I have used many freewares on my computer, and i’m very happy with it. I will recommend the freewares that lightweight to use, especially low resource and definitely free.

1. Image viewer & lightweight editor
IrfanView | Download
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

2. PDF Reader
Foxit Reader | Download
Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 1.5 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader 2.0 supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.6.

3. Audio Player / MP3 Player
AIMP Classic

An advanced multimedia player that includes an audio converter, recorder, and tag editor. Includes an easy to use interface, small size and minimal use of system resources.
Features:
* Crystal-clear sound, technology of reproduction essentially differs from Winamp and WMP;
* Sensitive equalizer;
* A maximum of functionality from a minimum of resources;
* The minimal consumption of system resources;
* Many More…

4. Burner
CDBurner XP Pro | Download
CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
Features:
# Writes all kind of mediums apart from double-layer DVD (follows in next version). Burning video-DVDs is limited.
# Burn audio-CDs with and without gaps between tracks
# Burn on the fly / Burn-proof
# Supports most IDE, USB, Firewire and SCSI drives
# Rip Audio-CDs to harddrive, obtain track-information (ID3-tags) from Internet
# Burn and create ISO-files

5. Bandwidth Meter
BitMeter II | Download

BitMeter 2 is a bandwidth meter, it allows you to visually monitor your internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time. BitMeter is freeware - ie. it is given away completely free of charge, there is no trial period, no time-limited features, no spyware, and no adware, guaranteed.

6. Anti Spyware
| Download
Spybot - Search and Destroy v1.4
Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove a multitude of adware files and modules from your computer. Spybot also can clean program and Web-usage tracks from your system, which is especially useful if you share your computer with other users. Modules chosen for removal can be sent directly to the included file shredder, ensuring complete elimination from your system.

7. Firewall
Comodo Free Firewall | Download
Comodo’s Firewall is unique in that it passes all known leak tests to ensure the integrity of data entering and exiting your system. Comodo has put firewall through all kinds of sophisticated tests to ensure its firewall powerful enough to ward off these attacks with default settings. No other firewall has had to work this hard. Take this test yourself.

8. Free TV Online
TV v2.0 | Download

Now you can watch hundreds (300+) of LIVE worldwide channels on your PC, free of charge. TV is an extremely easy to use application and anyone can find their own favorite stations on TV. Music, news, educational, sports & shopping channels are sorted in a very easy to find way, together with TV in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese & Arabic sections.

9. Text Editor
Notepad++ 4.12 | Download
Notepad++ is a free source editor and Notepad replacement with the syntax highlighting (supported language for the moment: c/c++/Java/html/xml/php/asp/vb/vbs/SQL/Objective-C/javascript/ini/makefile/MSDos Display ).It also gives the extra functionality to the general user: colorize the user defined words. You can print your source code in color (or whatever you want) if you have a color printer (WYSIWYG). Furthermore, Notepad++ includes the multi-view feature, which allows the user to edit the different documents at the same time, and even edit the same document synchronously in 2 different views.

10. Compression Softwares
7-Zip | Download

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
The main features of 7-Zip:
* Highest compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
* Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB
* For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 47 languages
* works in DOS using HX Extender
* There is port of command line version for DOS, Linux/Unix.

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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 at 7:50 pm | by Neezar |