Best Free Firewall

• ZoneAlarm free (firewall)*****
• Comodo Personal Firewall
• Ashampoo Firewall free
  
• Sunbelt Kerio (firewall)(after 30 days becomes freeware)
• Outpost Firewall (firewall)
• SoftPerfect Personal Firewall
• Jetico Firewall

Roundup from CarolsVault

Safe Xp - tweaking program

DiskSweeper FREE 1.0 - removes junk from your pc.

RegToy 0.4.3.0 - Windows Tweaking program

IrfanView32 v3.98 - image viewer/converter for Windows.

FastStone Image Viewer 2.7 Beta 4 - manage, view, convert,edit your images.

DualXplorer 0.864 - a file manager

Avant Browser 11.0 Build 12 - fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser.

OpenOffice.org Premium - enhanced version of OpenOffice.org

Corel Snapfire - organize, edit & share your digital photos and videos

Fresh Diagnose - analyze and benchmark your computer

Belarc Advisor -detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS,etc…

Best Free Adware and Antispyware

• Avg Antispyware
• Lavasoft Ad-aware *****
• Spybot *****
• Windows defender ****
• SpywareBlaster**** (Blocks installation of spyware)
  
• Trend Micro HouseCall (online scan for spyware and viruses)
• HijackThis 1.99.1
• CWShredder
• RootkitRevealer

Best Free Antispam tools

• Comodo AntiSpam
• Mail Box Dispatcher
• Spamihilator
• SpamBayes
• POPFile
• K9