Downloads

Useful Free Downloads:

Avira AntiVir Personal
Avira AntiVir Personal, the non-commercial version of Avira's virus scanning software, offers a free and very lightweight antivirus package which protects your computer against viruses, worms, Trojans and other malware. In a recent test by myself against some of the best virus scanning packages currently available, Avira came out on top, detecting things that big names such as McAfee missed, while using less system resources than the majority of the test candidates. If you can't afford to pay for a virus scanner, then you can't do much better than Avira AntiVir Personal.

AVAST! Antivirus 4 - Home Edition
AVAST! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. AVAST! will also work under Microsoft Windows x64, giving it an edge over it competitors.

AVG Antivirus - Free Edition
AVG Free for Windows is a free anti-virus protection tool developed by Grisoft for home use.

Ad-Aware SE Personal
Ad-Aware Personal provides advanced protection from, and the removal of, known data-mining, aggressive advertising, Trojans, diallers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components.

Athon64Tweaker
Written by CodeRed on the Extreme Systems forum, this utility both reports and allows you to alter the detailed timings of your system RAM.

Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Clockgen
ClockGen is an program dedicated to overclocking. Its main purpose is to change the system clocks on the fly : FSB (Front Side Bus) and GSB (Graphic Side Bus). ClockGen also provides some functions that allow you to improve and monitor your overclock.

CoreTemp
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program that allows you to monitor your CPU temperature in real time (and if you have more than one core, it'll show you the individual core temperatures too, hence the name!). This software will work with all Intel Core and Core 2 processors, as well as the whole of AMD's AMD64 line of CPUs. A must have if you're overclocking and need an accurate and reliable temperature reading.

CPU-Z
CPU-Z is a simple freeware utility that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system (CPU, motherboard, memory etc..).

DropMyRights
A simple utility which when used to open another program, lowers the privileges of the application. This is particularly useful when you're always logged on as an administrator, but want to access the Internet more safely. By dropping the unnecessary administrative privileges when using some applications, you can significantly reduce the effects of a virus/trojan on your system.
To use the tool, simply extract it, and create a new shortcut to your desired application with the following format:

Filemon
FileMon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations.

File Renamer
File Renamer is a small application that makes it fast and easy to rename a number of files at the same time. Once you've added files to File Renamer, you simply setup rules for how the filenames will be changed. The options can be combined so the new filenames can be constructed in an unlimited number of ways.

FlopShow 1.2
FlopShow is a file recovery + file undelete utility for floppy disks (handy if a floppy disk suddenly says "disk not formatted". As well as the recovery options, the program also has the option to create floppy disk images and restore them.

Folding@Home
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project. People from all over the world download and run this software, and join forces to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. This computational power is used to find out more about protein folding, and how this 'folding' is linked to diseases (Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers).

p.s. Don't forget to use the Custom PC team number when you join (35947)!

GSpot
GSpot is a free utility which identifies the audio and video codecs required to play an AVI file, and supplies other useful information as well.

GPU-Z
Similar to CPU-Z, although written by a different author, GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to quickly give you all the basic information about your video card and GPU.

HijackThis
A general homepage hijackers detector and remover. With almost a dozen against hijacker tricks, it is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites. Be sure that you know what an item is before deleting anything (as 'false positives' are common due to the nature of the tool).

HJSplit
A simple standalone freeware file splitter which splits files of any type and size (and rejoins them again alter if you so desire!). Ideal if you have files which are too big to fit on a standard DVD/CD and need to be split up into smaller pieces.

The Itty Bitty Process Manager
A small standalone process manager that shows the full paths to processes, and optionally shows DLLs loaded by processes. You can save the process list (and dll list) to file, as well as copy it to the clipboard. Compatible with at least Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP and newer. A very useful program when cleaning up systems infected with Trojans or viruses that kill antivirus and antispyware programs.

Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like good-old Windows Media Player v6.4, but has lots of nice extra features, as well as the ability to play almost any file format when used with the correct codecs.

Memtest86+
Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Their goal is to provide an up-to-date and completely reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.

Paint.NET
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools, giving commercial photo editing programs some serious competition for the low, low price of nothing!

P.s. as you can probably guess from the name, Paint.NET requires the .NET framework to work.

Prime95
This program, originally designed to find new prime numbers, can be used to test if an overclock is stable and error-free. When running the 'torture test', it will repeatedly carry out calculations and compare the results to known answers. This way, if an error occurs in either the CPU or memory, Prime95 will report a problem.

Process Explorer
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks.

Startup Control Panel
Startup Control Panel allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It's simple to use and very small, making it a handy utility to have. It's compatible with all modern versions of Windows, including Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP.

TCPView
Yet another sysinternals program (Mark Russinovich makes some handy stuff!), TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows NT, 2000 and XP TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint.

TweakUI
TweakUI gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003.

VirtualDub
VirtualDub is a AVI video capture/processing utility for Windows, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It doesn't have the features or power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but it's streamlined for fast linear operations with video (recompression/applying filters etc..).

WinAudit
WinAudit performs a rapid and exhaustive audit of installed software, the security configuration, installed hardware, network settings and much more.

If you have a hard to diagnose computer problem, and ask a question on I Think I Broke It, I may suggest generating an audit of your system with this utility (which you can then email me to assist with the troubleshooting process).

Windows Memory Diagnostic (Windiag)
The Windows Memory Diagnostic by Microsoft tests the RAM in your computer for errors. The diagnostic includes a comprehensive set of memory tests. If you are experiencing problems while running Windows, you can use the diagnostic to determine whether the problems are caused by failing hardware, such as RAM or the memory system of your motherboard.