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Frank Janssen van Frankwatching
0 29 april 2005 18 minuten lezen

FreewareEr is een gigantisch grote hoeveelheid gratis tools beschikbaar. Sommige van die zogenaamde freeware tools zijn zelfs beter dan de commerciele alternatieven. Op de site van Tech Support Alert vond ik The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities, een lijst van inmiddels 60 prachtige tools. Hier eveneens die 60 tools, ieder voorzien van een korte toelichting.

1. Best Free Web Browser
“With tabbed browsing and more free extensions than you could ever want, it offers a major upgrade in your browsing experience.”

2. Best Free Anti-Virus Software
“Avast! also required periodic re-registration while AVG does does not.”

3. Best Free Adware/Spyware/Scumware Remover
“However you can add active protection by using other free products (see below) I use both Giant and Ad-aware as they tend to find slightly different things. If possible, I suggest you use both as well.”

4. Best Free Browser Protection Utility
“It provides active protection for Internet Explorer users against thousands of malevolent products that use ActiveX based exploits and offers defenses against unwanted cookies as well. (…) It is a protective program that checks programs for malware signatures before they are executed and checks program behavior as well.”

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    • 5. Best Free Firewall
    “The product that seems to cause the fewest problems for users.”

    6. Best Free Trojan Scanner/Trojan Remover
    “I recommend that all average PC users who don’t have an anti-trojan scanner download the product and scan their PCs weekly.”

    8. Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service
    “Whatever, both JAP and Tor offer a level of secrecy that is better than many commercial systems. However expect your surfing to slow down as you’ll be relayed through a chain of servers. You’ll also need to change your browser settings to work through a proxy.”

    9. Best Free Software Suite
    “There is Abi Word as an alternative for MS Word, OpenOffice for MS Office XP, ThunderBird for Outlook, The Gimp for Adobe Photoshop, 7-zip for WinZIP are many more.”

    10. Best Free File Manager
    “Windows Explorer is fine for simple file management activities but when you have some serious work to do, you need a two pane file manager.”

    11. Best Free Email Client
    “All Outlook Express users should seriously consider switching. You’ll be rewarded with a more advanced product including built- in spam filtering, built-in RSS reader, better security, message color coding, fast email search and the ability to view your mail in conversational threads.”

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    12. Best Free WebMail Accessory
    “It will download HotMail, Lycos, Yahoo and several other webmail services into your POP email client. It can also give you access to email accounts on MS Exchange 5.5.”

    13. Best Free Outlook Add-in (1)
    “A small free Outlook 2002 add-in that allows you to preview your HTML email as text.”

    14. Best Free Outlook Add-in (2)
    “Choose a preferred account, signature and email format for each defined mail folder.”

    15. Best Free Outlook Express Backup
    “This free utility allows you to do a full or selective backup of OE’s critical files including mail folders, newsgroups, address book and identity settings.”

    16. Best Free Spam Filter for the Average User
    “Mailwasher is for most folk, the easiest way of free option for dealing with Spam. (…) The last free version of Mailwasher before it went commercial is still floating around the web. It lacks some of the advanced spam detection features of the latest version but is still very effective. You can get it using the second link below. Alternatively, try XTerminator which provides some of the same features of Mailwasher and is totally free.”

    17. Best Free Spam Filter for Experienced Users
    “POPFile is a statistical filter so it has to be trained to recognize your spam from your normal mail. Outlook users should check out SpamBayes, another open source statistical filter that offers an Outlook plug-in that makes it more more convenient to use.”

    18. Best Free Popup Stopper
    “The need for popup stopper utilities has fallen away in recent months as many browsers such as FireFox now have this function built in. If you need a separate popup stopper and have good PC skills I suggest you try The Proxomitron. For Novice PC users I suggest you try the Google toolbar rather than The Proxomitron. It’s free as well and has an excellent popup filter built in. As a bonus it also makes Google searches easier.”

