Wednesday, December 8, 2010

The Best Of Windows Software




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.
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AntiVir Free Version

Lightweight and solid. Good ratings. Worth looking into.
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AVG Antivirus Free Edition

Not as good as Avast or Avira but with considerably less bloat. The most popular free antivirus.
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Microsoft Security Essentials

Simple, lightweight and competent protection suite.
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Comodo Internet Security

Free security suite, includes both a firewall and anti-virus protection.
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Malware/ Spyware Removal

Spybot S&D

Detects and removes spyware. Compliments anti-virus apps.
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Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

Easy-to-use, simple, and effective anti-malware application.
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IObit Security 360 Free

Advanced malware & spyware removal utility.
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Firewall Applications

PC Tools Firewall Plus 6

Powerful firewall capable of providing excellent protection.
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Comodo Firewall (standalone)

Long been considered one of the best free firewall tools available.
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ZoneAlarm Free Firewall

Provides the best overall firewall protection for advanced users.
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Online Armor Free

All of the normal features of a firewall and more.
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Ashampoo FireWall Free

Very easy to use and navigate. For intermediate users.
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Defragmenters

Auslogics Disk Defrag

Simple, reliable and quite fast. A must-have free PC tool. Considered no.1 by many.
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Defraggler

Another excellent defrag tool. Portable. From the same guys behind hugely popular CCleaner.
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IObit Smart Defrag

Extremely easy to use. Works continuously in the background.
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File Recovery

Recuva

Very effective in restoring deleted files. Extremely popular.
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FreeUndelete

No frills, just focused on the zen of file recovery.
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ADRC Data Recovery Software

The Renaissance Man of free data recovery. Not as popular as Recuva but still has its own fans.
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Uninstallers

Revo Uninstaller Free

Fast and very effective at uninstalling just about anything. Popular choice for the purpose.
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IObit Uninstaller

New kid on the block. Gaining popularity. Boasts a bunch of features not found on other uninstallers.
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Absolute Uninstaller

Less popular than the other two but probably the simplest to use one.
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BackUp

Mozy

Incredibly smart, highly secure, set-it-and-forget-it backup solution. Backups data to web.
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FBackup

Backup files and documents, personal settings and plugins.
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Todo Backup

Able to backup the entire operating system, program settings, browser data, emails and other data.
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Clonezilla

Live CD to completely clone your hard drive.
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SyncBack Freeware

Selective synchronisation, local and remote backup to an FTP server.
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System Maintenance

Glary Utilities

Includes over 15 useful tools. Been recommended by MakeUseOf several times!
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CCleaner

Scores high points all around. The most popular choice at the moment. Not as many features as in others.
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IObit Toolbox

The amount of system maintenance tools included in this free app is truly staggering.
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Browesers

Google Chrome

The fastest, minimal design browser now with extension support.
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Firefox

More than 6,000 add-ons for every possible feature. The most customisable browser to date.
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Safari

Designed to emphasize browsing. Also features extensions.
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Opera

The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today.
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Email Client

Thunderbird

Increasingly popular. One of the best email clients for Windows.
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Postbox Express

A simple, yet powerful, new email application for Windows.
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Google Notifier

Alerts you when you have new Gmail messages.
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Communication

Skype

The most popular cross-platform VoIP application. Must-have for everyone online.
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Pidgin

Easy-to-use, cross-platform, multi-protocol chat client. Supports all major chat programs.
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Digsby

An alternative multi-protocol instant messaging app. Cross-platform. Extremely popular.
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Photos/Images

Paint.NET

Strong candidate as a potential substitute for Photoshop for beginner/intermediate users.
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FastStone Image Viewer

One of the best image viewer, converter & editor bundles.
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IrfanView

The Swiss Army knife of image viewers/editors. Extremely popular.
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Google Picasa

Powerful photo manager software from Google. Includes 1-click photo retouching features. Easy online photo sharing.
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GIMP

Very capable graphic editor with Photoshop-like features. Often labeled as free Photoshop alternative.
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PhotoScape

Another good free photo editing application.
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Audio

foobar2000

Highly customisable advanced audio player for Windows.
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Songbird

A popular music player based on Mozilla’s code. Includes plugins.
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Audacity

Very popular open source software for recording and editing sounds.
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iTunes

Music player and video library organiser. Hosts the iTunes Store.
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MediaMonkey

Full-featured music player and music collection organiser.
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Winamp

Well-know, lightweight, small-footprint media player.
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CopyTrans Manager

Alternative iPod manager app. Sync and transfer music & files to iPod, iPhone, iPad.
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Video Tools

VLC Media Player

Extremely popular cross-platform app that plays almost any video file.
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Handbrake

Open source, cross-platform, multithreaded video transcoder and converter.
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VirtualDub

Open-source and portable video editor.
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Media Player Classic

Replica of WM Player. Includes only the most basic controls. Plays many formats.
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Freemake

Free video converter & DVD burner that’s easy to use.
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Documents

OpenOffice

A popular free alternative to Microsoft Office.
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Dropbox

Must-have for everyone. Sync folder with docs to web or other PCs / Macs. Share documents.
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Notepad++

Popular open source text editor. Favoured by many, including programmers.
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FoxIt Reader

Really light alternative to Adobe Reader. Open PDF files.
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doPDF

Easily convert documents and pictures to PDF from any Windows program with two clicks.
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Productivity

Fences

Provides rectangular containers for your desktop to visually organize your icons. Handy!
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Rainlender

Very easy to use and lightweight calendar for your Windows desktop.
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Evernote

Save your ideas on the go and instantly take notes. Access notes from anywhere. Highly recommended!
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VirtuaWin

Gives you multiple virtual desktops to organize your workflow. Highly customisable.
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Launchy

A powerful keystroke based program launcher. Replaces the Start button.
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Archive Managers

7-zip

Takes care of most of your extracting/compression needs.
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Universal Extractor

With over 50 supported file formats, Universal Extractor is superb.
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IZArc

One archive utility to rule them all. Supports almost all formats.
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CD/DVD tools

ImgBurn

CD/DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray burning application. Also, lets you create image files from CDs and DVDs.
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CDBurnerXP

The most popular free alternative to Nero Burning ROM. Burn CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.
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bitRipper

Back-up your DVDs as AVI files or Mpeg to your hard drive. Excellent backup tool for DVDs.
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CDex

Open-source digital audio CD extractor. Saves CD tracks as MP3’s.
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DuBaron CD2ISO

A great tool to extract ISO images from CDs or DVDs. Very simple and easy to use.
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Virtual CloneDrive

Mount a virtual drive to open and playback ISO image files (CD/DVD images).
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DVDShrink

The easiest and one of the better free DVD ripping and backup tools.
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Downloads

uTorrent

Speedy, efficient, and free. The most popular BitTorrent client.
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Deluge

An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client.
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YouTube Downloader HD

Downloads YouTube videos with just a few clicks of the mouse button.
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Others

LastPass

Secure plugin to store and synchronise passwords across browsers.
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Unlocker

Kills or unlocks unresponsive programs or system processes.
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Soluto

Speed up Windows boot time by removing unnecessary apps from startup. Very effective.
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