LawOutlaw

Freeware List

I have decided to put together an on going list of some of the best and useful freeware software that is available out there. I've seen many threads here asking for freeware of a program that can do something so I'll try to make one big collection of them for people to use as a easy source to find out about some freeware. If you know of or have any suggested freeware that you think is beneficial to everyone that PM me and I'll look into it and add it to the list. Also if there is any particular categories you would like to see some freeware for added.

Also note *Never run more than 1 Firewall and 1 Anti-Virus program at a time* Doing so can cause conflict between them.

Internet Browsers
Firefox
Opera
Maxthon
Avant
Safari
Flock

E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird

Anti-Virus
Avast
AntiVir
AVG

Spyware Removers
Spybot Search and Destroy
HijackThis
Spyware Doctor Starter Edition
Windows Defender
Spyware Terminator Powerful *do not turn on anti-virus protection feature if you already have anti-virus software running*

Firewalls
Comodo Firewall
Outpost Firewall
Peer Guardian Not a true firewall - best IP blocker
SunBelt Personal Firewall
Zone Alarm

Cleaners
CCleaner

System Information Tools
PC Wizard 2008 Identify practically everything your systems hardware is and more
Everest Home Free Edition
AIDA32

Office Tools/Documents/Readers
Open Office Great package similar to Microsoft Office
AbiWord Word Document program
Adobe Reader View PDF files

Networking/FTP Clients
Hamachi Create lan like networks across the internet
FileZilla FTP Client

Audio/Video
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack Best Codec pack around. If you have audio/video playing troubles try this first.
Media Player Classic
VLC Media Player
WinAmp
Quick Media Converter Covert most audio/video files
Audacity Record and Edit audio files

Portable Media Player Software

Free Zune Video Converter Convert video files to proper Zune formats

CD/DVD Tools
ImgBurn
DVDShrink
Burn Aware

Graphic Editing
GIMP
Paint.Net
PhotoFiltre
XnView View, apply filters/effects + mass convert image file formats
Now3D 3D Rendering

Compression/File Split/Joining
HJsplit
IZArc
Tugzip