Best Freeware Sites On The Web

This list aims to be a valuable and easy to use resource for free software available on the Web.

3D Modeling
Blender -

http://www.blender.org/

Google SketchUp -

http://sketchup.google.com/download/

Anti Virus
AntiVir -

http://www.free-av.com/

Avast -

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AVG -

http://free.grisoft.com/

BitDefender -

http://www.bitdefender.com/

ClamWin -

http://www.clamwin.com/

Anti Spyware
Ad-aware SE Personal -

http://www.lavasoft.de/products/ad-a...e_personal.php

ComboFix -

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/comb...-use-combofix/

Hijackthis -

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware -

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Microsoft Windows Defender -

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

Ninja Pendisk -

http://nunobrito.eu/ninja/

SpyBot Search & Destroy -

http://spybot.safer-networking.de/

WinPatrol -

http://www.winpatrol.com/

Archive Managers
7-zip -

http://www.7-zip.org/

Compress it -

http://www.rg-software.de/

KGB Archiver -

http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

QuickZip -

http://www.quickzip.org/

SimplyzIP -

http://www.dpaehl.de/

TUGZip -

http://www.tugzip.com/

Audio Creation and Manipulation
Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Audiograbber -

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

CDex -

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/

EAC -

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

MediaInfo -

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

MIDI Pattern Generator 64 -

http://www.gradywerks.com/mpg64/

MP3Gain -

http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

Reaper -

http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php

Smart PC Record -

http://www.voiceemotion.com/smartrecorder.htm

Audio Players
AIMP2 -

http://www.aimp.ru/

Foobar 2000 -

http://www.foobar2000.org/

iTunes -

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Jet Audio Basic -

http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/jetaudio/

musikCube -

http://www.musikcube.com/

Songbird -

http://getsongbird.com/

Winamp -

http://www.winamp.com/

BitTorrent Clients
µTorrent -

http://www.utorrent.com/

Azureus -

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Deluge -

http://deluge-torrent.org/

CD/DVD Burning
Burn4Free -

http://www.burn4free.com/

Burnatonce -

http://www.burnatonce.com/

CDBurnerXP -

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

Deepburner -

http://www.deepburner.com/

ImgBurn -

http://www.imgburn.com/

InfraRecorder -

http://infrarecorder.org/

Ultimate CD/DVD Burner -

http://www.mispbo.com/burner.htm

Checksum Utilities
fsum -

http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/

HashCalc -

http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

HashTab -

http://beeblebrox.org/hashtab/

ICEECC -

http://www.ice-graphics.com/ICEECC/IndexE.html

md5sum -

http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

md5summer -

http://www.md5summer.org/

MooSFV -

http://www.ubercow.com/moosfv/

QuickPar -

http://www.quickpar.org.uk/

QuickSFV -

http://www.quicksfv.org/

Defrag Software
Auslogics Disk Defrag -

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

JkDefrag -

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Desktop Customization
AveDesk -

http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=17372

CursorXP -

http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html

Desktop Sidebar -

http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

Glass2k -

http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

Kapsules -

http://kapsules.shellscape.org/

Rainlendar -

http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

RKLauncher -

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rklauncher/

RocketDock -

http://rocketdock.com/

Samurize -

http://www.samurize.com/

TaskSwitchXP Pro -

http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/

WinRoll -

http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/

Yahoo! Widget Engine (Formerly Konfabulator) -

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Download Managers
Flashget -

http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm

Free Download Manager -

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Gigaget -

http://www.gigaget.com/

LeechGet -

http://www.leechget.net/en/

wget -

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Email Clients
Evolution for Windows -

http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

Foxmail -

http://fox.foxmail.com.**/

Pegasus Mail -

http://www.pmail.com/

Thunderbird -

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Zimbra -

http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

Encryption and Data Security
Axcrypt -

http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/

Blowfish Advanced CS-

http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm

ccrypt -

http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

CRYPTAINER LE -

http://www.cypherix.com/cryptainer_l...oad_center.htm

Eraser -

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php

File Shredder -

http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm

GnuPG -

http://www.gnupg.org/

PGP Freeware -

http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html

TrueCrypt -

http://www.truecrypt.org/

File Managers
2xExplorer -

http://netez.com/2xExplorer/

CubicExplorer -

http://www.cubicreality.com/

ExplorerXP -

http://www.explorerxp.com

freeCommander -

http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

File Repair and Recovery
ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools -

http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/index.html

Avira UnErase Personal -

http://www.free-av.com/antivirclassi...a_unerase.html

FreeUndelete -

http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

PC Inspector File Recovery -

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.html

VAIOSoft Recovery Manager -

http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

Firewalls
Comodo Personal Firewall -

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - vhttp://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html[/code]
SoftPerfect Personal Firewall -

http://www.softperfect.com/products/firewall/

Zonealarm Basic firewall -

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...eeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients
CoreFTP -

