software list

NOT FREE:

acronis

The rest is FREE USEFUL SOFTWARE

For the standard home user, I recommend the following suite:

Firefox web browser, to replace Internet explorer

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Openoffice, to replace Microsoft Office

http://download.openoffice.org/

gfortran, to compile fortran programs

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries

Latex base

http://miktex.org/2.7/setup

Texnic center, Latex code editor

http://www.texniccenter.org/resources/required-components/29

Free antivirus software:

http://www.avira.com/en/download/

http://www.download.com/Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html?part=dl-10322935&subj=dl&tag=button&cdlPid=10986298

putty

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Winscp

http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

http://winscp.net/download/winscp421.exe

Windows to Linux file transfer

Xming

http://www.straightrunning.com/candidate/Xming-7-4-0-2-setup.exe

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

For advanced users,

data backup

http://clonezilla.org/

PC Inspector:

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/download.htm?language=1#

visualize disk usage:

Windows Directory Statistics

http://windirstat.info/

PC Recovery

Free NTFS, FAT recovery for windows

Ashampoo Burning Studio 6

DVD+R DL burner. Trial software

wireshark

network packet sniffer. Free

JRE

Java Runtime Environment, offline installer. Free

vitual box

emulate windows and linux OSs. Free

Foxit

PDF viewer AND PRINTER

acrobat reader

PDF viewer

cdburn

cdburn command prompt

mount ISOs in windows

pstools

sysinternals downloads

DIXML site

dixml

truecrypt

Encrypted containers, plausible deniability, encrypted windows boot partitions

firefox MSI:

http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/download_firefox.htm

Thunderbird

email client. Free

Karen's replicator

FREE CLEANING SOFTWARE

SpybotSD

Ashampoo WinOptimizer

clean up files.

hijack this

Adaware SE

belarc advisor

cc ccleaner

malware bytes

super anti spyware

Avira

http://www.avira.com/en/download/

sys internals, auto runs, psexplorer, procmon, rootkit revealer, regdelnull ...

mrt.exe from microsoft

MBSA also from microsoft

combo fix

sd fix

ewido antimalware

Windows Defender

hijack this

UPDATES

intelligent updates

updates for NAV, SAV for offline updating

windoze updates

USEFUL SITES

Google

If you don't know something, google it.

M$ downloads

RunPCRun

OS

You should be comfortable with the following:

PBX