Handy Programs (cheap or free)

[Headbanger]

9 harddrives, 4 PC's, 36000 images.

Thousands of duplicates

Fuck

http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page


SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET


edit-If you don't empty the recycle bin between scans if identifies them in there and if you aren't careful you can delete the duplicate that's in the directory you want to keep.

[Headbanger]

I have also been playing with Libre Office, Its an off shoot of Open Office when some of the cats involved got the shits and split the project.

http://www.libreoffice.org/

I like it better.

[Hawkeye]

One of the best bits of software I've come across is Revo Uninstaller.
Great for getting rid of every bit of an software install

[nzspokes]

VLC should work as it has the codecs integrated into the media player rather then using codecs resident on the system.

On that note,

Gspot

http://gspot.headbands.com/

GSpot is a free utility which identifies the codec required to play an AVI file and supplies other information as well.

Just downloaded this, works great!