AbiWord is an open source text processor that can work with documents from Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org, among other formats.

It has dictionary languages and plugins that can be downloaded from their website.

You can read all the features here. The latest changelog can be found here.

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New and updated installers:

• FileZilla 3.1.6
• foobar2000 0.9.6
• Orbit Downloader 2.7.9
• TheWorld Browser 2.3.2.1
• VLC 0.9.7 Switchless

Vista Codec Package installs everything you need in order to play all audio and video formats.

It doesn’t come with a media player, so you can use Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center or whatever you like. All codecs are set to default settings.

You can install it on Windows XP. For support, there is a forum section for it at MSFN.

Latest changes in Vista Codec Package 5.0.4:

• fix DVD playback
• Update XviD to v1.3
• update ffdshow rev 2405
• update Gabests filters rev 910

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FileZilla is an open source multi-platform FTP client. It has the most useful options and is the best of the freeware applications out there.

FileZilla 3.1.6 latest changes:

• New features:
  • Automatically refresh remote directory listing if queue finishes successfully
• Bugfixes and minor changes:
  • Speed up refresh of remote directory listing if adding files during uploads
  • Connections no longer time out waiting on a directory listing getting retrieved by a different connection
  • Number of files were not updated if deleting remote files
  • MSW: Update manifest so that the evil filesystem virtualization stays disabled under Vista

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VLC is a free multiplatform video and audio player with tons of features and a great interface.

It doesn’t need any external codecs and can stream multimedia over a network.

Highly recommended.

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Realtek HD Audio Drivers 2.10.

If you ever get any problems when updating drivers you can use Driver Sweeper after you have uninstalled you current drivers to clean your system for left over files. After that, reboot your computer and install the new ones. This will reduce the chance of having driver issues.

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CCleaner is a great cleaning utility.

With it you can delete cookies, temp files and more. It has a registry cleaner, startup manager and can uninstall applications as well.

CCleaner 2.14.763 latest changes:

• Fixed minor bug in Firefox 2 cookies support.

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Recuva is a freeware program for recovering deleted files.

Recuva 1.21.373 changelog:

• Improved recovery of orphaned JPG images in FAT32.
• Launch wizard button now working properly in all cases.
• Improved scan canceling on large files.
• Fixed bug that caused Wizard icons to not be displayed in 16 bit color.
• Check for updates now included in tab-stop.
• Added Czech translation.
• Various minor UI tweaks.

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