The Editors' Choice List: Our Selection of the Best PC Freeware

 
Gizmo's Top Pick Best of Gizmo's Freeware!

Welcome to the editors' choice list, where you'll find the best freeware on our site. Many freeware products here are as good as or better than their commercial counterparts.

To get high onto this list a product must have done more than win a Gizmo's Freeware award; it must impress our editors with its usefulness and professionalism. Usually our top freeware picks must compete in a Darwinian struggle against many rival programs!

Our volunteer editors did the difficult work in their freeware reviews, choosing a broad selection of must have free programs, exquisitely rare freeware treasures, and "Gizmo's Freeware Top Picks".

We suggest you browse the whole list at your leisure as you may be surprised what freeware gems you will discover. The pathologically impatient can use the category index below.

Caution: Some of these recommendations involve risky tasks like cleaning the registry or installing touchy software that may conflict with your system, so be sure to make restore points or image/backup first.

Index: Search Our Best Free Software Reviews, Freeware Downloads, & Tech Tips

Security & Privacy: Sandboxie - Antivirus - Firewall - Antispyware - HIPS - Anonymous Surfing

Cleanup & Tune: PC Tuneup - Disk Defrag - File Cleaner - Eraser - Uninstaller - Startup Manager

Disk & File: Drive Imaging - Backup Program - Folder Sync - Zip Utility - File Manager - Partition Manager

System Tools & Desktop: Software Update Monitor - Screen Capture Utility - Screen Information Utility

Multimedia: Media Player - CD & DVD Burner - Audio & Video Conversion - Music Player - MP3 Tagger...

Image Tools: Image Viewer - Image Editor - High Dynamic Range (HDR) Software - Photo Organizer

Home & Office: Office Suite - Software Suite - PDF Writer - PDF Reader - PDF Tools - Finance Software

Internet Tools: Web Browser - Email Client - BitTorrent Client - Download Manager - Remote Access

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5 Basic Safe Computing Steps

  • OpenDNS: "After only a quick registration and configuration change, it considerably improves your pro-active protection against drive by malware. It's an excellent first line of defense" (review).
  • WOT: Fast ratings about possible malicious websites, multiple categories of ratings, and provides reports with user comments and more information. Uses a fantastic warning or blocking screen to empower users to avoid potentially bad websites without filter 'censorship' (review).
  • Secunia PSI: Scans for insecure software and helps you quickly update risky products like browsers, PDF readers, Sun Java, office software, email software, media players, instant messengers, download managers, P2P clients, etc. (review). You should also allow Windows to automatically update with its latest patches, for Windows itself often has security flaws (learn more).
  • Secure Your PC: Consider using a limited rights option, rather than a normal full administrator account, to block the majority of malware from getting a foothold.
  • Security Advice Wizard: Get personalized results from our security team.

Browser Protection Utility

  • Sandboxie: "Creates a special sandbox environment on your PC [either for web browsing or any program]. So that within the virtual sandbox provided by Sandboxie the vital portions of your PC are totally isolated... If set correctly, any spyware, Trojans, keyloggers or other malware products that 'infect' your PC while browsing will be eliminated. It can cause problems on some PCs so backup before installing."

Antivirus Software (Using more than one real-time antivirus can cause conflicts, consume system resources heavily, and even reduce protection, so we recommend one antivirus for real-time protection.)

  • Avira AntiVir Personal Edition: "My top pick if you're looking for the best protection against virus, spyware and rootkit threats. AntiVir is very light on resources and the detection rate of malware is outstanding, better than almost every other antivirus according to tests."
  • Microsoft Security Essentials: "By far the best choice for average users because of the minimal user interaction required and clean interface. The detection rates are very good, in particular the detection of zero-day threats and rootkits. Even more impressive, it has very few false positives and is light on resources."

Firewall (Many people just use windows firewall for sanity's sake, but in any case only install 1 software firewall.)

  • Comodo Internet Security: The security effectiveness of the firewall and application monitor (Defense+ HIPS) exceeds the performance of many commercial products. On the minus side, it's rather talkative and this may alarm or annoy users. It has adjustable protection if you think it requires too much user involvement. The antivirus component is optional and not recommended.
  • Online Armor Free: A solid contender in proactive protection, with a novel Run Safer feature that allows the added protection of a limited user account without the annoyances. If you can handle the ads and installation nags, it functions similar to Comodo with a few extra user friendly features.

