Free softwares to be installed on Windows

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Java
Dell Support 3, Intel Processor/Chipset ID Utility
Comcast Free tools
Macromedia Flash/Shockwave Player, use IrfanView to play swf
URL Snooper to get URL
Orbit Downloader to download streaming media
VNC viewer - TigerVNC, not TightVNC nor RealVNC
Clam Anti-Virus
Download details: Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack PowerToys Windows Power Toys
Download details: Microsoft Calculator Plus
PuTTY
LINE
sysinternals process explorer, WSCC (windows system control center)
Activity Monitor on Mac OS X

Google Pack/Toolbar with translator
Google Pinyin Input Method
Google Web Accelerator
Microsoft Windows Defender
MSN Toolbar with tapped browsing and phishing filter addins
McAfee SiteAdvisor
Word/PowerPoint/Excel 2003 Viewer, VIM editor
ZoneAlarm or OneCare Live firewall
JkDefrag
CCleaner
Spybot
WinSCP faster than Filezilla
FileZilla [can do sftp, no scp, inferior interface]
--SmartFTP [very popular, has problem with scp]
--Core FTP [has problem encoding file names]
Adobe Acrobat Reader
RealPlayer
QuickTime
iTunes
Watch Slingbox
Make/create ISO file from DVD/CD using ImgBurn
CD DVD burner with iso burning and creation: InfraRecorder is open source, ImgBurn is simple image writer, CDBurnerXP Pro (has problem with video_ts, use ImgBurn with ISO9660/UDF 1.02) / DeepBurner Free are better than (Burn4Free, Flash CD & DVD Burner, Instance CD & DVD Burner)
Active ISO Burner to burn ISO files
Free DVD authoring: DVD Flick
PC Wizard, CPU-Z CPUZ (small) for hardware information, GPU-Z GPUZ, HWMonitor is better than Speedfan
(Belarc Advisor for software/hardware inventory, has limited system info)
(AIDA32 is no longer maintained)
(Computer Profiler has limited info, not popular)
(WCPUID focuses on CPU only)
(Fresh Diagnose is buggy)

Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center

Unstoppable copier
7-Zip (ZipGenius[FTPGenius], ExtractNow[older], Zip Reader[PKWARE])
GSpot Codec Information Appliance, divx
Paint.net
Gimp
GnuCash
Lavasoft Ad-aware
Secunia Personal Software Inspector PSI
TweakNow RegCleaner
PDFCreator (CutePDF, PDF ReDirect is the best)
free PDF tools PdfSuite995 Pdf995 PdfEdit995 pdftk pdfedit

Linux PDF reader Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL CentOS (evince)
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Microsoft Office 2013
Evolution (linux)
Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice

desktop serach: microsoft, copernic, google, yahoo
Powerbullet Presenter for flash creation
Windirstat disk space files directories usage analysis

Microsoft Photo Info
Microsoft SyncToy

Windows Vista: tweak vi