This utility will help you to stabise Windows XP when the registry gets into a mess. You will be suprised at how much quicker and reliable you machine becomes.

TCreate PDF file from any source. It sets up as a printer on your system and writes the "printed" output to a PDF file. This allows you to easily email all sorts of information from any package to friends and prospects.

Magic Mail Monitor

If you run multiple mail boxes and suffer from spam this is for you. It will allow you to open multiple boxes at once and view the headers and select and delete the spam without having to download the message first. Deletions ar lightning fast!

WebFerret from FerretSoft

This just has to be the most valuable Internet search tool available.

Don't waste time going to the search engines and trying to locate the right site and then trying to find the right page on that site. Webferret will bring you back a list of pages that contain your search string which it ferreted out of multiple search engines.

You have to have this one!

IrfanView

A superior free picture viewer that will truly astonish you. It has plugins for just about any type of picture file. Play Videos, edit pictures, resize, crop pictures. Change picture type, remove red eye. Yes it's really free open source and a damn good one at that!

Skype taking the world by storm! This facility is free to use Voice over IP. Just get a headset and you can talk to friends all over the world. You can also chat on the keyboard where conditions are not that great.

Pegusus Mail

This package has always been a favourite. Good for managing lists and addresses. Here is the download page.

Mass Downloader

MetaProducts Mass Downloader is a Windows 9x/NT/2000 program that allows you to download files from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum available speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases the time necessary to download files.
Mass Downloader also allows you to browse Zip archives before loading them and to choose only the desired files to download. It has an excellent Internet Explorer-like user interface.

TuCows

A place to find really interesting and unusual stuff.