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The TOP 30 most popular freeware downloads in each category - September 2010
1. Antivirus
AntiVir
Personal Products GmbH and its sister company H+BEDV
Datentechnik GmbH merge together under the new company name Avira GmbH.
With this new identity we create a central contact point for our
worldwide private and business customers. The product range will keep
the name of AntiVir as an international brand - the only thing that
changes is our company name and the pictures in the AntiVir versions.
AntiVir PersonalEdition offers effective protection against computer
viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation.
It detects and removes viruses and includes an Internet-Update Wizard
for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor
file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from
the Internet.
2. Antispyware
Is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our
Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will
detect spyware other products miss. Easily remove pests such as
WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, and thousands more. SUPERAntiSpyware will
detect and remove thousands of Spyware, Adware, Malware, Trojans,
KeyLoggers, Dialers, Hi-Jackers, and Worms. SUPERAntiSpyware features
many unique and powerful technologies and removes spyware threats that
other applications fail to remove. SUPERAntiSpyware features many unique technologies. See all Antispyware downloads
3. Firewalls
Is our powerful windows
firewall - the only free firewall to offer 100% leak protection out of
the box! It's easy to use, powerful and completely free. Online Armor
is straightforward, and simple to use. Online Armor includes
powerful "HIPS" functions, which give you the ability to stop all
unrecognised programs from running on your computer unless you say so,
making it possible to protect yourself against these new attacks. Of
course, programs Online Armor knows are safe will be allowed to run, no
problem. This is different to a pure Antivirus program - these let any
program run, unless they know it is a virus.
Is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool.
It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run
faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces
of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally
it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains no Spyware or Adware. CCleaner's interface is
logically designed and makes it easy to wipe away your tracks from
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome from various
Windows system areas, and from some third-party applications.
5. Registry
 TweakNow RegCleaner (Rating: 8.5/10) - Homepage - Download
The
Registry is a heart and soul of any Windows system. It contains
information that controls how your Windows appears and how it behaves.
Most applications today use registry to store configuration and other
important data. When you install an application, a new registry entries
will be created. These entries will automatically be deleted when you
uninstall the application. Unfortunately, it does not always work that
way. Sometimes, you will find that some applications fail to remove
their own registry entries. These entries will become obsolete. To keep
your computer in top performance, it is recommended to periodically
clean your Windows registry.
6. Driver Tools
Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive,
however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD
or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or
from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into
a normal CD/DVD drive. Probably the best virtual drive software, Virtual CloneDrive allows you
to enjoy the freedom of a virtual drive and is completely free. See all Driver Tools downloads
7. Defragmentation
Designed to remedy system sluggishness and
crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It is optimized to work with
today's modern hard disks. Auslogics Disk Defrag is extremely simple to
use, does not require any analysis phase and is faster than most of the
other disk defragmentation software. It will help you get the maximum
performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And, what’s
most important, it's absolutely Free. Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow
startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk
Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today's modern hard disks.
Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments.
CDBurnerXP is an easy to use and free application to burn CDs and DVDs,
including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and
create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. You can create data
and audio CDs with or without gaps between tracks, burn and create ISO
files, create bootable discs. It does however support Burn-Proof
technology, multi-session disks, import of ISO images has bin/nrg - ISO
converter, simple cover printing and much more. In addition to CD/DVD
burning, you can also rip audio CDs, normalize WAV files, encode MP3
files, erase disks. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It
does not include adware or similar malicious components.
9. DVD Tools
Is a freeware utility to helps you rip and backup your copy
protected DVDs. Recently released DVDs are now very often equipped with
stronger copy protections - such as new ARccOS or RipGuard DVD from
Sony, Disney. Programs like DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter cannot handle
these types of discs. With the help of RipIt4Me, ripping these DVDs will be a very easy
task. The program is fully automated and the wizard will guide you
through all the necessary steps involved. If you prefer, there is also
a true "1-Click" mode that will perform all the involved steps
automatically for you. Please refer to the official RipIt4Me Guide and
FAQ for more information on how to use this program.
10. File Tools
Is a freeware Windows utility to restore
files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This
includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other
files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory
cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been
deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses! Recuva is a new file recovery tool that will unerase files that you
have mistakenly deleted from your computer. It's fast, small and will
run from a USB drive. It also supports most digital cameras card
formats, so you can restore those images you accidentally deleted.
