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IN PICTURES: Still awesome after all these years - eight excellent free downloads

Wine gets better with age. Men get more distinguished-looking. And some programs are like perennials, returning each year with fresh blooms and stronger stems. Indeed, think of some of the world's best productivity tools and system utilities, and I'll wager that some were "planted" at least five years ago--decades in computer years. Take a look at eight of these blossoming apps, all of which are more awesome than ever, and all of which are, amazingly, free.

CCleaner: Perhaps no program has evolved more over the years than Piriform's CCleaner, which began life in 2003 as "Crap Cleaner." True to its name, the tool scours your PC for unwanted crud that accumulates in Windows' arteries: temp files, Registry fragments, log files, browser cookies, and so on. Then, with one click, it clears all that stuff away. No wonder CCleaner remains one of the most popular system-optimisation tools ever.

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