Download these helpful and free utilities from Piriform.
                                           CCleaner: operating system cleaning.
                                           Defraggler: hard drive performance.

SyncBack Free

Data backup is a tricky subject and finding a decent program to do the job is just as tricky. I found very few backup programs that are any good and for the most part using my own backup batch script works well. However, backup scripts are not for everyone and they have their limitations. 2BrightSparks' release of SyncBack Free changes all of that. This is the best of the free backup utilities and probably the pay for ones as well.

  Notepad++    An excellent text editor and Notepad alternative.
This article shows how to replace Windows Notepad with Notepad++.

Notepad Replacer     Replace Windows Notepad with another text editor such as Notepad++.

VLC Player    A most excellent open source multimedia player.

  Image Resizer for Windows   Once you install this program, right mouse click on an image file and select "Resize pictures".

  PDFCreator    Try PDFCreator the next time you want to create a document to email. Select PDFCreator instead of your default printer.

  Monitor CPU, hard drive and motherboard temperatures as well as fan rpm speed.

VirtualBox    Create virtual machines with Oracle's free offering.

Do you miss the Windows XP network indicator in the system tray? Its now back for Windows 7 & 10.

Cygwin for Windows. Get unix/linux power doe your Microsoft Windows operating system.