This is a list of Windows applications that are free and for the most part are replacements for very expensive commercial applications. I use most of these all though there are a few that I have not yet tried but want to in the future.
| Program | Free Version |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Office | OppenOffice.org |
| Adobe Acrobat Pro | PDF Creator |
| Adobe Photoshop | GIMP |
| Adobe Illustrator | Inkscape |
| Norton or McAfee Antivirus | AVG Anti-Virus |
| Internet Explorer | Firefox |
| Media Player | VLC Player |
| E-mail Client | Thunderbird |
| WinRAR or WinZip | 7-Zip |
| FTP Client | Filezilla |
| 3D Graphics Creation | Blender Panda 3D Pygame |
| 3D Astonomy | Celestia Stellarium |
| Audio Recording | Audacity |
| Web Page Editor (ala Dreamweaver) | Amaya HTML-Kit Kompozer |