Andreas Software
Free programs for Windows

All programs on this website are licensed as freeware without restrictions, which means that they are free to download and use without any functional or time limitations, both for private and commercial use. The programs may be distributed/shared freely.

All programs on this website are fully portable, with the exceptions of AS-CRC32, AS-CRC64, AS-File Crypt and AS-File Transfer. It's the integration features in the former three programs that makes them only partly portable, but these has to be activated manually. The program AS-File Transfer is only partly portable since the server creates a folder in the user's Documents folder at the first start of the program.

My programs are basically just to unpack (e.g. with the program 7-Zip) to any folder and run. If you want shortcuts in the Start menu or on the desktop, you have to create them manually. Since my programs are portable, which means that they are storing settings in the same folder as the program file, you should not put any of my programs under the usual "Program Files" folder because then they are not able to write to the folder. You can e.g. go to the root of your system disk and create the folder "Andreas Software" and unpack all 7Z files into this folder. When you unpack the 7Z files into the same folder, it doesn't matter what you choose when asked if you want to overwrite files because those files are duplicates.

Some programs are suitable to create a shortcut to in Startup which makes them start automatically when you login to Windows. To create a shortcut to a program in Startup you open the box Run (e.g. by pressing [WIN+R] on the keyboard) and type "shell:Startup" (for you only) or "shell:Common Startup" (for all users) and press OK. In the folder which opens you can now create a shortcut to the program (the EXE file) in the usual way. (This won't work for programs that requires administrative rights. In these cases you can use the "Task Scheduler" in Windows.)

To add a parameter to a program you can open the box Run (e.g. by pressing [WIN+R] on the keyboard) and choose the program file and then add a space after the path to the program file and then add the parameter. Additional parameters are added in the same way (a space and the parameter). If a parameter contains spaces it has to begin and end with a double quotation mark. If you want to simplify, you can use double quotation marks in either case, that will also work (at least with my programs). You can also create shortcuts with preset parameters, then create the shortcut to the program file as usual, then open Properties for the shortcut and add the parameter in the same way in the field Target.

Yes. The programs automatically tries to detect which language to be used. If you want to choose which language to be used you can use the parameters "/English" and "/Swedish".

Download the program again, to get the latest revision of the program. I do not change version numbers for minor changes in the programs, then I change the revision date instead.

All programs have the same revision date. This is because I always rebuild all programs when I have made changes, it can be changes in the code base that affect several or all programs, it can also be other changes that affect one or more programs. That the revision date has changed does not necessarily mean that a specific program has changed, but since it only takes a few minutes for my computer to rebuild all programs and upload them to the server, I use this principle. If I have made changes worth mentioning, I usually write about these on the page News.

Recursive is an option that indicates whether the program should search also in subfolders to the selected folder.

Filter is a criterion for inclusion of files. Enter "*.TXT" to include all TXT files. Do you want to include all files, enter "*". (Without double quotation marks.)

Case sensitive is an option that indicates whether the program should make any difference in uppercase and lowercase letters.

This applies to the Auto mode in AS-Auto Replace. If a file has an encoding mode (which the program can identify) that is not supported, the program will skip this file. This is done to avoid damage to the file's contents.

Some of the programs and the DLL files are storing settings in this file, with the file extension INI, PREFS or BIN. This file can be deleted if you want to reset the settings.

The programs on the page Programs and in Bonus: Console Crypto Suite uses INI.

The programs in Extra Programs 1 and Bonus Programs 1 uses PREFS.

The programs in Extra Programs 2 and Bonus Programs 2 uses BIN.

The DLL files that comes with the programs on the page Programs and in Bonus: Console Crypto Suite uses PREFS.