The Best Windows Software Massive List & Instructions

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The Best Windows Software Toplist

On this page, you find a listing of the best Windows software. Most of the applications listed here are free, with the occasional commercial program added to the listing.

If commercial software is listed here, you can be sure that it is a top of its class product that excels in its vertical.

All programs have been carefully vetted, reviewed, and virus-checked to make sure that the list is clean and uber-useful to users of the Windows operating system.

The toplist has been divided into several categories and pages for ease of access. While it would have been possible to place them all on one page, it would have grown too big in terms of size and loading time.

The decision was made to use broader categories to avoid the creation of too many pages. That’s why a category such as Security contains antivirus software, firewalls, rootkit removers and other security related programs.

Last but not least, we have also made the decision to add a software companies page to the very end, linking to developers who have earned their trust because of their excellence in the field.

Essential Windows Software categories

The available categories, and the programs that have been added to them are (click on category links for quick jump):

Essential Windows Software categories
The available categories, and the programs that have been added to them are (click on category links for quick jump):

Appearance

Classic Shell
Rainmeter
Start8/10

Backup and Recovery

AOMEI Backupper
Clonezilla
DataRescue DD
DriveImage XML
Dumo
EaseUS Todo Backup
Eraser
FilExile
Mailstore Home
Recuva
Redo Backup & Recovery
Roadkill’s Unstoppable Copier
SystemRescueCD
TestDisk
Win32 Disk Imager
Veeam Endpoint Backup

Communication

Pidgin
Postbox (commercial)
Skype
Teamspeak
Thunderbird

Development

FileZilla
Notepad++
PNG Gauntlet
Sublime Text (commercial)
VirtualBox
WinSCP
XAMPP

File Management

7-Zip
Bandizip
BurnAware Free
CDBurner XP
DiscCat
DropIt
Everything
File Optimizer
ImgBurn
PeaZip
Search My Files
TeraCopy
Total Commander
Unlocker

Internet

Browser Repair Tool
Bulk Image Downloader (paid)
EasyNetMonitor
Firefox
Free Download Manager
Free Manga Downloader
Internet Download Manager (commercial)
Internet History Browser
inSSIDer (commercial)
IP Shifter
MapPuzzle
MiPony
Newsbin Pro (commercial)
qBittorrent
uTorrent
uVNC
Who is on my WiFi

Multimedia

AIMP
Audacity
CDex
ConvertXtoDVD (commercial)
DVD Chief
DVD Flick
DVDShrink
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Photo Resizer
Fast Picture Viewer (commercial)
Foobar
Freemake Video Converter
Gimp
Miro
Mp3Gain
MusicBee
Paint.net
QGifer
PhotoSift
Picard
Riot
Screenshot Captor
SmoothVideo Project
SMPlayer
StreamWriter
VLC Media Player
VSDC Free Screen Recorder
XBMC
XnView

Productivity

Apache OpenOffice
Calibre
Clipboard Help+Spell
Clipjump
doPDF
Fences
Foxit Reader
Launchy
LibreOffice
PDFCreator
QuiteRSS
Replace Genius
Seriousd
Sumatra
Word Expander

Security

Avira Free Antivirus
BufferZone Pro
CCleaner
CrowdInspect
DiskCryptor
Dr. Web CureIt!
Gmer
HiJackThis
HitmanPro (commercial)
Junkware Removal Tool
KeePass
Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)
Peerblock
PrivaZer
RogueKiller
Sandboxie (commercial)
True Crypt
Unchecky
WinAntiRansom
WinPatrol

System

AMD Radeon RAMDisk
Autoruns
CPU-Z
Dataram
Defraggler
DISM++
Display Driver Uninstaller
FoldersPopup
GPU-Z
Grub2Win
ImDisk Toolkit
JavaRa
Open Hardware Monitor
OUTDATEfigher
Patch Cleaner
Process Explorer
Registry Finder
Revo Uninstaller
Right-click Enhancer
SlimCleaner
Speccy
Speedfan
SUMO
Sysmon
System Explorer
UltraDefrag
Visual BCD Editor
Windows Offline Update
WizTree
WSCC 3

Misc Software

DosBox
F.Lux
Keyboard and Mouse Cleaner
Mouse Without Borders
MSI Afterburner
Print Queue Cleaner
QTranslate
Rimhill
ShareMouse
X-Mouse Button Control

Developer Websites

Donation Coder
Nirsoft
Sysinternals

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