| Program Name | Program Description |
Utilities for Microsoft Windows
| Microsoft Security Essentials | Protect against computer viruses and worms. |
| InSync | Directory synchronization between disk drives. |
| Power Archiver | File compression into archives; includes self-extracting archives. |
| Icon Restorer | Remembers desktop configuration for different resolutions. |
| Press: CTRL-PRTSCR | Captures the entire computer screen into the clipboard. |
| Press: ALT-PRTSCR | Captures the current window into the clipboard. |
| Spybot Search and Destroy | Find worms and Trojan Horse on a PC and protect against them. |
| Karen's Clipboard Viewer | View text, bmp files, wmf files and dib files on the clipboard. |
| Clipboard Manager (WIN7 gadget) | Store text to be easily transferred to the clipboard. |
General-Use Programs
| VuePrint | Graphics viewer, manipulater and converter. |
| Dreamweaver | My favorite web-page creator. |
| Microsoft Office | Office Home and Student: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote Office Home and Business: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook Office Professional: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access If you cannot afford MS Office, try Open Office. |
| Adobe Acrobat | Convert any document to a PDF file by the print command. Enables graphics, text and Internet links to occur as you place them in a document. PDF files can be read by any computer. |
| Quicken | Good way to keep track of your bank accounts, investments and loans. |
| Microsoft Calculator Plus | Standard, scientificand units-conversion calculator |
| Microsoft Streets & Trips | Good trip mapping and trip calculations for U. S., Canada & Mexico. |
| Microsoft AutoRoute | Good trip mapping and trip calculations for Europe. |
| Sun Clock | Shows world time zones and location of daylight and nighttime. |
| DogPile | Search Internet with many search engines. |
| Google Earth | Travel around Earth maps |
| Kindle for PC | Read Kindle books on a PC. |
| Enguage Digitizer | Digitize an image file that contains a graph. |
| A Better Calendar | You can search for entries and dates. |
| Microsoft Gadgets | Many small programs that can be kept open on the screen. |
Genealogy
| Personal Ancestral File | Genealogy data storage and manipulation. |
| Brother's Keeper | Genealogy data storage and manipulation. Good reporting facilities. |
| PHYLIP programs | Several programs for inferring phylogenies from DNA data. |
| TreeView | Phylogeny tree-drawing software. |
| City Search | Find cities and counties and ZIP codes. |
Science-Oriented Programs
| SETI@home | Lets you help in international search for extraterrestial intelligence. |
| Climate Prediction | Lets you help in calculation of Earth models of the climate. |
| Amaya | WYSIWYG editor & browser for XML/MathML. |
| Scientific Workplace | WYSIWYG editor & browser for TEX math formatting. Also uses Maple to do symbolic and numerical calculations and graphing of equations. |
| MathType | WYSIWYG editor for inserting math equations in MS Word. |
| TableCurve 2D | Fits equations to data, including user-defined equations, and plots the results. |