![]() ![]() IrfanView: You can apply everything written about XnView (above) and apply it to IrfanView. Sometimes you need those features but not a full-blown, pricey suite. Krita Studio: Krita Studio is an Open-source, all-in-one painting application geared for professional artists, VFX, and game studios. They should have called it "Faststone Image Viewer, Editor, Converter and More," but I guess that would be a bit long. Intel Driver & Support Assistant: Intel Driver & Support Assistant quickly scans your machine for the latest up-to-date drivers currently available from Intel.įastStone Image Viewer: Don't be fooled by the word viewer here. Windows 10 & 11 manage most drivers well, but not video drivers.ĪMD Auto-Detect and Install Radeon Graphics Drivers: AMD Auto-Detect and Install Radeon Graphics Drivers detect your graphics card and operating system and tell you if a new driver is available. NVIDIA GeForce Experience: GeForce Experience comes with NVIDIA driver installations and watches for new drivers. Snappy Driver Installer: Snappy Driver Installer is a driver updater geared toward geeks and techs alike. Snappy Driver Installer Origin: Snappy Driver Installer Origin is an Open Source fork of Snappy Driver Installer designed by a former contributing developer and build master who felt that the project had gone astray. They offer a premium version and typically a third-party app during installation, so watch for that. Karen was one of those who made software to help people for free.ĭriver Booster: I've used this one for years, and it works great. Karen Kenworthy passed away on April 12, 2011, and in 2019, someone began updating her apps again. ![]() Karen's Replicator: Karen has been around for years, and we love it. Macrium Reflect FREE Edition: Make an accurate and reliable image of your HDD for free. Not updated since 2017, but it still works in a category where there are very few free apps. XXCLONE: XXCLONE clones your hard drive to another hard drive with the system files, installed applications, and all of your data files. You won't find anything like this for free or Open Source. It's an all-in-one disk management suite. It also can FTP.Ĭlonezilla: Clonezilla is an Open Source partition, disk imaging, and cloning program similar to True Image or Norton Ghost. ![]() We stopped using drive cloning software thanks to Reset This PC.įBackup: a free, lightweight automated backup program that can effectively help protect your important files and folders from being lost.Ĭobian Reflector: Cobian is a backup tool designed to back up files on your computer or network on a schedule. Reset This PC: is part of Windows and makes resetting your Windows 10 or 11 to factory settings, without losing your files, easy for anyone. JetClean:JetClean is rarely updated anymore, yet it has a cult following. The author agreed to provide the key to Majorgeeks to live on. X-Setup (Older):X-Setup was a pretty hardcore tweaking program but was abandoned in 2002. Glary Utilities:Glary Utilities has a Disk cleaner, registry cleaner, startup manager, file shredder, process manager, shortcuts to Windows tools, memory optimizer, and much more. There's a video on the download page, so check that out as well. Wise Care 365: A solid, all-in-one suite that pretty much does it all. We like Driver Booster from them, as well. This does it for you and saves potentially hours.Īdvanced SystemCare: ASC is an all-in-one suite to keep your computer running fine and forget about it. Simple System Tweaker: A handful of safe, tested tweaks most geeks will apply to a computer. Leave a comment below if you think we forgot something. You can scan for free, but real-time protection requires a license. For example, Malwarebytes, a household name, is included. There are now (very) few freemium listings included that we could not avoid. These are the apps that most geeks would recommend to you in their respective categories. However, in our 15,000 plus listings, you can find the cream of the crop, or as we call it, the top 1%. MajorGeeks.Com takes pride in hand-selecting the best freeware, shareware, Freemium, and Open Source software. ![]()
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