    19. Best Free Desktop Search Utility
    “It’s powered by the well established X1 local search engine and can index the contents of 200 different file types including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Outlook, Outlook Express, HTML, text, ZIP and Adobe PhotoShop. At the moment it will only handle email files from Outlook and Outlook Express and although it will index html files, it can’t index your web browsing history. (…) Unfortunately though, to run it you’ll need Windows 2000 or later. If you are stuck with earlier version of Windows then try the free Copernic Desktop Search.”

    20. Best Free Notepad Replacement
    “What I love about EditPad is that, unlike the others, it concentrates on simply being a better plain text editor and it succeeds brilliantly. It has a Notepad like interface combined with tabbed document windows and the ability to open as many documents as you like with no file size limitations.”

    21. The Best File Archiver/Zip Utility
    “It’s relatively fast, easy to use, has full drop and drag support, can read nearly 50 archive types including media formats like ISO, BIN and IMG and can write (and convert) to 12 archive types. If you already use WinZip you’ll find IZArc an excellent companion product. It can read just about all the archive formats WinZip can’t, including RAR. Make sure though, that after installing IZArc, you don’t let it change your WinZip file type associations.”

    22. Best Free Hotkey Utility
    “Hotkeycontrol XP is a free utility that allows you to define your own hotkeys so that a single key press can launch an application, insert commonly used text, change your volume, or just about anything else.”

    23. Best Free Registry Cleaner
    “To keep the registries on my PCs in top running order I use Fix-It utilities. This is a commercial product but I must admit that Toni Helenius’ Easy Cleaner performs almost as well and is totally free. As a bonus, it will also detect duplicate files and help you clean up temp files to make more disk space. Remember though, as with every Registry cleaner, to
    back up your Windows Registry before use.”

    24. Best Free BitTorrent Client
    “It’s amazing how quickly BitTorrent has become one of the major download formats. With good reason, too: it’s fast, equitable and efficient. I recommend the Open Source program Azureus. It’s beautifully implemented, well supported and, being Java based, is available for multiple platforms. Of course the Java code will eat up your CPU cycles so you need a reasonably fast PC. Those with older machines should check out BitTornado. It’s also cross platform and is fast and highly configurable as well. Both products are adware and spyware free.”

    25. The Best Free FTP Client
    “There’s a full featured site manager, firewall and proxy support, SSL and Kerberos GSS security, restart, drop and drag and a lot more. The only significant feature that’s missing is site to site transfer but that’s of no importance to me. What is of importance is that FileZilla is fast, totally reliable, secure and and very easy to use.”

    26. Best Free Bookmark Cleaner
    “AM-DeadLink scans your bookmark file for dead links or duplicate links. When I tried it on my huge favorites file I discovered 17% of my links were dead. I’ve now got a much leaner set of favorites and the comfort of knowing that the links actually work.”

    27. Best Free Route Tracer
    “3D Traceroute graphically displays Internet route information. You can use it for technical tasks such as diagnosing slow connections or for general purpose snooping like determining the location and owner of a web site or tracing spammers.”

    28. Best Free Screen Capture Utility
    “Gadwin screen capture does exactly what I want in the way I want. Further, it avoids the trap of providing lots of useless and confusing features. It’s the little things that count like making the hot key PrtSc so I don’t have to remember it, and automatically equentially naming the output files for multiple screen shots.”

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    29. Best Free Search Toolbar
    “Search toolbars allow users to do web searches without having to go first to the home page of a search engine.”

    30. Best Free Download Accelerator
    “It’s fast, stable and integrates well into both Internet Explorer and FireFox. Furthermore, there is no embedded adware or nag screen.”

