The your IT Essential Software is a listing of free or inexpensive programs that we have found incredibly useful. We consider these to be essential to most all computer users.

Adobe Reader
Acrobat Reader is an essential program to view PDF files. PDFs are an Internet standard in sharing read only documents and forms.
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avast!
avast! is a great antivirus package. No yearly fees for home computer users and inexpensive for business users.
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Carbonite
Carbonite will automatically back up your PC over the Internet for $5 per month.
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CutePDF
Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document. FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No popup Web advertisements! Now supports 64-bit Windows.
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HDDLife
HDDlife can work in the preventative mode when it checks the health of your hard drives at regular intervals and informs you about the results of these checks in an unobtrusive way. If you get warned about a possible hard drive failure , you will protect yourself against losing your naturally priceless personal data.
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MWSnap
MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen.
Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.
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Picasa2
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.
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Spambayes
Spambayes is a great freebie program that will learn what is spam and what isn't based on what you tell it. It integrates with Outlook and uses complex algorithms to filter out spam based on how you train it.
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SyncBack Free
This utility is used to backup your data to another folder on another computer. It can be scheduled to backup at any time. Download