If you are still using Internet Explorer then you are missing out. Firefox is free, extremely secure, displays web pages correctly (unlike IE!), updated frequently, has 100's of additional modules for anything you can think of. I could go on and on, just try it out and you will never go back to IE :) It is made by mozilla who invented browsers in the first place...

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In my opinion the best AV software and completely free:

Visit Avast

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

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This is a full blown open source MS Office type suite, completely free. Includes all the usual word processor, database, spreadsheet, etc...

Open Office

A useful Utility for checking out your hard disks, does some thorough testing and reporting based on SMART, but can give you some bad news :( It also does lots of other stuff like report temperatures, change fan speeds etc...

Speedfan

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