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The K-Lite Codec Pack is a free collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: The Basic version is the smallest and doesn't include a player. The Standard version contains everything what is needed to play all the commonly used formats. The Full version contains even more codecs and also has encoding support.

The text in black applies to all versions, the text in green applies to the Full and Standard versions and the text in red applies to the Full version only.

• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1 is a full-featured player which has internal decoding support for DVD, MPEG-2, MP2, MP3, AC3 and DTS. It also has internal support for opening Matroska and Ogg containers. Media Player Classic (MPC) is also capable of playing other content if those codecs are installed.
• FFDShow is a DirectShow decoding filter for decoding various audio and video formats like DivX, XviD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, MJPEG, CinePack, TrueMotion, DV, ASV1, ASV2, VCR1, VP3, Huffyuv, Theora, AAC, AC3, DTS, MP2, MP3, MP4 and TrueAudio. When using FFDShow you don't need to install separate decoders for these formats. FFDShow is based on the original DirectShow filter from XviD for decompressing movies with a rich set of video postprocessing filters. For video decompression it uses the libavcodec from the ffmpeg project and to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies it uses the postprocessing code from mplayer. FFDShow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. Features of FFDShow include: Fast video decompression using optimized code for MMX (MultiMedia eXtensions), SSE (Streaming SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Extensions), SSE2 and SSE3 on Intel (Integrated Electronics) Pentium processors and on AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Athlon processors also 3DNow!, Support for a lot of different codecs, Image postprocessing for higher playback quality, Automatic quality control: it reduces the postprocessing level when the CPU (Central Processing Unit) load is high, Hue, saturation and luminance correction, Sharpening filter, Presets, Support for various subtitle formats and FFDShow is completely free and open source under the restrictions of the GPL (General Public License).
• XviD Decoding is required for playing XviD movies. XviD is currently the most popular format.
• XviD Encoding is required for encoding movies in the XviD format.
• On2 VP7 Decoding 7.0.10.0 is required for playing VP7 movies. These are not very common.
• On2 VP7 Encoding 7.0.10.0 is required for encoding movies in the VP7 format.
• Huffyuv 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5 is required for playing and encoding movies that have the Huffyuv format. Huffyuv is a lossless (no quality loss) video compression format.
• AC3 DirectShow decoder (AC3Filter) 1.51a is required for playing movies that have an AC3 audio stream.
• AC3 ACM decoder is required for playing movies that have an AC3 audio stream in applications like VirtualDub.
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow decoder (CoreVorbis) 1.1.0.79 is required for playing movies that have an Ogg Vorbis audio stream.
• MusePack DirectShow decoder 1.0.0.4 is required for playing MusePack audio files.
• Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder 1.00 is required for playing Monkey's audio files (.ape). Monkey's Audio is a lossless (no quality loss) audio compression format.
• WavPack DirectShow decoder (CoreWavPack) 1.1.1 is required for playing WavPack audio files.
• LAME MP3 ACM 3.98 is required for encoding MP3 streams and files.
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow splitter 0.9.9.5 is required for opening audio and video streams in an Ogg Vorbis container (.ogm and .ogg files). Not required if you use Media Player Classic to play these types of files, because it has native OGM decoding support.
• Ogg Vorbis DLLs 1.1.1 are required for opening audio and video streams in an Ogg Vorbis container (.ogm files). Not required if you use Media Player Classic to play these types of files, because it has native OGM decoding support.
• Matroska DirectShow splitter is required for opening audio and video streams in a Matroska container (.mkv and .mka files). Not required if you use Media Player Classic to play these types of files, because it has native Matroska decoding support.
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.33 is a tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle files should have the same filename as your video file (for example MovieName.avi, MovieName.idx and MovieName.sub) and should be in the same folder (directory) as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players.
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.39 is a tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle files should have the same filename as your video file (for example MovieName.avi, MovieName.idx and MovieName.sub) and should be in the same folder (directory) as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players. Use the older version if you have problems with this version.
• GSpot Codec Information Appliance is a tool that can tell you exactly which codecs are needed to play a certain video file. This is very helpful when you have troubles playing a video file.
• VobSubStrip 0.11 is a tool which can strip languages from VobSub subtitle files (.idx and .sub files).
• GraphEdit is a visual tool for building and testing DirectShow filter graphs.
• Bitrate Calculator can be used to calculate the bitrate to use when encoding a movie.

• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1
• FFDShow
• XviD Decoding
• XviD Encoding
• On2 VP7 Decoding 7.0.10.0
• On2 VP7 Encoding 7.0.10.0
• Huffyuv 2.1.1 CCE Patch 0.2.5
• AC3 DirectShow decoder (AC3Filter) 1.51a
• AC3 ACM decoder
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow decoder (CoreVorbis) 1.1.0.79
• MusePack DirectShow decoder 1.0.0.4
• Monkey's Audio DirectShow decoder 1.00
• WavPack DirectShow decoder (CoreWavPack) 1.1.1
• LAME MP3 ACM 3.98
• Ogg Vorbis DirectShow splitter 0.9.9.5
• Ogg Vorbis DLLs 1.1.1
• Matroska DirectShow splitter
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.33
• DirectVobSub (VSFilter) 2.39
• GSpot Codec Information Appliance
• VobSubStrip 0.11
• GraphEdit
• Bitrate Calculator

Release Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010

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• Avidemux 2.5.2.5660
  Avidemux is a very powerful tool for editing video files. It supports almost every type of video file as input. It can do lots of things: cut, convert, etc. It contains its own decoders and encoders for all common audio and video formats, so it does not need any codecs.
• DVDStyler 1.8.0.2
  DVDStyler is a basic DVD authoring tool. With this you can create your own DVDs, complete with a custom menu.
• ImgBurn 2.5.1.0
  ImgBurn is a tool for burning DVD image files (ISO, IMG, etc.).

• Use Avidemux to convert your file into a DVD compatible format: MPEG-2 video, AC3 audio and MPEG-PS container format
• Drag and drop the converted file(s) into DVDStyler and create a custom menu, for example just a simple button to start the movie, then select the Burn DVD... option in the menu to generate an ISO file
• Burn this ISO file with ImgBurn on a blank DVD

Release Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010

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BSplayer is a player for playing back any file for which you have a codec.

Release Date: Friday, August 27, 2010

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VideoLAN is an excellent open source multimedia player with it's own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn't need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too. It can also be used as a server to stream on a (wired or wireless) high-bandwidth IP (Internet Protocol) version 4 or 6 network in multicast or unicast. VLC (VideoLAN Client) is cross-platform and supports Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, Crux Linux, Debian GNU (GNU's Not Unix) Linux, Familiar Linux, Fedora Core Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Novell's SuSE (System und Software Entwicklung = System and software development) Linux, Turbo Linux, NetBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, QNX, Zaurus and Windows CE (Windows Mobile) for Pocket PC. The installer includes the eMule partfile plugin, which lets you preview eMule partfiles more efficiently.

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Release Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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FlacDrop is a tool for encoding WAV to FLAC and for decoding FLAC to WAV.

Release Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010

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LAME MP3 Encoder is a tool for encoding WAV to MP3 and for decoding MP3 to WAV.

Release Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010

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LameDropXPd is a tool for encoding WAV to MP3 and for decoding MP3 to WAV.

Release Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010

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OggDropXPd is a tool for encoding WAV to OGG and for decoding OGG to WAV.

Release Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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WavPackDrop a tool for encoding WAV to WavPack and for decoding WavPack to WAV.

Release Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007

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Voxware Audio is a set of DirectShow decoding filters for Voxware MetaSound and MetaVoice audio. These audio formats occur very very rarely in AVI files. These filters are a bit buggy, so don't install them unless you really need them.

Release Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Speex DirectShow Filter is a decoding filter for Speex (.spx) audio files. Speex is an open source audio compression format designed for speech. Speex is a lossy format, meaning quality is permanently degraded to reduce the filesize.

