Why pay for softwares when freewares are available for almost every task you can think of. We have compiled a list of 29 Freeware Windows Tools that let you do most of your computing tasks.

You might also want to check out our earlier post about 10 Essential portable Applications for USB drive.

Here is the list.

Multimedia & Internet

1. DVD Flick

If downloaded videos are eating up your hard disk space, then it’s time to back up them to DVDs that can be played on TV. This tool will let you do exactly that. You can also create chapters, titles within clips easily.

2. Free ISO creator

A simple straightforward tool to create ISO images. Bootable images can be created, and CD, DVD-5, and DVD-9 are supported, and you can also specify your ISO to be created as ISO 9660 or UDF

3. ISODisk

This nifty freeware allows you to create up to 20 virtual drives from ISO images without requiring to install any virtual drive manager software.You can also create ISO images from a CD or DVD.

4. Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 Free

This freeware will cater to all your CD/DVD burning tasks from creating Music CDs, video DVDs, copy disks, creating encrypted disks etc. It even supports Blu-Ray disks.

5. K-Lite codec Pack

The ultimate codec pack that’ll let you play almost any audio/video file you could think of.

6. KM-Player

KM player plays acomprehensive range of media format, including broad DVD support using all internal filters and codecs. With features like applying filters during playback, playing and capturing streaming media, it is a must have tool for your multimedia needs.

7. Any Video Converter (Free)

Nice freeware tool to convert videos. It supports avi, asf, mov, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg, 3gp, m4v, and vob to avi, wmv, mp4, 3gp, mpg (PAL or NTSC), MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, wmv and flv Formats.

8. Audacity

An easy to use audio editing software even better than some of paid counterparts.

9. Free Download Manager

As is clear from its name, it is a download manager and accelerator having inbuilt support for bittorrent protocol, youtube video download, HTML spider to download websites for offline viewing and much more.

10. Orbit Downloader

Downloader Manager and accelerator that offers loads of functionality including automatic detection of streaming audio or video to provide download option, supports rapidshare downloads and also lets you schedule when the downloads should occur.

Windows Utilities

11. Smart Defrag

Forget Windows Disk Defragmenter, Smart Defrag is an extremely fast and efficient disk defragmenter with loads of features. It quietly runs in background to keep your hard disk optimized for performance.

12. Easeus Partition Manager

Easeus Partition Manager Home Edition is a clean and simple disk partitioning utility for Windows that offers a good set of functions like resizing partitions, formatting partitions, hiding partitions, setting active partitions etc.

13. Recuva

Accidentally deleted a file? No need to worry, here’s a freeware that recovers deleted files from hard disk, memory cards or MP3 players. It an even recover files deleted during system crashes.

14. Windows System Control Center

This application provides single window access to windows utilities from Nirsoft and Windows Sysinternals. You can use these utilities to tweak your system according to requirement.

15. Z-Cron

A robust and easy to use task scheduler for windows that lets you schedule system shutdown, launching applications, cleaning directories etc.

16. Revo Uninstaller

A faster alternative to Windows Add/Remove Programs with some nice functionalities.

17. Xplorer 2 Lite

If you aren’t satisfied with the features Wndows Explorer offers, then give Xplorer Lite a try. It provides options to multiple renaming, tabs, dual panes while browsing folders, folder comparison features that let you handle greater amounts of data more efficiently.

18. ClipX

Power up your Windows Clipboard with light weight ClipX. It allows you to retain more than one items in clipboard though it doesn’t retain formatting of text while copying.

19. M8 Free Clipboard

Here’s another clipboard extender that allows to copy 25 times without losing any data. It also retains formatting of text

Others

20. Launchy

Forget about using start menu to launch applications, just press Alt+Space and start typing application name and launchy would search it for you to get started.

21. Multiple Find and replace -

This utility will let you replace occurrences of a particular word with another word over multiple files with simple click.

22. Adobe Reader Lite

Adobe Reader without useless and annoying stuff. It is a lot lighter on resources than official Adobe Reader.

23. RocketDock

Get a Mac like application dock for windows

24. 7-Zip

Freeware tool to manage compressed archives. Lightweight and supports most of compression formats.

25. sLife Usage Tracker

Know where you spend most of your time working on your PC. It tracks your activities and generates reports to let you know where you are spending most of your time.

26. XinOrbis

An intuitive disk analyzer that provides complete overview of hard disk usage and allows to generate reports and graphs easily.

27. Notepad++

A must have replacement for Notepad.

28. Sun xvm VirtualBox

Try different operating systems without putting your data on risk using Virtual Box.

29. RBTray

RBTray provides you with option to minimize your open windows to system tray rather than taskbar. Just right click on title bar of window and select minimize to tray.

You can also right click in the bottom right corner of minimize button to directly minimize window to tray.

If you would like to add something to freewares list, feel free to do so in comments below.