This is my tribute...
expressing my gratitude to those dedicated software authors
who labor to create first-class applications & then release them to
the public domain for all to use freely at work or in play. See Footnote.

Here are some of my favorites...

Links to freeware download libraries

    Free Tutorials compiled by my friend, June
 

Pegasus
is a full blown email client with lots of features
you would expect to find only in expensive
commercial software, including support for
Netware MHS.

visit Pegasus Mail for Windows

                 
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iI System Wiper
Clean your Internet Explorer history, cache and cookies or
your recycle bin and temporary files or many other
data stores from one efficient interface.

visit iI System Wiper

             
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IrfanView
is a very fast image viewer that supports numerous
picture formats; there is a slide show option
and recently a thumbnailer; also plays
animated gifs, sound files & MPEG.
Put it in your SendTo folder and you can QuickView
almost any picture!

visit IrfanView
 

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ZipCentral
a free archive manager that supports disk spanning,
drag & drop, view or run, convert, and test.

visit ZipCentral
 
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Query Application
This is a free suite of Internet utilities such as Ping, Whois,
TraceRoute, Finger & DNS lookup.  My favorite is the
Time synchronization function that I use tosync my
PC clock with an atomic clock .

visit Query Application

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Easy MTU

Optimize your Internet connection for speed.  This freeware
offering calculates suggested setting for your Maximum
Transmission Unit [MTU] and Receive Window [RAIN].
Save your settings, exit and feel good about using the most
efficient settings for your connection.

visit Easy MTU

End It All
Need to take your system down to the bare minimum of running
applications in preparation for runninf Scandisk, burning a CD
or some other purpose?

check out End It All

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Font Thing
This font manager does it all!  View fonts individually or
in groups, anywhere on your systems, including CDROMs.
Install and Uninstall.  Print samples, view detailed
information and more.  Great job Sue!

visit Font Thing

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Karen's Directory Printer
Easily do that DOS thing that Windows doesn't have.
This has many more features packed in... finally, something
you can like more than DOS!

visit Karen's Directory Printer

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Mail Washer
Need a weapon to fight spam? Mail Washer interrogates email
messages waiting on your POP3 sever and tells you which are
blacklisted. You than have the options to bounce and delete
them... before they ever reach your desktop. You can also build
a Friends list.

visit Mail Washer

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MaxMEM
Free it up!  Choose a strategy for making memory available
then monitor the results with this realtime memory manager.
Runs in the tray; small footprint.

visit MaxMEM

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Pow
Want to blow away those annoying pop-ups and pop-unders?

visit Pow

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WS_FTP LE
I use it primarily to transfer files to my web server and
a lot of others do too. WS_FTP may also serve your
other FTP needs.

check out WS_FTP LE

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AVG Anti-Virus System
100% detection rate certified by ICSA. Free to home users.
Free automatic updates.

Visit AVG Anti-Virus 

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updated: August 02, 2002

No warranties are expressed or implied on these pages.  The information presented
merely highlights applications that I have found useful, given my configuration.

Footnote:  Be aware that some freeware is sponsored.  Applications may collect data from users
that enables sponsors to determine what ads to send to the user's computer for display.
Some consider this an invasion of privacy and label it Spyware.  Others consider Adware
a trade-off in exchange for the free use of software.