Fully Loaded Legal Windows Based Applications at No Cost

Many of my friends once in a while ask me to format and reinstall their windows system. While reinstalling system is not a big deal, getting all other necessary programs is, so I decided to write this post covering software tools everyone must have for healthy and trouble free usage(including antivirus, spyware removal, firewall, system maintenance tools, office software, media players and other). Based on the number of downloads and user reviews I have compiled list of the best software tools available which are 100% free to use. The cool thing about this is that most of these tools are the best available in their particular domain, meaning that you can actually have fully loaded legal system at no cost.

Name	Description	Review / Download
Security
Antivir Personal Edition 6	Antivirus Program	link (allmost 1 mil downloads withiin 5 month)
AVG Antivirus Free Edition 7	Antivirus Program	link (over 11 mil downloads within 3 weeks)
ZoneAlarm 6	Firewall (protect your computer from hackers and prevent some programs connecting to the internet without your consent)	link (over 40 mil downloads)
Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4	Spyware Removal Tool	link (over 80 mil download)
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1.06	Spyware Removal Tool	link (over 220 mil downloads)
Maintenance
SyncBack 3.2	Files Backup Tool	link (over 50.000 downloads within 4 month)
CCleaner	System Optimization Tool / Registry Cleaner	link (allmost 1.8 mil downloads in 2 weeks)
RAM Booster 2	RAM Recovery Tool(speedup your computer by recovering RAM)	link (3.2 mil downloads in 11 month)
Free RAM XP Pro	RAM Recovery Tool	link (4.4 mil downloads in 7 month)
Office/Documents
OpenOffice 2.0.4	Microsoft Office Alternative	link (over 500 .000 downloads in 4 month)
Adobe Reader 7.0.8	View and Print Adobe PDF files	link (over 30 mil downloads in 4 month)
Media (Play any Movies)
VLC Media Player	These 2 players in combination with codec pack below will play almost any video file you may have. I am a big movie buff and it always worked for me	link (approx 3.5 mil downloads in 6 month)
DivX Player 6.2.2		link (over 50 mil downloads in 5 month)
Advanced DVD Player	DVD player	link (more then 400.000 downloads in 3 weeks)
Avant DVD Player	DVD player	link (more then 400.000 downloads in 3 weeks)
Klite Codec Pack	No more hunting for codecs.	link (one of the best codec packs available)
Browsers & Internet Related
Mozilla Firefox 2.0	All belowed web browser	link (more then 2mill downloads in 2 weeks)
Internet Explorer 7	New version of Microsoft’s IE browser. Much better then previous releases. (IE7 vs. Firefox 2 by CNET)	link (more then 8 mil downloads within 3 weeks)
Flash Player 9	Needed for viewing flash animations on the websites	link (more then 8.5 mil downloads in 4 month)
QuickTime 7.1.3	Most popular player used for viewing videos integrated into websites (ex; video blogs, trailers)	link (more then 16 mil downloads in 2 month)
Other
WinRAR	RAR archiver	link (more then 40 mil downloads in 2 month)