Free Anti-Virus Software

AVG - Free Edition The most popular free solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.

Avast - Free Antivirus avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for ome users. The latest version of avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (viruses already spreading between users) and excellent detection of Trojan horses.

ThreatFire™ Will your antivirus software catch the latest malware that just came out today? In most cases, no, because it simply does not know how to detect it yet. But ThreatFire's free ActiveDefense technology does, and has proven to provide up to 243% more protection when combined with traditional AntiVirus products.

Free Spyware Removal Tools

Malwarebytes A speedy malware remover, with the quick scan taking about 8 minutes even with other high-resource programs running.

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge and sold to advertising companies.

Free Graphics & Photo Editing Software

Picasa Free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. 
Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!

GIMP Photo editing application with amazing features.

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Paint.NET Full featured graphics editor with a nice interface.

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LightBox Image Editor Simple and straight forward, offers intuitive slide-bar adjustments for your images.  It also has split screen views to help you compare your images before and after the corrections.

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Free Video Playback & Conversion

Miro Plays any video type. Subscribe to video RSS, download from YouTube and others.

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VLC media player Plays a huge number of audio and video formats. Will play almost any video format you may have, as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols

MPlayer Similar to VLC, plays loads of video formats.

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Freemake Video Converter A powerful media converting tool for both audio & video conversions. It supports video formats such as; AVI, MP4, WMV, and 3GP and has the ability to burn video to DVD on-the-fly.

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The Best Web Browsers

Chrome Minimal design that makes surfing the web faster, running web pages and applications with lightning speed.

FireFox Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Lots Add-ons and plug-in available.

Internet Explorer 9 Providing improved navigationand security through tabbed browsing.

System Information Tools

SIW - System Information for Windows Gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.

Balarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status,  and displays the results in your Web browser. 

What's Running is a product that gives you an inside look into your Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7 system. Explore processes, services, modules, IP-connections, drivers and much more through this simple to use application.

CCleaner The number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.

OpenOffice Free multiplatform open-source Office Suite. Compatible with all major Office formats including Microsoft Office..

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TeamViewer QuickSupport Remote Access to your Computer. TeamViewer with no installation or admin rights required. Simply launch the QuickSupport module and your’re ready to go.