Free Software and Utilities
Anti-Virus
- AVG Anti-Vrus
- Panda ActiveScan - Online Virus Scanner
- Trend Micro Virus Scan - Online Virus Scanner
Bootdisk Creators
- Bootdisk.com - Download bootdisks for all Microsoft Operating Systems
CD Ripping Software
Convertors
- Convert - conversion program that will convert between many different units.
- MP3 Trim & WAVTrim - Use these 2 programs to clean up Wav and MP3 files
- Realaudio-to-Wav Recorder - Convert Real Audio to WAV
Diary / Journal
- iDailyDiary - Keep your own diary
Download Managers
- Pegasus Mail - the Internet's longest-serving PC e-mail system
- Thunderbird E-mail - E-Mail software from Mozilla
Educational
- Hayley's Tables - a great free kids multiplication game
File Sharing
File Viewers
- Adobe Acrobat Reader - View and print PDF files
- ExtractNow - Extract multiple archives (ZIP, RAR, etc) with the click of a button.
- Fresh View - Multimedia Viewer
- IrfanView - Graphics viewer, covers all main image formats
- Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003 - View and print Excel documents
- Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 2003 - View and print Powerpoint 97/2000/2002 documents
- Microsoft Visio Viewer 2002 - View and print Visio documents
- Microsoft Word Viewer 2003 - View and print Word documents
- Paperport Viewer - View and print PaperPort image items (.max files)
Firewalls
IM & Chat
- EyeBall Chat - Video chat live with friends and family works with AIM, MSN and Yahoo!
- Trillian IM client
Media Players
- DivX - DivX codec. Allows you to view DivX content
- Flash Player - View Flash movies
- Quicktime
- RealPlayer
- Winamp
Office Suites
- Open Office - Includes word processor, spreadsheet, multimedia presentations, draw, database
Spyware Removers & Popup Blockers
- Ad-Aware 2007 - Detect and remove spyware
- CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller (v1/v2) MiniRemoval - Utility to help remove this irritating spyware
- CWShredder - Defense against the new Cool Web Search variants
- HijackThis - Site includes a number of spyware removal utilities
- McAfee AVERT Stinger - Remove specific viruses from your PC.
- Pop-Up Manager - Blocks pop-up ad windows
- Pop-Up Stopper - Blocks pop-up ad windows
- Spybot S&D - Scan and remove for spyware, adware, hijackers, etc
- Spyware Blaster - Stop spyware infecting your PC.
Security
- Digital Identity - Securely manage passwords and PINs.
- Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser - Check your PC is fully patched
- Sygate Online Services - Online security test
System Analysers
System Utilties
- Atomic Clock Syn - Keep your PC's clock accurate
- HD Tune - hard disk utility software
- LSP-Fix - Repairs Winsock 2 settings
- Restoration - Recover deleted files
Text Editors
Web Browsers
Website Administration
- Weblog Expert Lite - analyse website log files
- Xenu Link Checker - Check your website for dead links
Windows Desktop
- Fresh UI - Optimise Windows Settings
- OrphansRemover 1.6 - Remove invalid links from your Start Menu
- Webshots Desktop - Download quality photos and use them as backgrounds and screensavers