5 Freeware programs you can't live without
1.Open Office.org- Open Office.org is an office suite program in which you get a word processing program (Writer), a Spreadsheet program (Calc), an Equation/Math program (Math), a slide show presentation program (Impress), a drawing designer/editor (Draw), and a database managing program (Base). It has the capability of saving in many common as well as many uncommon formats, such as .doc, .rtf, .ppt, and many more. It is available for Macintosh, Linux, Windows, and Solaris. Http://www.openoffice.org/

2.Mozilla Firefox- Mozilla Firefox is a web browsing software available for Macintosh, Linux, and Windows computers which is PC magazines editors choice, C|Net's Editors' Choice, Laptop Magazines' Editors Choice, PC Pro software of the year (2007), Global Red Herring 100 Winner, Webware 100 2007 winner. It is not proprietary because it is created by a third party company, and it extremely secure and easy to use. Http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
3.Comodo Firewall Pro- Comodo Firewall Pro is one of the best firewalls out, paid for or not. It was given Editor's choice for desktop security from PC Magazine, was in the May 2008 issue of PC World's "101 Fantastic Freebies", given 5 of 5 stars from C|Net, and obtained an excellent from testmypcsecurity.com. It is one of the most secure and updated desktop security programs available. It is available for only windows systems. http://www.personalfirewall.co modo.com/download_firewall.htm l
4.AVG Anti virus Free Edition- AVG Anti virus Free Edition is a pure Anti-Virus software the takes very little system requirements, and gets free virus database updates for life. The average user rating was 4 of 5 stars. It is only available for windows running computers. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/do wnloads-products/us/frt/0?prd= aff
5.C Cleaner- C Cleaner is a system cleaner which cleans out your temporary files, auto complete forms, cookies, etc. freeing up valuable system space and making your system run faster. In addition it also includes a registry cleaner for those of you who my be too afraid to manually clean out the registry. Before changing the registry it asks you if you would like to back it up in case of errors. This program is only available for windows systems. http://www.download.com/CClean er/3000-2144_4-10315544.html

In addition to these there are many other freeware programs that are excellent but don't get publicity. For freeware programs go to http://majorgeeks.com/

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