Top 5 Free Windows Programs

Here are my recommendations for the Top 5 Free Programs for your windows computer.
I am a firm believer in everything free and i havent paid for a number of applications for as long as i can remember, below is my list of recommendations for you

1. AVG Antivirus
AVG has been around for a long time and is a well established provider in the market for Antivirus software, i have never paid for any Antivirus software one because its over priced and two the applications that you get in the paid for versions you dont need and they will only slow your computer down. i have used AVG for about 5 years it has never let me down and its free to use. Follow the link below to download it for free

Click here to download AVG Free

2. Malwarebytes
In my blog post which is here i tell you where to get malwarebytes and how to install it, this program is awesome it picks up all the crap that most antivirus programs dont see. this is because about 95% of virus's on computers these days are not actually virus's at all they are what is known as Malware or Spyware, traditional Antivirus programs will only pick up some of these programs as being malicous, this is why i recommend having malwarebytes installed along side your Antivirus and run the two of them daily if need be but generally i would run them once a week to get rid of the junk that you accumulate wjilst surfing the net.

See my Post here about Malwarebytes

3. VLC Media Player
If Like me you have lots of different types of media from MP3's to Videos in all different formats you will already know that Windows Media Player just doesnt quite cut it, if you are wanting a program that will play all your media and more then VLC is the one stop shop for all types of media, if it doesnt play in VLC then it probably wont play anyway, i have used VLC since i started downloading media off the internet, its a great little application and there are many more features of it than just a standard media player.

Click here to download VLC Media Player

4. Open Office
We All know that Microfot Office is way Overpriced and doesnt come preinstalled on your shiney new computer 9 times out of 10 you will either get the 60 day trial or the home student edition which is usually missing the programs that you need, Open Office is the Free alternative to the entire Microsoft Office suite and it can even open all the documents that have been created within Word, Excel and all the other programs, there are a few pre-requisits that you need to have in order to isntall Open Office but these come with the installer itself.

Click here to download the Open Office Suite

5. IrfanView
IrfanView is a image Editing program that allows you to open a wide variety of images and includes lots of features for editing your photgraphs which include the following, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, watermark image option, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating. This program does just as much as what some top priced applications do and its all for free.

Click here to download IrfanView

Annoying Popups and General Crap on your computer.

Do you ever get popups and general crap on your computer, i have just the program for you, its FREE yes FREE !!!!! and it works, just as long as you remember to keep it up to date, its called malwarebytes and can be found at http://www.malwarebytes.org.

If the site does not look as the image above then you will more than likely have some fake antivirus software already installed ( you may need to get the download files on another computer) if it does look like this one above then click on the "Free Download" button, you will be taken to another site which keeps the installer file, normally the CNET Downloads site, and download the setup file.
Once it has finished downloading then you just need to run the file and install it onto your computer
double click on the setup file and select English as your language and click on OK.
 
You will now be told what version you are installing, the version i have in the images is 1.62.0.1300, Click on the Next button.

Make sure that you check the two boxes to accept the license agreement and also accept that you will only use this program for non-commercial use.

Then hit the next button

Hit the next button again

Keep the Default install location and then hit next again

Hit the next button again

Leave the default settings again although you could choose to create a Quick Launch Icon (this is the little icon next to the Start button)

Click on the Install Button

To enable it stays free please make sure that you un tick the Enable Free Trial box and leave the other two ticked and click on finish.

Let it update and then once it has finished the program will open up itself.

Once it has open simply choose a Quick Scan and then press the Scan button and wait for it to finish

If you have any crap in there it will come up and tell you like the image above to remove them tick the box next to each one and then hit the Remove Selected Button and you will be Malware free.

If you still feel like you have crap on there then repeat the process again and Remove and Reboot.