 | CNET Download.com | Free and commercial software and product reviews. All software has been tested to ensure it’s free of spyware, viruses, and other malware. |
 | Free Software Directory | The Free Software Directory is a catalog of software that runs under free operating systems. It is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). |
 | Major Geeks | Freeware and shareware software utilities. |
 | Softpedia | A large source of free, commercial, and shareware software downloads and technology news. The downloads are sorted by platform and contain user ratings and download statistics. As of December 2008, it was one of the top 500 websites according to Alexa traffic rankings. |
 | SnapFiles | Free, shareware, and commercial software downloads. All freeware purported to have been tested. |
| FileHippo | Large selection of downloads. They offer a full version history of most products. |
 | Gizmo’s | Contains downloads and a list of free download sites. Rated among the top 100 web sites in PC Magazine. |
 | FreeSoft4Down | News, reviews, and downloads. User’s reviews. |
 | Fileforum | Free and commercial software, reviews, and news. |
 | Load4.com | A purportedly unaffiliated site for downloading free and commercial software tested for malware, viruses, and Trojans. |
 | free-to-try.com | 7, 14, and 30 day free trials of commercial software. A great searchable site, containing thousands of software titles in 150 categories. Software products by can be searched for by name, company, keywords, release date, title, popularity etc. |
 | FreeCommander | Free and commercial utilities for managing files on PCs. |
 | CutePDF | Free and commercial utilities for creating and editing PDF files |
 | alternativeTo | Free downloads of over 16,000 programs for all platforms |
 | Pixabay | Over 280,000 free photos, vectors and art illustrations |
 | auslogics | Compact and fast defragmenter with over 11,000,000 users worldwide. It will improve your PC’s performance by defragmenting and re-arranging files on your disk. |
 | MyD | MyDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7, and for X64. |