File Unpack Utilities, Image Viewers and Movie Players

This page will give you quick access to some of the basic programs that you may need. It was created after I received numerous inquiries requesting information about what programs are needed for various file formats found on this Web site. I have tested all of these programs under Windows 95/98/NT4/XP/2003 and have found them to be safe and reliable but can not be held responsible or liable for how they will behave on your system. I am simply providing a point of dispersement for the various authors of these programs and all liabililties for these programs fall upon them.

Evidence Eliminator You're in Serious Trouble - It's a Proven Fact! Deleting "Internet Cache and History" will NOT protect you because any of the Web Pages, Pictures, Movies, Videos, Sounds, E-mail, Chat Logs and Everything Else you see or do could easily be recovered to Haunt you forever! How would you feel if a snoop made this information public to your Spouse, Mother & Father, Neighbors, Children, Boss, Church or the Media? It could easily Ruin Your Life! Solve all your problems and enjoy all the benefits of an "As New PC" Right Now! Evidence Eliminator can Speed-Up your PC/Internet Browser, reclaim Hard Disk space and Professionally Clean your PC in one easy mouse click!
Firefox Simply the best, most secure Web Browser around, and it's free!. Available for Windows, MacOSX and LinX. Much more secure than Windoze Explorer and very stable with hundreds of plug in features and addons, you will find surfing the Web with Firefox a more enjoyable and safer expirence. Be sure that you get the Java plugin for Firefox, along with dozens of other plugins that you might need, at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/plugins/ after you install Firefox. I strongly recommend that you install the NoScript JAVA filter to protect yourself from harmfull scripts that you may come across.
Mircosoft Security Essentials Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.
AVG AntiVirus Free AVG Anti-Virus software. Not the best that there is, but the price is hard to beat! In today's Internet world, anti-virus software is a must have. If you don't have one on your system, get this one today and be sure you update it on a regular basis!
AdAware AntiSpyware Free AdAware Anti-Spyware software. One of the best that there is and it really is FREE! In today's Internet world, anti-spyware software is a must have. If you don't have one on your system, get this one today and be sure you run it on a regular basis!
7-ZIP A free open source file packer/unpacker for RAR, ZIP, ARJ, ARC, LZH, TGZ and most other compressed file types.
PeaZIP A free open source cross platform file packer/unpacker for RAR, ZIP, ARJ, ARC, LZH, TGZ and most other compressed file types.
WinRAR A commercial file packer/unpacker for RAR, ZIP, ARJ, ARC and TGZ files, this is the one I use. Adds some convient features to the action menu when you right click on a file that provides great ways to pack, unpack or view files.
UnTGZ Self extracting file containing an unpacker for TGZ files. Note that you can simply rename most .TGZ files to .ZIP and process them like normal ZIP files. Many browsers will rename this self extracting .ZIP file to a .TGZ suffix when you download it. If that happens to you simply rename it to UNTGZ095.ZIP and run it or rename it to UNTGZ095.ZIP and UnZip it!
PowerZIP Unpacker for ARJ, RAR, TAR, CAB, GZ and ZIP format files
GOM Player Simply the best media player that I have found. Plays almost every media type that there is, including RealMedia & DVD's, using it's own internal CODEC decoder. Will even play broken media files, which often happens with AVI's!
Microsoft Media Player The latest Microsoft Windows Media Player directly from Microsoft. Plays ASF, ASX, RA, RAM, RM RMM, AVI, MOV, QT, MPG, MPEG, M1V, MP2, MPA, MPE, MID, RMI, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, AU, SND and WAV format files.
AcDsee Simply the best Windows image viewer around. Supports almost all graphic image formats. You will probably want to make this your default image viewer.
PowerFlic FLC/FLI format movie player
EZ Media A great player for AVI, MPEG, MPG, MPE, MPV, QT and MOV format movies
QM Player The only Windows based QM file format movie player that I have been able to find. The installation is all in Japanese. Just keep pressing the ">>>" style button during the install and it will work fine. This will not show up in your programs folder but will automatically become the default player for .QM format files.
VIVo Player VIVo movie player for VIV format files. This will automatically plug in to your browser when you install it.
DL Viewer DL movie file viewer. This is actually a DOS based viewer but I have found it to work fine under Windows.
GL Viewer The Grasp GL format movie viewer. This is also a DOS based program that works OK under Windows. I strongly recommend installing GLShell also to make this easier to use.
GLShell for Grasp A shell (menu) program for the Grasp GL movie viewer. Be sure that you install GRASP in a pathed directory (ie - c:/windows) and use your F5 key to toggle between languages in this shell.
QVPro Viewer Quick View Pro is a DOS based DL, FLI and FLC format movie viewer that works well in Windows.
AVI Joiner PECK'S POWER JOIN 1.1b - A Windoze utility that will combine .AVI format movies
MPG Joiner Camel's MPEGJoin 1.0.5 is a small Windows utility to combine MPEG files
FTP Client FileZilla, a good open source FTP client. This is the one I use.


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