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PeerGuardian 2 – IP blocker for Windows

http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P.

Shutdown Scheduler

http://sgsoft.netfirms.com/

This little utility allows you to Shutdown, Reboot, Lock, Log Off, Stand By or Hibernate your system at a specific time. It can also be used as an alarm or a notifier that displays a pop up message at the scheduled time. You also have the ability to set the program to launch programs or go to web site. This utility also supports custom alarm sound and it´s easy to use. It will hides in self in the system tray for user convenient.
Version 1.1: Allows you to launch program or website at a specific time.

Cygwin-install OpenSSH Personal Home SSH server

http://www.cygwin.com/

http://www.openssh.org/  

HowTos 

http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

http://lifehacker.com/software/home-server/geek-to-live–set-up-a-personal-home-ssh-server-205090.php

Use SSH Encrypt you internet traffic at public WIFI locations, or connect securely to home network

It's simple to set up an SSH server right on your Windows PC with Cygwin (and even simpler on your Mac). Once your personal SSH server is up and running, you can connect to your home computer securely from anywhere on the internet, up and download files and perform all the command line tasks your heart desires. VPN solution

Instant Boss-time your work and break cycles

http://www.appsapps.info/instantboss.php  

Instant Boss will time your work/break cycles, reminding you when to work and when to take a break.
The defaults are 10 minutes of work, 2 minutes of break, and this is repeated 5 times for a total of 1 hour.
These values can be changed to suit your needs. Instant Boss will remember the values you used during your last session.

ToDoList-simple but effective todo List

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/todolist2.aspx

You know how it is – you start work on one project and halfway through, you find one or two side-projects crop up that have to be solved before you can continue on the original project.

This is one such project with the added twist that it too started its life as a side-project. Here's what happened:

<Cue wavy screen effect>

I can only imagine that the planets must have been in (mis-)alignment or something, because at one point a few months ago, I was suddenly fielding emails on four or five separate articles I had previously submitted to CodeProject, some asking for features and others for bug fixes.

Foolishly or otherwise, I largely agreed with all the points raised, and subsequently found myself with fourteen or fifteen separate issues to resolve.

The situation was also made worse because I was trying to use CodeProject to keep track of all the things I had agreed to do, meaning that I had to continuously trawl the comments section of each article to remind myself of what I was supposed to be working on.

It even got to the stage where I was worrying that I'd fail to deliver on something – silly I know, but there you are!

Keeping a list on paper was a definite step in the right direction, but since I do all my coding on the same machine, it seemed somewhat inelegant, and anyway, we all know what happens to crucial bits of paper left lying around on desks and such.

Brutus – fast flexible remote password cracker

http://www.hoobie.net/brutus/  

Brutus is one of the fastest, most flexible remote password crackers you can get your hands on – it's also free. It is available for Windows 9x, NT and 2000, there is no UN*X version available although it is a possibility at some point in the future. Brutus was first made publicly available in October 1998 and since that time there have been at least 70,000 downloads and over 175,000 visitors to this page. Development continues so new releases will be available in the near future. Brutus was written originally to help me check routers etc. for default and common passwords

Features

Brutus version AET2 is the current release and includes the following authentication types :
    HTTP (Basic Authentication)
    HTTP (HTML Form/CGI)
    POP3
    FTP
    SMB
    Telnet
    Other types such as IMAP, NNTP, NetBus etc are freely downloadable from this site and simply imported into your copy of Brutus. You can create your own types or use other peoples.

The current release includes the following functionality :
    Multi-stage authentication engine
    60 simultaneous target connections
    No username, single username and multiple username modes
    Password list, combo (user/password) list and configurable brute force modes
    Highly customisable authentication sequences
    Load and resume position
    Import and Export custom authentication types as BAD files seamlessly
    SOCKS proxy support for all authentication types
    User and password list generation and manipulation functionality
    HTML Form interpretation for HTML Form/CGI authentication types
    Error handling and recovery capability inc. resume after crash/failure.

vLite 1.1 – remove unwanted Vista Components

http://www.vlite.net/

Windows Vista from Microsoft takes a lot of resources, we all know that. So here is the tool for easy removal of the unwanted components in order to make Vista run faster and to your liking. vLite can also create the bootable ISO and apply the tweaks directly.
This tool doesn´t use any kind of hacking, all files and registry entries are protected as they would be if you install the full version only without the components you select for the removal.