Release Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009

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Dirac DirectShow Filter is an open source decoding filter for Dirac (.drc) video files. Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (176x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets, motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with other state of the art codecs.

Release Date: Sunday, December 30, 2007

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PMP Splitter is a decoding filter for PSP (.pmp) video files.

Release Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008

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DirectVobSub (VSFilter) is a free tool for displaying subtitles. Your subtitle files should have the same filename as your video file (for example MovieName.avi, MovieName.idx and MovieName.sub) and should be in the same folder (directory) as your video file. Then the subtitles will automatically be displayed in most players.

Note that this is an old version of DirectVobSub (VSFilter). Use this old version only if you have problems with the newer versions of DirectVobSub, which are included in the K-Lite Codec Pack.

Release Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007

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Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher is an open source DirectShow filter for switching between streams in a media file. This filter is only needed if you want to play files that contain multiple audio, video or subtitles streams. This filter for example prevents multiple audio streams to be played simultaneously and instead allows you to choose one of them. Most modern video players already have a stream switcher build in, so usually this filter is not needed.

Release Date: Friday, August 27, 2010

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DivX Plus contains the DivX codec with support for H.264 video.

Release Date: Friday, June 5, 2009

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The open source Xvid codec can play Xvid movies. Xvid is currently the most popular format for video. This package contains the Xvid DirectShow decoding filter and the Xvid VFW Codec.

Release Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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MediaInfo Lite is an open source tool to analyze media files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.
It optionally includes a shell extension for Windows Explorer. When installed, it will show you information when you move your mouse pointer over the media file.

Release Date: Friday, January 22, 2010

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TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible harddisk space manager. Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on them. TreeSize Professional shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D bar and pie charts, the last access date, the file owner, the NTFS compression rate and much more information for several folders or drives you choose. It also lets you search for old, big and temporary files. The application has an intuitive Explorer-like user interface and it is fast and multithreaded. You can print detailed reports or export the collected Data to Excel and to an HTML, XML or ASCII file. TreeSize Professional can be started from the context menu of every folder or drive.

Release Date: Friday, May 9, 2008

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Nero CD-DVD Speed, the predecessor of Nero DiscSpeed, is a free benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive. These tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times, CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) quality & Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the CD (Compact Disk) and DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) media quality.

• Small improvements and bug fixes

• Improved support for HD DVD, BD and DVD-RW DL
• Moved capture button from title bar to client area
• Improved BitSetting support for LG and LiteOn drives
• Added jitter support for LiteOn 20A3 drives to the Disc Quality Test
• Improved Disc Quality Test support for recent Asus drives
• Small improvements and bug fixes

Release Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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Nero DiscSpeed (previously Nero CD-DVD Speed) is a free benchmark which can test the most important features of an optical drive. These tests include: Transfer rate, Seek times, CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage, Burst rate, DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) quality & Spinup/spindown time. It can also check the media quality of an optical disc.

Release Date: Monday, April 5, 2010

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eMule connects to the eDonkey network and is one of the best P2P (peer-to-peer, point-to-point, person-to-person) filesharing programs available today. It provides sharing of all kinds of media (films, video, audio, music, albums, pictures, documents, books, etc.) and software (applications, games, etc.). eDonkey combines the strengths of Napster, Gnutella (LimeWire), Direct Connect, FastTrack (Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh), SoulSeek and BitTorrent while avoiding their problems. eMule doesn't rely on a central server, yet searches are quick and your client doesn't get bogged down with endless search requests. You have the ability to search all the files being shared anywhere on the network. It automatically resumes interrupted transfers from alternate sources. The client also incorporates a serverless network based on Kademlia.

