We keep posted our readers about useful and mostly free applications and softwares for their Windows powered PCs. You bought a new Windows powered PC or just re-formatted your PC. Now if you don’t want to spend big bucks after paid softwares, take a look at this list of free applications for your Windows PC. This list includes applications for security, internet, communication, multimedia, downloader, videos, photos and finally office suite. I’ve chosen this set very carefully so that it includes all applications that you need on your day to day functioning. Enjoy!
1. AVG Anti-virus Free
Security against viruses, phishing and trojans is essential for any PC. AVG anti-virus is well respected suite for the PC security. Its home edition is free. AVG provides award winning protection against viruses, spyware, adware and identity-theft. Download it here.
2. SeaMonkey + Thunderbird
For internet browsing, the best browser is Firefox without doubt. But SeyMonkey project is all-in-one internet applications suite. It includes web-browser (SeaMonkey), advanced e-mail (Thunderbird), newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat (ChatZilla), and HTML editing. SeaMonkey project is backed by the Mozilla foundation – the guys behind Firefox browser. Download SeaMonkey suite here.
3. Adobe Reader
You read lots of PDF documents on your Windows PC. Adobe reader is free application to read pdf documents. Easily view, print, and collaborate on PDF files with free Adobe Reader software. Download Adobe Reader here.
4. OpenOffice.org
Don’t want to pay for Microsoft Office? OpenOffice is the best alternative open source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. Get OpenOffice here.
5. VLC Media Player
Do you keep getting error on Windows Media Player that ‘I can’t play this file. Unknown format. Beat me!!’ Don’t worry. Here’s is the solution. VLC media player plays almost all known media formats. Feed VLC any video/audio file and it’ll just play it baby. Done!! Download VLC player here.
6. Gimp
The one software I’ll suggest to anybody who owns a PC. Do you like to play with photos and images? You keep editing self protraits to make them better and better and finally you don’t want to pay for Adobe Photoshop. Download Gimp.
7. 7-zip
It’s the best and free alternative to WinZip. 7-zip is open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Supported formats are 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. Other formats can also be unpacked. Download 7-zip here.
8. Free Download Manager
I use this software to download all the stuff from internet. FDM supports resumable downloads and multiple simultaneous downloads. It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Download FDM here.
9. Picasa
Excellent image viewer and organizer. Moreover you can edit and share photos too. Picasa is a free software from Google (And that says it all, isn’t it?!!). Personally I use it’s collage making feature which I feel is great. Give Picasa a try.
Do you know any other useful application for Windows? Share in comments.
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