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Software Suites are downloadable programs that contain several utility applications that perform multiple tasks. OpenDisc, Lupo Pen Suite, and Liberkey are examples of programs that provide integrated programs that perform a variety of tasks. For our top rated Software Suites, see the ratings below. Office Suites are a subset of software suites, but provide only office type functions such as Word Processing, Spreadsheet, and Presentation programs. We maintain a separate category for those programs: Best Free Office Suites. |
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Free Software Suites Liberkey is a true "Swiss Army Knife" of free programs that comes in three sizes; basic (28 programs), standard (100 programs) and ultimate (200 programs). Most of the programs are recommended programs in other categories on the Best-ever Freeware site. You really need to check out the Liberkey site and pick the version that suits you. OpenDisc offers for free a wonderful collection of just about every application software product you need to run a PC, including the latest version of OpenOffice. Many of these freebies substitute admirably for expensive commercial products. There is Abi Word as an alternative to MS Word, OpenOffice for MS Office XP, Thunderbird for Outlook, The Gimp for Adobe Photoshop, 7-zip for WinZip and many many more. If you then add to this collection some of the other utilities from my "46 Best-ever Utilities" collection, you'll have all the software you'll ever need without spending a cent. There is also a reasonably active blog and forum. This is an extraordinary collection of software. Do note, though, that the full ISO download is 701MB. (If you have a slow connection they will send you 2 disks for a donation of $15 -- unverified 12/05/2008).
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Why are you linking to Softonic for Lupo Pensuite when the actual software page is:
http://www.lupopensuite.com/
Isn't it more informative to point readers to the actual site of the program where they can read more about it and see the forums rather than a 3rd party download site?
no because i dont know what youll talking about plus i dont care bout no 3rd
party
Liberkey have some good portable software to download, but suite can not compared with LupoPen. Liber have 3 email clients and just one browser, dont have any word processing tool... LupoPen have most used programs in any category of suite, best-balanced suite with all software you need... Last couple of years I used many suites (OpenDisc, WinIzioPen, WinPenPack, OpenCd, LupoPen, LiberKey...)and Lupo is winner in all comparisons. OpenDisc is incomplete and take 3rd place, Liber second and Lupo 1st...
Rašić Slobodan
Zaječar, Serbia
** New Update **
There is a new version available for "SSuite Office - The Fifth Element".
It is a new major update - version 2.0. It can now export documents to pdf, png, emf, bmp, jpg, and gif formats and includes a lot more updates for all the other applications.
Download links are the following:
http://ssuite5element.webs.com/thefifthelement.htm
http://www.ssuitesoft.com/index.htm
Lupo is a good suite but does not update itself like liberkey does (which has program updates auto downloading every other day). Also I used to use AVG Free and now use avast! Free and each one always seems to flag one or two programs in Lupo as viruses. (I appreciate they are 99% likely to be false positives - but it's still really annoying).
I vote Liberkey as: -never had any virus flagging up with it; and
-auto updates keep all the progs current. (Also pretty much all of the best programs on Lupo appear on Liberkey anyway)
http://pensuite.wininizio.it/eng/index.php
WinInizio PenSuite is a collection of free and open source software to be copied onto a USB Pen Drive or to use from Hard Disk. The software included in the PenSuite doesn’t require installation: as a matter of fact all the applications may be launched directly from the Pen Drive. You only have to plug the Pen Drive in a USB port of the PC and it is immediately possible to have at your disposal hundreds of software of all kinds and belonging to all categories, to have the right software in every situation.
Really am a huge fan of liberkey, if you enable file associations and go to their site you can download even more software.
I don't even use it on a USB, it's always there on my startup menu with any freeware program i would ever need (and some i dont, just too geeky not to pass up)!
Yes, absolutely agree with you. With OS and Liberkey (Ultimate) only, we already have an up and running system for general use!
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Me too.
Its got so many really useful programs (a lot of which are rated highly as independent programs by this site).
Hi.
First, thanks for the great suite of programs.
I may have missed it, but it would be nice to see a list of programs so that only the ones needed can be checked and downloaded.
What I mean it, I have several of the programs already. It would be nice to be able to download a suite without firefox, 7-zip, thunderbird, etc, if I already have these programs.
Thanks again.
Mick
As far a suites go and in the vein of Lupo this makes sense to be in this category as well its opensource too http://portableapps.com/
I really like the SSuite Office suite mentioned below. The Fifth Element office suite is a real knock out, it consists of more than 30 applications.
As far as I know, SSuite Office comes in a variety of choices, depending on your system specifications. There is even a database application that works just like MS Access.
They are all lightning fast, as they are all written in native WIN32, which Windows fully supports.( Win95 up to Vista , and even Windows 7 )
They are all free for download!
See the links below for further detail.
http://www.ssuitesoft.com
http://ssuite5element.webs.com/thefifthelement.htm
take note that Lupo PenSuite comes with some overhead: BitDefender identified two viral infections in the download.
Lupo Pen Suite contains "Angry Port Scanner' (first Google result for "port scanner"), which is a nice prog., but it causes Norton to flag it as a potential hacker tool. I don't use NAV but they do were I work and it got my PC access pulled during the investigation. ( I still can't log in after a week) I didn't even know that program was included in Lupo, because it is in a folder called "extra". I did not even run the .exe file, the drive was auto scanned soon as it got plugged in. :(
Seems there is an online petition directed to Symantech to have that port scanner program removed from their hit list. Just a word of caution....
Just as an update to Lupo Pen Suite on my work PC: I removed a few more apps that the Lupo web site said could cause false positives. After being afraid of plugging in that thumb drive for the past few months, I tried it again today and Norton classified the file shredder (CWS Shredder?) as Adware and quarantined it. The file was removed by Norton on my USB drive and no further action has occured (yet).
No one has locked me out like last time, so I'll continue to use other programs in the suite.
Zeus36
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Sounds like NAV is trying to prevent you from using competitor's malware removal tools. CWShredder is a free tool for removing the CoolWebSearch malware(adware/hijacking) program. It was acquired by Trend Micro a while back, so now Norton considers it a competitor and is using one of Microsoft's old tricks (anyone remember DR-DOS?). CWShredder is a great tool and was freely available way before Norton had any solution.
From Trend Micro's web site:
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/personal/CWShredder/
"Trend Micro CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch – the name for a wide range of insidious browser hijackers– from your PC.
CWShredder removes these browser hijackers. CoolWebSearch installs dozens of bookmarks–mostly to porn Web sites–on your desktop, changes your home page without asking, and continually changes it back if you attempt to correct it. Furthermore, it significantly slows down the performance of your PC, and introduces modifications which cause Microsoft Windows™ to freeze, crash or randomly reboot."
Thank you for the info.
We are always very grateful to our users for this type of feedback.
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