FileZilla is an open source multi-platform FTP client. It has the most useful options and is the best of the freeware applications out there.

FileZilla 3.2.0 latest changes:

• Fix account logon type in combination with FTP proxies
• Change wording of some strings
• Support yet another directory listing variant on obscure MVS style systems
• Fix odd behavior if deleting items from site manager
• Do not show proxy password in message log on SFTP connections
• Properly display “bytes” suffix in filelist status bar if not using thousands separator
• Bookmarks
• Logging to file
• *nix: Use GNOME’s Session Manager D-Bus API to cleanly shut down FileZilla on end of session
• MSW: Improve installer’s Vista compatibility
• *nix: Fix encoding issues with thousands separator in some locales
• Thousands separator on file exists dialog
• Rearrange filter dialog a bit
• Compile fixes for HP-UX

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For anyone that makes use of environment variables in Windows, Rapid Environment Editor makes adding, editing or deleting them very easy and fast.

You can preview the expanded values right away in the same window, which is very useful for testing variables.

It displays system and user variables separated for better management.

You can download a portable version.

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Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware registry defragmentation program. Its interface is clean and simple.

Changes in Quicksys RegDefrag 2.2:

• Improved registry files detection.
• Improved update checker.
• Improved keyboard shortcuts.
• Improved sorting of column at Registry Information.
• Removed dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).
• Fixed bug in restore point name.
• Added new languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese and Korean.
• Updated languages: Czech, Russian and Italian.
• Memory usage optimizations.
• Minor GUI improvements.
• Minor bugs fixed.
• Minor performance improvements.

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SMPlayer is an open source, multiplatform video/audio player, focusing in video features.

It uses the well-known (at least in the open source field) command-line player MPlayer. This means SMPlayer doesn’t need external codecs in order to play the files. This is great because it saves you time and troubles when playing less-known formats.

Note: If you are using Windows Vista, the default settings of SMPlayer will disable Aero temporarily while playing files.

For it to work well with Aero, go to Options - Preferences. In the General tab, select gl or gl2 in the Output Drivers: Video drop down list. Aero won’t be disabled anymore.

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7-Zip is an open source archiver that uses 7z compression which can achieve better compression ratios than RAR or ZIP.

It supports RAR, ZIP and many other formats. A modified SFX module is what i use to compress my switchless installers.

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7-Zip is an open source archiver that uses 7z compression which can achieve better compression ratios than RAR or ZIP.

It supports RAR, ZIP and many other formats. A modified SFX module is what i use to compress my switchless installers.

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foobar2000 is a lightweight and feature-rich audio player.

foobar2000 0.9.6.1 latest changes:

• Autocompletion of values in the Properties dialog.
• Support for chapters in Musepack SV8 files.
• New “Split values” command in the Properties dialog.
• Simple search queries: any latin characters are now matched regardless of their accents.

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BurnAware is a good burning application that supports almost all the features of major burning programs. BurnAware is one of the best freeware out there.

Changes in BurnAware Free Edition 2.2.1:

• Added Hebrew translation.
• Fixed the access violation error in Copy CD/DVD compilation.
• Fixed the bug with skipping system or read-only files and folders.
• Cosmetic fixes.

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