Welcome to our download section, here are some various tools to keep your PC in tip top shape and add some neat things.
Malware Removal Utilities
Rid yourself of Spyware & Viruses.
- Spybot Search & Destroy - Free - One of the best malware detectors and cleaners out there.
- Ad-Aware - Free, Depending on version - The other of the best malware detectors and cleaners out there.
- Spyware Doctor - Shareware ($30), Freeware Version can only *scan* - Yet Another Spyware Utility.
- HijackThis! - Free - The one true malware detection and removal device. Logfiles can be parsed by the HijackThis! Logfile Analyzer, to give you an idea of what should stay or go.
- StartupCPL - Free - Advanced control over exactly what programs run at startup.
- CCleaner - Free - "System Optimization Tool". Sometimes, it can be a bit overzealous in it's "cleaning".
- AVG Anti-Virus - Free - It's antivirus! It's free! The Pro-version ($30 for 2 years) is absolutely worth the money, but is not necessary for most users.
- RegSeeker - Free - It's a registry cleaner! Amazing! Free!
Internet Essentials
Some things you just shouldn't try enjoying the internet without.
- Mozilla Firefox - Free / Open Source - If you need an explanation, you have been living under a rock for the past three years (Wiki page)
- Portable Firefox - Free / Open Source - Got a thumbdrive? Enjoy Firefox? Hate being forced to use IE when you're on the go? Portable Firefox lets you stuff a self-contained version of Firefox on a portable device, along with extensions, bookmarks, etc. Updated often with Final Builds as they get released by the Mozilla Foundation.
- Mozilla Thunderbird - Free / Open Source - A Mail/News/RSS reader. Built in adaptive spamfiltering plus an easy-to-adapt-to ui, along with the established theming and extension power of Firefox.
- PuTTY - Free / Open Source - Suite of SSH-related goodies, including a SSH terminal, an SCP client, an SFTP client, and a bunch of other stuff.
- WackGet - Free / Open Source - Goon-Made frontend for wget. You give it files and it downloads them for you. Use it in conjunction with the Firefox Extension DownloadWith to get a really good and potentially silent download manager linked up with your browser.
- RSSOwl - Free / Open Source - RSS Reader for Windows.
- SpamBayes - Free / Open Source - Standalone Bayesian Spam Filter Proxy. It sits around and gets mail run through it before it gets to you. If said mail sucks, it goes away. Useful if for some reason you can't be bothered to use Thunderbird.
- POPFile - Free / Open Source - Another free adaptive spamfilter program. You train it, It learns, Spam Goes Away.
- Simple Socket File Transfer - Free - A quick and simple way of transferring files, especially to people who don't "get" computers.
- OffByOne - Free - A portable web browser that fits on a floppy. Not really for home use (it doesn't have a permanent address bar) but great for kiosks, etc.
More Advanced User Downloads
The following downloads are for ways of Tweaking and Configuring your system to be cooler and neater, this is mostly for advanced users.
Windows Enhancements
Windows isn't Windowsy-enough for some people. These are apps to add or modify some kind of feature.
- TaskSwitch XP - Free/Open Source - Pretty Alt+Tab replacement tool with previews for XP
- Logon Loader - Free - Logon Screen changer for Windows XP
- Microsoft Powertoys for Windows XP - Free - Latest in the ongoing suite of neat little apps Microsoft has released to go along with Windows. Of special note are ClearType Tuner, Alt+Tab Replacement, and TweakUI.
- ShellToys XP - Shareware ($53) - Collection of context-menu . . things . .
- Entbloess - Shareware ($8, free for 100 uses) - Yet another task switcher for XP and 2000, brings OSX's Exposé feature to windows.
- StrokeIt - Free - OS-Wide customizable mouse gestures.
- Winkey - Free - Customizable hotkey program.
- HoeKey - Free - *Ridiculously* customizable hotkey program.
- SharpKeys - Free - Lets you remap any key to another key.
- HotKeyControl XP - Free - Another keymapping app. Requires VB 6.0 Runtimes.
- Clickie - Free - Adds "Copy Path Name To Clipboard" and "Open MSDOS Prompt" to your context menu.
