Top 50 Freeware for Windows XP (part 5 of 5)

Continuing the list of top 50 Freeware for Windows XP

Exposure Plot
ExposurePlot is a unique tool for photographers that generate statistical graphs for exposure information, contained in the EXIF data of digital photos. It analyzes focal length, ISO, aperture (F-Stop) and shutter speed and generates graphs that display the percentage used, times used and combinations of these values. The statistics can also be filtered by camera model. It allows a photographer to analyze his/her shooting habits and/or equipment usage.

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Picasa 3
Picasa is a powerful, yet easy to use and attractive tools suite to manage and organize your digital images and photos. It offers one simple place to organize, enjoy, and share your pictures. After installing, the software can automatically scan your drive(s) for images and intelligently sort them into photo albums, ready for you to customize and organize. It offers different interface layouts and ways to view your pictures, including slideshow and a unique timeline feature. Picasa supports import from twain devices, including digital cameras, photo emailing, printing and much more. A great, all-around imaging tool! Now with Picasa Web Albums, this allows you to upload free image galleries, hosted by Google.

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Responding Heads
Responding Heads enables you to launch programs, commands and actions via voice commands spoken into your PC microphone. The program uses the MS Speech recognition engine and is very easy to configure. It places a small animated head on your desktop that confirms that spoken commands and adds some animation to the process (this can be turned off). Responding Heads supports program launching, e.g. say `Open Mail` to run Outlook Express, as well as several system and keyboard commands, text-to-speech conversion, and even typing of pre-configured keystrokes. Responding Heads is very easy to set up.

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Sharepod
If you want to get all those files off your iPod and into your computer, then this is the program for you.

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IrfanView
Simply put, this is a simple graphic viewer. It has many essential features like email, Thumbnail/preview option, various Effects, changing color depth, and, of course, an extensive file format support.

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Windows Live Writer
Although still in beta, this makes blogging both easy and comfortable. It supports many blog services, including WordPress, Blogger, and TypePad, and also has some very good plugins.

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AVG Anti Virus Free Version
One of the basic need for your Windows, an anti-virus software. AVG AV free version is a good one for this purpose.

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Winamp 5.52
Winamp is the most popular software for playing songs and the new version has lot of new enhancements and improved interface and skin. Winamp toolbar for controlling music playback from your browser.

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Revo Uninstaller
Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet.

Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs" applet! With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer. Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.

With its unique "Hunter mode", Revo Uninstaller offers you some simple, easy to use, but effective and powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from auto starting) and to get information about your installed and/or running programs.

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Glary Utilities
Glary Utilities is the #1 free, powerful and all-in-one utility in the world market! It offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.

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Top 50 Freeware for Windows XP (part 4 of 5)

Continuing the list of top 50 Freeware for Windows XP

Samurize
Samurize is the popular advanced system monitoring and desktop enhancement engine for Windows. IT professionals, overclockers, gamers and desktop modders alike use Samurize for system information, weather reports, news headlines and much much more. Samurize's features include: an unrivaled set of built-in meters (Disk utilization, CPU usage, network traffic, system temperatures, etc.), ultimate customizing and skinning possibilities with no programming knowledge required, monitoring your own computer or others over a network, tiny memory footprint and CPU usage, the first system monitoring tool with a true WYSIWYG editor, full extensibility via scripts and plugins with a powerful plugin SDK/API, minimal software requirements (no .NET or Service Packs necessary), multimonitor support, many usage options (desktop, taskbar and clock clients, server outputting to XML or image formats, screensaver)

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ObjectDock
ObjectDock is a program that enables users to add a "dock" to their Windows desktop that contains short-cuts, running tasks, and "docklets". It is highly configurable, easy to use, and very useful. ObjectDock is freeware. A plus version is also available that adds tabs, system tray support, task grouping, and hotspot support.

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RocketDock
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha-blended application launcher that is similar to ObjectDock. RocketDock renders quickly like MobyDock, has the visual sharpness of Y'z Dock, and the stability that neither seem to possess. It is compatible with every dock skin format we are aware of.

