The Smiley Vault lets you download over 1700 free smiley gifs. These animated smileys are fun to use anywhere you wish.

There are a variety of programs that will let you password protect files, programs and Windows resources. The best program I’ve found for locking programs is called SaveIt!

Keeping your programs up to date can prevent your PC from being hacked. Secunia OSI offers a quick scan of the programs installed on your Windows PC, and tells you which need to be updated.

The PLUS version of WinPatrol will be offered at 99 cents for one day only. This is a deal that will be hard to refuse.

What can you do when a program steals your default image filetypes and you want them restored? A Microsoft MVP has written a freeware utility to solve this problem for you.

If you can’t live without a fancy looking screen-saver, move on, this review isn’t for you. However, if you’d like a screen-saver that actually does something useful, then you’ll be interested in Auslogics Disk Defrag Screen Saver.

The Windows clipboard only keeps the last clipping you copied. Anything you copied previous to the last item is gone forever. This loss can be frustrating, but you can prevent it by using Ditto.

Some people like animated GIFs so much that they collect large numbers of them. If you’ve never created an animated (active) GIF, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is, if you have the right tool.

Can you ever have too many cool and mind bending screensavers? SE-ScreenSavers gives you over 10 free and unique screensavers in a single package.

What will happen if your hard drive suddenly dies? You might lose all of your valuable data and it could take hours to restore Windows and all the programs you had on it. You need to create a full system recovery backup and ToDo Backup is a free and easy way to do that.

This little freeware application takes photo tweaking to the next level. It makes it possible for an average joe to create real art with almost no training and very little time.

Do you have a netbook PC without a CD drive? Do you need a backup recovery disk, system rescue disk or a Linux OS that you can boot from a USB drive? If so, UNetbootin can be a big help.

You can broadcast the internet to your Xbox, wifi enabled phone or other devices and share internet connections with your friends. It’s all very easy now with the updated version of Connectify.

Free web pages that you can easily create? You don’t have to sign up? You can be completely anonymous? No, It’s not a dream. Such a service exists. It’s called Webnotes.

I’ve found a new search utility for Windows. It’s free, nearly portable and small. If all you need is a fast file search in Windows, try out UltraSearch.