Adware/Spyware/Scumware Remover (Choose at least one for regular malware scanning and removal.)

Intrusion Prevention and Detection Utility (HIPS Software)

  • ThreatFire: "It has now bounced back to the top of the pile and is far less capable of causing system problems. It provides behavioral based detection and runs from the box without the need for additional configuration. Be aware that automatic updates are not provided with the free version if you elect to “opt out” of the ThreatFire Community."

Anonymous Surfing Service

  • OperaTor: "A portable version of Opera with a well integrated Tor engine that uses the free Tor network. It is small and relatively fast, but not open source."
  • JonDo (alternatively, if this site is down try here): "It's more flexible by allowing the user to configure it for their choice of browser. Vidalia is a close next pick and it generally feels faster, but it may not have the same level of anonymizing as JonDo."
     

Related Top Picks: Roboform, LastPass

All-in-one PC Tune-up Utility

  • Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2010: "It's very easy to use and has a sleek interface. Allows one-click cleaning for disk, privacy and registry cleaning tasks, and has an excellent tweaking tool."

Disk Defragmenter

  • Auslogics Disk Defrag: "The latest release is way ahead of the competition. I found the defragmentation time to be incredibly fast, and for the first time in a while, the long process of defragmenting my hard drive was shrunk to minutes."

File Cleaner

  • CCleaner: It's very effective in removing unused or temporary files, cookies, Recycle bin entries, history and cache files in many applications. Additionally, it can scan the Windows registry for issues, securely erase, manage the startup, uninstall software, clean system restore points, run automatically at startup, or run as a task with the /AUTO command argument.

Secure Erase Utility

  • Eraser: Overwrites the data area with your choice of random data patterns, and also wipes data in the recycling bin, unused disk space, and a number of other places where data can secretly lurk. The newest v6.0 has a much cleaner interface and now unlocks files, replaces erased files with a file/folder of your choice, and includes 14 erase patterns.

Program Uninstaller

  • Revo Uninstaller: "It is the only freeware product I know of that will make a decent job of cleaning up a failed install."
  • ZSoft Uninstaller: "Monitors before and after an installation to most thoroughly remove files and registry entries."

Startup Manager

  • Autoruns (also runs online): Besides startup/logon management, it also allows you to manage services, drivers, sidebar gadgets, scheduled tasks, image hijacks, Winlogin entries (that many other startup managers miss), and more, but use it carefully. Alternatively, average users could use Starter, CCleaner, Revo Uninstaller, etc.
     

Related Top Picks: CleanMem

Drive Imaging Software

  • Macrium Reflect Free: "Easy to use and a fast way to create a disk image. Use it to return your PC to the exact state it had been in at the moment a disk image was created, thus saving maybe a day's work reinstalling and configuring all the programs."
  • Acronis True Image: "Always the top choice if you can get it for free, perhaps during one of the many promotions, or with a Seagate or Maxtor disk - it's in their Disk Tools software, a 153 MB file that you must download from the Seagate website."

Backup Software

  • GFI Backup (Home Edition): "Has easy to use wizards and supports numerous backup locations. You will find GFI's similar to Titan Backup, with some nice extras."

Folder Synchronization Utility ("Synchronization utilities are important in helping you keep identical versions of your files or folders, say, on both your home computer and office computer.")

  • PureSync: "Over all I was very pleased with its numerous features and ease of use, and heartily recommend it to the average user. It has a good preview of what files are going to be copied, updated, or deleted when performing a sync job. Supports scheduling and auto syncing."

File Archiver/Zip Utility

  • 7-Zip: "Easy to install, gives meaningful error messages, capable of uncompressing from multiple embedded files."

File Manager

  • xplorer² lite: "It offers more functionality than Windows Explorer, but with an interface sufficiently similar to Explorer that most users will find it easy to learn and use."

Partition Manager

  • EASEUS Partition Master (Home Edition): "Intuitive and user-friendly interface, features include resize, move, copy, create, delete, hide, unhide, convert, explore and format partitions with a single step."
     

