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PrintScreen-make printscreen button actually print

http://www.bcheck.net/apps/#purrint 

Make your PrintScreen (and alt-print screen) button work the way it ought. Save to file (bmp, png, jpg, gif), print to printer, or copy to dumb ol' clipboard. Works in any version of windows since Win95, and it's only 114k

ShellRunas-context-menuRunas another user

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc300361.aspx  

The command-line Runas utility is handy for launching programs under different accounts, but it’s not convenient if you’re a heavy Explorer user.ShellRunas provides functionality similar to that of Runas to launch programs as a different user via a convenient shell context-menu entry.ShellRunas works on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.

fsLock-protect files against being renamed, deleted, modified

http://www.troupware.com/software/main/fslock.htm  

fsLock is a simple program that protects your most important files by locking them in a list. Once locked, these files will be protected against being renamed, deleted, modified, moved, etc. Any number of files can be protected (except executables (EXE) and Dynamic Link Library (DLL) and different lists of files can be used and easily switched between.

Drag and Drop support for the list is also available if you find files in explorer you want to protect as well. Start with Windows support is included and the ability to start the engine on start-up. fsLock also supports full logging support.

fsLock also supports secure file deleting via the “Delete Files” section of the window. IN this section, you are able to move directly from the “Secure Files” list and completely wipe the files clean (if the engine is not running).

Nubs-desktop tabs windows management

http://shellscape.org/nubs/  

Nubs is an application for Windows similar to Sticky Windows (Mac OSX). Nubs is designed to maximize window management and organization with stylish and themeable tabs. It only takes a few seconds to leave, and is painless to use.

Nubs isn't just for fancy, tabbed Windows. Nubs does what the Windows taskbar can't – Nubs makes use of your entire screen. More than one monitor? Not a problem for Nubs!

Nubs includes a default theme to get you started. Just one? Not to worry! Every version of Nubs ships with Sample Themes to tickle you visually. Themes are also easy to make and can be done so in a very short amount of time.

RegexSR-create and test complex regular expressions

http://cui.unige.ch/~deriazm/Softs/RegexSR/  

RegexSR is a very easy-to-use and powerful tool (written in Java) to create and test complex regular expressions. The plugin system provides extra functionalities, such as transforming expressions into Java code, and allows the user to create his own extensions. Features include testing regular expressions, handling text through regular expressions or plugins, renaming files, developing plugins, and managing expressions in the repository 

Winflip-Windows Vista Aero Task Switcher on XP

http://tokyodownstairs.blogspot.com/2007/11/winflip.html  

WinFlip is a 'Flip 3D' function for Windows XP
It provides an alternate window-switcher to the standard Windows Alt-Tab. Winflip displays all open windows in a 3D stack, which the user can flick through and select using either keyboard or mouse

DesktopOK-Restore position of desktop icons

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Software/DesktopOK&language=english

Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK is a small but effective solution for users that have to change the screen resolution often.

Features:

    * Save your preferred icon locations for each screen resolution.
    * Each user can then have his own arrangement.
    * Minimizes to tray area for easy access.
    * Launch at Windows startup.

DesktopOK does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from the desktop, and can be carried on a small usb-stick or other memory device.

DecimalTo…Converter

http://www.bitworld.my2gig.com/index.php

DecimalTo..?Convertor is a software tool that can convert decimal numbers into any number system. It is coded in Java and uses the standart Java GUI user interface. It requires the Java runtime environment.
The program can take fraction decimal values as well as integer values and convert them to binary. It has been tested in Windows XP. Should Work in other Operating Systems as long as you have the Java runtime environment.

AltTab Mouse-use mouse for alt-tab appication switching

http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/24/alttab-mouse-shortcut/  

What this standalone (no-install needed) application does is execute the Ctrl+Alt+Tab key combination when you press and hold the left mouse button, and then press the right mouse button. The Alt+Tab application switcher will appear on the screen until you click on one of the windows that you want to switch to:

 AltTab Mouse

This should work in any version of Windows that supports the Alt+Tab key combination, and it can easily be set to start with Windows by placing it in your Startup folder located in the Start Menu. You’ll know this is running when you see the Vista-like orb in the System Tray, and you can temporarily disable the functinoality by right-clicking on the icon. Enjoy!

Clonezilla-Open source HardDrive backup and recovery

http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/  

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting! 

