Best freeware you ever downloaded?

Question

And what did it do?How could it have been improved?

Answer 1

Inkscape, The Gimp and Irfanview image editing software. I wish the Gimp was a little more like Photoshop; its got all the same tools but its just not as easy to learn and doesn't support printing.

Avast anti virus, Ewido anti trojan, Winpatrol, Ad-Aware SE Personal security software. Zone alarm and Kerio personal firewall.

Audacity recording tool and converter.

Answer 2

Firefox (the one I use the most)

Thunderbird

MailScanner / Spamassassin / ClamAV (OK, so I'm a nerd)

Nagios (I monitor over 150 servers with it at work)

The GIMP

Wireshark

Linux (various flavours)

OpenOffice



Avast! Antivirus and more recently AOL's Active Virus Shield (the best of the free AVs)



How can they be improved? Well, they all are under continual improvement, and the new versions cost the same as the old ones, so there's no disincentive to upgrading.

Answer 3

PORTABLE Open Office. and PORTABLE Firefox. They are the same as regular OO and FF, BUT they've been modified to fit on and run from a 256 meg flash drive WITHOUT installation onto the host computer!



I've got them and key documents on a 512 meg flashdrive that hangs from my keychain. Where ever I go, I'm never without important tools and files.



All sorts of great apps have been converted to Portable status including GIMP, 7Zip, Filezilla, sodoku, and Sunbird. and Thunderbird. You can find them for FREE at:



http://portableapps.com/

Answer 4

AVG freeware anti-virus.......but when it starts to ask you to go-legal and upgrade all you do is go into settings and remove splash screen and it'll never bug you again!

Also get incredimail it's the best e-mail program in the world and magentic for out of this world screensavers and wallpapers TRUST ME!!!!

Answer 5

the best freeware has to be a)google earth ,dosent need to be improved b)avast anti-virus its allways being improved with regular updates c) picasa ,photo-editing software from google, updates are downloaded as and when they are avalible

Answer 6

CDex mp3 ripper, and general recoding software for music files. A really great, trouble free, and useful application.

Answer 7

Spybot search and destroy-2 years ago.

Take to long to update manually once you download it.

It searched for spyware lol.

Answer 8

these free ware not only were free but they help me save money every month

these are

SKYPE and Yahoo messenger

now i dont need home phone

because i can call anywhere in usa and canada with skype using my cable dsl for free.

and with yahoo i can talk any where in the world with voice option

Answer 9

Open Office, because it does everything that Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint do but costs nothing.

Answer 10

Eraser 5.8 - allows complete destruction of files and hard drives.



The software is perfect for what it does - no changes are necessary.

Answer 11

AVG AntiVirus because its probably better than Norton on detecting virus's

Answer 12

foxit pdf reader

why I rated it as no.1 in my list was

1. size is 2.76 mb

2. no installation needed

3. loads very faster compared to adobe acrobat 7.

Answer 13

OpenOffice.org

Thunderbird

Firefox

Answer 14

avast antivirus ,audacity for music ,

dvd decrypter ,dvdshrink ,dvdripper ,chopperxp for films

phoxel unit converter

to meny

Answer 15

firefox, web browser, well, could be a bit faster and better all around, but can't complain.

Answer 16

itunes just love music