Free Software- these are free & shareware

Anti Virus

• AVG - FREE antivirus program that automatically updates itself. You can upgrade to a more advanced version.
• Avast! Antivirus - Antivirus program that updates itself automatically. It's FREE.
• AntiVir
• Trend Micro HouseCall - Free Web-based solution designed to scan your PC for a wide range of internet security threads including viruses, worms, trojans, and spyware. It also dtects system vulnerabilities and provides a link so you can easily download missing security patches.

Anti Spyware

• Adaware - Ad-aware identifies and removes spyware and adware. Now on version 6.
• Ewido (Online Scan)
• Spybot: Search & Destroy - Like Ad-Aware.
• SpywareBlaster - Prevent the installation of spyware and other potentially unwanted software!
• Windows Defender - Program which finds and removes any type of spyware.

Burning Software

• Exp Studio Burner

Broswers

• Avant Browser - Avant Browser's user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability
• FireFox - The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life.
• Opera - It's a fast, fun and easy way to browse the Web. Opera 9 comes loaded with the tools to keep you productive and safe. Try it today, it's absolutely free!

Email

• ePrompter - An email retrieval program. It will check your hotmail, yahoo and other web-mail accounts without you actually needing to go to the sites. It also checks POP accounts.
• Minimail 2.0- Minimail is a small, convenient and easy to use utility for the creation and sending of emails. Minimail features file attachments, multiple accounts, signatures and more.
• 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.

Firewalls

• ZoneAlarm

Graphics / Media Applications

• PawBrowse - for image viewing it is small, fast and functional.
• PhotoPlus - has many of the features of PSP. Not all of course. But it is free!
• winamp - Audio player with skins, visualizations and more.
• BSplayer - BSplayer player that plays back all kinds of media files and specialises in video and divx playback.
• GIMP - Open source tool provide you with all the power you need for your photography and graphic design needs. GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program, and it’s the solution that comes closest to emulating the Photoshop environment.
• Avidemux: Premier is state of the art real-time non-linear video editing for any format including High Definition (HD). Supports 16-bit color resolution, GPU accelerated rendering for faster effects and even advanced DVD authoring. On the other hand, Avidemux provides Windows, Mac, and Linux users with an easy-to-use open source tool for DVD/DivX converting and editing. Avidemux also has scripting support for automation and even offers DVD authoring with the addition of the open source software, dvdauthor.

Java

• Sun Java Online Install
• Sun Java Offline Install
• Java Virtual Machine

Messengers

• AIM - AIM® 6.0 is the next generation of instant messaging software.
• MSN Messenger - The next generation of MSN Messenger
• Paltalk - World's largest video chat community with 4+ million users!
• Yahoo! Messenger - Call friends & family around the world using the all new Yahoo! Messenger (8.1)

Share Pictures

• Hello - Hello is a new way to look at pictures with friends and family.
• Picasa - Locate, organise and share all the photos on your computer

Other

• Belarc Advisor - Builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware
• Open Office 1.0.1 - A free Office replacement package.
• PFE - Good free text editor.
• WinRAR - WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager.
• WinAce - Just as easy as WinZip for zipping and unzipping files.
• CCleaner - Cleans out tempory files etc
• NVU: While this tool is a powerful WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor, other options exist that can save money. NVU (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) is a complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Use NVU to create Web pages and manage a Website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.