A whole host of windows out-of the box, stand-alone applications can be found here.
These include useful apps such as as Desktops which allows you to use multiple desktops at the press of a key. Most of the applications work on all versions of windows from 2000 to Vista.

Aaaaw, the old mobo

Having run Vista 64 Ultimate for 4 months without a problem I recently restarted the machine after installing and running Diskeeper 2008. Upon restart I was, as usual, prompted to enter my password only to receive the following message:
The user profile service service failed the login. User profile cannot be loaded.
Disaster!
I restarted the system several [...]