For computer security, download and run these four programs every time you boot up: AntiVirus, AVG software free download and updates Ad Aware With its ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware can easily rid your system of these tracking components Spybot can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer BHODemon a guardian for your Internet Explorer browser: it protects you from unknown Browser Helper Objects (BHOs), by letting you enable/disable them individually. It also monitors your Registry and alerts you when a BHO is installed

1 Kick This a free utility which keeps your ISP from kicking you off the Internet by randomly visiting websites
AbiWord free word processor, open source, available for all OS's
Adobe Acrobat Reader, download here
Ads - WebWasher ad blocking software
Adware - SpyRemover detects and removes intrusive devices such as spyware, adware, keyloggers, Trojans, tracking devices, hacker tools, and other spy devices from your PC
Ad Aware With its ability to scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware can easily rid your system of these tracking components
Adware - Spybot can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer
Agent Land search agents, web agents, monitoring agents, virtual assistants, shop bots, webmaster agents, and more
AntiSpyware, free very effective according to Scout
AntiVirus, AVG software free download and updates
Arachnophilia a free HTML editor.
AutoGraphicsHTML takes a directory of images and converts them to a browseable, HTML-ized image archive complete with clickable thumbnails of the images... see all the other graphics programs here
Baseline Security Analyzer MS utility for analyzing the security of your operating system
Belarc Advisor utility which takes an audit of all the hardware and software installed on a computer
Bookmark managers--Murl
Bookmark managers--Bookmarks2go
The Brain This program allows you to index anything in a visual, freeform manner. Really excellent.
Bug Net news and information about software bugs
Canon Software
CatchUp "a free utility that does three important things. It scans your PC's software and tells you which of your programs needs updating. Then it looks for security holes in your software and on your operating system and tells you what to do about them. Finally, it scans for adware, "spyware," and other creepy things that can find their way onto your system via the Net" (YIL)
Central Command anti-virus software
ChainCast Networks download their VMR player here
Children - Kea Coloring Book 3.4 for young children
Chumbo.com the ultimate source in software (and the first to sell software online)
Compression - Free Zip free compression utility which uses same code as winzip
Compression - Stuff It powerful compression utility
Compression - WinZip best known compression utility
Connection Speed on Net this utility measures it [LaunchPad]
Courier Email Program a really nice FREE email program
Download.com at C|net
Downloads - C|net has a great site for locating utilities to download
Downloads (shareware & freeware) from ZDNet
Downloads, Hot from ZDnet
Downloads - Tucows -a great site; huge selection
Downloads - No Nonsense freeware utilities
Downloads - Web Attack
Downloads - WEBmasterFREE free software for your PC
Dreamweaver 1.02 from Macromedia
E-Cleaner free PC utility which will clean up outgoing email messages, especially forwarded missives with bad line breaks and sideways V symbols
Encryption - DD Soft free, easy to use encryption software
Eudora download site at ZDnet
Eudora download at Qualcomm homepage
Exam Professor give exams online
FastStats: This report wizard walks you through all facets of data compiling and analyzing. FastStats provides comprehensive info on referring URL and visitor data, search engine phrase and keyword click-throughs, server errors and more. Plus it's fast. (Shareware/Win95-98-NT)...
Finale Notepad create sheet music on your computer using this free program
Firewalls - Zone Alarm recommended by Alamo PC Org., free version available
Firewalls - At Guard --@Guard v2.2, published by WRQ, Inc., is a piece of software that WWW advertisers and marketers would prefer that you not have. This highly useful software can help you keep your privacy, maintain the security of your PC, and speed up your Internet connection. Once installed, @Guard watches network connections both into and out of your PC and, based on your personal configuration, automatically disallows certain transmissions. The software allows you to block "cookies" (hidden pieces of information used to identify you and your browser) based on the source URL of the cookie. In terms of security, @Guard has a personal firewall that watches for incoming and outgoing network connections from your PC and can be configured to allow or disallow certain connections. The most useful aspect of @Guard is the ad blocking feature that blocks incoming advertisements such as "banner ads" based on part of the URL. Not only does this feature eliminate most advertisements from your Web browsing experience, but it provides the added bonus of speeding up Web page downloads. These powerful features would not be useful without a commensurately complex configuration, but @Guard also has relatively easy-to-use wizards to assist you with this set up. @Guard is available for the Win95/98/NT operating systems and is free to use for 30 days after which time it can be purchased for $29.95 (Scout Report)
Firewalls - "Fire(wall) Safety" ZDNet article, 4/2/01 on latest and best available free firewall program, Sygate - download it here
Firewalls - Network Ice intrusion protection
Flash Player, Macromedia download here
Grace Plotting Software "a WYSIWYG tool to make two-dimensional plots of scientific data... Its strength lies in the fact that it combines the convenience of a graphical user interface with the power of a scripting language which enables it to do sophisticated calculations or perform automated tasks"
HTMLpad from Intermedia Software. This is a hypertext editor for Windows 95 and NT. Has a rather complex interface and a huge list of features. No sign of Windows 98. No mention of interference with other Windows files. It's $10 if you decide to keep it.

