Welcome to the CrashLaughing.com Freeware download page. All of the programs below are 100% FREE. There are no ads, no spyware and no function or time limitations. I currently use many of these programs on my personal computers at home and find them indispensable. Most of the publishers also have a 'Full' or 'Pro' versions on their respective websites. If you find these programs useful then consider purchasing these versions to help support them. Others accept donations to help keep them free.
avast! AntiVirus Free Edition v4.8.1335 - Download - Author's website - updated February 06, 2009
avast! Home Edition is a complete anti-virus package, that is is free for registered home non-commercial users. It contains an on-demand scanner with two interfaces (simple for novices and advanced for experienced users), an on-access scanner with Standard Shield (which protects against execution and opening malware programs) and an embedded e-mail scanner which scans incoming and outgoing email messages. avast! Home integrates with the Windows Explorer right click menu and also includes a special screen saver which is able to scan your system while your computer is not in use.
Updates are incremental and frequently made available for manual or scheduled download. You'll download a 60 day demo, if you would like to continue free usage beyond that time, you'll need to register to obtain a free activation key by email. They will not spam you or send other emails.
PCTools Firewall Plus v5.0.0.38 - Download - Author's website - updated March 31, 2009
PC Tools Firewall Plus is a powerful free personal firewall for Windows that protects your computer by preventing unauthorized users from gaining access to your computer through the Internet or a network. By monitoring applications that connect to the network Firewall Plus can stop Trojans, backdoors, keyloggers and other malware from damaging your computer and stealing your private information.
PC Tools Firewall Plus is advanced technology designed especially for people, not just experts. Powerful prevention against attacks and known exploits is activated by default while experienced users can optionally create their own advanced packet filtering rules, including IPv6 support, to customize the network defenses. All you need to do is install it for immediate and automatic ongoing protection. This is the 32-bit version for Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista.
CCleaner v2.20.920 - Download - Author's website - updated May 28, 2009
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free. Cleans the following:
Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat, Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files. Recently opened URLs and files, Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs). Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Kazaa, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...
Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries. Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... Backup for registry clean. If you like and use this software then please make a donation to the author.
SpyBot Search and Destroy v1.6.3 - Download - Author's website - updated March 16, 2009
SpyBot-S&D searches your hard drive for so-called spy- or adbots; little modules that are responsible for the ads many programs display. But many of these modules also transmit information about your surfing behaviour and more to the net.
Improved Scan Speed
Reported a few weeks ago as one of the big issues users face, Spybot-S&D 1.6 integrates parts of the future 2.0 file scanning engine to speed up the on-demand scan.
Up-to-date browser support
Both immunization and the on-demand scan are able to access a dozen different browsers, which now includes the latest revisions of the most popular ones, Firefox and Opera.
Easier On-Access Use
Until now, our on-access part was able to block bad entries, but at the same time, confused many novice users by asking for confirmation on changes of other monitored system entries as well. While this is a great feature for all experienced users who want full control over their systems, we decided that we need to make this easier for the average user, and integrated automated decisions based on the system entry database built through our RunAlyzer, containing more than quarter of a million decisions.
Ad-Aware 2009 v8.0.5 - Download - Author's website - updated May 27, 2009
With the ability to scan your RAM, registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware SE easily can clean your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web.
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition boasts a number of improvements. Extended memory scanning now scans all modules loaded by a process. Scanning uses the all- new CSI (Code Sequence Identification) technology to identify new and unknown variants of known targets. Extended registry scanning now scans registry branches of multiple-user accounts and performs additional smart checks to detect dynamically created references. Scanning speed is noticeably faster, and this version offers an Extended Scanning mode for known and unknown/possible browser hijackers.
Abilon - FreeWare RSS Feeds Aggregator v2.5.3 b196 - Download - updated March 23, 2005
Abilon is a very nice news aggregator for XML/RSS feeds. It comes loaded with various interesting sources, which you can remove or add new ones as you please. Besides the clean and easy to use interface, it offers custom checking intervals per item as well as filtering based on the content. If any feeds are updated, Abilon alerts you with a popup balloon from the system tray. The program also includes a small blogging tool that lets you post your own blog entries to Blogger, LiveJournal or Movable type. Additional features include advanced search options, import/export and more.
No longer supported or updated, but still my favorite. RSS Bandit is looking like a good replacement if they fix a couple small issues.
Specsoft Free CD Ripper v3.7 - Download - Author's website - updated January 19, 2009
A quality freeware application, aimed at providing easy, stable and fast CD copying to WMA, MP3, WAV, OGG, and FLAC audio formats. Works on Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista.
