Windows 7 Starter Kit

Windows 7 is the new Baby in the town and if you are in love with you new Windows 7 PC or Laptop than you have to try all these Free Must Have Apps which are really Useful to your new Windows 7 Baby, So these are the must have starter apps for your windows 7. Windows 7 Starter Kit is divided into 10 categories Web Browser, E-mail Client, Office tools, Image Editors, Music Video Jukeboxes, File Compression, PDF Reader, Torrent Client, and Tweak Tools

Web Browser

1. Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 24.07% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of October 2009[update], making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

2. Google Chrome

Chrome is blazingly fast and is easily the quickest browser available. Based on Webkit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google’s Android mobile platform, and several other Web-browsing tools, Chrome’s interface is a drastic departure from other browsers. Instead of the traditional toolbar, Chrome puts its tabs on top. Moreover, the tabs are detachable: “tabs” and “windows” are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser, and tabs can be rearranged at any time. By isolating each tab’s processes, when one site crashes, the other tabs do not.

E-mail Client

1. Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Thunderbird combines smart browsing with sharp innovations aimed at both Web mail clients and industry standards like Microsoft Outlook. Basics like junk mail filters, HTML support, multiple identities, and POP, IMAP, and Microsoft Exchange server support load fast and are bolstered by S/MMIE, digital signing, message encryption, and a phishing detector. Interface tweaks maximize message viewing, a necessity in an e-mail reader. See Also: Top 10 most useful Thunderbird add-ons

Office and Productivity

1. OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes.

2. AbiWord

This free, open-source word-processor strikes us as a worthy alternative to pricey, big-name products. AbiWord has a quick learning curve, since the interface is very similar to those in Word and WordPerfect. AbiWord, gives you just the word processor without the entire suite. It has a quick learning curve with an interface similar to those in Word and WordPerfect.

Image Editors

1. The GIMP

The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. Even the installation process has gotten simpler, with no need to download and install the GTX Runtime Environment separately. Extremely powerful and easy to work with, GIMP is ideal for both amateur and pro photographers, Web designers, or anyone who wants to create and edit professional-quality digital images on a budget.

2. Paint.NET

If all you want is a quick image retouch, Photoshop is overkill. Paint.NET, on the other hand, is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, resize images, adjust colors, and create collages.
Paint.NET supports common image formats–JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others–but not high-resolution RAW files. There are enough basic and intermediate effects and features to keep image-tweakers happy, though the red-eye removal tool is notably weak; those images may require manual attention.

Music and Video Jukeboxes

1. WinAmp

It now features strong device support, including iPod synchronization, AAC encoding, CD burning, and a robust file-management system. There’s an optional new interface layout that joins the separate windows, podcast support, you can edit device synchronization while in progress, and a built-in browser for media discovery. We liked that clicking on an artist’s name will get you related headlines and Web sites in a separate pane.

2. Miro

Miro is a popular, free, and open internet TV application. It brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform. Features include full torrent support, so you can download and view torrents in the same app, folder watching to manage only the hard-drive folders you specify for new videos, resumable playback, topic-based channel surfing, video sharing, hosting, and vodcast creation assistance.

3. VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of every major and most minor file types, and can stream media. Because of its open-source foundation, it evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently.

File Compression

1. 7Zip

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. 7-Zip unpacks most archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZ, RAR, and its own 7z format. It can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems.

PDF Reader

1. Foxit Reader

Foxit Reader is everything that Adobe Reader isn’t: lightweight, effective, and streamlined. Foxit’s main purpose is to read PDFs, but it also has annotation tools. The interface mimics Adobe’s, so you won’t have to change your reading habits. Text readability is nearly the same, and the 1.6MB Foxit starts surprisingly fast compared with Adobe. It’s a nice touch that it opens PDFs from the Internet in their own Foxit window, instead of sucking resources from within the browser.

Torrent Client

1. uTorrent

Still not for the faint of heart, this torrent utility is one of the easiest to use. The uTorrent executable adds a directory and some option information to your PC, but it is still small enough to run off an old USB key.

Tweak Tools

Here is the List of 5 Free Windows 7 Tweak Tools