PC Magazine just gave an Editor’s Choice to Comodo Personal Firewall, a free product that was rated better than ZoneAlarm.  Perusing their site reveals a free anti-virus client, free password manager and free S/MIME certificate for Outlook.  Worth trying for that price.
Comodo Group

After a bunch of users have logged onto a system those profiles start to bog things down.  Microsoft released the abovementioned utility to clean up after those errant profiles and speed up the restart/shutdown process.
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

A second great app you didn’t know you needed; I noticed it when I was looking up Vanilla. Filebrowser lets you build albums of your online files, for a quick and easy reference of what you’ve actually got sitting there taking space. Free under the GPL.
Lussumo Filebrowser

No, not the fragrant pod. This is an open source forum that needs only PHP and SQL to run. Nice and easy, slick interface and all those “web 2.0″ looks and features.
Vanilla

A free eBook in PDF format from Cisco: Cisco Router Configuration, 2nd Edition. A nice introduction to routing and Cisco’s IOS operating system.
Cisco Router Configuration eBook

Two great extensions: FEBE backs up your current extensions as XPI files so they can be installed anywhere, as well as bookmarks and cookies.  CLEO packages this backup as one self extracting file.  Very slick.
Chuck Baker’s FEBE and CLEO

A nice twist on the virtualization craze: SVS virtualizes your current OS for installing applications. Install an app in SVS and it runs like any other app on your system, but SVS captured all the installation info. Remove the app and it’s like it was never there. Free for personal use.
Altiris Software Virtualization Solution

This one is a little different: it’s a front end for Sysinternals Contig defragmentation utility. Puts a nice GUI on the utility for defragmenting a file, directory or disk. Makes a great free util that much better. Strangely I can’t get eXcessive Software’s home page to load so it’s a download from Major Geek.
Power Defragmenter GUI

A new util from Google for syncing your various copies of Firefox; bookmarks, cookies, passwords, broswer history.  I was hoping for extension syncing but not this release.
Google Browser Sync for Firefox

A great list of Firefox extensions based on what you want to accomplish.  I wanted a spellcheck for blogging and could have really used this list yesterday…
I want a Firefox Extension to…

Found a great site full of free Windows utilities. Troll around and you’re sure to find a few items that can be put to good use.
Roadkil.Net