Software updates

Security and Privacy - Firewalls
ZoneAlarm 7.1.248.000

System - Startup handling
Autoruns 9.13

System - Process Management and Tools
Process Explorer 11.11

Internet and Communication - Favorites/Bookmarks
AM-DeadLink 3.2

Internet and Communication - Email and messaging
Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12

Productivity and Office - Editors for programming
Notepad++ 4.8

Games - Action games
America's Army 2.8.3

Security and Privacy - Antivirus and Antimalware
RunScanner 1.6.3

Productivity and Office - Notepad replacements
AkelPad 3.5.0

Software updates

Files and Folders - File recovery
Recuva 1.11.257

Multimedia - Audio Players and DJ stuff
foobar2000 0.9.5.1

System - System information
PC Wizard 2008 1.84

Files and Folders - File attributes
Attribute Changer 6.0a

Internet and Communication - Download managers
Free Download Manager 2.5 build 755

Glary Utilities

System - Installation, Configuration and Tweaking

Added to my selection.

Glary Utilities: bundles utilities that increase your PC performance and maintain your system. Clean your PC from junk files, remove Internet traces, find invalid registry entries, manage startup programs, optimize system memory and more. The program also includes a disk space inspector to locate large folders and files, as well as a Context Menu Manager, that enables you to disable unused right-click options for files and folders. Other features include an Internet Explorer Assistant, a Privacy Shredder for secure file deletion, an encryption tool, and more.

Software updates

Multimedia - Multimedia Players
Gom Player 2.1.9.3753

System - CPU, GPU and Memory tools
Memtest86+ 2.01

Software updates

System - Registry and File Cleaners, Registry Tools
Crap Cleaner 2.05.555 (CCleaner)

Security and Privacy - Firewalls
Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.18

System - Miscellaneous tools
c't Offline Update 4.72

Internet and Communication - Browsers
Opera 9.26 build 8835

System - Uninstallers
MyUninstaller 1.38

Internet and Communication - Website building
FileZilla 3.0.7.1

Multimedia - Miscellaneous Audio Tools
Floola 2.7

Software updates

System - System information
GPU-Z 0.1.7

Files and Folders - File attributes
Attribute Changer 6.0

System - Installation, Configuration and Tweaking
Winbubble 1.65

Multimedia - Audio Players and DJ stuff
Xion 1.0.94

Productivity and Office - Notepad replacements
AkelPad 3.4.8

Security and Privacy - Encryption
Omziff 3.0.9.6

Security and Privacy - Antivirus and Antimalware
Spyware Terminator 2.1.1.314

Photorec

Files and Folders - File recovery

Added to my selection.

Photorec: is a program designed to recover lost files; including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks, CDRom and lost pictures from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it can still find files even if your media's filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted (overwritten data, of course, can not be recovered). Portable.

Software updates

Internet and Communication - Website building
FileZilla 3.0.7

Productivity and Office - Notepad replacements
AkelPad 3.4.8

System - Other storage tools
TestDisk 6.9

Internet and Communication - Email and messaging
POP Peeper 3.1

Software updates

Multimedia - Video
VirtualDub 1.7.8

Multimedia - Miscellaneous Audio Tools
Floola 2.6

Security and Privacy - Encryption
TrueCrypt 5.0a

Internet and Communication - Browsers
K-Meleon 1.1.4

Security and Privacy - Antivirus and Antimalware
ThreatFire 3.0.14

Games - Action games
War§ow 0.41

System - Benchmark
HD Tune 2.55

Software updates

Security and Privacy - Firewalls
Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0.16.295

Files and Folders - File rename
Rename Master 2.8.0

Security and Privacy - Antivirus and Antimalware
Spyware Terminator 2.1.0.313

WinBubble

System - Installation, Configuration and Tweaking

Added to my selection.

WinBubble 1.6: In just a few clicks, WinBubble will help you to customize and tweak your Windows Vista easily. WinBubble's many features cover Security, Optimization and Customization. No installation needed. Possibility to hook your own tools on some free buttons in Winbubble.

Guru3D - Driver Sweeper

System - Drivers and Tools

Added to my selection

Guru3D - Driver Sweeper: It's a tool to remove driver leftovers from your system. It's very important to remove your drivers on a proper way, because driver leftovers can cause problems like stability and startup problems. You can use it if you want to update/remove drivers from your system. The current supported drivers are NVIDIA (Display and Chipset), ATI (Display), Creative (Sound) Realtek (Sound), Ageia (PhysX) and Microsoft (Mouse).

Software updates

System - CPU, GPU and Memory tools
Memtest86+ 2.00

Internet and Communication - Browsers
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12

System - Drivers and tools
DriverMax 3.4

Productivity and Office - PDF
Adobe Reader 8.1.2

System - System information
CPU-Z 1.44

System - Startup handling
Autoruns 9.12

Software updates

Internet and Communication - Email and messaging
Skype for Windows 3.6.0.248

Security and Privacy - Encryption
TrueCrypt 5.0

Multimedia - Multimedia players
Gom Player 2.1.9.3752

System - Installation, Configuration and Tweaking
ShellMenuView 1.02

Software updates

Internet and Communication - Browsers
Maxthon 2.0.8 build 1720

System - Live BootCD
UBCD4Win 3.11

Files and Folders - Backup and synchronisation
SyncBack 3.2.17

System - System information
GPU-Z 0.1.6

System - Startup handling
Autoruns 9.10

GreatNews

Internet and Communication - Miscellaneous tools and services

Added to my selection.

GreatNews: is a RSS feed reader, optimized for fast and efficient reading of your favorite web feeds. It offers different view styles, including a newspaper view, that allows you to read a group of feeds organized in newspaper-style page layout.

If you use the .zip, it's portable and there's no need to install.

Prepare for Vista SP1

Next monday 02/04/2008, The Vista SP1 package gets RTM status. Vista SP1 will be released in two waves. Wave 0 targets English, French, Spanisch, German en Japanese versions of Vista. Wave 1 will be released 1 or 2 weeks later for ALL languages.
Source: Techarp

Software updates

System - Defragmentation
JkDefragGUI 1.01

Multimedia - CD and DVD
DVD Slideshow GUI 0.81

Productivity and Office - PDF
PDF-XChange Viewer 1.0.34

Software updates

Files and Folders - File recovery
Recuva 1.10.223

Productivity and Office - Unit Converters
Converber 1.7.1

System - Defragmentation
JkDefrag 3.34