Sabine N. I want to suggest a cute little app, which I personally don't need since I already own it, but is worth to get more to the public as it deserves it. I have recently done the German translation for it, so I got the registration from the developer, and I think, its worth lots more attention than it has yet.
Its called "Lavclock" and is a cute desktop clock which replaces the usual Windows clock in taskbar, its highly customizable, has astrological forecasts built in for every day, including also lunar forecasts, trasits etc., And - for my taste - the most powerful feature is the very sophisticated scheduler. Its far more than just an alarm function, in fact it's a full featured cron function, you can set to every date/time combination, includes also some Windows commands, like open program, start screensaver, shutdown, restart etc.
Normally it sells for $14.95. Not expensive anyway (though I find it worth much more) so any deal would be nice.