1. Sun Java

2. Adobe Flash Player

3. Adobe Shockwave Player

4. Microsoft Silverlight 3

Microsoft Silverlight is Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device plug-in rival to the Adobe Flash Player plug-in.

Microsoft Silverlight 3 includes a number of new features including support for hardware-based graphics acceleration and new codec support for H.264, AAC audio and MPEG-4.

Other new features to be found in version 3 include the ability to run Silverlight 3 outside the browser using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), support for multi-touch applications, ability to convert images into three dimensions thanks to the implementation of Microsoft Photosynth, upgrades to the Microsoft DeepZoom technology and new pixel shader effects.

Tags: Add-Ins and Plug-ins, E-Learning from Microsoft

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5. Micrsoft .NET Framework

Microsoft .NET Runtime Environment

6. Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

Only install the Microsoft Office 2007 Compatibility Pack if Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 is not installed on the system.

Tags: Add-Ins and Plug-ins, E-Learning from Microsoft

7. Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office

Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a free download for Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007.

8. PDF-XChange Viewer

The PDF file format is often used to create documents that are read-only, for instance, ebooks, an announcement etc. The purpose is to prevent the user from editing the document, either intentionally or accidentally. Usually, a PDF viewer does not have any editing tools, which makes the PDF file format the "safest" document format.

PDF-XChange Viewer is one such PDF viewer with one useful addition. It allows you to add comments and annotations in the form of sticky notes to the pages of a PDF file.

With PDF-XChange Viewer you can:

- Add some comments or notes to certain pages of a PDF file for future reference.

- Add the comments at any position on the page and they appear as a small talk-bubble with a sticky note. The sticky note can be closed or opened as required, and the position of the sticky note on the page is shown by the talk bubble. The actual position where the sticky note will pop-up when the page is opened can be anywhere on the page and can be adjusted by dragging the note to a suitable location, for instance, the side of the page so that it doesn't obstruct the text.

Annotated PDF files can then be saved in the PDF format, and can be viewed with the sticky notes intact in any PDF viewer.

Apart from this handy annotating feature, PDF-XChange Viewer is actually a very good PDF viewer. It's opens fast and loads very large PDF files very quickly. Even pages with high image content scroll very smoothly.

The big plus is that PDF-XChange Viewer is available both as an installable application and a portable application.

9. VideoLAN Movie Creator

VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a free video editing software, offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stays simple and user-friendly.

Tags: Add-Ins and Plug-Ins, Audio and Video Editing, Open Source Software

10. VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.

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Tags: Add-Ins and Plug-Ins, Download Mirror, Media Players and Codecs, Open Source Software

11. 7-Zip

7-Zip is an open source Windows utility for manipulating archives.

Formats 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR are supported fully, other formats can be unpacked.

Tags: Add-ins and Plug-Ins, Open Source Software

12. ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task.

13. Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

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