    31. Best Free Digital Image Editor
    “The Gimp is a graphics processing program similar in function to Photoshop and PaintShop. Note you need the 6.9 MB GTK Runtime Environment 2.4.14 or later installed (see second link below) before you install The Gimp. That’s just another complication in a complex install procedure that confounds beginners and can even confuse experienced users. If The Gimp just doesn’t do it for you then do yourself a favor and check out Paint.net. It’s (…) as powerful as The Gimp but a lot easier to use and install. It is however only for Windows 2000 and you’ll need Microsoft’s bulky .NET framework installed on your PC.”

    32. Best Free Web Site Ripper
    “HTTrack is one impressive product: it’s easy to use, has an excellent user interface,
    offers every feature you could want, is blindingly fast and free of any adware as well. If you like to download web sites so that you can “browse them offline”, this is the product to get.”

    33. Best Free DLL Cleaner
    “Over time most PCs become cluttered up with the unwanted remainders of long deleted programs. DLL Archive is a free utility that will scan your PC for DLLs that are no longer
    referenced. You can then archive the unwanted programs away or delete them entirely. Archived items can easily be restored to their original location if any problems arise.”

    Best Free TCP Settings Tweaker
    “Whether you use a modem or broadband, you’ll get a faster connection if you tweak your connection’s TCP parameters. TCPOptimizer from SpeedGuide.net is a free utility that will do the job for you automatically.”

    34. Best Free Digital Photo Organizer and Editor
    “You can view you shots one at a time, in slideshow or traversing the time line. The editing features are limited compared to professional image editors yet they provide you with every function amateur photographers could conceivably need including one click red eye reduction. Similarly adding labels to photos is a cinch while a simple but effective star rating system allows you to flag favorite snaps. (…) You can send photos to your choice of web printing service, cut a CD, print to a local printer or share with others via your own blog or instant messaging.”

    35. Best Free File Cleaner
    “I’ve tried quite a few commercial products designed to clean unused, temporary and unnecessary files off your hard disk but must say that the free utility “Empty Temp Folders” ranks with the best. An excellent alternative is CCleaner. It’s a tad easier to use though not as effective in removing temporary files. Both products may be used together for maximum cleaning.”

    36. Best Free Resource Meter
    “TinyResMeter is an itsy-bitsy system monitor. Unlike many other monitors, it doesn’t consume a lot of CPU utilization in order to tell you your CPU utilization. In addition to CPU usage, you can optionally monitor cache, RAM, page file and swap file usage, running
    processes and threads, disk space utilization and a number of other parameters as well. Also built-in, is a screen grabber that saves the current screen to disk when you press PrintScreen.”

    37. Best Free Sticky Notes Utility
    “The function that I find really useful is the reminder that pops up at a designated time and date. I use it for simple things like “put up the latest issue on the web site. ATnotes is a neat implementation that features configurable alarms, resizable windows, variable fonts and a host of other useful features. The product is remarkably similar to the commercial sticky notes utility called, TurboNotes.”

    38. Best Free Secure Erase Utility
    “Eraser is a free, GNU license utility that will securely erase files, folders or even whole disks from any Windows or DOS PC. Eraser overwrites data area with selectable random data patterns and also wipes data in the paging file, Internet cache, temporary files, Internet cookies, unused disk space and a number of other places where data can secretly lurk.”

    39. Best Free Registry Editor
    “Registrar Lite, the free version of Resplendent Registry Editor, is an impressive
    freebie. To start with, it works totally reliably – an essential feature for any registry editor. On top of that, the user interface is simple, the functionality excellent and, perhaps most importantly, it has a really fast search. I did, however, miss a “search and delete” option – that’s unfortunately only available on the full product. That said, it leaves Regedit for dead.”

    40. Best Free Process Viewer
    “Process Explorer uses two vertical panes. The top contains all active processes while the second shows either all the handles opened by a selected process or, optimally, a list of
    DLLs and memory mapped files. A very handy search feature allows you to work backwards from named DLLs or handles to the owning process.”

