| Anti-virus / spyware Temp file / registry cleaning |
Alwil Avast Free anti virus app for home use |
Glary Utilities A good registyr and junk file cleaner |
C Cleaner Another good junk file and registry cleaner |
Malwarebytes Very good at removing malware |
Spybot
Search and Destroy Real time protection against spyware |
Panda
Cloud antivirus An online antivirus app that is always up to date | |
| Misc. Apps | Open Office Good, free office suite to replace MS Office |
Sumatra
PDF Reader Faster and better than Adobe |
doPDF
PDF printer Good PDF converter/printer. Can print to file |
MW Snap Very good screen capture program |
Power
Toys Photo Resizer Good for resizing photos for thumbs |
Yahoo Messenger Yahoo Voice for computer to telephone calls | |
| Audio Video Apps | Quicktime
alternative Can play audio and video files . Many codecs included |
Audio
Grabber Good for "ripping" audio from CD |
Lame MP-3converter | Audacity Audio Editor Good audio editor (free download) |
Crackle Video Streamer Many video feeds |
Fancast Many video feeds | VLC A good audio/video viewer |
| Utilities | Easus Disk Copy | FB
Backup Good back up application |
Heidi
Eraser Excellent file shredder app |
Sysinternals Very good for listing everything about your computer |
Autoruns Shows what is running on your computer with every thread |
Start
Up Cop Control start up applications | Smart Defrag Very good defrag utility |
| HTML Apps |
Komposer Good "WYSIWYG" HTML editor |
Coffee CupEditor Another good HTML editor Can do frames |
Core
FPT Easy and powerful FTP client |
XN
View Good photo editor also can make slide shows for webpage. Excellent photo manager |
Opera
10.53 Browser Very good, fast browser |
Sea Monkey Another good browser | |