11. Compression
Is an open source file archiver with the high compression ratio
predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It operates
either as a command line program or with a graphical user interface. It
also features integration with the Windows shell environment. 7-Zip is
free software, developed by Igor Pavlov and distributed under the GNU
LGPL license. High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA
compression. Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats.
Self-extracting capability for 7z format. Integration with Windows
Shell. Powerful File Manager. Powerful command line version. Plugin for
FAR Manager. Localizations for 74 languages.
12. Internet Tools
 TeamViewer Free (Rating: 9/10) - Homepage - Download
TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC all around the world
within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as
if you were sitting in right front of it. TeamViewer is a simple and fast solution for remote control,
desktop sharing and file transfer that works behind any firewall and
NAT proxy. To connect to another computer just run TeamViewer on both
machines without the need of an installation procedure. With the first
start automatic partner IDs are generated on both computers. Enter your
partner's ID into TeamViewer and the connection is established
immediately. TeamViewer is completely free for private use.
13. Browsers
Faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new
look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser
innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was
formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written
using the XUL user interface language and designed to be
cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many
advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the
ability to block pop-up windows. Mozilla Firefox is focused on improved memory handling,
performance, and stability, improved XUL, and new core components.
14. Downloaders
Is a great speed, super light, easy-to-use free
download manager. Orbit Downloader is based on p2p and multi-source downloading
technology and supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS and RTSP protocols. Using
Orbit Downloader, you can almost download everything online with 500%
faster speed, like youtube video, rapidshare files, flash and streaming
media etc. Anyway, Orbit Downloader is an indispendsable tool for
download acceleration and management.
15. Email
Enjoy safe, fast and easy email, Mozilla-style! Is a fully featured, secure and very functional email
client and RSS feed reader. It lets you handle mail efficiently and
with style, and Mozilla Thunderbird filters away junk mail too. It
offers a pretty and streamlined interface to a very powerful email
package. Not only is Mozilla Thunderbird a secure email client, a
sophisticated and very well integrated Bayesian spam filter knocks out
most junk mail (after some training). Combine these two aspects of Mozilla Thunderbird, and you get a
sensible feature that automatically sanitizes (potentially dangerous)
HTML code and turns off remote images for spam or anything else -
worms, viruses - you classify as bad mail. See all Email downloads
Is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows
sporting a very small footprint. µTorrent was designed to use as little
cpu, space and memory as possible while offering all the functionalites
expected from advanced clients. With BitTorrent, you can download files
faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are
present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling,
RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet).
Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint
specification (compatible with Azureus and BitComet) and peer exchange.
17. Communication
Is a powerful webcams and ip cameras management and streaming
software for private and professional use. It offers unique features
and unequaled ease of use to let you broadcast and manage multiple
video sources on the same computer. It is the perfect tool to secure
your goods and to easily manage users' accesses. This is our brand new webcamXP project. It has a simpler interface,
provides better performances, includes additional features and is now
replacing webcamXP which was quite heavy for most systems.
webcamXP has been specially designed for all Windows.
18. FTP
Free Windows software that includes the client FTP
features you need. Features like SFTP (SSH), SSL, TLS, IDN, browser
integration, site to site transfers, FTP transfer resume, drag and drop
support, file viewing & editing, firewall support, custom commands,
FTP URL parsing, command line transfers, filters, and much, much more!
This free, secure FTP client gives you a fast, easy, reliable way
to update and maintain your website via FTP. It also provides a secure
method (via SSL, TLS, or SFTP) to upload - download files to and from
FTP servers.
19. Tweakers
Helps protect, optimize,
clean, and repair your computer and Registry - with daily use. With
just 1 click, slow down, freeze and crash are over. Advanced SystemCare
is the most easy-to-use, intelligent and powerful next - generation
system utility to repair your computer and let your windows fly.
Advanced SystemCare is a very useful system tweak application. Advanced SystemCare has many Features: New Interface, New
Functions, Improved Scanning, Cleaning, Repairing, and Optimizing,
Triple Backup Mechanism and Faster Loading.
Is an All-in-One video converting tool with
easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent
video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files
between every format, for free! It can convert almost all video formats
including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to
MPEG-I, MPEG-I, DVD NTSC , DVD PAL, Flash for Video (FLV) , AVI Video
and Customized WMV movie formats. Any Video Converter makes it easy for
anyone to enjoy any format video with your PSP, mobile phone or MP4
player. It also supports any user defined video file formats as the
output. It has an unmatchable speed and high quality.
21. Audio
 Audacity (Rating: 9/10) - Homepage - Download
This editor can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF,
MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste
features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply
effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in
amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a
frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications. Built-in
effects include bass boost, wah wah, and noise removal, and the program
also supports VST plug-in effects. Record live audio.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
See all Audio downloads
22. Players
Is a highly portable multi-platform
multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, Ogg, OGM, MOV, wma, wmv) as well as DVDs, VCDs,
and various streaming protocols. The VideoLAN project targets
multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs,
digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and
live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or
multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform
multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the
network or display video read locally on the computer.
See all Players downloads
23. Codecs
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of VFW/ACM codecs, DirectShow filters
and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and
decoding (playing) audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is
designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and
movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all
the popular audio and video formats and even several less common
formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack works on all Windows versions.
It is a freely distributed
piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition
and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many
languages. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an
expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing
system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter,
etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented
with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced
scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the
most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
25. Image Viewers
Is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser,
converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include
image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing,
resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive
full-screen mode provides quick access to exif information, thumbnail
browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when
your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include
a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional
effects, as well as lossless jpeg transitions, drop shadow effects,
image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more.
26. Design
Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation,
rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
Available for all operating systems.
Blender has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design
instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique
approach to the world of Three Dimensions. Use Blender to create TV
commercials, to make technical visualizations, business graphics, to do
some morphing, or design user interfaces. You can easy build and manage
complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All
basic animation principles (curves & keys) are well implemented.
27. Photo Tools
Is software that makes it easy and fun to view, organise, edit and
share the digital photos on your PC. Picasa will not delete your
pictures or put them online without your permission. Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures
including: jpeg, tiff, bmp, psd, and standard camera movie files.
Sending pictures with e-mail used to mean five steps just to get it
right. Picasa lets you pick the size and then automatically attaches
your pictures. Browse through all your pictures and view slideshows of
your albums with the click of a button. Enhance, fix red-eye, and even
crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.
28. Office
The product is a multi-platform office productivity
suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word
processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with
a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.
Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently
with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office.
Available in over 45 supported languages with more being constantly
added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on
Solaris, Linux, Windows, Mac OS and
numerous other platforms.
See all Office downloads
A suite of authoring tools to help educators, teachers and
materials-writers putting educational material on the Web. The Hot
Potatoes applets create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
gap-fill, crossword and jumbled-sentence exercises using HTML and
JavaScript - but you don't need to know any HTML or JavaScript to use
them. The applications support the use of accented characters for
languages other than English. Hot
Potatoes is now freeware. The complete version of the programs is now
available for free and you may use it for any purpose or project you
like. It is not open-source.
30. Miscellaneous
FictionSoftware EasyShutdown is a freeware windows utility for easy instant or delayed
restarting, powering down and suspension of your pc. Fast session
locking and logging off through the FictionSoftware EasyShutdown tray menu prevents
unauthorized access to your machine when your system is left
unattended. FictionSoftware EasyShutdown looks
nice and works very well. FictionSoftware EasyShutdown is the best tool
for powering down/restarting your pc. FictionSoftware EasyShutdown is
available as freeware.
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Avira AntiVir Personal (Rating: 9.5/10) - 
SUPERAntiSpyware Free (Rating: 9.5/10) - 
Online Armor Free (Rating: 9/10) - 
Auslogics Disk Defrag (Rating: 9.5/10) - 
CDBurnerXP (Rating: 9.5/10) - 
RipIt4Me (Rating: 9.5/10) - 
Recuva
7-Zip (Rating: 8.5/10) - 
Orbit Downloader (Rating: 9/10) - 
Mozilla Thunderbird (Rating: 10/10) - 
µTorrent (Rating: 10/10) - 
webcamXP Free
Core FTP Lite Free (Rating: 8.5/10) - 
Advanced SystemCare Free
Any Video Converter Free (Rating: 9/10) - 
K-Lite Codec Pack
GIMP (Rating: 9.5/10) - 
FastStone Image Viewer (Rating: 9/10) - 
Blender (Rating: 8/10) - 
Picasa (Rating: 9/10) - 
Hot Potatoes
EasyShutdown
