Since there's never lack of free software to be found online and some of the freeware are really excellent, it抯 not necessary to spend money on those function similar products. Here picks top 10 freeware related with antivirus, DVD burning, photo editing, etc. Those freeware are all popular in 2010 and absolutely qualified to be considered as the Must-have software for your PC.
1. AVG 9 Antivirus ?Free Antivirus Software
AVG is a freeware anti-virus tool that will scan and protect your computer from malware, spyware and viruses. It is a free replacement for commercial antivirus software such as Norton and McAfee. It also features an antivirus module but also modules for detecting spyware, basic anti rootkit protection, email and phishing protection as well as the AVG Link scanner to provide safety ratings for websites.
2. Movie DVD Maker ?Free DVD Creator Software
Sothink Movie DVD Maker is a free DVD creator. It can fast burn any video to DVD movies on all kinds of DVD discs. It is very easy to use and even beginners could create DVD movies from AVI, MP4, WMV, RM, 3GP, FLV, MOV, MKV, M2TS, etc. Since this DVD creator supports all popular video formats and all DVD discs, it is a good choice for DVD back-up. As for video editing and DVD menu customizing, those DVD authoring functions make it also a wonder choice for DVD movie creation.
3. Recuva ?Free File Recovery Tool
Recuva is a simple to use and effective data recovery tool. It recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. The supported recoverting items include: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 , NTFS + EFS file systems; Removable media (SmartMedia, Secure Digital, MemoryStick, Digital cameras, Floppy disks, Jaz Disks, Sony Memory Sticks, Compact Flash cards, Smart Media Cards, Secure Digital Cards, etc.); External ZIP drives , Firewire and USB Hard drives; iPods and other MP3 players; Emails deleted from Thunderbird.
4. Picasa ?Free Photo Organizing Software
Picasa is a great free utility from Google that lets you organize all photos and other images (jpg, png, gif and tif files etc) on your hard disk, and also, if you choose, publish the pictures for free on an Internet web site. Simple photo editing tools are also available, such as rotate, crop, straighten, redeye, auto contrast, auto color, fill light, highlight, shadows, color temperature, and many more. Also support photo tag now.
5. Gtalk - Free Instant Message Tool
Gtalk is another application by Google. It is the cutest and cleanest chat tool on desk and it works excellent on both text chat and voice chat. It also could be used through your Gmail and supports file transfer.
6. PDFXCHANGE Viewer ?Free PDF Reader
The free version of PDFXCHANGE, which simply has the features of the Pro version disabled, has enough capabilities to satisfy all but the most demanding of users. The toolbars can be customized to suit user taste, even the performance of the application, maximum memory usage, number of threads and so on can be tuned.
7. CCleaner ?Free Hard Drive Cleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
8. VLC Media Player ?Free Media Player
VLC is a powerful media player, playing most of the media codecs and video formats out there.
9. FreeZip ?Free Zip Utility
FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories in Windows 95/98/NT. FreeZip integrates with Windows Explorer and uses file associations and context menus to zip or unzip files, including long file names and subdirectories. If you know how to use Windows Explorer, then you do not have to learn anything new to use FreeZip.
10. YouTube Downloader ?Free YouTube Video Downloader
Actually YouTube Downloader is a free add-on for Firefox browser. It is small and very useful. When you with Firefox to open a web page containing some online video, such as YouTube, it will automatically capture and download the video for you to enjoy offline.