IE download site at Microsoft - latest version
IE5 NeoPlanet.

Free to download, NeoPlanet changes the face of your existing Microsoft Internet Explorer by laying a new intuitive interface on top of it. (Same browser engine-- new look, feel, and functionality.) What's more, you can choose from many different "schemes," much like the "skins" used for Nullsoft's Winamp MP3 player. The Schemes (25 at last count), which I liken to a makeover, are downloadable from the NeoPlanet website.
IE5 Homepage at Microsoft
Jalbum free web photo album generator; also generates thumb nails and slide shows
JankPad requires Virtual Basic 5.0 Runtime and Windows 95, 98, or NT.
JankPad Download site by ZDnet
k-meleon small, fast web browser based on Mozilla; also in Italian
Link Status free Web link checker
LinkBot: This old favorite scours your pages for broken links, missing images, stale content, missing titles, images with missing attributes and the like and organizes it into an easy-to-use tree. It also handles HTML syntax validation, error log analysis and FrontPage integration. (Shareware/Win95-98-NT)... from Tetranet Software
Listservs--ONElist --create your own listserv (free)

Intro. page for a list manager
Mac Opener lets you read Mac disks/files using a PC with Windows
Macromedia --download free for trial Authorware, Dreamweaver, Fireworks,

Shockwave, Flash, and Freehand
Mail Washer "a freeware program designed to remove spam, viruses and unwanted attachments from your e-mail before they get to your computer" - recommended by Alamo PC Organization - "MailWasher deletes unwanted messages at the server, without downloading them - or it can bounce an e-mail back to the sender so that it looks as though your address is not valid, making the spammer think you don't exist"
Microsoft IE download site at Microsoft - latest version
Microsoft homepage
Moodle "a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses"
Music Player - Musicmatch Jukebox
Music Player - RealJukebox
Music Player - UltraPlayer
Music Player - Windows Media Player
MyVitalAgent.com a free utility that analyzes sputtering modems, e-mail connections, RealAudio
NaDa 0.5 NaDa™ does nothing. This is a revolutionary whole new approach, a concept far beyond what you usually expect from the software industry. Download it and forget it
Netscape homepage
Netscape Plugins
Nicenet Classroom Assistant --"a sophisticated communication tool that

