Here is a list of 15 Software Programs (Actually 16- I forgot one that I just added now) that I recommend you have to make better use of your computer, these programs are all relatively cheap (under $40) or free! This is an expansion,upgrade and revision of an earlier post I did called 10 Great Free Computer Software Programs I’ve divided this into 2 sections, Cheap and Free and listed the programs in alphabetical order:

Free Software:

Auslogics Disc Defrag quickly speeds up your computer and eliminates crashes by defragmenting the file system.

Auslogics Registry Defrag quickly compacts and optimizes your computers windows registry by removing extraneous gaps and wasted space which can greatly improve computer performance.

Belarc Advisor builds a privately detailed profile of your computers software and hardware along with missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, and Internet Security benchmarks. The results are displayed on your web browser. All of your profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Google Web Accelerator This free Google download enables you to load web pages faster. Note, if you use Firefox, at this current time it will not work with Firefox 3.0 but will work with Firefox 2 Series.

Mike