"Free Software"
( Is it any good?)

Actually, yes. And no. Much of it is born out of simple needs that clever programmers spent the time to fill. (And some of it is horrid, buggy, and hard-to-use; but that's the minority). I like free software, and here are some links to sites that provide it. Enjoy! (Oh, and run a virus-scan on any and everything you download, whether free or not)

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm	A collection of 46 freeware utilities from a variety of categories.
http://www.theopencd.org/	Provides a CD image for you to burn holding numerous open source programs
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html	Another site (like theopencd) providing CD images for download and use
http://lists.gpick.com/	This one has some shareware and commercial software mixed in, with a large list of categories
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm	This site claims to have "the best of the best in Freeware"
http://www.tinyapps.org/	"Welcome to TinyApps.Org, a guide to very small software for your PC. Virtually all of the programs listed here are free of charge and for use under Windows (Palm and OS X pages also exist)."
http://www.portablefreeware.com/	From the site: "This site is dedicated to the collection and cataloguing of freeware that can be extracted to any directory and run independently without prior installation. These can be carried around on a memory stick / USB flash drive, or copied / migrated from PC to PC via simple copying of files. Hence the term portable freeware."
http://www.freeware.org.uk/	From the site: "FREEWARE 4U This site only contains Freeware for Windows XP, 2k, 9x and DOS There is no Shareware, Commercial Demo's, Warez, Crackz, Filez, Appz, Romz, Emulatorz or anything else that ends in "z" :-)"
http://patelman.blogspot.com/2005/02/freeware.html	A list of some good programs to have
http://www.nirsoft.net/	This site offers a variety of freeware utilities such as password recovery, system utilities, and desktop utlities
http://sourceforge.net/ http://freshmeat.net/	These two sites have different projects that people are distributing for free.
http://www.nonags.com/	Another nery good site that offers a big selection of freeware
http://www.alwaysfreeware.co.uk/	Has a list of several categories with a wealth of programs