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[rridgely]

Have you been to download.com today? They changed their format and now its a pain to just browse through the mounds of crap progams that they have. Anyone know any other good sites? Of course I know about tucows,snapfiles, and zdnet.

Also do not tell me to go here :
http://forum.CCleane...?showtopic=1224
(I just had a feeling that might have been coming)

[englishmen]

I would highly recommend Fileforum ever since I found it last year some time I have not been back to download.com once. It also keeps a track of all you favourite applications and email's you when there is a update.

My current tracked applications are:

7-Zip
Ad-aware SE Personal
America's Army
Autoruns
avast! Home
BitComet
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner)
DAEMON Tools
DriverHeaven Driver Cleaner Professional
Dup Detector
DVD Decrypter
Easy CD-DA Extractor
Eraser
ERUNT
Filemon for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Folding@home for Windows NT/2000/XP
Foxit PDF Reader
HijackThis
Java 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition
Media Player Classic for Windows 2000/XP
Microsoft ActiveSync
Mozilla Firefox for Windows
MSN Messenger for Windows
Nero Burning Rom
nLite
NTREGOPT
nVIDIA ForceWare Drivers for Windows 2000/XP
NVTweak (formerly Coolbits)
OpenOffice.org for Windows
PeerGuardian for Windows 2000/XP/2003
Picasa
Power Defragmenter
Process Explorer for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
QuickTime Alternative
Rainlendar
Real Alternative
Regmon for Windows NT/2000/XP
RegSeeker
RK Launcher
SETI@home
Spybot Search and Destroy
SpywareBlaster
SyncBack
TMPGEnc
Total Uninstall
Ultimate Boot CD Full
XMPEG

Which is every application I have.

Edit: I just went to Download.com wtf are they doing to that site. I mean check out what fileforum looks like on my pc no adds and all white

[Andavari]

rridgely, on Jul 19 2005, 10:53 PM, said:

Have you been to download.com today?
(I just had a feeling that might have been coming)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Haven't been to download.com "download.com.com" for years since in my views it became crappy years ago, and I certainly won't download anything they host.

[rridgely]

Thanks englishmen I like that site. They have better software than any other site I've been to.

[Newhotness]

rridgely, on Jul 20 2005, 09:40 AM, said:

Thanks englishmen I like that site. They have better software than any other site I've been to.

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dido, cheers mate

[englishmen]

I'm glad you both like it, make sure you sign up as well to keep track of updates to your programs.

[LEEnoble]

Andavari, on Jul 20 2005, 12:24 PM, said:

Haven't been to download.com "download.com.com" for years since in my views it became crappy years ago, and I certainly won't download anything they host.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

"download.com.com" download.com works without the extra .com

[SkeeterBeeter]

Softpicks

[Capman]

Give it time and filehippo might be a must.

It is so simple and uncluttered, it has a future.

[englishmen]

LEEnoble, on Jul 20 2005, 05:21 PM, said:

"download.com.com" download.com works without the extra .com 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hmm oops

[Vanguard382]

englishmen, what a wonderful site. Wish i had heard of it sooner.

[Andavari]

Years ago it went from "download.com" to "download.com.com" and typing in download.com would take you to download.com.com, now they've reversed it. Someone on that site is smoking something.

[Bavaria]

http://www.softpedia.com/

[englishmen]

I tried Softpedia a year or so ago and while its got a good collection of software I believe Fileforum beats it because of its clean white layout there for its not got a load of flash colours and buttons to load. Also the fact that you can track any number of applications and receive emails when there is a update makes it better. It is better then Dowload.com tho but then most sites are that Filehippo has huge potential if it was only to enlarge its database of software and have tracking of programs updates as fileforum does.

[Vanguard382]

hey englishmen completly off topic but were did you get the litte penguin for your start bar. Could you send me a link or just pm how to get it.

[rridgely]

I wonder how trust worthy softpedia is. On some of their downloads they have a 100% spyware free gurantee. Curious if that can be trusted.

[agumon]

SnapFiles
http://www.webattack.com/

and

MajorGeeks
http://www.majorgeeks.com/

[englishmen]

Vanguard382, on Jul 23 2005, 09:15 PM, said:

hey englishmen completly off topic but were did you get the litte penguin for your start bar. Could you send me a link or just pm how to get it.

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Its actual a part of a theme I got from CrystalXp.Net it is the top one. Download it once downloaded extract it and open "Crystal dlb 2" then double click "Crystal dlb 2.msstyles".

rridgely, on Jul 24 2005, 03:38 AM, said:

I wonder how trust worthy softpedia is. On some of their downloads they have a 100% spyware free gurantee. Curious if that can be trusted.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I believe that Fileforum do not post software that contains spyware etc. Yet on softpedia why would you have the 100% spyware free guarantee on some apps and not others it implies that if it has not got 100% spyware free guarantee stamp on it does contain spyware.

[Eldmannen]

I hate the sites that need to signup before you can download anything.
Good thing about download.com is that you dont need to signup, and it's pretty fast to download from.

Much of these "download sites" contains much crap like shareware, demos, trials. Software that only work for 30 days then either nags the hell out of you or stops working completly. Software that have limited functionality, example you can open files but not save them, or you can see the settings but you cant change them, etc.

My favourite site is SourceForge. It is not exactly a "download site", but atleast there i get software which is really free, fully functional, and which I can really trust.