OpenOffice.org 1.1 is an open, feature-rich multi-platform office productivity suite. The user interface and the functionality is very similar to other products in the market like Microsoft Office or Lotus SmartSuite, but compared to these commercial products OpenOffice.org is absolutely free.

Desktop Calendar is a highly customisable calendar program that turns your windows desktop into a traditional wall calendar, by rotating the background image on a monthly basis [optional].
You can enter important dates like dentist appointments, birthdays or deadlines. Then when you turn your computer on, or that day rolls over you will be alerted of any events.

FreeRAM is a program that frees up ram manually or automatically. It shows current memory status , memory load and CPU usage graphically.
Best of all, it is completely free!

Desktop Calendar XP is a lightweight and simple to use calendar, which provides an easy on eye interface for the common calendaring needs of a Windows user. It also comes with a good collection of pictures to beatify the calendar on your desktop. Moreover it comes with a beautiful Real-time Desktop Clock, Wallpaper Manager and a built-in Alarm

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Optimize Windows XP to improve both work and gaming performance safely. Windows XP's default configuration is far from optimized. This guide will help you improve your overall system performance. I avoid using or recommending "all-in-one" Windows XP Tweak programs since many blindly adjust settings that have no affect on performance and can cause future problems. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html