Photo Print Calendar (Last Freeware Version)
License: Freeware
Supports: Microsoft Windows 9x/Me/2000/XP (I don't know if it works on Vista)
URL: http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mm...ntCalendar.html


Photo Print Calendar is 100% CLEAN & FREE, it does NOT install any malware such as; adware, spyware, viruses, etc.


About:
Photo Print Calendar is a powerful tool for creating common wall calendars using a full sheet of typing paper. You can use your own images as the main picture for every single month. Photo Print Calendar is international and allows users to format the view of days and weeks in different local ways. The easy to use interface gives access to all options and allows creating your own calendar in a few minutes. Photo Print Calendar is a valuable tool, even for creating personal gifts for special occasions including anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas, etc.

System Requirements:



Where can I download free high quality wallpapers for use in Photo Print Calendar?

Visit these websites:
* deviantART - http://www.deviantart.com
* Fantom-XP - http://www.fantom-xp.com
* WallpaperStock - http://wallpaperstock.net
* Wallpaps.com - http://www.wallpaps.com
* WinCustomize - http://www.wincustomize.com

Up to date MPlayer for windows package including mplayer codecs, MPUI and SMPlayer.
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects
Avidemux looks nice too.

Secunia - See site

Win Cleaner memory OPtimiser by business logic corporation <wincleaner.com> try this fantastic mem optimiser, even works with 248MB or lower ram with remarkable results, without slowing you down as it runs on very frugal resources, in the background... would advise you set it up to optimise at program start but not to auto load at system start

further, just another tip worth implementing : in regedit (if youre comfy with it) go to run, type regedit and go to...

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\CURRENT CONTROL SET\SESSION MANAGER\MEMOMRY MANAGEMENT\PREFETCH PARAMETERS\ENABLE PREFETCHER ( double click this and click on decimal and then enter 5 , thats it press enter and get out of regedit all together ...

No offense but memory optimizing software and prefetch hacks don't do much. They can actually cause slowdowns.

I agree, especially those prefetch registry "tweaks". They don't do a s*it. I have tried those tweaks back in the day, but ended up to disabling prefetching completely. Benefit of prefetching is really minimal (IMO).

Same applies to connection optimizers also. I tried some "optimizer" with my previous 98SE machine and connection came terrible slow. This is also just my opinion, basing to my own experiences.

That tweak just disables prefetch - Windows only recognises a value between 0-3 (0 = Disabled, 1 = Application Launch Prefetch, 2 = Boot Prefetch, 3 = Prefetch All)

I was about to say the same thing in my earlier message. If you think a little, setting the value to 5 makes no sense, since there's only values 0-3 to play with. I don't think, that Windows really recognize values above that.

Wizmo: http://www.grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

Wizmo is a multipurpose miscellaneous Windows utility that provides an array of single-click functions that are missing from Windows. Triggered by a single mouse click, it can do things like power down your system's displays, activate your screen saver, change or mute the audio volume, restart, reboot, or shutdown your system, and much more.

whats a good freeware Photo calender software, with maximum amount of features and yet not too much of a memory cruncher..... and most importantly it shouldn't be a .NET framework dependant ( one that just does its job in winxp environment )

You could try Photo Print Calender, it's listed in this post.
The system requirements for it have no mentioning of needing .NET Framework.

any photo print freeware or jus a desktop, transparent , PIM calender , organiser besides being .NET independent and not much of a memory cruncher pls........... been looking for the perfect freeware for a while now..

RealWorld Cursor Editor - Self explanatory, static and animated.

Ok does anyone have a good news ticker, alerts freeware to suggest?? I use the BBC ticker, got the Fox NEws ticker and News Piper but haven't yet installed them...... just wondering if there's another good customisable news ticker with multi-channel capability and RSS feeds...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhan...istaMizer.shtml VistaMizer makes XP look like Vista (with Aero). It also comes with some Vista mimicing functionality (Vista sidebar, window transparency etc).

http://www.public.sytes.net/hoefs/windows/vistamizer.php#pix Screenshots

Videora - "Videora iPod Converter is a free iPod video converter that converts video files, YouTube videos, movies and DVD's so you can play them on your iPod. The software can convert all types of video files (avi, divx, xvid, flv, x264, vob, mpeg, DVD's, YouTube, etc.) into the proper video formats (MPEG-4, H.264) that play on the iPod."

Recently download a free tool from ProcessLibrary.com, it's a plugin to see and get more information about what processes are running (directly through the Windows Task Manager). It's called ProcessQuickLink, worth a look

Forgot to put link in my original post, here it is http://www.processlibrary.com/quicklink/

thanks! usefull program!

Some good sites to visit for freeware:

http://www.filehippo.com
http://www.majorgeeks.com
http://www.thindownload.com
http://www.portableapps.com
http://www.portablefreeware.com
http://www.programfiles.com
http://www.snapfiles.com
http://www.softpedia.com

For a list of freeware that has been updated, check the link below. The list is updated daily and the list at Major Geeks is updated as new versions are released.

http://freewareupdates.info/

Free PDF viewer with some basic editing abilities (already found it useful for filling in forms), has a portable version too:

http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/P...ols/pdfx_viewer

I tried that about a month ago. Wasn't happy with a PDF app that used 150 MB of RAM. It was a major resource hog. Nice features though.

