Stake Hunt Screengamer
A screengamer is a screensaver and game combined in one. Take control of the vampire bat and use your stake to stab the ghoulish creatures on your desktop in a splat of blood. Collect all of the blood drops to grow larger and advance to the next level. ... All of the action takes place right on your desktop! ... Hitting the space bar drops the stake, or manually drive the stake into the ghouls yourself. ... This is the perfect game to get you in the mood for Halloween! ... Ghouls and ghosts oh my!
http://www.dummysoftware2.com/stakehunt.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Windows Mess Cleaner
A decent little tool that has the potential to clean quite a bit from your system, and can even automatically compress little-used files to make them occupy less disk space. It offers you an expanded selection of cleanup and optimization choices. CLEANUP FEATURES: Temporary Setup Files... Reduce Microsoft Windows' boot-up time. ... Optimize MFT for all NTFS partitions.
http://www.authorsoft.com/WindowsMessCleaner.exe - 540Kb - Download - Screenshot

Aston
Aston Shell is a flexible and powerful Desktop replacement application, which lets you save your computer's resources while giving your Desktop a unique look. Aston completely replaces your old Desktop with a new one, providing numerous additional features and saving computer resources for more... -Keep your Desktop clean: use the Panel plug-in to organize your files without turning the Desktop into a dumping ground. ... Aston, running with its most feature packed eye candy Themes, usually consumes about half the RAM that Windows XP Desktop normally needs and gives you much more in return.
http://www.astonshell.com/dp/distr...ite-001b1da2d96/lng-eng/aston.exe - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

ThumbBrowser
Browse the internet with a thumbnail sized view, saving precious desktop space! Thumbbrowser allows you to run a small thumbnail (300% reduction in size! ) of your website in the corner of your screen so you don't need to switch away from your preferred development environment. ... You can switch to full mode for normal interaction, or interact directly with links on the thumbnail.
http://www.bigattichouse.com/thumbbrowser/thumbbrowser_beta_1.0.zip - 474Kb - Download - Screenshot

XDeskCal
XDeskCal is a pretty,fully customizable calendar and PIM features Todo-list,Appointments,Alarms,Holidays and displays its data on your desktop. It is a very lightweight application that doesn't use much system resources or take much space on your desktop. ... Bringing great convenience to your work and life, XDeskCal is indeed an indispensable assistant to you,redefined the desktop calendar and PIM software. ... Create a calendar for home, a different one for school, a third for work and so on.
http://www.qwerks.com/download/8222/XDeskCal_setup.exe - 3Kb - Download - Screenshot

Atomic 3D Screensaver
This great free screen saver will soothe your eyes and mind during long workhours. Colourful atoms floating in space around your desktop, getting fused and nuked all the time. You can also download arcade game and take part in all this fun yourself - it's better than Star Wars. ... Runs on every 32-bit Windows. ... Small download, easy installation and lots of fun for free.
http://absolutist.com/ssaver/atom3d/atom3dss.exe - 632Kb - Download - Screenshot

Atomic 3D Shooter
Great arcade game in 3D space - fuse and nuke all the flying atoms that are trying to fill your desktop window. Two game modes, a meditative and a time-pressed one, are included, as well as different skill levels. nline contest for best players. Easy installation. ... At the beginning of the game the space is filled with atoms of six colors that are not connected one to another. ... The goal of this game is to blow up all the atoms that are flying around in the space. ... Since that moment they behave like a single piece.
http://absolutist.com/atomic3d/ashoot3d.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

EarthSunX
EarthSunX is a small program that will display valuable information related to time and date all over the earth (a day/night world map) in a very pleasant / relaxing way and without taking any valuable desktop space or a lot of resources - yet being always less than one mouse move (or hotkey)... Many options are available so that users can customize it in their desired form. ... Also it will show the precise time and day in a number of user-selected cities.
http://www.xdesksoftware.com/setup_earthsunx_110_083.exe - 923Kb - Download - Screenshot

Cactusus
Cactusus is a program developed as a replacement for "sticky notes" on your desktop. Just a text taking quite a little space and always staying on top. For each note your can define: - priority. Most important notes are placed at the top of list - "see also" remark. ... "See also" remark may contain anything that Windows can understand and launch: doc file, web link etc. ... Comments are displayed in a tooltip of the note.
http://informer.russia.webmatrixhosting.net/cactusus.zip - 26Kb - Download - Screenshot

ToDo Reminder
Make a list of all the tasks you have To Do and remember.. Create a list of all your important events, anniversaries, things to do, etc. You can use it as an agenda, and then mark anything as 'done' - when it is... Define priorities and dates to do things, archive old reminders, print list, sort... Takes very little space on your desktop, and minimizes to the tray. ... Can also startup automatically when windows starts, to help you remember.
http://www.webxpace.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?todo_remind.zip - 158Kb - Download - Screenshot