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Best Windows Freeware

• No shareware, no nagware, no adware. Reviewed constantly. Categorized conveniently.

• No installation required. Run it on your memory stick. Your key drive. Your iPod. This free software just don't care.

This page is updated regularly. Last update: November 2, 2005.

update 11/2 SilentNight CD/DVD Burner version 4.05 has just been released with a slew of new features.

Best Free Portable Multimedia for Windows

Free Portable Media Player / Video Player - General

  Media Player Classic

Excellent general purpose video and audio player. It handles all the major codecs and plays DVD's, CD's VCD's and all major video and audio formats. It's small and superfast with a clean interface.

http://sf.net/projects/guliverkli/

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Free Portable Audio CD Ripper

CDex

You're at your buddy Skeeter's house, and you see he has the latest Gregorian Chants CD. What to do? Rip it to your memory stick with CDex, the best CD audio extractor around.

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

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Free DVD Burning Software /
Free CD Burning Software

SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO Burner

updated! 11/2

An amazing little tool that weighs in at a little over 1Mb. This ain't Nero, but it gets the job done. Some of its features:

Joliet support, Finalize disk or not, Perform OPC, Underrun protection, Write pos gap, Multisession support, Search files/directories and even inside archives.

http://silentnight2004.com/Download.html

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Free Portable Music Player

CoolPlayer

XMPlay

Either of these music players work fine with all the standard music formats. Just a matter of taste as to which one you want.

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

http://www.un4seen.com/

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