Related Top Picks: SpaceSniffer, PC INSPECTOR File Recovery, TrueCrypt, Skydrive

Software Update Monitor

  • Software Update Monitor (SUMo) (choose the No RK download link): "Perhaps the best software update monitor for expert users. It's faster than Secunia's PSI and easily adds portable software. It's not restricted to any one download site. However, it doesn't provide direct download links."

Screen Capture Utility

  • PicPick: "User friendly, captures full screen, active window, object, rectangular, fixed or freehand region. Supports auto-scroll, dual monitors, sound effect and multiple formats. An image editor is included, plus extra features such as color picker, screen ruler, protractor, cross hair and whiteboard."

System Information Utility

  • System Information for Windows (SIW): "My current favorite for home use. It displays many detailed specs such as CPU, memory, devices, installed programs, processes, services, network, and page file usage."
     

Related Top Picks: TCPOptimizer, System Explorer, ArsClip

Related Top Picks (Desktop & GUI): Dexpot, Launchy..., Copernic Desktop Search

CD / DVD Burning Software

  • ImgBurn: "Most powerful burning application with advanced features, support for every modern optical disc from CD to Blu-Ray, more than 10 image formats, authoring rewritable discs, etc."
  • BurnAware Free: "Most suited for average users who want a full feature set without the complications that advanced options bring."

Media Player

  • The KM Player: "Easy to use and install, awesome playback, and no need for extra codec packs, making it easy to use for those with less experience. Other features include setting multifarious audio and video effects, slow down or increase playback speed with regular tone, etc."

Music Player and Organizer

  • Jaangle (formerly Teen Spirit): Intuitive and user-friendly interface for playing music, excellent library for music managing, interesting download capabilities of artist photos/bios, song lyrics, etc.
  • AIMP 2: Excellent features for organizing and playing music, comes with all necessary tools for building a music library (tag, rip, convert, record, access radio), and has a visually stunning design.

MP3 Tag Editor

  • TagScanner: "Supports basic and extended tags, complete with Music Renamer and Tag Processor. It allows you to preview tag information and cover art from online databases like freedb or Amazon. But if you prefer a more normal user interface then Mp3tag is a good alternative. "

Audio & Video Format Conversion

  • iWisoft Free Video Converter: "Simple polished interface, file and preset editing allowed, good device presets. It even has a few pleasant surprises, such as a basic editing suite built in. In short, this program is an outstanding choice for almost any device conversion."

CD Ripper

  • Exact Audio Copy: "Rips CD imperfections and scratches with ease. But use CDex if you need to convert to many types of formats."

CD & DVD Emulation Software

  • Gizmo Drive: "Support up to 26 virtual drives, create ISO image, burn ISO files or folders to recordable disks, complete with Gizmo Manager and Image Wizard to perform tasks."

Media Editing (Audio Editing, Video Editor)

  • Audacity: "Interface is easy to use, easily applies noise profiles, capable of saving in multiple compressed formats."
  • Avidemux: "Supports many file types including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF. It's simple and easy to use, with well documented tutorials."

Internet Media Viewing/Capturing (Online TV Viewer, Streaming Media Recorder)

  • JLC's Internet TV Viewer: "A simple, but effective TV streams viewer that doesn't have much overhead."
  • CamStudio: "My personal favorite for on-screen media capture and recording because the output is in the more widely used AVI and FLV formats."
     

Related Top Pick: IsoBuster, DVD Profiler

Digital Image Viewer

  • XnView: "Fast, lots of features, very manageable, many plug-ins, supports nearly any OS."
  • IrfanView: "This product is first-class and a real winner. It's amazingly capable and fast at displaying images."
  • FastStone Image Viewer: "Superb interface, good functionality, excellent batch processing options, GPS location in Google Earth."

Digital Image Editor

  • LightBox Image Editor: "My top pick for basic image editing because it has an attractive user interface and it's simple and straight forward to use."
  • Paint.net: "It's a very good choice for mid-level photo retouching because of its excellent design and attractive interface. It also has options and tools comparable to commercial software, but it requires you to install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or newer."