Easy to use - just click 'Rip'. High Speed Ripping saves you time. Excellent output quality - enjoy your digital audio.
Powerful yet easy-to-use software that allows you to extract audio tracks directly from your music CDs to computer files. Just insert your CD and click 'Rip' - it's that easy. Automatically downloads album artwork and lyrics after ripping.
Automatically retrieves album information (for example, artist, genre, and track names) from FreeDB, a music information database on the Internet. Cue file support. Create a single file with cue file. Now features MP3 Volume normalization. One of the few free applications to rip directly to FLAC format.
CD Player - Easily play the whole CD, or one click to play or preview any track.
TUGZip v3.5.0.0 - Download - Author's website - updated April 07, 2008
TUGZip is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows® that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. Try this great free archiving utility!
Features Overview
* Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR,
LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
* Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images.
* Support for external plugins.
* Windows® shell integration, e.g. drag & drop, shell context menu and drop handlers.
* Create 7-ZIP, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives.
* Script support which allows you to make automated backups.
* Basic features like: add, extract, delete, rename, run, view, checkout, install,
test, comment, SFX, virus-scanning, disk-spanning and much more.
* Repair corrupted ZIP and SQX archives.
* Can extract multiple archives at once using Multi Extract.
* Encrypt archives using 6 different algorithms. Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit).
* Create self-extracting encrypted archives.
* Automatic updates using the "Web Update" function.
Spamihilator v0.9.9.44 - Download - Author's website - updated December 27, 2008
Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.
The new Learning Filter (Bayesian Filter) uses the rules of Thomas Bayes (English mathematician, 18th century) and calculates a certain Spam-Probability for every E-Mail. You can train this filter! So it will know your messages even better than you. Hence the recognition rate will continuously increase.
In addition Spamihilator uses a Word-Filter, that searches messages for known keywords.
Of course, Spamihilator supports Plugins. These useful additional filters protect your system against annoying spam mails.
The program works with almost every E-Mail client, such as Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc...
IrfanView v4.23 - Download - Author's website - updated December 29, 2008
IrfanView is probably the most popular and feature packed free image viewer for Windows. IrfanView has been around for many years and keeps getting better. Some features of IrfanView: Preview option, Drag & Drop support, fast directory view (fast moving through directory), slideshow, batch conversion, print option, change the color depth, scan support, cut/crop and many many more. Supported file formats: JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PCX, PNG, TIFF, TGA, RAS/SUN, ICO, AVI, WAV, MID, RMI, WMF, EMF, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF/LBM, PSD, CPT, MPG/MPEG, MOV and Photo-CD as well as Flash and Shockwave format.
KeePass v1.16 - Download - Author's website - updated June 06, 2009
Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's ftp password, online passwords (like CodeProject member account), etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.
KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
PhotoFiltre v6.3.2 - Download - Author's website - updated October 30, 2008
PhotoFiltre is a complete image editing and effects package, that will not only amaze you with features but also the fact that it is free (for personal use). It comes with many features that rival some commercial packages, as well as additional add-on that can be downloaded from the web site. PhotoFiltre offers all the standard editing features (selection, clone brush, paint brush etc.) as well as a large selection of image effects, photo masks, image adjustments, thumbnail browser and much more. The program also supports batch processing to apply filters, sizing, adjustments and transformations to a large number of images at once. PhotoFiltre comes with modern, well designed interface and is well suited for everything from simple resizing to advanced photo editing.
IObit SmartDefrag v1.1.1 - Download - Author's website - updated February 24, 2009
Disk fragmentation is generally main cause of slow and unstable PC performance. IObit SmartDefrag helps defrag your hard drive most efficiently. With "Install it and forget it" feature, IObit SmartDefrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its speediest. Slow down, freeze-ups and crashes will be a thing of the past. IObit SmartDefrag is 100% free for personal, home and small business. Analyzed by many strict tests, IObit SmartDefrag is 100% safe and has no spyware/adware.
FinalBurner v2.12.0.158 - Download - Author's website - updated June 10, 2009
FinalBurner is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD recorders. You can produce professional data, audio, video disks and ISO images. Many types of media are supported, including CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, and DVD DL.
Main features:
- Burn Data CD/DVD (CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.)
- Autorun menu designer
- Burn Audio CD (Import *.wav; *.mp3; *.ogg; *.mid; *.wma; *.aac; *.mp4; *.m4a; *.xm; *.mod; *.s3m; *.it; *.mtm; *.mo3 audio files.)
- Burn Video DVD (Import AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP4, MPG, WMV, ASF, MOV, etc. Capture from Web cam, TV tuner, DV, etc.)
- Burn ISO images
- AudioCd Ripper
- 100% freeware - no adware or spyware
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