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Visual ToolTip
Visual Tooltip is small software which creates a thumbnail of the windows when you put your cursor on the buttons of the taskbar. You can manage the transparency, the size and the color of the thumbnails.
You can also modify the contents of the window directly in the thumbnail!

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Vista Inspirat 2.1.0
BricoPack Vista Inspirat is a free pack which modifies Windows XP system files in order to change its appearance and make it look like Windows Vista (the next operating system made by Microsoft). Rewarded by a lot of magazine, Vista Inspirat BricoPack is the best way to change quickly and easily your Windows icons, logon and visual style.

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TrueTransparency
TrueTransparency is a freeware that changes the windows border adding png support and so true transparency.

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Styler 1.401
Styler has recently became free. This application allows you to do a lot of interesting customizations, though it is not easy to use at first. It can add a drop shadow to your windows, change Clear Type contrast, change a visual style's color or wallpaper's and much more. But its most useful function is located in the "Styler Toolbar" which can entirely change the look and feel of the Windows XP's toolbar. So, you can change your toolbar to make it look like Windows Vista's or Mace OSX's. Styler doesn't use much memory (less than 1MB when it's used in the background), but to use all its function, especially for the drop shadow, you'll need a powerful computer. RoTKiV's "Vista" skin is included in the archive, To install it, just drag and drop the "Vista Styler" folder into "Program Files/StylerTBskins/Styler's", it's that simple.

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Gallery Grabber
Gallery Grabber enables you to quickly save all the images in a photo gallery, without having to manually click on the images. It will automatically follow the thumbnails and download the full size images for you - all with a single click. You can choose a folder to save the files to, set a minimum file size, and limit following of links to the current domain.

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Google Sketchup
Google Sketchup is an easy-to-use 3D modeling software that enables you to create 3D models of houses, buildings and many other objects, using an array of drag and drop tools and materials in a WYSIWYG editing environment. You can design your objects with rectangles, circles, ovals, arcs, lines and freehand drawings, and use a unique push/pull tool to add dimension to 2D objects. The program offers a library of building material patterns (brick, concrete, wood, glass, carpet etc.) and colors that you can use to add a realistic look to your creation. The finished design can be exported to popular image formats, including JPG, TIF, PNG and BMP, or shared via the Google 3D warehouse. Google Sketchup does not require any 3D experience, but you should read the supplied documentation and tutorials to make full use of the software - an interactive tutorial will explain the basic functionality for each selected tool. There is also a Pro version available, that offers export to 3D and raster formats.

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TextStylist
TextStylist lets you add up to 10 different text overlays to a photo or picture. You can choose from 3D text, Shadow and Flat text with customizable settings for each. It supports most popular image formats and can also save your text designs, so that they can easily be added to other pictures. Additional features include optional textures, Undo/Redo, gradient background creation and more. The results can be saved as file or copied to the clipboard. TextStylist supports BMP, JPG, PNG, PCX, TGA, TIF, WMF and EMF formats.

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Top 50 Freeware for Windows XP (part 3 of 5)

Continuing the list of top 50 Freeware for Windows XP

WinMerge
WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. It features visual differencing and merging of text files, a flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap and handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats.

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Drive Manager
Drive Manager is a small and useful tool that makes it easy to retrieve drive information for all your drives at a glance. It runs as a standalone EXE file and displays Label, Type, Size, Used, Available, Format, Serial number and Percentage free for each local and removable drive. The information is refreshed every 20 seconds - double-clicking opens the drive in Windows Explorer. Drive Manager also allows you to create a substitute drive letter for a local folder, and to hide drives from Windows Explorer.

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Suction - Picasa, Flickr downloader 3.0
Suction is an easy way to download an entire PicasaWeb, Flickr or Webshots album. Just put in the url of the album in suction and it will download the entire web album on your hard drive. A great resource to download complete web albums with a single click!

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PortableApps Suite
PortableApps Suite™ is a complete collection including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.

There are three packages -
1.Platform only-1.2 mb
2.Site light-35 mb
3.Suite Standard-113 mb

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Windows Defender
Microsoft Windows Defender (formally known as Windows AntiSpyware) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware, including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up ads, unwanted changes to Internet settings, and unauthorized use of your private information. Continuous protection improves Internet browsing safety by guarding more than 50 ways spyware can enter your PC.

