10 Free Software That Are Actually Great! 2020
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Date: 2020-05-09
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Lotusrk123
Advanced SystemCare 7 Free is old but THE best. Upgrading to newer versions (8 thru 11) have caused problems like scans running in sleep mode that cause Hard Drives to crash. I have 75 computers and have never lost a HDD using version 7, quite the opposite it vastly prolongs life and makes for faster boot times. Has many features not found on the newer versions. Once installed, it will automatically upgrade, just uninstall and re-install and from then on it will ask permission to upgrade, which I deny. Another oldy but goody is Auslogics Disk Defrag Free version 7.1.4.0. It too has many features not found on newer versions, like defrag & optimize .
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Advanced SystemCare 7 Free is old but THE best. Upgrading to newer versions (8 thru 11) have caused problems like scans running in sleep mode that cause Hard Drives to crash. I have 75 computers and have never lost a HDD using version 7, quite the opposite it vastly prolongs life and makes for faster boot times. Has many features not found on the newer versions. Once installed, it will automatically upgrade, just uninstall and re-install and from then on it will ask permission to upgrade, which I deny. Another oldy but goody is Auslogics Disk Defrag Free version 7.1.4.0. It too has many features not found on newer versions, like defrag & optimize .
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dlwatib
All of my software is free. I am reluctant to mess up my Windows registry with another program install when there is a portable version available. For that reason most of my software comes via portableapps.com . As a bonus, they provide a downloader and launcher program and it also can update any of the software it downloaded. Very handy! LibreOffice, Notepad++, Password Safe and BabelMap are the portableapps programs I use most. I do use a few programs from other sources: Palemoon browser and AutoHotKey are the most notable. Oh, and I've used ClassicShell ever since Windows 8. I forget that it's not the native start menu.
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All of my software is free. I am reluctant to mess up my Windows registry with another program install when there is a portable version available. For that reason most of my software comes via portableapps.com . As a bonus, they provide a downloader and launcher program and it also can update any of the software it downloaded. Very handy! LibreOffice, Notepad++, Password Safe and BabelMap are the portableapps programs I use most. I do use a few programs from other sources: Palemoon browser and AutoHotKey are the most notable. Oh, and I've used ClassicShell ever since Windows 8. I forget that it's not the native start menu.
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superbrighteye
gom player (good horizontal flip/mirror mode for your fav movies so your brain pics up new details )and easy zoom in steps use simply the + key zoom player (there is a free version)also has variable zoom you can set mousewheel to zoom in and out but gomplayer does it too and is simpler any video converter Bitser (file unpacking) MusicBee Music center for pc (sony) has DSEE but no mp4 playback only does audio) wasapi mode also stream to device (its predecessor Media Go 3.2 does also mp4 but has no DSEE) Serviio (server (lets you stream mkv pc files etc. in your home network and to a home network blu ray player)
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gom player (good horizontal flip/mirror mode for your fav movies so your brain pics up new details )and easy zoom in steps use simply the + key zoom player (there is a free version)also has variable zoom you can set mousewheel to zoom in and out but gomplayer does it too and is simpler any video converter Bitser (file unpacking) MusicBee Music center for pc (sony) has DSEE but no mp4 playback only does audio) wasapi mode also stream to device (its predecessor Media Go 3.2 does also mp4 but has no DSEE) Serviio (server (lets you stream mkv pc files etc. in your home network and to a home network blu ray player)
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Pavel
XnView is not free for commercial use. But if programs like this can be on the list, these are mine favorite: DaVinci Resolve (video editing), FastStoneImageViewer, emClient (email), VLC media player, NotePad++, 7zip I replaced inkscape by Affinity Designer, it's not free, but it's worth it. List is far from complete, but other programs are related to work. Worth mentioning: OBS (screen recording), VeraCrypt, Blender, VirtualBox, AIMP (mp3 player). Instead of Foxit i used PDF X-change viewer. And WizTree/WizFile when I want to free disk space or find file fast.
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XnView is not free for commercial use. But if programs like this can be on the list, these are mine favorite: DaVinci Resolve (video editing), FastStoneImageViewer, emClient (email), VLC media player, NotePad++, 7zip I replaced inkscape by Affinity Designer, it's not free, but it's worth it. List is far from complete, but other programs are related to work. Worth mentioning: OBS (screen recording), VeraCrypt, Blender, VirtualBox, AIMP (mp3 player). Instead of Foxit i used PDF X-change viewer. And WizTree/WizFile when I want to free disk space or find file fast.