    41. Best Free PC Inventory Tool
    “The freeware utility AIDA32 was the best system inventorying tool ever regardless of price. It documented just about every aspect of your hardware and software configuration as well as checking networks and providing memory benchmarks. (…) Lavalys now provide a commercial “professional” version of Everest as well as a free home version. The free version is not as full featured as the old AIDA32 but it is still impressive. You can however still find the old AIDA32 at the second link below.”

    42. Best Free Search and Replace Utility

    “Until recently my choice in this category was HandyFile’s excellent Find and Replace program but alas, this has now gone commercial. I’ve looked long and hard for an equally competent replacement but can find none. The best I could find is Search and Replace 98. It’s effective enough and will certainly satisfy most users’ needs but lacks the finesse of HandyFile’s product.”

    43. Best Free Outliner
    “KeyNote is used by screenwriters to draft screenplays, by medical doctors to keep patient databases, by developers to store source code snippets – and to everyone it serves as a place to put all the random pieces of information that have no particular structure of relationship to other data, and do not fit easily in task-specific applications such as word-processors, databases or spreadsheets.”

    44. Best Free Rename Utility
    “Lupas Rename 2000 is a small Windows utility that globally renames all the files in a directory and its subdirectories. It can convert names to upper/lower case, change the case of the first letter, add text, left crop, right crop and just about anything else you can think of. And unlike DOS based utilities, it will work on hidden files as well. Add in a nice GUI interface, an undo feature, full preview of changes and the fact that it’s free and you have a utility that should be in every toolkit.”

    45. Best Free Windows Driver Backup
    “It will not only back up your drivers but also your system registry, program settings and preferences, shortcuts, Favorites, Outlook Express folders, accounts and message filters as well. As a bonus, it allows you to tweak some of your system settings. I didn’t try the latter but can report that the driver backup and restore worked well. It’s not quite as simple to use as WindriversBackup but, then again, it has much more functionality.”

    46. The Best Free PDF Writer
    “The top choice here is PDFCreator, an open source program from SourceForge that works by setting up a pseudo printer in your system. To create a PDF you just select the PDF “printer” and write to it. This means you can create PDFs from Word, Excel or indeed any program that allows you to print. A good second choice is CutePDF Writer a which is cut-down version of the commercial CutePDF product. It works in a similar way to PDFCreator but it’s only free for personal use.”

    47. Best Free File Comparison Utility
    “WinMerge is a free Windows utility that compares two files and identifies the differences. The differences can then be merged from one file into the other. This is the sort of product that is ideal when you have several different versions of a file and are not sure of how they differ. The product is geared to text files so it won’t be much use to you with Word Processing or other complex formatted documents But for text reports or computer programs, WinMerge is ideal.”

    48. Best Tabbed Internet Explorer Variant
    “Tabbed IE variants seem to be proliferating wildly and with good reason. The one that I like most is a freeware product called Maxthon (formerlyMyIE2). It works as a small efficient shell that uses the IE rendering engine. After using Maxthon for a while, Internet Explorer seem totally out-of-date and painfully cumbersome. (…)
    Some folks prefer the free Avant browser to Maxthon. Avant has a cleaner look while Maxthon is more full featured. In the last analysis it’s Maxthon’s ability to accept Internet Explorer plug-ins that put it a nose in front.”

    49. Best Free Encryption Utility
    “dsCrypt is AES/Rijndael file encryption software with simple, multi-file, drag-and-drop operations. It features optimal implementation, performance and safety measures.
    dsCrypt uses an advanced encryption algorithm and offers unique options for enhanced security.” It’s tiny, easy to use, has open code, employs proven techniques that are essentially unbreakable and comes from a highly reputable source.”

    50. Best Free Time Correction Utility
    “A lot of folks have difficulty getting time correction software to work on their PC. If that’s you then you should try Dimension 4, a free utility that gives you the choice of connecting to a time server either by standard TCP protocol or by the more common (and more problem-prone) SNTP protocol. It’s free, it’s easy to use, and it has every function that you could conceivably want. Because it works from both the command line and Windows, it’s ideal for batch files, too.”

