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Are you tired of buying utilities or renewing license to your utilities on your already expensive Windows system? Here is a list of 50 such applications that are free to use. Furthermore, these applications do not require any fees and are available absolutely free.
1 Advanced SystemCare Free
Helps to protect, repair, clean and optimize your PC.
Owner : IObit
2 Wise Registry Cleaner Free
Helps you speeds up your PC by cleaning up your registry. Basically it provides windows registry clean up features with pretty easy to use interface.
Owner: WiseCleaner
3 Ccleaner
Helps you optimize your system by cleaning up the system. Cleanup includes Browser history, Trash Files, Temporary files and Log files. Further, it features un-installation of unused application and the registry cleanup.
Owner : Piriform Ltd.
4 Adobe Reader 9.1 
Adobe Reader lets you
• Open up and interact with all PDF documents.
• View, search, digitally sign, verify, print and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.
Owner : Adobe Systems Incorporated
5 PDF-XChange
PDF – Xchange standard features includes
• Add Comments and Annotations
• Add & apply Custom Stamps
• Mark-up pages with text and objects
• Type directly on any PDF page
• Extract text from a PDF page and few more.
Owner : Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd
6 AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
Protection against viruses and spyware
• Compatible with Windows Xp or higher
• Light weight and less overhead on OS.
Owner : AVG Technologies
7 avast! Home Edition
Simplest of application in terms of usability.
• Daily automatic updates
• Continuous data protection against all types of malware and spyware
• Available in 30 different languages.
Owner : ALWIL Software
8 Avira AntiVir Personal – FREE Antivirus
Provides Basic protection
for your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans.
• Available in 5 different languages
Owner : Avira.com
9 Avant Browser
Its salient feature include online profile storage to let user save users' bookmarks, RSS Feeds, configurations or web passwords etc, in Avant Online Storage.
Owner : Avant Force
10 Open Office 3.0 
Open office is an open source office suite for Windows. This is available for free download and serves as good alternative to well know Microsoft's Word & Excel. It has full-featured set of office applications for word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs.
Owner : CollabNet, Inc., Sun, Sun Microsystems
11 DropBox
This application lets your share files with an account and you could use up to 2 GB (greater space requires paid accounts). This is quite handy tool for sharing your file over internet.
Owner : DropBOX.com
12 SKYPE
This popular freeware is VOIP based application which helps you voice call and is available for free download. You may make computer to computer calls for free. Moreover, Skype is one of the cheap VOIP service available to make computer to Phone calls.
Owner : Skype Limited
13 Smart Defrag
Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drives more efficiently.
• Ease of use along with Data Safety and Reliability Guaranteed
Owner : IObit.com
14 Download Accelerator Plus
- Provides Mirroring Speed Boost to download from the fastest sources.
- Available in 38 languages
- Built-in Twitter integration to Tweet directly from DAP
Owner : SpeedBit Ltd
15 Flash Player
Plays multimedia design made with Flash.
Owner : Adobe Systems Incorporated
16 VLC Media Player 
• It supports various audio and video formats which include MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc.
• Further, it is handy for use with DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Owner : Videolan.org
17 YouTube Downloader
• YouTube Downloader is software that allows you to download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many others
• This lets you convert them to other video formats for Ipod, Iphone, PSP, Cell Phone, Windows Media, XVid and MP3.
Owner : Biennesoft
18 Irfan View
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• File search
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option and many more.
Owner : Irfan skiljan
19 Notepad++
• It is a very good source code editor with support for several programming languages.
• Very good search and replace option.
• It has good Bookmarking and Multi-document support feature.
Owner : sourceforge.net
20 Textpad
• Huge files can be edited, up to the limits of 32-bit virtual memory.
• Good search and replace files in huge files.
• Warm Start feature lets you restart exactly where you left off.
• And many more.
Owner : Helios Software Solutions
21 Word Web
• Provides Definitions, Synonyms and Usage for 150000 root words.
• Includes audio pronunciations
• Light-weight to the system
Owner : WordWeb Software
22 Applian FLV Player 2.0
• Play FLV Files on any PC
• Zoom to 2x or full screen.
• Includes free audio/video recorder & converter option.
Owner : Applian Technologies Inc.
23 Easeus Partition Manager 3.5 
• Resize/Move partitions without data loss
• Extend system partition easily and safely
• Create, Merge, Split, Delete and Format partitions
• Support up to 2TB partition or hard drive
Owner : CHENGDU YIWO Tech Development Co., Ltd.
24 Free YouTube to MP3 Converter
• Lets you convert the YouTube video and download it as MP3 or Wav format.
• Automatically fills the title tag and the artwork in the downloaded mp3 files.
Owner : DVDVideoSoft Limited
25 Undelete Plus
• Restore accidentally deleted files
• Image recovery from Compact Flash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards.
Owner : Phoenix Technologies Ltd
26 Video mp3 Extractor 1.8
• Convert Video Files (AVI, ASF, WMV files) to mp3
• Fast audio extraction algorithm
• Easy to use interface.
