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1)Open office (an alternative to Microsoft Office)
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Open Office. 2) Mozilla Firefox Internet Browser (an alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer) Firefox is very fast, less vulnerable to viruses, and is easy to use and navigate. The user interface is straightforward and uncomplicated. There are lots of add ons that you can download for Firefox. Firefox tips: if you are reading an article and you want to look up something in the article you can highlight the word or sentence you want to look up, right click and press "search google" and it will open the google search results for that subject in a new tab. To open a link in a new tab click the link with the wheel on the mouse, to close a tab click anywhere on the tab with the mouse wheel. Click Here to download
Firefox Save your self from unwanted viruses and popups. 3) Mozilla
thunderbird email client (an
alternative to Microsoft Outlook Express)
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. Firefox is very fast, less vulnerable to viruses, and is easy to use and navigate. Thunderbird's tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Search results open in a new tab too. New tools like time line and filtering tools will help you pinpoint the email you're looking for, whether it's the one from yesterday, last month, or several years ago. Click Here Mozilla
thunderbird email client Give yourself a better emailing experience 4) Cute PDF
Writer (A PDF file creator)
Cute PDF Writer is a free PDF creator. Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. With it you can save any file to PDF. All you do is open or create a picture, webpage or text document in Word or Open Office, then instead of saving it, hit the print button then you will see a list of printers, one will be your actual printer and one will say "cute PDF writer" click that...then it will continue just like you are saving a file by asking you what folder you want to save it to...when you're done go to that folder and you'll have it..your file save as a PDF file. Click Here Cute PDF
Writer 5) Foxit PDF Reader (an alternative to Adobe PDF Reader) Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document. Click Here to download
Foxit 6) Paint.net (a free alternative to Photoshop) Includes tools to crop, rotate, and resize images, adjust colors, and a red-eye removal tool. It supports common image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others. It also has special effects options like adding layers, water reflection, twist, smudge, and an unlimited "undo" feature. To get some of these effect you will have to download free upgrades called plugins. There are 100s of plugins that do different things, you pick the ones you need. To find a plugin, go to google.com and type the effect you want and paint.net (example "paint.net smudge effect") press search and look through the results. Some plugins come as a package deal including several effects with one download. After you download you might have to move the downloaded files to your effects folder which is in you paint.net folder in programs. Click Here to download
Paint.net
7) Artweaver
(a free art program)
Artweaver lets you paint creatively with the help of a huge range of painting tools. You can create sketches from photos or just experiment with colors. Click Here to download
Artweaver
8) HouseCall
(a free computer virus
scanner)
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HouseCall 9) Spybot S&D(a free spyware scanner) Spybot Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system. For advanced users, it allows you to fix Registry inconsistencies related to adware and to malicious program installations. The handy online-update feature ensures that Spybot always has the most current and complete listings of adware, dialers, and other uninvited system residents. Click Here to download
Spybot S&D
10) CCLeaner (a
free computer cleaning and optimizing program)
Includes tools for system optimization, privacy and cleaning. 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 and can also overwrite such traces up to 35 times, making it completely unrecoverable even for government agencies. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. Click Here to download
CCleaner 11) PC Decrapafier(Cleans unwanted programs off of brand new computers) Weird name...good program!! When you buy a brand-new PC You expect it to be clean, lean, and mean. Wrong! Buy any new PC and you'll find it full of "craplets"--software installed for no reason other than that the PC maker gets paid to put it there. These craplets slow down your PC startup and its general operation. Dell is particularly notorious for filling new PCs with craplets. The free PC De-Crapifier removes dozens of craplets automatically. Using this program is exceedingly simple. Just run it, and it does its removal work automatically. Don't expect it to completely clean your PC, because it only removes a specific set of craplets and trialware programs, those that are specifically put on new PCs, such as QuickBooks Trial, Wild Tangent Games, Dell URL Assistant, and many others. When you run the program it's a good idea to first create a restore point when it asks, just in case it removes something that you wanted to keep. Click Here to download
PC Decrapafier 12) Adrive.com(Free online storage)
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for free 13)KeePass(Free Secure Password Safe) KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). Also has password creator, it will create passwords with 30 to 40 random letters and number. Then you just copy that password and change your email password (or whatever password protected file). Then the next time you sign in you just goto your KeePass program, copy and paste your login name and then copy and paste your password, no more typing out long email addresses and passwords to sign in!! Click Here to download
KeePass
14)Restoration(Free file recovery utility)
Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and we were also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, it also provides the option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. The program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards. Click Here to download
Restoration 15)File Destroyer(Free Computer File Shredder) File Destroyer is the best solution if you want to make sure your private files are completely and unrecoverable deleted. File Destroyer writes over a file you want to delete several times to make sure it is really gone. Used to prevent "prying eyes" from recovering files you have deleted. Warning: once a file is overwritten it can not be recovered so make sure it is a file you do not need anymore. Click Here to File
Destroyer 16)Actual Keylogger(Free keystroke recoder ) Free keylogger which runs hidden in the background and automatically records all keystrokes (including Alt, Ctrl and other functional buttons). The interface can be password protected and the log files are encrypted. You can view the reports as HTML or plain text. In the hidden mode it is invisible in all operating systems. This free keylogger will be really helpful to both the system administrators and home users. Keep tabs on your kids internet activity!
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Actual Keylogger 17)Sandboxie(Free Program Isolater) Sandboxie runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer. Secure Web Browsing: Running your Web browser under the protection of Sandboxie means that all malicious software downloaded by the browser is trapped in the sandbox and can be discarded trivially. Click Here to download
Sandboxie 18)Weather Bug(a free weather station right on your computer) Weather Bug is a live weather program that give you current conditions, 7 day forecast, radar, traffic conditions and travel weather. Also displays current temperature in the bottom right corner of your screen (near the clock). Click Here to download
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