Google Chrome is a free browser that combines a great design with high-end technology to make the web faster, easier, and safer for its users. Google Chrome offers new features like the ability to search from the address bar, and receive suggestions for both search and web pages. Also, users can open an incognito window when they do not want to save their browsing history.

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation.

Windows Live Essentials (previously Windows Live Installer) is a suite of freeware applications by Microsoft which aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, security services and other Windows Live entities. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with the Windows operating system, and with other Windows Live web-based services such as Windows Live Photos and Windows Live Hotmail, so that they operate as a “seamless whole”. Windows Live Essentials is integrated with Windows 7 (but not "bundled" with Windows 7) and available to be downloaded from Windows Live Downloads.

TurboTax is an American tax preparation software package initially developed by Michael A. Chipman of Chipsoft in the mid-1980s.[1] TurboTax became an Intuit product as a result of the 1993 acquisition of its creator, San Diego-based Chipsoft. Chipsoft, now known as Intuit Consumer Tax Group, is still based in San Diego, moving into a new office complex in 2007. Intuit Corporation is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications with emphasis on multimedia, animations, and graphics, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for most web browsers. While early versions of Silverlight focused on streaming media, current versions support multimedia, graphics and animation, and give developers support for CLI languages and development tools.

Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) is a multimedia platform used to add animation and interactivity to web pages. It allows Adobe Director applications to be published on the Internet and viewed in a web browser on any computer which has the Shockwave plug-in installed. It is first developed by Macromedia, and released in 1995 and was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.

iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The application is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's iPod and iPhone lines, as well as the iPad.

The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browser. Flash Player is a widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe after its acquisition. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools.

VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft that is currently designed to work with Windows XP (up to Wave 3), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile/Windows CE, Xbox 360, Blackberry OS, iOS, Java ME, S60 on Symbian OS 9.x and Zune HD.

Skype is freeware that allows users to make telephone calls to other users of the service, and to free-of-charge numbers; calls to landlines and mobile phones are made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging file transfer, and video conferencing.

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity.

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

Bing Bar (formerly MSN Toolbar) is a Silverlight-powered browser extension toolbar for Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft. Bing Bar replaced Windows Live Toolbar in Windows Live Essentials 2011 ("Wave 4") announced on June 23, 2010. Bing Bar was previously supported on Mozilla Firefox but Microsoft discontinued support.

Thunderbird, developed by the Mozilla Foundation, is a free, open source, corss-platform email and news client.

Audacity is a free, multi-platform easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. You can use Audacity to: record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, and change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).[3] All members of the family, except Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader), are commercial software; Adobe Reader however, is available as freeware and can be downloaded from Adobe's web site. Adobe Reader enables users to view and print PDF files but has negligible PDF creation capabilities.

Yahoo! Toolbar is a toolbar that installs on the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, within the context of internet access functions. It allows access to several functions, including Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Mail. It also contains built-in algorithms to prevent pop-ups and spyware. Several additional features are available on the Internet Explorer version, as well as incorporating Firefox-style tabbed browsing to IE version 6.0 (versions 7.0 and later allow tabbed browsing).

Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.

RealPlayer plays all major audio and video formats. Also, download Internet videos with Real Player, build your own video library and playlists, and burn your videos to CD or DVD with RealPlayer.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free download from Microsoft that provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a printer subsystem. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button.

FileZilla is a free open source FTP client and/or server depending which best fits the users needs. The main features include a site manager, message log, file and folder view, and the transfer queue.

Pdf995 allows you to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the print command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.

Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files - unique in the industry. This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

7-Zip is a free open source file archiver or compression software. 7-Zip has been around since 2000 and is actively being developed by Igor Pavlov.

Create and print beautiful photo books in your own home using HP Photosmart Essential 3.5 and HP Photo Book kits!

An incredibly small in size PDF client that allows users to annotate on PDF documents, and convert PDF documents into text documents.

Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player.

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which can be useful if you share your computer.

A very smart web browser for Mac, PC, iPhone, and iPod touch that renders web pages at lightning speed.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware(for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.

The Ask.com Toolbar is a free browser extension from Ask.com, available for both the Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers. Features include vertical searches across web, image, news, and dictionary, a wide variety of US and international content served in widgets, weather forecasts, RSS/ATOM feeds and related services. Unlike the Google or Yahoo! Toolbars, Ask's platform often features content, widgets and software integration with the partners who distribute these toolbars. Many social gaming companies offer their gaming content in widgets or 'in-line' windows in the toolbar itself.

