2009 Pricelessware List
These programs were voted as being "The best of the best in freeware" for 2009.

µTorrent
http://www.utorrent.com/
1by1
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
40tude Dialog
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/
a-squared Free 4.5
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com/
Agent Ransack
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
Agnitum Outpost Free
http://free.agnitum.com/
AIMP2
http://aimp.ru/index.php
AllChars
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
Analog-X Script Defender
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/System/sdefend/Freeware.htm
Ant Movie Catalog
http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog
AnVir Task Manager Free
http://www.anvir.com/taskmanagerfree/
Apache
http://httpd.apache.org/
Atlantis Nova
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/nova.htm
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Auslogics Disk Defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag
AutoHotKey
http://www.autohotkey.com/
AutoIt
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3
Autoruns
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
Avast! antivirus Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
Avidemux
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
AxCrypt File Encryption
http://www.axantum.com/AxCrypt/
Bulk Rename Utility
http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
Bullzip PDF Printer
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php
BurnCDCC
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
Burrrn
http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4
Calendar Magic
http://www.stokepoges.plus.com/calendar.htm
CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
CDBurnerXP
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Chainsaw
http://www.cthuloides-cabinett.de/software/chainsaw.html
Clippy
http://wots.coolfreepage.com/link.php?id=SW3
Cmdow (Commandline Window Utility)
http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html
Cobian Backup 9
http://www.cobian.se/
Color Cop
http://colorcop.net/
Contig
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx
Convert for Windows
http://joshmadison.com/software/download-convert-for-windows/
Copernic Desktop Search Home
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/home/index.html
CPU-Z
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
CurrPorts
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
DeepBurner Free
http://www.deepburner.com/index.php?r=products&pr=deepburner&prr=features
Defraggler
http://www.defraggler.com/
Dependency Walker
http://www.dependencywalker.com
doPDF
http://www.dopdf.com/
docmd
http://thomaslauer.com/comp/docmd
DupDetector
http://www.photo-freeware.net/dupdetector.php
EAC (Exact Audio Copy)
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
EASEUS Partition Master
http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
EclipseCrossword
http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/
EditPad Lite 6.5.1
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Eraser
http://eraser.heidi.ie/
ERUNT (Emergency Recovery Utility NT)
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/index.htm
ESBCalc
http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm
ESBUnitConv
http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbunitconv.htm
EssentialPIM Free
http://www.essentialpim.com/
Eusing Free Registry Cleaner v.2.5.1
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
Everything
http://www.voidtools.com
ExifTool
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool
ExifTool GUI
http://freeweb.siol.net/hrastni3/foto/exif/exiftoolgui.htm
Faststone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
FileMenu Tools
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html
Filenote (part of ShellTools)
http://www.moonsoftware.com/shelltools.asp
Filezilla
http://filezilla-project.org/
Firebug
http://getfirebug.com/
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html
Folder2Iso
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareFolder2Iso.php
Foobar2000
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Format Factory
http://www.formatoz.com/index.html
Forte Free Agent v1.93
http://www.cc.uom.gr/pub/FREEWARE/INTERNET%20TOOLS/Newsreaders-Usenet/a32en193.exe
FreeCommander
http://www.freecommander.com/
FreePdf
http://freepdfxp.de/
FreeUndelete
http://www.officerecovery.com/
Gadwin PrintScreen
http://www.gadwin.com/
Ghostscript
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost
GMER
http://www.gmer.net/
GNU Privacy Guard
http://www.gnupg.org/
Gnumeric
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
GnuWin32
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
GParted LiveCD
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
HandBrake
http://handbrake.fr/
Hash
http://keir.net/hash.html
Hashtab v3.0.0
http://www.beeblebrox.org/
HJSplit
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
HostsMan
http://www.abelhadigital.com/
HTTrack
http://www.httrack.com/
HxD 1.7.7.0
http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
ImgBurn
http://www.imgburn.com/
Index Your Files
http://www.indexyourfiles.com/
InfraRecorder
http://infrarecorder.org/
Inkscape
http://www.inkscape.org/
IPNetInfo
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html
Irfanview
http://www.irfanview.com/
IZArc
http://www.izarc.org/
JkDefrag 3.36
http://www.kessels.biz/JkDefrag/
JkDefragGUI
http://www.emro.nl/freeware/
JR Screen Ruler
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
K-Meleon
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Karen's Replicator
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp
KeePass Password Safe
http://keepass.info/
Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5
http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page7.html#Kerio%20Personal%20Firewall
KompoZer
http://www.kompozer.net/
Lame
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
LightBox Free
