For SOME people, just adding actual features isn’t enough. You’ve got to lower your UI closer to the ground, put a giant chrome tailpipe on it, get yo’ self some phat chrome spinnaz, add 27 extra gauges on your dash, wait what were we talking about?
Y’z Dock – Free – OSX-style dock, for Windows XP. Widely accepted as the best of the assorted dock utilities out there. Note: there is no official site for Y’z Dock due to legal issues with Apple.
RK Launcher – Free – Another OSX-style bar for Windows. This one takes docklets from both Y’zDock and Objectbar! Still in Beta, but MUCH better than Y’zDock.
Samurize – Free – You need to know your hard drive free space percentage all the time, right?
Random Desktop – Free – Wallpaper Randomizer for all versions of Windows.
Wallpaper Master – Free – Another Freeware Wallpaper changer. Customizable, to change wallpapers whenever you want it to, either automatically or on-demand.
Rainmeter – Free – “Computer Hardware Information Tool”. Like Samurize, but made by the guy behind Rainlendar.
Konfabulator – Free – Everyone’s favourite widget runner. Made irrelevant for Mac by the advent of Dashboard, but still works perfectly fine on Windows. Now owned (and set free) by Yahoo!.
Kapsules – Free – Like Konfabulator, but not.
CustomBar – Shareware ($20) – Like Rainmeter, Samurize, etc, BUT IT’S A BAR. That makes it totally different, right guys?
CrowBar – Free / Open Source – Another bar-type monitor thingie, but this one was made by CTZ, so that makes it 😎
WinBar – Free – Like Rainmeter, Samurize, CustomBar, Crowbar, and 8 billion other applications.
SmartBarXP – Free – What’s that? You want another bar statistic application? You’re in luck!
WKrelleM – Free – Yet another needless chrome stat information bar thing, this time ported from *nix.
DesktopSidebar – Free – Gaudy chrome, Longhorn Style
ToolBox – Free – A launchbar/box but shiny and translucent.