CCleaner Free – The standard version frees up space, clears your online tracks and helps you manage your machine so it runs faster.

Simple cleaning when you need it, or fully automated PC maintenance? Get it here

Adobe Acrobat Reader – The world’s most trusted free PDF viewer.

Take the work out of paperwork — for free Get it here

Popular Web Browsers –  Here are our top picks.

Firefox – The browser that protects what is important — Get it here
Google Chrome – The browser built by Google — Get it here
Opera – Your personal browser — Get it here
Brave – Online privacy by default — Get it here

Windows Live Essentials –  Email client and more.

Microsoft  no longer offers the Windows Essentials 2012 suite for download as it reached end of support on January 10, 2017, and it isn’t available in Windows 10.

Windows Essentials 2012 included:
Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Family Safety and OneDrive desktop app for Windows.

Windows Live Mail is still compatible with Microsoft’s newest operating system and work on Windows 10 without any problems. Get it here

Thunderbird –  Free Email client.

Make Email Easier – Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize – and it’s loaded with great features! — Get it here

Open Office –  The Free and Open Productivity Suite.

Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.— Get it here

Avast –  Free antivirus is your first step to online freedom.

Everyone has the right to be safe online. We have been using and recommending Avast to at least have some protection if not subscribing to a security product such as the highly recommended ESET Security — Get it here

Mail PassView –  Recover email settings and with passwords.

We have been using this utility for many years to recover lost email passwords or to simply backup all email settings before reloading a machine. The utility works on all Windows and can recover settings and passwords of Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, IncrediMail, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. — Get it here

(Note that some antivirus programs detect Mail PassView utility as infected, but rest assured that this is a false positive. We have been using the utility for many years without incident)

7Zip –  Our favorite file archive utility

7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as “archives”. It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z, but can read and write several others. — Get it here

ESET Free scan –  ESET`s Free Online Scanner

One-time scan to remove malware and threats from your computer for FREE. Smart way to test your antivirus.
Easy-to-use tool that can run alongside any existing antivirus completely free to use one-time scan — Get it here

VLC –  Best Free Multimedia Player for Windows

VLC is one of the best Windows 10 apps for playing videos and other media because of its robust features. It’s a free and open-source multimedia player that can decode a wide range of video files, from MPEG to MKV files and everything in between.  — Get it here or Here

Malwarebytes –  Best Free Anti-Malware App for Windows

If you want to protect your privacy and security, you’re going to need to install Malwarebytes. This free Windows 10 app makes it easy to scan for any kind of malware (or malicious software) and remove it from your Windows 10 computer. In fact, Malwarebytes claims that its app finds threats on 39 percent of devices that already have an anti-virus installed. — Get it here

FreeFileSync –  One of our favorite Free file backup Apps

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed. FreeFileSync is Open Source software, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. — Get it here

Teamviewer – The world’s most trusted remote access, control and support software.

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