Fun and Useful
Weather Watcher It's WeatherBug without the Spyware. Displays the current temperature of the city you specify in the lower right corner of your screen (by the clock). Put your mouse over the temperature to view the current conditions. This also gives severe weather alerts, high and low temperatures for morning, afternoon, and evening, hourly forcasts, daily forcasts, and weather maps. Be sure to download the BUNDLE SETUP, because you don't want WhenU SaveNow! (it's adware).

Google Calendar keep track of dates and appointments easily with Google's online calendar. Then, with your Google Account, access it from anywhere with an internet connection! Though still a BETA version, this calendar is easy to use and convenient to access. You can create several calendars (ie work, personal) and view them at once or separately. You also have the option of viewing holiday calendars, and friends' Google Calendars.

Google Personalized Homepage Using a Google Account, view a personalized home page from anywhere with an internet connection. There are hundreds of customizable modules that you can add, such as your GMail and Google Calendar, quote of the day, movie times for a city you specify, favorite links, and sports updates.

SpyWare/AdWare Protection
Ad-Aware one of the best spy and ad-ware protection and removal programs out there - it's free too! Just update and run every couple of weeks, and be free of annoying popups! Once the spy/ad-ware is removed, your computer will most likely perform better and faster.

SpyBot - Search and Destroy similar to Ad-Aware. The two work nicely together, each tending to find things that the other misses.

Windows Defender Microsoft's free spyware protection program.

Virus Protection
AVG AntiVirus Free Grisoft's free anti-virus software. This is one of the most effective freeware anti-virus programs out there, and works just as well as McAffee or Norton.

Video Games
Buziol Games Mario for the computer... and other games.

NeoSonic Universe ok, so the site isn't in English... but it's a free computer version of Sonic. There are other games on the site as well.