Must Have Free Software for your Windows PC

in technology •  7 years ago  (edited)


 here are the few recommended and must have free & Opensource software for your Windows PC.


Web Browsers -


Multimedia Players -

  • VLC - Opensource,Portable,Cross-Platform Multimedia Player.
  • KMPlayer - Free,Versatile,Supports up-to 36 Languages.
  • MPC-HC - Extremely light-weight,open source media player.
  • Kodi - Open Source Home Theater Software.

Audio Player -

  • Clementine - Free,Open Source,Modern music player.
  • AIMP - Free Audio player with support of large number of formats and playlists.
  • Audacious - Free,Opensource audio player with a focus on low resource use with wide range of audio formats.

Video Convertor -

  • HandBrake - Opensource Video Convertor with widely supported codec.

Video Editor - 

  •  OpenShot -  An Award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux,Mac and Windows,Create videos with exciting video effects,title,audio tracks and animations.
  • Kdenlive - free and open-source video editing software based on the MLT Framework,KDE and QT.

Graphics tool - 

  •  Gimp - A cross-platform image editor available for Windows,Linux & alternative for Adobe Photoshop.
  • Inkscape - A Open-Source  professional vector graphics editor for Windows,Linux & Mac.
  • Krita - A free-software and an open-source raster graphics editor designed primarly for digital painting and animation purposes.
  • Paint.Net - A raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows.

Blogging tool - 

Open Live Writer - A powerful,lightweight blog editor that allows you to create blog posts,add photos and videos . it Supports Blogger.com,WordPress..etc.

Riot - A Small and powerful real time image optimization tool.

Office Suite - 

  • LibreOffice - An Open-Source  Microsoft Office Alternative the best you can get.
  • Kingsoft Office - includes free word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software  with MS office compatible.

PDF Reader - 

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader DC - free global standard for reliably viewing,printing and commenting on PDF documents.
  • Sumatra PDF - Powerful,Small,portable and start up very fast.

Compression tool - 

  • 7zip - An open-source  file archives .

Cleaner tool - 

CCleaner -  a utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows registry





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