The Best Free Software you can get

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Boot Disks

• Free Boot Disks - IDE CDrom Drivers Included

Undelete files

• Restoration - File undelete utility

Fundet her sammen med andre tools: http://users.telenet.be/Robvdb/USBMemStick.htm

E-Cad/EDA tools - Schematic Capture PCB design and Simulation

KiCad

KiCad is a free open source package for schematic capture PCB design and interface to simulators (SPICE). It runs under Windows, various flavors of Linux and has been ported to the Mac OSX.

• KiCad main web site
• KiCad Step by Step Tutorial
• KiCad FAQ
• KiCad symbols

Terminal emulation and telnet

Tera Term

Tera Term is an open source free software terminal emulator. It can run o both Vista and Vista 64 bit.

When you follow the links to download on the TeraTerm Project page click on the American flag if the page show up in Japanese

• TeraTerm Project
• TeraTerm Wikipedia article

Disk Tools

HD Tune

Disk benchmark and error check.
Read the S.M.A.R.T information and see the condition of your hard disk.

• HD Tune homepage

Ultradefrag

• Ultradefrag - (needs a signed driver to run under Vista x64)

Q.: I've seen message "Can't load ultradfg driver!" on Windows Vista. I think that Vista is preventing this driver from loading because the signature check is enabled. How can I disable it?

A.: Thanks to Christopher Naegel for providing the following instructions:

1. Open a command line with admin-rights:
2. Start -> execute -> CMD (with admin rights).
3. Type:

   bcdedit /set loadoptions "DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS"

   bcdedit /set nointegritychecks ON

4. Close the command prompt and start group policy editor:

   Start -> execute -> gpedit.msc

5. Go to:

   User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System ->

   Driver Installation -> Code Signing for device drivers

6. Enable this policy and set it to Ignore state.

Network Tools

Wireshark

• Wireshark: The World's Most Popular Network Protocol Analyzer

Text Editor

Notepad++

Why pay for a good text editor, when you can get the best for free.

Available in following languages:
Danish, Deutch, English, Espanõl, Français, Indonesian, Nederlands, Norwegian, Português, Português (do Brasil), Suomi, Svenska and many more languages can be downloaded from: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/download.php.

• Notepad++ Homepage

Games

• Play free games at YOYO games
• Make your own games with Gamemaker from YOYO

Funny stuff

Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Create your own animated cartoons.

• Wikipedia Pivot Stickfigure Animator
• MSN Group aboun Pivot animation with examples
• Download Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Play Music and Video

Avicodec... VLC media player can play almost anything.

• VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

Archive and Extract ZIP and other formats

7-Zip free file archiver use that instead of WinZip and WinRar.

Supported formats:

Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

7-Zip is a winner in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2007 in two categories:

Best Project

Best Technical Design

• 7-Zip

Create PDF files

PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.

• PDFCreator

Other sites with great software

• NirSoft - freeware utilities: password recovery, system utilities, desktop utilities
• thefreecountry.com _ God side med masser af links til gratisprogammer
• thefreecountry.com Defragmentering (gratis)

Communicate with your mobile phone

gnokii

gnokii allows you to communicate with your phone - SMS, Phonebook, Calendar, Call management, PIN, ringtone and logo handling.

• gnokii

Tools to recover your lost Password, Product Keys, Serial Numbers or CD Keys

SIW recovers Software Licenses (Product Keys / Serial Numbers / CD Key).

• SIW System Information for Windows "Everything you want to know about your PC"

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for Microsoft Windows users.

• OXID.IT Cain & Abel

AIDA32 (discontinued)

• AIDA32 - Personal System Information 3.93

Everest-Home-Edition (the successor of AIDA32 - this link is the last free version available now Everest is not free anymore)

• EVEREST Home Edition 2.20

NirSoft

• ProduKey v1.26 - Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office/SQL Server

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