Netsend

Windows Vista and Windos 7 are no longer shipped with the command line tool netsend. Fortunately, a freeware alternative is available at:

http://www.lantalk.net/netsend/

List of freeware tools

Explorer & OS

• Total Commander (shareware): http://www.ghisler.com/
• 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
• VirtualCloneDrive: http://www.slysoft.com/nl/virtual-clonedrive.html
• NTFS Undelete: http://www.ntfsundelete.com/
• CDBurnerXP: http://cdburnerxp.se/en/download
• Atto Disk Benchmark: http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark

Editor

• Notepad2: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
• ExifTool & ExifToolGUI: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool

3D

• Now3d: http://www.now3d.it/Eng/
• Blender: http://www.blender.org/
• Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com/

Graphics

• FastStone Image Viewer: http://www.faststone.org/
• Paint .Net: http://www.getpaint.net/
• IcoFX: http://www.icofx.ro/
• Screenhunter Free: http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm
• Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/
• FontForge: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

Conversion

• Super: http://www.erightsoft.com/
• MediaCoder: http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.htm
• PDFsam (split and merge): http://www.pdfsam.org/
• Bullzip PDF Printer: http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php
• A-PDF extractor (PDF to text): http://www.a-pdf.com/text/index.htm

Media & audio/dsp

• Renoise: http://www.renoise.com/
• Zoom Player 5.02 (6+ is no longer free): http://download.cnet.com/Zoom-Player-Standard/3000-2139_4-10068896.html?tag=mncol
• Media Tagger (Ladislav Dufek): http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Tag-Editors/Media-Tagger.shtml
• Subtitle Workshop: http://www.urusoft.net/home.php?lang=1
• Divx 7: http://www.divx.com/en/win
• Youwashock: http://youwashockvst.googlepages.com/
• Stomper: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/stomper/index2.html
• MP3Val: http://mp3val.sourceforge.net
• T@B ZS4: http://www.zs4.net

Databases

• PostgreSQL (as a service): http:/www.postgresql.org
• SQL Server Compact 3.5 (in-process): http://www.microsoft.com/Sqlserver/2005/en/us/compact.aspx
• SQLite (in-process): http://www.sqlite.org/