Strange, I'm using the portable version and only uses about 25Mb. More than Foxit but not exactly a resource hog, besides I would expect that as it has more functions. I've been using it for a few days now and no problems yet.

Might be worth a second look

How about these links:

http://www.piriform.com
http://www.malwarebytes.com

Stand-Alone Freeware:

MyUninstaller - Uninstall manager
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/myuninstaller.html

ATF-Clenaer - Disk Cleaner
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/atfcleaner.html

Autoruns - Startup Manager
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/autoruns.html

JkDefrag - Defragmenter
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/JkDefrag/JkDefrag.html

Pocket Killbox - File Shredder
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secu...t-Killbox.shtml

PC-Decrapifier - Software Remover
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcdecrap.html

Prevx CSI - Anti-Spyware Utility
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Prevx_CSI_-_FREE...nner_d5785.html

System Spec - System Information
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/systemspec.html

I think we might be aware of that one already

Gibson Research Corporation
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm
Small tools with big results.

Anti-Vulnerability Tools
Disables Exploits Win OS Installed by Default
http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm
http://www.grc.com/freeware/dcom.htm
http://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

ShieldsUp! (Online Tool)
Firewall Tester - Port by Port #s 0-1055
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 (Secure Link)
After Scan use the additional services at bottom of page

Exploit Tester
http://www.grc.com/wmf/wmf.htm
http://www.grc.com/securable.htm
http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm

Free Download Manager
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm
The best one I`ve found & has format conversion ability.

TMPGEnc converts *.AVI files to MPEG1,
the format which is used in VideoCDs.
Using a variety of options in TMPGEnc,
you can compress your video file in high quality.
http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/download.html

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for
32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)
http://www.virtualdub.org/ (Home)
http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ (Download)

Audacity sound editor. (Neosound)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

This post covers all bases, and is very thorough. I'd like to post a link to a site that is dedicated to listing freeware security programs. They are also categorized. Check it out at:
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Lists_of_Freewa...curity_Software

XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authetication 'features' in WindowsXP.

For example, there's a service running in the background wich is called 'Automatic Updates'. I don`t know what this service transfers from my machine to other machines on the internet, especially the MS ones. So I play it safe and disable such functions.

If you like, you can even disable these function manually, by going through the System and checking or unchecking some checkboxes. This will take you approximately half an hour. But why wasting time when a little neat utility can do the same in 1 minute?

XP-Antispy was successfully tested by many users and was found to disable all the known 'Suspicious' Functions in WindowsXP.

Download it here.

The "Automatic Updates" are for the Windows updats you get monthly. With that disabled you won't get notified when updates are available. Not a big problem as long as you visit the update site a maunally down load the patches every month.

Except disabling the automatic updates service breaks Windows Update

You can't do a manual update with the service set to anything other than automatic, it's not just for aotomatic updates.

You can turn the service back on once a month to do the manual update. I do this with AVG AS. I keep the service for it disabled and turn it on when I need to update or scan with AVG AS.

The screen shot for that is of the pro version and it looks full featured. Whats missing in the free version? I couldn't find a comparison chart anywhere.

Older much older free versions were better, that's just my opinion.

Now that ashampoo has released that permanently free version I see no reason to use anything else. I was already using it for everything before but now its just a no brainer.

I agree it's very good but this Silentnight Microburner says it's portable and can be run from a USB drive. I am currently using Deepburner Portable on my USB drive and it's OK.

this thread has been great!! thank you all ..

i found this handy freeware app the other day , clone maxx .. it makes an identical copy of a hard drive onto another drive regardless of file system or OS .. i booted it off a CD and cloned our server onto another hard drive and after tested it and it booted the server no problem exactly like the other drive.

the free version has a few limitations but the only one i noticed was it wouldn't let me clone to a drive of the same size , i had to clone a 20 gig onto a 40 gig drive , worked fine tho.

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/clone_maxx....htm?Language=1

enjoy :]

The link you provided was a trial version, and indeed had to be installed.....

That original post was removed because of it being trial software and because this is the Freeware thread!

1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader


Windows XP Firewall Port & Application Manager

Hello everyone! I have some freeware recommendations, if they haven't been posted here already.

Auslogics Disk Defrag: It's a great program at defragging your computer and I've used it a lot with out any problems. Very user-friendly too.

Auslogics Registry Defrag: Unlike some registry cleaning/defragging programs, Auslogics Registry Defrag doesn't screw up your computer. A quick reboot is all you need. It's great and I've used it for some time without any problems. Very user-friendly too.

I have Auslogic RegDefrag, but not the other one. I'll looky.

SMPlayer - "SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume..."