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DVD Shrink
DVD Shrink is a freeware tool for fitting a DVD-Video disc on a single DVD-R. DVD Shrink will also burn your backup DVD, if you have installed the latest version of Nero. If you already possess alternative burning software and prefer to stick with it, then you can still use DVD Shrink. The output from DVD Shrink can be saved as files on your hard drive, which you can then burn with software of your choice.

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Process Explorer 11.30
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.
Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 processors, and Windows Vista.

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Miranda 0.7.13
Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It requires no installation and can be fitted on a single floppy disc. Its powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM very flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more than 350 free plugins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality of Miranda IM. Available Protocols – ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Netsend,

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Deep Burner
DeepBurner is a free CD and DVD burning tool from Astonsoft It comes loaded with an extensive list of practical and amazingly valuable features that will totally satisfy your burning needs. These start from compiling your CDs and DVDs in different formats and ending with the creation of fascinating photo albums and rock solid, reliable backups. You can easily create and burn regular data CDs/DVDs, AudioCD recording functionality is included, Direct disk-to-disk copying is a cinch, Quickly build and burn ISO Images, Burning Video DVDs is no problem, Create awesome, personalized photo CD/DVD albums
Rest assured with the full-featured backup utility, CD/DVD burning from the command line for you pro's
Drive and media information utility included, Supports IDE/EIDE, USB, SCSI, and Fire Wire CD/DVD writers, Burning Features, Overburn function, Buffer underrun technology "Burn-Proof", DAO, SAO and TAO Writing methods support, Support for CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD+R / DVD-RW / DVD+RW / DVD-RAM, Create Multi-session CDs, Write on Rewritable CDs/DVDs, Bootable CD/DVD support, Specific Features, Dynamically adjustable drive buffer size, High Performance File/Disc Caching, Supports Long File Name (Joliet) File Systems, Creates ISO (100% DOS/Windows) compatible data CDs/DVDs, Supports multiple simultaneous recorders, Ease of Use and Compatibility, Easy to use wizards help you create any type of burning project, The Autorun Wizard makes it easy to create effective autoruns for your CDs
You can even easily make your own cover, booklet or case insert, Multi-language interface.

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Daemon Tools lite
DAEMON Tools is a virtual CD/DVD-ROM emulator and is able to emulate nearly all known copy protections on the market today. The application mounts ISO images to a virtual drive without having to burn them to a CD. It is further development of Generic Safedisc emulator and incorporates all its features. This program allows running Backup Copies of SafeDisc (C-Dilla), Securom, Laserlock, CDCOPS, StarForce and Protect CD (and many others) protected games. Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive (Generic DVD-ROM) enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD! DAEMON Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection.

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Top 50 Freeware for Windows XP (part 2 of 5)

Continuing the list of top 50 Freeware for Windows XP

Qm Quick mailing application
The Quick Mailer is a tiny program for sending quick e-mail messages without having to load your main email client program. It features MIME attachment support, multiple authentication methods, SMTP logging and more. Standalone program, no install, can run from a USB drive.

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Audacity Portable
Audacity is an easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. You can use it to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together, change the speed or pitch of a recording and much much more!

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XnView
XnView is a very useful software for viewing all types of graphic files (bmp, gif, jpeg, png, tiff, etc.). It is also extremely easy to use.

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NConvert
NConvert is a batch utility to convert graphic files. It supports more than 400 graphics formats!

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Dr.Web CureIt
Dr.Web CureIt is a standalone anti-virus and anti-spyware scanner that scans your PC for viruses, Trojans, adware, spyware, hack tools, root kits, and other malware. The program does not require an installation and can be run from a USB drive. This is an on-demand scanner only; it can detect and remove virus infections but does not provide any real-time protection. Dr.Web CureIt is based on the ICSA certified Dr. Web scanning engine and should provide reliable detection.

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Restoration
Restoration is an easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows, and also able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted. Upon start, you can scan for all files that may be recovered and also limit the results by entering a search term or extension. In addition, it also provides the option to wipe the found files beyond simple recovery. The program is small and standalone, it does not require installation and can also run from a Floppy disk. Restoration works with FAT and NTFS as well as digital cameras cards.