It configures the installation directly, before the installation, meaning you´ll have to remake the ISO and reinstall it. This method is much cleaner, not to mention easier and more logical than doing it after installation on every reinstall.

BugTracker.NET – web-based bug tracker

http://ifdefined.com/bugtrackernet.html  

BugTracker.NET is a free, open-source, web-based bug tracker or customer support issue tracker written using ASP.NET, C#, and Microsoft SQL Server (or its free cousin, SQL Server Express). It is in daily use by thousands of development and customer support teams around the world.BugTracker.NET is easy to install and learn how to use. When you first install it, it is very simple and you can start using it right away. However, it offers you the ability to change its configuration to handle your needs if they are more complex. 

Piriform’s Defraggler – small defragmentation utility

http://www.defraggler.com/

Piriform’s Defraggler is a nice defragmentation utility with a relatively small footprint (less than 1MB). My favorite feature is you can select individual files to defragment rather than processing an entire drive.

Freeware, supported OSs are Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista, including 6-bit support.

BS1 Free Accounting 2007

http://www.dbsonline.com/accounting/index.html

BS1 Free Accounting Software: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Sales Analysis, and Bank Reconciliation. Sample data is provided and there is an optional Getting Started wizard to assist with entering initial live data. The wizard sets up common GL accounts which can later be changed, deleted, or added to. Customization and source code available.

DoclSyncer – sync office docs with google docs

http://www.docsyncer.com/  

DoclSyncer – sync office docs with google docs Free web site/software combo DocSyncer has just rolled out its public beta, pitching a set-it-and-forget-it way of syncing your computer's documents with Google Docs. After signing up and installing the software, DocSyncer goes to work uploading all the Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents it finds in your Documents and Desktop folders. You can then choose which file types will be synced to Google Docs and set DocSyncer to open those files with local software instead of Google Docs, but you'll likely want to make a few more tweaks before leaving it running.

Appupdater – windows autoupdater

http://www.nabber.org/projects/appupdater/  

Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.

Shock Desktop – save recover desktop icon locations

http://update.docs.kr/entry/Products-Shock-Desktop-en

It is utility to save/recover desktop icon locations. It provide easy recovery of icon locations and additionally, it provides showing desktop icon in front or hide desktop icon.

DownUtube – download youtube videos

http://www.mamutsoft.com/downutube/

Features include searching the web sites, downloading the clips, keeping looked clips in cache, showing clips´ pictures, getting all available RSS feeds, looking the pages that contains clip information, keeping track of downloaded clips and deleted clips while downloading, downloading more than one clip at the same time, etc.

PDF Split and Merge

http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=3 

PDF Split and Merge is a very simple, easy to use, free, open source utility to split and merge pdf files. It’s released in two versions: basic and enhanced. Includes a console and a GUI interface.

FlexCls Express -classify and Categorize Files

http://www.flexense.com/

FlexCls Express enables you to scan drives or folders and view a report of how your storage space is utilized by file type. It automatically categorizes your files by general types (e.g. multimedia files, executables, documents etc.) and allows you to drill down further to view results for individual files types and eventually a list of all files within the group. The file hierarchy can also be generated based on file sizes or modification/access/creation time. FlexCls Express provides the option to exclude certain folders from the report, and the results can be exported to HTML, Excel CSV or text report.

mempad – Plain text outliner and note taking plus structured index

http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/wmem.htm  

Plain text outliner and note taking program with a structured index. Fast and easy to handle; link, lookup, launch support; search functions; export; password protected encryption.

The program offers standard editing functions including cut, copy, paste, undo, date/time insert, drag&drop, and supports Web links as well as network and local file or folder links (full path not required) and internal page links. Environmental variables can be used in file links to run programs, for example.

The index structure can be modified with buttons, context menu or hotkeys.
Cut&paste functions and quick node moving.

