Ad Aware 6.0
With its ability to scan your RAM, registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware can easily clean out your system, allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the Web. Do not use a spyware program that appears in a popup ad you receive when online -- these popup advertisers paid the same company that placed the spyware on your computer!

Acrobat Reader 6.01
This software lets you view and print Adobe PDF files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime and MP3 files. Read and organize high-fidelity e-books. Activate search and accessibility capabilities built into your PDF files, and display Adobe Photoshop Album slide shows and electronic cards.

AIM (America Online Instant Messenger)
You don't have to be an America Online member to experience the immediate cross-Internet communication made possible by AOL Instant Messenger. This program allows Internet users to communicate via private, personalized text messages, and indicates when friends, family members, and business colleagues are online. AOL Instant Messenger combines AOL's Buddy List and Instant Message features, enabling users to send and respond to messages immediately. Other features include a user directory and buddy chat capabilities, personalized news, and a Neighborhood Watch feature so you can disconnect when crank chatters contact you. You also can send personalized greetings from your Buddy List, forward a copy of your Buddy List to a friend, and add your own comments to an entry on your Buddy List.

AIM 5.5 introduces the ability for AIM members to use one Buddy List window for all AIM identities, and the ability to see buddies live using Video IM. Also new is AIM Games, a step up from solitaire. The latest version adds WeatherBug, which allows users to access up-to-the-second local conditions, nationwide weather-camera images, and potentially life-saving weather alerts.

Download Accelerator Plus 5
Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) increases download speeds by up to 300 percent. It searches for mirror sites that most effectively serve your downloads through multiserver connections for optimal utilization of dial-up or broadband connections. DAP automatically recovers from shutdowns, lost connections, and other errors. It is fully integrated into Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Opera, and offers a toolbar for Internet Explorer with a links catcher and a highlighter. It features auto-hang-up after downloading, proxy settings, scheduling, and a unique AlwaysResume service.

ICQ Internet Chat 4
You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message. In addition to familiar features such as chat, SMS messaging, and file-transfer capabilities, the newest version includes ICQ Xtraz, which allow you to send personalized greeting cards, apply custom icons to your buddies, play online games, and customize your shortcuts panel for one-click access to all your favorite features.

Juno Internet Access
Due to popular demand, here is the installation file for Juno Internet Access. Use this after a computer rebuild to install and configure Juno (requires Member name and Password).

Limewire 4.0.8
If you liked Kazzaa, but not its spyware and other garbage, this is for you. LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application. It enables the sharing, searching, and downloading of MP3 files. LimeWire also lets users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, push-proxy support for connecting through firewalls, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface.

Quicktime 6.5.1
After 10 years and with millions of users worldwide, Apple's QuickTime player still provides one of the best solutions for digital media. Whether you're watching streaming movie trailers online or diving headlong into QuickTime as a creation platform, you'll find little to quibble about in this veteran player. Its few quirks are quickly offset by the elegant Apple interface and top-notch audio/video playback quality.

Real Player 10
The free RealPlayer 10 is the only digital media player you need to find and download new music, play and manage audio and video clips, and take your digital entertainment with you. RealPlayer 10 Basic offers a new, streamlined interface that allows you to keep your media library close at hand. Keep all your digital media clips organized in one place; save CD tracks with just one click; pause and rewind live streams; transfer music to CDs and portable devices effortlessly; and enjoy clear, smooth video playback and mutichannel, surround-sound support.

Spybot - Search & Destroy 1.3
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer with other users. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system. For advanced users, it allows you to fix registry inconsistencies related to adware and to malicious program installations. The handy online-update feature ensures that Spybot always has the most current and complete listings of adware, dialers, and other uninvited system residents.

SpywareBlaster 3.2
SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware--it prevents it from ever being installed. SpywareBlaster blocks the installation of spyware ActiveX controls (such as Lop.com and Xupiter) in its database, and can even prevent them from running if they are installed. The built-in Check for Updates feature allows quick and easy database updates (released frequently). Information on all spyware covered in the database is also provided. SpywareBlaster does not need to be running in the background - simply select the items you wish to be protected against (or select all items), press the Protect button, and protection is enabled. It can also block spyware/tracking cookies, and includes a System Snapshot feature, which allows you to take a snapshot of your computer in its clean state and later revert many changes made by spyware and browser hijackers.

Stuffit Expander Standard Edition 8.5
An alternative to the expensive WinZip program. StuffIt makes it simple to access email attachments and downloads that were compressed on any platform, including Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac. Plus, now you can use new drag and drop tools to open or view the contents of Zip, StuffIt, Tape, or other archives instantly.

Trillian 0.74
Replace all your instant messengers with one. Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger. It supports docking, multiline edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging, global away/invisible features, and a unified contact list. It has a direct connection for AIM, support for user profiles, complete type formatting, buddy icons, proxy support, emotisounds, encrypted instant messaging to ICQ and AIM, AIM group chats, and shell extensions for file transfers.

VNC Remote Control
VNC is a free program from Bell Labs that allows easy remote control access of your computer. This is popular within a residential or business intranet for monitoring and controlling remote computers. Parents may use it to observe children's computer usage. Business IT departments typically use it to troubleshoot employee's problems without traveling to their office.

VNC should be used behind a firewall where outside Internet users cannot gain access to the local computer, except for short instances when it may be beneficial to have R-Tech troubleshoot your computer without being on site (a static IP address is required for such support).

WinAmp 5.04
Winamp is an audio player that can handle audio CDs, MP3 audio files, and streaming audio broadcasts. It combines extensive functionality with an intuitive interface. Winamp features a playlist editor and a 10-band graphic equalizer with user-definable presets that can automatically load specific files. It also includes Windows Media Technology 4.0 input/output support and the industry-standard Fraunhofer MP3 decoder. This version also supports CD-ROM ripping (converts your music cd songs into mp3s).

WinZip 9.0
WinZip enables you to quickly and easily compress and decompress files, folders, and entire folder trees to save storage space and dramatically reduce e-mail transmission time, as well as encrypt and decrypt your sensitive documents.

WSFTP-LE
WSFTP_LE is a simple File Transfer program for uploading or downloading files from a remote FTP server (typically web servers). Use it for uploading your web pages. WSFTP-LE is a free program for home and school users.

Yahoo! Instant Messenger 6.0
Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and send them instant messages. It also can alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have upcoming events recorded in Yahoo Calendar.

ZoneAlarm Internet Firewall
Use ZoneAlarm to protect your computer from Internet intruders and malicious software. This may just be your best protection against malicious software and intruders. Highly recommended!

Installation instructions: Click on preferred program(s) above. When File Download screen appears, click Open and follow on screen instructions.