Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for use free of charge, for an unlimited time, as opposed to shareware where the user is required to pay (e.g. after some trial period or for additional fuctionality). Authors of freeware often want to "give something to the community", but also want credit for their software and to retain control of its future development. Sometimes when programmers decide to stop developing a freeware product, they will give the source code to another programmer or release the product's source code to the public as free software.courtesy: wikipedia
3D Graphics:3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htmAnim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.htmlMaya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services..._maya_ple.shtmlNow3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htmOpenFX - http://www.openfx.orgPOV-Ray - http://www.povray.org/SOFTIMAGEXSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/Terragen - http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/Anti-Virus:a-squared - http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.htmlAVG - http://free.grisoft.com/BitDefender - http://www.bitdefender.comClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/Anti Spyware:Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.htmlCWShredder - http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.htmlHijackthis - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.htmlMicrosoft AntiSpyware - http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspxSpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htmlSpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.htmlWinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/Audio CreationGungirl Sequencer - http://ggseq.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePageHammerHead - http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/introduction.shtmlJesusonic - http://www.jesusonic.com/soft.phpKRISTAL Audio Engine - http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.phporDrumbox - http://ordrumbox.sourceforge.net/Tu2 - http://www.brambos.com/news.htmlAudio Players:1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~peschBilly - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billyCoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/DeejaySystem MK1 - http://www.deejaysystem.com/prod_mk1.aspDeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/Mixere - http://mixere.sourceforge.net/Mixxx - http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/monoRAVEik - http://www.mono211.com/monoraveik/mr1200.htmlMoreAmp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/moreamp/Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/XMPlay - http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.htmlZinf - http://www.zinf.org/Audio Tools:Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/AudioShell - http://www.softpointer.com/AudioShell.htmBeSweet - http://dspguru.doom9.net/CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htmEAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/Mp3 Tag Tools - http://massid3lib.sourceforge.net/mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htmTagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htmThe GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/TigoTago - http://www.tigotago.com/CD/DVD Burning:Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/Burrrn - http://www.burrrn.net/CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdrImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/Compression / Decompression:7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.htmlExtractNow - http://www.extractnow.com/FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/Info-Zip - http://www.info-zip.org/IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htmZipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/Defrag Software:DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.aspDesktop Enhancements:AveDesk - http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.htmlDesktop Sidebar - http://www.desktopsidebar.com/Filehand - http://www.filehand.com/Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtmlKapsules - http://kapsules.shellscape.org/Konfabulator - http://www.konfabulator.com/infoLost Goggles - http://www.lostgoggles.com/MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/Panorama - http://www.ivory.org/panorama.htmlRainlendar - http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/index.php?pn=proj...ject=rainlendarRunFast - http://www.idiogensoftware.com/runfast/index.htmSamurize - http://www.samurize.com/SlickRun - http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/TaskSwitchXP Pro - http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htmTrip - http://trip.glenmurphy.com/Weather Watcher - http://www.singerscreations.com/WinRoll - http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/Download managers:Free Download Manager - http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.htmlLeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/Retriever - http://www.halogenware.com/software/retriever.htmlStar Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.phpSun Download Manager - http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/index.xmlwackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/WellGet - http://www.wellget.com/Encryption and data security:Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htmEraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.phpFile Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htmKeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.htmlPicoCrypt - http://picofactory.com/picocrypt.htmlTrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htmFile Managers:2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.comfreeCommander - http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htmGyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/File repair and recovery:PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htmFirewalls:Jetico Personal Firewall - http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/jpfirewall.htmKerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.htmlNetVida Safetynet - http://www.netveda.com/consumer/safetynet.htmOutpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.htmlSoftPerfect Personal Firewall - http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/Sygate - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htmWyvern Firewall 2004 - http://www.wyvernworks.com/firewall.htmlZonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jspFTP Clients:CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezillamiFiles - http://www.simdata.com.au/mifiles.htmlSmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/FTP Servers:Cerberus - http://www.cerberusftp.com/FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/Golden FTP Server - http://www.goldenftpserver.comGuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.htmlSlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpdTYPSoft FTP Server - http://en.typsoft.com/WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/HTML Editors:1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtmlAceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.htmlAracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/FoxEditor - http://foxeditor.sourceforge.net/HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/NVU - http://www.nvu.com/index.htmlSelida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/WYSIWYG Web Builder - http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html...eb_builder.htmlImage viewers:Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exeFastStone Image Viewer - http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htmIrfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/Picasa - http://www.picasa.com/content/download.phpShell Extension - http://www.firmtools.com/products/shellextension/SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/XNView - http://www.xnview.com/Instant Messengers:AMSN - http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.phpGaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/Google Talk - http://www.google.com/talk/IM2: http://www.im2.comMercury Messenger - http://www.mercury.to/Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/Pandion - http://www.pandion.be/PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/qip - http://www.qip.ru/Skype - http://www.skype.com/SIM - http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/TerraIM - http://terraim.sourceforge.net/Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloadsInternet Explorer Front-Ends:AM Browser - http://www.ambrowser.com/AOL Browser - http://beta.aol.com/projects/aolbrowser/Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/Maxthon - http://www.maxthon.com/SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htmIRC Clients:BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.phpHydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/NodeIRC - http://node.sourceforge.net/TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/Mail programs:Foxmail - http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/english/i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/PopTray - http://www.poptray.org/Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/Anti-spam programs:K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.htmlMailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/SpamPal - http://www.spampal.org/Network