List of Useful Software for Windows

I just finished setting up my laptop. It's got Windows 7 Home Premium installed. The following is a list of software I installed onto my laptop:

• 7-Zip or PeaZip
  
  Allows you to extract files from ZIP and RAR archives.
  
• Adobe Digital Editions
  
  An ebook reader
  
• Adobe Reader 9.0
  
• Aria2 command-line downloader
  
• avast! Antivirus Home or ClamWin
  
• Barnes and Noble eReader
  
• Calibre e-book manager
  
• CDBurnerXP, ImgBurn or InfraRecorder
  
  Free utility for burning CD's and DVD's
  
• Code::Blocks
  
  Free Integrated Development Environment for software programming
  
• Dia diagram editor
  
• Impact Color Fax
  
• eMule or aMule
  
  With *Mule client, you download files from eDonkey/Kademlia file-sharing network.
  
• FileZilla Server and FTP Client
  
  Free FTP server and client
  
• FlashPlayer
  
• FoxyTunes for Firefox
  
  Allows you to control music while surfing the Internet
  
• GIMP
  
  Helps you draw pictures and edit photographs.
  
• GnuCash
  
  Free accounting software
  
• GnuPlot
  
  plotting and graphing software
  
• Haansoft Hangul 2007
  
  Korean wordprocessor. More information is available here.
  
• Halogenware Retriever
  
  Download utility
  
• HashCheck Shell Extension or md5deep
  
  A tool for calculating hash values of a file to verify its integrity
  
• IBM Lotus Symphony
  
  Free office productivity software
  
• Impact ColorFax Lite
  
  Sends and receives fax.
  
• IfoEdit
  
  Allows you to edit DVD IFO files.
  
• ImgBurn
  
  a lightweight CD / DVD / HD-DVD / Blu-ray burning application
  
• Inkscape
  
  Lets you create and edit vector graphics.
  
• IsoBuster
  
  Allows you to retrieve data from ISO files.
  
• iTunes
  
• Java
  
• JetAudio
  
  music player
  
• jEdit
  
  Programmer's editor
  
• Maxima computer algebra system
  
• Microsoft Office 2010
  
• Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Maxthon
  
  Popular and powerful web browser
  
• MyDefrag
  
  FreeWare hard disk defragmenter
  
• OpenOffice.org 3.1
  
  Free powerful office productivity software
  
• OpenType Font Properties Extension 2.30
  
• PChat
  
  Lets you chat with friends on IRC networks.
  
• PDFCreator
  
• Pidgin
  
  Multi-protocol instant messaging software
  
• RealPlayer
  
• Sancho is a graphical frontend to mldonkey p2p daemon.
  
• Scribus
  
  Open-source desktop publishing software
  
• Sigil ePub editor
  
• Skype
  
• SMplayer
  
  Free movie player based on mplayer
  
• Songbird music player
  
• TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress
  
  Helps you to create and convert MPEG files.
  
• Transmission-Remote-Dotnet or Transmission-Remote-GUI
  
  Allows you to download files from bittorrent networks. Needs transmission Cygwin port.
  
• Unikey
  
  Helps you type Vietnamese.
  
• VirtuaWin
  
  A virtual desktop manager.
  
• VLC media player
  
• Windows Live Essentials
  
  Windows Messenger and Windows Live Mail
  
• WinImage
  
  Allows you to create and extract floppy and CD images.
  
• wxHexeditor
  
• XnView
  
  Software for viewing images and pictures
  
• XVid codec
  
• Yahoo! Messenger 9
  
• Yahoo! Toolbar
  
• Yahoo! Widgets
  
  Similar to Windows sidebar, displays useful information along the side of screen
  
• Zimbra Desktop
  
  Allows you to read and compose email offline.
  
• Zoom Player
  
• Zumodrive
  
  Network storage service
  

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