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What is the most useful freeware you have found?

When you look for freeware you find a lot of crap. What is the best freeware you have found or been shown. Please provide like if possible. When you look for freeware you find a lot of crap. What is the best freeware(other than virus scans and things of that nature) you have found or been shown. Please provide link if possible.

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1. 1) AVG Free anti-virus http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ 2) Ad-aware spyware remover http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php 3) Spybot - Search and Destroy spyware remover http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html 4) Advanced WindowsCare Personal http://www.iobit.com/ 5) CCleaner - registry and privacy cleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ 6) Firefox - Web browser http://www.getfirefox.com 7) VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 8) Open Office - Office Suite http://www.openoffice.org/ 9) 7-Zip - File archiver http://www.7-zip.org/ 10) Audacity - Audio editor http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
2. fedora linux fedoraproject.org firefox firefox.com openoffice openoffice.org compiz-fusion from fedora installer kaffeine media player comes with kde kde.com gparted (the best partition editor ever) came with fedora
3. For me AVG and also some online virus scan. Kind of helpful if you are on a short budget.
4. I'd have a hard time picking between the following: RegProtect, StartupMonitor, CyberHawk, Advanced Windows Care, AdAware, Spybot SnD, & WinPatrol. Not necessarily in that order...