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top 1. THE BEST SEARCH ENGINES ON THE INTERNET Google basic is the most popular. Google Advanced is the overall best If Google doesn't get you your answer, other fine options include: FAST: All The Web Ask HotBot Lycos Yahoo Pandia Search Central Search Engine Watch SearchEngineGuide Open Directory Project Internet Archive (THE archive of the Internet!)
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top 3. Windows HARDWARE AND SYSTEM PAGES FOR The best computer hardware and system information pages include WinPlanet PCTools Guides Tom's Hardware Guide AnandTech Tips4PC Sharky Extreme Neoseeker Hardware Secrets ExtremeTech TechSpot PCGuide PCStats ArsTechnica Futuremark ModemHelp Black Viper Tech Support Alert HelpWithWindows PCTools Guides Windows Reinstall SysOpt Bob Cerelli's Windows Page Doug�s Windows Tweaks and Tips Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows Everything Computers Windows Support Center Annoyances Elder Geek on Windows XP
top 4. The best Windows free software Tweak Sites include: PurePerformance Tweak3D Axcel-216 Tweak Central Tweak Town TweakGuides Tweaks Tweak XP WinMatrix TweakGuides (both Vista & XP) TweakVista SpeedyVista Super Tweaks for Vista TweakHound on Vista (and here) The Storage Review page is one of the best hard drive and storage information sites. The best computer hardware and PC building sites inlcude: My Super PC PC Mechanic Overclockers Club The Sysinfo page is one of the best Windows� Registry information sites. The SysInternals page is one of the best Windows system information utility sites. The SpeedGuide page is one of the best system performance sites.
5. The best sources of technical support include: Professional Technical Support Exchange Protonics Recommended Tools Download Page Computing.Net forums Microsoft Support and Knowledge Base 5 Star Support Tech Support Guy Ask Me Help Desk Protonic Windows Problem Solver Bug.gd - computer error message troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Vista Help Microsoft Knowledge Base-XP home network setup CERT Home Network Security http://www.theeldergeek.com/unattended_logon.htm
top 6. COMPUTER NETWORKING PAGES The the best computer networking sites include: World of Windows Networking Practically Networked SmallNetBuilder Learn TCP/IP Learn To Subnet Home Net Help Linksys ARS Technica Wireless Networking Setup Wireless networking pages include Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Planet.
top 7. COMPUTER AND INTERNET SECURITY PAGES The best computer security sites include: TomCat Gibson Research Corporation Symantec Symantec Security Response Microsoft Security and Privacy All-Internet-Security WindowsSecurity UKSecurityOnline CERT PC Flank The best computer utility, virus and security sites include: McAfee Trend Micro The best firewall information sites include: Home PC Firewall Guide Zone Labs
top 8. FREE ONLINE SECURITY AND OTHER SCANS The best sites for free security scans include: Shields UP! F-Secure McAfee Security BitDefender Trend Micro iNFOSYSSEC The DNSStuff page offers one of the best free domain and network information portals.
top 9. FREE COMPUTER DIAGNOSTIC BOOT DISK UTILITIES The best DOS and Windows boot disk and utility sites include: BootDisk AllBootDisks PowerLoad NU2 Productions 911 Rescue CD Ultimate Boot CD Ultimate Boot CD for Windows EBCD Emergency Boot Disk Utility Site Knoppix CD Knoppix STD CD INSERT CD System Boot & Recovery Disk SystemRescueCD Vista Recovery Disk DSL CD System boot and recovery disk Windows XP Recovery CD - build SP2 system boot and recovery disk The Vista Recovery Disk Password recovery Sites include: NT Password Editor to reset passwords on Windows NT. Ophcrack to recover passwords on Windows NT passwords systems. RockXP - retrieve passwords on Windows NT systems. Enabler - retrieve passwords from some Windows programs. NTFS Reader - read NTFS file systems from a DOS boot disk. BIOS Central - information about your system BIOS.
