AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.

Adobe® Reader® is free software that allows everyone to easily and reliably view, print, and search PDF files.

Excellent Freeware Anti-Virus software for Home users. Includes Resident Shield, Email Scanner plug ins (including MS Outlook), Personal Email Scanner, On-Demand and other tests, Automatic Updates, etc.

With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs. Good alternative to Roxio or Nero.

CPU-Z is detection program that allows you to get some information on your system, including : Processor name, features, cache, speed, muliplier and instructions sets; Motherboard information : name, vendor, BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP; Memory information : size, type, timings, specifications.

Innovative Personal Information Manager, includes to-do lists, tasks, calendar and personal notes.

This is a very good FTP program. It is open source software and is more than competitive with commercial versions.

Gaim is a FREE multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client. It is compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips

This FREE add in component is for Internet Explorer. It offer all of the feature you would expect from Google: searching from any page, pop-up blocker, auto form fill, search word hi-lighting and more! This is a must have for IE users.

HydraIRC is an open-source IRC client with an attractive and easy to use interface. It supports DCC Chat and File transfers, Connecting to multiple servers, Dockable Floating Tabbed Windows, Autohiding Windows, DLL Plugins, Channel Monitoring, Message Logs, Event Viewer, Themes, Color schemes, Buddy groups, Audible and Visual Notifications , Reg-Exp Highlighting, Favorites and much more.

Kerio Personal Firewall protects desktop and notebook computers from hackers, spies, identity thieves and trojan horse applications. KPF is a PC firewall that inspects all inbound and outbound network communication on the computer to ensure that only legitimate traffic is permitted. KPF is free for home use.

Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.

Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.

Formerly Giant AntiSpyware, this tool has been release free of charge from Microsoft. Includes spyware scanning, resident protection, auto update and privacy protection.

Money Manager is a free, easy-to-use personal finance software. It primarily helps organize one's finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is also a great tool to get a bird's eye view of your financial worth.

Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely and efficiently than with any other browser. Excellent free alternative to Internet Explorer.

Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, RSS reader and much more.

Mp3tag is a FREE, powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit and manage mp3 ID3-tags, filenames, APE-tags and Vorbis Comments of audio files.

Naomi is an advanced internet filtering program, easy to use and totally FREE, intended for families and parents in particular. Naomi is able to constantly monitor all internet connections, protecting children from inappropriate online material - such as obscene or violent contents; pornography and erotism in the form of images or texts; sites that popularize drugs; gambling games; terrorism; hate propaganda; occultism; sects; blasphemy, etc.

Neoshooter is a screenshot application for Windows. Once launched, Neoshooter will intercept presses of your Print screen key, and act according to the options you set.

OpenOffice.org includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Works with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation with many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. Excellent alternative to Adobe Photoshop.

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine.

Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month. It also does appointment reminders and daily to-do lists.

RSS Bandit is an excellent, simple RSS feed reader.

Skype is for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

This is FREE Spam Blocker. They offer both a stand alone application as well as a Microsoft Outlook add-in that comes with a spam manager, this is a must have for Outlook users.

Is you computer acting strangely, slow or out of control? If you have been on the internet for some time, chances are that you have Spyware installed. Spybot S&D cleans that up. (make sure you Search for updates after installing)

SyncBack is a powerful program that helps you backup and synchronize your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, Compact Flash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive. There is also freeware version available.

With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted folders, hard drives, etc. Excellent for protecting Flash Drives.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

XgD's Countdown is a helpful little application that works as a countdown/alarm clock for your PC. Just start it up, set the clock and set the custom reminder!

Xint (pronounced "zint") is an alternative to Windows notepad, with dozens of useful functions. The focus is on efficiency and performance and thus there are no toolbars, redundant dialogs, or other unnecessary components.

XP Codec Pack is one of the most complete codec pack which helps you to play all major audio and video formats.