These are not ordered by “importance” or “value” or anything, just a flat list of ten productivity booster applications for most Windows 7 users. They are all FREE. Enjoy!
| Paint.NET | Edit and enhance pictures and image files with a variety of effects and filters. Basic drawing and touch-up features as well. Free |
| Windows Live Writer | Part of the Windows Live package, this provides a robust blog editor with support for plug-ins, multiple blog engines and multiple blog accounts. Free |
| TweetDeck | Twitter desktop client with sorting, filtering, multiple account management, and links to Facebook and MySpace. Free |
| 7-Zip | Alternative to WinZip and WinRAR for opening, extracting and creating a wide variety of archive formats including CAB, ZIP, RAR and many more. Free |
| Microsoft SharedView | Remote desktop connectivity over the web using your Live ID account. Sort of NetMeeting on steroids but updated for Windows Vista/7 UI. Free |
| DivX Player | Provides CODEC for playing most popular DivX AVI encoded movies. Free |
| BitTorrent | The de facto standard of desktop torrent clients. Need I say more? Free |
| RSAT | Remote Server Administration Tools, replaces the older “Administration Tools Pack” for Windows Server 2003 management. RSAT is for managing Windows Server 2008 as well as 2003 from a Windows 7 client. Free |
| WireShark | Powerful network monitoring and logging utility. Free |
| Windows Easy Transfer (XP to Windows 7) | Simple utility for backing up everything you need or want from your XP box before wiping and reloading it with Windows 7 (the way you should do it). Available for 32 or 64-bit clients. Free |
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