brings powerful World-Wide-Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to a variety of learning environments." --free, with no advertising
Norton Connect --It's a simple idea really: the ability to share word-processed papers within a lab, around town, or across the country without attachments or printing papers. Students retain full editing capability of Word for Windows, while being able to read and discuss one another's papers. Instructors can collect, comment on, and return papers to students who read the graded paper in one screen while editing the original in another. All from one pull-down menu in Word for Windows.
Norton Utilities (rated best in 1999)
NoteTab homepage download any of the versions here
NoteTab Pro 4.01 Rated 5 stars. Shareware, $19.95 to keep [This is the best in my opinion of all the plain text editors; it's what I use -Colby]Download.
O Darn! Passwords! prize-winning shareware generates random passwords for extra safety; stores and helps you remember them
Old Versions Of Software
Open Office best free Google office suite
Open Office free, like MS Office
Opera Browser articles, links, download sites
----- Features & homepage
Opera Download fast browser
Opera Homepage latest downloads
Orbitron download for free a satellite tracking system... shows the positions of all satellites at any given moment (in real or simulated time)
Paint Shop Pro homepage, Jasc Software
Paint Shop Pro: Tips & Tricks
Password Safe "free Windows 9x/2000 utility from Counterpane Labs, users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers"
PC Upgrade Commander review of software which makes it easy to move all your settings to a new computer
Photo Basic from StudioLine. full range of filters, effects and most other capabilities of the retail product. freeware
Photo Basic, Studioline freeware - full range of filters, effects and most other innovative capabilities of the retail product
phpESP (php Easy Survey Package) PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization. MySQL database backend
Plug-Ins - Shockwave
Pop Up BLocker
Popup Defense
PowWow. A chat manager with voice function from Tribal Voice--free download!
PrintFolder utility to print or save a list of files located in any folder - freeware - download here
Process Viewer for Windows freeware tool that shows every program running on your machine, threads in use, DLLs in use
Programming--MC links. Links to major hardware and software producers
Q-Zone allows restaurants and theaters to wirelessly set patrons' cell phones to silent mode
RealPlayer download here
RCEdit 0.9.99 plain text editor - 4.1 mb, free. Very simple to use.

Registry Mechanic scans and repairs your registry
Research Pro, WebRecord from Canon
SafeClean Utilities helps you reclaim wasted disk space. A handy wizard walks you through selecting the drives and choosing what to clean: temp files, folders, cache files, backup files, lost cluster files, log files and more. Once analyzed, you selectively move, remove, compress or send them to the Recycle Bin. A "track remover" feature quickly gets rid of history- and Internet-related files. (Shareware/Win95-98-NT)
Sam Spade.org freeware network query tool, other tools as well, great articles on network subjects
Scout Portal Toolkit "allows groups or organizations to catalog and disseminate their collections or resources via the World Wide Web without a significant outlay of technical resources or expertise. SPT's metadata tool comes packaged with Dublin Core fields which can be modified easily to fit a collection's specific needs. Other features include a flexible interface (through separation of PHP and HTML), privilege settings, and workflow management features"
Shareware Industry Awards for 2002
Slimbrowser "The best tabbed web browser in the world, and still FREE!"
Star Office download site free office suite; super word processor, similar to MS Word, but created by Sun Microsystems
Star Office Help site documentation, help, registration
SurveillizCam use your computer as a security system for your home
Teveo "With TeVeo Live 2.0 Web cam users can braodcast and view streaming video from any PC.. at no cost" (Yahoo I. Life magazine)
TextPad won the ZDnet award for best utility. From Helios Software Solutions.
Thumbnails, Easy Fookes free utility
ToolBook from Asymetrix--ToolBook is for organizing, creating, and deploying a course. Librarian program is for managing the course, tracking students, and enabling online collaboration.
Tools--a good place for utility downloads

Truster, software to turn your PC into a lie detector
U-Portal uPortal is a free, sharable portal under development by institutions of higher-education... Community tools, such as chat, forums, survey, and so on, build relationships among campus constituencies... You may download uPortal and use it on your site at no cost
Updates - Windows Updates
Update Your Software .."Get the latest updates and upgrades on your favorite software from ZDNet Updates.com. This free service scans your system, creates a list of your out-of-date software, and lets you download the newest versions" (YIL)... Also, be sure to check out the cartoon of the week

Utilities - Tools a good place for utility downloads

Utility Downloads - C|net has a great site for locating utilities to download
Utility Downloads - No Nonsense freeware utilities
Vexira anti-virus software
Video Player - QuickTime
Video Player - RealPlayer
WEBmasterFREE free software for your PC
White Pine Software for video conferencing (CU-SeeMe, ClassPoint, MeetingPoint),

terminal emulators (WebTerm, 5pmTerm), and X display servers (WebTerm X, eXodux).
Windows 98Lite stripped down version of Win98 which runs really fast
Windows Update helps you analyze and update your Windows programs
Yahoo Briefcase "If you tend to forget critical documents on your work or home computer, consider opeing a Briefcase account. This service lets you upload your data to the Web and access it from any Net-connected system. The first 30 MB of storage is free.." (YIL)
Zone Alarm designed to protect users' DSL or cable-connected PC from hackers