Best FREE Software (Used and Rated by Loungers)

[Rudi]

Recently I needed to print a single page from a *.tiff file. This file format is common after scanning a document and the scanner produces images of a multi-page document. Normal image viewers cannot work with TIF files and if they could read it, they only show the first page of the file and you cannot access the other pages for viewing or printing. Brava Reader is FREE and is a clean and impressive TIFF viewer/reader that can do this task with ease.

Brava Reader
View PDF, TIFF, JPG & CSF Files

- Fast and easy to use
- Run as Windows desktop application
- Run in web browser *
- Publish document to CSF

Download Free Reader here: http://www.bravaviewer.com/download-brava-reader

[viking33]

Quick Restore Manager Plus
A handy and quick way to either Set or selectively Manage System Restore Points.
The download link is down at the bottom of the page in a blue download box.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/selective ... us-manager" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rudi]

Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit Application

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.
License: The license associated with this product allows for free personal use only. Use on multiple PCs in a corporate, educational, military or government installation is prohibited.

Product Home Page and Download here...

C-NET SOFTWARE REVIEW

Free utility finds unwanted programs that uninstallers miss:
Belarc Advisor's complete inventory of your system helps you spot potentially unwanted programs that CCleaner, Revo Uninstaller, and Windows 8.1's own uninstaller don't list.

[Rudi]

Ninite Auto Installer and Updater
Ninite is an online service which enables users to download and install popular applications without worrying about additional bundling.

See this post for details...

[Timelord]

Ninite Auto Installer and Updater
Ninite is an online service which enables users to download and install popular applications without worrying about additional bundling.

See this post for details...

This is the BEST EVER free software post!

Thank you, you deserver this

[Rudi]

I accept, TX.

[Rudi]

Random Copy is a utility useful for filling a portable MP3 audio player with music randomly selected from a larger collection situated on a computer hard drive. This is a good idea if you can't make up your mind what you want to hear, you prefer to be surprised by a selection of music you may not have heard in a while, or want to hear familiar music juxtaposed in novel combinations.

It is a great application and has a surprisingly good array of tools/settings to tweak how you want the files to be copied.
Well done Bernd. (Consider an optional donation if you favour this app!)

BTW: It is NOT just for music.
This utility can be used to copy random files, or images from multiple locations into a single folder, flash drive or CD/DVD.

An alternative app that does a similar random copying task is Copy Random Files. Smaller and less feature full. It looks easy and useful, but I have not tested this one!

[stuck]

...Normal image viewers cannot work with TIF files and if they could read it, they only show the first page of the file and you cannot access the other pages for viewing or printing...

Umm, I think you'll find IrfanView has been able to do this since the year dot.

Ken

[Rudi]

I said "Normal". IrfanView is not normal.
Jus' kidding...

On a serious note: TX for that info. I don't use IrfanView as was not aware of it in my generalization.
I don't doubt it can open the TIF file, but can you confirm if it is able to view and scroll through all the pages of a multipage TIF file (or do you only see the first page)?

[jonwallace]

Oh yes, Irfanview can show every page of a TIF

[HansV]

Windows XP came with "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer".
In Windows Vista, it is named "Windows Photo Gallery".
In Windows 7, it is "Windows Photo Viewer".
Each of these has the ability to display all pages of a multi-page TIFF file, so you don't need to install any third-party software.

The screenshot below is from the Dutch version of the Windows 7 Photo Viewer, but you'll get the idea.

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[Rudi]

Good to know...this Windows photo viewer is not set as my default image viewer and it has very limited features compared to other third party viewers. Now I know why it is there...to view TIFF files

[Dave Davison]

Hi Rudi..........last time I checked the link shown in the screen shot below it was dead !!!!!! Regards Dave.

[Rudi]

Hi Rudi..........last time I checked the link shown in the screen shot below it was dead !!!!!! Regards Dave.

TX Dave. I have made the update in this post.
(I did not check any of my other links....I trust they will still work)

[PJ_in_FL]

Random Copy is a utility useful for filling a portable MP3 audio player with music randomly selected from a larger collection situated on a computer hard drive. This is a good idea if you can't make up your mind what you want to hear, you prefer to be surprised by a selection of music you may not have heard in a while, or want to hear familiar music juxtaposed in novel combinations.

Nice! I might have to give up my EXCEL version of this function.

[stuck]

I said "Normal". IrfanView is not normal.
Jus' kidding...

I know people like to IrfanView but I've used it for years and love it.

I bet Faststone Image Viewer can open every page of a mulitpage TIFF too and most people would say that's normal.

Ken

[IMNetUser]

I said "Normal". IrfanView is not normal.
Jus' kidding...

I know people like to IrfanView but I've used it for years and love it.

I bet Faststone Image Viewer can open every page of a mulitpage TIFF too and most people would say that's normal.

Ken

Ken,

I am with you - I have used this useful software application fro years. It is easy to use, decent interface and the kids can use it fairly quickly.

[ChrisGreaves]

Random Copy is a utility useful for filling a portable MP3 audio player with music randomly selected from a ...

Thanks Rudi.

"In CD Mode the main purpose is to fill the content of a cd with at least space left as possible. For that purpose you have to set the size of the burned media. Please notice, that this is independent from the size of the source selection. If the source selection is bigger than the size of a media, you get more than one cd. So I think its smart to set the size of the source collection as a multiple of your cd-size. "

Out of interest, have you tried the multiple-CD issue?

[Rudi]

Nope Chris,
I have been using this exclusively for a flash drive. I fill the flash drive with random music from my PC to play in the car. Each few weeks or so, I clear the drive and write a new batch to the flash so the music in the car is always different. I have never used it to write to CD's.

[ChrisGreaves]

I have been using this exclusively for a flash drive.

Thanks Rudi.
I think I need a new girl friend; one who has a car that takes flash people with flash drives.
This old-fashioned CD technology just doesn't cut it any more ....