Top Free Windows Applications

A list of usable tool and utilities for Windows.

• Notepad++ – Plain text editor
• Google Chrome – fast browser
• Firefox – best web developer browser with plug-ins.
• Microsoft Powertoys for Windows XP – the PowerToys adds more functionality and programs that developers developed after Windows XP was released
• Microsoft Office 2007 Add-in: Save as PDF or XPS – allows you to export and save to PDF and XPS formats in 2007 Microsoft Office programs
• Ad-aware – Anti-spyware
• CCleaner – a freeware system optimization and privacy tool
• AVG – Anti-virus application
• Total Commander – file manager
• Daemon-Tools – Virtual cd/dvd-rom emulator
• Launchy – Keystroke Application Launcher
• Everything – Fast lightweight search engine
• TugZip – Archiving utility
• ImgBurn – Lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application
• VLC Player – cross-platform media player
• WinSCP – Secure file transfer
• TortoiseSVN – Version Control
• PuTTY – SSH client
• Pageant – Authentication agent
• PuTTYgen – Key generation utility
• Miktex – MiKTeX is an up-to-date implementation of TeX and related programs for Windows
• TeXnicCenter – TeXnicCenter is an integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents

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