Anti-Spyware: Microsoft Windows Defender Windows Defender is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. Anti-Spyware: Spybot - Search and Destroy Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Anti-Virus: AOL Active Virus Shield Advanced detection technology to help stop known and new viruses, spyware and other malware before they attack you. Anti-Virus: avast! Home Edition Full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Anti-Virus: AVG Anti-Virus Free protection against viruses, worms and trojans, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is ideal for private, non-commercial use. Archiver: TUGZip TUGZip is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features. Archiver: QuickZip Completely free archiver since 1999. Archiver: ZipGenius ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows that lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. ZipGenius supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660 standard. Backup: SyncBack SyncBack is a freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronise your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; a Network; or a Zip archive. Browser: Firefox Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Browser: Opera Browse the Web with customizable search engines, pop-up blocker, widgets, and BitTorrent support. Capture: CamStudio CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) Communication: FileZilla FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. Communication: Thunderbird Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by Mozilla, Thunderbird makes email better. Communication: Trillian Fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable instant messenger chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. Organizer: iTunes Organize your music collection into playlists perfect for burning. Since all your music and video lives on your computer, you can play it at the touch of a button. Organizer: Picasa Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. PDF: Foxit PDF Reader Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. PDF: PDF Creator PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Productivity: AutoHotKey AutoHotkey unleashes the full potential of your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers, you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. Productivity: StrokeIt StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor. When you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the "action" associated with that gesture. Productivity: WinDirStat WinDirStat is a visual disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows Productivity: Windows Desktop Search Windows Desktop Search helps increase the productivity of information workers by enabling them to quickly and easily find what they are looking for. Productivity: X1 Desktop Search Looking for the best way to find files and email on your PC? X1 finds files and emails instantly. System: Belarc Advisor The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. System: ISO Recorder ISO Recorder is a tool that allows to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder. Viewer: Excel 2003 Open, view, and print Excel workbooks, even if you don't have Excel installed. Viewer: Irfanview IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative free graphic viewer for Windows Viewer: PowerPoint 2003 PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. Viewer: Visio 2003 The Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Viewer enables almost anyone to view Visio files. Viewer: Word 2003 View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.