A good free threat-free program is SIW

Firefox 3.6.x all the time.

Firefox

VOTE: Facebook

This shortcut also works in Open Office and in Thunderbird

Vote: Rotten Tomatoes

@ChaosCon: Mailwasher Free or Pro will do this on a Windows computer.

Replace the director, the writers and the actors with actual good ones.

@RizzRustbolt: Yeah. Andromeda was a bunch of actors stuck inside a wet paper bag.

VOTE: Blogger

I've been using Open Office for years now and no going back. It has been improved a lot since I started using it.

Or, if you want to stop your computer from restarting while you are in the middle of work and away from your computer, try Shutdownguard - which keeps it from shutting down:

VOTE: Experience

@nutbastard: MOO from

@nutbastard: It's pronounced

VOTE: manual tweaking

VOTE: Cobian Backup

Vote: uTorrent

Vote: CloneDVD2

I have the Control Panel in Windows 7 as a menu off the Start Menu - go into Taskbar Properties, Start Menu, Customize and choose Control Panel Display As Menu.