Don't pay single penny to purchase different softwares whose free alternative is
available with lot of great features. So load your Fresh-Installed Windows with
all but completely free Softwares to meet your every day PC Requirement.
If you are a novice, have little knowledge of Computer and Windows, If
you want to know what the necessary software are required when you have
installed the Fresh Windows, then Read this file completely to LOAD your Windows
with utmost essential and software, you can do all of your job with these free
software. That can save huge amount of money if you were paying for any software
with similar functionality.
If you are on internet you
need an updated Version of Internet Browser, Updated version of Flash Player. If
you are music lover and play different formats of Audios and Videos, you need
different software to play, If you want to work with office document, you need
some type spread sheet programs like MS Office!
A Novice Computer User
need all of these software, he goes to market and buy high value software, I
have met some people who even do not know which software is required for which
function, and which is best!
Seeing this I have tried to compile all of
the necessary software that are required to install after a fresh installed
windows. Moreover I had tried to share only the free licensed software to save
your Computer operating Budget!
I am sure you have installed all the
required hardware drivers for mother board etc, through the CD you have got with
that hardware.
1. Anti-Virus
The first and utmost essential software that you should
install after the fresh windows installation is any good Anti-Virus Program.
There are peoples who have to install Windows again and again due to viruses, or
their windows are corrupted soon after the fresh installation just because of
Viruses. There are various sources from where your PC can be infected with
Viruses! And the importance of Anti-Virus programs can not be denied. So do not
shut your PC and leave the installation of Anti-Virus program for tomorrow but
do it today.
You can find a list of Ten
Free Anti-virus programs, with some details. Select any one you like,
Download and install on your PC.
2. Media Players
There are
various types of Videos and Audios format, and different media players are
required to play them. With the Windows installation only Window Media Player is
installed, which is unable to play various types of Videos/Audios format. So you
need a media player which can solve this problem, and can play almost all of the
media formats and saves your money for buying different paid Media Players for
different media formats.
There are various free and good Media players that you
can download and install free of cost and can play majority of media formats.
Here is the list of some programs;
1. K-lite Codec
This utility installs codec and works with your Windows
Media Player, and enables it to play many of the media formats.
Download K-Lite
Codec2. VLC (Video Lan Codec) VLC is a free and open
source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia
files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Download VLC3. Miro
This is also free software, which promises to play all media formats. Beside
media player you can do more function with Mir, e.g. Convert Video/Audio to
other formats, download torrents etc.
Click to
know
more about Miro and get download link from there.
Besides these,
there are various other free media players, you can Google to find more.
4. File Archive Utilities (Compress/de-compress Files) Utilities
Most of the files you download from internet are compressed to reduce the
file size. Sometimes you also want to send files through emails and want to
reduce the file size to upload files faster. You need a File Compression
Utilities to carry out these jobs.
The well known file achievers are
Win-Rar and Win Zip, but as I promised I will share only the free software.
Here is the free tool 7-zip, to archive files. It supports many archive
formats than Win-Rar and Win-zip.
Read
complete feature of 7-Zip here and get download link.
5. Adobe
Reader Most of the documents you download from Internet are found in the
PDF format. To open these .pdf files you need Adobe Reader.
It is free
you can
Download Adobe Reader here.
6. Adobe Flash Player 
When you are browsing internet, animated content is
found nearly on all websites and to play those content you need to install Adobe
Flash Player. Most of the time Flash Player is auto – suggested by the browser
and it downloads automatically with your permission. If you want, you can
download Adobe Flash player here.
These were the software that are unavoidable with Windows. There are
some other software which are required by a PC user upon his need, and usage.
And to carry out any function you can get lot of variety of different software
(paid or free). I want share some of those which I prefer to install and use to
carry out particular job.
7. Internet Browsers 
Internet Explorer comes with the Windows Installation
but you can find different Internet Browser on net to download and use.
Such as
Google’s Chrome,
Mozilla Firefox,
Opera, and
Apple’s Safari etc all of the browsers
are completely free. Each browser comes with different features, claims to be
faster than others, and provides many different functions to ease an Internet
User.
It is up to you which browser you like most. I use Chrome at home
and Firefox at office.
8. Torrent Downloader

For those who download torrent files, with torrent
downloader, I will suggest to try
U
torrent, it is very light (low Capacity) software and I have found faster
torrent downloader than others.
The list can grow more and more. It is up to the PC
User’s requirement what ever job he needs to do on computer he requires
different software.
Regard
Rahul