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May 13^th, 2013 at 3:40pm

Thought I'd start a thread with Freeware and help links.

AmoK DVD Shrinker 1.50 Homepage

AmoK DVD Shrinker shrinks DVDs up to one fifth of the original size without any noticeable quality reduction.

Due to the smaller file size the copy can be burned on a "normal" 2.5 or 4.7 DVD-R. The DVD's menus, subtitles, audio tracks etc all stay preserved. Though, if you want only the original film can be be copied/ripped.

AmoK DVD Shrinker uses an open source DLL (ShrinkTO5), which offers excellent quality with high speed. The GUI is easy to use but offers all necessary options. Please note: AmoK DVD Shrinker cannot burn DVDs. AmoK DVD Shrinker only shrinks the DVD and optionally creates an ISO image.

Some DVDs are protected from copying. At least in Germany it is prohibited to actively remove a copy protection. Therefore, AmoK DVD Shrinker offers no functionality to directly rip a copy protected DVD (DeCSS). On the other hand, AmoK DVD Shrinker supports the popular and freely available Machinist2.dll. Please find out for yourself if it is legal in your country to download and use the Machinist2.dll.

Features

Shrink DVDs
Shrink to 2.50 or 4.70 GB or any size in-between
100% legal since the CSS-protection is not removed directly
Supports Machinist2.dll which enables shrinking and ripping of virtually all DVDs
Creates ISO images optionally
Audio and Subtitles selectable
Easy to use GUI
Fast than most other programs for shrinking DVDs
Shrinking of the complete DVD or only the movie
Option if to rip with highest possible quality or highest possible speed.
Preview of movie
100% Freeware
Free English speaking support
With and without installer/setup

Download AmoK DVD Shrinker 1.50 Here

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Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites
Reply #1 - May 13^th, 2013 at 3:52pm

DVDFab Passkey Lite 8.0.9.7 Homepage

Passkey Lite

Passkey Lite, works as a free DVD Decrypter, Blu-ray decrypter, is a simple

combination of Passkey for DVD and Passkey for Blu-ray.

Compared with registered version, this free Passkey Lite has its own limitation

on dealing with certain protections on some DVD/Blu-ray movies. In other words,

Passkey Lite cannot help you backup movies with certain protections, but, you can

still freely watch them. To movies without those certain protections, you can use

other software to access unprotected contents with the help of Passkey Lite.

Remove part of DVD/Blu-ray protections

Work with other compatible software to access unprotected DVD/Blu-ray content

Freely watch any DVD with no region limit

Download DVDFab Passkey Lite 8.0.9.7 Here

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Reply #2 - May 13^th, 2013 at 4:16pm

Classic Shell 3.6.7 Homepage

Classic Start Menu

Classic Explorer

What is Classic Shell?

Classic Shell is a collection of usability enhancements for Windows. The main

features are:

Highly customizable start menu with multiple styles and skins
Start button for Windows 7 and Windows 8
Toolbar and status bar for Windows Explorer
Caption and status bar for Internet Explorer

Download Classic Shell 3.6.7 Here

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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites Reply #3 - May 13^th, 2013 at 4:44pm Good stuff, Moses!
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 37678 Gender:	Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites Reply #4 - May 13^th, 2013 at 5:47pm Wish I understood it.
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moses Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6353	Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites Reply #5 - May 13^th, 2013 at 6:19pm It's not hard Aussie, most programmes / applications have pretty good help files.
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Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites
Reply #6 - May 13^th, 2013 at 6:36pm

moses wrote on May 13^th, 2013 at 6:19pm:

It's not hard Aussie, most programmes / applications have pretty good help files.

See, the thing is Moses, Old Bastards like me are afraid of that stuff......like, if I actually do register for them or "download" them, what other bugs am I allowing into my Computer. Chard posted about some photo storing thing. I want to be able to post photos on Forums, but I never take the last step of signing up out of fear that I may have provided a key into my www bank stuff.

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Reply #7 - May 13^th, 2013 at 8:24pm

Aussie wrote on May 13^th, 2013 at 6:36pm:

moses wrote on May 13^th, 2013 at 6:19pm:

It's not hard Aussie, most programmes / applications have pretty good help files.

See, the thing is Moses, Old Bastards like me are afraid of that stuff......like, if I actually do register for them or "download" them, what other bugs am I allowing into my Computer. Chard posted about some photo storing thing. I want to be able to post photos on Forums, but I never take the last step of signing up out of fear that I may have provided a key into my www bank stuff.

