Category Archives: Freeware Picks

Every week we feature a freeware program that meets our very high standards. All freeware picks are free for home & personal use and contain no spyware or adware and do not bundle other applications with them.

Our freeware picks are the best of the best…

Check your hard drives another way

Most of you know what CHKDSK is, if you don’t, you should. Windows CHKDSK can find and fix most hard drive errors before they become a major problem. Many of you who still use Windows XP have older computers, and by now your hard drive probably has some errors — bad sectors, allocation tables out of whack, that… Read More »

Uninstall Your Unwanted Programs Completely With This Great Cloudeight Freeware Pick

GeekUninstaller Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 32 and 64-big A full-featured uninstaller 1.5MB zip file Well, well, well! RevoUninstaller has real competition now! Finally someone has created a program that does what Revo Uninstaller does and does it faster and less elegantly. Yep. That’s right. Less elegantly. The user interface of GeekUninstaller is about as minimalistic… Read More »

NeatMouse

This tiny (396KB) download could save you a lot of trouble if you’re using a wireless mouse and its batteries suddenly die and you have no replacement batteries handy. Or how about when you install Windows and you don’t have the right mouse drivers installed and that fancy mouse won’t work? You need to download drivers but how… Read More »

PowerToys SyncToy Is Better Than Ever

Microsoft’s free SyncToy originally appeared as part of the Windows XP PowerToys package. While most of the old XP PowerToys passed on to the big bit bucket in the sky, SyncToy has been improved quite a bit from the PowerToys days – it now comes in 32bit and 64bit flavors — so make sure you download the right… Read More »