Free Software I Love (for windows)

I love free software. HEAVY emphasis on the free. However I do not like to sacrifice quality.

Here are some of my favorites(Note, these are all for the Windows operating system):

General Use:

Virus scanner - AVG Free
http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

Two Way Firewall - ZoneAlarm
http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm

File System Cleaner - CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Disk Defragger - Auslogics Disk Defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

MS Office Alternative - Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/

Notepad2 - Better notepad (with syntax highlighting)
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html NOTE: Normally I use UltraEdit as it is my favorite text editor, but it is not free. If forced to us a free editor, Notepad2 is my 2nd choice.

Picture Editing -
Paint.net
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Gimp - Hat/tip my friend Shambo
http://www.gimp.org/

Music Radio Listening - Pandora.com
http://pandora.com/
http://pandora.com/desktop - new desktop, no browser version.

Clipboard Manager - xNeat
http://www.xneat.com/clipboard-manager/index.htm

APP Updater - Filehippo
http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/

Disk Usage - WinDirStat
http://windirstat.info/ A graphical disk usage tool on steroids.

DEVELOPER SPECIFIC - Many of these will not make sense to you, unless you are a developer.


Regular Expressions Editor - Expresso
http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

HTTP Debugging tool for IE - Fiddler
http://fiddlertool.com/fiddler/

Web Service Tester - Web Service Studio
http://www.codeplex.com/WebserviceStudio

SQL Tidy - SQL Formatter
http://www.wangz.net/cgi-bin/pp/gsqlparser/sqlpp/sqlformat.tpl

Javascript development tools - JQuery
http://jquery.com/
http://jqueryui.com/

MSFT.Net

View State Helper - Binary Fortress
http://www.binaryfortress.com/aspnet-viewstate-helper/

.net Code Decompiler - Reflector
http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/

Linq - LINQPad
http://www.linqpad.net/

Windows Management and Debugging tools - Sysinternals
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx NOTE: Hands down the best free tools for managing and debugging your system can be found here.