Freeware software you recommend !?

Ccleaner, slimdrivers, avast home, paint.net (essentially photoshop without being photoshop), system info I'm in complete agreement. I use SlimCleaner for a defrag and optimizer. Adblock plus is a given. If you want to keep files hidden, I recommend getting truecrypt. Awesome ass program.

Handbrake is da bestest conversion freeware I know of. It's highly functional but not as user friendly as the basic Format Factory. Unlike Format Factory, it registers fonts and can use font styles (it can use the typesetting and the colors that were subbed into the video) when converting shows (for me, it's all anime).

File Blender is a great audio converter that's lightweight and functional.

JDownloader is a good DDL manager.

hjsplit is a good splitting program (you can split files into multiple parts) and I believe it's integrated into JDownloader.

CopyTrans manager is the best itunes replacement I know of.

Synthesia (the lite version) is pretty good for piano/any other instrument players who want to get a feel for the tempo of a song they printed out.

iFunbox is a great jailbreak (ipods) tool that gives you root access direct from a USB.

And who can forget utorrent! (an older version of course. Like <3.1.3)

Process Explorer - a ridiculously useful Task Manager replacement.

Emailwatcher is a tiny little pop3 checker to save you running your email program all the time. I use it (and wrote it :D) so I can see how many emails I'm getting on my multiscreen rig while gaming :-)

Pretty much everything I would say has been said. I will say that I prefer portable over fixed installations. I keep most of my life on a usb, backed up with dropbox and other clouds. This includes internet browsers, IDEs, OS's (VM + various linux builds + miniWinXP/7/8), games (FreeCiv, Towns, Go, etc), media viewers (ex. VLC and Foxit), and cleaners. I "play" with, and fix, a lot of computers as well.

Notepad++ for all your text file needs....

GIMP, Audacity and Blender!! I've started using Inkscape recently too... ^_^

Find it on FileHippo.com

Ultima 4.

AIMP3 - The free Audio Player i use!

I've seen all the stuff I use listed here, except for one:
Classic Shell (for windows 8). It allows you to disable the Metro UI crap, add a start menu, and customize both of those things. If you use Windows 8, you'd be a fool not to use some sort of start menu replacement tool, and this one was my favorite. It turns Win8 into Win7+

http://ninite.com/

Mipony !
Netbeans and... mmm I don´t have many freeware...

Defragmenter : Defraggler (way better than the one windows has)

Photo editing : Paint.net

A Linux distro (not Ubuntu), with KDE as desktop environment...

I recommend everything here: Filehippo

Also use their Tool to update your freewares

Linux mint 14...
Kate
cairo-dock
no antivirus!
wine
if you have nvidia, then bumblebee + primus

File Copying/Moving Etc.: Teracopy. Go for this, you won't regret it even on Win8

Music player: foobar2000, definitely the best music player

Audio Converter: foobar2000 (yeah, it has also build-in encoder/converter, you just need to define flac.exe or lame.exe(mp3))

Movie player: MPC-HC with MadVR and Lav Filters - Definitely the best Picture Quality with Hardware Acceleration, F**k VLC, that's Bull*** on Windows.

Coding: Sublime Text 2 or OpenKomodo (Komodo Edit)

SQL Manager: SQLYog Community Edition

FTP Manager: Filezilla

Browser: Maxthon Browser, Chrome and/or Opera

AV: I only trust Kaspersky Internet Security (for years), so I cannot suggest one, but I can suggest not to go for these two: Avira is too bloated, With Avast I got Virus to my offline pc through my USB HDD and that virus messed with every file, I was glad I d id a backup soon before then. Best worth the price.

IRC: HexChat

Password Management: KeePass

Bittorrent: Utorrent 2.1.x (best non-bloated old version) or Deluge

Archive Management: 7-Zip definitely

Reminder/Note Management: Evernote

Cloud Space: Dropbox and Sugarsync

Music Tagger: MP3Tag

Photo management: www.pixlr.com , online editor, imho better than Gimp or any other alternatives.

Web Server Solution: Wamp Server

E-mail client: Thunderbird

Messenger: Pidgin

p.s: sorry I don't know how to link, but trying them will definitely worth it.

Operating System: Linux Mint or Ubuntu if you don't want to use windows (we have steam for Linux and maany games ported already 8) )

Utorrent - YAAARRRRRR
VLC media player
CCleaner
Xoftspy - Spyware/virus scanner
Malwarebytes - Spyware/virus scanner
Dropbox - Install this on your phone, tablet, PC, laptop... anything you put in the folder on one device is copied to all other devices it is installed on. Great for taking pictures and video on your phone and having them sent instantly to your PC(s)
Bandicam - Like FRAPS, only a billion times better
Daemon Tools - kick ass phantom drive utility for mounting disk images
Irfanview - Because Windows 7 decided to say fuck off to animated gif images
Spacesniffer - view files on any disk on your PC using an intuitive graphical interface.
Syncback - Just about the most feature-rich file backup/mirror/sync utility I have ever seen
CrystalDisk - Displays performance information on your PC's hard drives (error counts, run times, health)
AutoHotkey - For making scripts/apps that automate things on your PC. Like an autoclicker, or macros for a video game, performing a task when a certain program is opened, automatic emailing... if you can think of it, you can create something with this that can do it.

CCleaner and Auslogics Disk Defrag. They're both amazingly good

Notepad.

The stuff from Ninite and the stuff from PortableApps

I use a lot of open source applications.
for video VLC, for text editing notepad ++, for archives 7Zip, and for photo editing gimp

Avast, CCleaner, mp3tag, VLC player, Skype, 7zip.