Software

BELOW ARE LINKS TO LEGITIMATE FREE SOFTWARE AND TOOLS

ANTIVIRUS 

AVG FREE , AVAST, CLAM (for UNIX/LINUX), CLAMWIN (for Windows), ADAWARE, SPYBOT,  MALWAREBYTES

DVD / MOVIE  PLAYERS

 VIDEOLAN

HARD DRIVE CLEANING

CCLEANER, EASY CLEANER (only for XP and older OS’s), BLEACHBIT, ONYX (cleaner for Macs)

OFFICE / PRODUCTIVITY

FREEBYTE (MSOFFICE viewing utilities, PDF utilities, WordProcessing utilities, etc.)
OPEN OFFICE (MSOFFICE replacement)
OPEN WINDOWS ( various open source programs for Windows: ftp, podcast, video, IM’s, Office suites, etc.)

SECURITY TOOLS

SYSINTERNALS AUTORUNS,    MICROSOFT SAFETY SCANNER, VIPRE RESCUE

SYSTEM RECOVERY / WINDOWS UPDATING

DELL RECOVERY PROCESS, HP RECOVERY PROCESS, WINDOWS RECOVERY PROCESS, WIN7 TO WIN10 UPGRADE

UTILITIES

Graphics: IRFANVIEW, GIMP (like Photoshop), INKSCAPE (like Illustrator), DIA (like Visio)

Archiving: 7ZIP,  WINRAR, WINZIP    

Network: ADVANCED IP SCANNER, NETSPOT (wifi analyzer for Windows and Mac)

File Transfer: FILEZILLA, WINSCP, TEAMVIEWER