10 Free Programs You Need on Your New PC!

These are 10 free programs for your new PC. You’ve got a yourself a new computer and now it’s time to go through the process of installing the programs that you need. Thanks to the various types of software including open source, freeware and many others, loading your new machine doesn’t have to cost you a fortune. Whether you have a desktop or laptop computer, I will let you know the 10 free programs I’d recommend when setting up your new PC.

“Free Software” Playlist

0:30 Internet Browser
1:20 Office Suite
2:02 Media Player
2:28 Image Editor
2:58 Gaming
3:27 PC Cleaner
4:01 Torrent Client
4:29 Security
5:17 Text Editor
5:39 Storage
6:15 Automated Installer

Chrome
Firefox
LibreOffice
VLC
GIMP
Paint.NET
Steam
BleachBit
qBittorrent
Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition
MalwareBytes Anti-Malware Free
Sublime Text
Dropbox
Ninite

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[BrettInTech]

What programs do you install when setting up a new PC? Other programs not mentioned that I immediately install include Plex, and OBS Studio... Sublime Text can be evaluated for free before you buy it. Currently, there is no enforced time lime for the evaluation... Thanks for watching :)

[deanc]

"If you're a PC gamer, one of the first programs you should install, is Steam."

Correction: If you're a PC gamer, you should already have Steam."

[tristan_]

Who's watching before they get their new laptop?

[KrishnaVohra]

I appreciate the emphasis on open-source, no BS, free software. Really helped me out, thank you!

[barbarianatgate]

For new PC's, I'm still a fan of PC Decrapifier, which is great at removing bloatware and similar packaged products.

[SuburbanPhilosophy]

Advanced system care free edition is a must for me. speed up my PC, update drivers, Shred files and more :)

[augustingavrilovici]

1:26 Brett might be a poem writer with such rhymes!

[rosavola]

HAhahaha! Had to laugh at the BleachBit ad (3:36)... Pic of Hillary. HAhaha!

[Zenkai]

Hand Break for video conversion, Audacity for sound editing.

[vargr]

Browser: Waterfox or Pale Moon.
Office: WPS/Kingsoft
Media:Potplayer
Antivirus:Avast, Malware bytes, Super Antispyware
Firewall: ZoneAlarm
Images:Inkscape
Cleaner:Revo Uninstaller

I do not run Chrome or anything Google. They are spyware. I added a few more.

[tarabrown]

Thanks for sharing this information. My new laptop is going to be set up nicely.

[mastermasonjoewillis]

Some nice software in this video. I plan to check out several. Thanks for putting out the effort to make this video!

[dreignirik]

File archiver might be important, since Windows integrated one might not "unzip" files you need. 7-zip being probably the most popular and completely free.

Mail client might be important to many. Thunderbird is the obvious choice for that.

Since you mention photo editing, you could've mentioned useful software for video (davinci resolve, shotcut, openshot) and audio editing (audacity).

Adding to the list of video players, mpv is pretty good, free and open source. MPC-HC might be no longer supported anymore if i heard correctly.

[CTruesdell]

Another great video TG! Thanks again.

[poprobotanims]

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[extremelydave]

Yet another awesome The subscriber count shows you how much people appreciate you're sharing with us. 500K or

[Vyngraven]

Pot Player has been a great VLC alternative.

Adobe Photoshop Portable is a free variant of PS.

[josipkova]

Very good and useful video, good for you !!! 😀😀

[osandeepkumar]

thanks for video it is really very helpful.

[SiJeix]

Some more programs to use on new PC:
1) Chocolatey. A package manager similar to apt for Ubuntu-based Linux distros. Works in console, but has an optional GUI which also can be installed with console. User can also create scripts to install required software, like with Ninite. And there's plenty more features for admins. It did replace Ninite for me as it has a lot bigger software library to choose from. First thing I install on clean PC.
2) 7-zip - must-have archive tool. Does very good job compressing files. I would also recommend WinRAR, but it's not actually free, so it's not going into this list.
3) foobar2000 - one of the best music players. Or even THE best out there.
4) nomacs - IMO simple but good image viewer. Default Win10 Photos app is garbage, and usually people do not need a lot of features for just watching photos. So, this is the best alternative to Photos app. There's IrfanView, XnView and so on, of course, but it's just a matter of personal taste :)
There's a ton more software that's great and free - but most of it is not basic and not needed by most users. Not everybody is a 3D artist to work with Blender. Not everyone needs Lightroom nor free alternatives like Darktable. There's also FileZilla, VirtualBox, Kdenlive, DaVinci Resolve etc.