Does your PC take a week to boot up? Are you constantly fielding "My computer is slow!" complaints from employees? Before you cave and spend all kinds of money on new machines, try installing Soluto. This ingenious free utility makes PCs boot faster. (The latest version also keeps installed software up to date.) I'm running it myself on my desktop and laptop, and it has improved considerably the boot times on both. It's the kind of thing you or your IT manager would need to deploy one PC at a time, but it's worth the effort -- and should help quell the complaints. Whether you're the IT guy in charge of your company's 10 PCs or you've got a staff managing 1,000 of them, your business needs a comprehensive network-monitoring solution. Spiceworks is arguably one of the best free IT tools of all time, offering network management and monitoring, a user helpdesk, equipment inventory, and lots more. The latest version even comes with and for easy systems management on the go.