Note: There are no sponsored links to apps in the lists here. Everything listed is listed because we think it’s excellent or have found it useful.
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Starred items are apps that were previously free but that have been replaced with newer non-free versions
The Bluetooth Guide Files
Details | Mirror 1 | Mirror 2 |
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Broadcom Blutonium Uninstaller | 7z | zip |
TDK BlueAlert Utility | 7z | zip |
Bluetooth Guide v1 (26-Oct-2003) | zip | |
Bluetooth Guide v2 (16-Feb-2004) | zip | |
Bluetooth Guide v3 (8‑May-2004) | zip | |
Bluetooth Guide v3b (15-Sept-2004) | chm | zip |
Installation INF for 3Com 3CRWB6096B version 3 PC Card | inf | zip |
Widcomm Installation Driver Recognition File (for v 1.4.3.4) | inf | zip |
USB Firmware Update Utility | 7z | zip |
Generic CSR Firmware (31st March 2004) v839 for BlueCore2 based devices | dfu | zip |
Dell CSR Firmware (29th March 2004) for Dell devices only | dfu | zip |
Fix for (some) USB dongles that are stuck in DFU mode after a firmware update (including the D‑Link DBT-120 rev B3) | 7z | zip |
Disable Key Indication Registry Fragment | reg | zip |
Microsoft Windows XP Pre-SP2 Bluetooth Patch (Q323183) | 7z | zip |
Disable Network Security Registry Fragment | reg | zip |
Widcomm Bluetooth Diagnostic / Monitoring Tool | 7z | zip |
Collaborative ImagesByName Project
Mirrored here as theHTPC.net has had a rocky history
Description | Mirror 1 | Mirror 2 |
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People Wave 1 (396Mb) | 7z | 7z |
3D Boxset Covers 2.0 (349Mb) | 7z | 7z |
Original Studio Base Images, 15-Jan-2010 (1.27Mb) | 7z | 7z |
Rominator Studio Logos 3.0 (18.4Mb) | 7z | 7z |
Chip Studio Logos 1.0 (43.6Mb) | 7z | 7z |
Techols Movie & TV Ratings 3.0 (1.46Mb) | 7z | 7z |
External Links
Browsers
Mozilla Firefox | 112.0.0 |
Google Chrome | 121.0.6167.86 |
AV Codecs & Media Players
MPC-HC | 2.1.4 |
LAV Filters | 0.78.0 |
VLC | 3.0.20 |
Media Related Apps
Emby | 4.7.12.0 |
Media Center Master | 2.25 |
Medusa | 2.25 |
Other Recommended Free Utilities
Note: Items marked with a * are either no longer available on their original site, are hosted on unreliable sites, or were hosted on sites that no longer exist. In these cases they can be found under our list of “hosted by us” files above
App | Description |
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IcoFX 1.6.4 | Free icon extractor and editor. Supports full alpha transparency, windows 7 x64 and 256×256 pixel icons amongst other features. Note: Version 2 and above are no longer freeware. |
EAC | Exact Audio Copy. Enables bit-perfect jitter-free ripping of audio CD’s, including compression to common formats including FLAC |
MP3tag | Audio-file tagger. Includes intelligent filename < — > tag conversion, support for a wide range of tagging formats and full manual control of all tag / meta data. |
ProduKey | Utility to retrieve serial numbers from Microsoft products prior to a reinstall. |
ClownBD | Utility to rip HD video from BluRay disks. Enables re-authoring, stream selection, and automatic merging of the m2ts files that make up the movie. |
CCleaner & CCEnhancer | Utility, and extra application profiles, to clean up unneeded files and programs from windows. |
System Ninja | Utility to clean up unneeded files and programs from windows. |
CPU-Z | Utility to identify the hardware in your system. |
Speccy | Utility to identify the hardware in your system. Offers more general system information than the alternatives. |
SpeedFan | Utility to monitor and control temperatures and fan speeds. |
VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod | Utility to edit, enhance and recode video. Extendible with plugins. See the article for more information on 64bit plugins |
Key Update Tool | Utility from Microsoft to change the serial key for an installed instance of windows. Especially useful if an OEM licensed machine has been installed with a corporate key and need to be reverted. |
7zip | Decompression utility with support for all common formats. Achieves very high compression. |
Free DVD MP3 Ripper | Freeware utility which can extract audio from DVD, VCD/SVCD en MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) files into MP3s. |
RegShot | Freeware utility which takes a before and after snapshot of the Windows registry. Very useful for identifying changes made to the registry by programs, especially during installation. |
InSSIDer | Utility to detect the presence and details of nearby wireless networks. Effectively a Windows 7 compatible replacement for NetStumbler |
DVD Flick | Simple DVD Authoring tool |
Google Earth | Google’s famous satellite imagery of planet Earth |
MediaInfo | Utility for identifying media file formats and the codecs contained within |
Audacity | Free audio editing tool |
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools | Utility to edit the metadata in photos (now discontinued by Microsoft, download link is to 3rd party) |
WordWeb | System Tray dictionary and thesaurus |
Cue Splitter | Can split albums stored as a single audio file into separate tracks using an associated cue file |
FooBar2000 | Media Player with lots of powerful utilities built-in. Can split and transcode file formats that other utilities struggle with (e.g. splitting cue/flac 24Bit 96KHz or transcoding M4A/ALAC to FLAC) |
