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I'm in the process of coding a Downloads database which should be active sometime today or tomorrow. It has things like Firewalls, Anti Virus Scanners, Spyware tools and other such programs.

If you have any sections, categories or programs that you would like to see, please tell me here and I will try to include it or research it for you :)

In time, I may host some file mirrors here for some popular applications (but limit the downloads so they don't interfere with the speed of the site at all).
 
Brilliant Reefsmoka! I forgot about Compression programs and drivers! Any other types you can think of?
 
How bout a document on that page such as a form that allows you to suggest a new program that is good and freeaware - the form would contain Name of program, direct link etc etc...
 
Ian Cunningham said:
Brilliant Reefsmoka! I forgot about Compression programs and drivers! Any other types you can think of?
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Well theres Fraps , its for couting the frame rate when playing a game and you can record yourself playing a game. Pretty useful if you wanna know what frames per second your running at.

Then theres Ati Tool , which is probably the best overclocking program for Ati Radeon cards.

Both of them are free and useful.

Theres Aquamark3, 3DMark01 and 3DMark03. Aswell as PCMark04!

If i can think of anymore i'll post, but i think im out now :\.
 
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Working on that now Chris,

Even more good ones Reef :) I forgot about Benchmarking too!
 
Guru3D The best place for all things video card related. All latest vid drivers, Nvidia refresh fix tool for OpenGL; Nvidia Tweak facility and lots more.

Guru3D



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Video Card Drivers. Another site for getting the most up to date drivers for your card.

Driverzone



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3D Mark 03. A video card benchmarking facility.



Futuremark



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Motherboard Monitor v5.3.7.0 If your motherboard has heat sensors, a great program for monitoring all temps, fan speeds and voltages.



Note: Discontinued July 2004. This will be the last version.



Motherboard Monitor



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Wpcuid v3.0b. An excellent computer benchmarking program, gives comparisons, essential for overclockers.



Wpcuid Benchmark



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Db Power Amp. A quality free programme that converts one audio format to another. Convert audio CD tracks to WAV files, WAV files to MP3, Windows Media files are covered as well. Files are converted quickly and efficiently. Also has dbMediaplayer and a plug in Aux. module for recording from Line In, allowing vinyl LP tracks to be recorded from your audio amplifier



Db Power Amp



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Exact Audio Copy. The title's quite self-explanatory, really. Here's a description of the facility from Quadophile:



If you have the burner and make compilation of audio tracks or simply wish to copy an audio CD you should seriously consider using “Exact Audio Copy”, do not let the size of the program fool you, yes, it is very small, yet, this happens to be the best software which anyone has come up with, whether freeware or to be acquired on payment. The name of the software is self-explanatory. The program is not for novices or those who are speed freaks, but for those who do not wish to compromise at any cost. The FAQ is extremely comprehensive and should be read to derive full benefits of the program. People generally are familiar with Freeware and Shareware, very few are familiar with Postcardware. Yes, as a courtesy send a postcard with stamp to the owner of the program. Thanks to Quadophile.



Exact Audio Copy



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SisSoftSandra 2004 Find out just about everything going on inside your rig. Everybody should have this.



Sandra



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Binary's BIOS Mods. Everything, but everything, concerning BIOS'es for Abit and Iwill Socket A boards. guides, EPA's etc.



Please note: This site hasn't been touched for around three years now, but if you're looking for exclusive Bios files for Abit Boards up to around the KR7A, still a good place.



Binary's BIOS Mods



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Zone Alarm. A free firewall package that really works well.



Zone Alarm



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AVG 6.0. A free Anti-Virus program that works really well.



AVG 6.0



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Trusty old WinZip. Make your files smaller for storage or sending as e-mail. If you don't have this yet, you should have:



Winzip



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Ultimate Zip. Free programe that supports ALL Zip formats. Works well. Only slight downside is with each use, is one same ad pops up for a few seconds. Other than that – invaluable



Ultimate Zip





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Game copy world. Tons of advice on backing up your games CD's and downloadable files that alllow you to play lots of games without having the CD in the drive. Invaluable for keeping your original CD in good condition and if you have several kids, stops them fighting over who gets the CD. Please take note of the copyright advice given on the site.



