Top of the Most Popular Free Software

1. Firefox browser

Any PC user needs a good web browser. The one offered by Firefox is open source, highly customizable and includes many free useful plugins.

2. Avira Antivir

With so many threats out there a proper virusscanner is just a must-have on any PC. There are some antivirus software you can purchase like Norton Antivirus and McAfee but the price might be high. Among the free alternatives to be considered is Avirantivirus - freeware for personal use.

Go to Avira Antivir website

3. LimeWire

Useless to say how popular p2p applications have become and the percentage of those enjoying file-sharing. LimeWire remains one of the most used such p2p clients as our top shows. It's a free file sharing Gnutella client supporting Windows, Mac, OSX, Linux; impressive graphics, high performance, and user-friendliness make LimeWire the first popular file sharing program in our list.

Go to Limewire website

3. OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is an exhaustive suite which comes free for personal as well as commercial use. Actually is the most complete alternative for Microsoft Office. It includes a word processor, graphics editor, spreadsheet program, presentation program and database tool.

Go to OpenOffice.org website

4. Bittorrent

BitTorrent was the first free software which allowed users to share "Torrent-files". It remains a high appreciated p2p application due to its fast and easy downloading, uploading and sharing.

Go to Bittorrent website

5. VLC mediaplayer

It's almost impossible never to have come across this problem - sometimes you just can't play some media files like video or music or something (like colors or sounds) is not working properly. That's because Windows Media Player doesn't recognize all media codecs. VLC mediaplayer supports allmost all audio and video codecs.

Go to VLC website

6. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.1

AVG Free offers users the bare necessities such as a real-time shield to prevent infections, anti-virus and anti-malware within one engine, and a link scanner for Web surfing with care.

Go to grisoft.com

7. Picasa

Picasa is the free foto manager software courtesy of Google Inc. The program allows you to handle basic photo editing and organizing functions such as red eye reduction, resizing or turning a picture.

Go to Picasa website

7.ICQ 6

ICQ 6 provides a complete suite of digital and mobile communication tools available today, all wrapped up perfectly in a single message window.

Go here to download ICQ 6

8. SiteAdvisor

SiteAdvisor is the best security application after antivirus and firewall software. SiteAdvisor displays colored icons (red, yellow or green) next to the search results of the Google, Microsoft Live or Yahoo search engine depending on how safe is a site to visit. A red mark indicates an unsafe website.

Go to SiteAdvisor website

9. WinZip

WinZip is really a veteran tool whose utility remains constant. You can use it to quickly and easily compress and decompress files, folders, and entire folder trees to save storage space and decrease e-mail-transmission time, as well as encrypt and decrypt your confidential documents.

Go to Winzip website

10. WinRar

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. WinRAR offers a wide range of features among which we mention solid general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), restore affected archives, authenticity checking, embedded file comments, and encryption.

Go to Winrar website

The list we presented here was put together after our team studied what were lately the most looked for free software. What you have here includes the most user friendly and useful freeware and open source software. The list will be extended in a short while.