Necessary Freeware

Here is a quick list of FREEWARE if used by the “new” computer owner can save a great deal of money that can be put towards other things, like more RAM memory, a blu-ray DVD reader/writer, a Web Camera, and/or a higher resolution monitor, instead of software for the new computer. If fact the amount of money saved could be worth hundreds of dollars to the “new” computer owner!

Software Type → Commercial Name ↔ Freeware Name ↔ (Download Location)
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Virus Suite → Norton ↔ MSE ↔ (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security_essentials/default.aspx )

Optical Disks → Nero ↔ CDBurnerXP ↔ (http://cdburnerxp.se/)

Office Suite* → Microsoft Office ↔ LibreOffice ↔ (http://www.libreoffice.org/)

Optical Character Recognition ↔ ABBYY FineReader ↔ FreeOCR ↔ (http://www.paperfile.net/)

Image Manipulation → Adobe Photoshop ↔ GIMP ↔ (http://www.gimp.org/)

Sound Editing → WavePad Masters ↔ Audacity ↔ (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

File Compression → WinZip ↔ Ken Ward's Zipper ↔ (http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/zipper/index.html)

Registry Cleaner → RegCure ↔ Eusing Free Registry Cleaner ↔ (http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm)

Web Cam → YouCam ↔ Debut Video Capture Software ↔

(www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html)

*Here are four online sites that have excellent tutorials for the basic parts of OpenOffice or LibreOffice!

1. Writer: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/topic.aspx?id=102
2. Calc: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/topic.aspx?id=117
3. Impress: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/topic.aspx?id=122
4. Base: http://inpics.net/tutorials/base2/basics.html