Free Software List for Vista

[Ophelia]

AntiVir is another great antivirus program that works with Vista. Free antivirus - Avira AntiVir

 

[pete.ferrer]

Does Anyone Know Of A Free Go Back Program?????

 

[glob]

What's a Go Back program?

 

[jacquemartes]

Anybody know a really good file shredding and deleting program? Or do any of the above utilities include this function; like, say, cclearner?

 

[Brink]

Hi Jacquemartes,

Yes CCleaner has a file shredder option. In Options then Settings, you can select the level of Secure Deletion you want for the files that are cleaned by CCleaner.

Shawn

 

[Tredeep Kaur]

Awesome

 

[nishanth]

That's really great! Shawn

Thank you vry much for info.
Nishanth.

 

[Brink]

Your welcome Tredeep Kaur and Nishanth.

Please feel free to post any great free programs that you run across here as well for the other members to try.

Shawn

 

[sidney1st]

AntiVir is another great antivirus program that works with Vista. Free antivirus - Avira AntiVir

Yes it is.
For the moment free 6months for the premium version.
https://license.avira.com/en/promotion-t0q1aatr05zwftftgnqr

 

[superjean4]

Hi, Shawn

I think DVD Flick should be in the list, I use it all the time and at the same time ImgBurn.

DVD Flick
The Official ImgBurn Website

DVD Flick is a programme to convert movies to be able to watch them on a dvd player and ImgBurn is the programme it uses to burn the converted files

They both work very well on Vista 64bit (in 32bit compatibility)

Jean

 

[Brink]

Thank you Jean for suggesting these.

I added ImgBurn to the list.

What did you mean "in 32 bit compatibility" ? Did you mean a compatibility mode? If so, 32 bit is not an available mode option.

Shawn

 

[superjean4]

Sorry for the misunderstanding I meant that they run in 32bit and not in 64bit.

 

[Brink]

Ok Jean. Thank you for clarifying that. You will happy to know that ImgBurn will work in 64 bit Vista though.

ImgBurn supports all the Windows OS's - Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 (including all the 64-bit versions).

The Official ImgBurn Website

Shawn

 

[grimreaper]

Just browsing around installed A-Patch, and works perfect...I was always sick of that msn advertising crap on the bottom window, now gone
Thanx Brink.

 

[Brink]

Your welcome GrimReaper. I didn't like that either.

Shawn

 

[johngalt]

Shawn, a couple of things:

Gotta have WinPatrol - helps keep you alert even with processes that don't generate a UAC prompt (Is free, but also hasa paid version).

FTP client - WinSCP is good, but I also like FileZilla. Fast, efficient, and has a portable version too (portable Apps).

For Password managing, gotta be KeePass Password Safe - can be installed or run without installation, and there is a portable version as well, both U3 and Portable Apps.

Malwarebytes' Anti Malware - one of the better anti Malware programs with *active* development and multiple definition file updates daily (Is free but also has a paid version that offers real time scanning).

Recuva, a file undelete program made by the same folks as CCleaner.

Skype, for video chat and voice calls over P2P technology.

xplorer2 (lite) - my all time favorite dual pane file manager. (I personally bought the pro version because of it's features and portability....X2Lite is free, but the pro is not,)

 

[Brink]

Thank you Johngalt,

I added Recuva and WinPatrol to the list.

Shawn

 

[johngalt]

2 /7 - not bad :P

 

[dmex]

GSpot Codec Information Appliance
GSpot is good utility for detecting required missing or available system codec's needed for particular files.

Steven

 

[superjean4]

Some very good and free video players :

VLC- VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!
CCCP - Combined Community Codec Pack

I have vista 64bit, VLC works like a charm and the The Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) has a little problem when you use your wheel on your mouse to skip forward. But still very useful.