Conyers Portal's Best Freeware On The 'Net

Note: All freeware listed have been tested to be free of viruses, spyware, and adware. We cannot, however, endorse paid advertised software in the right-hand column as being free of malware.

AceFTP - <http://software.visicommedia.com/en/products/aceftpfreeware/>
AceFTP 3 Freeware is the easiest-to-use free FTP client software available for transferring files over the Internet.

Acrobat Reader - <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html>
This program is a viewer for documents in .PDF file format.

Ad-Aware - <http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/>
This program provides protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. Use in conjunction with Spybot S&D and SpywareBlaster.

Atomic Time Sync - <http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/ats.htm>
This program synchronizes your PC's internal clock with the NIST atomic clock.

AVG Anti Virus Freeware - <http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-anti-virus-free-edition/ww/crp/2>
Anti-Virus Free Edition: resident protection, email scanner, on-demand scanner, basic scheduled tests, free virus database updates, automatic update feature, easy-to-use interface, automatic healing of infected files, virus vault for safe handling of infected files.

BackZip - <http://www.snapfiles.com/get/backzip.html>
BackZip is a simple file backup program that stores backups in standard ZIP format or as normal (uncompressed) files. The backup sets can be stored locally, on a mapped network drive, or on an FTP server. It offers various options to select the files that should be included (by mask, extension etc.) and also lets you limit zip compression to specific file extensions. In addition, you can choose to only backup the files that have changed since the last backup or copy only files that are newer than a matching file in the target directory. Other features include timestamped backup files, support for multiple backup jobs and more. BackZip does not include any scheduling features, however it does support commandline parameters, which allows you to run it via Windows Task Scheduler or other 3rd party scheduling tools.

Dupeless - <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,63478,00.asp>
This program seeks out duplicate files on your hard drive.

Gibson ID Serve - <http://grc.com/id/idserve.htm>
This program performs forward and reverse IP Lookup and displays server ID and other information.

Google Toolbar - <http://toolbar.google.com/>
This program is a web browser tool that appears under the address bar. Search the web with Google from any site. Eliminate pop-ups. Fill in forms with one click. Browse by name instead of URL's in your address bar.

IP Lookup - <http://www.toolsforselling.com/v1/1/iplookup.htm>
This program performs IP lookup and displays the WHOIS registration information on the domain holder.

IrfanView - <http://www.irfanview.com/>
This program is a great graphics file viewer for a wide variety of file types. Of special note is its ability to view Shockwave Flash animations (.SWF file type).

Jarte - <http://www.jarte.com/>
Jarte is a compact word processor--small enough to put on a USB keychain drive--that's completely free of charge. Jarte's small size doesn't keep it from offering some well-selected features. For instance, WordWeb integration offers dictionary and thesaurus word look-up on the fly. Firefox fans will like its tabbed document windows.

Log Me In - <https://secure.logmein.com/go.asp?page=products_free>
LogMeIn allows you to access your home, office, or any other computer from any computer with internet access. Your monitor will look like you are sitting at the remote computer. You can open remote files, check your email, run programs, run system diagnostics, and more.

Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta) - <http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/about.mspx>
This Program is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware, including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding more than 50 ways spyware can enter your PC. Participants in the worldwide SpyNet™ community play a key role in determining which suspicious programs are classified as spyware. Microsoft researchers quickly develop methods to counteract these threats, and updates are automatically downloaded to your PC so you stay up to date.

MSN Toolbar - <http://toolbar.msn.com/>
This Program is a web browser tool that appears under the address bar (The box near the top of the screen where you can type keywords and web addresses to find information on the Web.) . It includes a pop-up blocker and links to Hotmail, MY MSN, and MSN Messenger.

NetStat Live - <http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm>
This program provides details of your network connection.

NoteTab Light - <http://www.notetab.com/ntl.htm>
This absolutely essential program is the best freeware text editor available for Windows, no doubt about it!

