Essential shareware utilities for XP users?


On my previous (Win98) PC, I had a short list of useful freeware or
shareware utilities to keep the system healthy: Spyware Blaster,
System Mechanic, Regclean, Ad-Aware, and AVG antivirus (no longer with
fee updates, it sems) and Kerio firewall which I now use on my XP
machine.

Can anyone suggest a list of similarly essential utilities for an XP
user to acquire?

I've only been using XP for a few days, and it's already doing strange
things: mouse clicking taking more than a minute to have any effect
sometimes and XP's initial "loading user settings" taking forever,
sometimes etc. Tried reloading the OS but it didn't cure the probs.

Also looking for a cheap but secure directory-locking program and/or
file encryption program.

Is there a problem-fee way of moving programs from one directory to
another (without uninstalling, then re-installing them)?

Thank you.

Al D
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