http://freespace.virgin.net/c.blunt/rvl
This is the site for a random verse generator. If you want to write some poetry,
but need some inspiration, then this download may be for you. I reckon it is fairly
close to the random haiku generator but maybe I am wrong, and you can make sensible stuff with this one.

http://www.polital.com/pnc/
To enable someone who is handicapped by inability to use a mouse click easily,
then this site has a free program for you. It means that you hover your mouse over a small selection of mouse clicks, and the job is done automatically. Includes Ctrl and Shift options too.

This free program is a companion program to the previous one.
Called Click-N-Type, it offers help in typing, for disabled people.

http://www.geocities.com/k_gorolomov/software/software.html
FileClipper is a free file splitter program. This may enable you to
send larger files over the internet and also to spread them over other
storage mediums, such as floppies or even cdroms.

http://www.geocities.com/k_gorolomov/software/software.html
IntraSearch is a small search engine for finding files on a site.

http://www.vividmachines.com/
Mirage Desktop Hider will hide your icons so that your desktop is not cluttered.

http://smspup.com/
http://free-sms-messages.com/
http://www.mtnsms.com/
These are all FREE SMS sites. You can only use smspup in Australia,
and assume the others are the same. You can add pictures and  
animations too, apparently.

http://camtech2000.net/Pages/DllOrphans.html
Dll OrPhans is for removing all those .dll files that you are
never game enough to remove when you uninstall a program.

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/corel/790/betaprgs/mi_setup.htm
Master Installer is used if you write your own programs and need a setup program to install them, this one is free. It seems to offer everything you
will need including an uninstaller. Just like a real one.

http://members.ams.chello.nl/e.m.oost/
Burn To The Brim (BTTB) is a program to assist in burning CDs. It is natureware, which means that if you like it you can donate to a charity involved in nature or conservation.

http://www.freshdevices.com
You can download a free system analyser for your computer here. From
the same people who give you Fresh Download download accelerator.

http://www.gentee.com/
CreateInstall is for creating install programs for new software called setup generator.

http://www.7-zip.com
7-Zip is a free zip program that is supposed to do 2-10% better
compression than Winzip and PKzip

http://www.installwatch.com/custprof.html
InstallWatch is used when installing a program so that the settings can be reset
if you install and then uninstall.

http://www.killersoftware.com/makecdrom/
MakeCDROM is a front end for making a CDRom. You can
upgrade for a small cost to gain some advantages. It obviously
does not have the same abilities as Director, but then it
doesn't require the learning curve or price.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/INDEX.HTM
Looking for a new digital camera? This site has some good reviews that bear looking at.

http://www.lamantine.com/
ScreenShot Wizard is a screenshot making tool.

http://www.karldavis.com/
A site for those looking for drivers. 

http://www.katmarsoftware.com
Uconeer is a freeware unit exchange calculator. The only one I have found
that allows metric to fractions of an inch, and not metric
equivalents. eg. 3mm=1/8".

http://www.dpreview.com/
A digital camera review site complete with galleries of images. If you are in the market you should check it out.

http://www.kidgen.com
This site has free learning programs for kids. I guess it could be used to teach
English as a foreign language too. There appears to be a lot of sections to it, but  
I would avoid the flashing banner telling you you have won.

http://www.windrivers.com  
A site specialising in Windows drivers.

http://www.mkdata.dk/click/index.htm
This guy has over 500 tutorials and images apparently from image
manipulation to motherboards and the way your computer works. Worth a visit.

http://www.webattack.com/freeware/freeware.shtml
This site has heaps of freeware programs and this includes a lot of multimedia tools.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
Directory Printer is for printing out your files. This can be set
to print particular files and also put in the time they were
altered etc.  

http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=cdspeed.html#faq
CD Speed helps to check your cd drive speeds and can check that there are no
errors on the cd in question. This site seems to have a lot of Nero Cd add-ons that I don't entirely understand.

http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/501/tr.cgi?fprod1
This link is from TheNakedPC and will take you to a site that will track down the
pc drivers that you are looking for.

http://www.runtimeware.com/
This is the home site of a free program that scans the dll and exe files of your system
and notifies you if any have been changed which would let you know if a virus or trojan have changed them.

http://www.downloads.ukprofessionals.com/index.html
HomeKey is to learn typing.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.html
Replicator is a very good backup program for all sorts of reasons.
Go to the URL and see what it can do. The main thing is that it can save files bigger than 2G.

http://superwin.com/
Add/Remove Pro is for uninstalling programs that the Windows uninstaller misses.

http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD is a different operating system which allows use of Linux apps but apparently is easier to set up.

