Remove program from Add/Remove program lists

After you have uninstall the program and the name is still there in the Add/Remove programs list? Well, you can solve this problem by tweaking a registry value.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedt32, and then click OK.
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall

4. Each key listed under Uninstall in the left pane of Registry Editor represents a program that is displayed in the Currently installed programs list of the Add or Remove Programs tool. To determine which program that each key represents, click the key, and then view the following values in the details pane on the right:
DisplayName: The value data for the DisplayName key is the name that is listed in Add or Remove Programs.
-and-
UninstallString: The value data for the UninstallString key is the program that is used to uninstall the program.

5. After you identify the registry key that represents the program that you removed but which is still displayed in the Currently installed programs list of Add or Remove Programs, right-click the key in the left pane of the Registry Editor window, and then click Delete.
Click Yes in response to the “Are you sure you want to delete this key and all of its subkeys?” message.

6. On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.
7. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
In the Currently installed programs list, verify that the program whose registry key you deleted is no longer listed.

There you go, don’t forget to backup registry first, if you’re afraid of touching it.

Source : Microsoft

Spybot Easter Hidden Games

After you have search and destroyed the spybot, you may get bored. To give you relive from your boredom, Spybot Search and Destroy team have included a game for you.

As shown in the above picture, click on the small binocular on the left side of program, you will open the game.

Not really sure about how that game works, but I click through numbers after numbers, then finally I saw something like DaVinci code picture.

That’s all I got! I can’t finish the game as I don’t have much time now. How’s about you? Can you finish it?

Freeware at your grab

Here we go!

I got this list from googling around. Enjoy!

Freeware applications enjoy and please donate where applicable

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3D Graphics:
3Delight Free – http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis – http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender – http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax – http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) – http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. – http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services…_maya_ple.shtml
Now3D – http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
OpenFX – http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP – http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Terragen – http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
Toxic – http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D – http://www.wings3d.com/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir – http://www.free-av.com/
Avast – http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG – http://www.grisoft.com/
ClamWin – http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware – http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka – http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Diet K – http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy – http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster – http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard – http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
WinPatrol – http://www.winpatrol.com/

IRC Clients:
BersIRC – http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX – http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC – http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC – http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat – http://www.silverex.org/news/

Audio Players:
1by1 – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy – http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer – http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2000 – http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes – http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic – http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik – http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player – http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique – http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp – http://www.winamp.com/
XMPlay – http://www.un4seen.com/xmp
lay.html

Audio Tools:
Audacity – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex – http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter – http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC – http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 – http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder – http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 – http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer – http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper – http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag – http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut – http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain – http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim – http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz – http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares – http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free – http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner – http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather – http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free – http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce – http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP – http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO – http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend – http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner – http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD – http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 – http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
ExtractNow – http://www.extractnow.com/
FilZip – http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc – http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip – http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip – http://www.tugzip.com/
UPX – http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go – http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius – http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw – http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS – http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
AveDesk – http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372
CursorXP – http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
Kapsules – http://kapsules.shellscape.org/
MobyDock – http://www.mobydock.com/
Panorama – http://www.ivory.org/panorama.html
Rainlendar – http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj…ject=rainlendar
Samurize – http://www.samurize.com/
tclock2 – http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Weather Watcher – http://www.singerscreations.com/

Download managers:
Free Download Manager – http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
Fresh Download – http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
Star Downloader – http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget – http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt – http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser – http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder – http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
KeePass – http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG – http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware – http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner – http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer – http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 – http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
ExplorerXP – http://www.explorerxp.com
Gyula’s Navigator – http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer – http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander – http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery – http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) – http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) – http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) – http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall – http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp…reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
CoreFTP – http://www.coreftp.com/
Filezilla – http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
miFiles – http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.html
SmartFTP – http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Golden FTP Server – http://www.goldenftpserver.com
GuildFTPD – http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v…pplication=8334
Quick ‘n Easy FTP Server – http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd – http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD – http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 – http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML – http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia – http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit – http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
NVU – http://www.nvu.com/index.html
Selida – http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE – http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder – http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:
Ahaview – http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview – http://www.irfanview.com/
Picasa – http://www.picasa.com/content/download.php
SlowView – http://www.slowview.at/
XNView – http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:
Gaim – http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
IM2: http://www.im2.com
Miranda IM – http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pandion – http://www.pandion.be/
PSI – http://psi.affinix.com/
SIM – http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/
Trillian Basic – http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser – http://www.avantbrowser.com/
Maxthon – http://www.maxthon.com/
SlimBrowser – http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs:
Foxmail – http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/
i.Scribe – http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail – http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail – http://www.pmail.com/
PopTray – http://www.poptray.org/
Thunderbird – http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 – http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile – http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes – http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility – http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer – http://www.ethereal.com/
NetMeter – http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
NetProfiles – http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/
Ntop – http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter – http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats – http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC – http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC – http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC – http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP – http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition – http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord – http://www.abiword.com/
OpenOffice.org – http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer – http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager – http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk – http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
Free PDF – http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView – http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 – http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator – http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
PrimoPDF – http://www.primopdf.com/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic – http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Paint .NET – http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Pixia – http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Pixie – http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre – http://www.photofiltre.com/
Sodiodi – http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp – http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint – http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
Crimson Editor – http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
Context – http://www.context.cx/
Dev C++ – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal – http://www.bloodshed.net/
Digital Mars C++ – http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
Eclipse – http://www.eclipse.org/
ExamDiff – http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
Freepascal – http://www.freepascal.org/
JCreator LE – http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm
jEdit – http://www.jedit.org/
Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Notepad2 – http://www.flos-freeware.ch/
Pelles C – http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm
PHP Hypertext Parser – http://www.php.net/
PSPad – http://www.pspad.com/
Python – http://www.python.org/
Ruby – http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop – http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar – http://www.google.com/
NoAds – http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper – http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy – http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron – http://www.proxomitron.info/

RSS Readers:
Ablion – http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htm
RSSOwl – http://www.rssowl.org/

System Information and monitoring:
CPU-Z – http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Everest – http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p…ang=en&pageid=1
Gkrellm – http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor – http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
SpeedFan – http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Sysmetrix – http://www.xymantix.com
WCPUID – http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

Video codecs :
DivX Codec – http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW – http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
XviD – http://www.xvid.org/

Video players :
BsPlayer – http://www.bsplayer.org/
Crystal Player – http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads
Cygwin MPlayer – http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
DivX Player – http://www.divx.com/
MaximusDVD – http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan – http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink – http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler – http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG – http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot – http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub – http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod – http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
Zwei-Stein Video Editor – http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firefox – http://www.getfirefox.com
K-Meleon – http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape – http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers:
Abyss – http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache – http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar – http://www.sambar.com/
Savant – http://savant.sourceforge.net/
SimpleServer:WWW – http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
TinyWeb – http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam – http://www.booru.net/
Pryme – http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum – http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv – http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum – http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer – http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX – http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket – http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia – http://www.shatters.net/celestia
CCleaner – http://www.ccleaner.com
Cygwin – http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey – http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite – http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
HTTrack – http://www.httrack.com/
Inno Setup – http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 – http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap – http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime – http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer – http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian – http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV – http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico – http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies – http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals – http://www.sysinternals.com/
Toolbox – http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/
TuneXP – http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_about
Turbo Pad – http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/
Vim – http://vim.sourceforge.net