Game Copy World



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Megagames. Similar to Game Copy World (see above) but with a more comprehensive list of fixes. Also Patches, Demos & News.



Megagames



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Anti-Vir. A free Anti Virus Program that works well.



Anti-Vir



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Driver Archives: Good chance of finding that elusive driver at one of these sites:



Driverguide To save you the bother of registering and receiving spam: User name: drivers. Password: all.



Drivers HQ



Helpdrivers



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Trillian. A very good chat client programme which integrates all chat programmes into one.



Trillian



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Definitive BIOS guide (Rojak).



BIOS Guide



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Bootdisk. Need a bootdisk specifically designed for BIOS flashing? Look here. Invaluable.



Bootdisk



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Linux distros. Download ISO's of nearly all Linux flavours here:



Linux Distros



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DVD Doctor. All things DVD and heaps of info on making vids:



DVD Doctor



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Ad-aware 6.0. Zap all those nasty spyware programmes that have found their way uninvited onto your hard drive.



Ad-aware 6.0 (Note new version, now at V1.05, available)



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Spybot Search & Destroy. Detects & removes AdWare & Spyware.



Spybot V1.3



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Registry Tweaking. This is a great site for all things registry related, they have stuff for security, ehancements, performance, plus tips and tricks. For all Windows OS's from WIN95 to XP.



Registry Tweaking



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3dfx Drivers. With the demise of the official 3dfx website from Feb 19th 2002, this site provides all the 3dfx files, drivers and information you're ever likely to need for this family of Video Cards.



Voodoofiles



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More 3dfx Drivers. With no official continued support for 3dfx Vid cards, this site supplies drivers and modded files for the 3dfx family



3dfx Drivers



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Shell Extension City. The site banner says 'Configure Your System Wickedly'. Loads of Windows tweaks and tricks. With titles such as 'Replace The Shell' & 'Change The Look' should be something here to interest most folks



Shell Extension City



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AXCEL Max Speed. 'Tricks, Secrets, Bugs, Fixes' for Windows. Lots of tips and tweaks here.



AXCEL



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Tucows. This site rivals CNET for choice. Describes itself as a 'Software Library' and has 30,000 downloads and reviews. Programs, Screensavers, Desktop Themes, Games Demos and much more. Quick download times as well. This one definitely worth a visit.



Tucows



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Utility Geek. Lots of Utilities subdivided into categories, HDD; CD; BIOS; Memory; Benchmarking etc. Their headline is 'Software that works'. An excellent site.



Utility Geek



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NoNags.Nonags is a site for many useful freebies.They test the software so you won't get any viruses and there are no nag screens. Lots of nifty little progs here. This is the main site where you can locate a nonags nearest you.



No Nags



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HDD partition removed, any way to recover data?



MBRWorkThis is a utility to perform some common and uncommon tasks to the MBR/EMBR/Sectors of a hard drive. It should only be used by power users who understand how computers work. The readme.txt file in the download zip contains a list of the tasks available.



Terabyte



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MetaBench Free Benchmarking facility.



MetaBench



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CrazyBrowser. A free browser that stops pop-ups.



Crazy Browser





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Cloudmark.For a program called Spam Net beta 6 which installs on to your Outlook 2000/XP program and then moves all spam which you receive into a spam folder ready for deletion



Spam Net



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DU Meter.A programme to measure how much you download in a specific day/week/month etc., monitors transfer rates and displays uploads and downloads (current) on a compact graph.



DU Meter



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Smartftp. A nice Windows based ftp program with an explorer type window setup. regularly updated and full featured. Free for personal use.



Smartftp

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Jv16 Reg Cleaner. A tool to clean up and control Windows' registry. Works very well and it's free. Small download.



UPDATE 08-04-03: This download is now no longer available for free but only as part of a much larger 'tools' programme. Therefore I'm hosting the original freebie. It dates from first Quarter, 2003.