Directory Printer - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp

Power Toy - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/pttoy.asp

Drive Info - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdinfo.asp

Disk Slack Checker - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptslack.asp

Window Watcher - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptwinwatch.asp

Autorun.inf Editor - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp

Computer Profiler - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptprofiler.asp

Countdown Timer II - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcount2.asp

Registry Pruner - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptpruner.asp

Registry Ripper - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptregrip.asp

Snooper - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptsnoop.asp

Countdown Timer - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcount.asp

Alarm Clock - http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptalarm.asp

http://www.xxcopy.com/index.html
XXCOPY is a backup copy program.

http://swatit.org/index.html
SwatIt allows you to scan your drives for Trojans and worms that may get missed by other software. If you are infected with a Kak Worm or Karma Worm you can check using this program. I will still continue to use AVG free virus scan from grisoft.com, but it can't hurt to use this program occasionally as well.

http://grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm
UnPlug and Pray (UnPnP) safely disables the dangerous Universal Plug and Play server in Windows XP's and ME.

http://grc.com/freepopular.htm
Some free programs, sort of technical stuff.

http://www.mlin.net/
Another tech site with quite a few free programs that I don't understand. Well, I know what they are for, but not how to use them.

http://www.tribalpages.com/
A free family tree maker, and finder if you are lucky. So far there are no people with my surname listed.

If you suspect your system to be infected with one of the viruses listed below, these free tools will be of great help, allowing you to repair the damages.
http://www.bitdefender.com/html/free_tools.php
Win32.Yarner.A@mm - 220 KB:  
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiYarner.exe
Win32.Klez - 232 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiKlez.exe
Win32.Myparty.A@mm - 228 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiMyparty.exe
Win32.Updatr.A@mm - 240 KB
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiUpdatr.exe
Win32.GONE.A@mm - 240 KB
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiGone.exe
Win32.Badtrans.B@mm - 240 KB
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiBadB.exe
I-Worm.Sircam.A - 224 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiSirCam.exe
Win32.Nimda.A@mm - 240 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiNimda.exe
Win32.Magistr.B@mm - 240 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiMagistr.B.exe
Win32.FunLove.4099 - 144 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiFunLove.exe
CodeRed.C - 31 KB
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiCodeRed.zip
I-Worm.Magistr.A - 240 KB
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiMagistrA.exe
VBS.SST.A - 62 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiKournikova.exe
I-Worm.Prolin - 224 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiProlin.exe
Trojan.CdList - 53 KB
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiCdList.zip
I-Worm.Navidad.B1 - 63 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiNavidad.com
W32.Kriz.4050 - 148 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiKriz.4050.exe
I-Worm.Qaz - 1 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiQaz.reg
Win95.Spaces - 148 KB:
http://www.bitdefender.com/download/AntiWin95.SpacesCleaner.exe
I had to put this in just as I got it from freeware news. These could possibly be life saving, or at least computer saving.

http://www.treiber-archiv.de/index.html
This is a German site with apparently a good source of drivers. I think you need some translation software first, alhough some of it is easy enough to follow.

http://www.foreignword.com/Software/Xanadu/default.htm
Xanadu is translation software and will translate from 60 languages and 200 online dictionaries. It could help with some of the foreign language sites that may contain the information you are after.

http://www.dev4pc.com/setup2go.html
Setup2Go will create a Windows installer for programs or files.

http://www.freebyte.com/hjinstall/
HJ-Install will create a front end for cdroms, and it may have more possibilities than just a simple autorun feature as it seems to be able to call up files and play them in an order you select.

http://www.waverlystreet.com/cdb.html
CDBrowser is another front end for cdroms. This one is worth comparing with the others I have given lately.

http://www.quickmenubuilder.com/
Quick Menu Builder builds menus for cdroms without needing to do any coding. Very simple and it looks easy to use.

http://www.dougworld.com/
Clipcase-A utility that reformats text pasted to your system clipboard.
replaceHTML- HTML editing utility.

http://www.html-helper.com/
E-compiler will allow you to make an exe file of just about anything.
Web Site Compiler
Webmaster
Thumbnail Factory
Simple Submit

http://www.x9000.net
Xen is a powerful system analysing and tweaking program.

http://www.wentnet.uklinux.net/software/cdstarter.php3
CD Starter is a front end for making autorun cds for your programs that you are sending to others.

http://www.zeleps.com/
Partition Resizer is supposed to allow the re-sizing of partitions without problems, even by non techies like me.

http://www.ranish.com/part/
Ranish Partition Manager is another partition program, and has links to other apps and information on resizing partitions.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
Bart's page of instructions on how to create a bootable CDrom may just save you heaps of time when you have problems with booting up.

http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
CDR Tools Front End with copy blocking included.

