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Commercial Games Released As Freeware A list of links to commercial games released as freeware -- games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as ... publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/ Idrive IDrive offers 2GB of free online backup space without any backup and restore restrictions or bandwidth limits or file type restrictions. http://www.idrive.com/idrivee/jsp/index1.jsp (view more)

Open Source Freeware 400 plus extremely useful open source applications and utilities available free under various licenses. http://www.econsultant.com Clip Step Control multiple clipboards using only the keyboard's Ctrl-X-C-V. ... http://www.donationcoders.com/skrommel/ (view more)

I Want A Freeware Utility 450-plus common problems solved: "I want a Freeware Utility" is an extremely useful list of free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money. ... http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html My Drive MyDrive enables you to use relative shortcuts on CD's and USB drives, making them truly portable. http://www.1way.ws/ (view more)

How do you know which freeware is safe to download? The fact is that trying out new, free software is sometimes risky. For example: some web sites will purposely mislead visitors by implying that their software is free -- but in fact, the "free" ... software comes bundled with added Spyware or adware . One good rule of thumb is to stick to downloading software from trusted sources (such as infopackets and Clif Notes); but if you're like me and you're always trying out new software on a regular basis, you don't always have the luxury of trusting a source. That's when I break out the big ... (view more)

Back in October of last year, I posted a request in the Freeware Revolution's forum . In the message, I asked all the members of the forum to post a mini-review of their favorite freeware program. Here's what Scott Williams, webmaster of Freeware ... Arena , had to say: " Often times many of us can best express ourselves digitally by doing a bit of 'pixel pushing' (image editing/creation) ... there are a plethora of great graphics editing apps available. Originally I was alerted to PhotoFiltre ... a program that really does suit the needs of both the graphics artist of all levels ... Whether ... (view more)

Registry Assistant Quickly backup and restore your Windows registry. It's better to be safe than sorry! http://lazyanduseless.belike.net/txp/ Last Freeware Version 321download.com hosts an archive of programs that began as freeware but changed to ... shareware. http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/ (view more)

Die-hard Infopackets Reader Paul B. writes: " Dear Dennis, I have been a faithful subscriber to your newsletter for a few years now. While I immensely enjoy reading your articles (especially the software reviews), I am constantly second-guessing ... myself as to which utilities *I* need to keep my system running smoothly. As a newbie, I would like to know how many of these 'fix all programs' are really necessary? For example, which utilities do I need for: speeding up, uninstalling, defragging, anti-Spyware, anti-spam, firewall, anti-virus, registry cleaning / fixing... etc. I mostly use my ... (view more)