On the following pages, I will present some of my personal favorite programs that I think everyone should have. Many of these programs, including my favorite antivirus and spyware detection utility are free, so don't let "wanting to save a few bucks" keep you from protecting your computer and all your irreplacable data.  If you really like them, please support the folks that spend many of their hours developing these applications for our free use by purchasing the full product.

If you would like to find your own personal favorites (hey, everyone has their own tastes), try searching through the collection of programs at my favorite place for Freeware and Shareware Applications - Snapfiles.com.  Snapfiles makes it easy to browse through either category, and provides a summary of each program, a review, as well as User Reviews.  They provide links to the software maker themselves, and provide screenshots of the program in action.