Essential Windows NT Software on the Net

This is a collection of links to freeware/shareware software available on the net that I find very useful for Windows NT 4.0. Each item has a brief description and then one or more locations to retrieve it.

This page is great for users new to NT, or even old users who don't want to try out the sea of free (or shareware) programs out on the net.

NOTE: This is a mirror of a page at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rgc/nt.html. If you want the most up-to-date version of this list, please consult the original page, maintained by Ross Cutler.

Editors

NTEmacs The best full Emacs port. Info.
MicroEmacs A light version of Emacs. Retrieve (dir).

Games

WinBoard An Internet Chess and GNU Chess Client. Info.

Mail

EMWAC POP3/SMTP service Beta. Info.
Eudora POP3/SMTP mailer. Supports MIME/Binhex. Info.
Pegasus Mail POP3/SMTP mailer. Info.

LaTeX

AUC TeX A great add-on package for Emacs for editing LaTeX documents. Info.
DVI-Win 2.9 A Windows DVI viewer. Retrieve (dir).
MikTex A good Win32 port of TeX/LaTeX. Info.

Misc

Adobe Acrobat Displays Adobe PDF files. Info.
GhostScript A PostScript clone. Info.
NT Service Packs Latest patches for NT from Microsoft. Dir.
WinWeather A nice GUI for online weather services. Info.

Multimedia

ActiveMovie A great MPEG player from Microsoft. Info.
Cool Edit A very nice sound editor. Info.
LView Pro A JPEG/GIF viewer with lots of image processing features. Info.
Paint Shop Pro A fantastic image editor. Info.
PolyView A very fast 32-bit JPEG viewer. Info.
Quicktime A great movie viewer from Apple. Info.
WinAmp A fantastic MP3 player. Info.
Wham A multi-format sound player. 16-bit. Retrieve (dir).

Network

Cute FTP A graphical FTP application. Info.
NetTerm A great telnet program. Info.
Free Agent A great news reader. Info.
Internet Explorer A great Web browser. Info.
Netscape Navigator A great Web browser. Info.
RealAudio Real-time sound over the net! Info.
WinTalk A winsock talk program. Info.
WS_FTP A graphical FTP application. Info.
WS_Ping A ping, traceroute, lookup application. Info.
WSArchie A graphical Archie application. Retrieve. Retrieve (dir).

Programming

Java/HotJava The omnipresent new object oriented language. Info.
Perl 5 A good port of an essential scripting langauge. Dir.

Utility

Cygnus GNU utilities A port of the GNU compiler/utilities. Info.
Diskkeeper lite A NTFS defragmenter! Info.
GNU utilities (Toolbuster 1.2) Ported by Congruent Corp. Retrieve (dir).
InfoZip A better command-line zip than PKZIP. Info.
NTFSDOS Reads NTFS partitions from DOS! Dir.
NT Resource Kit A great collection of tools from Microsoft. Includes WWW, gopher, and WAIS servers; POSIX command line utilities; virtual desktop program (TopDesk); and lots more. NT 3.51 only. Dir.
PowerToys A collection of must-have tools from MS. Info
RipSpace Computes and displays disk usage. Info
UWin POSIX library and utilities from ATT. Info
Windows Grep A graphical grep program. Info.
WinZip A graphical front-end for zip files. Info