Get our latest top picks
Subscribe to our Top Picks RSS Feed or enter your email address below to get the feed delivered to you by email:
|
Follow Gizmo |
 |
 |
 |
Register/Login
Top Rated
Gizmo's Freeware is Recruiting
We are looking for people with skills or interest in the following:
- Mobile Platform App Reviews for Android and iOS
- Anonymous Surfing Service
- Rootkit Scanner and Remover
- Streaming Media Recorder
- PDF Writer
Interested? Click here
Best Free Windows 64-bit Software
|
Best Free Windows 64-bit Software - Page Index
|
||
|
||
 10. Programming |
||
Best Free Windows 64-bit Programming Editor
Notepad++ "is a popular and widely-used editor loaded with features to make the users' programming more productive, including syntax and brace highlighting for many languages, search and replace using regular expressions, macro recording, and playback. It is also highly configurable through plug-ins, has a wide range of themes and offers multi-language support. Other features include color source code printing, auto-completion, multi-document and multi-view, drag and drop, syntax folding, bookmark, ASCII art display and more." (Best Free Programming Editor)
Bluefish "is a lightweight yet powerful editor running … designed for experienced programmers and web designers, and works as a general-purpose editor as well with the IDE. This program provides options to write websites, scripts and programming codes in many programming and markup languages. Its user interface is complete with toolbars, dialogs and user-customized menus to facilitate insertion of markups and codes. … Other useful features include cold folding, customizable syntax highlighting, advanced search and replace, multiple projects support, integration with external programs to handle advanced text processing or error detection, auto tag closing and matched code highlights for HTML and XML documents, in-line spell checker which is programing language aware and so on." (Best Free Programming Editor)
Best Free Windows 64-bit Color Picker
Color Cop "impressed me with its combination of simplicity and effectiveness. It comes with a compact and powerful user interface which takes up very little screen space. A color grabber is provided to drag and drop at any pixel of the screen, and RGB and Hex codes are presented instantly. The front interface provides a built-in magnifier and an active color palette. If you want to adjust a picked color, you can click the ‘custom’ button and call up Windows’ default color mixer. When you right click on the interface a menu pops up with extra features. In this way, the interface is cleverly made small but powerful." (Best Free Color Picker)
To run on Windows 64-bit Bluefish requires GTK 2.14.7 (6.1 MB) and no newer. See
Installing Bluefish on Windows 7 64-bit
- Login or register to post comments
Printer-friendly version
Comments
Thanks, I'll take a look.
Rik
Tried Free Registry Defrag on a win7 pro x64 machine. It worked and did not hose my machine, I thought. However, after performing the defrag the boot time for the machine slowed down to a crawl. Fortunately I had done a restore point so I was able to put the machine back to where it was. This is not a 64 bit application (as far as I can tell) and even though it works it has a major side effect. I would not use this application for win 7 and I would take it out of the Win7 section of the site.
Tom, thanks for posting this. I will follow it up.
Rik
Online armor is now available for 64 bit windows. How about including that in firewall section of this list.
I'm not struck with what is being offered. Better to wait for the dust to settle, I wouldn't recommend this.
Rik
I do not like the new Win.7 folder/file search. I've been looking for a 64 bit replacement program that's FREE and easy to use but most of all FINDS ALL the files you are searching for, not just one or two but ALL. Anybody know of such a program for Windows 7- 64 bit program?
It would help if you could be a bit more specific about your requirements. You say ALL files but do you mean just names, dates, or content as well?
Rik - Category Editor
While I don't pick a top Windows 7 search program, you might want to look over this page for some ideas:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-desktop-search-utility.htm
Any freeware Blu-Ray player for Windows 7? MPC Home Cinema x64 won't do it. I've just bought a drive and now discover it's impossible to watch a B-R movie!
TIA,
Alan
Hi,
I'm currently using Spybot Search & Destroy and Spybot resident, don't really have any idea of how much it covers but i do regular scans and the resident runs constantly, is there anything you would recommend instead or as well as? Don't want too many different protection programs that do the same thing!
Recently my computer keeps restarting itself randomly but spybot isn't finding anything and I don't have a clue what's going on!? Any suggestions? I think someone mentioned about Spybot updates causing computers to crash?
(sorry but not read all the above messages haven't got all day!)
Apologies for the delay in replying. Definitely switch from Spybot to AVAST or Avira. Personally I wouldn't touch MSE or Panda 'Cloud' with a barge pole. Best of luck.
Rik, Category Editor
I've just tried MSE for the 2nd time since it was introduced. Nothing seems to have changed, it constantly injects 1-3 second "screen freezes" randomly and -drastically- slows down the small icon generation in Explorer detail view (and lags the screen while doing so).
I uninstalled it and once again all the problems disappeared. I might also add that Event Viewer throws a "starting too slow" warning for every single startup program with MSE being mentioned in each one's details view. This also went away after I ditched MSE. It does work well at its security functions as far as I can tell. Nothing bad in the logs.
EVGA 780i, E8400, 8 megs, W7 x64, mucho disk space with plenty of swap file space on a nearly empty 3rd drive.
I in no way minimize or deny your experience. However, I can say that I've been using MSE on a Windows 7 (64 bit) machine for a couple months now. I absolutely love it! I've used many, many AV's in the past and this is by far the best free AV that I've ever used. Yes, I like it better than both Avira and Avast. I do not experience any of the issues you describe.
I use it along with WinPatrol and think the combination is very light, yet protects me very well.
All the machines in my office (Win7 x64) have MSE installed and they all run flawlessly. I'd actually forgotten it was there until a client inserted a flashdrive into one of them the other day and a high risk trojan was detected and eliminated.
I can understand the reservations about Panda but whaddayagot against MSE? :)
Nothing in particular :) I just don't think it belongs in the same league as AVAST or Avira. Anyway, I am not the best to comment, I suggest interested readers check out our article here.
It's illegal to scare people..specially so sweet like me.
I am using MSE for a month or two, works fine....(though i am Avira fan).
The only security software in your pc is Spybot?
If I was you, I would remove Spybot and use Avast free.
Yeah, I did have Avast but read some dodgy reviews about it, thought Spybot sounded like the best. I'll give it another chance ;)
Thank you for this great information!
I recommend CCleaner. There is a native 64 bit version of the software, which installs out of the combined installation program (at least for my understanding).
http://www.piriform.com/download
Sorry, but ccleaner is still pure 32 bit.
Rik, Category Editor
I am a regular visitor to your blog, like all your post this post is also very good. I will give 10 out of 10 marks.
Me also regular visitor as well but i will give it 20 out of 10 !
Many thanks!
Rik
Any good 64bit text editor recommendations?
Have you tried Windows Notepad. It actually comes standard with windows os ?
Our article Best Free Text Editor doesn't mention any, but a 64 bit version of notepad2 is available here.
Rik
Note, the latest build of 64 bit Thunderbird 3, codenamed Shredder is 3.0.5 not, 3.0 beta 2. (Works great, too).
If it supports the Lightning extension I might be interested. If not, as is most likely, I'll stick with what I have.
Rik - Category Editor
Well, I don't use Lightning, but I looked at the Lighning known issues and bug fixes, and it is not a current known issue. And, last bug fix affecting shredder was fixed back in March. So, all I can say is to give it a try. In any case, you should update the article to show the current version of 3.0.5