


Quite why Windows Explorer doesn’t have tabs in 2019 we don’t know, but Tablacus (opens in new tab) solves that problem: It’s a file manager that, yes, includes tabs. Whole drive letting you down? Mechanical disk giving you the click of death? TestDisk (opens in new tab) can ignore all the usual safeguards and filesystems in order to wade through the raw data, sector by sector, giving you one last chance to rescue your files.Īlternatively: Paragon Rescue Kit (opens in new tab) 8. It even does more: There’s a full database and a complex formula editor included.Īlternatively: Apache OpenOffice (opens in new tab) 7. Pretty much a free equivalent to Microsoft Office, and compatible with the same file formats, LibreOffice (opens in new tab) is a non-paid essential.

The best free office software for Windows 10: LibreOffice (Image credit: Open Document Foundation) 6.
