BEST One-STOP Free Windows Software - 2014

[Oxygen]

Very good list.

 

[MalwareT]

MEGA for backup

 

[Raul90]

Very nice there sid_16! You the man!

 

[Sr. Normal]

What a great job !
If you allow me , I would Bandizip in Extraction and Compression
Must for beginners and for reference guide .
Thanks Sid_16

 

[Purshu_Pro]

Add Daum Pot Player for Media Players
ESET Online Scanner
Google Drive
Media Fire

 

[sid_16]

I should have created a new thread, but I think posting in this section is enough.

Development of Microsoft Network Monitor is stopped and it has been replaced by the new Message Analyzer.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=44226

 

[russ0408]

Thanks for the list Sid, much appreciated.

 

[MikeV]

This is the copy and paste of "BEST One-STOP Free Windows Software - 2014 " copied from My Digital Life forums posted by Mr Acrsn.
I would like to thank Mr Acrsn and MDL for giving me his permission to copy the contents to share here.
Why I copy paste it here is because this forums has every thing or offers best information, useful for it's visitors and members but one has to search a bit to get freeware for his/her needs. So please add your freeware (useful if not mentioned here).
P.S- (Admn. and Mods note) Please delete this thread if found inappropriate to be posted here.

Most popular applications for 2014.

For XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

All these applications are Reliable. They WORK GREAT in most system.
This software is FREE...ALL are malware/spyware CLEAN...

Links are directly to the developers/providers site so you can check out all the details and features of any application.
You will ALWAYS get the up-to-date version

Browse the categories and download any you like for install.

Couldn't be easier!

Note: Optional items and/or toolbars are many times auto-selected in freeware. Carefully look over each install dialogue, select 'custom' install and be sure to deselect anything you don't want...

**MUST Have apps. for Any PC**

Adobe Reader; Flash Player; Shockwave Player; http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
CCLeaner; http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer; http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en
Java; http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp
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1) Anti-Virus/Security;
Avast Free AV; http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
AVG Free; http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-afh
Avira Free; http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
BitDefender Free; http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html
Baidu Antivirus; http://antivirus.baidu.com/en/
ClamWin; http://www.clamwin.com/
Comodo Firewall; http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html
Comodo Internet Security; http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-...t-security.php
CureIt!-Dr. Web; http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/?lng=en
Microsoft Security Essentials; http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/secur...s/default.aspx
OutPostFree Security Suite; (multi-platform full-functional Free Internet Security Suite) http://free.agnitum.com/
Rising Antivirus Free Edition; http://www.freerav.com/
360 Internet Security; http://www.360safe.com/internet-security.html
SpywareBlaster; http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
Sandboxie; http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandboxie
Windows 7 Firewall Control (XP, Vista, W7, W8 support); http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall; http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en...e-firewall.htm
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a) Anti-Spam*
BullGuard Spamfilter; http://www.bullguard.com/products/bu...filter-10.aspx
MailWasher; http://www.mailwasher.net/
Spamfence; http://www.spamfence.net/about-spamfence.html
Spamihilator; http://www.spamihilator.com/
POPFile; http://getpopfile.org/#News
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b) File Security*
Metascan Online (files to 40MB); http://www.metascan-online.com/
Panda USB Vaccine; (USB anti-malware) http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeuse...ds/usbvaccine/
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2) Audio;
ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver For WDM Audio; http://www.asio4all.com/
Audacity; http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
EAC-Exact Audio Copy; http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Foobar2000; http://www.foobar2000.org/
Free Music Converter; http://www.freemusicconverter.net/
Power Sound Editor Free; http://www.free-sound-editor.com/
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a) Music downloader*
Songr; https://sites.google.com/site/getsongr/
StreamWriter (internet-radio recorder); http://streamwriter.org/en/
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b) Organization/Tagging*
MusicBrainz Picard (labeler); http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard
MP3TAG (labeler); http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Rename Master; http://www.joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?cid=108
Songbird; http://getsongbird.com/
TagScanner; http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm
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3) Browsers;
Avant Browser; http://www.avantbrowser.com/default.aspx?uil=en-US
Comodo Dragon; http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-...rs/browser.php
Firefox; http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/ Mozbackup; http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
Google Chrome; http://www.google.com/chrome/index.h...&utm_medium=ha
kylo; http://kylo.tv/
Maxthon Browser; http://www.maxthon.com/
Opera; http://www.opera.com/
RockMelt (beta); http://www.rockmelt.com/
Safari for PC or mac; http://www.apple.com/safari/
SlimBrowser; http://www.slimbrowser.net/en/
SpaceTime-3D Browser/search; http://www.spacetime.com/home.php
SRWare Iron; http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
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a) RSS readers*
FeedDemon; http://www.feeddemon.com/

