Free Software

While consulting for our customers we often come across free Windows software (for personal and non-commercial use) which should not be overlooked. With this list you can easily create a fully operational, secure and legal home office computer system. No warranty given, download at your own risk.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
free.avg.com

Avira Antivir Free Edition
www.free-av.com

Trend Micro System Cleaner - remove viruses
www.trendmicro.com

OpenOffice - leading open source office suite
www.openoffice.org

Neo Office - OpenOffice port for Mac OSX
www.neooffice.org

Mozilla Firefox- best web browser ever? Probably.
www.mozilla.com

Opera Web Browser - now available for free!
www.opera.com

fireftp - FTP client for Mozilla Firefox
fireftp.mozdev.org

Mozilla Firefox - extensions
update.mozilla.org/extensions
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1758866,00.asp

Irfanview - image viewer with tag support
www.irfanview.com

The GIMP - a free alternative to Photshop and PaintShop Pro
www.gimp.org

Photo Resize Magic - resize multiple images with one command
www.realfiletools.com/free/photo-resize.htm

Multiple Image Resizer .NET - resize images, overlay text, convert to a different formats and so much more.
www.multipleimageresizer.net

FileZilla - Open source FTP client and server
http://filezilla-project.org

SmartFTP - FTP client
www.smartftp.com

Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader - open PDF files
www.adobe.com

Cute PDF Writer - create your own PDF files
www.cutepdf.com

Fresh Download Manager - pause and resume downloads in IE
www.freshdevices.com

Malwarebytes - excellent malware removal utility
www.malwarebytes.org

Spybot Search & Destroy - spyware removal
www.safer-networking.org

Ad-Aware SE - spyware removal
www.lavasoft.de

ShellExView - identify windows shell extensions
www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

Password Recovery Tools from Nirsoft
www.nirsoft.net

Mozilla Thunderbird - Popular e-mail client
www.mozilla.com

Pegasus Mail - Popular e-mail client
www.pmail.com

POPFile - junk mail / anti-spam filter for any POP3 client
getpopfile.org

Sysinternals - various superb utilities
www.sysinternals.com

TestDisk - Data recovery for most file systems
www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

ProcessScanner - Anaylsis of the processes on your PC
www.processlibrary.com/processscan/

Flexible Renamer - powerful file renaming utility
hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830/english/FlexRena/

Jam Software - Treesize & other nice utilities
www.jam-software.com

WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
windirstat.info

PrintFile - Easy File Printing in Windows
www.lerup.com/printfile/

Xinorbis - Simple but poweful hard disc analyser
freshney.org/xinorbis/

7-Zip - file archiving/compression
www.7-zip.com

Eraser - Remove sensitive data from your hard drive
www.heidi.ie

TrueCrypt - on-the-fly encryption
www.truecrypt.org

AnalogX - various utilities
www.analogx.com

Boot and Nuke - securely wipes the hard disc drive
dban.sourceforge.net

Belarc - great computer auditing tool
www.belarc.com

SIW - System Information for Windows (Advanced Info)
www.gtopala.com

TightVNC & RealVNC - remote control software
www.tightvnc.com & www.ultravnc.com

Web Browsers - every browser ever released
browsers.evolt.org

Securitywonks - open source and free security software
www.securitywonks.net

UltraDefrag - Powerful defrag tool for Windows
ultradefrag.sourceforge.net

CDBurnerXP Pro - CD/DVD burning solution
www.cdburnerxp.se

CommandBurner - Command line CD/DVD burner
www.commandburner.com

Audacity - Free Cross-Platform Sound Editor and Recorder
audacity.sourceforge.net

mp3DirectCut - Free and fast mp3 audio editor
mpesch3.de1.cc

Windows Inventory - Windows PC Auditing Software
winventory.sourceforge.net

Wireshark - Powerful network analyzer
www.wireshark.org

Netstumbler - Wireless networking tool
www.stumbler.net

Knoppix - Bootable Linux OS on CD
www.knoppix.org

Puppy Linux - Another bootable Linux OS on CD
www.puppylinux.org

PartedMagic - perform partitioning tasks with ease
www.partedmagic.com

VideoLAN - Play MPEG and DVD movies includes a DVD decoder
www.videolan.org

Virtual Floppy Drive - Create and mount virtual floppy disks
chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html

Open Source Alternatives to Commercial Software
www.osalt.com

A massive range of software from NCH. Some of the products have a free version. It's certainly worth a look.
www.nch.com.au/software/list.html

Server Software

Internet Software Consortium - DNS, DHCP server and more
www.isc.org

Apache HTTP Server - most popular on the Internet
www.apache.org

FileZilla - Open source FTP client and server
filezilla-project.org

Mercury Mail Transport System - Popular e-mail server
www.pmail.com

PostgreSQL - Popular and powerful open source relational DB.
www.postgresql.org

MySQL - Widely used DB
www.mysql.com

PHP - Scripting language for web servers
www.php.net

FreeNAS - Network Attached Storage server for your space PC!
www.freenas.org

Samba - Provides file and print services to Windows clients
www.samba.org

Open Source Alternatives to Commercial Software
www.osalt.com