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Hopefully all the free software that you will ever need will be found here.
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Anti-virus Software  Avast! Free Antivirus Expect great all-around protection against viruses and trojans. Download
Defragmenters  Auslogics Disk Defrag Simple, reliable and quite fast. A must-have free PC tool. Considered no.1 by many. Download  Defraggler Another excellent defrag tool. Portable. From the same guys behind hugely popular CCleaner. Download  IObit Smart Defrag Extremely easy to use. Works continuously in the background. Download Malware/Spyware Removal  Spybot S&D Detects and removes spyware. Compliments anti-virus apps. Download  Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application. Download  IObit Security 360 Free Advanced malware & spyware removal utility. Download System Maintenance  Glary Utilities Includes over 15 useful tools. Been recommended by MakeUseOf several times! Download  CCleaner Scores high points all around. The most popular choice at the moment. Not as many features as in others. Download  IObit Toolbox The amount of system maintenance tools included in this free app is truly staggering. Download Productivity  Fences Provides rectangular containers for your desktop to visually organize your icons. Handy! Download  Rainlender Very easy to use and lightweight calendar for your Windows desktop. Download  Evernote Save your ideas on the go and instantly take notes. Access notes from anywhere. Highly recommended! Download  VirtuaWin Gives you multiple virtual desktops to organize your workflow. Highly customisable. Download  Launchy A powerful keystroke based program launcher. Replaces the Start button. Download Documents  OpenOffice A popular free alternative to Microsoft Office. Download  Dropbox Must-have for everyone. Sync folder with docs to web or other PCs / Macs. Share documents. Download  Notepad++ Popular open source text editor. Favoured by many, including programmers. Download  FoxIt Reader Really light alternative to Adobe Reader. Open PDF files. Download  doPDF Easily convert documents and pictures to PDF from any Windows program with two clicks. Download Video Tools
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Firewall Applications
 PC Tools Firewall Plus 6 Powerful firewall capable of providing excellent protection. Download  Comodo Firewall (standalone) Long been considered one of the best free firewall tools available. Download  ZoneAlarm Free Firewall Provides the best overall firewall protection for advanced users. Download  Online Armor Free All of the normal features of a firewall and more. Download  Ashampoo FireWall Free Very easy to use and navigate. For intermediate users. Download File Recovery  Recuva Very effective in restoring deleted files. Extremely popular. Download  FreeUndelete No frills, just focused on the zen of file recovery. Download  ADRC Data Recovery Software The Renaissance Man of free data recovery. Not as popular as Recuva but still has its own fans. Download Backup Tools  Mozy Incredibly smart, highly secure, set-it-and-forget-it backup solution. Backups data to web. Download  FBackup Backup files and documents, personal settings and plugins. Download  Todo Backup Able to backup the entire operating system, program settings, browser data, emails and other data. Download  Clonezilla Live CD to completely clone your hard drive. Download  SyncBack Freeware Selective synchronisation, local and remote backup to an FTP server. Download Archive Managers  7-zip Takes care of most of your extracting/compression needs. Download  Universal Extractor With over 50 supported file formats, Universal Extractor is superb. Download  IZArc One archive utility to rule them all. Supports almost all formats. Download CD/DVD Tools  ImgBurn CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application. Also, lets you create image files from CDs and DVDs. Download  CDBurnerXP The most popular free alternative to Nero Burning ROM. Burn CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. Download  bitRipper Back-up your DVDs as AVI files or Mpeg to your hard drive. Excellent backup tool for DVDs. Download  CDex Open-source digital audio CD extractor. Saves CD tracks as MP3′s. Download  DuBaron CD2ISO A great tool to extract ISO images from CDs or DVDs. Very simple and easy to use. Download  Virtual CloneDrive Mount a virtual drive to open and playback ISO image files (CD/DVD images). Download  DVDShrink The easiest and one of the better free DVD ripping and backup tools. Download Audio  Radiosure One of the best radio applications on the net. Download  Fobar2000 Highly customisable advanced audio player for Windows. Download  Songbird A popular music player based on Mozilla’s code. Includes plugins. Download  Audacity Very popular open source software for recording and editing sounds. Download  iTunes Music player and video library organiser. Hosts the iTunes Store. Download  MediaMonkey Full-featured music player and music collection organiser. Download  Winamp Well-know, lightweight, small-footprint media player. Download  CopyTrans Manager Alternative iPod manager app. Sync and transfer music & files to iPod, iPhone, iPad. Download Photos/Images  Paint.NET Strong candidate as a potential substitute for Photoshop for beginner/intermediate users. Download  FastStone Image ViewerOne of the best image viewer, converter & editor bundles. Download  IrfanView The Swiss Army knife of image viewers/editors. Extremely popular. Download  Google Picasa Powerful photo manager software from Google. Includes 1-click photo retouching features. Easy online photo sharing. Download  GIMP Very capable graphic editor with Photoshop-like features. Often labeled as free Photoshop alternative. Download  PhotoScape Another good free photo editing application. Download |
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Others Other Operating Systems - All Free. Linux Mint. Needs a mid to high range power PC but well worth it and a joy to use. Install from CD/DVD or USB is easy too. Click here. Ubuntu Don't be mistaken, this one Linux system is setting the standards for others to meet. Ahead of others, dead easy to install too, will go on nearly any machine also. Click here. PCLinuxOS Similar to the two previous, also distributed as a LiveCD, and can also be installed to your computer. The LiveCD mode lets you try PCLinuxOS without making any changes to your computer. If you like it, you can install the operating system to your hard drive Click here. SimplyMepis If you think Ubuntu is the easiest desktop distro around, you've obviously not used this one. It has loads of custom tools and is stuffed with proprietary drivers, codecs and software to give you the smoothest Linux desktop experience possible. Click here. Crunchbanglinux For older machines in particular that are not as powerful, this system works just as well on fast machines. Designed with straining resources as little as possible, it does the job of getting any machine up and running. Click here. Puppy Linux Also like the previous, designed for light machines, its still works as an operating system and live CD, brilliantly. Not just featherweight in size, it's also packed with custom tools for tweaking almost anything about it you can think of. Click here. Additional tool for Linux - Universal USB Installer: Wish to try Linux by USB or have it installable by USB? Download this tool, easy to use as 1-2-3 and away you go. Click here. Add-ons Extra Buttons Tool that adds further abilites to active windows and applications including "Stay on top" and "Minimise to tray". Download Desktop Ticker Keep up to date with news feeds using this great RSS adjustable ticker. Download Two Of A Kind Two free full good video converters to use. Download - Download FreeOCR Free Optical character recognition tool that extracts text from digital photos, screenshots and scans. Whata more do you need in this line! Download Anchor Free Privacy tool and application used sometimes in order to view other countries streaming video and media. Click here ExpatShield As with Anchor Free, ExpatShield does similar but assigns a UK IP address for watching British based media items. Click here Mgeni A proxy web browser which allows you to pick your wished IP address and so access international media. You need to install Tor application too but this tool is found at same location. Click here. Broadband Download Monitor Tool that tracks your downloads and alerts you as you near a limit you set. Very useful, easy to use and read. Click here Networx Bandwidth Usage Tool Handy tool for keeping an eye on your monthly downloads. Gives great detailed stats and equally easy to install. Click here TbbMeter Alternative broadband monitor tool for watching your amound of downloads. As with previous two alternatives, easy to install. Click here Winnie The Pooh Free PDF and Audio items. Download More coming. |
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