GOM

GOM sounds like some sort of toy you wouldn’t think is was one of the most versatile media player I know of. GOM comes with a lot of audio and video codecs already installed and if it doesn’t  have the codec it will help you find them. GOM can even play flv files. And it does this all with very little resources and best of all it’s free. You can get it at   gomplayer.com . By the way it can play files vlc can’t.

Fast Disk Defragmentation

Microsoft’s disk defragmenter in windows has always been slow and is harder to use in vista. But you have to  defragment your drive any where from two weeks to once a month depending on your use. So if you are like me and don’t want to wait an hour or more for your drive to defragment use Auslogics Disk Defrag. It’s fast and best of all free. It has also been reviewed by cnet.com. You can get it at  www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/.