Best Freeware
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
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
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
Best Blogging tools
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 Optimization
- 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
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