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Software

  • Qtpfsgui: "Comes out slightly ahead of the several HDR software packages. It has great tone-mapping and aligning facilities, allows 8, 16 and 32 bit channels and two means of manually manipulating the image."

Digital Photo Organizer

  • Picasa 3: "Simply sensational editing features that provide you with every function amateur photographers need."
     

For Screen Capture see System Tools.

Related Top Picks: Project Dogwaffle, Noiseware Community Edition..., Microsoft ICE...

Office Suite

  • OpenOffice 3: "Covers the basics of office document creation: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, a desktop database. It allows you to save your documents in many choices of file formats so you'll have no problem exchanging documents with MS Office."

PDF Viewers and More (Non-Adobe PDF Reader, PDF Writer, PDF Tool)

  • PDF-XChange Viewer: "Loads reasonably fast, can print PDFs, allows basic annotation without watermarking, good text clarity, allows you to fill and save Adobe PDF forms, extract text and images, magnify text, and export PDF pages or documents to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG formats."
  • Bullzip PDF Printer or PDFill Writer: "Both have more of the options I need and have worked flawless for me. All of the PDF writers in this review function by creating a pseudo printer on your system."
  • PDFill PDF Tools: "Clean and nice user interface, includes most features such as merge, split, reorder, rotate, header and footer with page number, watermark, encrypt and decrypt, convert PDF to images or vice versa, convert PostScript to PDF."
     

Related Top Picks: LiberKey, Jarte, GnuCash, Palm Desktop..., PolyEdit Lite, Stickies

Web Browser

  • Mozilla Firefox: "It browses a tad faster than IE, is very stable and more standards compliant. It has thousands of Add-Ons to enhance the program and is very secure."
  • Opera: "Extremely fast at loading pages, loads of features. There's so much to like about it you could easily create a case that it's better than Firefox. Though, alas, there are not nearly as many widgets available as there are Firefox extensions."
  • SRWare Iron: "Looks and acts almost exactly like Google Chrome, but without sending any information back to Google's servers. Amazingly fast at loading pages, minimalist interface, with impressive features such as an Incognito Mode for privacy."

Email Client

  • Mozilla Thunderbird: "Customizable and expandable through add-ons, intuitive user interface."

Download Manager

  • Gigaget: "The fastest by far to download files, monitor major browsers and clipboard, resume/pause download, import/export list, data transfer encryption, and classification of downloaded files."

BitTorrent Client ("Quickly became an important download format for its speed, efficiency, and cheapness in distributing content over the Internet.")

  • µTorrent: "Small, efficient, many features, and excellent support. Tied for lowest memory use of all clients."

Remote Access Software ("Remotely administer another computer for off-site troubleshooting or for accessing your home PC while traveling.")

  • UltraVNC: "Offers all the features you need, including auto-configuration, easy user interface, extensive hotkeys and embedded file transfer. Add to that the fact that it's free, secure, reliable and reasonably speedy and you have a winner. "
  • LogMeIn: "Possibly the fastest most reliable remote control freeware available. It will even allow a PC to remotely control a Macintosh. Excellent tool for accessing home computer or friends/family computers from anywhere."
     

For Password Managers see Security & Privacy.

Related: KompoZer, HTML-Kit..., Fire FTP..., NetMeter, WireShark, Nmap..., NetworkStumbler, Pidgin

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Hello..I am trying to contact Gizmo to find out why I can't access some of this site like(Gizmo's Security Advice Wizard,)his email contact, etc. I just received a email concerning Sophos (downloaded), and tried to move around the freeware site, but it keeps telling me I have no access? Thanks for your help

It is a temporary problem... we are trying to fix it. If you are registered on the site, then please login, and you will be able to access all the contents. At present, users who do not login are not able to access the contents.. we are working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

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Superb Site. Great and relevant information. One update for ya.

Softmaker Office wasn't free when I posted this. 30 day trial verison with only 7 days actually being able to write and save files. I was really looking forward to using this one. Seamless MS compatability would have been perfect. Price is still good but definitely not free.

Thanks

There was a specific period during which Softmaker offered the program for free and donated an amount of money to charity for each download. They intend to run similar promotions in the future and there is a link to be notified about these on the page we link to from the text above.

This site is fantastic! Keep up the good work!!!

