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SIW- System Information For Windows

http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html

SIW (System Information for Windows) performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for: • Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Licenses. • Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.
 • Network: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.
 • Tools: Password Recovery, Reveal passwords hidden behind asterisks, Product Keys and Serial Numbers (CD Key), MAC Address Changer, Shutdown / Restart.
 • Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
 SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for PC Auditing and Inventory).
 SIW is a standalone utility that does not require installation – one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from a USB flash drive (Portable Freeware).

Visual TCP/IP Router – Create New – Modify 

http://www.tm-research.com/products/visual-tcpip-router/ 

The program is intended to edit the network routes table. Visual TCP/IP Router has the convenient graphic interface for a new route adding and for the deleting of any existent. It´s very simple to create new or delete existent route using the Visual TCP/IP Router.

For adding select the connection type, addressable destination, network mask, metric (1 by default), select should this route be persistent. Then press "Add route button". If pointed parameters are correct the new route appears in the routes table. To delete route point the IP address and press "Delete Route" button.

Another way – find the route you need in the routes table (persistent or active route), press right mouse button on this route and press "Delete" menu item.

TortoiseSVN – Sub-Version Control-File Difference

http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads

TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. It is based on Subversion. TortoiseSVN provides a nice and easy user interface for Subversion.
It is developed under the GPL. Which means it is completely free, including the source code. But just in case you don't know the GPL too well: you can use TortoiseSVN to develop commercial applications or just use it in your company without any restrictions.
Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE like Visual Studio, Eclipse or others, you can use it with whatever development tools you like. 

PowerGramo is a realtime audio recording solution for Skype

http://www.powergramo.com/info.htm  

PowerGramo is a realtime audio recording solution for Skype. You can record and replay any kinds of Skype call easily and simply.
          
    Record all kinds of Skype calls.
    Record SkypeCasts.   New
    Do recording automatically.
    Save call records securely.
    Share records with your friends.
    Seamlessly integrated with Skype.
    Get started in less than 3 minutes!
 
Important information…

Best of all, all recordings are securely encrypted. Optional password protection means you are the only one to access them after you login Skype.

it's also very simple to share your recordings with your friends. PowerGramo provides the options to save in the popular small audio format instead of the standard large wav file.

PopTray started as a little POP3 mail checker

http://www.poptray.org/ 

PopTray started as a little POP3 mail checker I wrote, because I couldn't find a freeware program that had all the features I wanted. Since then, new features have been added by request. After years of refinement PopTray 3.0 has now become a full-featured, customizable, e-mail notifier, but keeping its ease of use.

Main Features:

• Unlimited number of Accounts
• Show number of messages directly on the TrayIcon (rotating by account)
• Quickly preview a message
• Delete messages from the server without downloading them
• Rules that identify a message according to your criteria, then does one of these actions:
  • Play different notification sound
  • Delete from the server
  • Run any EXE file
  • Mark as Spam
  • etc …
• Configurable Hot-keys/Mouse-Buttons/Command-Line options for most functions
• Plug-in Support:
  • Protocol plug-ins (e.g. IMAP4, Hotmail, Gmail, etc.)
  • Notify plug-ins (e.g. Flashing scroll-lock light, ScreenSaver)
• Spam management using rules and white/black lists
• Mulitple notfications (play sound, pop-up, etc)
• Translated into 30+ languages
• Complete Install / Uninstall
• Many More …

All this for FREE and Open-Source !

MWSnap – Screen capture utility 

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html 

MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. 

Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.

MWSnap does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system.

