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Download Section:

Utilities
File Compression Softwares
Spell Checkers
Media Players
Net Protection & Anti viruses
Communication Softwares
Browser
Download Manager
Chat Softwares  

Utilities:

1. Software: WinZip

 

Publisher:  WinZip Computing
File size: 1.71 MB
License:  Freeware
Description: WinZip is a straightforward, fast, and easy-to-use zipping and unzipping utility that includes built-in support for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, ZIP, UUencode, XXencode, Bin Hex, MIME, and Unix-compressed files. Older ARC, ARJ, and LZH files are supported via external programs.
 
2. Software:  AceFTP Pro 2.07
 

Publisher: Visicom Media
File size: 1.85 MB
License: Freeware
Minimum
requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Description: AceFTP Pro is an FTP client for transferring files over the Internet. AceFTP Pro features the Transfer Rate Viewer, and the image thumbnails will benefit newcomers and advanced users alike. With AceFTP Pro, users can customize the user interface, search files on the server side, make server-to-server file transfers, open several FTP sites easily, execute multiple file transfers concurrently, resume broken transfers, control transfers using the queue manager, monitor transfers graphically with the Transfer Rate Viewer, get thumbnails of images on the server side as well as the local side, and speed up operations by caching files and folders.
 
3. Software: BitZipper 3.1
Publisher:  Bitberry Software
File size: 1.82 MB
License: Free to try
Minimum
requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: 30 day trial period
Description: Unzip WinZip, WinRar, WinAce and 12 other types of archives, one or many at a time - if you download files from the Internet this is what you need to access them. BitZipper also helps you backup your important files by the click of a button by using its highly configurable Backup Sets. Your backups will be stored in zip files that can be decompressed by other zip tools. Power users will enjoy working with the Batch Tool that lets you extract, search and test multiple archives at once, a feature specifically suited for power downloaders. BitZipper is tightly integrated with Windows Explorer and has easy Zip & Email, extract and compress functionality available directly from Windows Explorer.
 
4. Software: Diskeeper 7.0            
Publisher: Executive Software
File size:  5.3 MB
License:  Freeware
Description: This automatic disk defragmenter features scheduling and a high level of configuration ability, and can defragment even critical system files. Disk fragmentation occurs during normal Windows operation, as files are broken up in pieces and saved on different parts of the hard disk. This increases the amount of time it takes to access single files, and bogs down system performance.
 
5. Software:  ACDSee Classic 2.43
Publisher: ACD systems
File size: 1.55 MB
License: Free to try
Minimum
requirement:  
Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, 32MB RAM, 4MB disk space, 256-color display
Description: ACDSee Classic is a quick image viewer for displaying high-resolution digital images. ACDSee Classic's browser allows you to view thumbnails in more than 30 image formats and create separately stored descriptions for images. ACDSee Classic also has file conversion abilities and support for cropping and lossless JPEG rotation.

 

File Compression Softwares:

 

1. Software: Click UNZIP
File Size: N/A
License: Shareware ($8.00)
Description:  Click Unzip! is the easier way to un-zip .ZIP files.
2. Software:

Quick Reinstaller

File Size: N/A
License: Shareware
Description:  This is program for Windows reinstallation and resurrection. Program for users all over the world which can help them with Windows 95/98 crashes. This program will help you to solve all your problems with your Windows stability!
 
3. Software:  7-Zip Archiver
File Size: N/A
License: Freeware
Description: 7-Zip compresses to ZIP format 2-10 % better than others.

 

Spell Checkers:

 

1. Software: ActiveS
File Size: N/A
License: Shareware
Description:  ActiveS is a general purpose spellchecker. It will add while-you-type spellchecking to almost any application. 
Features:  Adds spellchecking to any application Easily replace the misspelled word with one ActiveS suggests Add your own words Adjustable sensitivity (to prevent 'false alerts').
2. Software: All Purpose Spell Checker
File Size: 3.12 MB
License: Freeware
Description:  The All-Purpose Spell Checker (APSC) is for Windows 95/98. It can check the english spelling of text in almost any text area of Windows. The program is very small and inconspicuous. It's free, too!
 
3. Software:  Grammar Expert Plus
File Size: N/A
License: Free Demo, Shareware for $85.
Description: Grammar Expert Plus provides in one package five powerful, state-of-the-art tools to help improve your writing.

 

Media Players:

 

1. Software:

Win Amp

Publisher: Win amp
License: Freeware
Description: 

Win amp is a powerful song playing software that has new features especially compatible for all Windows. You can edit song information via ID3 tag editor or sort by title, track length, and filename or reverse play list order and randomize. Deleting song files or song listings from the play list  is very easy. You can also utilize the feature of opening multiple editor windows to manipulate/generate play lists while the current one is playing a song.

 
 
2. Software: MP3 Doctor
Publisher:   Pro Software
File size: 1.59 MB
License: Freeware
Minimum
requirements:   
Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
Description: MP3 Doctor is an editing tool that lets you check, modify, and improve all your MP3s. You can repair imperfect songs or modify them with trimming, equalizing, resampling, normalization features, and more. The goal is to let you maintain a similar quality and sound on all your existing MP3s. In addition, it comes with encode and decode options.
 
