Freeware

Nokia PC Suite – Nokia PC Suite is a package of Windows-based PC applications developed especially for use with Nokia phones.
Depending on your phone model, it lets you synchronize, edit, and back up many of your phone’s files on a compatible PC through a wireless or cable connection. (Windows 2000 and XP)

• Back up and restore Nokia phone files
• Transfer information, pictures, and music from phone to phone or phone to PC
• Synchronize your phone and PC calendars
• Edit contacts, pictures, and phone file names
• Install JavaT-based applications in your phone
• Convert Nokia ringing tone formats
• Play multimedia messages and videos
• Send text messages from the PC
• Connect by using your Nokia phone as a modemDownload Freeware

For 9x/2K/XP. Ping Plotter This exceptional GUI-based traceroute tool has features I’ve only seen in expensive industrial-strength tools, including dynamic tracking of changes in node response time — great for tracking a network outage across time. It’s also very fast! The shareware version has more features for a nominal cost, but the simpler 1.x is entirely free. For samples and more info, see here. By Pete Ness.

For 9x/NT/2K/XP. PuTTY is a Windows-based Telnet and SSH client. SSH, or Secure Shell, is essentially a secure Telnet popular on the Unix platform. PuTTY is much more robust than Windows’ native Telnet client.

For 95/98/NT/2K/XP CoffeeCup Free FTP Try a free, easy-to-use FTP client that resumes broken downloads. CoffeeCup Free FTP is an easy-to-use FTP client for file uploads and downloads. It allows you to use an unlimited number of FTP accounts, resume broken downloads, and transfer files in binary, ASCII, or auto-mode. It also offers an optional auto-refresh on each file upload or download, and optional FTP log transcription.

For NT/2K/XP. QuickRes NT This clone of the free Windows PowerToy QuickRes does everything the original does — sit in the System Tray and let you dynamically change screen resolution and color depth with a click — and more (e.g., change screen refresh rate).

Spyware Blaster 3.2 – Spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers are some of the fastest-growing threats on the Internet today.
By simply browsing to a web page, you could find your computer to be the brand-new host of one of these unwanted fiends!
Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted pests.
Block spyware tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
Restrict the actions of potentially dangerous sites in Internet Explorer.SpywareBlaster can help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the “good side” of the web.

And unlike other programs, Spyware Blaster does not have to remain running in the background!

Spyware Blaster is freeware download here

For 9x/2K/XP. TestCPU Ever try to identify what CPU is in a computer while you’re running it? Or find out how fast it’s running? This utility will do the job for you. For anything older than a Pentium 4, TestCPU is the best CPU identifier I’ve found. It not only identifies your CPU and its features — it shows a picture of it! Runs simple benchmarks. Has a “museum” with pictures and feature info for every major Intel, AMD, Cyrix & Centaur CPU since the 386DX, so it’s a great reference for computer techs, too.

TweakUI THE BEST OF ALL THE PowerToys! This should be standard on every (pre-XP) Windows computer whatsoever! Many new features added. Works on Windows 95, 98, Millennium, NT, and 2000. For installation instructions and further information, read here. NOTE: For Win XP I recommend against using TweakUI ver. 1.33. Use the superior TweakUI XP distributed in the XP PowerToys set below.

Windows 95 Power Toys Set
For 9x/2K/XP. These should have been part of Win95 from the beginning! They are an amazing set of free add-on tools. Some have been incorporated into Win98, and some others work in Win98.The PowerToys Set download allows users to install all of the available power toys–productivity tools for advanced users–at once.

These toys include:

CabView–treat.CAB files like ordinary folders
CDAutoPlay–make autoplay work on any non-audio CD
Command Prompt–start a command prompt in the folder of your choice with the click of a button
Contents Menu–get to your files without having to open their folders
Desktop Menu–open items on your desktop from a convenient menu on the Taskbar
Explore From Here–open Windows Explorer no matter where you are on the network or on your own computer’s file system
FindX 1.2–add drag-and-drop capabilities to your Find Menu
FlexiCD–play an audio CD from the Taskbar
Quick Res–change the screen resolution of your Windows desktop without having to restart your computer
Round Clock–create a round analog clock without a square window
Send To X 1.2–an updated version of Send To Any Folder
Shortcut Target Menu–find out the properties for the file to which a shortcut is pointing
Telephony Location Selector–mobile computer users can change their dialing location from the Taskbar
Tweak UI 1.1 Update–adjust your Windows User Interface, including menu speed, window animation, and Microsoft Internet Explorer
Xmouse 1.2–make the focus follow your mouse without clicking in the same way X Windows does

Windows XP PowerToys
For XP. Microsoft’s new set of PowerToys custom created just for Windows XP! This is the first new issue of a PowerToys set since Win95. Mostly, these tools don’t duplicate the Win95 PowerToys (most of which still work in XP). Includes the new TweakUI XP; a graphical calculator; “Open Command Prompt Here” (to replace the old “DOS Prompt Here”); a fast Photo Resizer add-in; enhancements to the traditional Task Switcher, a virtual desktop manager, and more. Read more about them here.Important Notes – You must uninstall your old PowerToys before installing the new ones. PowerToys will only work with US-English regional settings.

Just look at your PowerToy choices:

Open Command Window Here
This PowerToy adds an “Open Command Window Here” context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing at the selected folder.

Alt-Tab Replacement
With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open.

Tweak UI
This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. Version 2.10 requires Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2003.

Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.

Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

CD Slide Show Generator
With this PowerToy you can view images burned to a CD as a slide show. The Generator works downlevel on Windows 9x machines as well.

Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.

Taskbar Magnifier
Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.

Webcam Timershot
This PowerToy lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate.