IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 98 and up. I use it and recommend it to anyone.

Some IrfanView features:

• Many supported file formats
• Multi language support
• Thumbnail/preview option
• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Cut/crop
• IPTC editing
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Capturing
• Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
• Lossless JPG rotation
• Many hotkeys
• Many command line options
• Many PlugIns
• Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like “I Agree” or “Evaluation expired”
• No registry changes without user action/permission!
• and much much more

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I’ve looked for this software very long! This is the best!

Mach5’s autorun can take a simple web page and make it drive several installers or other content on your CD. Mach5’s freeware cd autorun creator program opens up an IE control with width, height, and initial page (home page) to load all pulled from an ini file. It patches the “install:” protocol in the IE control to launch a general file from your CD. It can be any file or document to open. That’s it! That’s all it does.

• Make a CD with multiple packages on it – your customers can easily pick which package to install.
• As easy as making a web page. In fact.. it is the same as making a web page!
• You can run your installer application or open documents by simply putting an HTML style link in your layout.
• Freely distributable on your CDs, free of adware, spyware, or other rotten mess.

Sam Spade for Windows is a freeware network query tool collection. Each tool displays it’s output in it’s own window, and everything is multi-threaded so you don’t need to wait for one query to complete before starting the next one. There’s a lot of online help, in both WinHelp and HTMLHelp formats. This includes tutorials, background information and links to online resources as well as the program manual itself.

Tools included:

• ping
• nslookup
• whois
• IP block whois
• dig
• traceroute
• finger
• SMTP VRFY
• web browser
• keep-alive
• DNS zone transfer
• SMTP relay check
• Usenet cancel check
• website download
• website search
• email header analysis
• Email blacklist query
• Abuse address query
• S-Lang scripting
• Time

The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 and Windows 9x, Windows Me internals that you won’t find anywhere else.

There is a wide range of file and disk utilities, security, networking, system information tools and so on. Must have this link in bookmarks!