Collection of free software

You can download free software for PC from internet. From where these software come? Open source are software created by volunteer programmers. These software can be downloaded and used free of cost legally. Some of these software are very well developed and popularly used such as Firefox, Joomla, Wordpress, ubuntu etc. These software are helpful to provide perfect service and with no financial cost. Anyone can download and change the source code of these software also. These software are opened under a license, you can read the license for details.



Besides, there are some free software which are made by an organization and anyone can download and use these software free of cost. But, source code of these software are not given.

Before downloading free software for PC, you must be sure that the requirements of such software including operating system (Windows 7, Vista, xp, Linux etc.), RAM, hard disk, other necessary software etc. exists in your computer.

To download free software, some popular free and opensource software with download links are given below:

Free Web Browser software

Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html?from=getfirefox

Opera - http://www.opera.com/

Flock - http://www.flock.com/

Free Office Application software

Open Office: www.openoffice.org

Free Operating system software

Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Free Anti-Virus software

AVG:  http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition-2011/3000-2239_4-10320142.html?part=dl-10044820&subj=dl&tag=button&cdlPid=11014801

AntiVir:  http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus

Avast:  http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10019223.html?part=dl-85737&subj=dl&tag=button

ClamWin : http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/

Open antivirus: http://www.openantivirus.org/

Free Chatting Software

Skype: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/business/skype-manager/

Yahoo! Messenger: http://messenger.yahoo.com/download/win/

Google Talk: http://www.google.com/talk/

Free Web design & development software

Joomla: http://www.joomla.org/download.html

Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/download/

Xampp: http://download.cnet.com/XAMPP/3000-10248_4-10703782.html  (windows only)

Php: http://php.com

Bluefish: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Html tool: http://www.all-freeware.com/subcat/161/web-development/web-html-tools.html

Amaya: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Seamonkey: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Css: http://www.all-freeware.com/subcat/164/web-development/web-other.html

Flash tool: http://www.all-freeware.com/subcat/160/web-development/web-flash-tools.html

Free E commerce software

Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com/ (enterprise edition is for sell and community edition is free)

osCommerce   http://www.oscommerce.com/

Zen Cart   http://www.zen-cart.com/

CubeCart   http://www.cubecart.com/

VirtueMart  http://virtuemart.net/    (It can be used with Joomla only)

Ubercart     http://www.ubercart.org/    (It can be used with Drupal only)

PrestaShop    http://www.prestashop.com/

Spree    http://spreecommerce.com/

WordPress e-Commerce Plugin   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/    (It can be used only with wordpress)

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Free Download Managers software

Download Manager: http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm

Utorrent: http://www.utorrent.com/

Flashget: http://www.amazesoft.com/index_en.htm

LeechGet: http://www.leechget.net/en/

Free Archive Managers (Zip software)

7-zip: http://www.7-zip.org/

Compress it: http://www.rg-software.de/

Free Gzip: http://www.gzip.org/

KGB Archiver: http://kgbarchiver.net/

Quick Zip 5.1: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/Quick-Zip.shtml

Free Audio players software

Jet Audio Basic - http://download.cnet.com/JetAudio-Basic/3000-2141_4-10013740.html?part=dl-56361&subj=dl&tag=button

Songbird - http://getsongbird.com/

AIMP2 - http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=download

Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/download

iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Free Graphic design software

GIMPshop: http://www.gimpshop.com/

Cenon:  http://www.cenon.info/frame_gb.html

Inkscape:  http://www.inkscape.org/

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Free CD/ DVD Burning software

Ultimate CD/ DVD Burner - http://www.mispbo.com/download.htm

Burn4Free - http://download.cnet.com/Burn4Free-CD-and-DVD/3000-2646_4-10217894.html?part=dl-6225127&subj=dl&tag=button

K3b    http://k3b.plainblack.com/  

Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download

CDBurnerXP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

ImgBurner - http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ImgBurn/1128426215/1