    *  5 snapping modes.
    * Support for BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG and GIF formats, with selected color depth and quality settings.
    * System-wide hotkeys.
    * Clipboard copy/paste.
    * Printing.
    * Auto-saving, auto-printing.
    * Auto-start with Windows.
    * Minimizing to system tray.
    * An auto-extending list of fixed sizes, perfect for snapping images for icons and glyphs.
    * A zoom tool for magnifying selected parts of the screen.
    * A ruler tool for measuring screen objects lengths.
    * A color picker showing screen colors with separated RGB parts.
    * Fast picture viewer.
    * Adding frames and mouse pointer images.
    * Multilevel configurable undo and redo.
    * Multilingual versions.
    * Configurable user interface.
    * And more…
 

Clipomatic – Multiple Clipboards

http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml

Start Clipomatic, and it will automatically begin monitoring the clipboard and recording its changes. When you want to paste an old item, you just put the keyboard cursor where you would like to paste and press Ctrl-Alt-V instead of Ctrl-V. A menu pops up with your clips – you can select one with the mouse or with a single keystroke. The menu then disappears, and the item is pasted.

ZonedOut – Manage IE Zones

http://www.funkytoad.com/content/view/15/33/

If so, then ZonedOut is for you. Add, Delete, Import, Export, Build a WhiteList and More.
ZonedOut v3.2 is a complete Internet Explorer Security Zone Manager.
Manage Zone Sites at the Current User and Local Machine level in style.
Version 3.2 includes a help file with General Usage notes, An outline of Commands, and the Freeware License Agreement. It is very import to read this help file.

AutoHotkey – Windows scripting Automation

http://www.autohotkey.com/ 

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

    * Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
    * Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
    * Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way".
    * Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
    * Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
    * Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
    * Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
    * Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed.

Getting started might be easier than you think. Check out the quick-start tutorial.

Freesky video splitter – split, cut or trim a large Media Files

http://www.freeskyvideo.com/FreeakyVideoSplitter.html

Freesky Video Splitter is a powerful tool to split, cut or trim a large AVI(Divx,XviD,MPEG4), MPEG I/II, VCD, SVCD, DVD, VOB, DAT, ASF/WMV file into smaller clips in various format. The program does not require any technical experience and is very easy to use. It is an affordable and powerful video tool on personal computer.
Main features:
# Very fast and without any quality loss.
# Support split AVI, Divx, MPEG-4 file.
# Support split MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD file.
# Support split ASF, WMV, WMA file.
# Support large video file, even large then 2GB.
# Support save as AVI file.
# Support save as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 file.
# Support save as ASF/ WMV file.
# Support save as DVD, VCD and SVCD (PAL,NTSC) compatible mpeg file.
# Very User-friendly interface.

Freesky video joiner – merge multiple AVI, Divx, XviD, MPEG I/II

http://www.freeskyvideo.com/FreeskyVideoJoiner.html

Freesky Video Joiner is a professional tool to join or merge multiple AVI, Divx, XviD, MPEG I/II, VCD, SVCD, DVD, VOB, DAT, ASF/WMV files into one large file in various format. The program does not require any technical experience and is very easy to use. It is an affordable and powerful video tool on personal computer.
Main features:
# Join or merge various video files to a large one.
# Support join AVI, Divx, MPEG-4 file.
# Support join MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD file.
# Support join ASF, WMV file.
# Support convert to MPEG1, MPEG2 file.
# Support convert to AVI file.
# Support convert to ASF/ WMV file.
# Support convert to DVD, VCD and SVCD (PAL,NTSC) compatible mpeg file.
# Input preview.
# Support large video file, even large then 2GB.
# Support no sound avi files.
# Very User-friendly interface and easy to use.

MoveIt2 – automatically move or upload files

http://users.telenet.be/moveit2 

MoveIt2 is a utility to automatically move files that are added to a specific folder. You can set filters based on the file name, rename files using regular expressions when moving them to the new destination, create directories based on the file name or date and check if the file already exists. The program can move files from/to local folders as well as FTP directories. MoveIt2 offers quite a few features that make the program very flexible and useful for a variety of file management tasks as well as file backups. It runs in the system tray and automatically monitors the selected folders for any additions that match your file moving rules. You can set up to 5 working threads, each with individual settings. Other features include detailed logging, support for subdirectory scanning, command-line options and more. This free Lite version is restricted to 5 MoveIt2 threads (moving rules), which should be sufficient for most users. Documentation is provided from the website.

