System Utilities: stop viruses, malware, spyware and protection from being hacked
- NOD32 Anti Virus + Anti Spyware - to keep your computer free from nasty viruses
- Zone Alarm Personal Firewall - to keep intruders out
- Spybot Search & Destroy - stop & get rid of spyware and malware
Virtual PC Software: you can install operating systems within an operating system such as Ubuntu Linux within Windows XP
- Sun VirtualBox - runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
Overclocking Software: you can overclock your computer from within Windows
- SetFSB - make sure you chose the right version for your motherboard!
- Clockgen - lets you change FSB in Windows
- CPU-Z - lets you monitor CPU, RAM speed and voltages (vcore+vdimm) and memory timings, also shows motherboard model
Web Server Utilities: for hosting web sites
- WAMP - Incorporates Apache, PHP & SQL - I use this to host the site.