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Hintlink Technology |
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Viruses, Spam
& Security Alerts |
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twig login for users |
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W4/VP9KF
radio |
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Utilities
There are, of
course, thousands of
utility programs of varying quality and price on the Internet
These, in our humble opinion, are the best and yet they are all Freeware too
Key: 
Runs
OK, 
Doesn’t
run, 
Probably yes, with
tweaks, 
Probably not, make take lots
of work
May
be too intensive for machines of this age
of O/S Product
discontinued or link changed
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PROGRAM |
FUNCTION |
95 |
98/Me |
NT/2000 |
XPHome |
XPPro |
Vista |
OS-X |
*NIX |
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Take
control of
programs, etc. |
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Manage
start up
programs |
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Newer
start up manager |
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Add
Date and time to the second to the clock |
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SNTP
time synch |
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Windowed
Secure Shell
(SSH) |
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Windows
FTP client
(Open Source) |
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Windows
FTP Client
(free) |
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Windows
FTP Client
(Open Source) |
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Windows
FTP Client
(free) |
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Windows
FTP Server |
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Ubiquitous compression program |
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Alternative
compression program |
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Ubiquitous
PDF reader (huge) |
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Fast
PDF reader, even has Flash stick version |
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Fast
PDF reader, great for older machines |
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Fast
PDF reader, great for older machines |
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doPDF,
generate PDF from anything |
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THE
alternative browser to IE/OE |
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An
alternative browser to IE/OE |
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Good
for rapid patching of HTML. Replace MS rubbish search |
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Name
Server batcher handy for attacks |
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Sorta
OK add on for Windows |
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Shows
Internet UL & DL rates |
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Monitor
life of servers & log |
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Backup
files from disk system(s) |
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Burst!
For bittorrent |
Bittorrent
client – genius stuff |
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