Interesting Windows 9x/Me/NT/XP programs
Here are several links to various Windows 9x/Me/NT/XP software and other Windows related websites. Most are freeware or open source programs.
Be sure to check out our TTCS OSSWIN CD, a collection of nearly 100 Free/Open Source software for home and business users using the Microsoft Windows 98SE/Me/2000 and XP operating systems.
Interesting Windows 9x/Me/NT/XP program categories :
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Win 9x/Me/NT/XP Utilities
- 98lite 4.5 Remove Internet Explorer from Win98, or give Win98 the faster Win95 GUI
- AVG v7.x Free edition free antivirus software (incl. free updates)
- jv16 PowerTools 2005 set of useful tools (such as a registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, temp file finder) to fix and tune up Windows. Shareware
- Defrag to shutdown v1.5 for Win9x/Me freeware utility to launches Windows Defrag with 3 options and after defragmentation, powers down the machine
- Fullsync 0.91 file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. Requires Java
- PolderBackup v2.8 Easy backup/restore program with many features to meet most basic and advanced backup needs
- TransText v1.20 freeware Win9x/NT utility to have the desktop icon text background to be transparent and to set the icon text colour
- Hook99 v1.2.0.2 customize the Win9x/NT start button and other taskbar effects ; also makes the background of desktop icons text transparent
- dWall v1.3 desktop wallpaper manager for Windows ; make desktop icon text transparent ; tile/stretch images automatically to desktop.
- Really slick screensavers Some "really slick" OpenGL screen savers for Windows released under GPL
- CutePDF Writer v2.5 Create PDF documents easy and fast, from any Windows application (must be able to print). Freeware
- PDF Compress v1.0 Compress text and graphics in PDF files which can be viewed normally by Adobe Acrobat. Freeware
- VirtuaWin v2.10 have up to nine virtual Windows desktops and switch between them easily. GPL
- ReplaceEm v2.0 search and replace mulitple text in multiple text files. Supports regular expressions. Freeware
Win9x/NT/XP Internet Apps
- Firefox v1.5 free web browser with features such as including tabbed browsing, pop-up blocker, privacy/security controls, integrated search, and more.
- Thunderbird v1.5 free email client with features such as POP3/IMAP support, intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, RSS feeds, saved search folders and more
- Mozilla Suite v1.7.12 Open source web browser suite, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability
- WackGet v1.2.2 minimalist wget download manager for Windows. Open Source.
- LeechGet Personal Edition 2005 v1.5 free (for private use) no-spyware download manager ; integrates with IE ; plugins available for Mozilla Firefox and Opera
- Star Downloader Free v1.44 freeware (non-spyware) download manager ; schedule and resume broken downloads ; hangup modem when done ; also supports proxy. Pro version available
- SP TimeSync v2.2 synchronize your computer's clock with any Internet atomic clock via network time protocol (NTP)
- MD5 Hash simple utility to calculate the MD5sums (hash) of a file. Can be added to the Windows Explorer context menu (displayed when you right-click on a file)
- AkeeSoft WMViewer freeware GUI utility to deal to extract files from the winmail.dat file received by non-MS email clients.
- ZoneAlarm v6.1.737 Firewall software which monitors incoming/outgoing traffic from your Windows PC. Free for personal and at home use.
- 602LAN Suite 2004.0.05.0803 All-in-one server application (email, shared address book via LDAP, network faxing, internet sharing, firewall, Standard/Secure web Server with CGI support, DHCP server and more) for Windows 9x/NT/XP. Free for five users.
- Xitami 2.4d11 Small, fast, free web server. Supports CGI scripts, Server Side Includes (SSI), logging and MANY other features
- SlimServe FTPd v3.17 free, low-profile, high-efficiency FTP server
- Freeproxy v3.81 freeware proxy server with support for HTTP, SMTP, POP, FTP over HTTP, and many other features
- Colorcop v5.3 Small, free HTML colour picker
- Programmers Notepad text editor with many features such as: a tabbed mulitple document interface and syntax highlighting for HTML, CSS and other programming languages
Win 9x/NT/XP Graphics Programs
- IrfanView v3.97 fast FREEWARE (for personal use) image viewer/converter/manipulator. (Note : contains optional install of a Ebay Toolbar, which some consider spyware)
- Digital Camera Enhancer v1.3 Excellent free tools to enhance and clean digital images. Must download for digital camera owners.
