Program Name

Program Function

Adobe Acrobat Reader (Ver 8.0.0)

Read Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (.pdf) files on your computer

Ad Aware

Automatically screen your computer for any hidden programs collecting your web surfing habits or e-mail addresses.

Foxit Reader For PDF Files

Recommended replacement for Adobe Acrobat Reader - smaller download, starts faster, not as bloated

Image Resizer

A free Windows XP program from Microsoft that will allow you to “right-click” on your digital photographs and other images and quickly resize them

LView

A free program to capture images on your screen and perform simple edits on graphics files.

Photostory 3

A great Microsoft program for creating slide shows from your digital pictures with motion and sound.

Pop Up Stopper

Block pop up ads from appearing on your computer screen.

PowerPoint Viewer

A free program from Microsoft to view presentations (.ppt) and slide shows (.pps) created with Microsoft PowerPoint

Pure Radio

Listen to Internet radio stations from all over the world on your PC.

SendTo

A great little utility that allows you to right click on a file and copy or move it to ANY folder on your computer

Space Monger

A clever visual tool for keeping track of the free space on your computer. Each file or folder on a given drive is displayed in a box in the main window whose size is a relative comparison to all the other files in your system.

Spybot

Another well written program to search your computer for any hidden programs collecting your web surfing habits or e-mail addresse

Station Ripper

Tune in to Internet radio stations, select your favorite genre of music and capture the streaming music as individual .mp3 files.

Task List

When to click Start - Run and type msconfig, this list will help identify the programs in startup window and help determine which ones can be unchecked

Wash Windows

A free copy of the PowerPoint slides presented at the 11 October 2006 meeting on how to speed up your PC. Note: Also download and install PowerPoint Viewer (above) if you don’t have Microsoft Office on your PC.

WS_FTP

Free program for uploading and download files using File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Zipper

Free program to uncompress files created in .zip format and/or create new compressed files in .zip format

Zone Alarm (Version 5.1)

Free Internet firewall to block intruders.