Best Free Software for Windows XP

Many great replacements for programs you pay hard-earned money for are free! Here are my suggestions:

1. Best Free Photo Editing Program

   For simple editing of photos, Paint.Net is wonderful. The look and feel is similiar to Photoshop Elements and Paintshop Pro. Get it here.

2. Best Free Windows File Browser Replacement

   xplorer2. It's fast, handy, and even has a clue about your history of which directories you've visited, but not free for use at work.

   ExplorerXP is definitely worth downloading for use at work.

   xplorer2. It's fast, handy, and even has a clue about your history of which directories you've visited, but not free for use at work.

3. Best Free Cmd.exe Replacement

   Console Console has tabs and real text selection.

4. Best Free Notepad Replacement

   Download Notepad++. Its fast and has plenty of extra features.

5. Best Free FTP Client

   Download Filezilla.

6. Free Disk Space Usage Analyzer

   Space Sniffer tells you where your disk space is being used.

7. Best Free Process Monitor

   Process Explorer from sysinternals.com. It shows the processes, but also many other useful info.

8. Best Free PDF reader

   Sumatra is a lightening-fast PDF reader.

9. Best XML viewer (2010)

   XML Marker is a fast, easy XML editor.

10. Best Free Startup Monitor
    
    

    Does your windows computer bootup slowly? Autoruns from sysinternals.com shows what processes are kicked off during startup.

11. Best Free Virus Scanner

    Grisoft AVG

12. Best OnlineFree Virus Scanner

    Trend Micro

13. Best Free Compression Utility - 7-zip

    7-zip

14. Best Free Browsers

    Firefox and Opera are great. I love the bittorrent client built into Opera9.

15. Best way to move large files around the net is http://transferbigfiles.com.
16. Best way to get an anonymous, temporary phone number is at numbr.com.
17. Best free telnet/SSH client

    PuTTY, download from Softpedia

18. Best free audio analyzer

    Audacity is a great, full featured audio analyzer

19. Best iso burner to CD

    isorecorder by alex feinman.

20. Best File Date Changer Attribute-Changer.
21. Best Free Way to Wipe a Disk

    Darik Horn has a program to put on a bootable CD at http://www.dban.org that completely erases all data on a hard drive. This is a must before donating an old computer.

22. Other Utilities
    1. Unlocker

       Tired of not being able to delete files because some windows process has a lock on it? Unlocker tells you which program has locked a file and allows you to unlock it or waste the program locking it.

    2. Microsoft has a nice collection of small utilities called PowerToys. The image resizer is handy as is the "Open Command Window Here" utility.
    3. Best free html utility

       Tidy