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today I'm here with video showing my top 5 and free windows applications now of course pretty much everything you can find a paid version of however you would be really surprised at what you can find for free and what should really be on every Windows computer the first program I'll be showing you is GIMP GIMP is a free and open source Photoshop alternative the ledge to do some fairly advanced photo editing for free now it supports a wide variety of features including layers paths there's a wide variety of color options tools and a wide wide variety of filters allow you to really customize and fine-tune exactly how you want to create your photos or any other graphic design work now if you already use Photoshop there's no real reason to change over to GAMP Photoshop still does have some higher-end features and generally it seems to work a little bit better it's got a little bit of a better UI but overall if you're looking for something free and you just need to do some moderate photoshopping and whatnot GIMP is definitely going to be a great choice another very useful program is ccleaner now CCleaner is a general utility that helps you speed up your computer and get rid of all the junk so not only does it handle the standard system applications such as getting rid of temporary files and whatnot but it also will take care of your various third-party applications such as browsers you know splash player there's a wide variety and what it does it just cleans up the added junk the temporary files all kind of stuff that you don't need now it also does have a registry cleaner I generally don't like to recommend that you would use these but of course it is there if you ever decide that you need it but probably one of my favorite features of CCleaner is the fact that it will allows you to really easily choose what programs you want to run when you first turn on your computer now that's a big deal of course lots of computers get really slow as you install more and more programs they automatically load even if you don't need them so all you do is open up the ccleaner pick out whatever programs you want to automatically run when you start up your computer and you can be good to go one of the first programs I always install when I first boot up windows is VLC media player now VLC is a fantastic program that basically allows you to play pretty much any audio or video file you can find this is really helpful as you can very you know find QuickTime and plugins all that kind of stuff but with VLC you don't have to worry about anything simply download the program pick out whatever video file you want and it pretty much plays it no issue whatsoever in addition to that it also does run with hardware acceleration and has a lot of really nice features as far as to playback and as well as allowing you to convert your video files so if you need to convert from mp4 to MOV or for whatever reason you want to do you absolutely do that with VLC now as far as antivirus software goes there's absolutely no reason to go out and pay a lot of money for some supposedly great software when you can just download Microsoft Security Essentials now this is a free antivirus software that is obviously from Microsoft and it does a fantastic job of keeping your computer nice and clean and automatically updates itself and it runs really well in the background so you don't really have to worry about updating your anything like that it pretty much does everything you need and on top of that it's really not a big drain on system resources so if you need an anti-virus software if you're not happy with you currently have or if you're tired of paying for it I absolutely recommend Microsoft Security Essentials now as far as keeping your files secure and safe I highly recommend using TrueCrypt using TrueCrypt allows you to encrypt all of your files you can do your entire system disk or you can create specific disks and then put your files inside of them it uses some very very advanced security now I will say that TrueCrypt is not the easiest program to use it can get a little bit confusing there's a lot of mounting and selecting your files and making sure everything works but overall if you're looking for something to keep your file secure and when I say secure I mean very very secure I highly recommend taking a look at TrueCrypt so there you go my top five free Windows applications that really everyone should have now in addition to that I do want to show you one last one and I get this question a lot my screencast is what is this thing on the bottom left of my taskbar well this is called super bar monitor what it is is a very very small application that allows me to see what's going on with my cpu load without having to pull a widget up our opening task manager now like I said it's a very very simple thing there's really not a whole lot to do about it however it's definitely very useful unfortunately it is only Windows 7 so unlike the other five this is only for people who have Windows 7 but if you do have Windows 7 you're looking for something like this I definitely recommend it it's very useful to take a look at any right if you're interested in any of the applications I showed definitely be sure to take a look in the description of this video I will have links to download them all and of course there are all free and this video helpful be sure to click that subscribe button above and you'll be notified with all of my new content