Believe it or not, there is a wide variety of high quality software for
Microsoft Windows that is free. This resource represents a collection of
freeware that meets our expectations for what freeware should be: stable, free
of malware, reasonably nag-free, and cost free (at the least for personal use).
We hope you find this library helpful.
AbiWord
A robust, full-featured word processor.
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AceMoney Lite
Get a handle on your financial life.
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Cute PDF Creator
You don't have to spend a lot of money to make a PDF version of your documents.
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Foxit Reader (for PDFs)
A very fast reader for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
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FreeCalc
A great Calculator replacement.
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Microsoft Office Accounting Express
Business-oriented accounting solution, albeit on the light side.
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OpenOffice.org
This suite is best for your utilitarian office productivity needs.
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Thunderbird
With a few add-ins, Thunderbird can be as useful as Outlook.
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Windows Live Writer
A rich blog editor that's friendly with competing services.
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Wink
Create interactive visual tutorials.
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7-Zip
More functionality for free...
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Ant Renamer
Rename a batch of files easily, even using file dates, ID tags, or EXIF data.
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Auslogics Disk Defrag
Another solid disk defrag utility.
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Auslogics Registry Defrag
Keep your Windows Registry small and efficient.
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Autoruns
Find out what's really starting along with Windows.
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BurnAware Free Edition
A sophisticated optical media creator.
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Cacheman
Regardless of your hardware, this utility can improve RAM performance.
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CCleaner
Clean up your Windows computers.
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ClearType Tuner
In a few steps, everything will be crisper on your LCD monitor.
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CPU Wizard
Very detailed system information.
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CPU-Z
Find out what's inside your PC case.
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DeepBurner Free
Simple media burning utility for data needs.
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Defraggler
A fantastic disk defragmentation utility.
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Exalead one:desktop
Find what you want quickly ... even Exchange email.
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ExplorerXP
Windows Explorer on Firefox steroids.
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GPartEd
A somewhat limited hard disk drive partition editor.
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Launchy
Faster than the command line ... and more versatile.
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Network Scanner
Discover the computers on your network, including their MAC addresses.
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nLite
Pare down XP's footprint on your computer.
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PageDefrag
Defragment the Windows paging file and registry hives.
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PC Decrapifier
Rid your new computer of crap applications (craplets).
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Process Explorer
Find out what's going on under the hood of your Windows PC.
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Process Lasso
Passive control for when an app runs amok.
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QTAddressBar
Get the Windows Vista address bar's functionality for Windows XP.
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QTTabBar
Add a tabbed interface with some other nifty enhancements.
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Recuva
Powerful undelete.
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SyncToy
Synchronize two folders the smart way.
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Tweak UI
This is the Leatherman of all Windows utilities.
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TweakVI
Tweak and tune Windows Vista.
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VirtualBox
Easy OS virtualization ... including your USB ports.
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VistaBootPRO
Get full control over Windows Vista's boot process.
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vLite
Pare down Windows Vista's footprint on your computer.
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WinDirStat
Get a whole new perspective on the files on your data drives.
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WinTabber
Unclutter your desktop.
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X1 Enterprise Search Client
A robust and complete search utility.
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AVG Free Anti-Virus
A solid, often-updated anti-virus sentry.
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KeePass Password Safe
Safely store all you usernames and passwords.
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MyUSBOnly Free 2007
Effectively secure your computer's USB ports.
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RootkitRevealer
Learn whether the worst malware is on your computer.
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SDelete
Really delete your files once and for all.
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Spybot Search & Destroy
Malware protection.
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SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition
Good security with a more elegant interface than Spybot. And it'll repair network connections, too.
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ThreatFire Free
Enhance your virus protection with advanced heuristics.
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TrueCrypt
Keep your sensitive data safe.
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Tweak UAC
Get rid of the annoyance in Vista, but keep the security.
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ZoneAlarm
Popular and powerful software firewall protection.
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gAttach
Use Gmail from right within Windows instead of only locally installed email applications.
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LClock
Make your Windows clock stylish.
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ObjectDock
Apple-ify your Windows desktop.
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RocketDock
An elegant application launcher.
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Taskbar Shuffle
Gain control of how apps line up on your taskbar and in your task tray.
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TaskSwitchXP
An Alt+Tab replacement offering tons of features without crawling.
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Vista Drive Icons
Get Vista-like icons for XP's My Computer.
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Visual Task Tips
Get the Vista application thumbnail from XP's taskbar.
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WinFlip
Vista eye candy for Windows XP.
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Y'z Shadow
Get a configurable 3D effect in Windows XP.
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Yahoo! Widgets
Information right on your desktop.
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yAttach
Use Yahoo! Mail from right within Windows instead of only locally installed email applications.
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Color Selector
Find the real color of that screen object.
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Fotosizer
A full-featured image resizing utility.
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GIMP
A full-featured image editing application with features found in Photoshop CS.
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Image Renaming
Rename your image files.
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Paint.NET
A great replacement for Windows Paint with editing features found Photoshop Elements.
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Scribus
Professional Desktop Publishing.
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VSO Image Resizer
A better Windows image resizing PowerToy.
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Window Clippings
Get really professional results from your screen captures (recently became shareware).
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Core FTP LE
A plain and simple FTP utility.
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CraigsList Reader
Custom searching for everyone's favorite online garage sale.
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Firefox
The little browser that could ... scare Microsoft!
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GPass (Global Pass)
Bypass Web filtering software and encrypt your data traffic.
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IE7Pro
Put Internet Explorer 7 on steroids.
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Inline Search for IE
Get enhanced search capabilities in Internet Explorer.
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McAfee SiteAdvisor
Is that Web site really safe? See what SiteAdvisor thinks.
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PicLens
Peruse images from the Web with astounding ease.
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Windows Live Foldershare
Have the equivalent of the USB thumb drive in the "cloud."
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WinSCP
A handy and flexible Secure FTP client.
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CSS Tab Designer
Take the drudgery out of creating tabs for your Web site.
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LINQPad
Experiment with the new way to access data.
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Notepad++
Windows Notepad on developer steroids.
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SQL Server Management Studio Express
Develop and tweak a database on a SQL Server.
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Visual Studio Express Editions
After a free download, you essentially have Visual Studio.
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GL Warp
Liquify your desktop.
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Really Slick Screensavers
Flat-out awesome screensavers.
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