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4) CD/DVD Burning & Tools;
bitRipper- DVD to AVI software; http://www.bitripper.com/
CDBurnerXP; http://cdburnerxp.se/
BurnAware Free; http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html
DeepBurner; http://www.deepburner.com/index.php
DVDShrink; http://www.dvdshrink.org/
Free Easy CD DVD Burner; http://www.koyotesoft.com/indexEn.html
Free ISO Burner; http://www.freeisoburner.com/
ImgBurn; http://www.imgburn.com/
Infra Recorder; http://infrarecorder.org/
Nero Kwik Media; http://www.nero.com/enu/downloads-nbl-free.php
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5) Codec packs;
CCCP; http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/ind...itle=Main_Page
K-Lite Codec pack; http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
Shark007; http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html

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6) CPU, Hardware & Memory testing tools;
CoreTemp; http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
CPUZ; http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z...s-history.html
Disk Benchmark; http://www.attotech.com/products/pro...Disk_Benchmark
GPU-Z; http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
HWiNFO/32/64 Tools (Professional System Information and Diagnostics); http://www.hwinfo.com/
HWMonitor; http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
IntelBurn Test; http://majorgeeks.com/IntelBurnTest_d5987.html
Memtest86; http://www.memtest.org/
OCCT; http://www.ocbase.com/index.php/software/20-occt
Prime95; http://www.mersenne.org/
RealTemp; http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/
SIW - System Information for Windows; http://www.gtopala.com/

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7) Data & File Recovery - In order of user ratings…

Recuva; http://www.piriform.com/recuva/features
Mini-Tool; http://www.powerdatarecovery.com/
EASEUS; http://www.easeus.com/product.htm
PC Inspector; http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1
TestDisc; http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
PhotoRec; http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Restoration; http://www.aumha.org/a/recover.php



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Impressive!!!!!
Very well done my friend

 

[TheSuperGeek]

Nice list ! It's very useful !

 

[TheSuperGeek]

Hello, nice list but :
-Add vivaldi web browser
-Xbmc is now Kodi.

 

[sid_16]

SIV - System Information Viewer

SIV by Ray Hinchliffe.

'System Information Viewer' is a general Windows utility for displaying lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info - CPU info, PCI info, PCMCIA info, USB info SMBus info, SPD info, ACPI methods, Machine info, Hardware Sensors, Networked computers, Operating System Information and more. SIV is designed for Windows 10, 8.1, 8.0, 7, Vista, XP, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT4. Windows 95, 98 and Me are also supported.
Core i7

Intel Xeon

Core 2

Itanium 2

Extreme

VIA Quad


Opteron

Phenom II X6

Machine

Processors

MCH Bridge

CPU Usage

Menus

Wi-Fi

Network

PCI Bus

USB Bus

Disk SMART

Volumes

Battery

Windows

Modems

CPUs

Download Mirrors;
Please download siv.zip from a mirror site FileCroco (official mirror) or MajorGeeks or OlderGeeks or Softpedia or TechSpot.
WDM and WDF Drivers

Source- SIV - System Information Viewer