The Free (and 99.9% foolproof) way of ridding your computer of spyware, adware, malware in general, and viruses

http://home.triad.rr.com/weinerville/killspyware.htm

And a collections of freewares: http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/index.html

Collection of admin tools: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/lpt/a/6625

50 best freeware - http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3665446

vista improvement - http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130328/article.html?tk=nl_hdxcol

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/48-best-free-apps-from-microsoft-665142

A long long list of admin tools - http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/07/18/best-windows-admin-downloads.html

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-free-softwares-for-windows-vista/

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-cpu-performance-monitoring-software/

http://www.blogsdna.com/6265/identify-unknown-device-of-device-manager-with-unknown-devices.htm

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-more-sysinternals-utilities-to-keep-handy/2379

all in one setup package - https://ninite.com/