Top 10 Freeware - November 2007

Top 10 Freeware
(November 2007)

Programs listed alphabetically

Advanced Searchbar
Version 3.35, release date: November 19, 2007
Advanced Searchbar enables you to search more than 100 search engines and databases with this customizable and easy to use search toolbar for Internet Explorer. The Advanced Searchbar has tabbed category searches. A series of tabs will drop down from the top of your browser with search results for every site within that category. You can move from site to site by clicking the tabs that appear at the top of your window. When you click a tab, a new search is executed for your search term(s) automatically. Tabbed categories include; web search, blog search, Google search, health search, image search, news search, shopping search, software search, video search and Yahoo! search. The Advanced Searchbar eliminates pop-ups with a pop-up blocker, automatic form filler, calendar, Internet network tools, more than 70 free games, browser tracks remover for cleaning cookies, cache, auto-fill, history, temporary directory, typed URLs, MRU file list, recycle bin and clipboard. Zoom in and out of Web pages, and auto-highlight search terms. Includes Web page translation for 12 languages, 88 news providers, 52 mail providers. Also includes driving directions, weather lookup, stock quote lookup, movie showtime lookup, phonebook lookup MyYahoo! links and access to blog hosting links, sports links, horoscope links, TV listings, education links, kids links, health links, finance links, Megan's Law links, classifieds links, travel links and greeting/e-card links.
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CCleaner
Version 2.03, release date: November 26, 2007
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history.
Application is now 100% Unicode, with support added for non-Unicode OSs.
Added 'portable.dat' file to the portable version of CCleaner which forces it to save the settings to an INI file.
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Fact200
Version 1.05, release date: November 7, 2007
Fact200 is both an Internet search client and a news feed reader that concentrates on finding, sifting, and browsing information while filtering out noise and junk. It is ideal for browsing through massive amounts of web pages (e.g., browsing news feeds) or for researching esoteric subjects.
Features:
Pre-Fetching
Ensures that web pages actually exist and downloads them in parallel. Pre-fetched data also feeds into the preview, index, and library mechanisms.
Previews
Pre-rendered previews allow you to quickly view web pages through hover browsing or slideshows and to view thumbnails of any size.
Indexing
Web pages are indexed (with support for non-latin based languages) so that they can be easily retrieved or sub-filtered.
Library
Stores web pages along with their previews on your computer for quick retrieval, portability, independence, and privacy.
Customizable Sources
Allows you to query or retrieve web pages from a variety of sources including search engines, usenet, and RSS feeds.
Real-Time filtering
Results will appear as you type when searching through the Libary providing a more fluid search experience that allows for more experimentation.
Real-time term suggestions
Allows you to find the correct spellings, misspellings, or variations that will yield results.
Unicode support
Search in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian or any other language that Windows supports!
No Frills
Cookies, ActiveX, and javascript are disabled to prevent tracking, malware, and popup ads from interfering with the search experience.
Personalized Search
Search history, favorites, and browsing patterns are all stored to provide a personalized search experience. All data is stored on your computer/disk and never transmitted over the Internet to maintain privacy.
Sorting
Sort web pages by last viewed date, content date, load dates, or score.
Saving
Save result sets to preserve a specific list of web pages.
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Glary Utilities
Version 2.3.3, release date: November 7, 2007
Glary Utilities offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.
It allows you to clean common system junk files, as well as invalid registry entries and Internet traces. You can manage and delete browser add-ons, analyze disk space usage and find duplicate files. You can also view and manage installed shell extensions, encrypt your files from unauthorized access and use, split large files into smaller manageable files and then rejoin them. Furthermore, Glary Utilities includes the options to optimize memory, find, fix, or remove broken Windows shortcuts, manage the programs that start at Windows startup and uninstall software. Other features include secure file deletion, an Empty Folder finder and more.
All Glary Utilities tools can be accessed through an eye-pleasing and totally simplistic interface.
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HTTrack
Version 3.42, release date: November 16, 2007
HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
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nLite
Version 1.4, release date: November 4, 2007
nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on CD or testing in virtual machines. So that means that with nLite you will be able to have Windows installation CD which on installation doesn't install, or even contain on CD, unwanted components. (2000/XP/2003)
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NetSetMan
Version 2.4.1, release date: November 26, 2007
Are you tired of changing your network configuration every day on your notebook or computer?
The same procedure every day?
On the go : changing..., at home: changing..., at the Internet café: changing..., visiting a friend: changing...
Then NetSetMan is your solution. It will do the work for you.
(Non-Commercial Freeware)
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Revo Uninstaller
Version 1.40, release date: November 29, 2007
Revo Uninstaller is not just a replacement for the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system it also includes other tools that will help you to clean your Windows based computer system.
With its unique "Hunter mode" it offers you some simple, easy to use but effective and powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from autostarting) and to get information about your installed and/or running applications. Many additional tools are included in Revo Uninstaller.
Here are the list of all tools and utilities included:
Auto Start Manager, Windows tools manager, Junk Files Cleaner, Browsers history cleaner, Office history cleaner, Windows history cleaner, Unrecoverable delete tool and Evidence remover.
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SIV
Version 3.26, release date: November 14, 2007
SIV (System Information Viewer) is a general Windows utility for displaying lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info - CPU info, PCI info, PCMCIA info, USB info, Machine Info, Hardware Sensors, Networked computers, Operating System Information and more. I use Craig Hart's pcidevs.txt file for my PCI device display with my usbdevs.txt being used for the USB devices, mondevs.txt for monitor descriptions and pcmdevs.txt for PCMCIA device descriptions. SIV is designed for Windows XP/Vista/2003/2K/NT4. Windows 95, 98 and Me are also supported.
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Tux Paint
Version 0.9.18, release date: November 21, 2007
Tux Paint is an easy-to-use drawing program for kids ages 3 and up. It includes bright colors, fun sound effects and a helpful cartoon mascot. An add-on collection of 'stamps' provides over 200 images which can be pasted into drawings. Tux Paint is completely free, Open Source software, which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and has been translated into nearly 70 languages!
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October 2007