CPU-Z - Detailed Hardware Information

    If you are using a custom-built computer and planning an upgrade, you may need to know the brand names and model numbers of any installed devices to check for potential compatibility issues. Besides, if you need to update or re-install a hardware driver, you may need the model ID of the related device in order to look up the right version of driver to download. CPU-Z is a freeware that allows you to know the details of hardware currently installed, including the brand name, model number and some of the performance figure.

7-Zip - Free Zip Software

   7-Zip is a free file compression utility with excellent compression ratio, high overall performance and wide range of supported zip formats. It supports zipping and unzipping various kinds of zip formats such as 7z, xz, bzip2, gzip, tar, zip and wim, and supports unzipping rar, cab, chm, iso, lzh, msi (and more). According to 7-Zip, it provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip. There are many zip software packages available (such as WinRAR and WinZip). 7-Zip may not be perfect but is definitely one of the very best.

PSPad - Free Text Editor for Programmers and Developers

PSPad is a full-featured text editor for programmers and developers, especially for those who need to work with multiple programming environments. PSPad supports a vast types of programming languages such as HTML, Java, XML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, MySQL, Perl and more... With syntax highlighting, multiple files editing, easy macro recording, etc..., every editing task can be done with maximized efficiency.

Free System Cleanup Utility - CCleaner

Feeling the computer running slower and slower? What about a cleanup? CCleaner is a free, tiny yet powerful utility that helps analyze and delete unused files from your system. It is capable in cleaning all areas of your computer including temporary internet files, browsing history, cookies, autocomplete form history, download history, unused registry, system cache, memory dumps, error reporting, bad shortcuts etc.

Free YouTube Downloader - YouTube Downloader HD

In YouTube, you can find many rare short movies and music videos. You may want to keep them and watch again in the future by bookmarking their URLs in Web browser. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal solution because the videos may be removed from the uploader or by the copyright owner anytime they want to. Here you have another choice - to download the YouTube video to your computer through YouTube Downloader.

Free CD/DVD Burner - CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP is free application that supports everything you need to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. Like many other similar CD/DVD burners, CDBurnerXP also allows you to burn and create ISO images, create bootable discs, copy CD/DVD, etc. CDBurnerXP is free to download and use be it for personal use or commercial enterprise.