QTTabBar & QTAddressBar - "QTTabBar is an Add-In that gives Tab Browsing Feature to your Explorer.
Folder grouping, histories, etc." & "Vista address bar clone for XP."
I use both of them

CLCL - Old but good clipboard management utility.
Qt - "Qt Open Source Edition is provided under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL). You may use the Qt Open Source Edition for:

• Development of open source/non-proprietary software that is also released under the GPL license.
• Compiling and running GPL software developed by others."

See this Bleeping Computer topic for a HUGE list of freeware programs, but some of them have been mentioned here. They're all programs known to be free of spyware and viruses etc.

Link: Click here!

Speedbit video accelerator!!
its 100% free except for the premium version for itunes.
Features for the freeware
Reduces "movie freezes" and "buffering" problems!
Accelerates streaming videos from YouTube and over 100 sites!
Bookmarks videos you've recently accelerated, for easy replays!
Includes cool search tab feature for finding videos to watch around the web, right from your desktop!

www.videoaccelerator.comClick Website

Premium version includes
Video Accelerator for iTunes accelerates the download of iTunes movies, music videos and TV shows up to 10 times faster!
The speedbit video accelerator real works ,try it today!

P.S i think it only support for internet explorer

Phun - 2D physics sandbox, very fun

GMER -"Gmer detects rootkits. It scans for: - hidden processes
- hidden files
- hidden services
- hidden registry keys
- hidden drivers
- drivers hooking SSDT (System Service Descriptor Table)
- drivers hooking IDT (Interrupt Descriptor Table)
- drivers hooking IRP (IO Request Packet) calls"

bbLean - "bbLean is the lean version of Blackbox for Windows. It tries to keep balance between features and complexity, to give you some efficient means within a compact shell. bbLean is based stylistically on the Blackbox window manager for the X Window System by Brad Hughes."

Send To Toys - "Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. It adds a Send To "Folder..." option to the right click menu, which allows you to select a folder and copy the file there. In addition, the "Send To Clipboard (as name)" copies the name of the file or files to the clipboard."

Roadkil's Window Message - "Displays information about the window the mouse pointer is currently over. Displays the windows handle, size and the owner thread information. Useful for people writting windows applications or wanting to create an interface to another application such as macros/scripts."

Replacer - "Replacer is an easy to use system file replacer for Windows 2000 and XP. It safely replaces protected or in-use system files."

OpenedFilesView - "OpenedFilesView displays the list of all opened files on your system. For each opened file, additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, file position, the process that opened the file, and more...
Optionally, you can also close one or more opened files, or close the process that opened these files."

Numerimal - "Numerimal is a numeral converter. It will convert between decimal, hexadecimal, octal, binary and any other user-selectable base up to 64-base"

Hexplorer - "It is free hex editor for Windows, licensed under GNU GPL."

Handler - "Handler is a nice tiny tool for getting various information about a certain window or just any control under the mouse cursor. In addition, it will also reveal the text in a password entry field."

FileASSASSIN - "FileASSASSIN is an application that can delete any type of locked files that are on your computer. Whether the files are from a malware infection or just a particular file that will not delete - FileASSASSIN can remove it. The program uses advanced programming techniques to unload modules, close remote handles, and terminate processes to remove the particular locked file."

Nero Audio Plugins - "These plugins provide additional audio format support to the popular Nero Burning ROM recording software." I know at least FLAC works with Nero 8.

It figures. The one day Free Giveaway has something I want their connection go kaput when I try to activate the software. They must've found out it was me.

Okay, now it works.

For those of you who have quicktime, but dont use programs dependent upon it such as iTunes, theres this

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/quickt...alternative.htm

Its the same thing, but smaller and makes quicktime dependent programs not work .

Clean My Registry:

I'm pretty anal about having a clean registry, I have no less than 5 registry cleaners and a registry optimizer

I found this to be a pretty good program

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,...scription.html#

Free Ram XP Pro:

This is another program I love- It frees up large amounts of ram on command or periodically. It only frees ram on the motherboard, of course.

http://www.yourwaresolutions.com/software.html#framxpro

DosBox-

I personally LOVE the Duke Nukem Atomic Edition series, and all its addons. However I doesnt work properly on my current system. This emulator helped me with that little problem- even though I'd already downloaded eDuke32 xD

http://www.dosbox.com/



XP on Mac -

Being that I loath the Mac OS- and all the snotty kids in my grade that use it - I encourage the use of this program I received in a PC World Daily Downloads email

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,...escription.html

CCleaner -

Do I need to elaborate?

www.CCleaner.com/

Quake III Arena:

http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake3-arena/

A great little toy- useful for killing time in my opinion. But not likely you'll find anyone playing on a server so fight the computer

For Linux-

I'd say Nexiuz but I dont know the website of the most amazing interactive fps for linux off the top of my head

also- ET Quake Wars is good too.

again, my Linux corrupted my mbr so I have to boot it on a disc to use it partially. It stole a 32 GB partition of my hard disk, lol. I could get it back but I like having 200GB on my windows one for now .