If you are truly like me, you're inquisitive about computer applications and applications that weren't originally bundled with the computer and find a never-ending amount of cheap or Free Software offers online. These are also my 10 personal favorites, that indispensable not mentally but verbally. I've divided them into 2 Catagories: Cheap Software and Free Software.

    Free Software and Applications I Love:

    Auslogics Registry Defrag and Auslogics Disc Defrag - Actually these would be two great free software applications - I've cheated and counted them jointly! Auslogics Registry Defrag quickly compacts and optimizes your computers pc registry by removing extraneous gaps and wasted space which could greatly improve computer performance. Auslogics Disc Defrag quickly speeds up your laptop or computer and eliminates crashes by defragmenting the file system.

   Torrent Harvester searches for Torrents on multiple websites and compiles them for a passing fancy list. Torrent Harvester works just like Google but is designed for Torrents only. If you right click a torrent at the list for specific torrent websites, the torrent will download without you the need to you go out the page.
 Belarc Advisor builds a privately detailed profile within your computers software and hardware coupled with missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, and Internet Security benchmarks. The final results are displayed on your own browser. Any of your profile data is kept private on your PC and isn't sent to any web server.
 Mike's Marketing Tools Internet search engine Rankings offers immediate, online web site rankings in 8 top search engines like google and web directories, including Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN, AOL, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, Yahoo! Directory, and Open Directory (Dmoz). An excellent option for anyone with a website.

 VLC Media Player - It makes more sense VLC Media Player to Windows Media Player when it seems to play more multimedia formats (without adding more codecs)and for some reason is to even more nice given on my computer too (maybe this is often my imagination!). VLC is known as a cross-platform media player supporting abundant multimedia formats needing additional codecs. Features include video almost instantly and on your fly transcoding.

    Cheap Software I Love (Under $40):

    (ESET) NOD32  -  Great anti-virus software that allows your computer to run faster then most computers running anti-virus software because it requires less memory and CPU power,  making more room to surf the web, play games, email and more. It offers fast file scanning and product updates and runs quietly in the background while accurately identifying known and unknown threats. It is recognized for having zero false positives. Nod 32 ThreadSense Technology offers great internet protection from threats.

     (Uniblue) Speed Up My PC easily ensures your PC is automatically optimized for maximum performance. It increased my broadband internet downloading speed greatly. Its 2008 software currently is equipped with free Uniblue System Tweaker software which speeds up start and shut down times and also makes windows tougher and secure.

    (TuneUp Utilities) 1-Click Maintenance quickly cleans up your registry and difficult drive with one click. 1-Click Maintenance is part of this program which is the basic application I take advantage of from it.

     (Webroot) Window Washer erases traces of websites you visited, cleans up your cache for browsers like IE, Firefox, Opera and more and removes extraneous files which slow down your computer speed.

    (Rarlab) WinRar Is the perfect software for me to open up ZIP, RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip files. It is fast and great for multimedia files and automatically recognizes and selects the best  the best compression.