You can also find this list on my main blog - Vista compatible freeware - which is updated very often.

Audio and Video and Image

• FastStone Capture (freeware version) - Screenshot capture
• FastStone Image Viewer
• Picasa
• ImgConverter
• Firm Tools Shell Extension Converter
• Image ReSizer
• The GIMP
• Blender 2.44
• Paint.NET
• Corel Snipefire 1.2 - Image organizer, editor and viewer
• Acala Video MP3 Ripper

• Mega Sound Recorder - Sound recording
• EXPStudio Audio Editor Free - Audio editor
• Audacity
• GOM Player
• OrangeCD Player
• Ashampoo Clip Finder
• FinalBurner - Burning tool
• ImgBurn Burning tool

• DVDFlick
• Dvd Decrypter 3.5
• Dvd Shrink 3.2

Computer Security

• AVG Anti-Spyware
• Spyware Blaster
• Lavasoft Ad-aware
• Spybot Search and Destroy
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Avast Home Edition
• Active Virus Shiels
• Avira Antivir personal edition 7.00.04.15 (now Vista comp.)
• ClamWin
• Jetico Personal Firewall - (now Vista comp.)
• PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition
• PC Tools Firewall Plus

Computer Maintenance Tools

• Advanced Windows Care Personal - System Maintenance
• Auslogics Disk Defrag
• Auslogics Registry Defrag
• Iobit SmartDefrag
• BackUp Maker Standard Edition
• DriveMax - Backup your computer’s drivers
• nCleaner - Disk Cleaner
• Wise Disk Cleaner - Disk cleaner
  
• Starter - Startup manager
• RegToy - Tweaking program
• Vispa - Tweak your Windows Vista
• TweakVI Basic -Tweaking program
• SoftPerfect File Recovery
• Vista Shutdown Timer
• FileMenu Tools - Contex menu enhancement
• FreeCommander 2006.06 b - Explorer replacement
• 7-Zip

Education

• Lingoes Translator -Free word and text translator
• Vocabula - Improve your vocabulary skills

Desktop, Office, HTML, Editors and News

• Adobe Digital Editions - Read and manage your eBooks
• Fresh Feed Reader - Ajax rss reader running on Adobe AIR.
• Crsspy - RSS Reader
• YeahReader - RSS Reader
• GreatNews Rss Reader
• JustHTML - Html editor
• OpenOffice.org
• Post2Blog - Blogging software
• Sticky Notes
• iQ-Notes - Sticky notes
• EverNote
• Notepad++
• Mozilla Sunbird Calendar
• EssentialPIM Free 1.95 - Organizer
• doPDF - PDF converter
• ObjectDock - task manager and a program launcher
• Thunderbird 2 - Email client
• GMail Notifier
• GMail Drive Shell Extension
• FolderGuide - right click menu

Network, FTP and P2P

• FTPDrive
• FTP Commander
• Filezilla
• Net Tools - Network monitoring software
• WinWSD WebSite Downloader
• Mozilla Firefox
• Avant Browser
• Maxthon

IM and Telephony

• Google Talk
• Yahoo Messenger