Freeware Utilities

Here is a list of freeware utilities for Windows users. These are the selected gems from the sea of freeware utilities. The collection is not complete yet. But if you have any suggestions, kindly contact me...

Security 

Avira AntiVir Personal -    -One of the best Freeware AV out there.

BitDefender Free Edition - - A good scanning engine.

 

Avast Home Edition -          - Another decent AV software. 

Malwarebytes  -                - Anti malware software. Can be used along with your AV software if needed. 

                                                This one is probably the best one according to me.

SpywareBlaster -                  - This one is also a very effective anti malware/spyware utility.

HijackThis          -                 - Advanced users can use HijackThis to remove unwanted settings or files.

LockNote                   -Password manager, encryptor.

Utilities

 

CCleaner                    -CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your PC. Highly recommended.

Smart Defrag 1.45    -A very good lightweight tool for defragmenting your system.

Revo Uninstaller        -A complete unistallation utility

Process Explorer        -Process Explorer is an advanced process management utility from Microsoft.

Unlocker                    -File eraser. Can be used to delete undeletable files.

ImgBurn                     -ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that                                                        everyone should have in their toolkit! Good for burning ISO files.

CDBurnerXP               -CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs.

KGB Archiver            -KGB Archiver is a compression tool with a high compression rate. Very good.

7-Zip                         -Another very good award winning compression tool which is very handy.

Audio,  Video & Image

Foobar                            -foobar2000 is an advanced audio player. It is very popular for its looks. 

JetAudio Basic               -JetAudio plays various music and video files and it can convert them also.

Winamp                           -A widely used audio player. Can play videos too.

Wavepad                          -One of the best free sound editor and audio converter.

Quick Media Converter  -   It can convert virtually any audio or video file between one format to other.

KMPlayer                       -  A media player popular for its beautiful interface.

VLC Player                     -  A multimedia player and well known for its playback quality and format support.

GOM Player                    -  Another fantastic tool for playing videos.

Picasa                                - A very nice photo editor from google now with name tags.

Photographix                     -  A grat tool for retouching your photos. A daily use photoshop! 5 stars

Internet

Mozilla Firefox                  - Worlds best web browser.Well known for its speed, safety and customization.

Thunderbird 3                    - Best free email client out there.

Eudora                               - Another popular email client.

FileZilla                             -  FTP client offering SSL and GSS Kerbos security.

Office

Open Office                          - An office suite which is easily a replacement for MS Office.

AbiWord                               - It is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word.

Foxit PDF Reader                  - A small pdf reader which is better Acrobat reader.

PDFCreator                           - PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files.

Doc Converter                       - Document converter. Can be used to documents to other formats.

Converber                             - Unit converter. Very handy at times.

Notepad++                              - Notepad++ is a free source code editor. Very popular among coders.

System Scheduler                    - Schedule tasks and reminders.