http://www.coreftp.com/

Filezilla -

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

SmartFTP -

http://www.smartftp.com

FTP Servers
FileZilla -

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

SlimFTPd -

http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd

TYPSoft FTP Server -

http://en.typsoft.com/

WarFTPD -

http://www.jgaa.com/

Image Capture
MWSnap -

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

Image Editors
GIMP -

http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape -

http://www.inkscape.org/

Paint.net -

http://www.getpaint.net/

Image Viewers
FastStone Image Viewer -

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Irfanview -

http://www.irfanview.com/

Picasa -

http://picasa.google.com

XNView -

http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messengers
AMSN -

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/index.php

Google Talk -

http://www.google.com/talk/

Miranda IM -

http://www.miranda-im.org/

Pidgin -

http://www.pidgin.im/

Skype -

http://www.skype.com/

Trillian Basic -

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/

Yahoo! Messenger -

http://messenger.yahoo.com/

IRC Clients
BersIRC -

http://www.bersirc.com/

BitchX -

http://bitchx.org/

Clicks&Whistles -

http://i42.co.uk/stuff/

HydraIRC -

http://www.hydrairc.com/

NodeIRC -

http://node.sourceforge.net/

TinyIRC -

http://www.tinyirc.net/

XChat -

http://www.silverex.org/news/

Maps
Goggle Earth -

http://earth.google.com/

NASA World Wind -

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasa-exp/

Misc Tools
Evernote -

http://www.evernote.com

Network Tools
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer -

http://www.ethereal.com/

Fomine NetSend GUI -

http://www.fomine.com/net-send-gui.html

Free IP Switcher -

http://www.eusing.com/ipswitch/free_ip_switcher.htm

FreeNAS -

http://www.freenas.org/

Hamachi -

http://www.hamachi.cc/

NetMeter -

http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

NMap -

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Ntop -

http://www.ntop.org

PingPlotter -

http://www.pingplotter.com

PRTG Traffic Grapher -

http://www.paessler.com/prtg

PuTTY -

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

RealVNC -

http://www.realvnc.com/

TightVNC -

http://www.tightvnc.org/

Ultr@VNC -

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

WinSCP -

http://www.winscp.com/

Office Applications
AbiWord -

http://www.abiword.com/

OpenOffice.org -

http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers
GParted LiveCD

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

Partition Logic -

http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

Ranish Partition Manager -

http://www.ranish.com/part/

PDF Utilities
Adobe Reader -

http://get.adobe.com/reader/

CutePDF -

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Foxit PDF Reader -

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Ghostscript/GSView -

http://www.ghostscript.com/awki

PDFCreator -

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

PrimoPDF -

http://www.primopdf.com/

Sumatra PDF -

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

Programming
ActivePerl -

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl

BlueJ -

http://www.bluej.org/download/download.html

Crimson Editor -

http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

Code::Blocks -

http://www.codeblocks.org/

Context -

http://www.context.cx/

Dev C++ -

http://www.bloodshed.net/

Dev Pascal -

http://www.bloodshed.net/

Digital Mars C++ -

http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

Eclipse -

http://www.eclipse.org/

Enigma -

http://www.enigma-uk.freeserve.co.uk/Enigma.htm

ExamDiff -

http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff

Freepascal -

http://www.freepascal.org/

JCreator LE -

http://www.jcreator.com/download.htm

jEdit -

http://www.jedit.org/

Metapad -

http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

Notepad++ -

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Notepad2 -

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/

Open Watcom -

http://www.openwatcom.org/

PaseoExpress -

http://www.paseosoft.com/

Pelles C -

http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/index.htm

PHP Designer 2007 Personal -

http://www.mpsoftware.dk/products.php

PHP Hypertext Parser -

http://www.php.net/

Programmer's Notepad -

http://www.pnotepad.org/

PSPad -

http://www.pspad.com/

Python -

http://www.python.org/

Ruby -

http://www.ruby-lang.org/

Screenweaver -

http://screenweaver.com/download

SE|PY ActionScript Editor -

http://www.sephiroth.it/python/sepy.php

SharpDevelop -

http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

WebMatrix -

http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/

WinMerge -

http://winmerge.org/

XML Copy Editor -

http://xml-copy-editor.sourceforge.net/

RSS Readers
klipfolio -

http://www.serence.com/site.php

RssReader -

http://www.rssreader.com/

SharpReader -

http://www.sharpreader.net/

System Info and Monitoring
AIDA32 -

http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html

ATITool -

http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

ATI Tray Tools -

http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/

CPU-Z -

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

GPU-Z -

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

HWiNFO -

http://www.hwinfo.com/

Motherboard Monitor -

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311

SpeedFan -

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Sysmetrix -

http://www.xymantix.com

WCPUID -

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html

System Tools
AutoHotkey -

http://www.autohotkey.com/

CCleaner -

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Video Codecs
Real Alternative -

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm

k-lite codec pack -

http://www.codecguide.com/

Combined Community Codec Pack (cccp) -

http://www.cccp-project.net/

Video Players
BsPlayer -

http://www.bsplayer.org/

Crystal Player -

http://www.crystalplayer.com/index.php?page=downloads

DivX Player -

http://www.divx.com/

KMPlayer -

http://www.kmplayer.com/

Media Player Classic -

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303

VLC -

http://www.videolan.org/

Gom Player -

http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

Video Tools and Converters
AVIDemux -

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

DScaler -

http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/

DVDx -

http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/

GSpot -

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Handbrake -

http://handbrake.fr/

MobileVideo For iPod -

http://www.keronsoft.com/mobilevideo...converter.html

Movica -

http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movica

Personal Video Database -

http://www.videodb.info

PSP Video 9 -

http://www.pspvideo9.com/

RatDVD -

http://www.ratdvd.ca/

Super -

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

TMPGEnc -

http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/e_main.html

VirtualDub -

http://www.virtualdub.org/

VirtualDubMod -

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=65889

Web Browsers
Firefox -

http://www.getfirefox.com

Flock -

http://www.flock.com/

Chrome -

http://www.google.com/chrome

K-Meleon -

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Mozilla -

http://www.mozilla.org/

Netscape -

http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/

Opera -

http://www.opera.com

Web Servers
Apache -

http://httpd.apache.org/

HTTP File Server -

http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

Sambar -

http://www.sambar.com/

TinyWeb -

http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software
booruWebCam -

http://www.booru.net/

Dorgem -

http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/

grabMotion -

http://www.grabmotion.com/

Pryme -

http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Splitcam -

http://www.splitcamera.com/index.html

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