http://sagelighteditor.com/downloadfree.html
Lister
http://www.ghisler.com/lister
Lupas Rename
http://rename.lupasfreeware.org/
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
http://magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
MagicDisc
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Maxthon Classic Ver. 1.6.5
http://www.maxthon.com/
Media Player Classic Home Cinema
http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
Metapad
http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
Miranda IM
http://www.miranda-im.org/
MozBackup
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
Mp3tag
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
MySQL
http://www.mysql.com/
MyUninstaller
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html
Neutron 1.07
http://keir.net/neutron.html
NewsProxy 1.2.5
http://www.exscientia.org/akula_tools/index.html
nLite
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html
Nmap Security Scanner v5.00
http://nmap.org/download.html
Noscript
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
NotePad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/
OpenExpert
http://www.baxbex.com/openexpert.html
Opera
http://www.opera.com/
PC Wizard
http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php
PDF-XChange Viewer
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer/
PDFTK Builder
http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/#pdftkbuilder
Pegasus Mail
http://www.pmail.com/index2.htm
Photo! Editor
http://pho.to/editor/
PhotoFiltre
http://photofiltre.en.softonic.com/
Photoscape
http://www.photoscape.org/
PHP
http://www.php.net/
Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/index.html
Pop Peeper
http://www.poppeeper.com/
Power Defragmenter
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Power-Defragmenter-Download-20185.html
Process Explorer
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
ProcMon
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
PSPad
http://www.pspad.com/
Pstart
http://www.pegtop.net/start/
Pure Text 2.0
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
PuTTY
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
QuickPar
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
Rainlendar
http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php
Recuva
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
RegScanner
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
RegSeeker
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Regshot v1.81
http://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot/files/
Revo Uninstaller
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
RJ TextEd
http://www.rj-texted.se/
Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29
Sandboxie
http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie
Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI)
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Skype
http://www.skype.com/
slrn
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
Spacemonger
http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
SpeedFan
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Stickies
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
Stunnel
http://www.stunnel.org/
Superantispyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Sysinternals Suite
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx
System Information for Windows
http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html
TClockEx
http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/
TED Notepad
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
Teracopy
http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php
The Gimp
http://www.gimp.org/
TheSage
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html
Thunderbird 2
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-2.0/
The world has moved on and Thunderbird 3 is the current version
TinySpell
http://tinyspell.m6.net/
TOMBO
http://tombo.sourceforge.jp/En/
Treecopy
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/treecopy/
TreePad Lite
http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/
TrueCrypt
http://www.truecrypt.org/
UBCD4Win
http://ubcd4win.com/
UK Kalender
http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/
Universal Extractor
http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract
Unlocker
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
UnxUtils
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils
USB Disk Ejector
http://quick.mixnmojo.com/usb-disk-ejector
USBDeview
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
USBDLM
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/
VirtuaWin
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VMware Player
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
WinAudit
http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm
WinContig
http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm
WinDirStat
http://windirstat.info/
Windows System Control Center
http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php
WinMerge
http://winmerge.org/
WinPatrol
http://www.winpatrol.com/
WinSCP
http://winscp.net/
Wireshark
http://www.wireshark.org/
Wordweb Free Version Dictionary/Spell Checker
http://wordweb.info/
Xenu's Link Sleuth
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
XMedia Recode
http://www.xmedia-recode.de/
English representation - http://www.freewarefiles.com/XMedia-Recode_program_47942.html
Xnews
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
Xnview
http://www.xnview.com/
xxclone
http://xxclone.com/
xxcopy
http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
ZSoft Uninstaller
http://www.zsoft.dk/index/software_details/4

Nearly every piece of software i have is on that list. If you don't know what they are, just click their link and see if it interest you. The names usually give a good clue to what they do but some are a bit cryptic. Any probs just post up and i'll help you out.

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