The Best Of: Windows Software
On this page you will find the best 90 free Windows programs for all your needs. We’ve taken the effort to categorize the apps and picked only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you.
Anti- Virus Softwares
avast! Free Antivirus Expect great all-around protection against viruses and trojans. Download | AntiVir Free Version Lightweight and solid. Good ratings. Worth looking into. Download | AVG Antivirus Free Edition Not as good as Avast or Avira but with considerably less bloat. The most popular free antivirus. Download |
Microsoft Security Essentials Simple, lightweight and competent protection suite. Download | Comodo Internet Security Free security suite, includes both a firewall and anti-virus protection. 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Uninstallers
Revo Uninstaller Free Fast and very effective at uninstalling just about anything. Popular choice for the purpose. Download | IObit Uninstaller New kid on the block. Gaining popularity. Boasts a bunch of features not found on other uninstallers. Download | Absolute Uninstaller Less popular than the other two but probably the simplest to use one. Download |
BackUp
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 |
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 |
Browesers
Google Chrome The fastest, minimal design browser now with extension support. Download | Firefox More than 6,000 add-ons for every possible feature. The most customisable browser to date. Download | Safari Designed to emphasize browsing. Also features extensions. Download |
Opera The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. Download |
Email Client
Thunderbird Increasingly popular. One of the best email clients for Windows. Download | Postbox Express A simple, yet powerful, new email application for Windows. Download | Google Notifier Alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. Download |
Communication
Skype The most popular cross-platform VoIP application. Must-have for everyone online. Download | Pidgin Easy-to-use, cross-platform, multi-protocol chat client. Supports all major chat programs. Download | Digsby An alternative multi-protocol instant messaging app. Cross-platform. Extremely popular. Download |
Photos/Images
Paint.NET Strong candidate as a potential substitute for Photoshop for beginner/intermediate users. Download | FastStone Image Viewer One 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 |
Audio
foobar2000 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 |
Video Tools
VLC Media Player Extremely popular cross-platform app that plays almost any video file. Download | Handbrake Open source, cross-platform, multithreaded video transcoder and converter. Download | VirtualDub Open-source and portable video editor. Download |
Media Player Classic Replica of WM Player. Includes only the most basic controls. Plays many formats. Download | Freemake Free video converter & DVD burner that’s easy to use. 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 |
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 |
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 |
Downloads
uTorrent Speedy, efficient, and free. The most popular BitTorrent client. Download | Deluge An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. Download | YouTube Downloader HD Downloads YouTube videos with just a few clicks of the mouse button. Download |
Others
LastPass Secure plugin to store and synchronise passwords across browsers. Download | Unlocker Kills or unlocks unresponsive programs or system processes. Download | Soluto Speed up Windows boot time by removing unnecessary apps from startup. Very effective. Download |
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