http://shelldrake.com/Developer/index.htm
Shelldrake Developer is a program that allows you to create interactive multimedia programs.

http://www.dreamysoft.com/index.html
DreamyStar Organizer is a computer version of those books that people carry around to tell them what it is they are supposed to be doing next.

http://southeastsoft.netfirms.com/software.html
EZ Converter - is a program to convert units of measurement weight and temperature.
EZ JavaScript - 50 java scripts easily installed in your web page.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/
A site with bootdisks for every occasion. You don't have to make, or find your old ones.

http://visualtoolbox.com/padfiles/pad_file.htm
Visualtoolbox is a freeware program for vinyl cutting, laser marking, and laser cutting. It includes Basic Engraving and Basic Vinyl Cutting and also demo versions of the standard and advanced versions.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/oth/269.html
Cputree Pro is a database of fixes for computer problems written by a programmer apparently.

http://www.bde.enseeiht.fr/~queffee/
A database program for all sorts of media files.

http://www.lexunfreeware.com/
Get RegScrubXP is a solution to the problem of things being left in your registry when using 2000 and XP.

http://www.2al.net/index.htm
Titan is a free program for running a small business, controlling purchases, sales, customers, suppliers and invoicing.

http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml
DrvImagerXP is a cloning program to save your computer setup so that you don't have to re-install your system again if you have a problem, just go back to where it all worked before.

http://www.active-media-online.com/ActiveMedia/Pages/version30.htm
Active Media Eclipse is a screensaver creating program, free for personal use.

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Maintenance_and_Repair_Utilities/DrvClonerXP.html
DrvClonerXP will copy an entire drive partition. This enables copying the contents of a drive straight to a new hard drive.

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
Scanner will tell you how much of your resources are being used on your major files and folders.

http://www.securitysoftware.cc/apps.html
Shutdown is the program I went here for, but there are a lot of others. Mainly for techie types, but not necessarily.

http://www.code-it.com/make_larger.htm
Make It Larger will magnify portions of the screen for people who have trouble reading small print.

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/maxmem.htm
MaxMem is a program designed to free ram so you can keep working at the same speed all day without rebooting to get rid of sluggishness.

http://www.iceows.com/
ICEOWS is a program for decompressing files from a wide range of file types. ICE,ARJ, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, MS-CAB, RAR, ACE, Quake 3 compressed files, Internet Mail files (Mime, UUE, XXE, B64, HQX), Java Archive (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZS, LZH, LHA, IMP, BZ2.

http://www.citrusware.com/FreeSoftware.htm
Invoicer, SimpleDispatcher, CitrusWriter and ProposalWriter are all free business based programs that may have wider usage.

http://www.dpaehl.i-p.com/cdrtools.html
CDR-Tools is a program for burning cdr/w from Windows. - multimediaspy.com newsletter.

http://diskcleaner.tripod.com/
Disk Cleaner is designed to clean all temp files and folders and cookies you no longer want on your system.

http://www.softwarevault.com/
A site full of freeware and shareware apps.

http://www.expertunion.com/ear/
Expert Answer Retriever is a specialised thread-based newsreader for those who use USENET newsgroups. It keeps track of all answers to questions.

http://www.jermar.com/
WinDriversBackup is a program that allows saving of your Windows drivers to a separate folder so you have them on hand at all times which saves time downloading if you re-install.

http://www.jermar.com/
SceneSaver - screensaver program using your own images.

http://www.ufworld.com/ufautorun/index.htm
UF AutoRun Creator makes autorun files for HTML pages.

http://www.digitalnowhere.com/
This is a site to return to. It contains useful information for medium onwards, technical users. Possibly not for newbies yet. Lots of tweaks etc.

http://zipcentral.iscool.net/
ZipCentral - A good, small zip/unzip program.

http://www.victauri.com/stauri_orataur.html
Stauri Orataur is a simple but effective knowledge bot. Ask it a question and it will supply a straightforward answer."

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/
IsoBuster has a new version. Billed as "The Ultimate CD/DVD data recovery tool". MAC AS WELL.

http://www.lsl.com.au/reference/knoppix-31-GPL-note.php
Knoppix Linux 3.2 GPL - A bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals.

