Handy Applications

I was thinking it would be cool to know what applications/software everyone else is using and their functions. My pc sucks at the moment so all im really using is:
Limewire- undisputed king of file sharing!!
FireFox & Thunderbird- internet browser and e-mail client
spybot:search and destroy- Kills spyware
photoshop 7.0- photo editing program i havent figured out how to use yet.

What stuff do you guys use?????

Heres what i use:

IE-internet client
microsoft spyware- take a guess
everest home- tells system specs and gives links to driver downloads
jv16 PowerTools- file/registry searcher/cleaner, great program.

Atomix, post some of the things thats wrong with your PC and some specs. its my profession to clean and speed up computers. Also, id get rid of spybot. its a great program but by statistics and opinions and some facts...the microsoft ones better.

ieSpell - A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

The program installs as a new button in the IE toolbar (as well as a new menu item under "Tools") - after filling in a form, just hit the ieSpell button and it pops up a dialog, similar to the MS Word spell check. ieSpell also works (right-click menu only) on other IE based browsers such as SlimBrowser, CrazyBrowser, MSN, MyIE, etc.

www.iespell.com...

Here is an interesting link by JAK... I really liked some of the freeware there...

I compiled this list a long time ago, and meant to post it but never got around to it. Since I use Linux now I barely use any of these anymore.


Useful Programs(Mostly for Windows and Not ALL Are Free, but most have trials)

Anti Spyware
Spybot: Search & Destroy
AdAware SE
SpySweeper
Giant AntiSpyware (Now owned by Microsoft)
Spyware Blaster
Pest Patrol
CWShredder
TDS-3 Anti Trojan

Anti Virus
Avast
Kaspersky
AVG
Trendmicro Housecall
Panda
ClamAV (Unix)

Firewalls
Sygate
ZoneAlarm
BlackIce
Smoothwall (Linux Distro]

Misc
TweakUI (Tweak Windows Settings)
StyleXP (Skinning and so forth of Windows)
TuneUp Utilities 2004 (Tune Up Your Computer)
Burn4Free (Very Nice Free Burning App. Be Sure To Run A Spyware App Afterwords, it installs a very benign spyware, and will be removed by all AntiSpyware listed here)
WinAMP (Great A/V Player)
FireFox(Self Explanatory)
Opera (Self Explanatory)
Add/Remove Pro (Adds more functionality to Add/Remove)
WinRAR (Archiving, much better than WinZIP)
Acronis Partition Expert (Self Explanatory)
Executive Software Diskeeper (Defragmenter)
TMGPEnc (Convert videos to MPG)
GetRight (Download Manager)
DAMN NFO Viewer (View those Pesky NFO Files)
Godian Knot (DVD Ripping to MPG4)
dBPowerAMP (CD Ripping)
Alcohol 120% (For ripping and mounting copy protected CDs)
OpenOffice (Office suite)
Macromedia Dreamweaver (WYSIWYG Editor)
WinISO (Create ISOs)
ISOBuster (Create and Disassemble ISOs)
Thunderbird (Alternative to MS Outlook)
FileZilla (FTP Client)
BitTornado (BitTorrent Client)
TortoiseCVS (CVS Client)
K-Lite Codec Pack (Tons of Codecs, everyone youll ever need)
The GodFather (Mass Audio File Editing)
Mike Lin\'s Start Up Control Panel
Hijack This (DO NOT USE IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!)
Shoot the Messenger (Disable Windows Messenger Service)

Firewall - Outpost Pro
Virus Checker - Nod32
Spyware - a-squared, adaware
Rootkits - rootkit revealer and blacklight
IPS - Process Guard & RegProt
Browser - Firefox running adblock & outpost pro security settings & superdragandgo

Other assorted freeware security tools