Best Desktop Tools and Office

• OpenOffice.org free productivity suite
• OpenOffice.org Premium enhanced version of original OpenOffice.org.
• Groove Virtual Office Online file-sharing and collaboration tool
• AbiWord Free Word processing
• PrestoNotes Desktop Notes
• Note-It -Notes
• TurboNotes – Sticky notes
• StyckyPad – Sticky notes
• Stickies – Sticky notes
• EverNote -Notes
• DBDesigner Database
• CutePDF Writer PDF Software
• GanttProject 2.0 project management
• AceMoney Lite Financial Management
• Grisbi 0.5.7 personal finance manager
• NeoMem Personal Information Manager
• Programmers Notepad 2.0.6.1 text editor for coders
• Notepad++ Notepad Replacement
• Notepad2 1.0.12 text editor
• o3find 0.82 Full Text Search for OpenOffice.org documents.
• ConvertAll 0.3.1 Unit Conversion program
• Wikidpad 1.1.6 Wiki-like notebook
• TreeLine 0.14.1 Free Word processing
• Tinyspell Spelling Tools
• Wordweb Thesaurus
• TheSage Thesaurus
• ReplaceEm Text Tools
• PagePlus SE – Free Desktop Publishing Software
• Hyperwords
• Wikipedia -the best site around
• Google Desktop
• Yahoo! Desktop Search
• Copernic Desktop Search 1.63
• WriteBoard Create, edit, and share documents in your browser

Desktop Enhancement

• iColorFolder 1.4.2 Change the color of your folders
• BB4Win Shell replacement
• A43 File Management Utility Replace explorer
• ObjectDock Application launch
• RocketDock – Application launcher
• Brico Packs Desktop enhancement
• CursorXp Freeware
• WindowsBlinds Free version
• BootSkin Freeware
• ThemeManager Freeware version
• LogonXp

Best Browsers – Best Email clients – Best FTP – Proxy-P2P- Best News readers

• Firefox
• Avant
• Maxthon
• Opera
• Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5
• Pegasus Mail
• FileZilla 2.2.18 ftp
• SmartFTP Ftp
• FTPDrive
• FileZilla Ftp
• Net Tools – Network monitoring software
• FTP Commander
• Hmailserver 4.1.1-Build-140
• HTTrack Website Copier 3.40 -offline browser utility
• WinWSD WebSite Downloader
• FlashGot -downloader
• Free Download Manager
• FileHippo.com Update Checker -Check for software updates
• Windows Updates Downloader

Proxy tools

• Privoxy -web proxy + Tor – anonymous Internet communication system

File Sharing

• LimeWire p2p
• Bittorrent p2p
• FolderShare (Windows) sharing
• FolderShare (Mac)

RSS Readers Freeware

• Feedreader
• GreatNews Rss Reader
• YeahReader – RSS Reader
• RSSOwl – rss reader
• Crsspy – RSS Reader

Best Antivirus – Best Firewall – Best Adware/Spyware

Best Antivirus Freeware

• AVG free (antivirus)
• Avast Home Edition (antivirus)
• Bitdefender Free Edition(antivirus)
• ClamWin Free AntiVirus
• Comodo AntiVirus
• AntiVir PersonalEdition

Best Free Firewalls

• ZoneAlarm free(firewall)
• Comodo Personal Firewall
• Ashampoo Firewall free
• Sunbelt Kerio (firewall)(after 30 days becomes freeware)
• Outpost Firewall(firewall)
• SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
• Jetico Firewall
• GRC Shields Up
• All-in-One Secretmaker

Best Free Antispyware

• Comodo AntiSpam
• AVG Anti-Spyware
• Lavasoft Ad-aware
• Spybot
• Windows defender
• SpywareBlaster
• Trend Micro HouseCall
• HijackThis

Best Online Antivirus scanners

• BitDefender Free Online Virus Scan (requires ActiveX)
• Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Web Scanner
• Freedom Online Virus Check
• F-Secure Online Virus Scanner
• Kaspersky Online Scanner (scanner requires ActiveX)
• McAfee FreeScan
• Panda ActiveScan
• RAV Antivirus (scans a file)
• Symantec security and virus checks (scanner requires ActiveX)
• Trend Micro HouseCall (requires use of a setup program for Netscape browsers)
• Virus Total (scans a file)
• Pc Pitstop

Best web based mail

• Gmail
• Yahoo Mail
• Live Mail
• Zoho Mail
• GMX Mail
• MSN Hotmail
• AIM Mail
• Inbox Mail
• MyWay Mail
• Fastmail
• 30gigs
• HushMail
• Walla Mail
• Goowy Mail

Best Burning Software

• CDBurnerXP Pro
• DVD Flick -Burn videos to dvd
• DVD Decrypter
• Deep Burner
• BurnAtOnce
• ImgBurn
• DVD Shrink
• LC ISO Creator
• Daemon Tools CD disk image virtual drive

Best Graphics

• GIMP
• Paint.NET
• Blender
• Envisioneer Express 3.0 3D Home Design
• Inkscape 0.43
• PhotoFiltre
• PhotoPlus 6
• DrawPlus 4 – Free Graphic Design and Vector Drawing Software
• 3DPlus 2 – Free 3D Animation and modeling Software
• IrfanView
• PhotoVista Panorama
• Tux Typing 2 1.5.3
• FSCaptureSetup52.exe – image capture (last freeware version)
• Fast Stone Photo Resizer -Image resizer
• Image ReSizer -Image resizer
• ImgConverter -Image conversion

