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Sometimes you get what you don't pay for. Here are nearly one dozen of the best freebies and -- most important --where to get them.

Office product. Web base applications are becoming very popular and they can do basically the same as the ones that you can buy from Microsoft.

Office Products

OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Google Docs

Upload from and save to your desktop

Edit anytime, from anywhere

Pick who can access your documents

Share changes in real time

Files are stored securely online

It's free!

Antivirus Software

Avast! Home Edition

avast! antivirus Home Edition is available free of charge for non-commercial home use ONLY. If you are not a home user or if you use your computer for business purposes, please download the avast! Professional Edition.

AVG Free Edition

Download the most trusted free antivirus and antispyware security software for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP

Malicious Software Removal Tools

Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes is a site dedicated to fighting malware. Malwarebytes has developed a variety of tools that can identify and remove malicious software from your computer. When your computer becomes infected, Malwarebytes can provide the needed assistance to remove the infection and restore the machine back to optimum performance.

Ad-Aware Free

Ad-Aware Free Anti-Malware features real-time protection, a rootkit removal system, automatic updates, and much more — to ensure that you have the power to protect yourself online.

Spybot - Search & Destroy

Searches whole computer or just a certain file for malicious software commonly missed by anti-virus programs. Can be used to clean usage tracks.

Remove Antivirus 2009

Antivirus 2009 is a new rogue anti-spyware program from the same family as Antivirus 2008 and Doctor Antivirus . Antivirus 2009 is installed and advertised through the use of misleading web sites that attempt to make you think your computer is infected with a variety of malware. Once installed, Antivirus 2009 will scan your computer and list a variety of fake infections that can't be removed unless you first purchase the software. (pdf)

"application and services worth paying for ... but you don't have to"

Remove Antivirus 2009
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Replace Internet Explorer w/Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an incredibly powerful, safe, and user-friendly browser.

	Skype – Make free calls With Skype you can make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype for as long as you like
	Best Free File Zip Utility – 7-Zip 7-Zip is one of very few free utilities that can admirably handle RAR archives. RAR archives offer the greatest level of compression but they are also notoriously difficult to cope with.
	Registry Cleaner – EasyCleaner EasyCleaner is a free registry cleaner that only cleans files that have definite problems and will not cause problems in the process.
	File Cleaner – CCleaner CCleaner, short for Crap Cleaner, enables you to potentially free up masses of disk space by removing unnecessary and unwanted files from your hard drive.
	File Shredder – Eraser There are many reasons why you might want to securely erase files and other documents from your computer.
	File Recovery Application – Smart FAT Recovery We’ve all lost files and programs that we desperately needed to keep. Data loss can happen for any number of reasons but it is equally damaging whatever the reason.
	Trend Micro HijackThis If persistent spyware is bogging down your computer, you might need HijackThis. The tiny program examines vulnerable or suspect parts of your system, such as browser helper objects and certain types of Registry keys.
	Popup Blocker – Google Toolbar Google toolbar does have its limitations in terms of popup blocking but because of its combination of ease and effectiveness it is the best free popup blocker for novice users
	YouTube Downloader Download FLV files from YouTube, and to convert them to most major formats
	YouTube to MP3 Converter Free YouTube to MP3 Converter. Extract and download music from YouTube movies and save it as MP3 files on your PC with one mouse click.
	WinRAR Archiver WinRAR provides the full RAR and ZIP file support, can decompress CAB, GZIP, ACE and other archive formats.
	SIW - System Information for Windows SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
	PC Repair System (web) Access a menu of 37 Windows repair and recovery utilities
	Hiren's BootCD 10.1 (web) All in One Bootable CD which has all these utilities
	UltraVNC 1.0.8.0 UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen.
	Windows Installer CleanUp Utility The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility is provided "as is" to help resolve installation problems for programs that use Microsoft Windows Installer.