Backup to:
- Local and network drives
- Standard ZIP compression
- Full backup mode
- Flexible restore options
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
Podmailing - Ver: 0.11.1 Beta
Podmailing is the ultimate super size e-mail attachment software; this freeware application enables you to easily send files of any size with your existing email account.
You can use Podmailing to :-
- send your full quality home videos to your family,
- receive the entire high-quality photo collection of your best friend's wedding,
- share powerpoints, PDF's and other heavy pro documents,
- and share torrents, folders and full CD and DVD images easily
Here are some key features of "Podmailing" :-
- Unlimited file size
- BitTorrent compatible
- Delivery in browser or software
- NEW: web sharing on VIPeers with links & widgets for blogs, forums, social networks, twitter...
NOTE: Beta or prerelease software is not intended for inexperienced users, as the software may contain bugs or may potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing or using this software.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista
Speak-A-Message - Ver: 2.4.2
Speak-A-Message Free Home Edition enables you to send voice emails, using your default email client.
The program provides a simple recording interface and automatically attaches the WMA compressed recording to an outgoing message. If you are using Outlook, Speak-A-Message will integrate directly with your email toolbar.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Sylpheed - Ver: 2.6.0
Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but providing plenty of features and easy-to-use e-mail client (mailer, MUA).
Sylpheed is a tool that allows you to receive and send emails.
Here are some key features of "Sylpheed" :-
- Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
- Comfortable operability which is built in detail
- Immediately available with minimal configuration
- Lightweight operation
- High reliability
- International and Multilingual support
- High-level Japanese processing
- Various protocols support
- Security features (GnuPG, POP3/IMAP4/NNTP over SSL/TLSv1)
- Powerful filtering
- Junk mail control
- Flexible cooperation with external commands
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Entertainment
Coollector - Ver: 2.23
Coollector was designed to be at the same time powerful and easy to use. Even the non-geeky users will immediately harness the power of the program.
Coollector is both an encyclopedia of movies and a database of existing videos. You track not only the videos you own, but also all the movies you've seen, good or bad. Contrary to other movie collection managers, you don't start with some dull empty database.
The whole encyclopedia is included with the program. You can rate the movies and persons. You easily maintain a wish list. You keep track of the videos you own, as well as those you've loaned. There's price information, and tools to help you find the best bargains.
You can search the database in all possible ways. The encyclopedia gets personalised with your personal collection and your ratings. In the end, it reflects your whole cinematographic culture and taste.
Minimum requirements: Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ Vista
A video by a Member - George Skarbek
This short video is a documentary of a 300 km glider flight that illustrates some aspects about flying cross-country in a glider and the way that computers and Internet are now involved in gliding.
The video is largely made of still photos that have been made into a slideshow using the very good, and free, Microsoft product, Photo Story. The 15 second movie segment was also taken with the still camera and inserted using Adobe’s Premiere which was also used to mix the soundtrack.
Minimum requirements: Windows all/ DivX Player
Games
Adventure Match
Match the twirling gift boxes! This charming game will delight you for hours!
Choose from four different puzzle games! As you match the gifts you may earn magic wands or diamond bonuses. Advance to the next level and watch the gift boxes twirl! Dazzling graphics and joyful theme music.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Driving Speed - Ver: 2.0
Driving Speed 2 is a free high quality racing game simulation for your PC.
Choose from four high powered V8 muscle cars and race against up to 11 computer controlled opponents on two touring car circuits. This game has photo-realistic graphics, realistic car physics and performance, high quality sound and AI.
Play against your friends over a LAN or internet with 8 player Multi player. Send your fastest lap records to the online world rankings where you can see your times against players from all around the world.
NOTE: The installer will try to install the Crawler toolbar. If you don't want this, please remove the tick from the relevant box.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ Direct X 9 >
Home/Office
Easy Cash Manager - Ver: 3.1.3
Easy Cash Manager is a very simple tool for people who merely need to keep track of incomings and outgoings. It has enough options to do this successfully, without the bells and whistles that can make other applications top-heavy.
The main thrust of this program is entering revenue and expenditure on a day-to-day basis into what the program calls the cashbook.
The Easy Cash Manager interface is refreshingly dissimilar to Quicken or Microsoft Money. However, you may find that it's default colour schemes is somewhat off-putting. Fortunately, you can change it to the Windows default, which looks a lot better.
