Useful Windows PC Programs And Applications

Useful Windows PC Programs And Applications


I've been asked about the type of Windows PC software I use for my freelance work, as well as for Windows PC maintenance. So here's the list of software I use, or have used, regularly. This list includes both free software, as well as paid software.


For Word Processing:
Microsoft Word
OpenOffice Writer


For Presentations:
Microsoft PowerPoint
OpenOffice Impress


For Spreadsheets:
Microsoft Excel
OpenOffice Calc


For Document Protection:
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Reader


For Web Programming:
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Flash
Microsoft Notepad


For Graphic Design:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
MOOII Tech Photoscape


For Image Display:
Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer
Irfan Skiljan IrfanView
Google Picasa


For Audio Editing:
Sony Sound Forge
NCH Software WavePad Audio Editing Software
MAGIX Music Maker


For Audio Playback:
Nullsoft Winamp
Microsoft Windows Media Player
MusicBee


For Video Editing:
CyberLink PowerDirector
Adobe Premiere
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker


For Video Playback:
VideoLan Organization VLC Media Player
Microsoft Windows Media Player
Gretech Corp. GOM Media Player


For Video Conversion:
AVCLabs Any Video Converter
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate


For Windows PC Maintenance:
Piriform Ltd. CCleaner
Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC
Uniblue MaxiDisk
Microsoft Disk Defragmenter
Microsoft Disk Cleanup


For Windows PC Protection:
AVG AntiVirus
AVAST Software Avast! AntiVirus
Safer-Networking Ltd. Spybot - Search & Destroy
Malwarebytes Corporation Anti-Malware
Lavasoft Ad-Aware


For File Management:
Microsoft Windows Explorer
RARLAB WinRAR
WinZip Computing WinZip
Western Digital My Passport
Transcend Information Inc. StoreJet


For Internet Browsing:
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google Chrome


For File Sharing:
BitTorrent Inc. BitTorrent
BitTorrent Inc. µTorrent
Dropbox Inc. Dropbox
Yahoo! Inc. Flickr
Photobucket Corporation Photobucket
SnackTools PhotoSnack
Scribd Inc. Scribd
SlideShare Inc. SlideShare
YouSendIt Inc. YouSendIt
WeTransfer Inc. WeTransfer





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