GetRight
Lets you schedule, resume, and manage your downloads.  Some Sim sites advise you not to use one of these--I haven't had any difficulties.  Version linked to for Win95/98/NT/2000

Go Translator
For those of you who are not multi-lingual (author included!)--now you can translate entire web pages from Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian or Portuguese into English.  And vice-versa!  Sometimes you have to really guess at the meaning of select words and sentence structure, but it beats not knowing anything!

Imagine
'the ultimate background archive and search engine'...a great free source for images.  Use what you save in the Maxis Homecrafter program to create walls and floors.  This is the limit of my design ability. :(

Multi-ZIP-licity
Extracts multiple ZIP files to a singular location/folder.  Has turned unzipping all my downloads from the Night of the Living Dead to the Sound of Music.   Version linked to is 1.5, shareware, Win95/98/NT

WinZip
If you download any sort of goodies for your sims, this is a MUST.  Version linked to is 8.0, shareware, Win95/98/NT.