Minimum requirements: Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ Vista
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter
How to edit PDF files without purchasing an expensive PDF editor? How to extract text/images from PDF files? What you need is a PDF to Word Converter.
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Microsoft Word Doc file.
The program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Word Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any pages range of the PDF file.
And it is a standalone program - you can convert PDF to Word Doc without Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word installed!
Key Features:
- Convert PDF to Word and preserve the original layout of your PDF in an editable Word Document.
- Extract text labels, graphics, shapes from PDF file into Word Doc file.
- Convert all the pages, or partial pages of PDF file to Word file.
- Support Adobe PDF 1.0 - 1.6 formats.
- Can automatically open the output Doc file when the conversion is done.
- Several PDF to Word conversion options are available for a better result.
- Convert in a high speed.
- Easy to use software.
NOTE: Free PDF to Word Doc Converter cannot convert PDF file with password protection. You may need our PDF Password Recovery software to remove the password of PDF file before converting it to Word file.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
HomeBank - Ver: 4.0.1
HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
HomeBank benefits from more than 13 years of user experience and feedback. Its development started in 1995 on Amiga computers. It is available for 52 languages on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOSX, Nokia N*** and Amiga.
If you are looking for an easy way to manage your accounts then HomeBank should be the software of choice. Take some time to try it out, you won't regret it.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
ToDo Reminder - Ver: 1.1.3.0
ToDo Reminder helps you to make a list of all the tasks you have To Do and remember.
ToDo Reminder can create a list of all your important events, anniversaries, things to do, etc. You can use it as an agenda, and then mark anything as 'done' - when it is...
Define priorities and dates to do things, archive old reminders, print list, sort by date or task, and it uses whatever Date format the user's computer is configured for.
Takes very little space on your desktop, and minimizes to the tray. Can also startup automatically when windows starts, to help you remember.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Internet
Amaya - Ver: 11.0
Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.
Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a
fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as possible. It is used to demonstrate these technologies in action while taking advantage of their combination in a single, consistent environment.
Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.
Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
ArmorSurf Basic - Ver: 1.0.0.11
Private web browser and downloader keeps your browsing activities and files private and lets you download and keep any file types, including streaming Flash files.
- Surf the web in complete privacy. IP masking, password protection, panic keys, forced confession feature.
- Encrypted file manager.
- Free downloader lets you download and keep any type of content, including streaming Flash files.
- Burn video DVD's and watch them on TV or export your movies to your iPod or other mobile device.
- Organize your files into collections and playlists. Drag-n-drop arrangement of everything. Mass file renaming.
- Use video bookmarks to tag your favourite scenes in a movie.
- Mass Downloader / Web Crawler feature lets you download all the images and videos from a web site with one click.
- Panic button instantly closes program. Forced confession feature lets you enter an alternate password, which launches your default browser instead of ArmorSurf.
- Popup protection against viruses and malware.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista
BitComet - Ver: 1.07
BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files.
BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.
NOTE: The installer will try to change your home page to google.@comet.com. If you do not want this to happen, please remove the tick from the relevant box.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
Flock - Ver: 2.0.3
A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed 'Flock', which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing.
Flock is completely independent from Mozilla but Flock is based on the open source Mozilla code base.
Licence: Free
Minimum requirements: Windows all
GetGo Download Manager - Ver: 4.0.1.95
Get what you want fast and easy with GetGo Download Manager, the free online video, music and file download manager, accelerator.
This free downloader is an essential tool for increasing download speed, resuming, scheduling, and organising downloads. Easy to use, customisable modern interface allows you to download all of your favourite videos, program, games, and music up to 500% faster than regular Web browsers.
With auto-resuming feature, you never have to waste your frustrations on unfinished downloads due to network problems. Seamless integration with IE,
Firefox/Mozilla Web browsers allows easy one-click YouTube video downloading as well as other file types. Powerful batch and leech download features give you ability to download large amount of pictures, videos or other files from Web sites fast and easy.
GetGo fully supports Windows Vista User Access Control (UAC) and IE 7 Protected Mode. GetGo has no banners, no spyware, no pop-up ads, and completely free.
