My freeware recommendations

[Daniel]

Hey, I thought I could make this list of freewares that I recommend )


VLC Media Player - Play all video formats
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - Play any audio and video formats
Paint.NET - Featured photo editing
Picasa - View, organize and edit your photos
Album Cover Art Downloader -Download Album art to mp3 files
Mp3tag - Batch-process MP3-tags
Mediamonkey - Keep track of your music files
Flashget - Blazing downloading files
Opera - Safe and stable browser
Pidgin - Messenger with more than you think
Mozilla Firefox - Blazing Browser
µTorrent - The resource-friendly torrent client
Teamviewer -Remote control a diffrenent computer, super easy!
Ubuntu - Easy to use and flexible
Avast Antivirus - Free antivirus for home use
AVG Antivirus - Free and easy to use antivirus
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - Removal of malware
DAEMON Tools Lite - Simulate real CDs without having to burn ISO / BIN files

Please use google to find their homepages..


Recommendation by other:

JmZ:
RevoUninstaller - When you want to get rid of some stupid piece of software that leaves bucket loads of data behind.
X-Chat - free IRC client.
VIM - The best code editor in existence

Whoo:
CCleaner
Notepad++
CDBurnerXP
ImageBurn
Putty
WinSCP

Sandino:
Lifehacker - Install multiple apps at once without toolbar or clicking next

Royal King:
Chrome
FileZilla

InFlames:
Audio Shell

Click:
Skype - Internet Phone
GOM Player - Alternative to VLC player
Foxit Reader - Quite featured PDF reader

El_Jentel1:
WinMerge
GIMP
7-zip
OpenOffice

Humour:
Audacity - The free, platform-independent audio editor

Snell:
JDownloader
Thunderbird

m107:
Jet Audio
RUM

Marvi Konvic:
IrfanView
FreeDownload Manager
AIMP2
AbiWord
XAMPP
NVU
nLite
FreeCommander
Blender
Dia
XnView
Inkscape
MSN
Sumatra PDF
ClamWin
PeaZip
Xenon File Manager
KeePass
Toucan

Mr Happy:
Sharpleech

 

[Royal King]

Agree with

VLC Media Player - Play all video formats
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - Play any audio and video formats
Paint.NET - Featured photo editing
Picasa - View, organize and edit your photos
Album Cover Art Downloader -Download Album art to mp3 files
Mozilla Firefox - Blazing Browser
µTorrent - The resource-friendly torrent client
Teamviewer -Remote control a diffrenent computer, super easy!
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - Removal of malware
DAEMON Tools Lite - Simulate real CDs without having to burn ISO / BIN files

I like Chrome and FileZilla too (y)

 

[shanit]

agree with u both

 

[Sandino]

http://ninite.com/lifehacker

good apps too

 

[SalmanAbbas007]

I already use most of these
But where is CCleaner :o

 

[Whoo]

I would like to add:

• CCLeaner
• Notepad++
• CDBurnerXP
• ImageBurn
• Putty
• WinSCP

That's all I can think of for now :P

 

[vizoomer]

wow nice lists ... btw the best place according to me to get them is www.filehippo.com ... it's worth a try

 

[iFlames]

i would like to add Audio Shell

 

[JmZ]

RevoUninstaller too for when you want to get rid of some stupid piece of software that leaves bucket loads of data behind.

Also X-Chat, free IRC client.

 

[Daniel]

Updated main post

 

[Mac]

3 more; Skype, GOM player and Foxit Reader (Internet phone, VLC player alternative and a lighter but quite featured PDF reader)

PS. that lifehacker thing, that's actualy Ninite - http://ninite.com/
On the link JmZ provided you can only find apps LifeHacker diggs, on http://ninite.com/ itself you can find much, much more.

 

[el_jentel1]

- VLC Media Player
- Notepad++
- WinMerge
- Putty
- GIMP
- OpenOffice
- 7-Zip

 

[CJ]

Audacity >> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

 

[pi0tr3k]

VLC
Putty
FileZilla + WinSCP
Windows Media Player for music

 

[patt1293]

putty!!!

 

[Snell]

JDownloader
Thunderbird
Audacity

 

[m107]

FF
Jet Audio
VLC
Team viewer
RUM

WIN7 :D

 

[Daniel]

Main post has been updated again :D

 

[Marvi.Konvic]

IrfanView
Avira
FreeDownload Manager
AIMP2
AbiWord
XAMPP
NVU
nLite
FreeCommander
Blender
Dia
GIMP
XnView
Inkscape
aMSN
Sumatra PDF
ClamWin
PeaZip
Xenon File Manager
KeePass
Toucan

 

[Mr Happy]

Everything's already being mentioned that I can think of. Don't think MSN or SharpLeech are in the list (go Hyperz ).