Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Microsoft has redirected the old XP Service Pack 2 page to the newer SP 3. The vendor is no longer offering SP2 as a separate download.
It’s an unsafe world out there for Windows-based computers. Microsoft wants to address the problem with its new megapatch, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Does it succeed? Not entirely. But the big fix does so much to close security holes and to make protecting your PC simpler that it’s still an essential upgrade.

This is a collection of Alternative software than can replace some commercial applications. Please note than some free or open source application may not completely replace the commercial ones. but there are some who can outperform even the commercial ones.