- TrueLaunchBar - Free - Super Ultra Beefed-Up Taskbar of Doom.
- Sound Control - Free - Replaces the default Windows sound mixer with a new one, with customizable hotkeys, and other bonus features.
- Joe - Free - ANOTHER Alt+Tab enhancer.
- Sizer - Free - Lets you resize any window to a specific exact customizable size.
- MultiDesktop Manager - Free - Virtual Desktop Program.
- TrayIt - Free - Lets you shove any program into the systray, if they like it or not.
- sDesk - Free / Open Source - Virtual Window Manager for Windows. No longer being developed.
- AllSnap - Free - AllSnap adds window-snapping functionality to all windows. It's neat and tiny and good.
- X-Setup Pro - Shareware ($8) - Comprehensive Windows tweaking tool. Gives you access to tweak a ton of stuff TweakUI doesn't list.
- Tclock2 - Free / Open Source - Taskbar Enhancer. Lets you mess with the start menu, your clock, set alarms, etc.
- WinRoll - Free / Open Source - Adds "Rolling" or "Windowshade" mode to all windows.
- Clipomatic - Free - Expands the capability of the clipboard, allowing for multiple clipboards, permanent clips, etc.
- Icon Restore - Free - Lets you save and restore your desktop icon layout in two clicks.
- Chameleon Clock - Free - Another Systray Clock Replacement.
- ieSpell - Free - Too much of a mouthbreathing retard to learn how to spell? Let computers do it for you!
- xplorer2 - Shareware ($35, Free "lite" version available) - Windows Explorer replacement, with a TON of built in extra features.
- SlickRun - Free - Floating window that allow you to open any program in about 4 keystrokes with user defined shortcuts.
- FreeCommander - Free - Nice little dualpane file manager/unpacker with lots of features and un-flashy interface.
- Deskview - Free - A tiny program that forces desktop icons to look like Listmode view (tiny! And all lined up)
Shiny Chrome Stuff
For SOME people, just adding actual features isn't enough. You've got to lower your UI closer to the ground, put a giant chrome tailpipe on it, get yo' self some phat chrome spinnaz, add 27 extra gauges on your dash, wait what were we talking about?
- Y'z Dock - Free - OSX-style dock, for Windows XP. Widely accepted as the best of the assorted dock utilities out there. Note: there is no official site for Y'z Dock due to legal issues with Apple.
- RK Launcher - Free - Another OSX-style bar for Windows. This one takes docklets from both Y'zDock and Objectbar! Still in Beta, but MUCH better than Y'zDock. As of 2006-02-13, RK Launcher's main site is down. A temporary mirror can be found here.
- Samurize - Free - You need to know your hard drive free space percentage all the time, right?
- Random Desktop - Free - Wallpaper Randomizer for all versions of Windows.
- Wallpaper Master - Free - Another Freeware Wallpaper changer. Customizable, to change wallpapers whenever you want it to, either automatically or on-demand.
- Rainmeter - Free - "Computer Hardware Information Tool". Like Samurize, but made by the guy behind Rainlendar.
- Konfabulator - Free - Everyone's favourite widget runner. Made irrelevant for Mac by the advent of Dashboard, but still works perfectly fine on Windows. Now owned (and set free) by Yahoo!.
- Kapsules - Free - Like Konfabulator, but not.
- CustomBar - Shareware ($20) - Like Rainmeter, Samurize, etc, BUT IT'S A BAR. That makes it totally different, right guys?
- CrowBar - Free / Open Source - Another bar-type monitor thingie, but this one was made by CTZ, so that makes it :cool:
- WinBar - Free - Like Rainmeter, Samurize, CustomBar, Crowbar, and 8 billion other applications.
- SmartBarXP - Free - What's that? You want another bar statistic application? You're in luck!
- WKrelleM - Free - Yet another needless chrome stat information bar thing, this time ported from *nix.
- DesktopSidebar - Free - Gaudy chrome, Longhorn Style
- ToolBox - Free - A launchbar/box but shiny and translucent.
Special thanks to SH-SC Wiki
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