NOTE: The program's installer will try to install the ASK toolbar, change your default search engine and change your home page. If you do not want this to happen, please remove the ticks from the relevant boxes.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista
KidZui The Internet for Kids - Ver: 3.1
KidZui for Windows and Mac seems like a kiddiefied browser with social networking rolled in. Children can find their favourite YouTube videos, rate content using tags, and share opinions with other KidZui friends, all from a colourful interface with big buttons and labels.
KidZui is anything but a standard children's' browser, though, and what makes it so unique is precisely why it's such a safe tool for children.
KidZui is a closed system, not filter-driven, so all content that's available has been approved by editors into a whitelist database. Children can explore the Internet by using the search/URI bar, or search by a left-navigation sidebar that's organized by topics including science, movies and TV, games, sports, and animals. Just below the search bar are three tabs, for Web browsing, Photos, and Video.
Parental registration is required before your child can create "Zui," in the program's parlance. Children can customise their avatars to a limited degree in the free version, with more options available via a paid upgrade. Free KidZui is fully functional, but upgrading definitely offers more. Among the additions: children get more content rating tags, more avatar clothing, and more backgrounds, while parents get the capability to block individual sites, can view an unlimited history of the child's browsing, and can force-add sites to their children's favourites list.
KidZui offers children one of the safest Web browsing methods around. Parents get the peace of mind that their children are both learning and having fun without relinquishing their role as the final arbiter of the Internet experience. If you're hesitant, KidZui offers a Firefox extension that replicates the KidZui experience in Mozilla's browser.
Minimum requirements: Windows XP/ Vista
NetBalancer - Ver: 0.7.1 Beta
Browse and do any internet activity comfortably even when your download manager or torrent client downloads huge files from internet - just lower their network priority with NetBalancer.
NetBalancer is an application which helps you monitor your internet traffic.
You can use NetBalancer to set download/upload transfer rate priority for any applications and monitor their internet traffic.
Applications with a higher network priority will gain more traffic bandwidth than those with a lower one.
The main difference between NetBalancer and other traffic shaping software is that NetBalancer works with priorities, so applications with low priority won't be limited if other high priority applications don't use network.
NOTE: Beta or prerelease software is not intended for inexperienced users, as the software may contain bugs or may potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing or using this software.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
NetMeter - Ver: 1.1.3
NetMeter is a small, yet versatile, customisable and free network bandwidth monitoring program.
Real time bandwidth monitoring was never easier.
Windows 2000 or newer is required for "transparency" and "balloon hint" features.
Licence: Free
Minimum requirements: Windows all
OperaTor - Ver: 3.2
OperaTor is a software bundle which is easy to install on a portable memory (pendrive, usb stick, hard drive) to allow anonymous surfing while at an internet cafe, library etc.
OperaTor combines the power of the Opera Browser, The Onion Router (TOR) and Privoxy.
With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged your portable memory into.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Web Forum Reader Lite - Ver: 2.0
Web Forum Reader enables you to read and keep track of your favourite Internet forums without having to use your browser.
You can monitor multiple forums from a single interface, quickly browse the new topics with the built-in browser preview, and see the number of new posts across all of your forums at a glance.
The program provides a simple step-by-step wizard that guides you through the process of adding new forums. It automatically adapts to the HTML layout of the forum pages by simple point and click actions - no scripting is needed on your end.
The results are accurate and worked well with the 3 different forums we used for testing.
Minimum requirements: Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Multi Media
Haihaisoft Universal Player - Ver: 1.2.2.
Haihaisoft Universal Player is a powerful media player which supports almost all popular digital media formats and can also play digital media files protected by DRM-X platform.
Haihaisoft Universal Player is equivalent to: Windows Media Player, Real Player, Adobe Flash Player, Apple QuickTime Player, PowerDVD, Flash Video (FLV) Player, Internet Explorer.
With Haihaisoft Universal Player embedded Internet Explorer, you can easily play media content and surf on the internet together.
Haihaisoft Universal Player can play WMV (Windows Media Video), WMA(Windows Media Audio), ASF, WMS, DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, RMVB, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, FLV, SWF, MP3, AMR, M4A, ACC, OGG, MIDI, GIF and JPEG file format. As you can see, this application will be able to play all the files you may need using its inbuilt codecs.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Quick Media Converter - Ver: 3.6.0
Quick Media Converter converts virtually any media file (audio or video) from one format to another.
