WIN PATROL

CLICK TO ENLARGE WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Traditional security programs scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. WinPatrol takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge. You'll be removing dangerous new programs while others download new definition files.

MCAFEE SITE ADVISOR

McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer Adds safety ratings to sites and search results to protect you against adware, spam, and online scams. McAfee SiteAdvisor for Firefox Adds safety ratings to sites and search results to protect you against adware, spam, and online scams.

PROACTIVE SECURITY  AUDITOR

CLICK TO ENLARGE Proactive Security Auditor FE (Freeware Edition) is a free, small, fast and easy to use program to assist system administrators and ordinary users to keep their computers secure by identifying what security updates are installed on local and remote machines, and allowing to download and install missing patches from Microsoft web site.

PC PAL

PC Pal Well I have never experienced a piece of software that analized my system and then automatically fixed each problem seperately. PCPal is a free easy-to-use tool that notifies you about problems in your PC and helps you fix them. PCPal helps you detect and resolve issues in a wide range of categories, such as security, performance, network and printing. ( read the reviews) I just checked the ones at Download.com so far but they are very positive.

EULAlyzer

EULAlyer from Javacool Software! End user license agreements (EULAs) are the bane of most computer users. No one wants to read through pages and pages of boring text before installing a program. And many programs put their license agreements in small windows that require lots of scrolling. So many people either skim them or skip reading them altogether. But it can be dangerous not to read license agreements. License agreements can provide information about the intentions of software, and other bundled components. Have you ever installed a program, only to have your desktop taken over by advertising? It may have been noted in the license agreement that you simply clicked past. If you aren't reading the license agreements, you have no idea what you could be agreeing to. You should always read license agreements before agreeing to them. But now there's a way of making that much easier. EULAlyzer - Making it all easy EULAlyzer can analyze license agreements in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the software you're about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers to track you, or much much more.

RECUVA

CLICK TO ENLARGE VIEW AFTER SCAN OF MY PC Recuva (pronounced "recover") is a freeware utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Windows Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!  This is from the same company,Piriform, that developed CC Cleaner. DETECT AND REPAIR DISKS

MEMORY IMPROVE MASTER

Memory Improve Master Free Version is a powerful Free memory optimizer which will keep your computer running better, faster, and longer. Sometimes computer system becomes slow because of large and heavy sized applications are running simultaneously, it takes more memory space and makes the system works slowly.

PRIVACY SITE

CLICK TO ENLARGE Protecting Your Privacy & Security Very nice categorized list of protecting your privacy and security, don't miss this one.

XP PUBLIC HELP AND SUPPORT

microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, Lots of help and support here and it can be viewed in the thread index. Lots of answers to lots of problems. PC Buyer Beware This is my kind of site, loads of freeware, tons of techincal info, and help with every aspect of a PC. Good one!

IZARC

CLICK TO ENLARGE IZArc is one of the most used free archiving/compression utility. It can handle more than 40 archive file formats as well as CD/DVD images. It can protect your documents with very strong encryption so they will be always secured. IZArc can be integrated in Windows Explorer context menu for fast file operations. It is fully Windows Vista compatible. If you have different archive files and you want to convert them in only one format IZArc can do it for you with few simple steps