Virus and Malware tools

AVG Antivirus

http://free.avg.com

Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org

Office Documents

Open Office

http://www.openoffice.org

A good replacement for Microsoft Office

Photo Editing/Organization

Picasa

http://www.google.com/picasa

Great Photo organizer and basic manipulation software

Paint.net

http://www.paint.net/

Photofiltre

http://photofiltre.free.fr/

XN view

http://www.xnview.com/

Cleaning and House Keeping

Ccleaner

http://www.ccleaner.com

Great Cleaner and Registry fixer

Revo Uninstaller

http://www.revo.com

Cleanup and uninstall in one move.

UltraExplorer

http://www.mustangpeak.net/

For Those With Windows 7 Great Explorer Alternative with normal search.

Syncback

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/

Backup to External Hard Drive without compression

iDrive

http://www.idrive.com/

Backup offsite to a secure internet server.

Internet

Google Chrome

http://www.google.com/chrome

Very Good, simple browser and fast

Mozilla Firefox

http://www.firefox.com

FreeDownloadManager

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Download files from the internet faster and more reliably.

FileZilla

http://filezilla-project.org/

Email

Windows Live Mail

http://download.live.com/wlmail

Mozilla Thunderbird

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/

CD/DVD Wrting

Nero Lite CD Burning

http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nero9-free.php

VOIP & Communications

Skype

http://www.skype.com

MSN Messenger

http://download.live.com/wlmail

Remote Control

TeamViewer

http://www.teamviewer.com

Take control of your computer remotely

Logmein

http://www.logmein.com

Video/Dvd

VLC media Player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

HDiPlayer

http://www.filmon.com

Watch TV (UK) over the Internet live

Handbreak

http://handbrake.fr/

DVDflick

http://www.dvdflick.net/