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Zone Alarm - Basic Firewall Protection 
The editor's at CNET agree, "Of all the security products we reviewed, Zone Alarm offers the most thorough Internet protection for the lowest possible cost - it's absolutely free for home users."  Zone Alarm has won many awards for being the best in firewall protection and the best freeware available.  I use it and have tested it.  My connection runs in stealth mode, making it practically invisible to hackers and data thieves.

To test the security of your firewall there are a couple of tests that can be found at Gibson Research Company.   They are called Leak Test  and Shields Up.   This is what I used to test Zone Alarm.

AVG Antivirus Free Anti-Virus Protection!
This is the only free antivirus software that offers free indefinite updates. At least it is the only one I have found so far.  I have been using it for quite some time now.  If you have no antivirus protection or are tired of paying for annual access to updates, this is the perfect solution.

Desktop Architect is the best theme management program for Windows.  Using, creating, and distributing themes is easy! This makes it easy to personalize your desktop in no time. Go to A Better View.  Select "Vacation Essentials."  Click on "Desktop Architect" to download.  This site also has free downloadable Desktop Themes.

These are good places to get free themes.  The first is A Better View.   For more free themes check out EZ Themes and Free Desktop Theme.   Each of these sites list other sites to get free themes too.

Motherboard Monitor can sense temperatures from the CPU, hard drive, graphics board and motherboard. It also senses Fan speeds. If your PC overheats MBM can protect PC by Shutting down and/or alerting you with an alarm (depending on options you select).

AnalogX MaxMem is a memory management program.  It will passively release memory at regular intervals.  You can also force it to release unused memory with a click of your mouse.  This gives you control to ensure you always have as much physical memory available as possible.

Download Accelerator is the leading download manager/accelerator.  It increases download speed. DAP allows you to recover from interrupted downloads with the resume feature.  This is free ad-ware.  It will run ads while it is downloading.  If you prefer one without ads check out Star Downloader.

Star Downloader  is a download accelerator that can increase download speeds.  It is completely free. It does not have banner ads or spy-ware.

Anyone who uses the internet will come into contact with some sort of spy ware.  Although many may not even realize it.  It comes from freeware, shareware, cookies, media players, interactive content, and file sharing.  Writers of the aforementioned will often add code to spy on you and your PC activities.  Use Ad-aware to detect and remove many types of spy ware from your PC and to protect your privacy.

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your PC, including all installed software and hardware.  Then it displays the results in your Web browser. All information is kept private on your PC and is not sent out to any web server. 

Copernic Agent queries about ten different leading search engines. I get much  better search results with this application.  Searches are faster and easier.