These magazines often have features a lot like my monthly column, reviews of shareware and freeware. They also love to post their articles and a copy of any programs that they review on their Web sites. These articles and the accompanying programs are completely free and accessible to the public. My first stop was to Windows Magazine's Web site. The search returned a bunch of articles on shareware and freeware, with links to their locations.
Many freeware releases are less than a single megabyte in size.
My next stop was the Web site of one of the more famous computer rags, PC Magazine . Not unexpectedly, another great place to go is Microsoft's Web site . If you really want to grab every piece of freeware from Microsoft, however, expect to spend an hour or so digging around in circles to find it all. In each place type in the word freeware into the search engine. In the end, I customized my Windows 95 PC with enough treats to make it feel like Christmas time was already here.