top 10. SHAREWARE AND FREEWARE Best Sources of Shareware (trial software you eventually need to buy) and freeware (software that is really free forever). MajorGeeks (LJR endorsed) CNet Downloads (LJR endorsed) ZDNet Downloads PCWorld Downloads Snapfiles Softpedia Select Freeware Pricelessware Open Source Windows Glary Utilities Gizmo's Tucows 32Bit Jumbo (Freeware & Shareware) WinSite CWS Apps WinAppsList Top Quality Freeware The Great Software List Freeware Files Gazette NoNags Freeware Arena and Freeware Book Freeware Home TheFreeCountry Best Freeware Nirsoft CleanSoftware Doc's Mega Download 321Download A+ Freeware A+ Last Freeware Versions Xtort ZeroPlus2 OldVersion page is one of the best previous version computer program and freeware sites. Best listings for free services and freeware: It�s Free 4U Freeware Guide Free Site FreewareWeb Free Byte PCMan 5Star Shareware Shell Extension City - PC Utilities AnalogX USB Specific PortableApps USB drive applications . Icrontic information on making USB flash drives bootable. FileMirrors page is a great site for searching for alternative download sites. Microsoft Download Center independent download of most Microsoft updates.
top 11. COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SYSTEM and DEVICE DRIVERS DriverZone DriverHQ DriverSearch DriverGuide Windows Drivers 32 Search top 12. COMPUTER SITES FOR LINUX Sites for Linux Beginers: Beginners Linux Guide Linux Newbie Administrator Guide Ultimate Guide on Linux for Beginners Linux Distribution Sites: DistroWatch - Linux distribution overview sites. Live CD List - Linux distribution sites for Live Linux CDs. openSUSE Ubuntu Kubuntu Linux Mint Knoppix Fedora Mandriva Debian SimplyMEPIS PCLinuxOS Linux General resources: Linux.Com LinuxLinks Portal Linux Online DesktopLinux Linux Headquarters ReallyLinux Linux From Scratch TuxFiles JustLinux Linux for Newbies LinuxQuestions Linux Forums CTDP Linux Linux Documentation Project Using Linux Red Hat Linux Unleashed (Book) The LinuxPrinting page is one of the best Linux printing information sites. The Wine project is one of the best sites for running Windows programs on Linux. The RPMFind page is one of the best Linux rpm application and program sites. The best Linux application and program sites: Freshmeat Ibibilio Sourceforge Linux TwoCows Tuxfinder IceWalkers Linux Software Encyclopedia The Free Software Directory page is one of the best Linux program and freeware sites. The Linux Drivers page is one of the best Linux drivers sites. top 13. TWEAKS FOR WINDOWS 2000 AND XP TweakUI PowerToys for Windows XP jv16Powertools FreshUI Pitaschio XdN Tweaker Advanced WindowsCare Personal Edition Glary Utilities MZ Ultimate Tools PCDecrapifier deletes junk programs that come with your computer. top
TWEAKS FOR WINDOWS VISTA TweakVI Vista4Experts MZ Vista Force TweakVista DTweak Free VistaBootPRO Ultimate Windows Tweaker EasyBCD �system tweak� multi-boot programs. TweakUAC �User Account Control� modification programs. * Smart UAC �User Account Control� replacement programs. * Vista Firewall Control is one of the best free firewall control programs. * ShadowExplorer is one of the best free shadow copy backup programs. Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover is one of the best free shortcut arrow removers.
top 14. SYSTEM INFORMATION The best free system diagnostic tools available include: Sandra PCWizard HWiNFO32 SIW Fresh Diagnose Everest Home Auslogics System Information WhatsRunning MBM - motherboard monitoring tool CPU-Z - CPU diagnostic tool GPU-Z - GPU diagnostic tool Hexagora Performance Monitor Belarc Advisor - PC auditing system tool WinAudit - PC auditing system tool USBDeView - USB port information tool US Govt Speed test (Internet Connection Statistics) top 15. FIREWALLS PCTools Firewall (LJR recommended) ZoneAlarm Comodo Online-Armor Free Sunbelt (Kerio) Personal Firewall Sygate Personal Firewall Jetico Personal Firewall Netveda Safety.Net Firewall Outpost Firewall SoftPerfect Firewall SmoothWall Linux based firewall turns an old computer into a dedicated hardware firewall. 16. ANTI VIRUS The Best Free Anti Virus Programs: AVG AntiVirus (LJR recommended) ThreatFire (LJR recommended) Avast Avira AntiVir Comodo PCTools ClamWin BitDefender The Best Free Tools to Remove Individual Viruses: Symantec Virus Removal Tools McAfee Virus Removal Tools F-Secure Virus Removal Tools AVG Virus Removal Tools BitDefender Virus Removal Tools Avast Virus Removal Tools Sophos Removal Tools Norton Removal Tool is used to completely remove Norton and Symantec products. McAfee Removal Tool is used to completely remove McAfee products.
top 17. SYSTEM PROTECTION & VIRTUALIZATION The best free system protection and security programs available include: AMUST 1-Defender DropMyRights The best free system protection and virtualization programs available include: VMWare Player and Browser VMWare Server Microsoft Virtual PC Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 18. COMPREHENSIVE ALL-IN-ONE SECURITY AOL Safety and Security Center is one of the best free all-in-one programs available. AOL Security Monitor is one of the best free monitoring programs available.
