Free Software Download, Free Anti virus Software Download, Free Utility Software
This is the Bureau 24 list of software
to install when you have a fresh install of Windows. Not the junk
you get from Dell or HP, a clean install. Our software will keep
your computer running at peak performance.
Protection/malware removers:
-AVG
Antivirus Free powerful antivirus protection for your computer.
Better then Norton without the flakiness.
-Avast Another
free antivirus.
-SpyBot Search
and Destroy Free spyware remover and very well done. Spybot
will get adware off your computer.
-Adaware
Free adware remover. Though not as good as Spybot it is easier to
use.
-Hijackthis
A popular free utility to seek out and find any infectious software
in your system.
Utilities:
-Daemon
Tools Free image mounter.(virtual drive)
-WinRar A free
file compression and decompression utility. Much better at handling
zip files than Windows and -WinZip
Has extract options when you right click on a compressed file.
-CPU-Z
A free CPU and hardware monitor.
-OpenOffice
A free alternative to Microsoft Office. More innovative in some
ways and is usually compatable with Microsoft Office. Very well
done.
-UltraVNC
A nice free VNC server and viewer. Useful for managing computers
on your network.
-DVD Shrink
A great free utility for backing up your DVD's to smaller files.
Please read the legal stuff. You will have to Google this one to
download the actual software. Not hard to find.
-VeMode
A free powerful video encoding utility for making your videos playable
on handheld devices such as a Palm, PSP, iPod Video, and such.
-Blender
3d A free open source 3d graphing studio. The bomb!
Media:
-Real
Alternative. A free and clean alternative to Real Player. Comes
with Media Player Classic which is the BEST VIDEO PLAYER FOR WINDOWS.
-K-Lite
Codec Pack Most of the codecs you would ever need. Free.
-Mplayer
Another free and great media player.
-VideoLanClient
Another free and great media player.
-Quicktime
Alternative A free slim alternative to Quicktime. Most people
used it because Apple forced iTunes to be installed with Quicktime
but that is no longer true. Quicktime Alternative is still nice
though.
-Image
Analyzer A free small image editing utility.
-Gimp A free
alternative to Photoshop. Works well and is powerful. Some still
prefer Photoshop, we all know Fireworks is best, but free is
better than nothing.
Internet:
-Mozilla
Firefox Browser A free browser. Great alternative to MS Internet
Explorer.
-Opera Browser
Another great browser that is free, better than Firefox in some
ways but doesn't work on myspace.
-Mozilla
Suite Browser Another nicely done browser that's free. More of
an oldschool browser with its roots from Netscape browser.
-Thunderbird
Email Client A free and great alternative to MS Outlook from
Mozilla. Has a junk filter. A cleanly built email client with
good power.
-Gaim
IM Chat Client An adfree alternative to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and
other IM clients. Free. Sometimes quirky but usually runs well.
Good for being signed into many different IM accounts.
-Trillian
IM Chat Client A free IM client like Gaim but is shareware.
Works better than AIM, has multiple IM network support like Gaim,
but is more stable and more compatible.
-AIM IM Chat Client
This is AIM as it is from AOL. Loaded with adware and games. A nasty
client In My Opinion.
-Aim
Adhack Removes all the crap that comes with AIM! You can choose
what to remove and keep. Did I say hack?
-Skype A free
VOIP client. Can call landlines for free.
-Gizmo Project
Another free VOIP client like Skype.
P2P ie Free music, movies and programs:
-Azureus
Bittorent Client A free powerful bittorent client based on java.
Somewhat quirky.
-BitComet Bittorent
Client Another great free bittorent client based on C++. I hear
good things about it.
-uTorrent Bittorent
Client Another great free bittorent client. I don't know much
about it.
-Frostwire Gnutella
Client Free. A malware free gnutella client. This is pretty
much Limewire Pro.
-Kazaa
Lite Resurrection A malware free version of Kazaa with some
powerful utilities. I personal stopped using this a couple years
ago and moved onto Frostwire/Limewire.
-DC++ Direct Connect
Client I personally never used this bt I hear its awesome and
transfer speeds are fast.
Gaming:
-Team Speak
Voice Chat Client A free client that allows you to speak to
your other team members in games.
-Return
to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory This is a free game from
ID software. It is multiplayer only. This was meant to be RTCW 2
but they canceled the project and finished off the multiplayer portion
and gave it away free.
-Zophar's Domain
A large collection of emulators. Not really updated often but is
the best source of emulators IMO. |