Best Html Editors – Best CSS Editors – Best PHP

• Nvu 1.0 -HTML, CSS, PHP editor
• HTML-Kit
• JustHTML – Html editor
• Cascade DTP
• Dev-PHP IDE
• DHE Editor
• WebPlus 6 – Free Web Site Design & Publishing Software
• Alleycode
• TopStyle Lite 3.10
• PhpDesigner 2006

Best Blog desktop publishers

• Qumana
• Windows Live Writer
• Zoundry Blog Writer
• BlogDesk

Best Sound – Best Video Players – Best Music Organizers

Best sound editing and recording freeware

• Audacity 1.2.4b Free sound editor *****
• Mega Sound Recorder – Sound recording
• EXPStudio Audio Editor Free – Audio editor
• Gungirl Sequencer 0.3.1 Sequencer
• Hydrogen 0.9.4-svn Advanced Drum Machine
• VirtualDub 1.6.14 VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility

Best music and video players, Media Center, Music organizers

• MusikCube 1.0RC2 Music “library” application similar to iTunes
• CoolPlayer build 215 Audio Player similar to Winamp
• Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0 Media Player Classic is an all-in-one video player
• wxMusik 0.4.2.2 An open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library
• Foobar2000 Media player
• Simple Center -Media Center
• GOM Player -Media Player
• OrangeCD Player -Media Player
• MXPlay – Media Player
• Riva FLV Player – Media flash player
• VLC -Media Player
• Democracy Player – Music and Video player
• Ashampoo Clip Finder -Find video and music clips
• DownUtube -Download Video Clips
• iTunes Player/Organizer

Others

• Yahoo! Music Jukebox
• Kristal Audio Engine
• Audiograbber Rip music from cd
• Pandora Listen music online
• Audiri Listen music online

Best Calendars – Best Organizers

• Chaos Manager Organizers
• Google Picasa Photo organizer
• Corel Snapfire Photo Organizer
• Docs Vault Home Edition -Document organizer
• Fast Stone Image Viewer ( browser,converter,editor)
• Rainlendar 0.22.1 Calendar
• Google Calendar
• Zoho Calendar
• Yahoo Calendar
• Chandler calendar
• Outlook on the Desktop -Outlook calendar on desktop
• Yahoo Widgets
• Ta-Da List
• Del.icio.us bookmarking
• SyncNotes
• FreeMind -mapping
• Furl bookmarking
• XnView organizer

Best IM and Telephony

• Trillian Basic
• Skype
• QNext
• Google Talk
• Gaim
• Miranda IM
• Yahoo! Messenger
• MSN Messenge

Best Blogging tools

• WordPress
• Blogger
• LiveJournal
• Xanga Classic
• Blogsome
• Typolis

Windows Tweaking Freeware

• PC Inspector File Recovery
• Advanced Windows Care (repair and fix windows)
• RegToy – tweak and manage xp
• TuneXP – system tuneup (all in one speedup)-Working download link
• TweakUI -tweaking
• PCTuner – Over 550 windows tweaks
• X-Setup -last free version
• Tweak N’ Tune v1.0 -Tweaker
• FreshUi -Tweaker
• 7-Zip file archiver
• Free Commander
• Izarc file archiver
• ZipGenious file archiver
• TUGZip file archiver

Encryption Freeware

• TrueCrypt 4.1 encryption
• AxCrypt 1.6.2.3 encryption
• Cryptainer LE disk encryption
• KeePass 1.04 password storage

File Manager Freeware -Startup -System Information

• Freecommander 2006-file manager
• Cacheman- memory management
• Process Explorer -system monitoring
• TaskSwitchXP
• Virtual Magnifying Glass screen magnification
• WinDirStat disk usage statistics
• Starter-startup
• Startup Control Panel -startup
• Autoruns-startup
• XP Syspad – Windows system utility
• CPU-Z- System information
• Belarc Advisor – System Information
• GMail Drive

Registry Cleaners Freeware – Registry Optimisation

• Registry Commander -reg. editor
• Erunt -reg tools
• TweakNow RegCleaner Standard
• RegClean- Registry cleaner
• Regseeker -reg cleaner
• Regcleaner reg cleaner
• NTREGOPT -registry optimization
• Auslogics Registry Defrag – Defragment registry

Disk Cleaner Freeware – Driver Backup Freeware

• Advanced Disk Cleaner disk cleaner
• nCleaner – Disk Cleaner
• CCleaner – reg cleaner, disk cleaner ,uninstaller
• WinDriversBackup – driver backup
• Daemon Tools CD disk image virtual drive
• Unknown Devices – Hardware identifier

File Delition and Recovery Freeware

• Eraser -secure deletion
• Unlocker
• Undelete recover lost files
• SoftPerfect File Recovery

Best Backup Freeware

• Comodo BackUp
• Cobian Backup
• JaBack -Backup
• SyncBack – backup
• BackUp Maker Standard Edition
• Replicator v3.3.4 backup
• Diskeeper Lite 9 & NTI Backup Now
• HDClone Freee Edition -move content from your hard drive

Best Defragmentation freeware

• PageDefrag – defragmentation tool
• Auslogics Disk Defrag Defrag
• Power Defragmenter GUI + Contig Sysinternals Defrag
• Iobit SmartDefrag Disk Defragmentation
• O&O Defrag 2000 -Disk Defragmentation
• FullSync 0.9.1 file synchronization and backup

Context Menu Enhancement

• SendToAny SendTo menu enhancement
• FileMenu Tools – Contex menu enhancement
• Vista Shutdown Timer (Works with Xp as well)

Best Content Management System – Web Tools

• Joomla (cms)
• XOOPS (cms)
• Php Wiki
• Blog CMS
• MODx (cms)
• Drupal (cms)
• JetBox (cms)
• Simple Machines Forum
• Php Shop
• osCommerce (shop e-commerce)
• WordPress