19. ROOTKIT The best free rootkit detection programs available include: RootkitRevealer IceSword GMER HookExplorer Avira AntiRootkit Tool Sophos Anti-Rootkit McAfee Rootkit Dectective InvisibleThings Antirootkit.com
top 20. SPYWARE The best free spyware killer programs available: Ad-Aware (LJR endorsed) ThreatFire (LJR endorsed) SpyBot (LJR endorsed) SpywareBlaster SUPERAntiSpyware Malwarebytes Comodo BOClean SpywareGuard a-squared a-squared HiJackFree Spyware Doctor Starter Edition Spyware Terminator Microsoft Windows Defender WinPatrol SpyCatcher Express IE-SPYAD SpySites Bazooka Startup Mechanic Keylogger Hunter is one of the best free keylogger finder programs available. SwatIt is one of the best free trojan and bot killer programs available. Bit9 FileAdvisor is one of the best free file identification programs available. System Safety Monitor is one of the best free application monitoring programs available. WARNING: This page warns of suspect anti-sypware products and web sites! 21. ANTI-PHISHING & SCAM TOOLBARS Netcraft is one of the best free anti-phishing toolbars available. Earthlink Toolbar is one of the best free anti-phishing toolbars available. Google Toolbar also has some security features built in. OpenDNS also provides phishing protection and DNS services. McAfee SiteAdvisor is a good web site security plug-in for your web browser. LinkScanner Lite is a good web site security plug-in for your web browser. Symantec Internet Threat Meter is a good security widget for your system.
22. SPAM KILLERS The best free spam filter programs available: MailWasher (and here) Comodo SPAMfighter Standard SpamBayes K9 Spamihilator top 23. FILE MANAGEMENT 24. File Managers The best free Windows Explorer replacement programs available: 2XExplorer xplorer2 XYplorer * CubicExplorer UltraExplorer TurboNavigator Free Commander PowerDesk FileAnt FMEdit98 Pablo Commander Total Commander 25. File Synchronization The best free file synchronization programs available: ViceVersa Allway Sync SyncBack FolderSync Microsoft SyncToy 26. File Finders The very best little free file finder programs available: XFind FileFinder Agent Ransack LookDisk The very best free desktop search programs available. Google Desktop Search (LJR recommended) Copernic Desktop Search top
27. Duplicate File Finders Duplicate Cleaner Easy Duplicate File Finder 28. File Splitters HJ-Split ChainSaw 29. File Backup XXCopy is a great free versatile extension of the Windows xcopy program. Great little free backup programs:. Cobain Backup Comodo Freebyte Backup MyOwn Backup Backup4all Backup Server Bacula for Windows, Mac and Linux. PCBackup Utilities Free top 30. Driver Backup Great little free driver backup programs: Driver Collector is a great little free driver backup program. DriverMax is a great little free driver backup program. DriverBackup! is a great little free driver backup program. Driver Sweeper is a great little free driver cleanup and backup program. WinDriversBackup PE is a great little free driver backup program. 31. Folder Size FolderSize is a great little free directory size program. 32. File Rename Great little free file renaming programs Bulk Rename Utility Rename Master Flash Renamer Lupas Rename ReNamer PFrank 33. File Erase Boot and Nuke is a great little free hard drive wipe program. * Great little free file erase and wipe programs: Eraser AxCrypt File Shredder top 34. File Recover Great little free file undelete and recovery programs: Undelete Plus PCInspector FreeUndelete 35. File Compression Tthe best file compression programs available: PKZip WinZip FreeZip UltimateZip Freebyte Zip 7-Zip jZip ZipGenius IZArch QuickZip WinRAR 36. Free File Encryption Programs TrueCrypt (Recommended by RCG) Hide Folders a folder hiding program.(NOT recommended) Kruptos file and folder encryption FreeOTFE disk encryption Rohos Mini Drive a flash drive encryption top 37. Free File Viewers ATViewer, a universal file viewer. WNBrowse, a file browser HHD Hex Editor, a hex editor Cygnus Hex Editor, a hex editor 38. File Unlock Unlocker is a great free utility that allows you to delete locked files. 39. File Copy Great free file copying utilities for Windows. FastCopy SuperCopier TeraCopy 40. File Convert Zamzar is a great free online file conversion site. docx-converter is a great free online file conversion site for Office 2007 files. 