Freeware Guide
Native 64-bit freeware
This list is for native 64-bit applications. Not to be confused with 32-bit applications that run in a 64-bit MS Windows.
Only freeware is listed here.
Audio
Players

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a free audio and video player for Windows.

Utilities

Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse.

Rippers

CD2ISO is a simple CD/DVD ripper. It will allow you to easily rip any data CD/DVD into an ISO file. The ISO file can be saved on disk as a backup copy, or burned to another disc to make an identical copy of the original disc.

Business
Personal Info Managers
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Spreadsheets
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Word Processing
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Desktop Enhancements
Font Tools
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Icon Tools

Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.



IconSort is a small utility that can store/restore the position of the icons in the desktop of Windows.



IconViewer is a free Windows Explorer extension that lets you easily view, copy, and save icons contained within programs and libraries.

Shell & Desktop Management

HardLinks provide the ability to keep a single copy of a file yet have it appear in multiple folders (directories).



WindowsPager is a desktop-switcher/pager for Windows Vista/7/XP to manage 'virtual' workspaces/desktops. It will integrate smoothly into the desktop panel.



Visual Task Tips is a lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar.

Internet
Browsers

Browse with more confidence knowing Internet Explorer 8 helps protect you from evolving online threats right out of the box. The new SmartScreen filter and other built-in security features help you stay safe by protecting against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy, and identity.


Firefox Windows x64 build
Download Managers
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Email Clients
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FTP Client

Null FTP Client provides an extremely easy to use interface with drag and drop support to and from windows explorer and other programs.

Multimedia & Design
Burning

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.



Explore&Burn is a freeware CD/DVD burning application with intuitive and easy to use interface, integrated with Windows Explorer. (The setup package contains both native 32-bit (x86) and native 64-bit (x64) versions of Explore&Burn.)



Codecs

This is a bundle of 64-bit DirectShow filters that can be used together with 64-bit players, such as Windows Media Center. This pack can co-exist without problems with the regular (32-bit) K-Lite Codec Pack.


Image Resizers

This is a clone of the Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP - a PowerToy that allows you to right-click on one or more image files in Windows Explorer to resize them.
Graphics

GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool, in addition to offering freeform drawing.



Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows 7 (recommended), or Windows XP SP2, or Windows Vista.



Digitizer will convert any image into a colorized textual representation of that image.


Image Viewers
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Video

FAVC is a GUI that enables you to easily make DVDs from video files. It takes one, or more, video files and produces a dvd folder ready to be burned to a dvd disc that should play in any regular dvd player. FAVC uses several pieces of free software to accomplish its task.

Video Players

Media Player Classic Home Cinema is a free audio and video player for Windows.

Software Development
Scripting Language

AutoIt is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting.


Hex Editor

Free Hex Editor Neo is award-winning large files optimized freeware editor for everyone who works with ASCII, hex, decimal, float, double and binary data.

Developer Tools

HeapMemView is a small utility that allows you to view the content of all memory blocks allocated in the heap of the process the you select. This tool can be useful for developers that need to trace memory leaks in their software.



This utility displays the list of all exported functions and their virtual memory addresses for the specified DLL files. You can easily copy the memory address of the desired function, paste it into your debugger, and set a breakpoint for this memory address. When this function is called, the debugger will stop in the beginning of this function.

Developer Tools

GDIView is a unique tool that displays the list of GDI handles (brushes, pens, fonts, bitmaps, and others) opened by every process. It displays the total count for each type of GDI handle, as well as detailed information about each handle. This tool can be useful for developers that need to trace GDI resources leak in their software.

Utilities
Antivirus

avast! antivirus Home Edition is available free of charge for non-commercial home use ONLY.



Obliterate viruses and malware without hogging your PC's resources.



BOClean, now a part of Comodo Internet Security, runs silently in the background, monitoring your PC and waiting to root out and destroy malware whenever it enters.


Backup
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Clipboard

QuickPaste is a simple program that extends the capability of the Windows clipboard. Anyone who has done a lot of 'cut and paste' work has wished that it were possible to store multiple strings in the clipboard. QuickPaste simulates this behavior by allowing you to store up to nine strings that can be placed into the clipboard with a click of the mouse.


Cleanup Tools

Eraser is a secure data removal tool for Windows. It completely removes sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.



Data Recovery
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Disk Defrag

Use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files.



MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster).


Disk Tools

DirSize will scan your hard drive(s) and display them in a simplified tree with the disk usage for that tree. This allows you to quickly and easily see what folders on your disk contain large amounts of data.



Disk imaging software.


File Compression

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.



Open source file and archive manager. Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP. Extract 98 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF and many more...


File Managers

Explorer++ is a free multi-tab file manager for Windows. Available on Windows XP and above, it features the same familiar interface as Windows Explorer, while introducing several enhancements and improvements for a much richer file browsing experience.



Q-Dir makes your files and folder easy to manage. Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View technique. You don't have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system.



FlexTk is an advanced file management toolkit allowing one to search and classify files, perform disk space utilization analysis, automatically organize files according to user-defined policies, copy large amounts of files in a fault-tolerant way, synchronize disks and directories, identify duplicate files and free-up wasted storage space.


File Renaming
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File Searching
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Firewall

Comodo's award-winning firewall provides users with prevention-based PC protection that slams the door shut on viruses, malware, and hackers.