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~roadkil/
Unstoppable Copier will recover data from scratched CDs and floppies, which are otherwise unreadable.

http://CodeStuff.mirrorz.com
http://members.lycos.co.uk/codestuff/
Starter is a program for those who can't get at msconfig to sort out their start-up programs.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
PC Inspector is a file recovery program for those with damaged hard drives. ARJ AVI BMP CDR DOC DXF DBF XLS EXE GIF HLP HTML HTM JPG LZH MID MOV MP3 PDF PNG RTF TAR TIF WAV ZIP are all featured.

http://www.dll-downloads.com/
All the dll files you need.

http://www.burnatonce.com/
Burnatonce is a program to use instead of the standard programs offered with a burner.

http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
DVD Decrypter will allow you to copy DVDs to your harddrive and then convert them to other formats if you want to.

http://drivers.on-line.net.nz/
Find the drivers on your system with this wizard.

http://www.jermar.com/wdrvbck.htm
WinDriversBackup will identify and back up all Windows drivers.

http://www.backup4all.com/
Backup4all is a program for backing up your files. Really useful stuff.

http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm
Active@KillDisk will wipe all info from your old harddrive before you pass it on or re-cycle it properly.

http://www.lostpassword.com/asterisk.htm
Asterisk Key will help you find what your password is when you forget it. It reads what is under those asterisks.

http://www.joshie.com/projects/dawn/
Dawn is a program that allows you to convert address books from almost any program into another.

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital_image_recovery.htm
ZAR digital recovery will recover images deleted from your digital camera card.

http://www.aant.cjb.net/
jv16Power Tools may be the answer to your problems when cleaning up your system.

http://freewarehits.de/ToolsPackage.htm
Extremely useful set of freeware programs. All small and useful.

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/
Isobuster has had an upgrade. This program will retrieve data from corrupt files on CD, DVD etc.

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/
QuickLaunch is a simple to use autostart program for CDRoms etc.

http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/
Custom CD Menu for creating a menu for a CD that you make yourself. The menu will activate on autorun.

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Inno Setup is an installer for your own programs. It uses a wizard interface and has a lot of features. Supports 2000 and XP.

http://www.tolvanen.com/
Eraser is a program that completely erases information on a hard disk by overwriting it several times rendering it unreadable.

http://www.savardsoftware.com/
TurboTop keeps a page on top of all others. Very handy when copying bits from one place to others.

http://www.xequte.com/other/
X-VCD Player allows you to play VCD disks from your computer.

http://w1.737.telia.com/~u73702956/index.htm
CDBurner-XP is a freeware CDRom burning program.

http://www.circleofone.com/
Hekko Virtual CD allows you to install a CDRom to your hard drive which allows you to take advantage of higher speeds to view or play games. Check for Windows version compatibility.

http://www.inmatrix.com/index.shtml#files
Zoom Player Standard, is a flexible feature rich Media Player and DVD player.

http://www.zipgenius.it/index2_eng.htm
ZipGenius is a zip tool suite that offers a variety of features. It offers support for more than 20 different compression formats, including 7zip, ISO, NRG and CMI CD-ROM image files.

http://slawdog.com/products/dojo/index.htm
Dojo is a new media player that claims to have all sorts of useful features.

http://www.waverlystreet.com/cdb.html
CDBrowser - A stand-alone front-end application for distributed CD-ROM disks.

http://www.spiritone.com/~enegus/index.shtml
CD Book - Turn a text file into a little CD-ROM booklet that fits neatly inside a CD case.

http://hccweb1.bai.ne.jp/~hcj58401/
RESTORATION - Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin by mistake. Conversely, delete files completely.

http://www.bhwhost.com/tcb_software/pppcd/
PPPCD - PowerPoint compatible programs able to be viewed by those without PowerPoint.

http://www.homesoft.ru/eng/programs.shtml
ASCT - Screen capture program with some good features.

http://www.necrocosm.com/bb.html
Bent Black Translator - Translate text into or out of any language.

http://www.waverlystreet.com/cdb.html
CDBROWSER - A stand-alone front-end application for distributed CD-ROM disks.

http://www.spiritone.com/~enegus/index.shtml
CD Book - Turn a text file into a little CD-ROM booklet that fits neatly inside a CD case.

http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DVD Shrink - Backup your DVDs.

http://www.procreativesystems.com/
Topper - Keep selected pages always on top.

http://www.axiomx.com/masterlister.htm
MasterLister - Print out the contents of any directory and drive on your computer.

http://www.ipaw.net/ipaw/index.php
TempCleaner - A program that will make sure your "Windows\Temp" folder is clean at start-up. Windows 95, 98, ME or XP.

http://multicomm.cjb.net/
Multicomm - communication software which connects two computers by just using a phoneline and a modem.

http://www.freewarehits.de/
Tools Package - Lots of useful small apps such as;
Copy and Trim - cleans copied text.
WinOnTop - keeps a window always on top.
Word Count - does what it says. and many more.

http://www.geminisoft.com/pimmy.eng/frameset.htm
Pimmy - manage your electronic mail easily and everywhere you are. The full program may be put on a floppy, to take with you on the road.

http://www.katmarsoftware.com/
Uconeer - easy to use units conversion tool created specifically for engineers. It includes 394 units in 46 categories.