Top 25 free tools for every Windows desktop

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July 28, 2014
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Comment: This is a good article on some nifty tools for your desktop
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By Woody Leonhard, InfoWorld, July 28, 2014

While smartphones descend on computer cognoscenti like Mongol hordes and tablets tempt the tried and true, the good ol' Windows desktop still reigns supreme in many corners of the modern tech world. That's where I live, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
If you haven't looked at free desktop programs lately, you'll be surprised. The inexorable shift to a post-PC world hasn’t deadened the market or dulled innovation. Quite the contrary. The current crop of free-for-personal-use (and cheap for corporate use) desktop apps runs rings around the best tools we had not long ago.
Productivity, file management, media, system, security -- here are my top choices for the most useful free and almost-free desktop apps, tested on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 Update 1.

InfoWorld/ full read here/ http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/160168/top-25-free-tools-every-windows-desktop-246999

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ams963
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Forum|Forum|11 years ago
July 29, 2014

Ah very good list of tools. I already use some of them. I have found a couple of the items on the list to be not very good though. Thanks for sharing the article.:)

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Baldrick
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Forum|Forum|11 years ago
July 29, 2014

Agreed...whilst it is not a bad list I think that about 1/3 of the apps list can be bettered or there is some debate as to whether they are in fact the 'Best'

I put my faith in the lists produced by Gizmo over at http://www.techsupportalert.com...so those who have not yet discovered the site...I would recommend a look-see.

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