Internet Utilities:
 Thunderbird  A program to check POP email accounts and newsgroups. 
 Firefox  A Great basic internet browser. 
 Mozilla  The All-in-one internet browser. Includes an internet browser, IRC client, POP email client, newsgroup client, 
 and HTML editor.
 Fresh Download  A free download utility that can pause and resume files being downloaded. (It says its a trial, but youcan get the full version for free by registering) 
 Aol Instant Messenger (AIM)  An online chat/IM client.
 Trillian  A global IM service that supports ICQ,MSN,AIM,YAHOO, and IRC.
 mIRC  An IRC client. 
 Panicware  Stops those annoying pop-up ads. 
 Filezilla  An FTP client.
SmartFTP  A Great free FTP program. 
WinSCP  A free Win32 SFTP client.

Antivirus/Spyware:
 AVG Anti-Virus  FREE antivirus program that automatically updates itself. You can upgrade to a more advanced version.
 Adware  A free program that sniffs out and destroys spyware in your computer.
 Spybot S&D  Like adware. .
 Spyblaster  Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted pests.
 Hijack This  HijackThis is a tool, that lists all installed browser add-on, buttons, startup items and allows you to inspect, and optionallyremove selected items. The program can create a backup of your original settings and also ignore selected items. Additional features include a simple list of all startup items, default start page, online updates and more. Intended for advanced users.
 CWShredder  A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names.
 Bazooker Yet another spyware remover.
 Bad Spyware removers A list of all of the fake spyware removers. 
 

File Compression Programs:
 WINRAR  Handles almost every type of compressed file, including .rar, .gz, .tar, .zip.
 WinZip  Handles certain archived files including .zip, and .cab. 
 Alcohol 120%  A  program that can write filetypes such as .iso to a CD or DVD.
 7 Zip  A free file archive/compression program and has the highest compression ratio.
 Power Archiver  Handles most compressed and encoded files, like 7-zip but better!
 Beyond Compare  Beyond Compare®, the advanced file and folder comparison utility for Windows, helps you visualize changes in your code, keeps your directories in sync, and validates copies of your data.
 

Web Design:
 PuTTY  A SSH/Telnet client.
 Graphics 4 free   Dozens of free images to use in your website.
 Dynamic Drive  Hundreds of free dynamic HTML (DHTML) scripts for you to use in your website.
 HotScripts  Thousands of Javascript, cgi, and PHP scripts to use.
 HTML Goodies  Like Dynamic Drive.
 Edit Plus  EditPlus is an Internet-ready 32-bit text editor, HTML editor and programmers editor for Windows.
 

Server Software:
 Apache  A powerful free HTTP server software
 PHP  Lets you execute files with the extension .php on your webserver.
 Perl  Lets you run perl/cgi scripts on your webserver.
 Mysql  Lets your server save info onto mysql tables instead of making an individual page.
 postgresql  Same concept as mysql.
 Easy PHP  Comes with Apache, PHP, mySQL pre-installed and pre-configured. (Mayrequire  english files)
 Serv-U   An easy to configure program that acts as an FTP server.
 Dyndns.org  A free DNS service.
 cPanel   The best server control panel software. (Not compatable with windows)
 InterWorx  Another option for server control panel software.
 Uniform Server  No installation for becoming a webserver. 
Installing Apache PHP MYSQL  A good tutioral complete with instructions and pictures 
 

Other Utilities:
 FSScreen   This small yet powerful utility will automaticly save a screenshot when you press the "Print Screen" Button. Copy and paste is a thing of the past...
 The Wonderful Icon  An immensely useful program which can be used to assign hotkeys to pretty much anything, including b: Toggle Window on top, Hide window, Increase volume, etc, etc... Assigned hotkeys can eveninclude the Windows button, so you can do what I do, and have Win+W set to start Winamp, etc.
 Format.zip   Photoshop plugin which lets you use icon and cursor files.Note: Unzip file into Photoshop's Plug-Ins\File Formats directory.
 Colorcop   Just like the Photoshop color eyedropper, but for all of Windows. Pretty nifty and saves time.
 EditPad Lite   Basic yet good-featured free text editor. It's just a text editor for  non-programming people.
 

Computer Apperiance:
 StyleXP  Useful for themes in XP.
 ThemeXP.org   Thousands of great themes and visual styles for windows XP.
 XPThemes.cm   Same concept as themexp.org
 Fauxs-x  Modified Windows icons . The *.ip files downloaded can be renamed to *.zip files,and opened in Winzip if you   don't  want to download the IconPackager.
 Cleartype   A very nice way of making text look nicer by manipulating the colours around text, making it smoother.
 Style Suites.com  Themes, Icons, Skins and Styles for Windows XP.
 

General Websites:
versiontracker.com  Provides tons of updates and upgrade to programs you might use.
Bootdisk.com  If you need a bootdisk for a install or what ever you want it for 
http://linuxiso.org/  Looking for a Linux distro? You can find it here.
http://www.dslwebserver.com/  Find all the information you need to setup and maintain your own webserver at home or office on your DSL or Cable connection 
http://www.linuxisotorrent.com/     A list of updated Linux and BSD ISO torrents