MemPad always saves data without prompting (when closing Mempad or opening another file).
Optional auto save (every 4 minutes).
Automatic backup (can be disabled by option); restore last backup, reload file.

Search through all pages or within a node; continue searching forwards or backwards; Replace.

Word wrap mode, Read-only file handling, page locking (global or individual);
memory stack (pages, text positions) for browser type back/forw. jumping

Diary support with year/month/day index structure. Go to (or create) today's page with a key stroke.

Export page, node or all to a file or directly to another program; import functions.
Insert text file as page.

Password protected encryption, optionally in Win98 compatible mode.

NK2.info – view and export the contents of an Outlook auto completion

http://www.nk2.info/  

A fellow engineer at work passed this around the other day. A neat little utility that allows you to edit the contents of an Outlook 2000/XP/2003/2007  AutoComplete (.NK2) file. It’s called NK2.INFO.

• NK2.info is a small utility to view and export the contents of an Outlook auto completion file.
• NK2.info can recover e-mail addresses and names from a corrupted NK2 file! 

Windows 2000/XP NK2 default location: drive:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Windows Vista NK2 default location:  drive:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook

AVG Anti-Rootkit Free 

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/39798/us/frt/0 

Rootkits are used to hide the presence of a malicious object like trojans or keyloggers on your computer. If a threat uses rootkit technology to hide itself it is very hard to find the malware on your PC. AVG Anti-Rootkit gives you the power to find and delete the rootkit and to uncover the threat the rootkit is hiding. 

FTPGetter -SW- automated monitoring ftp upload or download

http://www.ftpgetter.com/index.php 

Looking for ftp software that will be able to automatically monitoring ftp or local folders and upload new/modified files from PC to your ftp site or download files from ftp site to local folder by schedule?

FTPGetter is an automated ftp program which is intended to upload or download files between ftp servers and your local or network workstation drives using file masks, i.e. when neither exact file names, nor their numbers are known.

File batch processing using masks will allow you to flexibly adjust list of files that are to be uploaded to the ftp server or downloaded from it. Built-in task scheduler will duly start the tasks that you created.

FTPGetter can work simultaneously with any number of ftp servers using multithreaded processing technology. FTPGetter supports a direct connection to ftp servers, as well as connection through a FTP, SOCKS or HTTP proxy server.

** Shareware ** 

Kigo Image Converter – image converter plus watermark

http://www.kigosoft.com/

The main purpose of the Kigo Image Converter is changing formats of existing image files. Scale images up or down, add watermark to image files. Fully supports batch converting. It´s quite simple to use Kigo Image Converter. Launch the program. Add files for conversion. Specify conversion options press "convert" button. This is all you need to know to successfully use the program and get directly results.

AntiFreeze – unfreeze unresponsive windows state

http://www.resplendence.com/antifreeze  

AntiFreeze offers a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. Because programs consume too much CPU or too much memory or too many programs have been started, your computer has become unresponsive. The mouse still moves but no programs are responding, you cannot switch to other programs or even close them. You have even tried to start the Windows Task Manager even that won’t work because it does not get enough attention from the scheduler to respond to your mouse clicks and keyboard presses. You are ready to press the reset button, instead you can press the hotkey of AntiFreeze. It will put to sleep all running programs except the most critical ones, giving you the opportunity to close down the programs which are causing problems. You may even be able to save or recover your work.

DriverView – list of all device drivers

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html  

DriverView utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name, company that created the driver, and more.

Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools + Robocopy

http://www.microsoft.com

The Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment.

RoboCopy GUI – for microsoft robocopy utility

http://www.sh-soft.com/front_content.php?idcat=36

RoboCopy GUI will copy all files, directories and subdirectories of the source directory to the target directory.
Features:

    * Graphical User Interface for the most robocopy functions
    * Simple usage
    * No Installation required

In the application window you can select the source and the target directory. The default copy options will copy the all files, directories and subdirectories of the source directory to the target directory. By default there will be no log file written. So the rsult of the copy process will only be displayed in the console dialog.

To enable logging check the "Log to External File" checkbox.
If you whish to use some own commands you can use the "Append other parameters" field.