Owner : GeoVid.
27 Diagram Designer 1.22
• Creating flowcharts, UML class diagrams, illustrations and slide shows.
• Import/export WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, ICO, GIF and PCX images.
• Consists of slide show viewer and Simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions.
Owner : meesoft.logicnet.dk
28 Real Temp
• Reads temperature information for all inter Core processors.
• Keep track of the minimum and the maximum temperature of the processor.
• Provides calibration features for each core of your processor.
Owner : www.techPowerUp.com
29 Pidgin
• Free chat client with support for Msn, Yahoo, AIM Google Talk and other chat networks all at once.
• Supports more than 60 different languages.
Owner : pidgin.im
30 VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1 
• Easy connect and use remote computer screen.
• Easy to install and use.
• Supports loading and saving of .vnc a file which contains a set of connection options.
Owner : RealVNC Limited
31 Free Video to iPod and PSP Converter
• Helps convert full video or the part of video to Apple iPod, Sony PSP, BlackBerry and mobile phones MP4 video format
Owner : DVDVideoSoft Limited
32 LimeWire
• Helps user connect to P2P network and share the file they want to share.
• Faster starup and less waiting time.
• Better memory usage
• Free download and usage for basic usage.
Owner : Lime Wire LLC
33 FrostWire
• Completely free and open source.
• Provides Faster Torrent Speeds, I-Tunes compatibility, Friendly online chat rooms, easy navigation and many more.
Owner : frostwire.com
34 JetAudio
Even though plus Vx cost but basic version is absolutely free. Features it consists are as
• Audio CD ripping
• Voice recording
• File conversion between various formats and
• Audio CD buring.
Owner : JetAudio Inc.
35 Sql Tools 
• This tool is for Oracle 8/9i/10g PL/SQL development.
• Provides good basic editor services
• Easy to install and connect to ORACLE server
Owner : Aleksey Kochetov
36 Tortoise SVN
Tortoise SVN is Subversion client having features such as
• Atomic Commits
• Directory and File versioning,
• Versioned Metadata
• Consistent Data Handling
• Reliable and quick tagging and branching and many more.
Owner : subversion.tigris.org
37 7 Zip
• High Compression ratio
• Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format
• Supports multiple formats such as 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats
Owner : Igor Pavlov
38 The Gimp
The GIMP is a more of the complex image editor like Photoshop available for windows platform. This application is free for download. It is quite good alternative Adobe's Photoshop with similar features available for use.
Owner : The GIMP Team
39 iTunes
ITunes is a freeware that helps you play your digital music and video. It helps you synchronize your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.
Owner : Apple Inc.
40 JCreator
Jcreator is a light weight IDE for Java Programmers. Project management, project templates, code-completion, debugger interface, editor with syntax highlighting, wizards and a fully customizable user interface are some of the functionality that it provides.
Owner : Xinox Software
41 Eclipse
Eclipse is Software Development environment with support for multiple programming languages such as Java, C++, perl, PHP and others.
Owner : The Eclipse Foundation
42 MySql
MySql is a free open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). This is the most popular open source RDBMS and offers free download and usage. Further this has adequate features needed by small to medium scale database.
Owner : Sun Microsystems, Inc
43 Cygwin
Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
This provides a DLL which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.
Owner : Cygwin
44 Apache 
• This is free/open source http web server.
• This provided Server-side programming language support to authentication schemes.
Owner : Apache Software Foundation
45 Xampp
• Xampp is a comprehensive set of web development resources under a bundle.
• This is integrated package that consist PHP, PHP myAdmin, Mysql RDBMS, Apache Web server, Filezilla Ftp Client and few more.
Owner : Apache Friends
46 HTTrack
• This is freeware that you download the full website into your local folder.
• Arranges the file in the same directory structure.
• Further, lets you browse the pages with offline browser utility.
Owner : Xavier Roche & other contributors
47 AVS TV Box Free
• AVS TV Box Beta is a FREE universal software TV viewer and comes along with Personal Video Recorder functionality (PVR) .
• PVR allows you to schedule TV recordings.
• It works with any windows video capture device like satellite, TV and DVB cards, miniDV cameras, video capture cards and others.
Owner : Online Media Technologies Ltd., UK
48 Mozilla ThunderBird 
• This is good alternative to Microsoft's Outlook. This is an email client email and Usenet client.
• Provides features such as easy mail setup, attachment re-minder, One click Address Book and many more.
Owner : Mozilla
49 Free Guitar Tuner
Free guitar tuner provides features for tuning acoustic and electric guitars. It provides few set of tones to tune it.
Owner : GCH Guitar Academy
50 mTorrent
mTorrent is free to download and use torrent client. This is one of the finest, speedy, efficient, and free torrent clients. Ease of installation and use along with user friendly GUI makes it quite popular.
Owner : BitTorrent, Inc.
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