The Best Free/Shareware Programs on the net!

I use the free AVG but don't have them running in the background all the time.Got or Had a Virus.More info here Virus info Real and Hoaxes

There's more and more so called,"Free"software which actually uses,"AdvertWare/Spyware".I am totally against this practice.If it's*FREE* it's 100 %*FREE* with no Adverts or devious data sent back to anyone.If you want to know more of what may be secretly on your system read here and get Spybot and/or Ad_Aware to test and clean your system and click Here for even more info

Microsoft Regclean 4.1a Has been Removed from my reg cleaner list as it can remove entries needed by the newer versions of DirectX

FilZip or Easyzip Small free zip programs.A must have on any system.

PowertoysWin95/TweakUI/ Great set of free Microsoft utilities.Free

Regseeker
Has the best deep cleaning of the Win95/98/ME registry that I have ever used!!

Note:Regcleaner.exe has gone commercial but you can get the older version which works in Win9X/ME/XP Regcleaner.exe

Easy cleaner Great program for cleaning the Registry/Hard drive and had a good Redundant File section for cleaning as well.Do*NOT* use the duplicate file finder/remover unless you really know what you are doing.Note:If you use it's Registry cleaner in WinME/WinXP type help in the skip box before cleaning the registry or EC will remove registry entries for the windows Help!!Info.Also the ,"Space Usage" option in Easy Cleaner is excellent for seeing old large files you may have left on the system that can be deleted. Here

RegscrubXP Free Regcleaner for WinXP/Win2K/NT

ClearBat(Cleans IE/Temp/History etc) Clear Temp/Internet Caches/Cookies and History (Credit to Ronaldo) NetScape Users Click Here.Please note:If you fully want to clean out all traces of IE tracking extract a copy of clear.bat to your C drive.Restart in Msdos and type CD\ and press enter.Then type smartdrv and press enter(speeds up the deletion) and then type clear and then press enter and you can type win and press enter to get back to windows Free

Son Of Clearbat(As clearbat but will auto re-boot/clean index files/check registry and compact it but still use the normal ClearBat in windows just in case).Win95/98 only.Free

2x Explorer Fantastic Windows Explorer Replacement.doesn't crash or lock and has many more features.Free.

NoteTabLite Great replacement for the windows notepad,much more useful.Free

Fresh Download or Stardownloader Save money and frustration! Fed up of broken downloads,then get the program(NO Spyware) and can speed up downloads and makes it easy to know where you are saving the downloads to :)Free

Letterbox Stop SPAM! Take control of what e-mail you get.Sits in your taskbar and checks for mail and lets,"You"decide what you download.You can set auto-filters with it.Free.

Mailwasher As above but nicer interface.Free

IrfanView The best free Picture viewer on the net.Supports most of the file formats used around the world.Free

CacheMan Home page Under normal usage the Window's Dynamic Vcache is OK but this program can fine tune it and allow windows to use all the RAM.It also can cure the 512 meg RAM bug in win95/98/ME. Click Here Click here for more Info Free

WRP My good old favourite Registry backup program/files.A must have on any system.Double click on the wrp.exe/Extract to folder/Read help.txt.Win95/98 only. Free

DunMonitor Great free Internet Data Speed checker.Free.

CacheSentry This small program fixes the bugs in IE browsers cache and speeds up surfing and you don't have to clean out the Browser cache so often.Read me files included.Free

Uotrace Don't Always blame your ISP.This little program can show you if there are network delays when you are down loading,just chop off the http:\\part from a URL e.g www.dogpile.com and put it in it's box and then use the trace route option,if it is at the ISP then complain to them.Free

Shutz99 Fed up using Ctrl Alt Delete to shutdown or re-boot the system,then this great small program is for you.Free

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