MSN Encarta Yahoo Mail

Antispyware
AdAware SE
www.lavasoftusa. com/software/ adaware/

Browsers
Opera
www.opera.com/

Downloader
Leechget
www.leechget. net/en/

Media player
Power DVD
www.cyberlink. com

Compression
WinRAR
www.rarlab.com/

All in one suite
System mechanic
www.iolo.com

Firefox

Ewido

Tune up windows

Get detailed system information

My FixesSYSTEM INVENTORY
Everest: http://www.lavalys. com/products. php?lang= en

SPYWARE
AdAware: http://www.lavasoft usa.com/software /adaware/
Spybot S&D: http://www.safer- networking. org/en/index. html
SpywareBlaster: http://www.javacool software. com/spywareblast er.html
Microsoft AntiSpyware (XP only): http://www.microsof t.com/athome/ secu...e/ default.mspx

VIRUS PROTECTION
AVG Free: http://www.majorgee ks.com/download8 86.html

VIRUS and SPYWARE DETECTION
Ewido (XP only - trial version): http://www.ewido. net/en/
HijackThis: http://www.majorgee ks.com/download3 155.html

ONLINE HijackThis ANALYZERS
HijackThis analyzer #1: (website) http://www.hijackth is.de/index. php?langselect= english
HijackThis analyzer #2: (website) http://www.help2go. com/modules. php?name= HJTDetective
HijackThis analyzer #3: (website) http://hjt.iamnotag eek.com/

ONLINE VIRUS SCAN WEBSITE
Trend Micro: http://housecall. trendmicro. com/

Miscellaneous Tools
Starter: http://www.snapfile s.com/download/ dlstarter. html
Icon Restore: http://www.majorgee ks.com/download4 125.html
Erunt (XP only): http://www.larshede rer.homepage. t-online. de/erunt/
MemTest86: http://www.memtest8 6.com/
A-Squared: http://www.emsisoft .com/en/software /download/
CWShredder: http://www.softpedi a.com/get/ Intern... WShredder. shtml

Firewall: Zone Alarm
www.zonelabs. com

AntiVirus: Avast! Antivirus Home Edition (free)
www.avast.com

Browser: Mozilla Firefox
www.mozilla. org/products/ firefox

Media Player: Windows Media Player/Apple iTunes
www.microsoft. com/windowsmedia /mp10
www.apple.com/ itunes

File Compression: WinZip/WinRar
www.winzip.com
http://www.rarlab. com

System Inventory: Everest
www.lavalys. com/products. php?lang= en

Windows SideBar: SmartBar XP
www.smartbarxp. com

Disk Health Monitor: Drive Health
www.helexis. com

Window Decorator: Style XP
www.tgtsoft. com/prod_ sxp.php

Browser: Firefox and Flock
Email: Thunderbird
Media: Windows Media Player 9 and VLC
Messenger: Trillian
SSH: PuTTY
Desktop Enhancements: Hotkeycontrol and Google Desktop
Spyware: Microsoft AntiSpyware, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spybot-S&D
FTP: SmartFTP
Misc: Who Lock Me?
Network Bandwidth Monitor: NetStat Live
IRC: mIRC
BitTorrent: Azureus (I might switch to µTorrent 1.2)
Text Editor (for programming) : Crimson Editor

Some other good Network Bandwidth Monitors:

BW Meter
www.opalsoft. net/qos/libiptc/ bmeter.html

DU Meter
www.dumeter. com

WinnerTweak
A good software for tweaking windows settings.

http://www.winnertw eak.com/

AMUST registry cleaner

www.amustsoft. com/products/ registrycleaner

Newt 2.0

This is an awsome little network auditing tool. Its free for networks with 10 machines or less attached to it.

K-Lite Codec Pack

An Audio/Video codec pack that contains most of the codecs... I use it. Any one got some other useful codec packs ?

http://www.free- codecs.com/ download/ ...Codec_ Pack.htm

Corel Paint Shop Pro X - excellent graphics editing sofware.
Macromedia Suite- Ultimate web authoring suite.
Trillian- Excellent IM, connects to all services simultaneously. Download from www.ceruleanstudios .com/
Sibelius 4- the ultimate musicians tool
Skype- Online phone excellent!!! ! download from www.skype.com
ISObuster- excellent for opening ISO image files with out writing them to a cd.
Audacity- excellent freeware audio editing and multiple track recorder. download from http://audacity.sourceforge. net

Avira Antivir Personal Edition Classic (Another free antivirus software)
Get it here:
http://www.free- av.com/

http://getpaint. net/

PDF's, make free ones using Primo PDF from
www.primopdf. com

And of course don't forget the free MS Office compatible at
http://www.openoffi ce.org