Freeware 2013 - Whats changed 5 years down the line?

Quite a lot
Microsoft has a top class freeware- Microsoft Security Essentials. Spartan interface, excellent integration, good detection rates.
After loving Spybot S&D, Super antispyware, I have settled for Malwarebytes anti-malware.S&D is too heavy, SAS selects all cookies by default making you feel good without doing anything, MAM is light and nice.
Calibre a wonderful ebook management software- damn nice, ideal for epub, mobi, lit formats. Can read even more.
PDF-XChange viewer, a really classy pdf reader far better than Adobe Acrobat(a fat piece of bloatware if any) and even slightly better than Foxit reader.
Sumatra pdf reader because sometimes simple is better, it can read djvu files too, which not many readers can.
I have switched to Glary utilities , Ccleaner is brighter but this has more feature and seems to be slightly safer.
I still use CDBurnerXP as my disc writing software of choice.(rarely though)
Doublekiller is my choice for duplicate finder- small, reasonably accurate simple to use.
I still love utorrent it has got the best feature but then I switched over to qbittorrent - less features but it simply works.
Picassa has its pluses and minuses but is good for Loading and archiving photos and is must have.
I also use Faststone image viewer for minor manipulation, as the name says it is faster, more intuitive and simpler. Fotosketcher is a beautiful piece of software- it gives beautiful painting/sketch like effects.
MediaMonkey player is still my player of choice. It has limitations- can't play .m4a files, had bloated with video support, but rest of it is real easy. Have installed Musicbee but I use it only for .m4a files, it is not as intuitive as the monkey. AIMP-stopped using it sometime ago.
Some things remain the same.
Launchy it's still a great launcher,
Tera copy is still a great file copy/move tool