The application has an emphasis on simplicity: Just drag and drop a file you want to convert onto the app, click the icon of the device you're converting for, and let Quick Media Converter take care of the rest.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
VLC Media Player - Ver: 0.9.8a
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVD's, VCD's and various streaming protocols.
It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
The latest version includes, among other things, MacIntel support, improvements in the Audio CD playback (CDDB), and a a new AJAX HTTP interface.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
Printing
Solid PDF Creator - Ver: 2.0.115
Creating a PDF as easy as printing with Solid PDF Creator.
This simple-to-use utility is a quick solution for creating PDF documents from any Windows program.
During the creation process Solid PDF Creator lets you optimise the PDF output for its intended use. You can make documents small for Web display or high-resolution for printing.
You can also add password protection to restrict viewing and editing of documents.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Security
Advanced System Protector Personal Edition - Ver: 2.0
Advanced System Protector is a solution to detect and remove the malicious programs intruding on your computer. It offers protection against deceptive applications that affect start-up programs, cookies, Registry entries, and files and folders to hide themselves in your system. Check for infections in all vulnerable areas and safeguard your hard work and personal data.
With the vast database of spyware detections you can efficiently control low-risk annoying pop-up adverts to high-risk infections that can steal confidential data to severe-risk malware that can even format your system in stealth mode. Advanced System Protector scans for Spyware, Adware, Malware, Riskware, Key Loggers, Trojans, Sniffers, BHOs, Exploits, Worms, Monitoring Programs and the type. It tracks all the infections present on your system, shows severity of every infection found, removes all the malicious entries and protects your data from prying eyes. It further provides complete protection by blocking the programs you suspect. In addition to all these features, you can schedule the program to scan your system automatically.
The Personal Edition of Advanced System Protector does not provide real-time protection. That feature is only available in the Pro Edition.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Password Dragon - Ver: 5.0.8
Password Dragon is a password manager that works in Windows.
Passwords are stored in a highly-encrypted file, that can be unlocked with the master password. Password Dragon also provides flexible Password Generator. Files are encrypted with Blowfish algorithm. You need only to remember the master password.
Minimum requirements: Windows NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
SuperStorm - Ver: 1.52
SuperStorm allows you to hide your confidential files and folders in a wide variety of media files such as pictures, audio, video, and executable programs among many other file types.
Your secret file will be physically wiped out and merged inside the media file. After the operation, your final picture, audio, video, or executable program will continue to display, sound, play, and function exactly like before.
To enforce security, you can define a password up to 10000 characters or use any file as your encryption key. You can also set a password to restrict access to SuperStorm and if any security settings are tampered or damaged, the program will repair them automatically. SuperStorm can be used to destroy any sensitive file on your computer. Physically overwritten, files cannot be recovered by any software or hardware.
Minimum requirements: Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Utilities
Advanced System Care - Ver: 3.1.1.602
With more than 10,000 improvements, Advanced SystemCare Free Version 3 scans more, repairs more, cleans more, and optimises more for your computer than ever before.
Advanced SystemCare Free (formerly Advanced WindowsCare Personal) has a one-click approach to helping protect, repair, clean, and optimise your PC. With over 20,000,000 downloads since 2006, this fantastic, award-winning, free program is a "must-have" tool for your computer, 100% safe and clean with no adware, spyware, or viruses.
- Enjoy That New PC Feeling Again: Designed for the latest Windows system environment. Gives your PC better speed and reliability.
- Powerful Hard Drive Defragmentation: High-speed Disk Defrag function to defragment hard drives up to 10 times faster than other defragmentation tools.
- Next-generation Registry Clean and Optimisation: Safely cleans registry junk, compacts registry bloats and defragment the whole registry for maximum performance.
- Defends PC Security with Extra Protection: Detect and analyse Windows security environment. Scans and removes spyware and adware using up-to-date definition files. Prevents spyware, hackers and hijackers from installing malicious items on your computer. Erases and updates your PC’s activity history.
- Quick and Extensive Clean-up for Hard Drives: Boosts your system’s performance by cleaning missing files, destroying unwanted files, deleting obsolete files, and removing junk files. Supports clean-up of over 50 different types of junk files.
