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The software listed here is available from various vendors for free or at a minimal cost for personal use.

 

Antivirus

Games/Entertainment

Spyware

Utilities

Windows Enhancements

 

Antivirus

Avast! Antivirus - www.avast.com

A good antivirus program, updates daily, free for personal use

 

Games/Entertainment

FreeCiv - www.freeciv.org

An open source remade version of the popular computer strategy game, Civilization

 

Pogo.com - www.pogo.com

Free casual game website, also offers a paid membership and paid game downloads

 

Spyware

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoft.com

A well known spyware program, available in both free and commercial versions

 

Spybot Search & Destroy - www.safer-networking.org

A good spyware detection program, also offers web browser vulnerability inoculation, free for personal use

 

Utilities

ALTools - www.altools.com

A collection of software utilities free for personal use, including a file compression program, music and video player, photo editor, and FTP server

 

Advanced Windows Care Personal - www.iobit.com

An all-in-one utility that offers registry cleaner, spyware detection, and system tune-up, free for personal use

 

Portable Apps - portableapps.com

A collection of free software designed to allow you to carry your computing environment with you on your flash drive.  Download a suite of programs that have been collected for you, or roll your own from individual programs.

 

Portable Freeware Collection - portablefreeware.com

A sizeable collection of free software designed to be used on your flash drive

 

 

 

Windows Enhancements

 

ObjectDock - www.stardock.com

A replacement for the Windows Taskbar, similar in look and feel to the Dock available in the MAC OS.