Free Anti-Virus Software

Microsoft Security Essentials

Guard against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It provides real-time protection for your home or small business PCs. Microsoft Security Essentials is free* and designed to be simple to install and easy to use. It runs quietly and efficiently in the background so you don't have to worry about interruptions or making updates.

Avast - Free Antivirus Loaded with tons of features. From the home tab you can gain quick access to your system status, virus scan, software updater, stats, and the market.
Features like the firewall and SafeZone require a premium subscription.

Free Spyware Removal Tools

Malwarebytes A speedy malware remover, with the quick scan taking about 8 minutes even with other high-resource programs running.

Spybot - Search & Destroy etects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge and sold to advertising companies.

Free Graphics & Photo Editing Software

Picasa 
Free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. 
Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!

GIMP 
Photo editing application with amazing features.

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Paint.NET 
Full featured graphics editor with a nice interface.

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LightBox Image Editor 
Simple and straight forward, offers intuitive slide-bar adjustments for your images.  It also has split screen views to help you compare your images before and after the corrections.

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Free Video Playback & Conversion

Miro Plays any video type. Subscribe to video RSS, download from YouTube and others.

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VLC media player Plays a huge number of audio and video formats. Will play almost any video format you may have, as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols

MPlayer Similar to VLC, plays loads of video formats.

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Freemake Video Converter A powerful media converting tool for both audio & video conversions. It supports video formats such as; AVI, MP4, WMV, and 3GP and has the ability to burn video to DVD on-the-fly.

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The Best Web Browsers

Chrome Minimal design that makes surfing the web faster, running web pages and applications with lightning speed.

FireFox Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Lots Add-ons and plug-in available.

System Information Tools

Balarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, and displays the results in your Web browser. 

What's Running is a product that gives you an inside look into your Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7 system. Explore processes, services, modules, IP-connections, drivers and much more through this simple to use application.

My Defrag 
A disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your hard disk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and Win8. It is fully functional freeware, with many optimization strategies, can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows.

CCleaner 
The number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.

OpenOffice 
Free multiplatform open-source Office Suite. Compatible with all major Office formats including Microsoft Office..

TeamViewer QuickSupport 
Remote Access to your Computer.
TeamViewer with no installation or admin rights required. Simply launch the QuickSupport module and your’re ready to go.