- Speeds Up PC Performance and Internet Access: Tunes up Windows by unleashing the built-in power of your system. Dramatically improves both system and Internet performance up to 400%.
- Fixes Multiple System Errors: Does more than a registry cleaner, keeping your PC stable and running at peak efficiency. Repairs PC configurations by eliminating system bottlenecks and preventing crashes.
- Extremely Easy to Use: Completes its work with just one click. Scans, repairs and gives personal care to your PC in one minute.
- Safe and Free: 100% free with no spyware or adware! Advanced SystemCare Free is a safe and trusted solution from a leading software vendor.
NOTE: The program will try to install the Yahoo toolbar and make Yahoo your default search engine. If you do not want this, please remove the tick from the relevant boxes.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Belarc Advisor - Ver: 7.2x
If you're looking for an exquisitely detailed audit of your hardware, this is the download you need - no other hardware utility comes close.
It starts with the basics, such as the computer manufacturer, installed RAM, hard-disk size, and processor type and speed.
But it also shows you the motherboard maker, hard-disk manufacturer, chassis serial number, PC service tag, bus type and speed, multimedia devices...the list goes on and on.
You'll also find details about your Windows installation, including which security hot fixes you've installed and which you're missing, plus a list of all user accounts on your PC and a lot more.
Minimum requirements: Windows 9x/ NT/ Me/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
Codename BlackBox - Ver: 1.0.2
BlackBox is a utility designed to deliver precise details on the core components of your computer to the maximum.
The program also provides you with you with in-depth information about hardware such as the processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card, it also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds and temperatures.
BlackBox also presents Vista – compatible tools to test your computer's performance under Microsoft Windows Vista.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ .NET Frameworkbr>
Cyber-D's Auto Delete - Ver: 2.02
This program can auto-magically delete files in a specific folder that are older than the specified time.
It checks the file dates by modification time. You can have it run on every Windows startup to delete old temp files, backups, webcam snapshots history, temporary internet files, etc...
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
DataRecovery - Ver: 2.4.5
DataRecovery is freeware and written by Tokiwa to undelete accidentally deleted files including those in the recycle bin.
However, DataRecovery doesn't guarantee that all files deleted can be recovered successfully. It mostly depends on your system/configuration and we can't support each of all those varieties.
Minimum requirements: Windows 9x/ Me/ NT4.0/ 2000/ XP/ Vista
Easy Duplicate Finder - Ver: 2.2.1
What do you think, how much hard disk space on your PC is occupied by duplicate files? Easy Duplicate Finder will show you. Easy Duplicate File Finder is a powerful tool, that will help you in your task to find and delete duplicate files.
Here are some key features of "Easy Duplicate File Finder":
Search for true duplicates (files with same contents)
· Powerful search engine with fast files check
Flexible Scan settings
· Search files by mask
· Size conditions & skip zero-length files option
Find duplicates from selected folders or drives
· Add multiple folders/drives for scanning
Safety
· Protect system files and folders
Convenient user interface
Duplicate file management - remove only unnecessary duplicates
· Select files manually (for deletion) or delete all copies automatically
· Open folder containing selected file
· Show file properties
Minimum requirements: Windows all
FileMenu Tools - Ver: 5.3.2
FileMenu Tools lets you customise the context (right-click) menu of Windows Explorer.
The application adds built-in utilities to perform operations on files and folders and adds customised commands that let users run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types. With FileMenu Tools, you also can customise the "Send to..." submenu and enable/disable context-menu commands added by other applications.
Licence: Free
Minimum requirements: Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ Vista
HDShredder - Ver: 3.6.1
HDShredder deletes the contents of hard disks and other mass storage media reliably at physical level.
HDShredder can also be applied to individual partitions and user can select to perform the deletion according to international security standards. HDShredder works independent of partition layout, file system, and operating system. It also works with proprietary formats which otherwise would be inaccessible.
Freely selectable deletion patterns - HDShredder offers an editor for deletion patterns. It lets users freely define their own specific deletion patterns as well as entire deletion procedures with up to 398 runs.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
ISO Disk - Ver: 1.1
ISO Disk is a clever utility that can access ISO disc files so that they appear as a normal drive to Windows.
This can be useful if you want to access a file from a disc image file downloaded from the internet without having to burn it to a disc.