Avast! Antivirus is an antivirus program developed by AVAST Software a.s. (former ALWIL Software a.s.), a company based in Prague, Czech Republic. It was first released in 1988. Avast! is based on a central scanning engine that is certified by ICSA Labs and West Coast Lab's Checkmark process and incorporates anti-spyware technology, also certified by West Coast Lab's Checkmark process, as well as anti-rootkit and self-protection capabilities.

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface.

Explore the world from outer space by viewing satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings using Google earth.

Convert video files, including DVD-video, into ipod, iPhone, Quicktime player, and etc compatible files.

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

An online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing, and filling out forms and applications fast, easy, and more secure.

WeatherBug is a company that provides live weather data and maintains continuously monitored weather stations throughout the United States, mainly located at public and private schools, educational institutions such as museums, partner television stations and other various venues. The program is available for download from WeatherBug's website, websites of the approximately 85 TV partners, and was formerly distributed through the AOL Instant Messenger installation utility. WeatherBug is also available for download for Windows Phone 7 via the Windows Phone Marketplace, iPhone OS via the App Store, BlackBerry phones via BlackBerry App World, and for Android phones via Android Market. WeatherBug Direct is a line of free applications for mobile devices, including WeatherBug Direct for BlackBerry OS and WeatherBug Direct for Windows Mobile.

Download Adobe® SVG Viewer 3 and experience data-driven, interactive, and personalized graphics on the web.

The Skype Web Toolbar recognizes phone and Skype numbers, and is available only for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox on Windows. Such numbers on web pages are replaced with an icon that can be clicked to call the number using Skype, or right-clicked to provide further options, such as adding the number to Skype's list of contacts. The toolbar detects phone numbers automatically, but a web site developer can override the detection algorithm using a Meta element and mark the valid numbers individually.

Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email. Yahoo! also offers PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service, file transfers, webcam hosting, text messaging service, and chat rooms in various categories.

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system including CPU, mainboard, memory and system.

Glary Utilities is a free, powerful, all-in-one utility that offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, and maintain PC.

Incredimail is targeted to the casual email user with a whimsical interface. The program offers basic e-mail client functions including sending, receiving, and organizing messages; managing your address book; and creating rules for how to handle certain messages.

Advanced SystemCare Free (formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal) has a one-click approach to help protect, repair, clean, and optimize your PC.

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

AOLs extremely popular freeware Media Popular with over 57 million users.

PDF-XChange Viewer allows you to view and edit PDFs.

Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets".

Greenshot is open source software and is a screenshot tool optimized for productivity.

DVDShrink is software to backup DVD discs. You can use this software in conjunction with DVD burning software of your choice, to make a backup copy of any DVD video disc.

Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity is similar to Director, Blender game engine, Virtools or Torque Game Builder in the sense that an integrated graphical environment is the primary method of development.

YouTube Downloader is a free tool that downloads videos from Youtube or Google Video and saves it as Avi or Mpeg file to your local computer.

Everything is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search, Everything initially displays every file and folder on your computer.

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.

uTorrent is a popular BitTorrent client. uTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it were not there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 220 KB in size.

South Koreas most popular Media player with the ability to play the majority of media files without obtaining a codec. Also GOM has the ability to play broken media files and .flv files.

SyncToy is a Microsoft backup application used to move, copy, rename, and delete files between folders and computers easily.

Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed to optimizes hard disks fast.

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Windows Vista. It works with Windows 64 bit too.

DVD Decrypter is a software application for Microsoft Windows (including Windows 7 support) that can create backup disk images of the DVD-Video structure of DVDs. It can be used to image any DVD, but controversially it is especially useful for decrypting copy protected movies. The program can also record images to disc. Content Scrambling System (CSS) decrypting software (such as DVD Decrypter and AnyDVD) allows a region-specific DVD to be copied as an all-region DVD. It also removes Macrovision content protection, CSS, region codes, and user operation prohibition.

The beauty of this converter lies in its simple set up. By default, converted files are saved into the program's folder in My Documents, and they retain the name of the source video. The files are saved as MP3s, normal quality.

Peer to Peer file sharing application; a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client.

Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 software makes it easy to find, fix, and share your digital photos. Organize your digital photos in a snap. Instantly fix photo flaws in just a click or two. And easily share your memories in a slide show with captions, or e-mail individual photos to family and friends.

XnView is a software to view and convert graphic files. XnView is provided as Freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization.

