Homepage: http://www.realvnc.com/

Sorry for such a long list but I believe that all of the applications here are useful and important. ---Jason McFeetors