3. Software: Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1
Publisher:  Microsoft
File size: 9.9 MB
License: Free
Minimum
requirements:
Pentium-90MHz (120MHz recommended), Windows 98/2000/Me, 64MB RAM, Internet Explorer 4.x, sound card
Description: Windows Media Player 7.1 consists of seven features in a single application: a CD player, an audio and video player, a media jukebox, a media guide, an Internet radio tuner, a portable device that you can transfer music files to, and an audio CD burner. These software programs are combined into one easy-to-use application designed to make playing digital media a mainstream experience. An audio CD creator and a unified player are also included with the program.

 

Net Protection & Antivirus:

 

1. Software: VCatch Virus Catcher 5.0.7
Publisher: Common Search
File Size: 1.19 MB
Minimum
requirements:

Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 4/5/6

Limitations: ZIP file scanning disabled, not integrated with Windows Explorer
Description: V-Catch Virus Catcher is virus protection software that checks all files sent or downloaded to your computer via e-mail, Web mail, instant messaging, and file-sharing applications. V-Catch automatically updates its virus definitions in your computer once a day, so once you install V-Catch, you don't have to do anything else to be constantly protected. In the event that V-Catch detects a virus, the software automatically deletes the file and notifies you. V-Catch is compatible with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, ICQ, Napster, Eudora, Netscape Messenger, Incredimail, Gnutella, iMesh, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail.
 
2. Software: McAfee.com Security Center
Publisher: McAfee
File size:  1.3 MB
License: Shareware 15 days trial period
Minimum
requirements:
Windows (all), Internet Explorer 5.
Description: McAfee.com Security Center combines a free set of security services with simplified access to McAfee.com’s managed security products. These services, including a Security Index and real-time external security alert system, assess, inform, and warn you about your PC’s security vulnerability. Each tool quickly evaluates your exposure to security and Internet-based threats and then provides recommendations to quickly and securely protect your PC.
 
3. Software:  Norton Antivirus 2002
License: Share ware - 15 days trial period
File size: 435.6k
Description: Norton Antivirus is the world's most trusted anti-virus solution. It repairs common virus infections automatically, without interrupting your work and you can update it from the internet too.
 
4. Software:  ABC Security Protector
File Size: 760 KB
License: Freeware
Description: Protect your PC and stop low-level access to it.
 
5. Software: NOBO
Description: NOBO is a program that detects Back Orifice (BO) packets in a Windows 95/98 machine
 
6. Software: ZoneAlarm 3.1.291
Publisher: Zonelabs
File size:  3.4 MB
License:  Freeware
Minimum
requirements:
 
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Description:  ZoneAlarm installs easily, and a simple setup wizard helps you configure standard Web applications, such as your e-mail client and Web browser, to access the Web without the need to fiddle with port addresses or proxy settings. After the wizard has finished doing its job, you're up and surfing. When other programs or processes attempt to access your Internet connection, a window pops up that prompts you to permit or deny access

 

Communication Softwares:

 

1. Software: Net Meeting 
Special Feature: Included in Windows® 2000!
Description: 

The Windows real-time collaboration and conferencing client is an easy-to-use Web phone, as well as a tool for corporate productivity.

   
2. Software: Buddy Phone
Description: Call people over the Internet, share files with them, and more, using this full-featured program. It gets downloaded within few minutes.
   
3. Software: Net2Phone
Description: Net2Phone is a new technology which makes it possible to place domestic and international calls from a personal computer to any telephone in the world. Developed by IDT Corporation, global innovator of telecom and Internet services, Net2Phoneis by far the most advanced telecommunications application harnessing the global power of the Internet.

Chat Softwares:

 

1. Software: MIRC

Description: Internet Relay Chat Program  IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk; you'll find the whole diversity of human interests, ideas, and issues here, and you'll be able to participate in group discussions on one of the many thousands of IRC channels, or just talk in private to family or friends, wherever they are in the world.
   
2. Software: ICQ

Description: Simply a Way to Communicate
As the name implies, ICQ or 'I Seek You' is simply a clever way of getting in touch with people. This small program takes the complicated work of finding friends, colleagues and people with similar interests across the globe, people who could be communicating by email, chat, SMS, phone or pager, and makes it as straight forward as calling across a room and starting a friendly conversation.
 

 

3. Software:   MSN Messenger
Description: Send instant messages with cool, new emoticons, call anywhere in the world from your computer, see when someone's typing, page a contact's mobile phone, send pictures and music to your friends, and much more.

 

Browsers:

 

1. Software:  MSN Explorer
License: Freeware
Description: MSN Explorer is Microsoft's all-in-one software that delivers everything you need to feel at home on the Web. E-mail, instant messaging, Web browsing, and more are integrated in a friendly program that works with your existing Internet connection.
  
2. Software: Internet Explorer 6      
License: Freeware
Description: Whether you use the Web to read e-mail, news or sports reports, shop online, listen to music or play videos, or share your images and photos with friends, family or work colleagues, Internet Explorer 6 makes it easy, exciting and fun.
   
3. Software: Netscape Communicator

Description: Surf on the net or read an email. This browser is user friendly and the navigation is very easy.
 

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Download Manager:

 

1. Software: Download Accelerator
License: Freeware
Description: Ten minutes to a faster Internet connection. It is a powerful Internet Accelerator, 
easy-to-use program for Windows® 95, 98, Me, NT, XP and 2000 
which boosts your Internet connection speed by up to 200%.
   
2. Software: Get Right  

License: Freeware
Description: GetRight is a Download Manager program to help you download files from the Internet. It allows you to easily download files and recover (resume downloading) if errors occur--and has many other advanced features.
     

 

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