Top 20 free and essential software for your PC or Laptop

1. The OpenOffice Your windows operating system might not come along with its very famous document handling application Microsoft Office. Or if you don't want to invest your hard earned money in purchasing licenses from Microsoft, then this free and open source software will fulfill your need. You can do almost everything with this free office suite like editing, creating and maintaining word, publisher or excel documents. This application might not have rich features like Microsoft Office but you can use it efficiently as replacement for Microsoft Office. 2. CCleaner Ccleaner is tool to erase unwanted data and files from your PC. If your systems speed is slowed down and if you are facing this critical issues with with speed of your PC/Laptop then you can try CCleaner to remove unwanted files from PC which could possibly enhance the speed of your PC/Laptop. This tool also saves your valuable disk space to use it more efficiently for other applications or programs. 3. DAP (Download Accelerator Plus) We are using our mobile devices or data cards to connect our PC/Laptop to the internet, most of the times. But it is very difficult to manage downloads with such unreliable connecting devices. You may have been started downloading a file and your connecting device might lose its connectivity suddenly. All your efforts goes in dumb. Then this software come to help you. With DAP you can download at faster rates than normal speed of downloading. Also other most important features of DAP is that if you lose connectivity suddenly or if your PC/Laptop turns of by accident then DAP will start downloading the same software from the point when it lost connectivity or power. In other words it can save uncompleted downloads that can resumed later. It splits files to be downloaded in smaller files so that you can download at faster rates. 4. Adobe reader In the world of pdf files I will say Adobe acrobat reader is still king. Though there some other applications to fight with pdf files no one can match the features and compatibility of Adobe. And its free so why to use other software when we are getting guanine software for managing our pdf files for free. 5. Paint.Net If you need photo editing tools and you are not interested to buy those high cost software Adobe Photoshop, then Paint.Net is very good replacement for Adobe Photoshop. Though it can not match the quality of Adobe Photoshop you can do lot of editing task with Pain.Net. If its in-built tolls are not sufficient for your needs of photo editing then you can look for various plugins that are available to download as free from their website. 6. Avast In today's computing and technology world it is very essential for us to be secured while we are online or offline. There many versions of free antivirus software but when it comes to features and security for free then Avast free antivirus is best tool. You can use most of the features to enhance your security by using its free home edition which is updated almost daily. You can also opt for Avira, Macafee etc. with their free editions. For PC/Laptop these tools provide enough security. 7. Firefox/Google Chrome When we use Microsoft's Internet Explorer we miss lots of browsing features. Also IE doesn't have sufficient number of plugins to use with. But if you want more features browsing then Firefox or Google Chrome will satisfy your needs. According to me Firefox or Google Chrome have capabilities for fast browsing that is expected by everyone. We don't want wait for minutes to page loads. Firefox and Google Chrome can enrich your browsing experience with thousands of free and paid plugins available at their respective websites. 8. Recuva Have you faced the problem of losing data, for any reason? Then this tool will solve your problem definitely. You can recover all of your lost data using this tool and yes it is free to download and use. 9. 7-Zip 7-Zip is a tool to unlock your zipped files. Many downloaded files comes in zipped or compressed format and we can not open these files with normal programs on our PC/Laptop. This tool helps you to copmress or uncompress files on your computer. This is one the most needed for every PC/Laptop. 7-Zip is open source and comes with GNU-LGPL license that means you can download it for free. 10. VLC player One of the best media player that is capable playing almost all the media files. Many files can not be opened with only Microsoft's media player and VLC comes in to use. It has features such as opening a live stream on web either audio or video and playing a DVD directly on your PC/Laptop. It is most used media player and it is supported with many options for subtitles and taking snapshot from video etc. Also the user interface is very good than its other counterparts. 11. K-lite codec pack If you want to play each and every type of media file on your PC/Laptop then is must download pack for you. It supports almost all the media files and also enhances the quality of video and sound on your PC. K-lite codec pack can be installed independently or it can be merged with Windows Media Player also. 12. Audacity Basic audio editing is made easy by this software. You can edit, record sounds using this tool. Also this tool is capable recording online sound or sound from podcast to listen it later. 13. Filezilla If you have website on hosted on hosting server then you will definitely need this piece of software which is free to use. You can transfer files (download/upload) with this small utility with ease. It supports almost all the file types that can be transferred from or to your computer. 14. uTorrent This utility can be used to download files with torrent. Many websites provide torrent of the software or file and you have to open this torrent with uTorrent to download a file to your PC. 15. EASUES Partition Manager This tools is useful for advanced computer users which lets you change the previous partition size and to create a new a partition or delete the existing one. It is very helpful tool when you are required to resize, move, delete or create partition without using any bootable CD or DVD. At any point of time if you want to run multiple OS on your computer and it is needed to resize and create new partitions on your disc then this tools comes to your help. 16. Netbeans If you are developer or if you are student of engineering and technology in computer science field then this is very helpful tool for you. Netbean is an integrated development environment that can be used to develop various applications using programming languages like Java, C, C++ etc. It is free to use and it has very good set options to start and manage the project. Students can also use this software as they are required to practice program and to increase their knowledge of coding. 17. Notpad++ This is also a tool for developer or coders. This tool can be used to create web based applications and websites. You can use various programming languages like HTML, JavaScript, Python, CSS to develop your application or website. It is compatible to most of widely used programming languages like C, C++ etc. 18. Skype If you are using your internet connection to chat with your friends and relatives then you must have an account on Skype. This small desktop utility lets you to connect to your friends and relatives over the internet for voice calling, video calling etc. 19. DigsBy If you are die hard fan for instant messaging then this small application will definitely help the most. It is capable of connecting to your friends on almost all the online instant messaging services like IM, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter etc. 20. CD Burner XP This is for budrning your cd and backup your data on safe discs. CDburner is very wonderful application which has almost same interface as its paid counterpart Nero. if you have used Nero software previously then you can use CDburner efficiently from the first instance. Almost all the tasks that can be done with Nero can be completed with CDburner XP. This is list of very useful software for your PC/Laptop. I have been using computer since last 6 years and Laptop since 6 months and these tools are uniquely picked by me which can fulfill the needs of designers, students, coders, developers. Without these tools your PC/Laptop lacks many features that are very essential in today's world of computing.
Author: Sachin Rambhau Kukale reference-http://www.techulator.com/resources/7287-Top-20-free-essential-software-for-PC-Laptop.aspx