Jv16 Reg Cleaner

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SwatIt Anti Trojan and Bot scanner. For free.



SwatIt



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MPEGX. All the Video/Audio/CD/DVD/Encrypt/Decode/Rip/Dub/Convert tools you could ever wish for. Freeware, Shareware and trial software for all Windows OS's Linux & Mac. Includes some guides and several DVD-to-AVI freeware conversion programmes.



MPEGX

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ATTO Benchmark. A Hard Disk Benchmarking program.



ATTO Benchmark



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Cdex. Quality Audio File Conversion Program. Free.



Cdex



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DVD Shrink. A free, small, easy to use program that converts DVD's to a format ready for burning to DVD.



DVD Shrink Downloads DVD Shrink Tutorials



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DVD DeCrypter. A free program to decrypt DVD's and enable them to be backed up to DVD.



DVD DeCrypter



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Memtest86. A free memory test facility. Will show any failings your memory has. Also has an ISO download to let you make a bootable CD to run the program.



Memtest 86



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Prime 95. A stress test for CPU's. Good for letting you know if your overclocked CPU is stable.



Prime 95



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Ultimate Boot CD. Dozens of programs will boot from the CD you can make from this download. Too many to list here, see full details at download site.



Ultimate Boot CD



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Win 98 'Service Pack Unofficial 'Service Pack' for Win 98. Contains nearly all of the Win98 updates except for IE, MP & DX.



Win 98 SP1



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Open Office. A free Office Suite. Just like Microsoft's, almost, except it's for free. Quite amazing.



Open Office



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XP Anti-Spy. A small program where you can select to enable or disable lots of features within Win XP just by ticking or unticking a box. saves having to make all those fernicketty registry changes. Ability to stop annoying pop up speech balloons and disable MSN on boot, to name just a couple. Almost a must have for XP users.



XP Anti-Spy



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Kerio Firewall. A free software Firewall that works well.



Kerio Firewall



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SpywareBlaster V3.2. A program that blocks Adware & Spyware.



SpywareBlaster



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Wow, that must have taken some time to compile. Lots more ready to be added!
 
Thanks Ian, though truth to tell, it's something I'd already put together at my other 'home' ;)

I was on the verge of suggesting we have a links section here, but you seem to have pre-empted me :) Good stuff.

Will probably add some more as days go by, Mailwasher springs to mind right now, and that AdWare proggie Mucks was raving about recently, it's name escapes me for the moment.

Looks like you have your work cut out ;)
 
Lol, I'm going to start adding some tonight ;) All the super mods have access to the link download database, so if you think of any at some point in the future you can post them in here on add them directly :)
 
I am surprised nobody mentioned Major Geeks here. This site is the only one for me when it comes to downloads of any type, besides, I find it extremely fast all the time. It is also a major mirror site for most everything. They have 3 day updates which I find very useful as I need to visit once in two or three days to catch up on every type of download. I do not use any other site for my downloading needs.

Ian, if you have time please do take a peek and see for yourself.

Major Geeks
 
I visit MajorGeeks quite a lot too, they seem to host everything there :D
 
is it just me, or did this downloads never take off... i cannot see a link to it from anywhere :P
 
I totally forgot about this :eek: I've been so busy recently I must have neglected it a bit!

I'll add this in to the new site design (which is coming along nicely!). I'll have a test site going in a week or so for commenting.
 
:o

First time I've seen this thread ... :rolleyes:

... would be easyer to "link" to Flopp's PC :D
 
muckshifter said:
:o

First time I've seen this thread ... :rolleyes:

... would be easyer to "link" to Flopp's PC :D
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You're a bit of a wascal sometimes Mr Mucks :D

I'm not sure if all those links are still relevant now. May need a little sorting.

I will say one thing though, compiling a list of software download links is quite time consuming. Especially when you consider each one has to be checked out, verified as good and a description given.

And of course they have to be checked every month or two to see if they've been upgraded and are in fact still active.

A thankless task? No, I don't think so, it would be good if PC Review offered some good links, imo.
 
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