www.weatherbug.com

Get local weather conditions and forecasts.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Free Abobe acrobat reader.

I think you said you registered this, so you might as well add it to the list
http://www.glocksoft.com/sc/?source=gsc

Also its nice to predownload the latest drivers as well

www.glocksoft.com

G-Lock SpamCombat - remove spam from your inbox. SC filters spam using a combination of Bayesian filter, blacklist, whitelist and other anti-spam technologies.

I have the paid version. Works well sifting out spam.

We must have been on the same page.

http://semagic.sourceforge.net/index.html

Semagic Live Journal updating client.

www.webcamwatcher.com

Webcam Watcher - Watch all your favorite webcams and monitor them when you are away from the computer. I have the paid version of this one too.

You should add flash as well as shockwave to the list as well from http://www.macromedia.com/ since you need them for firefox.

Also realplayer if you use it as well as quicktime, and itunes if your into that

I also heartily reccomend lzarc at http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm as the built in zipping program in xp stinks and I find I like it better then winzip and it is freeware, actually donationware but that is on a volunteer basis. Great program

http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm

TClockEx enhances the standard Windows taskbar clock, adding the ability to display the date, time and lots of other information in any format you like. TClockEx is highly customizable, from the format to the font and colour, and even the tooltip information.

http://www.aignes.com/products.htm

AM-DeadLink - Freeware

AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it from your Browser. AM-Deadlink checks Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape. Additionally you can download FavIcons for Internet Explorer and Opera.

www.pcpitstop.com

Check your Windows box here. Full range of tests.

www.dslreports.com

Check your bandwidth here. Choices of different test servers for better assessment of your connection.

http://www.dslreports.com/secureme

The best security tests available that I know of. Very thorough.

www.haroldandrews.com/uploads/hamster2-setup.exe

Hamster dance screensaver.

www.haroldandrews.com/uploads/calvinhobbes.zip

Melanies world famous Calvin and Hobbes desktop theme.

Tweakui and the windows media player blogger plugin are on my list of must haves

tweakui

blogger plugin
I am not sure if this will install ok with media player 10, but I know I installed it in wmp 9 and then upgraded to wmp 10 and it still shows up and works in wmp 10.

Keep going Harold I am finding all kinds of good things.

There's another spybot/adware/trojan thing that I can't remember the name of, or I took it off my list of good stuff for some reason.

www.apple.com/quicktime/download

Quicktime - Download your free Quicktime viewer here.

Since you added webpages as well like pc pitstop and dslreports, you may want these.

Panda antivirus activescan

Bitdefender virus scan

Trend Micro's Housecall scanner

Yes I do! Thanks!

http://www.grc.com/
to test your firewall and to download his Three Musketeers programs - unplug and pray, dcombobulator and shoot the messenger.

Also that x guy they have had on tech tv in the past as well as black vipers site to set your security settings
http://www.blackviper.com/index.html

x guy = http://www.analogx.com/ found him in old bookmarks You may find something there usefull