Bing Bar (formerly MSN Toolbar) is a Silverlight-powered browser extension toolbar for Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft. Bing Bar replaced Windows Live Toolbar in Windows Live Essentials 2011 ("Wave 4") announced on June 23, 2010. Bing Bar was previously supported on Mozilla Firefox but Microsoft discontinued support.

BitTorrent BitTorrent 6.3 running on Windows 7 Original author(s) Bram Cohen Developer(s) BitTorrent, Inc. Initial release FOSS (Cross-platform): July 2, 2001; 9 years ago (2001-07-02) Closed source (Windows): September 18, 2007; 3 years ago (2007-09-18) Stable release 5.3 (Cross-platform) (February 4, 2009; 23 months ago (2009-02-04))[1] 7.2 Build 23588 (Windows) (December 7, 2010; 45 days ago (2010-12-07))[2] 7.0.1 (Mac OS X) (December 2, 2010; 50 days ago (2010-12-02))[3] [ /-] Preview release none (?) [ /-] Development status Active Written in C (6.0 and later) , Python (5.3 and earlier) Operating system Cross-platform 6.0 and later: Windows, Mac OS X Size 2.9 MB Available in Multilingual (49) Type BitTorrent client / Peer-to-peer License Proprietary (6.0 and later) Website BitTorrent.com BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the

A free open source disk encryption application for Vista, XP, Linux, and Mac OS X.

MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64.

Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library. It contains an online music store, Internet radio, CD playback and ripping software, and other features commonly found in jukebox software.

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows that can look up words in almost any program.

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants).

Paint.NET is an open-source photo editing application. Its features include unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is a free registry repair software that allows you to safely clean and repair registry problems.

SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more.

Secunia PSI allows you to scan, check, detect, and secure the applications installed on your computer. Secunia PSI gives an assessment of the applications installed on your computer are they insecure, end-of-life, etc, then enables you to secure and upgrade; even providing a weekly graphical presentation of application performance.

The Weather Channel Desktop gives you instant access to real-time local weather and alerts you whenever severe storms threaten. You're just one click away from detailed information on your local weather conditions as well as your favorite cities worldwide.

BroswerPlus is a technology for web browsers that allows developers to create rich web applications with desktop capabilities.

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows.

UltraDefrag is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process.

Pidgin is a free easy to use IM client used by millions to connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and other chat networks all at once.

An advanced multimedia player that includes an audio converter, recorder, and tag editor. Includes an easy to use interface, small size and minimal use of system resources.

Office.org is the leading 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 international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

High detection rates for viruses and spyware. Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

Sandboxie prevents programs that may be infected with malware from making permanent changes to other programs and data on your computer by running your programs in an isolated space. Sandboxie even provides an information center diplaying the effects of each program on your system.

Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software Company. Opera handles all common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, downloading files, reading web feeds, and etc. Opera is free of charge for PC and cell phone use, but for other devices it must be paid for.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and remove malware that even the most well known anti-virus and anti-malware applications fail to detect. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware monitors every process and stops malicious processes before they even start. Offering Realtime Protection, an advanced heuristic scanning technology which monitors your system to keep it safe and secure, and a threat center which will allow you to keep up to date with the latest malware threats.

IZArc is a freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats.

Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.

DriverMax is a tool that allows you to download the latest driver updates for your computer just by creating a free account.

Google Talk is a freeware Windows web-based application for instant messaging and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) client offered by Google Inc. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005.

The beauty of this converter lies in its simple set up. By default, converted files are saved into the program's folder in My Documents, and they retain the name of the source video. The files are saved as MP3s, normal quality.

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player.

EASEUS Todo Backup is a completely free solution for your operating system and data backup to protect them away from unexpected damage or loss. It provides backup, restore, disk-clone functions based on Windows operating systems.

Ad-Aware is a free security application developed by Lavasoft that provides basic Spyware detection and removal features that are quick and easy to learn. Although it is not an all-in-one security application the latest versions will protect your PC from Spyware, Adware, Trojans, Hijackers, Password Stealers, and Keyloggers. Also, Ad-Aware uses less of your PCs resources allowing for optimal computer performance.

Yahoo! Music Jukebox is a freeware music player released by Yahoo! in 2005. Its appearance is vaguely similar to Musicmatch Jukebox, related to the fact that Musicmatch, which developed the Jukebox, was purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. Recently it has been upgraded and renamed to Yahoo! Music Jukebox (from Yahoo! Music engine). Development status: Discontinued