Freeware for Vista

Hi and Welcome


You have a wide subject area their! Most freeware will work with Vista as will most retail software, soem may suffer at present from having to be installed with Admin rights or have a UAC popup when run but many will work fine.


If you narrow your software genre down a bit we may be able to suggest a few? what is it your after, Antivirus, Antispyware, Graphics, Cleanup utilities, Process Monitoring, CD/DVD burning etc etc?


Nice list of compatible apps for Vista some free some retail
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List

 

Well for security


AVG and AVAST work well for Antivirus ( remember the only install one AV guidance rule tho )


SpywareBlaster, Ad-Aware, A Squared and Spybot work well for curbing spyware.

Firewalls are a bit touchy at present as some of the better frewares are not available for Vista yet in ZoneAlarm and Comodo ( yes ZoneAlarm has a beta which works but its still a tad buggy )

Good one is http://www.majorgeeks.com/Vista_Firewall_Control_32-bit_d5578.html which works well.

Other tools I have are

XNView ( good graphics viewer and editor )
CCleaner ( good for all around file and registry cleaning )
AM DeadLink ( great for going through your bookmarks for dead links )
AusLogics ( great free defragger )
doDPF ( good free PDF creator )
Process Explorer ( good for troublehooting processes which are causing issues with CPU usage )

all available here http://www.majorgeeks.com/ and we are slowly building a database of compatible apps with various OSes http://www.majorgeeks.com/compatibility.html


FileMenu Tools is good for adjusting the right click context menu
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/fmtools/info.html ( works with Vista fine )



Just a few that work in Vista that I have installed and use.