Some of the best software out is shareware or freeware. These are often time limited full versions. Some are not time limited but occasionally remind you to pay the piper. I'll add a few dozen more quality links soon so check back.
Free Virus-Scan and Cleanup. You must use Internet Explorer for this one and OK the bar that asks you to install the Active X software scanner. Try it, then buy it for full protection.
Download Open Office and your freeware suite is compatible with the latest MS Office including Word, and Excel.
Just about every program you'll ever need for the web. Win-Planets Software reviews & Downloads.
The one program my future wife and I love the most is Webseeker. It uses dozens of the most popular search engines to simultaneously search for your key words. If you need to find software drivers, hard to find hardware, historical info, from the sublime to the ridiculous, this is it. Blows all other individual search engines (Yahoo, Google, Alta Vista, etc.) out of the water by using them together, stitching you a custom web page with the results, and filtering out all the stuff you don't want.............
Firefox is a Web browsers that loads faster then Internet Explorer and offers Tabbed Browsing with loads of extras.