DrDOS Bootdisk | See the “Driver Free Disk For BIOS Flashing” section. |
CDBurnerXP | CD, DVD and BluRay writing tool. |
Radio Downloader | Podcast and BBC Radio Downloader. |
PNGGauntlet | Excellent utility for compressing PNG images as much as possible. Uses the power of 3 utilities: PNGOUT, OptiPNG and DeflOpt. |
Microsoft PowerToys (including image resizer) | A right-click image resize utility, similar to the old Image Resizer PowerToy. Offers several options and resolutions. Compatible with Win 7, 64bit OSes. |
Test Disk | An excellent multi-platform FOSS utility that can recover lost partitions, make non-booting disks bootable again, unformat, and recover files. |
Virtual CloneDrive | Creates a virtual optical drive for mounting ISOs and other images of CDs, DVDs and BDs. |
Xtreme Download Manager | A free (open source) download manager that can also download videos from many popular sites. Better than YTD TouTube Downloader Basic which I used to recommend |
SQL Dump file splitter | Utility to break SQL files into multiple smaller files. Ideal for getting around file-size limits in phpMyAdmin. |
FileZilla FTP Client | Excellent free open-source FTP client and server. |
Handbrake | Powerful free open-source video transcode app. Includes extensive configuration options for h.264 |
UltraVNC | Easy-to-use free alternative to remote desktop in windows. Doesn’t impose some of the artificial restrictions that remote desktop has. |
Prey | Free service to remotely monitor, track, lock or wipe your PC (or phone) if it gets stolen. |
Winamp | The original and best free MP3 player software. Now supports many other files features and formats. |
John’s Background Switcher | Free tray utility that creates a slide-show as your wallpaper. Can use photos directly from many photo-sharing sites if provided with your login details. |
AVStoDVD | Free utility to burn a wide range of video formats to standards-compliant DVD-Video. |
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool | A free utility originally made by HP that will enable you to format you USB Flash drive and make it bootable. |
PeerBlock | A free utility which offers some security by blocking access to many IP addresses known to be dodgy. Particularly useful for users of torrent sites. |
Greedy Torrent | A free utility for users of torrents which allows you to download without uploads (d.w.z. leech) by reporting a false upload value back to the tracker. |
fat32format | Utility to format drives and flash cards to fat32, beyond the 32gig size limit imposed by the windows format tool. |
Macrium Reflect | Utility to clone, back-up and image HDDs and HDD partitions. Very useful when upgrading a system HDD to an SSD. |
Defraggler | Utility to defragment disk drives. More powerful and flexible than the inbuilt windows tool, with the classic visual representation included too. |
Stellarium | View information about celestial bodies. |
Hugin | Impressive tool for joining photos into panoramics. Better FOSS replacement for the EOL “image composition editor” once made by Microsoft |
Tortoise SVN | Provides SVN support to windows with an easy to use interface. |
SetFileDate | Utility for changing the created, modified and accessed times for files in windows. Useful for changing timestamp of compressed or remuxed video files which are part of a photo gallery sorted by date taken. |
PuTTY | Utility equivalent to telnet for SSH connections. Essential for remote admin of *nix servers from a windows client. |
AdwCleaner | Excellent utility for removing stubborn malware that MalwareBytes and your anti-virus fail to remove. |
Bad Peggy | Scans for bad images, including jpeg and png. |
AviDemux | Small and simple but powerful tool for rotating and cropping videos. Supports all modern formats. Can do time-cropping without re-encoding. |
FakeFlashTest | Utility to check the capacity of flash drives and flash memory cards. Many fake cards are actually smaller than advertised. |
Rufus | Utility to format removable drives including being able to write bootable images during the process. |
AviDemux | Utility that can convert video files, including TS streams with audio that changes format mid-stream. Also allows cropping the length of the file. |
RipBot264 | Also listed under the “media related apps” section — fantastic tool for recompressing videos into the latest formats (e.g. HEVC / h.265). Supports networked distribution to speed up the work using multiple PCs. |
Patch Cleaner | Removes redundant patch files from the windows installer folder which can save a lot of disk space on older systems. |
Cue Tools | Powerful and advanced tool for splitting single-CD music rips into multiple tracks. Supports high bit-rate and sample rate, and also checks final tracks against the AccurateRip database, like EAC would do with a CD rip. |
Meteorite MKV Repair | A repair tool for MKV files which (for example) can fix files that RipBot couldn’t recode due to errors. |
Recommended non-free Utilities
App | Price | Description |
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HDD Regenerator | $99.00 | Can recover and repair (without remapping) many bad sectors on a HDD. Can be priceless for data recovery. |
PerfectDisk Pro | $29.99 | Powerful defrag utility which can defrag NTFS metadata, bootsector etc. |
External Links — Ancient Archives!
