Topic: Best/Essential free software

[CornerFlag]

Just a request as to what people would regard as some of the best and some of the essential free software out there.  For me:



Handbrake - Video re-encoding.

Stellarium - Astronomy/planetarium

Avast - Anti-virus

Audacity - Audio editing, powerful for a free program, it's what we used to use when I was working with a radio station when Cool Edit Pro was sold to Adobe.

CCleaner - Cleans up your hard drive, for beginner and advanced users

Evernote - Make notes on a subject, can be sent to a smartphone to read there with a free account

GIMP - Picture editor, think "Photoshop for poor people"

LibreOffice - Free Office suite, not quite as good as Microsoft's bundle but as good as you'll get for the price you're paying.

Kaspersky Software Updater - Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin!

MalwareBytes - Keeps an eye on rogue programs

Calibre eBook manager - Manages your ebooks, easy to transfer to the device of your choice.

Speccy - Tool to give the specs of your system in detail.



Any other people would want to add?  Ones I've missed?

[Upinsmoke]

CPU-Z - basic info on components
Hwmonitor - monitor temps etc

GEFORCE experience is good if your not too sure about tweaking graphical settings for games

MSI Afterburner - overclocking, monitor your fps, temps etc in game

Prime 95 - good for stress testing your CPU

[Thush]

ImgBurn - CD/DVD burning - http://www.imgburn.com/
Paint.net - Picture editor (simpler than GIMP, more powerful than Paint) - https://www.getpaint.net/index.html
WSUS Offline Update - Updates Windows offline - http://download.wsusoffline.net/
Recuva - Recover deleted files - https://www.piriform.com/recuva
Sumatra PDF - Quick PDF (and other) file reader - https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

[Blinis]

VLC - Universal Video Player has to be in there : https://www.videolan.org/

[hixxstar]

Driver Booster 4 (Free Version)
Identify & Fix over 400,000 Outdated, Missing & Incorrect PC Drivers

http://www.iobit.com/en/driver-booster.php


Also daily free versions of 'paid for' software... (check daily)   . Giveawayoftheday..

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

[John C]

Why isn't Superantispyware on the list?

[BER]

Everything - https://www.voidtools.com/  - Basically a much faster way to search your pc for files.

windirstat - https://windirstat.net/ - HDD analyser, use this when i need to make room on a HDD. 

Launchy - https://www.launchy.net/ - application launcher. haven't used desktop icons in years.

[ToneLa]

Launchy is boss!

Greenshot; lets you press Print Screen to crop a bit of what's onscreen, and right click lets you copy or upload to img.ur - used it in work too for making system walkthroughs
http://getgreenshot.org/

[JoeH]

https://ninite.com for putting the same programs on new or rebuilt windows computers.
http://www.idiskhome.com/main/download.shtml Qling Disk Master Free, clone, migrate drives and paritions to other hard drives or backup, even clones from HD to SSD and will shrink partitions down to fit.