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Everything you need to be productive on your PC is in this list of 85 programs, and its all totally free.

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The real work (and a lot of the play) of computing requires a full personal computing system, and to get the most out of that, you need software.

Software can be expensive, but free programs have been a mainstay of the desktop experience for decades, and todays offerings are pretty powerful.

Software developers can adopt an ad-based model, donation-ware to keep things afloat, or a sharewarefreemium model that charges for extra features.

To make ends meet, many creators of otherwise great free software, or the services that offer the programs for download, bundle in things you dont want.

Worse, the installation routine obfuscates the steps, so you provide the unwanted program tacit permission to be installed.

For more about how to spot and avoid this problem, see How to Rid a New PC of Crapware, and check out the Uninstaller section below.

SEE ALSO: The Best Dog DNA Testing Kits for 2020 A pro tip: only download desktop software from the maker of the software directly.

Its not foolproofafter all, developers want to eat, toobut it helps.

Thats why one of the criteria for inclusion here is that the program is available directly from its maker.

Other Criteria: The software must be available directly from the developercreatororiginal publisher.

The software should (typically) have a Windows-based download.

However, weve included web-based apps that are as good, or better, than some downloadable programs.

If the software is on a tiered sales model, the free version cannot be trial-ware.

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Preferably the program has had an update in the last year or two.

The program should have little or no advertising to support it.

Some freemium software depends on showing ads to exist, however.

Software for productivity is what this list is about; there are plenty of other places to find free PC games.

Audio.

It then outputs exactly what you need, even to MP3 if you use a plug-in.

Want your lights to come on when you walk in the door Want a backup created when you make a new contact Want email or text warnings when the weather turns bad The combinations and permuations are endless and limited only by your imagination.

Some tools dont give you full access, but hey).

Read our review of IFTTT.) Zapier Another in the world of automations between services and apps, Zapier puts the focus on businesses and helps them get the most out of all the disparate services they use.

The free version lets you perform up to 100 automated tasks per month.

Read our review of Zapier.) Back-Up Synchronization.

If you delete a file by accident, you can use the website to get it back.

Dropbox offers 2GB of free online storage.

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