I am a person who always look for freeware software, most of the times free software are better than paid applications, so i would recommend you to first decide your requirements then search online for that software, your priority should be freeware and if you can't find (I'm sure you'll get) then pay for that software.
There are millions of software available on internet and more than 90% of them are freeware and open source. The possibilities are that those are not very popular and well known because of the online paid publicity. As i said, i mostly use freeware and i never had a difficulty in finding any type of software for free except few. So, here i am listing 100 free & open source software that you can use in year 2014 for Windows and all of them from FileHippo.
Download 10 Most Popular software on FileHippo:
CCleaner
Google Chrome 33.0.1750.5 Dev
Firefox 27.0 Beta 2
Adobe Reader 11.0.04
Skype 6.11.0.102
VLC Media Player 2.1.2 (32-bit)
Avast! Free Antivirus 9.0.2011
Flash Player 12.0.0.39 (IE)
uTorrent 3.3.2 Build 30446
WinRAR 5.01 (32-bit)
Browsers and Plugins:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Avant Browser
Comodo Dragon Internet Browser
Adobe Air
Adobe Flash Player
Internet Explorer
Java Runtime Environment
Microsoft Silverlight
Opera Browser
Anti-Virus, Malware & Spyware:
Avast! Free Antivirus
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition
Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
ClamWin
Kaspersky Windows Unlocker
Panda Cloud Antivirus
SUPERAntiSpyware
Microsoft Security Essentials
Spyware Terminator
System Tuning & Tweaking:
CCleaner
Autoruns
CPU-Z
Attribute Changer
Eraser
EVEREST Home Edition
Defraggler
Tweak UI
Unlocker
SpeedFan
Photos and Imaging:
IrfanView
Blender
FastStone Image Viewer
Fresh View
Inkscape
Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Paint.NET
Google SketchUp
Photoshine Mini
The GIMP
Firewalls and Security:
Comodo Internet Security
Hotspot Shield
AxCrypt
KeePass
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Outpost Firewall Free
Password Safe
TrueCrypt
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall
PeerGuardian 2
Backup And Compression:
7-Zip
Duplicati
Macrium Reflect
O&O DiskImage Express
Paragon Backup & Recovery
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery
Recuva
PeaZip
ZipGenius
Universal Extractor
Audio and Video:
Any Video Converter
GOM Player
VLC Media Player
K-Lite Codec Pack Full
JetAudio
KMPlayer
QuickTime Player
RealPlayer
SMPlayer
VirtualDJ
Networking and Remote Desktop:
CrossLoop
EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition
LogMeIn Hamachi
PuTTY
RealVNC
TeamViewer
TightVNC
UltraSurf
UltraVNC
Wireshark
FTP File Transfer:
4shared Desktop
Core FTP LE
FileZilla
Free Download Manager
Google Drive
Mozy Home
SkyDrive
TeraCopy
WinSCP
Wuala
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