Screenshot Captor 2.33.02
Freeware
120 x 95 screengrab Enables you to take a grab of your entire screen, a specific window or simply a section of the screen. It's a superb little tool that competes with the commercial screen-grabbing tools on the market. You can choose to include the cursor within your grab, the amount of compression you want to apply to your image, add special effects to the grab and more.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP, Vista

Spybot Search and Destroy 1.5.1.14
Freeware
120 x 95 screengrab Perhaps the most complete freeware tool is Spybot Search and Destroy. This not only sniffs out and removes any hidden fiends, it can also immunise your system against over 400 different spies. Regularly updated data files help keep you protected.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP or Vista

PC Tools ThreatFire
Freeware
120 x 95 screengrab Security tool from PC Tools that was designed to be different, from conception. It does not rely on definition updates, but constantly checks against system activity and warns when it believes something is happening to your machine that is different from the norm. Essentially, it simply keeps an ongoing check on your system activity, before malicious software can affect your machine.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Sophos Anti-Rootkit 1.3.1
Freeware
120 x 95 screengrab Sophos Anti-Rootkit is a tool that servers one purpose, in that it eliminates hidden applications and processes that were installed on your system by malicious software. The term rootkit is used to define a Trojan (or technology) used to hide the presence of a malicious object (process, file, registry key, network port) from the computer user or administrator.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP

Start++ 0.7.3
Freeware
120 x 95 screengrabEnhancement for the Start Menu in Windows Vista. It also extends the Run box and the command-line with customizable commands. For example, typing "w Windows Vista" will take you to the Windows Vista page on Wikipedia.

Requires: Windows Vista

USBDeview 1.06
Freeware
120 x 95 screengrab Small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. For each USB device, extended information is displayed: Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP, Vista