Best Free Software [Nomination thread]

[jackuars]

I know this is going to be a subjective thread, but let's see what users consider as their favorite free software on their system, ones that they consider important to them.

The winner will be decided in 2 PHASES.

This thread will be a NOMINATION THREAD.The 10 most nominated products from this thread will be considered for the POLL THREAD from Apr 21st to Apr 30th.

How many products can you nominate? : You can nominate atmost 3 products [only free]. It **cannot** be an Antivirus product. This is because most users tend to prefer an antivirus since this is a security forum. There has also been a separate thread for the same.

This thread will be closed on 20-04-2016

The WINNER will be declared on 1st May 2016.

(157 votes by 52 people)
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PRODUCT NOMINATIONS (only top 10 will go to next stage)
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69 products have been nominated so far

• 7-Zip (16)

• CCleaner (13)

• MusicBee (7)

• qBittorrent (6)
• Sumatra PDF (6)

• Notepad ++ (5)
• PotPlayer (5)
• Sandboxie (5)

• Everything (4)
• GeekUninstaller (4)
• VLC Media Player(4)

• AIMP (3)
• Process Explorer (3)
• Revo Uninstaller (3)
• SUMo (3)

• Autoruns (2)
• AOMEI Backupper (2)
• Bandizip (2)
• f.lux (2)
• Heimdal (2)
• IOBit Uninstaller (2)
• JDownloader (2)
• Kingsoft Office (2)
• LibreOffice (2)
• Macrium Reflect (2)
• Oracle VM VirtualBox (2)
• PrivaZer (2)
• Secunia PSI (2)

• Auslogics DiskDefrag (1)
• AutoHotkey (1)
• Babylon (1)
• EagleGet (1)
• EaseUS Todo Backup (1)
• EditPad Lite (1)
• Evernote (1)
• eM Client (1)
• FastStone Image Viewer (1)
• Free Download Manager (1)
• Format Factory (1)
• Glary Utilities (1)
• Google Chrome (1)
• Handbrake (1)
• IOBit Unlocker (1)
• Keepass (1)
• Kiwix (1)
• KMPlayer (1)
• nomacs (1)
• NoVirusThanks EXE Radar (1)
• Okay Freedom (1)
• Opera Mail (1)
• Paragon Image Backup (1)
• PDFXChange PDF Editor (1)
• PS4 Remote Play (1)
• PushBullet (1)
• Q-Dir (1)
• ShareX (1)
• Skype (1)
• Spotify (1)
• TeamViewer (1)
• The Sage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus (1)
• Tixati (1)
• Toggl (1)
• Tweaking.com (1)
• UltraDefrag (1)
• uTorrent (1)
• VeraCrypt (1)
• VirusTotal Uploader (1)
• Vivaldi (1)
• Wisecare 365 Free (1)

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You can also mention why you chose the product(s)........

You can also use this thread (Best Free Software's for New PC) for a hint about different categories of software's.

 

[Reethu]

These are my choices

1. MusicBee
2. Kingsoft Office
3. The Sage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus

My first post in this great forum Hi to all

 

[jackuars]

My own choices would be

1. Potplayer - this is an unbeatable media player that's also constantly improving every month! . It's also a big brother to KMplayer

2. MusicBee - this one is a full featured music manager that's even better than Winamp during its prime. More importantly why is it free?

3. SUMo - I have yet to see any viable replacement to this software that keeps all my other softwares upto date

 

[Kate_L]

- Sumatra PDF
- 7-Zip
- Notepad++

 

[jackuars]

Would love to hear more responses

 

[jackuars]

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- Notepad++

My savior during the times of coding

 

[LabZero]

My best free software:

1- CCleaner: despite of many optimization tools around, it is the best about reliability.
2- Faststone Image: an excellent images editor, perhaps better than some paid apps.
3 - Paragon Image Backup: one of the best backup engine, never problems, until the last bit.

 

[Deleted member 178]

7zip
Process Explorer
VeraCrypt

 

[frogboy]

Macrium Reflect.
Bandizip.
Wisecare. 365 Free.
Aomei backupper.

 

[LabZero]

Zemana Antimalware Free version.
Bandizip.
Wisecare. 365 Free.

Antivirus/Antimalware is not allowed

 

[jerzy601]

my free program is:
- 7zip
-PSI
-Sumatra
and with Antivirus is Avira

 

[Deleted member 178]

edit: replace Veracrypt by Ccleaner please, im so used to it, i forgot. i feel like it is built-in windows

 

[Anupam]

7zip
Pot Player ( replaced VLC now )
Notepad++

 

[jamescv7]

My Free product votes

1) Sublime Notepad - I like the color coded formatting for HTML/CSS/Javascript and PHP, also you can group the tabs so that you can make your coding easier by comparing them.

2) WPS Office - The next alternative to Microsoft Office, no issues and pretty fine at all; even though certain issues occur about formatting breakage for .docx but the .doc is well optimized.

3) Virtualbox - The only VM which provides full functionality and open source.

 

[LahiruRajinda]

Here's mine:

• 7-Zip
• KMPlayer
• uTorrent

 

[Rishi]

I like :
7-Zip
Autohotkey
Everything (File search)

 

[tonibalas]

Bandzip
Secunia PSI
Sumatra pdf

 

[Ink]

f.lux - Benefits your eyes when using in the evening or low light at night.
PS4 Remote Play - I used PS3 Remote Play many years ago, it's great to see it's return for PS4 and wider support.
PushBullet - Never miss a notification, when your smartphone or tablet is out of reach.

 

[Noxx]

I can't really think of too many. I suppose:

- Sumatra PDF
- PotPlayer
- RevoUninstaller

 

[SHvFl]

Qbittorrent
Potplayer
Notepad++