Load Your Windows with 100% free and Open Source Softwares

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rahul malge

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Aug 20, 2011, 9:25:44 AM8/20/11
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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 Codec

2. 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 VLC

3. 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.


 
 
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Rahul
 

manoj kumar maurya

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Aug 21, 2011, 1:09:59 AM8/21/11
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Thanks Sir!
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