• Clients use several networks to create one reliable network (eDonkey, Source Exchange, Kademlia)
• eMule's Queue and Credit system helps to ensure that everyone will get the file he wants by promoting those that upload back to the network
• eMule is completely free and open source under the restrictions of the GPL (General Public License)
• Each file checked for corruptions while downloading to ensure an error free file
• The eMule Intelligent Corruption Control helps to speed up the correction of corrupted parts
• Auto priorities and Source management allows you to start many downloads without having to monitor them
• The Preview function allows you to look at your Videos and Archives before they are completed
• The eMule features webservices and a webserver that allows you to have quick access to and from the Internet
• You can create categories for your download to organize them
• To find the file you want, eMule offers a wide range of search possibilities which include: Servers (Local and Global), webbased (FileDonkey) and Kademlia
• eMule also allows you to use very complex Boolean searches that make the searches much more flexible
• With the messaging and friend system, you can send messages to other Clients and add them as friends
• In your friend list, you can always see if a friend is online
• With the build in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client, you can chat with other downloaders and chatters around the globe
• To avoid downloading fake files, there are lots of sites with verifieds (links to verified files)
• LinkCreator can be used to create ed2k links with or without hashset
• A big IP blocklist is included in the installer, this will prevent a lot of computers who monitor filesharing activity or spread fake files from making a connection
• Supports Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 98 SE (Second Edition), ME (Millennium Edition), NT (New Technology) 4.0 SP (Service Pack) 6, 2000, XP (eXPerience), 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit)
• eMule is distributed together with a huge FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) with answers to lots of possible questions

• Updated the server list
• Updated the IP blocklist, this will prevent a lot of computers who monitor filesharing activity or spread fake files from making a connection
• Updated the included links to sites with verified files
• Improved the default configuration
• Updated LinkCreator to 0.7, LinkCreator can be used to create ed2k links with or without hashset
• Minor fixes and improvements

Release Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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3DMark is a benchmark made by Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) to determine the DirectX performance of graphics cards. 3DMark can be used for comparing different visual processing units.

Release Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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3DMark is a benchmark made by Futuremark (formerly MadOnion) to determine the DirectX performance of graphics cards. 3DMark can be used for comparing different visual processing units.

Release Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Internet Explorer is a browser developed by Microsoft. Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer) is based on the Trident render engine.

IE Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time.

Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions. The original version number is shown correcty in the User Agent string. The version number can be found in the window title too.

IE Collection also includes the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar 1.00.2188.0. This Explorer Bar provides a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites easier. The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher when using Windows 2000 or higher.

IE Collection has the option to install the Firebug Web Development Extension for Internet Explorer. Firebug provides a lot of useful tools which make web development easier.

The user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. You can also make an unattended installation.

IE Collection fully supports upgrading, so there is no need to uninstall a previous version before installing a newer version: just install the newer version on top of the currently installed version with the same or more components selected.

Microsoft, Windows and Internet Explorer are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Internet Explorer is free, but you may only use it if you have a valid Windows license.

• Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
• Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
• Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
• Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
• Internet Explorer 3.01 (3.01.2723)
• Internet Explorer 3.03 (3.03.2925)
• Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
• Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
• Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
• Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
• Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702)

Warning: Use a web browser and not Internet Explorer as primary browser. If you're a web developer and you don't want to spend time on problems which only occur in Internet Explorer, then let your visitors use Utilu Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox.

Release Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010

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McAfee VirusScan always has the latest virus definitions. It can detect, clean or erase malware like viruses, worms and Trojan horses. McAfee VirusScan can also produce a log file in which the scanning results are stored.

Release Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010

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NOD32 Antivirus always has the latest virus signature database updates. It can detect viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious software and has very good cleaning capabilities, an unprecedented detection track record, fast scanning rates and extremely low utilization of system resources. NOD32 Antivirus can also be used to clean up an infected system or as a second opinion for your current scanner.

Release Date: Monday, March 15, 2010

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The compression utility WinRAR is an archive manager with support for packing RAR and ZIP archives and unpacking RAR, ZIP, ZIP64, 7Z (7-Zip), CAB, ARJ, LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman), TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR (Java Archive developed by Sun Microsystems) and ISO (ISO9660) archives. You may use it to backup your data, reduce the size of email attachments, decompress files downloaded from the Internet and create your own file archives.

Release Date: Friday, November 23, 2007

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WinAce is an archiving utility with an easy-to-use interface for creating, extracting and viewing archives.