    51. Best Free Startup Manager
    “Everyone needs a startup program utility so they can exercise control over what third party programs start automatically with Windows. My first choice is Mike Lin’s Startup Control Panel. It’s small, and easy to use yet has powerful features including the ability to edit or add entries. An equally good choice is Nir Sofer’s StartupRun. Unlike Startup Control Panel it lists all startup programs in a single list rather than in tabs ac cording to location. It also has a lot more information on each program and has extensive editing features as well which means that it’s definitely not for Newbies.”

    52. Best Free File Backup Program
    “Karen’s Replicator is a straight-forward backup utility that copies individual files, folders and even entire drives to another location. The backup can be on another partition, local drive, network drive or removable device. It?s key feature is the ability to schedule automatic backups so that you can make regular automatic backups of critical files. I use it to make hourly backups of the file containing my notes for future issues of my newsletter. Simple, effective and free.”

    53. Free NFO Viewer
    “Many freeware files are distributed with descriptive NFO and DIZ files as part of the
    distribution package. These are just plain text files so you can view them with Notepad or other text editor but often the formatting is lost. Try this tiny little viewer that’s built for the job. It’s free and once associated with the NFO and DIZ file types, works seamlessly,
    a true “install and forget” product.”

    54. Best Free Data Recovery Utility
    “PC Inspector File Recovery 3 is a free utility that does an impressive job recovering accidentally deleted files or files lost through corruption of the file system. It has some nice features, like the ability to recover files with lost headers, and to recover partitions even when the boot sector has been lost or damaged. It works with the FAT16/FAT32 and NTFS file systems. PCI is the ideal product for those who want the security of a data recovery program but are not prepared to fork our big bucks for the extra features of high end products.”

    55. Best Free Remote Control Software
    “Ultr@VNC is a client/server package that allows remote control of another PC using a TCP/IP connection. It works with Windows W9x/NT/2K/XP and offers all the features you need including auto-configuration, easy user interface, extensive hotkeys and embedded file transfer. Apart from the fact that it’s free, its strong suite is its speed. Ultr@VNC must be the fastest remote control package I’ve ever used. Just the thing for accessing your home PC while traveling, off-site troubleshooting or general network administration.”

    56. Restore Missing Toolbars
    “Inexperienced PC users just always seem to be losing their Windows and Internet Explorer toolbars. I’ve never quite worked out exactly how they do it but they sure manage it somehow. Luckily, this free utility makes recovery a snack.”

    57. Locate Required DLLs
    “This free utility can be a lifesaver. It identifies all the DLL and OCX support files required to operate any Windows 32 bit executable file.”

    58. Lock Down Your Icons
    “Sick of Windows moving your icons around on the desktop? Lock them down with this nifty free utility.”

    59. Hides Personal Files from the Boss
    “Camouflage is a free utility that will hide your personal or confidential files within another file. The neat thing is that the container file looks and works like a normal file of that format. So, by way of example, you could embed a secret message in a Word file which could be opened by anyone and appear to be just a normal Word file. The intended recipient could use their copy of Camouflage to open the file, enter the password and extract the embedded information. This free program is not intended to provide military strength protection but rather a convenient way to sneak information past unnecessarily
    prying eyes.”

    60. Share Bookmarks between Browsers
    “BookMarkBridge is a free open source utility that allows you to share and synchronize your bookmarks between several browsers. I’ve got 3 browsers installed at the moment: IE 6, Mozilla-FireFox and Netscape 4.7. BookMarkBridge correctly identified and synchronized the first two but it couldn’t cope with the old version of Netscape. If you use FireFox as your primary browser check out the SyncMarks extension. It automatically
    updates your Internet Explorer Favorites every time you change your FireFox Bookmarks.”

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