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Need freeware software? Here is our freeware list. Feel free to post comments or suggestions to improve this list...

Antivirus
Active Virus Shield
AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - Recommend!
avast! Home Edition - Recommend!
AVG Free - Recommend!
Bitdefender Free EditionClamWin - No realtime scanner *yet*.
Comodo AntivirusPC Tools Antivirus Free Edition
Portable Antivirus - Antivirus made by Malaysians.
Audio / Media Tools
Audacity - Free audio editor and recorder.
Easy RealMedia Producer - Convert video to real media format.
MediaCoder - Universal audio/video batch encoder, support lots of format.
Razorlame - Opensource LAME frontend (Mp3 Encoder)
RealAnime - Convert video to real media format.
SUPER - A GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn (err.. audio and video converter)
VirtualDub - Powerful media encoder and video editor.
Windows Media Encoder (download) - Free audio and video encoding tool from Microsoft which enable you to encode videos to Windows Media Video (wmv) format
WinLAME - Opensource audio encoder (currently can encode/decode wave, Mp3, Ogg, AAC)
Audio / Video Player
BSPlayer
Foobar - Lightweight audio player.
Media Player Classic
MPlayer - Cross platform media player.
VLC Media Player - Recommend!
Winamp - and Winamp users should use (or at least try) this free great plugin...

CD Burning / Ripping
AutoGK - Copy DVD to DivX / XviD.
CDBurnerXP Pro - CD burning.
DeepBurner Free - CD burning.
DVD Backup Xpress - Backup DVD to DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/W.
DVD Shrink - Rip DVD.
EAC - Rip audio CDs.
ISO Recorder - CD burning, ISO creation tool.
Chat
ChatZilla - IRC chat plug-in for Mozilla browser
Gaim - All-in-one chat client. Compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.
HydraIRC - IRC Client
Trillian - Multiprotocol IM client.
X-Chat for Windows - Windows port of X-Chat IRC client.

File archiver / compression
7-Zip - The latest version support extraction from NSIS installer. Recommend.
IZArch
Editors / Office Suite
FoxIt Reader - Lightweight PDF reader.
Mozilla Composer (included in Mozilla Seamonkey) - Free, open source WYSIWYG web authoring system.
Notepad++ - Windows Notepad replacement.
Nvu - Free and opensource WYSIWYG web authoring system.
OpenOffice - Microsoft Office replacement.
PDFCreator - Create PDF files (print documents as PDF).

Image Editor/Viewer
Gimp for Windows
Image Grabber II - Create video timeline image.
Inkscape - Vector graphic editor.
IrfanView - Image viewer.
Paint.NET - Windows Paint replacement. Recommend!
Internet Related
Filezilla FTP Client
FlashGet - Starting from version 1.72, FlashGet goes freeware! FlashGet is a very great download manager. Highly recommended.
Free Download Manager
Mozilla Firefox - Great web browser. Recommend. Firefox users should use TabMix Plus plugins.
Opera - Great web browser. Recommend.
Thunderbird - Outlook Express replacement.
Monitoring Tools
BitMeter - Monitor bandwidth usage.
Motherboard Monitor - Monitor system fan speed, temperatures and voltages.
SequoiaView - Simple tool to monitor hard disk space usage. Files are viewed as rectangles, and larger files will be shown as larger rectanges.
SpeedFan - Monitor system fan speed, temperatures and voltages.
RAS Monitor - Monitor bandwidth usage.
WinDirStat - Another simple tool to monitor hard disk space usage. Functionality is the same as SequoiaView.

P2P
Azureus - A great bittorent client.
eMule Morph - A great ed2k client.
PeerGuardian - Block anti-p2p organization IPs.
Personal Firewall
Comodo Personal Firewall
Kerio Personal Firewall - Pro features can be tested for 30 days. Recommend.
Jetico Personal Firewall Free
NetVeda Safety.Net
ZoneAlarm - Not *very* p2p friendly

Servers
Abyss - Lightweight web server.
Filezilla FTP Server - The best FTP server for Windows. Full featured.
UnrealIRCD - One of the popular IRCD.
VertigoServ - The best WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server, I think.
Spyware removal
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search & Destroy - Recommend.
System Tools / Tweaking
CCleaner - System optimization and privacy tool. Removes unused files, allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
GameXP - Tweak Windows to run faster (update: not really recommend since my friends who are not using AMD based processor are having problems with their Windows after using this software).
Ophcrack 2 Live CD - Windows password cracker. Recover your lost Windows password.
Process Explorer - Windows Task Manager replacement.
SafeXP - Security and privacy tweak.
Unlocker - Unlock files that cannot be deleted to allow deletion.

Other
KeePass - Manage your passwords. Portable, can be run from thumb drive. Usefull to avoid keyloggers when using public PCs. Recommend!
PrintScreen - Take screenshot with ease.
RapidCRC - Tool to check and create CRC32 and MD5 checksums. Recommend.

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