• Compression for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB and JAR
• Decompression for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO and JAR
• Integrity check for ACE, ZIP, LHA, MS-CAB, RAR, ARC, ARJ, GZip, TAR, ZOO and JAR
• Multi-volume (disk spanning) archives for ACE, ZIP and CAB
• SFX (self-extracting archives) for ACE and ZIP
• Repair functionality for ACE and ZIP
• Comment files in HTML, ANSI or ASCII for ACE and ZIP
• Authenticity verification for ACE
• Password encryption & recovery records for data protection
• Full command line access (compatible with DOS (Disk Operating System) ACE)
• Detailed information for all archive types
• Quickviewer for graphic files
• Quickviewer for Word Documents
• Quickviewer for HTML (HyperText Markup Language) pages
• Quickviewer for ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) files
• Full drag and drop support
• Complete file-management (copy, move and delete files and directories)
• Optimization of existing archives
• Access to your archives in Windows Explorer and via the context menu (shell extension)
• Table of contents in the Properties panel of ACE and ZIP (shell extension)

Release Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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Before WinRAR became popular WinZip was the most popular compression utility for Windows. WinZip allows you to quickly and easily zip and unzip files and folders. WinZip also supports encryption using the Rijndael AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) to protect your sensitive data.

Release Date: Saturday, June 12, 2010

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Microsoft DirectX (previously WinG) is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation and rich audio. DirectX includes DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectInput, DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay and DirectShow. The most used API's (Application Programming Interfaces) in computer (PC or console) games include DirectX from Microsoft, OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) from SGI (Silicon Graphics) and Glide from 3dfx Interactive.

Release Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003

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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.

Release Date: Monday, May 10, 2010

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IrfanView, made by Irfan Skiljan, is a fast and simple freeware image viewer, editor and converter that supports all major graphic formats, including AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAM, CLP, CRW, DAT (VideoCD), DCR, DDS, DXF, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS, FLI/FLC, FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG/GEM, JPG2000, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/MIDI/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, MrSID, MRW, NEF, LM/NOL/NGG, OGG, ORF, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, Mac PICT, PNG, PSD, PSP, QTIF, RAS/SUN, RAW, RAF, RA, RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF, TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, WMA, WMV, XBM and XPM. In addition it features drag and drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) scan support, slide shows, batch conversion, multi language support, thumbnail option, preview option, print option, IPTC edit, capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, lossless JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) rotation, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, many command line options and modifications such as changing color depth, crop, blur and sharpen.

Note that IrfanView will install the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Google Desktop Search by default.
Deselect the checkboxes of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Google Desktop Search in the installer to prevent this.

Release Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows which supports many audio and video formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization effects.

Release Date: Monday, August 16, 2010

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Lavasoft Ad-Aware is a free utility that scans your memory, registry, harddisks, removable and optical drives for known adware and spyware components and lets you remove them easily and safely. Ad-Aware is designed to provide continuous protection from known aggressive advertising, datamining, parasites, scumware, keyloggers, selected traditional trojans, dialers, malware (malicious software), browser hijackers and tracking components. Ad-Aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that their privacy will remain intact. Download and install Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, Spyware Doctor and Spy Sweeper to protect your privacy.

Release Date: Monday, January 26, 2009

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Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove different kinds of spyware from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not cover. If you see new toolbars in Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes or if the start page of the browser has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot Search & Destroy is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer. If you fear incompatibility with other software you are using, we can assure you that will not be the case. Spybot Search & Destroy can also clean usage tracks, an interesting function if you share your computer with other users and don't want them to see what you worked on. And for professional users, it allows to fix some registry inconsistencies and extended reports. Spybot Search & Destroy also delivers useful tools such as an e-mail list of opt-out addresses to stop unwanted solicitations and a file shredder to securely overwrite unwanted files deleted from your PC. For protection against ad-serving software, trojan horses and other means of tracking your surfing habits, get Spybot Search & Destroy immediately.