Another possible use is to copy existing discs to the computer and then access them instantly without having to look for them.
Accessing disk images in this way is called mounting them, and ISO Disk can mount up to 20 images at once, which is quite useful. It can also create the images itself, rather than relying on yet another utility for this.
It can even load an ISO image held on a network share, helpful if the disc images are being shared by several different people.
Many game copy protection systems will not let you copy the disc as an ISO image, but this is still a useful utility.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
Process Terminator - Ver: 1.0
Greatly improve your process-killing ability with Process Terminator, a utility with a simple list-and-button interface that is immediately operable by intermediate to advanced users. You probably won't even crack open the simple four-paragraph Help screen.
Operating Process Terminator is intuitive and simple. On start, the app loads the list of running processes. Selecting a process displays its start time, total CPU time utilised, maximum physical memory used and amount allocated, thread count, handle count, and whether the Process UI is responding. Double-clicking a listed name opens the folder where the process is located. Any process is easily killed with a single button click, but the app won't warn users if killing a particular process will destabilize your system.
The deficiencies in Windows' basic utilities leave lots of room for growth, and this is one tool that's worth a second look.
Minimum requirements: Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ Vista/ Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
ShellExView - Ver: 1.30
Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extends the abilities of Windows operating system.
Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example: If you install WinZip on your computer, you'll see a special WinZip menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a shell extension to the system.
The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
ShellExView can be used for solving context-menu problems in Explorer environment.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
ShellMenuView - Ver: 1.06
ShellMenuView is a small utility that display the list of static menu items that appeared in the context menu when you right-click a file/folder on Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items.
ShellMenuView works properly on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You can also use ShellMenuView on Windows 98 for viewing the menu items list, but the disable/enable feature won't work on this version of Windows. (The disabling feature is achieved by adding 'LegacyDisable' key to the desired menu item in the Registry, and this Registry key is not supported by Windows 98)
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP
Smart Defrag - Ver: 1.02
Disk fragmentation is generally main cause of slow and unstable computer performance. Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drive most efficiently.
Smart Defrag not only defragments computer deeply but optimises disk performance. With 'install it and forget it' feature, Smart Defrag works automatically and quietly in the background on your PC, keeping your hard disk running at its speediest. Smart Defrag is complete free for home, organisation, and business.
NOTE: The installer will try and install the Yahoo toolbar and try to make Yahoo your default search engine. If you do not want these, remove the ticks from the relevant boxes.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
SmartClose - Ver: 1.1
SmartClose will automatically close all running programs, disable the screen saver, and halt all other processes that can interrupt without asking.
Before SmartClose closes or disables anything, it will first save the current state of the system (running programs and screen saver) to a system snapshot, which can be opened and restored again by SmartClose.
Minimum requirements: Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista
StatBar - Ver: 2.406
StatBar presents itself as a graphical bar at the top or he bottom of your screen (the image on the right just shows a part of it).
You can place as many meters in the bar as you have space available. It offers
a wide variety of metering information, and most are configurable.
It also offers operational modules for controlling sound volume, quick launching applications, operating your WinAmp player, or toggling Caps Lock, Num Lock etc. StatBar is graphically more attractive than TinyResMeter, but not configurable in size which makes it hard to read on large screen resolutions. It offers six colour schemes, and transparency when using Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Minimum requirements: Windows all 32 bit
TinyResMeter - Ver: 0.96a
TinyResMeter is a small and simple but fast and effective metering tool.
While it does not offer much in the way of options to change its presentation (just font and colour) it offers a wide variety of information to display like CPU usage, RAM usage, number of processes, and much more. It is amazing how much features can be put in a 55KB file. It also takes only a minimum of resources itself which makes it even more attractive.
However, in the age of multi processor environments and graphical user interfaces TinyResMeter seems to have grown a little old. Considering the many competitors offering a more user friendly interface, more monitoring features, and customisable designs, TinyResMeter is surely not state of the art. But it might still be the right choice for some.
Minimum requirements: Windows all 32 bit
Ultimate Windows Tweaker - Ver: 1.0b
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimising Windows Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit.
It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application to customise your Windows Vista to meet your requirements. With judicious tweaking, It can make your system faster, more stable, and more secure with just a few mouse clicks.
