Good free programs for various tasks (Windows 10)?

DoaM

Needed? Depends on what you're planning to use and whether it requires it to be able to function. Generally no you don't.

A._Badger

Audio Recording and editing - Audacity
Office package - Libre Office
Secuity - Malwearbytes Free

askeym

I used to use VLC player but changed to SMPlayer mainly because it remembers the point of where you last played a video.

JustAnotherSaver

I just noticed that it has censored the blu ray player I use. Why on earth would it do that?
its Le-a-wo but without the hyphens. 

Is that that a swear word in a foreign language or something? 

Linton

Windows Live Mail works fine with Windows 10.  IIRC it did not work with a beta pre-release of windows-10 but I have had no problems at all having used it since WIndows-10 first came out.

Stompa

Cornucopia said:

For picture editing, Paint.Net.  I like that it's more than MS Paint, but not as technical as Photoshop.

I've recently come across Krita, and so far am rather impressed.

https://krita.org/en/

dan958

JustAnotherSaver said:

Is Java needed on a Windows 10 machine?

I read that it isn't, yet i'm sure i've been on sites that are telling me to update Java in recent months.

It's not needed. You will find that some websites are behind the times and still require it. It has generally been seen as a security risk, so unless the website/app you use requires it, Its not a needed application to have.

bowlhead99

dan958 said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Is Java needed on a Windows 10 machine?

I read that it isn't, yet i'm sure i've been on sites that are telling me to update Java in recent months.

It's not needed. You will find that some websites are behind the times and still require it.

So it's not needed unless you want to use all the websites that you might want to use...?

dan958

bowlhead99 said:

dan958 said:

JustAnotherSaver said:

Is Java needed on a Windows 10 machine?

I read that it isn't, yet i'm sure i've been on sites that are telling me to update Java in recent months.

It's not needed. You will find that some websites are behind the times and still require it.

So it's not needed unless you want to use all the websites that you might want to use...?

That is the way things generally work, yes. In the same way that having a video editing program is not needed unless you want to edit videos.

Majority of websites will not require Java (only 0.02% websites still use it from recent reports)

So unless you have an app that needs java, or a website that needs java - there is no point installing java.

Neil_Jones

Linton said:

Windows Live Mail works fine with Windows 10.  IIRC it did not work with a beta pre-release of windows-10 but I have had no problems at all having used it since WIndows-10 first came out.

You may have upgraded to 10 from 7 which is why it still works.  You may have issues should you need to reinstall it..