It can be difficult to find useful free software.  This list is a good place to start.

Key:  Business & Home Use        Home Use Only

Security

• Microsoft Security Essentials  (Anti-Virus) (Free for Businesses with up to 10 computers)
  http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
• AVG Anti-Virus Free  (Anti-Virus)
  http://free.avg.com/
• Avira AntiVir Personal  (Anti-Virus)
  http://www.free-av.com/
• Comodo Internet Security  (Anti-Virus & Firewall)
  http://www.comodo.com/

Multimedia Burners, Rippers and Players

• CDBurnerXP Pro  (Burn CDs and DVDs with ease.)
  http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
• HandBrake  (Convert almost any media such as DVD movies into formats that can be used by devices like iPods.)
  http://handbrake.fr/
• ImgBurn  (Quickly and reliably burns image files of all types to CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.)
  http://www.imgburn.com/
• VirtualDub  (A video capture/processing utility with simplified capabilities like Adobe Premier.)
  http://www.virtualdub.org/
• VLC Media Player  (Plays DVDs and most other media files.)
  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Miscellaneous

• 7-Zip  (WinZip or WinRAR?  Who needs them?  This is free and works faster!)
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
• Audacity  (A great multi-track audio editor.)
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• Cartes du Ciel Sky Charts  (Powerful Sky/Space charting and mapping.)
  http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html
• FBackup  (This backup software works great and has features usually only available in commercial products) http://www.fbackup.com/
• Google Software  (Many useful programs and utilities.)
  http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
• Inno Setup  (Program for creating customized software installations.  Similar to Installshield and WISE.)
  http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
• Orbit Downloader  (Helps you easily and quickly download all types of files and multimedia from the Internet.)
  http://www.orbitdownloader.com/download.htm

Office Productivity

• PDFCreator  (Anything you can print, you can make into an PDF.)
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
• PDF Split and Merge  (Does what it says.  Slice and dice or make them all whole again.)
  http://www.pdfsam.org/
• OpenOffice.org  (An open source office productivity suite.)
  http://www.openoffice.org/
• Scribus  (Desktop Publisher.  Professional page layout with "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.)
  http://www.scribus.net/

Photo Editing & Management

• GIMP  (Advanced Photo Editor.)
  http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
• Google Picasa  (One of the best photo management tools on the net.)
  http://picasa.google.com/index.html
• ImageMagick  (Create, edit, and compose images.)
  http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
• Inkscape  (Scalable Vector Graphics Editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator and Freehand using the (SVG) file format.)
  http://www.inkscape.org/download.php
• Paint.Net  (Great alternative to Adobe Photoshop.)
  http://www.getpaint.net/

Remote Control

• TightVNC  (A well packaged remote control software that is know for reliability.)
  http://www.tightvnc.org/
• UltraVNC  (Another flavor of VNC remote control.  This version has some other compelling advanced features.)
  http://www.uvnc.com/

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