41. File Extension Information FILExt is a great free online file extension information site. 42. HARD DISK Monitoring Programs HDD Health is a great little free disk monitoring program. Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a great little free disk monitoring program. top 43. Free HARD DISK Partitioning Programs Parted Magic Linux Live CD disk partitioning Partition Logic Live CD disk partitioning EASEUS Partition Manager disk partitioning GParted Linux Live CD disk partitioning Partition Resizer is disk partition resizing Ranish Partition Manager partitioning SwissKnife disk partitioning and formatting program DelPart NTFS partition deleting program. 44. MISC OSL2000 is a good little free multi-boot manager program. 45. Free Hard Disk Defragmentation Programs Defraggler SmartDefrag Auslogics Disk Defrag PageDefrag top 46. Free Hard Disk Imaging and Partition Backup Programs SelfImage DriveImage XML PING Misc: Disk Investigator is a great little free hard disk viewing and file undeleting program. * 47. CD/DVD BURNING & TOOLS Great free CD/DVD burning utilities:. ImgBurn Burn4Free CDBurnerXP Pro DeepBurner FinalBurner DVD Shrink DVD Flick DVDStyler DVDx Free utility programs for creating and managing virtual CD and DVD drives: MagicDisk Alcohol 52% FE Microsoft Virtual CD Nero Toolkit has great free CD and DVD information and speed programs. Doom9 has everything you need to know about backing up your DVDs. 48. STARTUP & SHUTDOWN StartUp CPL is one of the best free system startup management tools available. Best free startup viewers available: Autoruns <= Use carefully to dramatically speed boot time by disabling lots of stuff MS-Config is not aware of. Starter Best free system startup management tools available: StartUpList MSConfig Startup Delayer LastChance is one of the best free shutdown tools available. top 49. INSTALLERS & UNINSTALLERS Best free installer and update programs available: AppSnap InstallPad Best free uninstaller programs available. MyUninstaller Revo Uninstaller Absolute Uninstaller



top 50. REGISTRY ERUNT is a great free tool to back up the Windows NT/2000/XP registry. * Auslogics Registry Defrag is one of the best free registry defrag programs available. Best free registry programs available: Registry Healer EasyCleaner Comodo Registry Cleaner TweakNow! RegSeeker Clean My Registry Wise Registry Cleaner Eusing Registry Cleaner CCleaner is one of the best free system and registry cleaning programs available. *
top 51. MEMORY & CACHE Best free RAM managers available: RAM Idle FreeRAM XP Pro Cacheman RAM and cache manager Windows Memory Diagnostic is one of the best free RAM testing programs available. Memtest86 is one of the best free RAM testing programs available. * 52. PROCESSES Best free process viewers available:. PRCView SystemExplorer ProcessScanner Process Explorer
top 53. COMMAND LINE SlickRun is one of the best free command line utilities available. 54. MONITOR & RESOLUTION MultiRes is one of the best free monitor resolution utilities available. 55. NETWORK Monitoring Tools TCPView Spiceworks NetStat Live Active Ports PacketMon RogueScanner SoftPerfect Nessus NMap Angry IP Scanner Advanced IP Scanner Advanced Port Scanner Advanced LAN Scanner Look@LAN Other Free Network Tools NetPeeker multiple-use network tool Wireshark network protocol analyzer Analyzer network protocol analyzer NetStumbler wireless network analyzer Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Wi-Fi network monitoring tool. WinDump network analyzer QCheck network performance analyzer Snort network analyzer and intrusion detection system NetworkProbe network monitor and protocol analyzer NetworkActiv is network packet analyzer Zx Sniffer traffic analyzer WinPCap Windows packet capture library SamSpade is Windows network query tool Foundstone Windows network security and scanning tools. My Vital Agent Windows network connection information Network Magic Windows home network connection configuration HoverIP Network IP utility WhatIsMyIPAddress gives your true IP address. MyWANIP gives your true IP address. 56. Other Network Monitoring Software MRTG Graphs what's running through each port on your network.
