Free Windows Software

I compiled a list of Windows software that are free (as in free beer), most are also open source (as in free speech) and I use those commonly for daily tasks, sorted by relevancy and by categories:

To make easier to install all the programs use: ninite.com

• Internet Browser - Chrome or Firefox or Opera or TorBrowser

Media:

• Print Screen and Upload - Hyperdesktop or ShareX
• Visual Text Editing - Notepad++ 
• Video/Audio Playback - VLC player or CCCP
• Video Converter - FormatFactory or HandBrake
• Audio Editing - Audacity
• Audio Converter - freac
• Picture/Image Editing - gimp
• Screen Recording - CamStudio or Free-Screen-Video-Recorder
• iPod music upload - Winamp
• Time-Lapse - panolapse360
• CD burning - CDburnerXP
• USB bootable - Rufus
• CD ripping - cdex or exactaudiocopy
• CD/DVD image/data burning - ImgBurn
• CD/DVD emulation and image mounting - MagicDisk
• E-book (epub) management - calibre-ebook
• Torrent Client - qBittorrent
• Torrent Index Search Engine- torrentz.eu or bitscoop or piratebay 
• Monitor color comfort - f.lux
• Web server bundle - WampServer or Xampp
• Office Productivity - LibreOffice.org (or OpenOffice.org)
• Fax - FaxZero
• PDF signing - HelloSign

Security/Administration:

• Anti-Virus - Avast or AVG or Virus Total or BitDefender
• Anti-Spyware - SpyBot
• SSH Client - Putty
• SSH Server - OpenSSH or WinSSHD
• FTP/SFTP client - WinSCP
• Secure password keeping - KeePass or passwordsafe
• File encryption - VeraCrypt or 7-Zip
• Archive and Compression/Decompression - 7-Zip
• Automate Windows - AutoHotkey
• Virtualization - VMware Player or VirtualBox
• CPU temperature/fan speed - Speed Fan
• Optimization and Cleaning - CCleaner
• Remote Desktop - UltraVNC or TeamViewer or Join.me
• Remote Resource Monitoring - Nagios
• Website Monitoring - Pingdom (hosted) or WebsiteMonitor (local)

Hope you enjoy those as much as I do, I will keep updating this as I find more, any suggestions/ideas/comments are always welcome! Thanks for visiting :)

Last update: May, 2016