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Name of the Software: 7-Zip
Where did you get it: http://www.7-zip.org/
Cost: Free
Size: 1MB
Version: 4.65
What is it: 7-Zip is an open source file archiver used to open 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS files. Fully customizable for which file type you want associated to 7-Zip.
Free Support: http://www.7-zip.org/support.html

Name of the Software: Virtual CloneDrive
Where did you get it: http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
Cost: Free
Size: 1.5MB
Version: 5.4.4.0
What is it: Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.
Free Support: http://www.slysoft.com/en/support.html

Name of the Software: Dexpot
Where did you get it: http://dexpot.de/intro_en.html
Cost: Free
Size: 3.9MB
Version: 1.5.5
What is it: Dexpot 1.5 turns your monitor into up to 20. Dexpot creates additional workspaces you can quickly switch between. Take, for example, Desktop 1 to listen to your favourite music, surf the web on Desktop 2, use Desktop 3 to handle your daily word processing or switch to Desktop 4 for a game of Solitaire. Different icons, wallpapers, start-ups, and much more can be configured for each desktop.
Free Support: http://dexpot.de/index.php?id=support

jdog wrote:Name of the Software: Dexpot
What is it: Dexpot 1.5 turns your monitor into up to 20. Dexpot creates additional workspaces you can quickly switch between.

I like it. I am constantly having to change my background, hide icons, etc during the course of my work. Much easier to toggle easily between two or three different desktops.

Thanks!

Skinny Bastard wrote:I like it. I am constantly having to change my background, hide icons, etc during the course of my work. Much easier to toggle easily between two or three different desktops.

Thanks!

There are a lot of virtual desktop programs to choose from but I found this one to be the most reliable. It didn't make Explorer crash all the time.

Name of the Software: ImgBurn
Where did you get it: http://www.imgburn.com/
Cost: Free
Size: 5.1MB
Version: 2.5.2.0
What is it: ImgBurn is a freeware program that allows the recording of many types of CD/DVD images to recordable media (.cue files are supported as of version 2.4.0.0).[2] Starting with version 2.0.0.0, ImgBurn can also burn files and data directly to CD/DVD. It supports padding DVD-Video files so the layer break occurs on a proper cell boundary (where possible).

• Supported formats: BIN, CUE, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG, PDI and more.
• Ability to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder).
• Full unicode folder/file name support.
• Supported environments: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 and 2008 R2 (including all the 64-bit versions). It also officially supports Wine.
• Image queue provides support for burning several images with minimum interaction.
• ImgBurn is relatively lightweight (compared to similar programs); under 1.8MB for all installed features.

Free Support: http://forum.imgburn.com

IMGBurn is one of my favorite programs man, love it...

Yeah, I just switched to it from CDBurnerXP. I like the interface better and it's extremely lightweight. The installation folder is only 3.0MB.

Name of the Software: LibreOffice
Where did you get it: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Cost: Free
Size: 343MB
Version: 3.4.1
What is it: LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute. At the end of October 2010, 33 German volunteers, not involved with development, left OpenOffice.org and moved to The Document Foundation to support LibreOffice. The Go-oo project will be discontinued in favour of LibreOffice. Improvements made by the project are being merged into LibreOffice. Improvements made in other forks are expected to be incorporated into LibreOffice as well.
Free Support: http://www.libreoffice.org

Name of the Software: Thunderbird
Where did you get it: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/
Cost: Free
Size: 9MB
Version: 5.0
What is it: Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
Free Support: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/support/