Comments on: Ten Truly Great Freeware Programs

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:05:24 +0000

Here are two links to the freeware version of Ultimate Defrag
http://www.download.com/Ultima.....82157.html

http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?.....ategory=53

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:15:52 +0000

Avira Antivirus (http://www.free-av.com/ ) is better than Avast!, but Comodo is the best firewall.

By: Ten Truly Great Freeware Programs | micklanders

Ten Truly Great Freeware Programs | micklanders — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:32:18 +0000

[...] Perhaps you might have to register some personal information like your name, address, e-mail and such but to get hundreds of dollars of value of not only free software, but quality software as well you might want to consider this list of ten great freeware programs. [...]

By: Susan Wu

Susan Wu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:06:55 +0000

Hi Keith, thanks for the list of recommended freeware. Some of my favorites are IrfanView, FreeCommander, and Notepad++. My favorite is FreeCommander as the software allows me to view multiple folders without having a bunch of items on my taskbar.

By the way, Ultimate Defrag is the epitome of a product with poor documentation and marketing. I couldn’t even find the “download” link on the web, then after reading all the other comments here, I didn’t bother anymore.

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:23:22 +0000

Actually, CCleaner stand for “Crap Cleaner” . Another great tool in the vein of ccleaner is Bootzilla (http://www.bootzilla.org/). It is a small folder with an .html file that will run many, many other programs such as ccleaner, various registry cleaners, root-kit removers, virus protection programs, adware and spyware removers, start-up program removers, or defragment programs. You can even put it on a USB flash drive so that if your buddy says that their computer is running slowly you can just plug it into their computer, run a bunch of programs, and hopefully remove a lot of the junk that had accumulated on their computer and is slowing it down.

By: Jackson Williams

Jackson Williams — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:31:33 +0000

You say that Microsoft products are great, yet 4/10 of these OSS applications fill a niche created by terrible design flaws in Microsoft Windows.

(Viruses, NTFS filesystem, Windows registry, crippled Window firewall)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:46:34 +0000

im quite sorry but CCleaner doesn;t stand for computer cleaner, it stands for crap cleaner

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:17:36 +0000

This was neat. I needed a virus catcher and I just downloaded that. Thanx! :~)

By: eh

eh — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:03:17 +0000

Ultimate Defrag does not seem to be free anymore. There is only a trial version on the site.

By: shane

shane — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:59:22 +0000

Quick correction, CCleaner stands for Crap Cleaner