I’m sure there are other lists out there that do just this, but these are solutions that I’ve found for Windows XP:
- Microsoft Office – OpenOffice
- Antivirus Software: AVG Antivirus
- Photoshop – GIMP
- Illustrator – Inkscape
- Adobe Acrobat – CutePDF (Although this functionality is built into OpenOffice)
- Antispam: Ad-aware Free Version
- Microsoft Frontpage/Adobe Dreamweaver – Kompozer
I’ll add more as I find them, but if you have any suggestions, post them!
Compressing / Archiving – 7Zip http://www.7-zip.org/
IMing – Pidgin http://www.pidgin.im ( all in one protocol )
REALLY good to know! thanks, seriously.
Paint.net instead of Photoshop
anti-spam – CCleaner and Advanced Windows Care Personal v2