AbiWord - Lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. (XP/Vista)
Bullzip PDF Printer – Full featured free PDF creator with a similar feature set to ‘PDF Creator’. Key features include; password protect PDF files, either 40 or 128 bit encryption, add a watermark, append or prepend files, select different levels of output quality, add/change metadata. [Requires ‘Ghostscript’ file download from above link] (XP/Vista 32/64bit)
DoPDF – Excellent lightweight alternative for creating searchable PDF documents. Not as feature rich as PDF Creator or Bullzip but, unlike other available basic creators, does include customisable output resolution (72 to 2400 dpi). (XP/Vista 32/64bit)
Foxit PDF Reader – Excellent lightweight alternative to Adobe reader. It's small, loads very quickly, supports bookmarks, has search capability, offers many views and even allows you to annotate PDF files. On top of that it can print PDFs as well. (XP/Vista)
Jarte - Tabbed word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word-processing engine built into Windows. Like WordPad, Jarte is fast, easy to use, reliable, requires little screen space, and creates documents perfectly compatible with Word. Top notch! (XP/Vista)
Money Manager Ex – Is a free, open source, easy to use personal finance manager. Available in installable or portable versions, Money Manager includes all the basic features most users would want in a personal finance application yet manages to retain simplicity and user-friendliness. Main features include; Clean AES Encryption support. Maintain checking, credit card, savings, stock investment accounts. Budgeting. Maintain and track fixed assets with depreciation. Reminders for recurring bills and deposits. Simple one click reporting, cash flow forecasting, graphs and piechart, import data from any CSV format. Printing/exporting to HTML. To view a full list of features. (XP/Vista)
PDF Creator - A free easy to use PDF file creator for Windows. Also allows PDF’s to be password secured. (XP/Vista)
OpenOffice – Open source full featured office suit for making; text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases. Lets you open and save documents in a diverse array of formats; MS Office formats, PDF, HTML, and XML. It can also import files from those formats. (XP/Vista 32/64bit)