Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales once said on the success of Wikipedia that The best things in the world are free. This statement is valid for internet also. For example, the best search engine Google, the best webmail service, gmail, yahoomail etc, the best online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the best internet browser, Firefox are all free. Today I am talking about free softwares. I am going to list out top ten most popular windows softwares. The source of this list is Download.com. It is a big directory of free and paid softwares where you can download them for free. It offers content in four major categories: Softwares, Music, Games, and Videos, offered for download via FTP from Download.com’s servers or third-party servers.

Their Software section is most popular on internet which includes more than 100k freewares, sharewares, and trial downloads. Downloads are often rated and reviewed by editors, and also contain a summary of the file from the software publisher, and one or more screen shots. You can also write reviews and give ratings to the software. So here comes the list of top ten most popular softwares for Windows.

1. AVG AntiVirus Free Edition — One of the most popular antivirus softwares.
2. Ad-Aware 2008 — It can scan your RAM, Registry, hard drives, and external storage devices for known data-mining, advertising, and tracking components thereby allowing you to maintain a higher degree of privacy while you surf the internet.
3. LimeWire — It is the world’s fastest P2P file-sharing application for all types of computer files, including music, video, pictures, games, and text documents.
4. Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus — Yet another good free antivirus.
5. Avast Home Edition — It is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package.
6. FrostWire — FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client.
7. Orbit Downloader– A Download manager software.
8. WinRAR — WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. Also works for .ZIP files.
9. BitComet — It is one of the most popular BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download clients.
10. Camfrog Video Chat– It allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time.
11. WinZip — Not better than WinRAR.
12. Spybot - Search & Destroy — It can search your hard disk and registry for threats to your security and privacy.
13. mIRC — It is a Internet Relay Chat client for Windows that can be used to communicate, share, play or work with others on IRC networks around the world, either in multi-user group conferences or in one-to-one private discussions.
14. IrfanView — It is a fast and compact image viewer/converter.
15. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware — It is an anti-malware application that can thoroughly remove even the most advanced malware.
16. Advanced WindowsCare Personal — It is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair, and optimize your computer.
17. YouTube Downloader — It is used to download videos from YouTube and many other video websites and convert them to other video formats.
18. FLV Player — For playing .flv videos.
19. RealPlayer — RealPlayer 11 gives you the ability to download videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click.
20. GOM Media Player — It supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF.

Linux founder Linus Torvalds has once said “Software is like sex, it’s better when it’s free.” So friends enjoy the fun of free sex, download these softwares.

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Categories: General Info. Author: SacHu