MapKeyboard – Remap Keyboard

http://www.inchwest.com/mapkeyboard.aspx 

MapKeyboard is a free program to remap your keyboard. Using MapKeyboard, you can alter any key on your keyboard to function as a different one or altogether disable it as well. This is an essential tool for laptop users and other people with keyboards whose keys differ from the standard 101 keyboard layout. The changes made are universal across all applications & games and best of all, MapKeyboard does not even need to be actively loaded in memory.

LameXP-graphical front-end for the LAME MP3 and OggEnc Vorbis encoders

http://mulder.at.gg/ 

LameXP is a graphical front-end for the LAME MP3 and OggEnc Vorbis encoders. The GUI accepts Wave Audio files for input, allows batch processing and supports ID3-Tags. All encoder binaries used here have been kindly provided by Rarewares.org.

LAME gives you the best possible quality/compression, provides lots of function and works very fast. The original LAME mp3-encoder is aviable from the official homepage (www.mp3dev.org), but it´s only avaible as a console-application. Such console-applications are very flexible, but most users prefer to work with GUI (graphical user interface) applications.

LameXP is a GUI for the LAME mp3-encoder, that makes it much more comfortable to use LAME. Using LameXP is very easy, because the user-interface has been desingned as simple as possible and it uses the new WindowsXP* style.

FileHamster – real-time version tracking

http://www.mogware.com/

FileHamster is a real-time version tracking application for developers, graphic artist and other content creators that frequently modify existing files. The program allows you to define files and/or folders to be watched and automatically creates a backup copy whenever a monitored file is changed, giving you an option to add a comment to annotate the changes you have made. If the need arises, you can easily restore a previous revision of the file and undo the changes or track down problems. You can configure the number of revisions to keep, limit monitoring to specific file types and also download additional plug-ins to extend the functionalities. FileHamster is very easy to use and does not require any technical expertise – just point it to the file you want to monitor/backup and it will do the rest.

BackUpTime- backup and automation utility

http://www.cezeo.com/

BackUpTime is an easy to use and flexible backup and automation utility. You can create various tasks to perform actions such as backing up files (with zip support), copying them to dynamic folder locations, cleaning up junk files, execute other programs and more. You can combine any of the available actions into complex tasks that perform multiple actions. Each task can be scheduled with the built-in scheduler and supports multiple activations.

Avira NTFS4DOS Personal

http://www.free-av.com/ 

Avira NTFS4DOS enables, NTFS drives to be provided for MS-DOS and other DOS-based operating systems under a new drive letter for applications.Thanks to the unique technology developed by Avira, it is possible to access NTFS drives from Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with one single boot diskette – completely independently of its service pack status.The private, non-commercial use of Avira NTFS4DOS Personal is free.

Lost Partition Recovery Freeware

http://www.s2services.com/partitionmgrsfreeware.htm

Reverse your partition mistake or corruption. I don't have much experience with this kind of emergency.  If you don't want to fool around, go straight to the commercial BootMaster Partition Recover

OS – BeOS, BSD, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, DOS/ Windows (all versions), Linux (all versions), Netware, SUN and SGI

File Size – 1210 KB

Supported Software Versions or File Systems – BeFS, CramFS, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, JFS, EXT2, EXT3, LVM, Linux Raid, Linux Swap v. 1, Linux Swap v. 2, LVM2, NSS, NTFS, ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6, UFS, and XFS

Developer Provided Description – "Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with the following partitions: – BeFS ( BeOS ). – BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/ OpenBSD/NetBSD ). – CramFS (Compressed File System). – DOS/ Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. – HFS, Hierarchical File System. – JFS, IBM's Journaled File System. – Linux Ext2 and Ext3. – Linux Raid. – Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2). – LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager. – Netware NSS. – NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP/2003 ). – ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6. – UFS (Sun/BSD/..). – XFS, SGI's Journaled File System."