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Spyware Doctor is an advanced adware and spyware removal utility that detects and cleans thousands of potential spyware, adware, trojans, keyloggers, spyware, cookies, trackware, spybots and other malware from your PC. This tool allows you to remove, ignore or quarantine identified Spyware. It also has an OnGuard system to immunize and protect your system against privacy threats as you work. By performing a fast detection at Windows start-up you will be alerted with a list of the potential threats identified.

Release Date: Friday, May 21, 2010

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Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users. Not to share files, but to talk with them for free. The technology is extremely advanced, but very simple and easy to use. You will be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends all over the world in no time using your computers sound card, speakers and microphone. Skype is available in the following languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Cesky (Czech), Danish, Deutsch (German), English, Español (Spanish), Estonian, Finnish, Française (French), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italiano (Italian), Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch (Dutch), Norsk (Norwegian), Polski (Polish), Português (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Svenska (Swedish). Simply download Skype and select the language during installation.

• Unlimited free high-quality worldwide voice communications
• Superior sound quality (better than your regular phone)
• Works with all firewall, NAT (Network Address Translation) and routers (nothing to configure)
• Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
• Your calls are encrypted end-to-end for superior privacy
• Based on cutting edge P2P technology

Release Date: Sunday, April 29, 2007

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PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for 32-bit Windows systems. SSH, Telnet and Rlogin are three ways of doing the same thing: logging in to a multi-user computer from another computer, over a network. Multi-user operating systems, such as Unix and VMS, usually present a command-line interface to the user, much like the Command Prompt or MS-DOS Prompt in Windows. The system prints a prompt, and you type commands which the system will obey. Using this type of interface, there is no need for you to be sitting at the same machine you are typing commands to. The commands and responses, can be sent over a network, so you can sit at one computer and give commands to another one, or even to more than one. SSH, Telnet and Rlogin are network protocols that allow you to do this. On the computer you sit at, you run a client, which makes a network connection to the other computer (the server). The network connection carries your keystrokes and commands from the client to the server and carries the server's responses back to you. These protocols can also be used for other types of keyboard-based interactive session. In particular, there are a lot of bulletin boards, talker systems and MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) which support access using Telnet. There are even a few that support SSH.

Release Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010

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Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, online passwords, etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your computer, e-mail account, etc. Unimaginable.
KeePass Password Safe is a free open source password safe and manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key and/or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password and/or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms known today (AES and Twofish).

Release Date: Friday, July 23, 2010

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Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading and improved privacy and security. Mozilla Firefox is a free web browser based on the Gecko render engine, which follows the W3C Web Standards much better then Windows Internet Explorer. Also there are a lot of handy extensions available for Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox is very easy to install: launch Utilu Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox. From then on everything goes automatically.

If you prefer to manually install Firefox: run the installer, follow the steps and set Mozilla Firefox to be the default browser. From then on always start Firefox to surf the web.

With Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection it is possible to use multiple standalone versions of Mozilla Firefox at the same time, which is useful for web developers.

Utilu Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox is a small multilingual utility which after approval automatically downloads and installs the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, and then immediately opens one or more websites. Mozilla Firefox is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.

• It doesn't ask the user difficult questions, doesn't show technical information and gives no complicated error messages
  
• It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions (if available) of Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7
  
• It can be started from Internet Explorer 1.0 through 8.0
  
• It even works under the most restricted user accounts: if the rights of the user running Utilu Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox are not sufficient enough Firefox won't be installed, but only extracted to a temporary directory. Because the website(s) are opened directly, the user won't notice the difference
  
• It can open the website(s) immediately in the desired language

Release Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection is a utility that contains multiple versions of the free web browser Mozilla Firefox, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Mozilla Firefox is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.

In Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection you can quickly see how your websites look when rendered using different versions of the Gecko render engine. You can specify the filenames or locations (URLs) to open in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox. Filenames or URLs that include spaces must be enclosed in quotes ("). Multiple filenames or URLs may be used by separating them by spaces. This will result in multiple tabs being opened.
Entering for example
"C:\Directory\Local File.xhtml" "http://mozilla.com/" "http://utilu.com/"
in the input field will open the local file and the two URLs in three tabs in every installed version of Mozilla Firefox.
You can also specify paths and filenames or URLs as parameters to Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection (UtiluMFC.exe), in that case the interface won't appear but all versions of Mozilla Firefox will start directly with the specified paths and filenames or URLs opened in tabs.

