# The Best Windows Software Massive List & Instructions

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# The Best Windows Software Toplist

On this page, you find a listing of the best Windows software. Most of the applications listed here are free, with the occasional commercial program added to the listing.

If commercial software is listed here, you can be sure that it is a top of its class product that excels in its vertical.

All programs have been carefully vetted, reviewed, and virus-checked to make sure that the list is clean and uber-useful to users of the Windows operating system.

The toplist has been divided into several categories and pages for ease of access. While it would have been possible to place them all on one page, it would have grown too big in terms of size and loading time.

The decision was made to use broader categories to avoid the creation of too many pages. That’s why a category such as Security contains antivirus software, firewalls, rootkit removers and other security related programs.

Last but not least, we have also made the decision to add a software companies page to the very end, linking to developers who have earned their trust because of their excellence in the field.

## Essential Windows Software categories

The available categories, and the programs that have been added to them are (click on category links for quick jump):

Essential Windows Software categories  
The available categories, and the programs that have been added to them are (click on category links for quick jump):

**Appearance**

Classic Shell  
Rainmeter  
Start8/10

**Backup and Recovery**

AOMEI Backupper  
Clonezilla  
DataRescue DD  
DriveImage XML  
Dumo  
EaseUS Todo Backup  
Eraser  
FilExile  
Mailstore Home  
Recuva  
Redo Backup & Recovery  
Roadkill’s Unstoppable Copier  
SystemRescueCD  
TestDisk  
Win32 Disk Imager  
Veeam Endpoint Backup

**Communication**

Pidgin  
Postbox (commercial)  
Skype  
Teamspeak  
Thunderbird

**Development**

FileZilla  
Notepad++  
PNG Gauntlet  
Sublime Text (commercial)  
VirtualBox  
WinSCP  
XAMPP

**File Management**

7-Zip  
Bandizip  
BurnAware Free  
CDBurner XP  
DiscCat  
DropIt  
Everything  
File Optimizer  
ImgBurn  
PeaZip  
Search My Files  
TeraCopy  
Total Commander  
Unlocker

**Internet**

Browser Repair Tool  
Bulk Image Downloader (paid)  
EasyNetMonitor  
Firefox  
Free Download Manager  
Free Manga Downloader  
Internet Download Manager (commercial)  
Internet History Browser  
inSSIDer (commercial)  
IP Shifter  
MapPuzzle  
MiPony  
Newsbin Pro (commercial)  
qBittorrent  
uTorrent  
uVNC  
Who is on my WiFi

**Multimedia**

AIMP  
Audacity  
CDex  
ConvertXtoDVD (commercial)  
DVD Chief  
DVD Flick  
DVDShrink  
FastStone Image Viewer  
FastStone Photo Resizer  
Fast Picture Viewer (commercial)  
Foobar  
Freemake Video Converter  
Gimp  
Miro  
Mp3Gain  
MusicBee

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QGifer  
PhotoSift  
Picard  
Riot  
Screenshot Captor  
SmoothVideo Project  
SMPlayer  
StreamWriter  
VLC Media Player  
VSDC Free Screen Recorder  
XBMC  
XnView

**Productivity**

Apache OpenOffice  
Calibre  
Clipboard Help+Spell  
Clipjump  
doPDF  
Fences  
Foxit Reader  
Launchy  
LibreOffice  
PDFCreator  
QuiteRSS  
Replace Genius  
Seriousd  
Sumatra  
Word Expander

**Security**

Avira Free Antivirus  
BufferZone Pro  
CCleaner  
CrowdInspect  
DiskCryptor  
Dr. Web CureIt!  
Gmer  
HiJackThis  
HitmanPro (commercial)  
Junkware Removal Tool  
KeePass  
Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit  
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware  
Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)  
Peerblock  
PrivaZer  
RogueKiller  
Sandboxie (commercial)  
True Crypt  
Unchecky  
WinAntiRansom  
WinPatrol

**System**

AMD Radeon RAMDisk  
Autoruns  
CPU-Z  
Dataram  
Defraggler  
DISM++  
Display Driver Uninstaller  
FoldersPopup  
GPU-Z  
Grub2Win  
ImDisk Toolkit  
JavaRa  
Open Hardware Monitor  
OUTDATEfigher  
Patch Cleaner  
Process Explorer  
Registry Finder  
Revo Uninstaller  
Right-click Enhancer  
SlimCleaner  
Speccy  
Speedfan  
SUMO  
Sysmon  
System Explorer  
UltraDefrag  
Visual BCD Editor  
Windows Offline Update  
WizTree  
WSCC 3

**Misc Software**

DosBox  
F.Lux  
Keyboard and Mouse Cleaner  
Mouse Without Borders  
MSI Afterburner  
Print Queue Cleaner  
QTranslate  
Rimhill  
ShareMouse  
X-Mouse Button Control

**Developer Websites**

Donation Coder  
Nirsoft  
Sysinternals

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**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-best-windows-software-massive-list-instructions/80811/2 "2020-04-19T13:53:44Z")

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