I just discovered this website and am pleasantly surprised. This is a very handy software review site with good analytical, subjective reviews. Thanks for all the hard work.

it's really one great site! the time and effort you guys gave just to make ordinary people like us enjoy and be safe while using our computers. thanks alot and more power to you!

COMODO Firewall / antivirus
any one got any ideas how I can re install it after accidental uninstalling it, the program keeps saying already installed when there is no sign of it anywhere

Use "Autoruns" by Sysinternals (see Startup Managers) and uncheck/delete all references to it, especially drivers, and restart.

Or go to a restore point prior to installation.

thank you for that info, applied and fixed all running fine again

Excellent. I use Autoruns all the time for cleaning up after firewall testing.

Hi, Gizmo!

First I would like to say that this is one of the best and most useful sites on the entire internet. I have had so much help from your suggestions to good freeware.

Second I want to point your attention to an imageviewer, which also has many additonal features, and that opens every RAW-format i try it with. It´s called Faststone Image viewer, and works fast and it has never giver me any problems. I think it is worth a review. It also handles big imagefolders without any hickups. I use it every day with three different cameras when I want to organize my newley taken pictures. The image-quality isn´t top of the line, but it´s main job is organizing, and not editing.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

Thanks. I added it to the list now.

This is my list that I use and recommend. most of them are the ones Gizmo's piked

1 Avira
2 Comodo Internet security
3 SuperAntiSpyware
4 Sand Box
5 Eraser
6 Smart Defrage
7 Revo Uninstaller
8 IZarc
9 File Hippo
10 Gadwin printscreen
11 Hot Notes
12 KM Player
13 Image Burn
14 CDBurnXP
13 Wave Pad
14 Switch
15 Free Download Manager
16 Thunderbird
17 Sunbird
18 Team Viewer 4
19 Open Office 3.1
20 Trillian
21 PDF Exchange viewer
22 Picasa 3
23 Fire Fox
24 Google Chrome
24 Advanced System Care

Thanks for your favorites list. There are many favorite lists to browse on Gizmo's list too: http://www.techsupportalert.com/desert_island_utilities.htm.

I believe all of these are reviewed somewhere (except IOBit products), but correct me if I'm wrong so I can post a comment on the relevant article.

I am disappointed that I have not seen on these lists these high-quality programs:
Disk Defragmenters - Auslogics Disk Defrag
File Archiver/Zip Utilities - IZArc
Media Players - Windows Media Player 11
CD/DVD Burning Software - Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010
Music Organizers - MAGIX Music Manager 2007
MP3 Tag Editors - Mp3tag
Audio Editing - WavePad Sound Editor
Internet Media Viewing/Capturing - Debut Video Capture Software
Digital Image Editing - MAGIX Xtreme Photo Designer 6
Serif DrawPlus SE

Thanks, here are a few notes. No doubt there will always be disagreement on many of these types of programs.

*Auslogics is now the top defrag program.
*IZArc is reviewed in its related article, but didn't make it as first or second; PeaZip is higher rated.
*Try The KM Player instead of WMP!
*I hadn't heard of MAGIX; but perhaps I'll give it a look for the music player/organizer article.
*I underlined Mp3tag in the list above; see the related article for its review.
*WavePad is suggested in the comments for the relevant article.
*Debut Video Capture Software -- I posted this suggestion at the relevant article, thanks.
*Serif PhotoPlus SE & Xtreme Photo Designer 6 are both mentioned in the Digital Editing article.

Thanks, write back if there are any more suggestions!

Keep good work Gizmo, this site is perfect :)

In my opinion, this website is still the best. Whether in general or specifically as community based website.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/iobit.com?premium=false&client_uid=1933...

Per McAfee Site Advisor, downloads from Iobit.com (Advanced SystemCare) may contain spyware/malware. Use caution with this download.

JD

The link for best free FTP client does not work. Please??

Thanks.

filezilla is a great free FTP client (also a server if you need one)

There's not much to say but : great site !

Thannnnnnnnx veeeery much
There is lot of help and good work on all your pages
and they are still easy, fast and pleasing
my warmest regards and wishes
My kisses if you do not mind
Tarig Anter, Khartoum, Sudan.