Infra Recorder - http://infrarecorder.org/?page_id=5

Free Desktop Customization software

Desktop Sidebar: http://www.desktopsidebar.com/download.html

Rainlendar: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php?option=com_rny_download&Itemid=32

Glass2k : http://chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml

CursorXP: http://download.cnet.com/CursorFX/3000-2317_4-10070056.html?part=dl-80664&subj=dl&tag=button

Free Defrag Software

Auslogics Disk Defrag - http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html?part=dl-6267754&subj=dl&tag=button

JKDefrag - http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/index.html

Free Anti-Spyware

Microsoft Windows Defender:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en&mg_id=10134

Ad-aware SE Personal – http://download.cnet.com/Ad-Aware-Free-Internet-Security/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

ComboFix – http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/combofix

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Malwarebytes-AntiMalware/1186760019/1

WinPatrol - http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

Free 3D Modeling software

Blender - http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Google Sketchup - http://sketchup.google.com/download/gsu.html

Freewrl: http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/

Free File Managers software

ExplorerXP - http://www.explorerxp.com/index.html#download

2xExplorer - http://www.free-downloads.net/downloads/2xExplorer/

Free Commander - http://www.freecommander.com/fc_downl_en.htm

CubicExplorer - http://www.cubicreality.com/ce/download/

 

Free Email Clients software

Evolution for Windows: http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/download.htm

Foxmail: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Foxmail-Download-4236.html

Zimbra: http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

Thunderbird: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Free File Repair and Recovery software

Avira UnErase Personal – http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Avira-UnErase-Personal-Download-82776.html

PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm

FreeUndelete - http://www.officerecovery.com/

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools -http://www.adrc.com/software/data_recovery_tools/

Free FTP Clients Software

Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/      (windows)

CoreFTP - http://www.coreftp.com/download.html

SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/download/

Free PDF editing software

PDFCreator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/    (Create PDF file easily)

Openberg: http://openberg.sourceforge.net       (You can read, write and publish ebooks with this one)

Ghostscript: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/

PDFedit: http://pdfedit.petricek.net

Free Image Viewers software

Irfanview: http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10021962.html?part=dl-IrfanView&subj=dl&tag=button

FastStone Image Viwer: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

Free System Tools software

Auto Hotkey - http://www.autohotkey.com/download/

Free Video Players software

Gom Player: http://download.cnet.com/GOM-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10551786.html?part=dl-GOMMediaP&subj=dl&tag=button

VLC: http://www.videolan.org/

Media Player Classic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/

DivX Player - http://www.divx.com/

BsPlayer - http://bsplayer.en.softonic.com/

Crystal Player Proffesinoal 1.98 - http://download.cnet.com/Crystal-Player-Professional/3000-2139_4-10210499.html?part=6197219&subj=dlpage&tag=button

Free Video Codecs software

K-lite codec pack - http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/KLite-Codec-Pack-Basic/1094057842/1

Real Alternative – http://www.free-codecs.com/real_alternative_download.htm

Combined Community Codec Pack (cccp) - http://www.cccp-project.net/

Free Webcam Software

Dorgem: http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/

Splitcam: - http://www.splitcamera.com/index.html

booruWebCam: - http://www.booru.net/download.html

Fwink:- http://lundie.ca/fwink/

Pryme:- http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Free Webgrabber software

Wget: http://wget.sunsite.dk/

Curl: http://curl.haxx.se/

Httrack: http://www.httrack.com/

Free Accounting software

GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/

Homebank: http://homebank.free.fr/

Free Mind mapping tool software

Freemind: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/

Free CSS editor software

Notepad++: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

Free Encryption software

TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/

Free Instant Messaging software

Pidgin: http://www.pidgin.im/

Free Uncategorised software

Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/    (ebook manager. It lets you to manage your ebooks, download content from internet and convert into ebook.)

 Qorganizer: http://qorganizer.sourceforge.net/  (manages your day to day to-dos, routine, reminder etc.)

taskcoach: http://www.taskcoach.org/     (to do lists, personal tasks)

GNU typist: http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/gtypist.html    (typing tutor)