TeamViewer – Desktop sharing

http://www.teamviewer.com/ 

Desktop sharing has never been easier: With TeamViewer and DynGate you will be able to connect to the desktop of a partner anywhere on the Internet. In order to use TeamViewer behind firewalls and to contact a TeamViewer session to another PC behind a firewall or NAT router on the Internet you will need our DynGate router which has a free version.

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools

http://www.adrc.net/data_recovery_software/ 

ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools contains a collection of DIY data recovery tools that supports a wide variety of drives and file systems.

The software incorporates extremely simple GUI with novice users in mind. The software zooms in to do only critical recovery functions with minimum complexity so one could recover the data easily. It gives you full control to undelete files, disk image back up, restore a backup image, copy files from hard disk with bad sectors, disk cloning, backup, edit and restore your boot parameters.

It is absolutely free! It is our pleasure to offer you the software without charge, direct or hidden, to download and use a fully functional copy of the program. The software will not install any spyware or adware. It does not gives pop-up ads or force any form of subscription to mailing lists.

The program is designed to be compact "green-ware" without any installation. In fact, the whole program is less than 130 kb and you could stuff it anywhere (such as a floppy) and run the program from there to recover data.

If you are happy with the utility, share the information with others about ADRC Data Recovery Software Tools or place to link to our download home page.

Free SMTP Server is a SMTP server

http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html 

Free SMTP Server is a SMTP server program for Windows that lets you send email messages directly from your computer. It's very simple but very useful for laptop users traveling around the world and connecting their PCs to different Internet Service Providers in different countries. You can use it instead of ISP's SMTP server to increase your security and privacy. Free SMTP Server supports all email programs like Outlook Express and Eudora, but best optimized to work with Outlook Express. The email program you already use for sending and receiving messages can be connected to the server in a very easy way – by using the word "localhost" instead of your current SMTP host. Having done so, you can send messages in a usual manner. Free SMTP Server is very fast, while sending, it establishes dozens of SMTP connections, and gets the most out of your Internet connection. The user interface of the program is very easy to learn, excellent documentation is included. The program is freeware so there is no reason not to download and try it!

UltraVNC – Virtual Private Networking

http://www.uvnc.com/

UltraVNC is a powerful, easy to use and free software that can display the screen of another computer (via internet or network) on your own screen. The program allows you to use your mouse and keyboard to control the other PC remotely. It means that you can work on a remote computer, as if you were sitting in front of it, right from your current location.

BackLinks Master – check which sites are linking to you

http://www.cleverstat.com/

BackLinks Master enables you to check which sites are linking to you. It uses Google, MSN and Yahoo search engine results to gather the backlinks, and creates a detailed report with the URL of the site and the address of the page they are linking to. You can also check for specific URLs, which allows you to verify or find affiliate or exchange links, as well as a specific text that is used in the anchor text of the link. The results can be exported to CSV for further analysis.

Hidden Utilities XP – access to nearly 100 hidden utilities

http://camtech2000.net/Pages/hidden_utilities.htm

Hidden Utilities XP allows access to nearly 100 hidden utilities that are not normally accessible to the average user.   System information, diagnostics, repair tools and more in both Windows and Command Line utilities are now easily opened.  Hidden Utilities XP includes easy access to 53 Windows tools and 43 Command Line utilities.

moka5 – vmware based LivePC Engine

http://www.moka5.com/products/index.html 

LivePCs are virtual PCs that you can create and share just as you can share the rest of your digital life (photos, music, videos, etc..) A LivePC contains everything needed to run a virtual computer — an operating system and a bunch of applications. You can create and share your own LivePCs, or use the public LivePCs created by others in our LivePC Garage™. You can use LivePCs on your desktop, or you can take them with you everywhere on a portable USB drive.With LivePCs, a family can maintain separate computer personalities (work, home, kids) on a single PC. Software developers can make it easy for users to try out their latest suite of applications. Profe