Data Compression Freeware:
- BigSpeed Zipper - Compact ZIP tool with unusual features such as browsing ZIP files before downloading and full-text search of ZIP file contents.
- Bzip2 and Libbzip2 - Patent free, high-quality data compressor for Windows or Unix.
- Cathonian Ventures Ltd - Zipfusion - Flexible self-extractor, use with any zip tools that create type 0 (stored) and type 8 (deflate) format zip files. Feature a built-in configuration editor.
- Dzip - Compact Windows compression program that creates small .DZ archive files. Integrates with Windows Explorer.
- FileCompress Uharc Gui - A free Uharc 0.4 Gui with SFX and other features like preview of .uha file.
- Free WinZIP Alternatives - A roundup and review of fully WinZIP-compatible freeware ZIP programs -- compared on the basis of usability.
- FreeZip - Windows zip utility that prides itself on being small, fast and efficient.
- Gzip - Open source command line data stream compressor and archiver.
- ICEOWS - Windows compression utility using the ARJ format (was called ArjFolder). Can extract, test, and view files stored in ZIP, GZIP, TAR, CAB, RAR, ACE, PK3, etc. and create SFX executables.
- JustZIPit - Small and simple contextual menu based zip program with full ZIP-64 huge-archive compression.
- LZX - Encoding for Amigas that uses large match offsets and file merging.
- MultiZipper - Unzip program for Windows that doesn't prompt before overwriting files. Supports shell links, drag and drop, and command line.
- Quick Zip - Free zip compression utility for Windows, create, extract, and testing for zip archives.
- StuffIt Expander - Decompresses all files in any of the StuffIt formats. It will also decode single and multi-part BinHex files. [Win/Solaris/Linux/Mac]
- Tugzip - Free archiving utility with Windows integration, script support and ZIP-64 for huge archives. Provides a free support forum.
- UltimateZip - Supports a wide variety of archive types, creates self extracting archives, integrates with mail and virus scan, and integrates with Windows Explorer.
- WinBZip2 - A small GUI utility for working with files in bzip2 format, compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of bzip2 files.
- WinGZip - A small GUI utility for working with files in gzip format. It allows to compress any file into gzip format, decompress and test the integrity of already gzipped files.
- WinImp - Extracts ZIP, ARJ, RAR, TAR as well as higher-compression IMP format. Includes drag-and-drop capability and creation of custom SFX files which can launch a file after unpacking.
- XStandard Zip Component - ZIP or unzip a file or folder using a single line of code with this free component. [ActiveX DLL]
- Zip 2 Secure EXE - Utility to convert any ZIP file into a self-extracting executable. Supports AES encryption, can unpack automatically to a temporary directory and run a setup.exe after extraction.
- zipdiff - An open source Java utility for comparing two zip files. Also suitable for JAR, EAR, WAR and RAR files.
- Zipfocus - A small zip file reader for general use or restoring backups from floppy/flash/cd drive.
- ZipFree 2000 - ZIP tool with integrated virus check and integrated emailing for quick ZIP and send. Supports SFX creation and pre-extraction viewing.
- ZIPGenius - A full-featured ZIP program with SFX and ZIP-64 support. Also supports AES encryption 7-ZIP format and integrated image-viewing.
- ZipItFast - ZIP program with a skinned interface and full support for over 20 compression formats.
Cursor Freeware:
- Cursor and Icon Software by Janet Parris - Handdrawn cursors include holidays, for guys and pastels, for the Macintosh. Also a few freeware icons.
- CursorHell - Free animated and static occult and Goth theme cursors.
- DaWindow's Animated Cursors - Features cartoons, anime, movies, TV, Jackie Chan, Totoro, and Star Wars.
- Dierk's Page - Animated cursors and a tutorial on creating them.
- Internetbabs Animated Cursor Sets - Cursors for Windows, including cats, cars and cartoons.
- Joe's Cursors - Animated cursors for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000. Includes color themed sets, and some high visibility cursors for kids or the visually impaired.
- RWG Open Cursor Library - Features individual cursors and whole cursor sets for Windows.
- Shayla Cursors - Alpha-blended cursor sets for Windows XP. Includes a help page.
- Sion's Animated Cursors - A small collection of cursors, some animated.
- Totally Free Cursors - Categorized list includes animals, holiday themes, smilies, flags, and cartoon characters. Help section and MySpace codes.
Desktop Customization Freeware:
- DS Clock - A customizable digital desktop clock that can synchronize a computer's clock with atomic time servers. [Win32]
- Loop Movie - QuickTime movies that play continuously on the desktop.
- Samurize - A system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine. [Win 2K+]
- SeeDesk - A utility which makes the icon text background on Windows 95/98/Me desktop transparent.
- SoftProfile - Juggler is a window manager to set any window to be always on top of other windows. Compatible with Windows 95/98 and NT 4/Windows 2000.
- Tidy Start Menu - Organizes the Start menu by category. [Win 98+]
- Transparent Window Manager - A tool to manage windows settings including transparency.