We're pleased that TSA has managed to reach such a beautiful and historical part of the world.

SOME GUIDANCE FOR MOBILE PHONE GAMES FREEWARE WILL BE MUCH DELIGHTFUL TO US ALL !!!!!!!!

This is a popular suggestion. I see it suggested on the Site Suggestions list and on last years Christmas wish list.

Gizmo responded that a mobile phone section is on the To-Do list though.

Thanks.

génial : ce site est vraiment très utile ! merci !

Excellent site.Thanks for all the hardwork you put in to give us the best.

Thanks very much for a really nice put together site. Easy to navigate with lots of apps I've used before and agree with your review of their quality. Keep up the GREAT WORK!! RLW

The Best!!! This site is not only the best but those involved in running this great site is sincere. To maintain a respectable site like this would definitely involve inner strength, courage and wisdom to balance the need between financial gains for site maintenance etc and yet being truly able to serve the need of the community. Thank You and Bless be.....

Thanks,
Great site.

Im trying to come up with something to say. Everybody else took the words out of my mouth. absolutly fantastic site. thanks.

Great site for top freeware. Have found your info reliable and in sink with other reviewers. Thanks!

Also checkout www.topfreeware.net :)

Here is the Gizmo reviewer's comment about Auslogics Defrag:
"Another company investing heavily in product development of late is Auslogics with its Auslogics Disk Defrag offering. The last few releases have seen the team add the ability to defragment single files and folders, schedule operations and update the program's algorithm for improved performance. We're excited by the prospect of what might come next."
Ref- http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-de-fragmenter.htm

WELL HERE IT IS!

Time to move Auslogics Defrag to the head of the class. With v2.0, it now has options for Schedule, Exclusions, variable size Skip Large Fragments, Analyze only, Remove Temp Files Before Defrag, and Turn off computer after defrag. It will analyze and defrag selected disk(s). It also has increased speed and an overhauled interface. It still doesn't have an optimization option, but my negative experiences with that option would preclude my using it anyhow.
In my humble opinion, this is now the best defragger of the lot.

There should be a direct link to this on our home page.

Agree on that too. That's the main value of this website :)

I second that.

I think Gizmo is the best place I have ever seen
for latest,Best & free softwares with rating.I really
like it !

Thanks a lot ! This website is so awesome, I don't know what to say, EPIC WIN PEOPLE :D

I think that Teamviewer is one of the best.
Here is an article about it http://softized.com/category/time-wasters/ you won't be sorry

I agree this is the best software of its kind and free to none biz users easy to setup for even a novas. check it out I think you well like what you find

excellent info....thanks a lot. plz keep up the best and give us the honest apps..thnx

The link leading to the JonDo prog under Editors' Choice List/Anonymous Surfing Service does not work anymore. I found the prog at www dot jondos dot de, though and its great. Thanks for you do.

Thank you, the link has failed for me before.

It does work sometimes and it's still active; it's just that the website is run by a university and they are not completely dependable:

At the moment, the web servers and infoservices are run by universities and other public infrastructures and are free of charge for the user (even though a lot of extra data traffic is produced). Unfortunately, power supplies or data networks sometimes fail or are switched off for maintenance. We will try to keep you informed in the 'News' column on this website about planned maintenance but in case of an unforeseen failure in the university network, we are powerless (http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html).

I like the link you refer to; I'll put it in the article as an alternative.

CONGRATULATIONS for creating an extremely informative & useful website. I have recently retired & with my abundance of free time have been spending a fair amount of time getting educated on things that can be done to make computers safer & more productive. I recently became aware of your site while searching for info/reviews on a particular download available on Download.com. I had the opportunity yesterday to spend several hours exploring your site and to say that I was VERY impressed is an understatement. For me it was & will continue to be an incredible learning experience.

Your team should quite proud of what has been accomplished.

Sincerely, Jerry L.

Thanks Jerry.

If you'd like to help us in return, one way to do that would be to link to this site from your own. Alternatively, if you don't have a site, then from a social bookmarking site (or two) will be fine.

Please use the word Freeware as the anchor text, ie the linked text or the title for the link - unless of course you prefer something else. It is also best if you link to one of your favourite pages on the site and not the front page.

Thanks again,

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