Browsers
x86 32bit | x64 AMD64 x86-64 64bit | |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer | 9.0 (Win Vista) 11.0 (Win 7) | 9.0 (Win Vista) 11.0 (Win 7) |
Opera | 12.17 48.0.2685.52 | 12.17 no |
AV Codecs & Media Players
x86 32bit | x64 AMD64 x86-64 64bit | |
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ffdshow Tryouts | 1.3.4531 | |
Haali Media Splitter | Combined installer 13-06-2013 | |
Quitetime Lite | 4.1.0 | no |
Real Alternative | 2.02 | no |
Xiph DirectShow Filters | combined installer 0.85.17777 |
Media Related Apps
x86 32bit | x64 AMD64 x86-64 64bit | |
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MCEBuddy | 2.3.13 | |
MC-TVConverter | Version 2.1.0 | |
WMPTagPlus | 2.1 | no |
TunerFreeMCE | 5.8.7a | |
MCE LoveFilm | 4.1.3 | |
Remote Potato | 1.0.6 | |
GuideTool | 1.2.5 | |
GraphStudioNext | 0.7.0.430 | 0.7.0.430 |
Win7DSFilterTweaker | 6.2 | |
VC1tweak | VC1tweak thread on doom9 | |
RipBot264 | 1.19.1 | |
MacroTube | MacroTube providers | |
Media Center Themer | 1.51 |
Updates, Runtimes and Plugins for Windows
x86 32bit | x64 AMD64 x86-64 64bit | |
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Microsoft Security Essentials | 4.8.204.0 | |
Microsoft .NET Framework | 1.0 (only if you really need it) 1.1 (only if you really need it) 3.5 SP1 (includes 2.0, 3.0) 4.0 (Win XP, 2003) 4.7.2 (Win Vista and newer) | |
Java Runtimes | JRE 9.0.1 | |
Adobe Flash Player | 27.0.0.183 | |
Microsoft Silverlight | 5.1.50907.0 | |
Microsoft Visual C++ | 2005 SP1 2008 SP1 2010 SP1 2012 u4 2013 2015 u32017 | 2005 SP1 2008 SP1 2010 SP1 2012 u4 2013 2015 u32017 |
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c | v9.29.1974 (18-Apr-2011) | |
Windows Installer | 4.5 (Win XP, Vista, 2003, 2008) | |
Office Compatibility Pack | version 4 (2010) | |
Microsoft Camera Codec Pack | 6.3.9721.0 |
Microsoft Service Packs
Format | x86 32bit | x64 AMD64 x86-64 64bit |
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Windows 2000 | Service Pack 4 | n/a |
Windows XP | Service Pack 3 | Service Pack 2 |
Windows Vista | Service Pack 1 x86 Service Pack 2 x86 | Service Pack 1 x64 Service Pack 2 x64 |
Windows 7 | Service Pack 1 | |
Windows 8.1 | - | |
Windows Server 2003 | Service Pack 2 x86 | Service Pack 2 x64 |
Windows Server 2008 | Service Pack 2 x86 | Service Pack 2 x64 |
Windows Server 2008 R2 | n/a | Service Pack 1 |
Windows Server 2012 | n/a | - |
Office 2000 | Service Pack 3 | n/a |
Office XP | Service Pack 3 | n/a |
Office 2003 | Service Pack 3 | n/a |
Office 2007 | Service Pack 3 | n/a |
Office 2010 | Service Pack 2 x86 | Service Pack 2 x64 |
Office 2013 | Service Pack 1 x86 | Service Pack 1 x64 |
Document & file viewers
Format | Details |
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Word (DOC, DOCX) | Word Viewer. Opens both DOC and DOCX word documents from Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. |
Excel (XLS, XLSX) | Excel Viewer. Opens both XLS and XLSX excel spreadsheets from Excel 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. |
Powerpoint (PPT, PPTX) | PowerPoint Viewer. Opens both PPT and PPTX powerpoint presentations from PowerPoint 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. |
Acrobat (PDF) | Adobe Reader XI. Opens all PDF files. |
RAW digital images | Microsoft Camera Codec Pack. Supports RAW files from many popular digital cameras. |
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