Transfer Files Lightning Fast With FastCopy

Free application FastCopy is a portable replacement for the standard Windows Explorer file copying mechanism. FastCopy's interface is rather cluttered but the file transfer speeds are fantastic. Copying ISO files, thousands of pictures, and other test files was extremely fast. You can opt to not overwrite, overwrite by newest or biggest file, and sync when transferring files with FastCopy. We've covered another popular file copier replacement here before, TeraCopy, and you might be wondering how FastCopy stacks up against it.
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Step by Step Installation of FileZilla FTP server

Open Source FTP Server - FileZilla The Free FTP Server

Step by Step Installation of FileZilla FTP Server

PortableApps Platform - Carry your favorite softwares or Programs on USB or Pen drive

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.
PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It's open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use.
For More Details...Visit http://portableapps.com/
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Acounting software to create Invoices

An open source web application meant to help manage & create invoices in a simple, straightforward way.
More Details...Visit http://www.siwapp.org/
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Little Registry Cleaner and Optimizer

Little Registry Cleaner is the first registry cleaner that is available as open source. It fixes your computer by scanning essential areas of the registry. You can also save backups of the registry, prevent registry keys from being scanned, and much more...

Little Registry Optimizer is a part of Little Apps` Little Registry Cleaner. This project is aimed to analyze the windows registry and (if needed) optimize it so it will be smaller and run smoother when the computer is rebooted. More Details...
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WinMerge - differencing and merging tool for Windows

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

WinMerge is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. WinMerge can be used as an external differencing/merging tool or as a standalone application. More Details...

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T r u e C r y p t - Free Encryption Software

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux

Main Features:
- Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
- Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
- Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
- Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
- Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

1) Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
For More Details, Visit http://www.truecrypt.org/

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VLC media player

VLC media player - the cross-platform media player and streaming server
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

For More Details, Visit http://www.videolan.org/vlc//

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List of Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of.No adware, no spyware, just good software.

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-open-source-software/index.html

Open-source alternatives for music management

Not mere freeware, but open-source alternatives are well-known for nearly every major category of software. Firefox and Linux are probably the most famous, but OpenOffice, GIMP, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Miro, and others have made themselves known in practically every genre. Heck, there's even an open-source firmware for your portable MP3 player--Rockbox.

However, there are a growing number of iTunes competitors that are gloriously open. Two that are definitely worthy of more attention are aTunes and Songbird.

http://www.atunes.org/

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...
Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

http://getsongbird.com/

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

Money Manager - Manage your finance / accounts / money

Money Manager Ex is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one's finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird's eye view of your financial worth. Money Manager includes all the basic features that 90% of users would want to see in a personal finance application.

For more details, Visit http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/

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K-Meleon - Open Source Internet Browser

K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems. (Very Fast and Stable)
For more details, visit http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
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Top defrag utility: IOBit Smart Defrag

Free Defrag / Defragmenter for Hard Disk

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What is the fragmentation status of your hard disk? -- You no longer need to guess... this freeware will give you a complete diagnosis of your current hard drives, then defragment and speed up disk performance in minutes.

Tried Windows's default defragmenter and others? -- Now download the most efficient free defragment program with automation! Compare it with your defragmenter

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PDFCreator - Standalone and Server Edition

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

• Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
• Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
• Send generated files via eMail
• Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
• AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
• Merge multiple files into one PDF
• Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
• Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems

And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License

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Ubuntu - Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu

A step by step guide to installing ubuntu 8.04 with Screen Shot
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Free Open Source Counterparts of Windows Software

Open Source Softwares
Microsoft Office ==> OpenOffice

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Microsoft Outlook Express ==> Mozilla Thunderbird

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Microsoft Internet Explorer ==> Mozilla Firefox (Relax, I know you are using it)

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Winzip or WinRAR ==> 7-Zip

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Microsoft Visio ==> Dia

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JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA or Other Commercial IDE’s ==> Eclipse

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Nero ==> InfraRecorder

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VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC ==> VirtualBox

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Microsoft Remote Desktop for Windows ==> TightVNC

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Microsoft Internet Information Services ==> Apache HTTP Server

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