You can use a 'bodgy' name and email addy if you're worried about that. I have one
specifically for that purpose.

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Reply #8 - May 13^th, 2013 at 9:00pm

I couldn't help but notice you've posted Ivo's brilliant 'Classic Shell'. I use it on my Win 8 setup to
replace the one MS removed. It's a top little program, and being free makes it even better. I can
wholeheartedly recommend it.

For those others of you who are (ab)using Windows 8, here's a great little tool to customise that
horrid new Start Screen in Windows 8. I use it too, and the results are very good.

It's a stand-alone program, which means nothing actually installs. Perfect for people
like Aussie. Wink

And it's only 3.3 megabytes in size.

Windows 8 Start Screen Customizer

http://apps.codigobit.info/2012/11/windows-8-start-screen-customizer.html

Pic 1 shows the program itself. That's actually my Start-screen background there.

Pic 2 shows my actual Start-screen, to give you some idea of what can be achieved.
Those of you who've ever seen a stock Win 8 Start-screen will instantly notice the
improvement.

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Reply #9 - May 13^th, 2013 at 9:16pm

http://www.stardownloader.com/

The version i have is v1.45

Just paste the D/L url, and it will D/L the file.

It is a very simple program.

Its free, and it works.

the D/L is about 2.5 mb

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Introduction
Star Downloader is a download manager that accelerates your downloads by splitting the files into several parts and downloading them simultaneously. Download speeds are increased further by choosing the fastest mirror sites.

You may automatically resume broken downloads if your connection is lost or if your computer accidentally shuts down. With the scheduler, you can download files at certain times of the day. Star Downloader may also automatically connect to your ISP and hang-up upon completion of downloads.

To help you organize and manage your downloads there is an advanced category system and an integrated unzipping utility can automatically unzip and install downloaded files. Star Downloader also integrates with your antivirus program to automatically scan files upon completion of the download.

Star Downloader supports FTP and HTTP. Proxy is also supported.

The clean and simple interface of Star Downloader and the multilingual support for over 50 languages makes it easy for everyone to use!

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lisa.greek Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1595 Cairns QLD	Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites Reply #10 - May 14^th, 2013 at 12:31pm http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download Found this to be very good. Cleans all the rubbish that websites leave behind and also does a great job of cleaning the registry (gives you the option of backing up the registry first)
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Reply #11 - May 14^th, 2013 at 2:54pm

Aussie I think you could alleviate your problems, with an up to date Anti-Virus and if you want to an anti malware programme malwarebytes free is good

I use Microsoft Security Essentials, and regularly backup my system. Haven't had a problem since I don't know when.

Kat, Yadda and lisa.greek thanks for your input, it's nice to be able to exchange good information.

EaseUS Todo Backup Free 5.8
Homepage

About EaseUS Todo Backup Free

EaseUS Todo Backup Free is only free for home users. Any use for commercial purpose should contact us via reseller@easeus.com

World's most popular software with top downloads & over 2 million home users

It is professional free backup & system disaster recovery software for home users. It can full protect your system from system crash and other system disasters, comprehensively backup & restore your home data easily.

Highlights of EaseUS Todo Backup Free

Hot! Multiple Languages Supported: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano & 日本語.
One-click to back up system, photos, music, videos, documents, and applications in case of any disaster problems.
Support GPT disk for complete backup, recovery and disk cloning.
Create plans for your backups by hour/day/week/ and automate regular backups

Download Page Here

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Kat Gold Member Offline Socialism IS the answer. Posts: 17709 Everywhere and no-where Gender:	Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites Reply #12 - May 14^th, 2013 at 3:20pm I use EaseUS 5.8 Workstation (the full, paid version) and I'll recommend this one, too. They also have a free partition manager program, which is also very good.
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Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites
Reply #13 - May 15^th, 2013 at 6:09pm

ProduKey v1.56 Homepage

Recover lost Windows product key (CD-Key) and Office 2003/2007

ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your computer.

Download Links Here

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Re: Computer Free Software & Help Sites
Reply #14 - May 16^th, 2013 at 11:08am

Here's another for the Windows 8 users out there.

As you will have noticed, Microsoft removed the Desktop gadgets from Windows
8, supposedly because of security issues. My guess is that it was done to get
users to use the new Metro Apps instead. Angry

Want them back? I did.

Try this, it works well, and contains the original MS gadgets, and many more
besides. I used V.2 for ages, and have just upgraded to this version.

8GadgetPack 6.00

http://8gadgetpack.bplaced.net/

or

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/8Ga...

***Edited to add link to their home-page.***

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