Download Sites

Download Sites for Specific Programs

The biggest freeware download sites may have the program that you are looking for but navigating them can be tedious. Google or other search engines are often a better place to find links for specific programs than the search facilities at download sites. Here I list specific download links for some of my favorite freeware. I apologize if one of them stops working but links come and links go.

http://www.irfanview.com/
The graphics program IrfanView is one of my all-time favorites. It has an astonishing number of features for a free program and is updated frequently. I give more detail here
http://www.winpatrol.com/
WinPatrol is another free program with many features. It can help you control what is installed, what runs in the background, and what runs at startup. More discussion is here.
http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/
There are many text editors that are better than Windows Notepad but I have been using Notepad+ for years as my replacement for the Windows utility.
http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm
Of all the Registry cleaners that I have tried, EasyCleaner is one of the best.
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
RegSeeker is another good Registry tool. A beta product but seems to work OK.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
To find out all the details of what is on your system, use Belarc Advisor
http://www.internet-soft.com/download.htm
There are many freeware FTP clients but I like the free version of FTP Commander
http://www.karenware.com/powertools.html
A collection of many small useful utilities written by Karen Kenworthy. Excellent site. I use Replicator all the time to back up files. I also use her Cookie Viewer a lot.
http://www.sysinternals.com/
Another collection of useful small utilities. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell write everything here. Their programs concentrate on system maintenance and monitoring. Process Viewer is one of a number of their handy utilities. Added later: Sysinternals has been bought by Microsoft but so far the freeware remains available.
http://www.nirsoft.net/
A collection of free useful networking and Internet utilities. Also has a number of handy system utilities

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