Freeware software I can’t do without
Here’s my top ten.
Xplorer2 Lite version - Xplorer2 is a Dual-pane Windows Explorer replacement. With Xplorer2 moving and copying files between folders is a breeze. You can also assign shortcuts to commonly file and folder management functions.
MediaMonkey Free Version - MediaMonkey is a media management software. The software allows for mass file tagging and rating and lets you create playlists based on your ratings.
Free Download Manager - Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is absolutely free! Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before!. Download
VideoLan Player (VLC) is a free cross-platform media player supporting a wide range of codecs. Download VLC here
Irfanview - IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Download IrfanView
Ethereal - Ethereal is a open-source and free packet sniffer/analyzer.
Process Explorer - See all the hidden and running processes in your system. Very good software for detecting viruses and worms. Download Process Explorer
LAME codec - Encode your CD audio tracks to the highest quality mp3 files. Get LAME today
Firefox - The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Faster, safer, and easy to use. 
GIMP - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
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