The version number of each included version of Mozilla Firefox can be found in the window title.

Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection also includes the Firebug and Web Developer add-ons for all included versions of Mozilla Firefox. These add-ons provide a variety of tools which make troubleshooting websites much easier.

The user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want. You can also make an unattended installation.

Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection fully supports upgrading, so there is no need to uninstall a previous version before installing a newer version: just install the newer version on top of the currently installed version with the same or more components selected.

Specify the parameter -setDefaultBrowser to the installer to make it set Mozilla Firefox as default browser.

Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection is only available in English.

Utilu Mozilla Firefox Collection is primarily intended for web developers. Regular users can better use Utilu Silent Setup for Mozilla Firefox.

• Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.20
• Mozilla Firefox 3.0.19.0
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5.11.0
• Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8.0
• Mozilla Firefox 4.0.0.0 beta 4

• Firebug 1.5.4 add-on
• Web Developer 1.1.8 add-on
• Flash Player 10.1.82.76 plug-in

• It can open one or more local files and/or URLs in all installed versions of Mozilla Firefox with a single click
• It can appear in the context menu of Windows Explorer, so a file can be opened in every installed version of Mozilla Firefox directly
• It can display the version number of Mozilla Firefox in the titlebar
• It includes a number of window resizing options for the Web Developer add-on, settings for all common resolutions like 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900 and 1600x1200 are included
• It can be installed for all users, so it's available for everyone
• It can be installed and used silently, it's possible to create an unattended installation and use all functions using command line parameters
• It even works under the most restricted user accounts after installation, only the installation needs to be done by someone with Administrator privileges
• It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7
• Note that Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and higher do not support Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME and NT 4.0

Release Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform standalone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another standalone web browser) as their primary web browser and wants a mail client based on Mozilla that works nice with the web browser.

Release Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010

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Adobe Reader (previously Acrobat Reader) enables business professionals and home users to reliably share information using intelligent PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You can easily view, print and search PDF files using a variety of platforms and devices.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the file format created by Adobe in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing documents in a device-independent and display resolution-independent fixed-layout document format. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a document that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.

Release Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Adobe Flash Player (previously Macromedia Flash Player) lets you view animation and entertainment on the Internet. It displays webapplication front-ends, high-impact website user interfaces, interactive online advertising and short-form to long-form animation. Since it is free of the design restrictions of more traditional web display options, you can use Flash to clearly and exactly express your brand and company identity.

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The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from Sun Microsystems contains the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), runtime class libraries and Java application launcher that are necessary to run programs written in the Java programming language.

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Google Chrome is a web browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer and easier compared to Windows Internet Explorer from Microsoft.

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You can keep your Microsoft Windows-based computer up to date using Microsoft Update (previously Windows Update). Microsoft Update is a free Internet service from Microsoft that helps you get the latest updates for your computer, including critical security updates, performance improvements, enhancements, updated hardware drivers and the latest versions of Windows features such as the Windows Media Player. Microsoft Update is an alternative to picking and choosing the updates you need for your particular computer and software from the large library of all available updates. Because the service can identify the correct updates for your particular hardware and software, Microsoft Update makes it much easier to make sure your computer has all the latest operating system improvements. You can use the Microsoft Update website to review, select and install all the latest updates for your computer whenever you like, helping you to ensure that your computer stays up to date and secure.

Computer users must get into the habit of regularly running Microsoft Update on their computer operating system. Doing this on a regular basis is a good method of taking care of bug-fixes and minimizing security vulnerabilities. Computers and software are the new tools of our trade and it is the responsibility of the user to maintain them. Taking a few minutes each week to ensure your operating system and software applications are up-to-date is a pretty cheap insurance against having your computer compromised.

Remember that Microsoft does not distribute updates or patches by e-mail. If you receive e-mail purporting to be from Microsoft, claiming to be a security update, it is almost certainly a virus.