Tools:CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/Gencontrol - http://www.gensortium.com/products/gencontrol.htmlhamachi - http://www.hamachi.cc/NetMeter - http://readerror.gmxhome.de/NetProfiles - http://netprofiles.danielmilner.com/NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/Ntop - http://www.ntop.orgPingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.comPuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puttyRAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/Ultr@VNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/Office Suite:602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.htmlAbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/OpenOffice.org - http://www.openoffice.org/qjot - http://www.xtort.net/xtort/qjot.phpTreeDBNotes - http://www.softviewer.com/treedbnotes/free_index.htmPartition Managers:Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/SwissKnife - http://www.compuapps.com/Download/swissknife/swissknife.htmTestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.htmlPDF Utilities:CutePDF - http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.aspFoxit PDF Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.phpFree PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htmGhostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/PrimoPDF - http://www.primopdf.com/Photo manipulation and image design:ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.htmlArtweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_versionColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iicoInkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.htmlPhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaintWax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/Programming:ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerlBlueJ - http://www.bluej.org/download/download.htmlCrimson Editor - http://www.crimsoneditor.com/Code::Blocks - http://www.codeblocks.org/Context - http://www.context.cx/Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/Digital Mars C++ - http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.htmlEclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/ExamDiff - http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiffFreepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/JCreator LE - http://www.jcreator.com/download.htmjEdit - http://www.jedit.org/Metapad - http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htmNotepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/Open Watcom - http://www.openwatcom.org/Pelles C - http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htmPHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/Programmer's Notepad - http://www.pnotepad.org/PSPad - http://www.pspad.com/Python - http://www.python.org/Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.htmlSharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/WebMatrix - http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/WinMerge - http://winmerge.org/Pop-up Blockers:Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.htmlPrivoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/RSS Readers:Ablion - http://www.fileheaven.com/Abilon/download/14059.htmBlogExpress - http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.htmlFeedreader - http://www.feedreader.com/FireANT - http://www.antisnottv.net/GreatNews - http://www.curiostudio.com/RssBandit - http://www.rssbandit.org/RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/RssReader - http://www.rssreader.com/RSS Xpress - http://rssxpress.free.fr/en/?page=&idNews=SharpReader - http://www.sharpreader.net/System Information and monitoring:AIDA32 - http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.htmlATITool - http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ATI Tray Tools - http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.phpEverest - http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...ang=en&pageid=1Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/K1 - http://clanpkm.free.fr/K1/?lng=enMotherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311SpeedFan - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.phpSysmetrix - http://www.xymantix.comWCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.htmlWhatsRunning - http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspxVideo codecs:DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.phpFFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshowXviD - http://www.xvid.org/Video players :AC3Filter - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ac3filterBsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/Crystal Player - http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloadsCygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/Video tools:DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.netGSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.htmlVCDEasy - http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/Au...eo/VCDEasy.htmlVirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.htmlWeb browsers:Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.comK-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jspOpera - http://www.opera.comWeb servers:Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/Apache2Triad - http://apache2triad.net/HTTP File Server - http://www.rejetto.com/sw/Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/SimpleServer:WWW - http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htmSmart Cache - http://scache.sourceforge.net/TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.htmlXitami - http://www.xitami.com/Webcam Software:booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/Dorgem - http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/grabMotion - http://www.grabmotion.com/Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/Checksum Utilities:fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/HashCalc - http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/ICEECC - http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.htmlmd5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.htmlmd5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/MooSFV - http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/QuickPar - http://www.quickpar.org.uk/QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/General Utilities And Other Applications:AdShield - http://www.lossepladsen.dk/all4you/TheLostWorld/AdShield.phpAnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/AutoIt - http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/BISS - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.phpCelestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestiaCCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.comClipX - http://bluemars.org/clipx/Contact - http://www.isaacboy.com/contact.htmCygwin - http://www.cygwin.comDir2HTML - http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/dir2html/Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/EasyCleaner - http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htmEditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.htmlEssentialPIM - http://www.essentialpim.com/Excessive-software - http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/File Transfer Expert - http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/download...re_fte_105.htmlFolder Size Extension - http://foldersize.sourceforge.net/Hamsin Clipboard - http://www.iisr-cnc.com/hamsin/HTTrack - http://www.httrack.com/Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.phpKeyNote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.htmlLanguage Identifier - http://www.languageidentifier.com/Link Checker - http://www.relsoftware.com/rlc/Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.comMoney Manager - http://www.thezeal.com/software/manager/default.aspMulti Install - http://multiinstall.sourceforge.net/MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.htmlNetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.netNullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsisOpen Subfolder - http://www.bubblepop.com/opensubfolder/index.htmlPeerguardian - http://www.methlabs.org/Process Explorer (aka ProcessXP) - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtmlpng2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2icoRegSeeker - http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htmRestoration - http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.htmlStartup Control Panel - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtmlStickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/StrokeIt - http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/Syncback - http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.htmlSysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/Toolbox - http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/TreeSize - http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtmlTuneXP - http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/showdoc.php?doc=txp_aboutTurbo Pad - http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/Unlocker - http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/URLSnooper - http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mous...oper/index.htmlVim - http://vim.sourceforge.netWeathAlert - http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/msowul/?page=weathermainWordWeb - http://wordweb.info/free/XP AntiSpy - http://www.xpantispy.org/YourDir - http://www.primeoption.com.au/FreewareYourDir.htm
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