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Agostinho
I just checked ProtonVPN and it does not seem to have a free option anymore, the BASIC option is paid. Audacity, a very complete software, strangely for a simple operation like copy and paste chunks of audio tracks is not straightforward, while other audio software is just as simple as copy - paste. Along the time, it is being created internet myths, and some are related to software that are considered the best. Unfortunately, sometimes they are not.
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I just checked ProtonVPN and it does not seem to have a free option anymore, the BASIC option is paid. Audacity, a very complete software, strangely for a simple operation like copy and paste chunks of audio tracks is not straightforward, while other audio software is just as simple as copy - paste. Along the time, it is being created internet myths, and some are related to software that are considered the best. Unfortunately, sometimes they are not.
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jimcooncat
brackets (html editor) Libre Office Thunderbird (email client) Apache 2 (web server) Inkscape (see you got that!) Pinta (paint program) Audacity (audio editor) Openshot (video editor) Fossil (version control and so much more) DB Browser for SQLite at sqlitebrowser.org (and SQLite, of course!) pgAdmin III (for working with PostgreSQL databases) Bash (command line shell) Tcl (an old programming language that's robust and stable)
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brackets (html editor) Libre Office Thunderbird (email client) Apache 2 (web server) Inkscape (see you got that!) Pinta (paint program) Audacity (audio editor) Openshot (video editor) Fossil (version control and so much more) DB Browser for SQLite at sqlitebrowser.org (and SQLite, of course!) pgAdmin III (for working with PostgreSQL databases) Bash (command line shell) Tcl (an old programming language that's robust and stable)
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7rich79
A few I like : 1) ScreenPresso - for capturing screenshots and doing various annotations and edits on those 2) KeePass 2 - offline password manager with autotype functionality 3) WinSCP - file transfer program (FTP, SFTP etc) 4) Notepad++ - great text file editor 5) OpenVPN - good VPN client 6) Bitvise - very good telnet/SSH alternative to putty 7) MusicBee - pretty good music player
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A few I like : 1) ScreenPresso - for capturing screenshots and doing various annotations and edits on those 2) KeePass 2 - offline password manager with autotype functionality 3) WinSCP - file transfer program (FTP, SFTP etc) 4) Notepad++ - great text file editor 5) OpenVPN - good VPN client 6) Bitvise - very good telnet/SSH alternative to putty 7) MusicBee - pretty good music player
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Greg
Windows and Linux: Qbittorrent for finding, downloads. Gkrellm for real-time system monitors. Windows only: Advanced System Care. Q-dir file manager. 7z file compression. Double killer, to locate & remove duplicates. Windows Gadgets for real time monitor of the computer. GoScreen for multiple display windows. Many others also used, but not easily remembered right now.
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Windows and Linux: Qbittorrent for finding, downloads. Gkrellm for real-time system monitors. Windows only: Advanced System Care. Q-dir file manager. 7z file compression. Double killer, to locate & remove duplicates. Windows Gadgets for real time monitor of the computer. GoScreen for multiple display windows. Many others also used, but not easily remembered right now.
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The_Chipmunk_
Drag'n'Crypt ULTRA FastStone Image Viewer Foobar2000 (Audio) Geek Uninstaller GOM Player HotkeyP (Shortcuts) Locate32 (Search files on your pc) Moo0 Audio Recorder Moo0 SimpleTimer Moo0 Video Cutter Neutron Time Sync Notepad2 Ntouch Time Stamp Changer Opera Browser PotPlayer PrcView (Process viewer) RecycleNOW ReNamer SMPlayer uTorrent VLC media player
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Drag'n'Crypt ULTRA FastStone Image Viewer Foobar2000 (Audio) Geek Uninstaller GOM Player HotkeyP (Shortcuts) Locate32 (Search files on your pc) Moo0 Audio Recorder Moo0 SimpleTimer Moo0 Video Cutter Neutron Time Sync Notepad2 Ntouch Time Stamp Changer Opera Browser PotPlayer PrcView (Process viewer) RecycleNOW ReNamer SMPlayer uTorrent VLC media player
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superbrighteye
added SMPLAYER lately it has a very good sound on pc (wasapi mode) and can also push video files on pc to your chromecast aslong chrome browser is set to the standard browser. when you choose play to chrome cast in smplayer it opens chrome and from there is goes to your chromecast. would be even better if it did stream to other devices too
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added SMPLAYER lately it has a very good sound on pc (wasapi mode) and can also push video files on pc to your chromecast aslong chrome browser is set to the standard browser. when you choose play to chrome cast in smplayer it opens chrome and from there is goes to your chromecast. would be even better if it did stream to other devices too
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