Best Lightweight Software That Can Save You RAM

Other apps that might be of use:
1) FoxIt (pdf reader)
2) WinVI (text editor)

Sumatra PDF

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

William

XMPlay is a great flexible music player that is still very small: http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html

ConTEXT is an incredible text editor. Get it at http://www.context.cx

Nice suggestions. I added the software from the comments to the list.

I really suggest Scite as Text Editor. Is lightweight, portable and multiplatform.
Anyway nice post!

Please add Avast AV to your anti-virus list.

I’ve been using it for years & in my opinion, it has a light memory footprint. It has never allowed viruses on my computer & only once blocked a legitimate program from operating (it was FL Studio).

For web development, I use PSPad, which is a free and powerfull text

Nice. Keep the suggestions coming.

Please include a link and short description of what the program does (firewall, text editor…) to make it easier to add to the list.

The only editor you will ever need: vim (http://www.vim.org)

As much as I am going to get lynched.

I find VLC, Media Player Classic are far more loaded than Media Player 6 (c:\program files\Windows Media Player\mplayer2.exe) Is much faster and better to get CPU intensive videos working, under a loaded CPU.

Fixed the links.
Added the rest of the suggestions.

Nephi: I think most people prefer VLC because there is no need for any outside codecs. I don’t remember MP6, but if it’s not bloated - sounds good.

CD/DVD burning:
Imgburn
http://www.imgburn.com/

Graphics:
Xnview
http://www.xnview.com/

Protection:
Spybot search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/

I have a list of a lot of good lightweight software I’ve collected over the years. Search for each one on Google to find what it is about, I’m sure you will find something useful:

“7-Zip”, “Agent Ransack”, “Artmoney”, “Audacity”, “Autoruns”, “BootVis”, “CDisplay”, “Calendar”, “Console”, “DVD Decrypter”, “DeepBurner”, “Dirkey2″, “Docfrac”, “DupBlock”, “Eac”, “File Recovery”, “FileZilla”, “Foxit Reader”, “FreeCommander”, “IconShop”, “ImgBurn”, “JkDefragGUI”, “KeyTweak”, “LupasRename”, “MoveInactiveWin”, “MoveOnBoot”, “Mp3tag”, “MultiRes”, “OffByOne”, “Opera”, “PInstall”, “PTFB”, “ProcessExplorer”, “ProcessMonitor”, “ProcessTamer”, “ResHack”, “Restoration”, “RootkitRevealer”, “Softy”, “SubKonv”, “SyncBack”, “TaskArrange1.1.1″, “TaskSwitchXP”, “Total Uninstall”, “TreeComp”, “TweakUI”, “UXThemePatch 5.5″, “UltraEdit32″, “Universal Extractor”, “VirtualDimension”, “VirtualDubMod”, “WAssociate”, “WinDjView”, “Winamp”, “XNResourceEditor”, “XnView”, “cpu-z”, “firstobject XML editor”, “foobar2000″, “freecap”, “frhed”, “gsview”, “httrack”, “hwbook”, “iLook”, “k-meleon”, “lister32″, “miranda”, “mplayerc”, “netscan”, “prime95″, “rawwrite”, “regscanner”, “setbrows”, “splitter”, “tcpview”, “utorrent”, “vlc”, “windirstat”, “xplorer2_lite”, “yzshadow”

The Combined Community Codec Project has everything you need for video and audio. It even comes with media player classic (for QT) and Zoom player (my fav for video and music)

http://cccp-project.net/

I cant believe you added avast. It leaves my computer dead on the ground with 2gig of ram.(windows vista- you should note it)

avast runs fine on my 512MB RAM laptop…..

btw u forgot to add pidgin to Instant Messaging list

Nice…

This is a great list. Thank you for compiling it. I will bookmark this and check out the rest of your blog.
And regarding Avast, I find it works great and causes the least amount of problems.

Excellent web site I will be visiting often.

Interesting…

Audio Players: Billy

interesting

VLC can struggle to play high def content on older systems (single core or DDR)

Codec packs like CCCP can make this worse.

I use MPC and ffdshow for mpeg-4

I use MPC and CoreAVC (not free, but look for torrents) for x264 (inc high def)

Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative can be downloaded without CCCP

I still have VLC installed because it is undoubtedly useful from time to time.

Very well! Are you dudes agree with me? When I read it I was like: oh man!Sounds great! This is just what I was searching for! All is true, and checked, I’m sure.

I agree with Anon from before on a few bit’s of software:

DVD Decrypter : Rip (and customise with DVDFab) DVD videos. (Now DVDFab, not free, check torrents.)
DeepBurner : Burning media. Also allows CD images to burnt to DVD (useful for some software when you only have DVDs.)
K-meleon : Very lite browser, uses the Firefox engine.

and some less mainstream stuff:
Luigi Auriemma’s DAA2ISO and UIF2ISO : Excellent alternatives to the irritating MagicISO and PowerISO.
bin2iso : same, but for *.bin files.
docXConverter : converts docx to rtf and xlsx to csv. limited trial, but if you delete everything but the exe the counter is reset.
ffdshow : newer betas of ffdshow appear to handle virtually everything codec wise.
Moitah’s FLV Extract : Easily rip the MP3s from those downloaded Youtube videos.

And some Firefox plugins:
GBookmarks and Gmail manager : For those who only use Google Toolbar for Gmail and Bookmarks.
DownloadThemAll! : Useful embedded alternative to DAP. Can mass download linked images and videos (cough.)
Flashkiller : Kills irritating embedded flash selectively.
IE Tab : View the odd non-Firefox compatible page within Firefox.
(and some ones that barely count as lite but I find useful)
Context search : Search using any of your engines from the context menu.
DownloadHelper + Firebug : Steal any embedded media, then download it quick with DTA. Works well in conjunction with OVGuide.
PicLens : Good for Facebook addicts.
ThumbStrips : A visual version of your history.