The tweaker detects whether you have IE 7 or IE 8 installed and accordingly offers you the relevant tweaks only.
Licence: Free
Minimum requirements: Windows Vista
Unknown Device Identifier - Ver: 6.01
Unknown Device Identifier enables you to identify the yellow question mark labeled Unknown Devices in Device Manager.
It reports a detailed summary for the manufacturer name, OEM name, device type, device model and even the exact name of the unknown devices. With the collected information, you might be able to contact your hardware manufacturer for support or search the Internet for the corresponding driver with a simple click.
With this utility, you should be able to immediately convert your unidentified unknown devices into identified known devices and find proper driver on the Internet and contact the hardware device manufacturer or vender. Known devices recognized by Microsoft Windows will also be analysed independently of the operating system.
It is suggested you do a thorough driver backup with My Drivers after you have identified all the unknown devices with their proper device drivers software installed.
You can even run this small freeware utility from a CD or a floppy.
NOTE: The program installs a link to a web page, HunterSoft, which advertises various products made by the producer. If you don't want it, delete it.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
VirtualBox - Ver: 2.1.0
Powerful x86 virtualisation products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "innotek" for more about our company.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
On the VirtualBox site, you can find sources, binaries, documentation and other resources for VirtualBox.
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista
WinAudit - Ver: 2.27
WinAudit is easy to use, no special knowledge is required to use the program. It is a self-contained single file that needs no installation or configuration.
It can be run from a floppy disk or USB stick. Simply download the program and double click on it. User interface translations have been kindly contributed by several people, if possible WinAudit will automatically start in your language.
The program reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorised for ease of viewing and text searching. Whether your interest is in software compliance, hardware inventory, technical support, security or just plain curiosity, WinAudit has it all. The programme has advanced features such as service tag detection, hard-drive failure diagnosis, network port to process mapping, network connection speed, system availability statistics as well as Windows® update and firewall settings.
WinAudit is free, you can use it in your commercial applications and distribute it freely to anyone. The programme requires neither installation nor configuration. Its small size and ability to create formatted emails means you can audit just about any Windows® based personal computer.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Winsonar 2008 - Ver: 8.02.01
Winsonar is an application specifically made for process monitoring purposes: it detects new programs that permanently install into memory while system is working.
Windows has a built-in task monitor, but the user will not be prompted for new-installed tasks and even using the task monitor he won`t able to distinguish normally running modules from new-added ones.
The basic idea is that if the user knows a new program has been permanently installed into memory, he could readily scan it using an updated anti virus program: viruses couldn't really hide for a long time before being detected.
Winsonar is a Freeware program and is provided without any limitation at no charge to the user. If you find this program fast, convenient and useful, a little donation to the UNICEF or to your National Red Cross is encouraged by the author.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
Video
VideoCacheView - Ver: 1.35
After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser's cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play .flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser's cache.
Known Problems And Limitations:
- In some Video Web sites, including YouTube, the video files are not always saved in the cached by the Web browser. When the video file is not saved in the cache, you won't be able to watch it or to copy it to another folder.
- If you use a Web browser based on Mozilla (including Firefox), VideoCacheView will provide a link to download the video file, even if the file itself is not stored in the cache. Due to technical limitation, this feature is not available for Internet Explorer browser.
For Mozilla-based Web browser (including Firefox), you should close the Web browser in order to view the latest video files that you watched.
Minimum requirements: Windows all
VideoInspector - Ver: 2.0.2.115
VideoInspector is a tools designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files.
With VideoInspector you'll know why your video files has no sound or refuses to play correctly. VideoInspector will help you installing the required CoDecs (coder/decoder software) for an optimal performance. VideoInspector can also inspect your system to find which codecs are available, and it can also process multiple video files and export its result in HTML or plain text files.
Features:
- Container support : AVI, Matroska, MPEG I, MPEG II, QuickTime
- Codecs requirements automatic detection
- File integrity check
- Automatic, content based container format detection
- Displays movie info : Duration, streams
- Displays Video stream info : Resolution, bitrate, frames per seconds (FPS)
- Displays Audio stream info : Sample rate, bitrate, number of channels
- Calculates video quality factor
- Windows Shell Integration (Drag'n'Drop and Context menu)
- International support
- And much more !
Minimum requirements: Windows all
