Freeware list, that I have not tried before, from CNet’s blog page – http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-20087492-58/name-your-favorite-freeware/?tag=mncol
- Glary Utilities – This powerful application offers extensive utilities to improve your system’s performance and protect your privacy
- The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status etc.
- HTTrack – allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory
- Macrium Reflect – The only free XP, Vista and Windows 7 compatible disk imaging software with BartPE and Linux based recovery options
- Puran Defrag Free- professional defragmenter for your computer
- ThreatFire™ AntiVirus protects when others can’t
- Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Xplorer2 – Free efficient and portable windows explorer alternative
- PicPick – is an all-in-one program that provides full-featured screen capture tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair and even whiteboard
- ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed
- PowerPro lets you take control of how you use Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
- StartupMonitor is a small utility that runs transparently and notifies you when any program registers itself to run at system startup
- Everything search engine – Locate files and folders by name instantly
- http://portableapps.com
- Komposer – A most excellent Gui Website Editor / Dreamweaver alternative
- CCCP is a simple playback pack for Windows supporting the majority of video formats in use today
- WinSplit Revolution is a small utility which allows you to easily organize your open windows by tiling, resizing and positioning them to make the best use of your desktop real estate
- Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC.
- Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform
- Zamzom wireless network tool – who is using my wireless
- Audiogalaxy’s new cloud music player puts all your music and playlists at your fingertips from any computer, iOS or Android device
- Paragon Backup & Recovery 2011 (Advanced) Free
- Weird Metronome – The smallest, most versatile metronome software available, and it’s free
- Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable
- TeamViewer6 for remote access to Grandma’s computer for support
- RIOT – Radical Image Optimization Tool – A free program designed to efficiently optimize images for the Web
- MultiCommander to replace Windows Explorer
- Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer
- Advance System Care 4 – Free Windows 7 registry cleaner, Windows 7 and Vista registry repair
- MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen
- Wireshark – network packet sniffer
- inSSIDer is FREE, open-source Wi-Fi scanning software
- Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A “note” can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage
- TeraCopy from Code Sector is a free file-copying utility that offers more speed and security than Windows