If you've been using PCs for years, you know that lists of "favorite utilities" are as common (and questionable) as lists of favorite movies. Still, when the editors of PC Magazine gather their heads, you can be sure it's a pretty good list.
So here is the PC Magazine "14th Annual Utility Superguide" - a great resource of latest, greatest utilities for Windows:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1936083,00.asp
They've organized it into sections, like:
• Incredibly Useful Utilities
• For Home Networkers
• For Microsoft Office
• Make It Pretty
• For Photo Enthusiasts
• For Video Enthusiasts
• For Audio Enthusiasts
and more...
Note that the "print" option there will produce a single 20 page document with all the subsections at once:
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=173172,00.asp
/charlie