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KeePass
KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES-256 and Twofish).

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Peazip
PeaZip is an open source portable file archiver. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, splitting and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with especial focus on handling open formats.
Full support : 7Z, 7Z-sfx, ARC/WRC, BZ2/TBZ2, Custom (user defined), GZ/TGZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP.
Open, browse, extract, test : ACE, ARJ, CAB, CHM, COMPOUND (MSI, DOC, XLS, PPT), CPIO, ISO, Java (JAR, EAR, WAR), Linux (DEB, PET/PUP, RPM, SLP), LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, RAR, SMZIP, U3P, WIM, XPI, Z/TZ.

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Pidgin Instant messaging client
Pidgin Portable is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that works with AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! and more. You can log into multiple networks all with the same program. All your IM settings and buddy lists are self-contained, so it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on.

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WinMd5Sum
winMd5Sum makes it easy to verify that the files you download are unaltered when on the go. Simply drag and drop a file to the window and it will calculate the Md5 sum in seconds. You can even copy and paste the published md5 sum into the compare box to quickly compare it.

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Top 50 Freeware for Windows XP (part 1 of 5)

This is a comprehensive list of the top 50 freeware for your Windows XP system. All these applications have been personally tested by me and I have found them useful. I believe that some of these freeware might prove useful to you also.

Vista Start Menu in XP
Vista Start Menu is the convenient alternative to the plain Start menu you find in Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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RockXP
RockXP allows you to retrieve your XP product key that you used when you installed Windows XP, as well as keys for other Microsoft products. This can come very handy if you need to reinstall but have misplaced or lost the CD cover with the serial sticker. In addition, the program also lets you save the product activation to a file, recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage, as well as MSN logins, Internet connection parameters and more.

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Vista Transformation Pack 9.0.1
Vista Transformation Pack is a software utility that transforms Windows XP's appearance to resemble that of VISTA. VTP will transform your entire user interface, including a Vista-themed Boot Screen, Welcome Screen, and Visual Style, as well as new icons, wallpapers, and more.

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INFRA RECORDER
This is used in place of Nero, which is costly and comes with programs that you may not use. This is a freeware that does the same job as Nero when it comes to CD/DVD burning. You can create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images. It supports recording to dual-layer DVDs. It can blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods. It can be used to record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE). IT can fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc). It can scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities. It can be used to create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image. It can import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them. It can display disc information. It can save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

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Tidy Favorites SE
TidyFavorites is an innovative tool which aims to make bookmarking safer, faster and easier.
Being intuitively designed, it allows finding websites instantly due to easily recognized thumbnail images. Using TidyFavorites you can add bookmarks to the "stack", group them in tabs and folders, select the desired area of a web page and save it as a thumbnail, drag-n-drop to rearrange bookmark thumbnails. You can even store your Tidy Favorites on a flash drive. TidyFavorites data is stored only on your PC or a flash drive. It is available in IE, FireFox and Opera. Premium options with more features are also available.

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gMote 1.32
gMote allows you to record gestures (mouse motions) and assign them to frequently performed tasks. Use gestures to bring up programs, Web sites, control your browser, media player, and clipboard. You can even assign your own key combinations to a gesture - make text bold by drawing a 'B', lock your computer with an 'L' - it's fully customizable and free.

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FOXIT PDF reader
Foxit PDF Reader is an alternative to Adobe Reader, that allows you to view and print PDF files. Unlike Adobe Reader, it opens PDF files very fast, without any delay. It supports all the standard features, as well as browser integration, and also an option select/copy of text from the documents. Furthermore, you can create a snapshot from a selected portion of the page, fill interactive forms and more.

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NOTEPAD++
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

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Express Burn
Burn Audio CDs and Data CDs, DVDs or Blu-ray Discs. Express Burn is a free CD burning program that lets you create and record audio and data CDs on Windows or Mac.

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OpenOffice Portable
OpenOffice Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you'd expect in an office suite, but at no cost. It can be easily carried around in a USB flash drive.

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