What is Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption.
Free Download Manager is released under GNU Public License!
Download files using BitTorrent protocol (available in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista).
Upload your files or folders easily to share them with other users.
Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.
Site Explorer lets you view the folders structure of a web site and easily download necessary files or folders.
Free Download Manager lets you download only the necessary part of a zip file. etc.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads.

Additionally to complete RAR and ZIP file support, WinRAR is able to unpack the following popular archive formats:

CAB
ARJ
LZH
TAR
GZ and TAR.GZ
BZ2 and TAR.BZ2
ACE
UUE
JAR (Java Archive)
ISO (ISO9660 - CD image)
7Z
Z (Unix compress)

Save any video movies like YouTube .flv from web.
Save Flash allows to store likable flash-animations: flash games, flash cards, flash banners and cartoons. Save Flash shows: the size of the flash-file, the URL, the name of the file.
Saves it to the chosen directory, allows to browse enlarged picture in a preview window. Having tried it you won't dispense with its services.
Many catalogues paid the 5-star reward to the program.
When first installed, Save Flash will be in unregistered mode.
The software will remain usable for a total of 15 days, before it expires and the software is disabled.

Adobe® Reader® software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom right in.
Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, or look up to explore the sky
Save and share your searches and favorites.

Since Google Earth was launched, users have been exploring our world and creating content overlays (KML files) to share their explorations with others. We're now highlighting user-created KML files each week in the new Google Earth Gallery. You can also choose to add the gallery's Google Gadget to your iGoogle page.

Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you:

Locate and organise all the photos on your computer.
Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks.
Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free.
Take your photos further with Picasa from Google. Learn more

Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to complex, conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily. If you use Google Earth, Google SketchUp allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse.

Simple: Learn the small toolset quickly
Fast: Model as fast as you think
Powerful: Design anything from a shoebox to a skyscraper
Flexible: Make your models loose/conceptual or tight/accurate
Fun: Place your models in Google Earth

This will check for the basic VM and install an older version onto XP, and then you need to go to Microsoft and install the Java 4.0 SDK which will give you the newer base java components. You can get those from this link: Microsoft SDK for Java 4.0 for Windows 95/98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows XP or later:

Once you have this installed and have re-booted your machine, then you need to go to the MS update site and install all the updates you do not currently have. The link to MS' site is:

Download entire Web sites off of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive...
If you are viewing a Web site with your browser and you decide that you would like to make a copy of it on your hard drive, you have to manually save each page as you view it along with embedded pictures, sounds and so on. This can be a very long and tedious process, and in many cases it's more trouble than it's worth. It doesn't have to be that way, however, as Web Dumper makes this whole process very fast and easy.

With Web Dumper you can download entire Websites off of the Internet, and save them on your hard drive for later offline browsing. Downloaded Web sites are saved on your hard drive with their directory structure intact. Web Dumper automatically downloads HTML documents along with their embedded pictures, sounds, movies and so on while it screens them to look for any enclosed links to other documents.

Web Dumper lets you select which kinds of file you want to be dumped between more than 60 available standard types, the folder depth level, how links must be processed and if it must re-link your HTML documents for offline browsing.

In our office, we have a DHCP Server with one NIC card and have Internet connection to only one other PC. How can we give Net access to all in the office?

This is a great free program for Windows (it`s small too !) that will enable you to have a networked machine share an internet connection if you don`t have the facility to use the built in ICS software (Windows 98SE or higher). Setting it up is relatively easy - mainly give your "primary" machine a fixed IP address on your network (ie. 192.68.0.1) and tell the networked "secondary" machine that address to use via a LAN connection. Mail setup ...