- JPEG Wizard v1.40 Powerful, yet easy-to-use application to manipulate JPEG images
- PaintStudio Lite v1.2 easy to use freeware image viewing/editing application
- Easy JPEG Printer v2.0 print 4x6, 3x5 or 8x10 JPEGs on one sheet of paper. Freeware
Win 9x/NT/XP Applications
- OpenOffice.org v2.0.1 Open Source office productivity suite (46MB download); includes word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and more.
- 602PC SUITE 4.1.04.0908 Free office suite (30MB download) includes word processor, spreadsheet, graphic editor. Can read DOC and XLS files.
- CDrun v2.3 freeware skinnable Audio CD player with CDDB support (autofill the album and track info for unknown CDs)
- Foobar 2000 0.83 advanced Windows audio player with low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats
- Winamp v5.12 skinnable media player with various audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins that plays audio CDs, MP3s, AAC, WMA and more
- TUGZip v3.4 freeware archive utility to compress/uncompress 7Zip, ZIP, RAR, ARJ, CAB, TGZ, TAR, GZ and other files.
- FilZip v3.04 freeware archive utility (supports arj, zip, cab, rar, tar and more) and with many useful features.
- ZipCentral v4.01 free, easy to use zip file manager.
- Win32Pad v1.5.9.1 small (44K exe) and feature packed notepad replacement. Freeware
- Text Tools v7 Freeware programs for processing text tables and general text filtering
- ProgeCAD LT 2006 free CAD program (registration required); supports Autocad 2004/2005 DWGs,LISP files, etc based on IntelliCAD
- Convert v4.10 free, easy to use unit conversion program that will convert units such as distance, mass and MANY others
- CallCenter 3.9.3 free fax, voicemail and data communications application. Pro version available
- Celestia v1.4.0 free, open source real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions.
- FREE Serif Software older versions of software (ranging from desktop publishing, drawing and digital imaging to 3D design and web publishing) from Serif released for free. Requires free registration
- Isobuster v1.9 read and extract files from CD/DVD and Disk Image Files (e.g .ISO)
- Stickies 5.2a place sticky notes on your desktop and/or send to other users' desktops over a LAN ; can be set to disappear and reappear on your screen to acts as reminders. Freeware
- AceMoney Lite 3.8.3 free personal finance manager to record transactions to/from your account.
Other useful software sites
- World of Windows Networking Excellent site on networking and solutions to various problems with networking Windows PCs.
- Axcel216 Max Speeed site with detailed tips, tricks and useful information on optimizing and updating WinXP,Win9x and DOS
- Configuring Apache, PHP, MySQL and Domino for Windows 2000 Excellent article (which includes screenshots) for beginners to install and configure Apache, PHP, MySQL (all open source programs) and Lotus Domino for Windows
- Black Viper's Website Has 'Windows XP Services Configurations' which lists each possible service in Windows XP/2000 with advice on which services you can safely disable.
- Stop Spyware! Excellent page about what is spyware software, and how to remove them from your computer.
- OSSwin project List of open source software for Windows, organised in several categories
- SnapFiles Large collection of Software organised into freeware, shareware and adware categories with descriptions.
- Pricelessware lists freeware Windows software favoured by members of the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup
- TinyApps.org provides links to tiny standalone apps less than 1.4MB in size.
- GNUWin II Free (as in "free speech" *and* "free beer") software compilation for Windows. ISO image includes OpenOffice, Mozilla, The Gimp, much more.
- Freeware World Team large database of Windows freeware sorted into categories and with individual program descriptions
- Lightspeed's Windows 95 page
- Completely Free Software Free Software for Win9x/3x/DOS, each with reviews and links to the software's home page