57. REMOTE ACCESS GotoAssist as of 1/20/09, this is the best free solution to remote access a users' PC (while they are there) and take control of screen, mouse, and keyboard. (LJR) Other best free remote access programs available include: LogMeIn RealVNC UltraVNC
top 58. FTP FileZilla is the free File Transfer Protocol program I use as of 1.20.09. (LJR) Other free best File Transfer Protocol programs available include: WS_FTPLE AceFTP FreeFTP FreshFTP Core FTP LE FTP Wanderer FTP Explorer RightLoad 59. INTERNET CONNECTION The best free Internet Connection tweak programs available: Cable Nut Speakeasy Numion DrTCP BroadbandReports TCP Optimizer WinsockFix (or here)is one of the best free Internet and Network Connection fixes available. WNTIPcfg is one of the best free IP Configuration tools availalbe for Windows 2000/XP. *
60. INTERNET BROWSERS Browsers for Windows and Linux: Firefox (LJR endorsed when using NoScript from FireFox.com) Sea Monkey Netscape Opera Other Windows browsers: Avant K-Meleon Maxthon Browser Add-ons: IE7Pro is a great free add-on to Internet Explorer. Google Toolbar is a great free add-on to Internet Explorer and Firefox. WebReaper is a great free web crawler and offline Internet web browser. HTTrack is a great free web site copier and offline Internet web browser. 2Bone has a great free link checker for you web pages. TinyURL has a great way to shorten long URLs for emails and newsgroups. top 61. EMAIL Email & Newsreader programs: Thunderbird and Forte Free Agent is a great free little email and newsreader program. Other email programs: Eudora and Pegasus. SpellCheck is a great free spell checker for Outlook Express. ieSpell is a great free spell checker for Internet Explorer. DBXtract is a great free Outlook Express email extraction program. Inside Outlook Express is one of the best Outlook Express troubleshooting sites.
top 62. OFFICE & WORDPROCESSING Free office suites for personal and SOHO use: OpenOffice StarOffice Lotus Symphony SOT Office 2003 Zoho AbiWord Jarte Google Docs Ajax13 Buzzword MISC: Serif Software has some free publishing suite software for personal and SOHO use. PrintMaster Express is a great free greeting card and print program for personal use. Scribus is a great free open source desktop publishing program. * ThinkFree Office Online is a great free office suite that works in your browser. Powerbullet Presenter is a great free Flash presentation program. Free text editors for personal use: PSPad EditPad Lite NotePad+ NotePad++ NoteTab Lite NotepadEx Metapad Pedit is a great free DOS text editor for personal use. WinPedit is a great free Windows text editor for personal use. SimpleOCR is a great free OCR program for personal use. Rainlendar is a great free desktop calendar program for personal use. Sunbird and Lightning are great free Mozilla desktop calendar programs for personal use. top 63. DICTIONARIES WordWeb is a great free dictionary and thesaurus for windows. Everest Dictionary is a great free dictionary for windows.
64. PDF Free PDF document creators: PDF995 PDFCreator CutePDF Writer PDFMachine White Free PDF readers: Adobe Acrobat Reader Foxit Reader Misc PDF utilities: PDFSpeedup is a great free utility to make Adobe Reader load faster. Adobe Reader Speedup is a great free utility to make Adobe Reader load faster.
top 65. HTML EDITORS Best free WYSIWYG web page creators available: Nvu (or here) Amaya FreshHTML Best free HTML editors available: FPExpress Coffeecup Free 1stPage2000 EasyHTML DHE Editor AceHTML Free Web Site Link Checker
top 66. GRAPHICS Free graphics viewers: IrfanView FastStone XnView FreshView Free graphics editing programs: GIMP Photoscape Pixia PhotoPlus Snapfire FotoFlexer StudioLine Photo Basic InkScape Adobe Photoshop SE Paint.NET GIMPshop VicMan Photo Editing PhotoFiltre Photo Editor FXFoto Maya PLE 3D Graphics rasterbator - Turn Photos Into Wall-Size Posters Media Management Programs Microsoft Photo Info Media Purveyor Free Photo management programs: PhotoZig Picasa Preclick
top 67. MUSIC & MEDIA The best free music and media players available: WinAmp Media Player Classic GOM Player VLC Media Player Windows Media Player iTunes RealOne Player Audacity Wavosaur Miro Vibe Streamer QuickTime Player DivX Player Other free music and media utilities: MediaMonkey is one of the best free music players and organizers available. AVS DVD Player: a free DVD media players available. Super �: afree video converting programs available. CodecInstaller a free audio and video codec analyzing programs available. MediaCoder: a free audio and video format converting programs available. Soundsnap: a sound sampling sites. MediaPortal: a Media Center programs for Windows.
top 68. CALCULATORS Free loan calculators. Loan Calculator Plus Easy Loan Calculator Loan Calculator
top 69. DOS EMULATORS Best free DOS emulation programs � especially for games .DOSBox VDMSound
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