Windows 7 Driver Downloads & Updates

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) software is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
PLEASE NOTE: this is a Release Candidate and not a stable release.
Version 1.0.0-rc1 includes various upgrades to playback abilities including instantaneous pausing, on-the-fly recording, adds new decoders like Dolby Digital Plus, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, WMA v1/2, support for and improvements in demuxers, and several interface fixes and improvements.
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The program lets you do smooth sailing flybyes of the entire Earth. You can easily fly to any spot on the globe, by entering any associated data, like street addresses, place names or lat/long coordinates. There are overlays that put additional information on the map, like roads, international boundaries, terrain, 3D buildings, crime statistics, schools, stadiums, any number of interesting stuff.You can do Local searches in the program, with icons on the map and a display on the side showing your results. You can leave notes, called ???placemarks??? all over the map, so you can remember where all sorts of places are. Searches and placemarks can be saved as bookmarks in ???My Places???. Everything can be output in an XML format called KML, that will allow the vast popularity of Google Maps to continue in Earth. You can also email a JPEG of the map, or send a KMZ file if you know the recipient has Earth installed.Google Earth is free for personal use. No registration is required.
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Your coffee table has five remotes. You have a special drawer where you keep them. Wouldnt it be easier to just have one remote? You can. Replace all your remotes with Harmony.
Supporting more than 225,000 devices from 5,000+ brands, you can be confident the Harmony remote can control whatever entertainment devices (with IR capability) you have today or buy tomorrow. One press turns on the right devices in the right order. Powers on your TV, DVD player, and stereo receiver; sets all your inputs; and even, for example, starts your movie.
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Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files. Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it right. Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Enhance, fix red-eye, and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.
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WinRAR is a 32-bit / 64-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRAR's main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support, folder tree panel, multithread support and Windows x64 shell integration. WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack and convert CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7-Zip archives. WinRAR is available in over 40 languages.
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s Dr. Gordon Freeman, you were last seen exiting City 17 with Alyx Vance as the Citadel erupted amidst a storm of unknown proportions. Now, in Episode Two, you must battle and race against Combine forces as you traverse the White Forest to deliver a crucial information packet stolen from the Citadel to an enclave of fellow resistance scientists. Episode Two is the second of a planned trilogy of games that extends the award-winning and best-selling Half-Life adventure. Unique weapons, vehicles, and new creatures, friends, and enemies all make an appearance.
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Get Messenger and stay in touch
Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.
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Windows Defender software helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software by detecting and removing known spyware from your computer. Windows Defender features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, minimizes interruptions, and helps you stay productive.
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Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.
Favorites and groups
Put the people you chat with most at the top of your contacts, so you easily see when they’re online. Want to chat with several people in one window? Just set up a group.
Customize
Show off your personal style with custom scenes, animated display pictures, and signature sounds.
Share photos
Look at photos together, right in the conversation window. And Messenger tells you when people you know post new photos on Windows Live.
Mobile and web
Using a public computer without Messenger? No problem! You can chat on the web from Windows Live Hotmail. Or, use Messenger on your mobile phone.
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Adobe Reader allows more securely view, print, search, sign, verify, and collaborate on PDF documents, online as well as offline, from your home or office. Reader has a completely redesigned interface, new tools, and new options for viewing information more efficiently. Access to an online, real-time meeting in seconds. Reader 8 is now integrated with Adobe Connect software, which enables users to instantly communicate and accelerate approvals with virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time. Add more security to your documents, forms, and drawings with digital signatures. Leverage Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server and the new Adobe Online Services Document Center to enforce access rights at the document level.
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Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible. Frets on Fire is open-source and includes: a unique inverted keyboard gameplay style; support for guitar controllers and generic joysticks; a song editor for making your own tunes; the ability to compete with others on the World Charts; hundreds of songs composed by the community; and support for importing Guitar Hero and Guitar Hero II songs.
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Google Desktop Search is how our brains would work if we had photographic memories. Its a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages youve viewed. By making your computer searchable, Google Desktop Search puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails, and bookmarks.
After downloading Google Desktop Search, you can search your personal items as easily as you search the Internet using Google. Unlike traditional computer search software that updates once a day, Google Desktop Search updates continually for most file types, so that when you receive a new email in Outlook, for example, you can search for it within seconds. The index of searchable information created by Desktop Search is stored on your own computer.
In addition to basic search, Google Desktop Search introduces new ways to access relevant and timely information. When you view a web page in Internet Explorer, Google Desktop Search caches or stores its content so that you can later look at that same version of the page, even if its live content has changed or youre offline. Google Desktop Search organizes email search results into conversations, so that all email messages in the same thread are grouped into a single search result.
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Ares is a free peer to peer file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. Ultrapeer protocol grants low bandwith usage. Ares features multiple sources downloads, an integrated audio/video player with playlist, a web-browser and an easy to browse library to manage your shared content. You can host your chat room and join other available channels. Ares is FREEWARE and doesnt install spyware, adware, mallware or co-bundled softwares.
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Some websites require the use of the Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin for certain content such as embedded audio and video. This article describes how to get the Windows Media Player plugin working on Windows operating systems.
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Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about for more information.
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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

 

1. Display pictures
2. Custom emoticons
3. Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
4. Webcam support
5. Sign in to more than one account at once
6. Full-speed File transfers
7. Group support
8. Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
9. Chat logs
10. Timestamping
11. Event alarms
12. Conferencing support
13. Tabbed chat windows

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Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscapes main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development
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GOM Player supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system that you won\t have to look for appropriate codecs everytime you can\t play a certain video format. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site.
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WinSCP is an open source free SFTP / FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.

Features:

1. Graphical user interface (UI)
2. Translated into several languages
3. Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)
4. U3 support
5. All common operations with files
6. Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol
7. Batch file scripting and command-line interface
8. Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
9. Integrated text editor
10. Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
11. Integrates with Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) for full support of public key authentication with SSH
12. Explorer and Commander interfaces
13. Optionally stores session information
14. Optionally supports portable operation using a configuration file in place of registry entries, suitable for operation from removable media

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Revo Uninstaller is a freeware innovative uninstall utility much faster than Windows Add/Remove applet. With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller scans before and after you uninstall an application. After the programs regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an applications data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry items so you can delete them.
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