Launchers
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Misc. Utilities

Copy Handler is a free software for Windows systems, which allows you to take full control over the file copy and move operations. Program is highly customizable and fully integrates with the operating system. In addition, Copy Handler offers many advanced options such as task queuing, filtering files according to specific criteria, pausing and resuming copying files operations, changing the copying parameters on the fly and in many cases also offers a significant acceleration of the entire copying files process.



It is a free tool to delete files blocked by something you do not know.



FileTypesMan is an alternative to the 'File Types' tab in the 'Folder Options' of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more.



ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer.



RunAsDate is a small utility that allows you to run a program in the date and time that you specify. This utility doesn't change the current system date and time of your computer, but it only injects the date/time that you specify into the desired application.



TreeCompare will compare two directories against each other. It can display differences or similarities between the two directories. You can also control the compare criteria such as times, size, and attributes.


Network

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.



CurrPorts is network monitoring software that displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer. For each port in the list, information about the process that opened the port is also displayed, including the process name, full path of the process, version information of the process (product name, file description, and so on), the time that the process was created, and the user that created it.



When you connect to a network share on your LAN or to your .NET Passport account, Windows allows you to save your password in order to use it in each time that you connect the remote server. This utility recovers all network passwords stored on your system for the current logged-on user. It can also recover the passwords stored in Credentials file of external drive, as long as you know the last log-on password.



WirelessKeyView recovers all wireless network security keys/passwords (WEP/WPA) stored in your computer by the 'Wireless Zero Configuration' service of Windows XP and by the 'WLAN AutoConfig' service of Windows Vista. It allows you to easily save all keys to text/html/xml file, or copy a single key to the clipboard.



ListShares is a simple application with admittedly limited appeal. ListShares provides a quick and easy way to view all the shares on the current or remote computer. ListShares is designed for and only works on a local area network (LAN), and does not work across the Internet.


Optimizers & Diagnostics

HWM BlackBox is a utility designed to deliver precise details on the core components of your computer to the maximum. As well as providing you with you with in-depth information about hardware such as the processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card, it also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds and temperatures.



Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.


CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.



HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.



TMonitor is aimed to display the active clock of each individual core of Intel Core 2 and Core i3/i5/i7, as well as AMD K10 processors.


PDF

With doPDF you will have the possibility to easily convert files to searchable PDF documents from any Windows application.



All you will ever need to View Adobe PDF files, Export PDF pages and files to Image Formats, Annotate/Comment or Type on PDF pages and much much more.

Registry

HiveLoader is a powerful system tool that allows you to load and unload registry hives as well as create new registry hives. If you do not know what a registry hive is then this program is not for you!



RegFromApp monitors the Registry changes made by the application that you selected, and creates a standard RegEdit registration file (.reg) that contains all the Registry changes made by the application. You can use the generated .reg file to import these changes with RegEdit when it's needed.



RegDllView is a small utility that displays the list of all registered dll/ocx/exe files (COM registration). For each registered file, you can view the last date/time that it was registered, and the list of all registration entries (CLSID/ProgID).



RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value in RegEdit, simply by double-clicking the desired Registry item. You can also export the found Registry values into a .reg file that can be used in RegEdit.


Security & Encryption

AxCrypt is the leading open source file encryption software for Windows. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.


System Protect software was designed to be an easy-to-use application that will help you keep your operating system stable and protect important programs, documents and files from deletion caused by viruses, other users on your computer such as your kids.



PasswordSpy is a program that will allow you to 'see' the password that is behind the '****' edit boxes.


System Utilities

Process Hacker is a free and open source process viewer and memory editor with unique features such as powerful process termination and a Regex memory searcher. It can show services, processes and their threads, modules, handles and memory regions.



Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example: If you install WinZip on your computer, you'll see a special WinZip menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a shell extension to the system.



Windows operating system have dozens of special folders that are used for storing application settings and files, storing Internet files, saving temporary files, storing shortcuts to other files, and so on. This utility displays the list of all special folders in your system, and allows you to easily jump to the right folder simply by double-clicking the folder item. You can also save the list of all folder paths into text/html/xml file.



ShellMenuView is a small utility that display the list of static menu items that appeared in the context menu when you right-click a file/folder on Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items.



SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.



SysRun is a powerful program that allows you to run a program as SYSTEM. If you do not know what it means to run a program as SYSTEM then this program is not for you!



ProcessActivityView creates a summary of all files and folders that the selected process tries to access. For each file that the process access, the following information is displayed: Number of times that the file was opened and closed, number of read/write calls, total number of read/write bytes, the dll that made the last open-file call, and more...



DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more.



Process Lasso is a unique new technology that will improve your PC's responsiveness and stability. Windows, by design, allows programs to monopolize your CPU without restraint -- leading to freezes and hangs. Process Lasso's ProBalance (Process Balance) technology intelligently adjusts the priorities of running programs so that badly behaved processes won't substantially impact the responsiveness of your PC.


Text Editors

Notepad2 is a light-weight, free and open source Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting for a few commonly used languages.


Uninstallers

ARP++ is an advanced version of the Add/Remove Programs that is a part of Windows.

Web Authoring
HTML Editors
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Site Management
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Web Design Utilities

Dropper is a simple program allowing you to get the color of any pixel on the screen.



ZoomIn is a screen magnification program allowing you to view any area of your screen under magnification. ZoomIn allows you to control the amount of zoom, view a pixels location and color, and save it as a bitmap.

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