Open Office - <http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html/>
If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 2.0. However, as you become used to OpenOffice.org 2.0, you'll start to appreciate the extras that make your life easier. You can publish your work in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and release your graphics in Flash (.swf) format - without needing any additional software. You can of course continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either.

Opera Browser - <http://www.opera.com/>
The Opera browser is renowned for its speed, security and standards compliance, and we are proud to offer the fastest, safest and easiest-to-use full-featured browser on the market. Opera has spearheaded browser innovation for a decade, continuously setting new standards for what a Web browser can do. Opera includes tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, Google search, password manager, E-mail client, RSS reader, IRC chat and much more...and now it's FREE!

POP Peeper - <http://www.poppeeper.com/>
POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, Lycos.com, or RediffMail accounts. You can also use POP Peeper to read and delete your email. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your email the same way as you would in your email client. Several options are available that will decrease or eliminate the risks of reading your email (viruses, javascript, webbugs, etc). If you share your computer, you can password-protect your accounts or password-protect access to POP Peeper.

Quicktime Player - <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/>
This program is a viewer for many file formats but is best used for Quicktime Movies.

Ranish Partition Manager - <http://www.ranish.com/part/>
This program is absolutely indispensable if you want to partition your hard drive and boot multiple operating systems from independent partitions. I have purchased many partition utilities, including Partition Magic, and this is better than all of them. Supports hard drive up to 137GB.

RealOne Player - <http://www.real.com/realoneplayer.html?pp=...403realhome_1_2>
This program is a viewer for many file formats, but is best used to view RealMedia format streams.

RoboForm - <http://www.roboform.com/>
RoboForm is a password manager and one-click web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence inside.

Spybot Search & Destroy - <http://security.kolla.de/>
This program is absolutely essential to assure that your system is free of spyware and adware. Use in conjunction with Ad-Aware and SpywareBlaster.

SpywareBlaster - <http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html>
Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software! Use in conjuction with Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware

Twins Video Player - <http://www.twins-software.com/TwinsVideoPlayer/Overview.php>
This program is a great video (and audio) file viewer. Allows multiple windows, supports DivX and all major CoDecs.

Weather Watcher - <http://www.singerscreations.com/AboutWeatherWatcher.asp>
I've tried all the desktop weather applications I could find. They all were either full of ads or adware, or much too intrusive on my screen. Until I found Weather Watcher. No ads. No Adware. No Spyware. No viruses. Just local weather. Very customizeable. Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon. Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition image in a tray icon, designate which weather information is displayed in the Weather Watcher system tray tooltip, convert the weather data using almost any conversion, display a weather map as your desktop wallpaper, log the weather data in any format, export the weather data in any format, customize the look of the Weather Watcher interface and icons via skins, and much more.

WinAmp - <http://www.winamp.com/>
This program is the quintessential .MP3 file format audio viewer.

Windows Media Player - <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/>
I am not keen on the WMP, but sometimes you have no choice but to use it and thus it is indispensable.

X-Setup Pro - <http://www.x-setup.net/downloads/home.asp?lang=EN>
This terrific program allows extensive "tweaking" of the windows operating system.

Yahoo! Toolbar - <http://companion.yahoo.com/>
This program is a web browser tool that appears under the address bar. It allows you to search from anywhere on the web. More importantly, it includes Pop-up Blocker and Anti-Spyware utilities.

YahooPOPs! - <http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/>
This absolutely essential program allows a POP3 email client to access Yahoo! E-mail accounts via the webmail interface.

Yahoo! Widget Engine - <http://widgets.yahoo.com/>
Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, even give your current local weather and much, much more.

Zeleps Partition Resizer - <http://www.zeleps.com/>
This program is a fine hard disk partition resizer, but be sure to read the instructions.

ZoneAlarm - <http://www.zonelabs.com/>
This absolutely essential program is a firewall to protect your computer's Internet connection.