Enhance your Windows experience with the best free Windows software on the Internet, as chosen by the staff and readers of Top-Windows-Tutorials.com

Our readers have been enjoying the best free Windows software recommendations in our monthly top-windows-tutorials newsletter for a whole year now. Now that we have reached 12 issues, we decided to organise all our favourite free software packages onto this page, ordered by category, so that new visitors to our site could quickly see which programs we love to use at Top-Windows-Tutorials.com! Of course, for more top software recommendations, visit the rest of our site and see what other software we cover in our tutorials. Now, on with the recommendations!

Desktop Enhancements

Launchy (TWT Newsletter Issue 5)

Launchy makes launching your favourite programs quick and easy, no more trawling through the start menu!

Yahoo Widgets (TWT Newsletter Issue 4)

Add any number of desktop enhancements with the superb Yahoo Widget Engine, all for free!

Instant Messaging

Digsby (TWT Newsletter Issue 10)

The next generation, multi-protocol instant messaging application! Supports Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Facebook chat.

Trillian (TWT Newsletter Issue 2)

A superb multi-protocol instant messaging program with a huge following on the internet.

Xfire (TWT Newsletter Issue 8)

An instant messenger for gamers that lets you see what games your friends are playing, take screen shots and videos of your gaming sessions and even chat from within your games.



Media Players

Winamp (TWT Newsletter Issue 7)

Play, sync and organize your MP3 and Video collection in this popular Windows Media Player alternative.

Multimedia Applications

CutePDF Writer (TWT Newsletter Issue 13)

Print from any application directly to a PDF file, which can then be archived to your PC or e-mailed anywhere. A great utility for saving on paper!

Paint.NET (TWT Newsletter Issue 6)

Become a photo pro with this fully featured free art package, amazing!

Online Safety

McAfee SiteAdvisor (TWT Newsletter Issue 9)

Tell the top sites from the crooks with this handy browser plug-in that helps keep you safe online.

Privacy and Security

Truecrypt (TWT Newsletter Issue 11)

Protect your private data from theft and keep your computer secure with this amazing free whole-disk encryption package.

Roboform (TWT Newsletter Issue 6)

Keep your passwords safe and secure and automatically fill in forms on the web with this handy little tool (free for the first 20 passwords you store, pay after that).

System Tools

7-Zip (TWT Newsletter Issue 3)

Work easily with Zip, Rar and 7-Zip files with this completely free archiving tool.

Autopatcher (discontinued) (TWT Newsletter Issue 1)

Autopatcher allowed users to download Windows updates onto a CD or DVD and use them on multiple PC's without an internet connection. Autopatcher is now discontinued thanks to Microsoft, for a similar free utility, see the Do-it-yourself Service Pack/Offline Update Maker from Heise Security.

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EASEUS Disk Copy  Not rated yet
EASEUS Disk Copy is a potent freeware providing sector-by-sector disk/partition clone regardless of your operating system, file systems and partition scheme....

Pidgin  Not rated yet
I like Pidgin and use it myself. It's an alternative to Trillian and in my opinion works at least as well.

We Say - We love Pidgin too, its a great ...

RegCleaner 4.3  Not rated yet

RegCleaner 4.3

RegCleaner deletes registry entries. You can delete DLLs with the Shared DLLs feature and shortcut files with the Startup feature....

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