Hey PCWorld!!

Well, you have a good list of freebies but, I think you missed quite a few good or better ones.

I'll give you a few names AND their addresses so you can check and evaluate them for yourselves.

File sharing & Storage:

FILE SHARING:

uTorrent: light and fast,

http://www.utorrent.com/

BitComet: New kid on the block,

http://www.bitcomet.com/

STORAGE:

WindowsLive SkyDrive: 5 GIG. of online storage

http://skydrive.live.com/

SECURITY:

F-Secure: Black Light , AntiRootkit

F-Secure: Online Scanner, You will find both on the same page of this site

http://www.f-secure.com/security_center/

Avast: AntiVirus with Shields

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AVG: AntiVirus, Very Popular with this Community

http://free.grisoft.com/

RunScanner: Start-Up Analyzer

http://www.runscanner.net/

Dial-A-Fix: Well worth a look. I believe you had an article about this, not to long ago.

http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix#Mirrors.2Fdownload_locations.2C_and_articles

System Backup and Utilities

Tweak-UI: customizing wizard for XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

WinBubble: customizing wizard for Vista, all new.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winbubble.html

Windows Sysinternals: A collection of security utilities from MicrosoftTechNet.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/25e27bed-b251-4af4-b30a-c2a2a93a80d9.aspx

Music

Jango: Listen to any kind of music online anytime for free, You don't even have to register if you don't want to.

http://www.jango.com/users/6418129?l=0

MediaMonkey: A free music collection organizer. Everything from tags to converting to even IPods for free!

http://www.mediamonkey.com/.

So, PCW , this is what you missed and IMO are among the Best Freebies on the web. I hope you will check them out for your next freebie party.

FLASHORN.

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Patience is life.

i agree their are some things they missed as well as better apps out there than what they chose. im also talking by a lot not just by preference like antivir vs avast

1) regseeker or easycleaner over eusing
reason: both find more and clean more and both are safe though i find regseeker best.

2) halite over torrent swapper
reason: one torrent swapper isnt updated anymore and second is halite is smaller and does more like allow emule blocklist

3) digsby over pidgin
reason: just all around the best instant messenger around including over trillian pro, contains everything pidgin does and more such as skinning, being able to access facebook from the account, having guifications type toasties already available but you can actually reply in them and its developed a lot more.

4) updatestar over appsnap
reason: why settle for just freeware updates when update star tells you all current versions of products on your pc including freebies?

these are off the top of my head btw.l

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Hi Preston and Erik,

You have omitted a couple of freebies like Uniblue's ProcessScanner on the www.processlibrary.com website - some of the "freebies" here aren't really free.

Good list though.

1st off half the ppl commenting here have either never tested a product and just go by what seems popular or they live in the past. uTorrent? utorrent was bought out by bittorrent thus is worthless now. avg anti-virus? avg antivirus has worst detection of all freeware out there. openoffice.org? why would they put both openoffice and staroffice in the same list? their the same product except star is better. a lot of their freebies are good i just think the ones ive recommended they havent tried out yet like halite and digsby. there is no reason to have doubles of the same type product. the ones they suggest that are well known are the best available but they need to look at others as well. we dont need a list with 3 antiviruses, 3 bittorrent client, etc. best of each catagory is how it needs to be, they picked the best of the populars but need to step outside the box and test ones that arent so well known too. also products like windowsblinds they never said was completely free, but the limited version is free, you have to pay to get more is all. ppl need to stop expecting to get paid product quality for free. also i believe pc world should test reactOS which is like an open source windows xp.

i retried ThreatFire (formerly cyberhawk) and i dont see why this made the list. sure it adds protection but its also very intrusive. firefox doesnt work well with it, expecially if youre trying to install add-ons. also the game second life and the internet connection dies easier, as well as a boat load of extra memory consumption happens when you use ThreatFire. you guys were better off keeping winpatrol as best HIPS program over ThreatFire. also miro isnt great yet at anything, it plays all video formats but so do a lot of others that do more as well. MPlayer plays DVDs too as well as all video formats. the torrent in miro is average at best and you can get better youtube grabbing from orbitdownloader's grab than from both miro and the youtube downloarder you suggested. miro isnt the firefox of video players, nor is songbird the firefox of audio players. their incomplete and I hate them getting labelled "the firefox of" solely cause their open source and mozilla's name's involved.