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*Common Sense - Free and almost 100% effective assuming it is installed correctly.
*Common Sense - Free and almost 100% effective assuming it is installed correctly.
*[http://www.avira.com/en/downloads/ Avira] - Avira Free Antivirus
*[http://www.avira.com/en/downloads/ Avira] - Avira Free Antivirus
*[http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download/ Mircosoft Security Essentials] - Designed to be bottom-of-the-barrel per Micro$hit's own admission [http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/384394/microsoft-security-essentials-is-designed-to-be-bottom-of-the-antivirus-rankings].
*[http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download/ Mircosoft Security Essentials]
*[http://www.malwarebytes.org/ MalwareBytes]
*[http://www.malwarebytes.org/ MalwareBytes]
*[http://www.eset.com/us/home/products/antivirus/ Nod32] ''(non-free)''
*[http://www.eset.com/us/home/products/antivirus/ Nod32] ''(non-free)''

Revision as of 16:16, 31 January 2014

Video Players

  • MPC-HC - open-source; with the madVR renderer for GPU rendering and more features (Download here)
  • mpv - open-source, supports H.265 playback. A fork of mplayer(2). (Download here)
  • VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. (Download here)
  • PotPlayer - Freeware piece of shit written by koreans that violates the GPL, Use MPC-HC or mpv instead you hipster faggot.

Audio Players

  • foobar2000 - freeware; lightweight and customizable
  • MusicBee - freeware; customizable and powerful
  • MediaMonkey - freemium; powerful media player with a great database
  • AIMP - Freeware, considered successor to WinAmp

PDF Readers

Image Viewer

Image Editor

  • GIMP - A popular Photoshop alternative - as good as it tries to be; known to be buggy
  • Paint.NET - Started as a MS Paint alternative, now integrates plenty of features such as layers and effects

Video Encoder

H.264&Others

  • HandBrake - Very basic
  • MeGUI - Supports Hi10P encoding
  • StaxRip - Supports fairly advanced audio encoding, batch processing

H.265

  • x265 - Pre-alpha x265 builds

Audio Editor

Office Suite

  • OpenOffice - If you're an idiot, and want to use a dying and deprecated program [1] for some for some bizarre reason. Oddly, things didn't work out for Oracle, so they gave the license to the Apache Foundation who released it under their own license.
  • LibreOffice - After Oracle acquired OpenOffice, it asked community members to GTFO [2]. Since everyone despises Oracle, the developers all jumped ship as well [3] and stared LibreOffice.

Text Editor

Hex Editor

Archiving

  • 7-Zip - LGPL, handles every compression format you are likely to encounter, and a bunch you aren't unless you're a time traveler from a BBS circa 1991.
  • WinRAR - WinRAR is also a Archiving software just like 7-Zip, does the same thing.

Encryption

Disk Burning

Virtual CD/DVD Drive

Anti-Virus/Malware

Firewall

Defragmenter

Don't use these on your SSD, you moran.
  • Defraggler
  • MyDefrag - Freeware, based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft. Also optimizes file locations.

Cleaner

File Recovery

Computer Specs

Virtual Machine

Virtual Desktop Manager

  • VirtuaWin - Allows you to use multiple virtual desktops

Terminals

  • Cygwin - Terminal that gives you the feel of GNU/Linux on windows.

Misc & utils

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