Freeware

TestDisk is a powerful, free data recovery software. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses, or human error (such as accidentally deleting your partition table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk has features [...]

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system on which it runs. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities. [Discovered via [...]

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

Visual differencing and merging of text files
Flexible editor with syntax highlighting
Handles DOS, UNIX, and MAC text file formats
Unicode support
Difference pane shows current difference [...]

The DiskDigger application was designed to recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc.), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers include photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats.
DiskDigger works by thoroughly scanning [...]

Scribus is an open source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management, and versatile [...]

Free PC Audit is a freeware system, hardware, and software information tool. It extracts details of all components of the PC and shows the installed software with versions and product keys.
Free PC Audit does not require installation and can be used as a portable application. It can be run from a removable storage device such [...]

Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer.
Process Hacker is an application which helps users to view and manage the processes and their threads, modules, and memory from their computers. [Discovered via Major Geeks]
[955k] [WinXP/Vista] [FREE]

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WinContig is an easy-to-use, stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn’t create any installation directories or registry entries on your computer. Its purpose is to quickly defrag files without the need to defrag the whole disk. Its defragmentation and analysis engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files [...]

Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts.
It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep [...]

Are you worried that someone can see sites you visit? Does your computer keep tons of temporary files or maintain a cache of viewed pictures? Would you like to hide your online/offline secrets and protect your privacy?
Wipe is a free, easy, and powerful tool for clearing user browsing history, cleaning index.dat files, removing cookies, clearing [...]