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Best Free Unknown But Useful Computer Software

Updated on April 30, 2017


I sometimes feel like the American Picker of freeware, I’m able to find unique and useful software in the dark corners of the internet that few have ever heard of.

Here is a collection of some very useful computer programs that you may not have heard about before but they do come in handy from time to time. I have given a brief description of each and a download link. These web sites are trusted freeware sites that I have been using for years so you won’t have to worry about get any virus or malware on your computers.


Fences 1.01 If you're losing the battle and your desktop icons hide your beautiful wallpaper, help is one click away. Fences quickly and easily organizes your icons into separate windows on your desktop, either automatically or manually. Labeling these boxes helps keep programs, photos, files, and Web links together, Then just double click your desktop and hide all your icons.


Image Grab 5.0.6 ImageGrab is a simple tool that was designed to help you grab images from your video files. Now you can load your home videos in this program and take snapshots of your kids or grandkids or even your favorite dog or cat. Takes good snapshots from videos has well.




System Spec 3.07 This is the best System Information Utility I have ever seen, it will tell you the complete specification and system information of your PC. This includes hardware, software and settings.




Photocopier 3.5 With this software you can use your scanner and printer like a photocopy machine . No difficult settings to make, it's very user friendly, what ever you scan in your scanner will be printed out by your printer.



AM-DeadLink 4.6 This software will search through your favorites in your browser bookmarks and tell you which are dead links or duplicates and you can double click them to open a window within the program just to make sure they are dead links before deleting them .This software works with most browsers .


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Revo Uninstaller 1.94 If you have ever tried to uninstall software and windows tells you for one reason or another it can not uninstall it, this software will. I have not see any software that this program could not uninstall no matter if there are files missing or the uninstaller is broken Revo will uninstall it. I also use it if I’m going to remove software off my computer for good because it cleans entries in the registry from that software.




Improved YouTube Downloader 0.9.8 Improved YouTube Downloader is used to download a videos from YouTube to your PC. Application automatically detects video you are watching in a browser, and downloads it to format of your choice: AVI, MP3, 3GP or FLV.



Slim Drivers 2.2 allows you to scan your computer for missing outdated drivers and presents you with a list of available updates. You can review the list of available updates and then choose the drivers that you want to install. SlimDrivers will download the selected drivers and launch the installation programs


I hope you have found some of these computer programs handy and useful and enjoy using them. I have use all of these computer programs on my computer and have not had any problems with them and I hope they will work just has well on your computer to.

I can no longer put the dowmload link in my article so i have it on my website, just go there and click on the download tab. Then look for the button with the name of the software you want to download and click on it. Enjoy ! My website


Hope you have found this information within this article useful and have also found one or more of these great free programs useful for all your needs. Thanks for reading my article.

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A friendly update for all my loyal readers, I enjoy finding these great and little known software programs so that you may use them and enjoy them. I try to find those that will be PC friendly and useful as well and on trusted sites so that you will not get any viruses or malware on you computers. On my travels on the internet I have found on a favorite website of mine an older version of Photoshop being offered for free and with the code numbers has well. If you visit my website and click on the download tab at the top of the page you will see the link there for this Photoshop download. Enjoy use this great graphic software and maybe if you get really good at using the old version you may want to go out and buy a newer version of Photoshop. But whatever ever you do enjoy this free copy of Photoshop. If you found this information useful you may want to pass it on to your family and friends so they can try and use these great software programs too. Thanks for reading this article and your support.

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