Res-o-Matic-Change the resolution of a single program

http://www.bcheck.net/apps/#reso  

esoHere at Inspect My Gadget, we have looked at a number of programs that change your screen resolution quickly and easily. We have also looked at using these resolution changing programs in batch files so that an individual program can load at a certain resolution. This method works quite well, but I have just come across a program that is much tidier and efficient at achieving this.

winPenPack-bundle of portable applications Launcher

http://www.winpenpack.com/main/news.php  

winPenPack offers a bundle of portable applications and a handy program launcher. There are several different winPenPack bundles available, ranging from an Essentials pack which weighs about takes up a few hundred MB to a 1GB version which packs a whole boatload of software. The Essentials pack still has a lot of great software including Firefox, Thunderbird, Filezilla, Gimp, Kompozer, and Pidgin.
There are also special versions labeled "school," and "games" that come with more specialized applications. When you first run winPenPack you'll notice that most of the menus are in Italian, even if you manage to find the option to change the language to English. But you can also download a 44MB ZIP language pack. Once you unpack that file to your installation directory your menus should appear in English.

Mp3Tag-MD3 tag editor

http://mp3tag.de/

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit ID3-tags and OGG Comments of MP3- and Ogg Vorbis files. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs (if available). Other formats supported include AAC, MPEG 4, FLAC, MOnkeys Audio and more.

JRiver Media Jukebox is an advanced music manager

http://www.mediajukebox.com/index.html 

JRiver Media Jukebox is an advanced music manager that has recently turned 100% freeware. It provides most of the tools that you will ever need to play and manage your audio library, including audio format conversion, CD burning and ripping with online tag and album art support, full smartlists support, a tag editor, Ipod and device management, podcast support, sound recording, ad-hoc album art downloading, visualizations, skins, and extendibility through a wide range of freely downloadable plugins (including a pre-installed Last.FM audioscrobbler plugin). It supports most audio file formats.

Firefox Plugin-WOT-Web of Trust comunity rating websites

http://www.mywot.com/

Keep yourself safe from spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, unreliable online shops, phishing, and other Internet scams. With the free WOT browser add-on, you can easily see the reliability of companies and websites. WOT will warn you and save your computer before you interact with a harmful site.

WOT, Web of Trust, is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites, helping you stay in control when surfing the Web. Besides its users, WOT uses hundreds of trusted sources such as phishing site listings to keep you protected against rapidly spreading online threats.

As you search with Google, you will see a tiny icon next to the Web link: green to go, yellow to slow down, red to stop. You can easily customize the protection level to your way of surfing the Web. WOT has information on 17 million websites. WOT ratings are shown also on Yahoo!, Gmail, Wikipedia, Digg, del.icio.us, AOL, and MSN. No registration is required.

Vista Visual Master – customize Windows Vista

http://www.vista123.net/  

Vista Visual Master allows you to customize Windows Vista by changing several desktop settings, patching the Vista theme, editing the OEM information and more. You can also replace system and file icons with your own icons (with an option to restore the originals) and add a custom boot screen and logon picture.

doubleTwist desktop-remove drm from personal media files

http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt  

doubleTwist desktop enables you to easily share media with friends and sync with popular devices

Our mission is to enable consumers to enjoy their digital media on the widest possible range of devices and help them share what they've created with friends. Our flagship product, doubleTwist desktop, is a free application for sharing, enjoying and syncing personal media. 

Notepad++ programmers source code editor

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm  

Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

This project, based on the Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component), written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL (that ensures the higher execution speed and smaller size of the program), is under the GPL Licence.

This project is mature. However, as you can see it's a one-man-project, there are still some bugs and missing features. If you have any question or suggestion about this project, please post them on the forums. As well, if you have any feature requests, you can always make the demand, but there's no guarantee that I'll implement it.

You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ (if it is not present in the Download Section) and/or to translate the Notepad++ official site into your native language

LiveProject-Free Microsoft Project Viewer

http://www.kadonk.com/  

LiveProject Free Project Viewer is a Project Viewer for Microsoft MPP project files. Open MS project 2000, 2003 or 2007 files. LiveProject runs on Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

LiveProject enables businesses of any size to instantly view their existing Microsoft Project files. LiveProject promotes project status visibility at zero cost.

Free Comodo Memory Firewall

http://www.memoryfirewall.comodo.com/ 

Free Comodo Memory Firewall adds another critical layer of security to home and business PC’s by monitoring for and preventing most types of buffer overflow attacks. These attacks occur when a malicious program or script addresses more data to its memory buffer than it can store. The goal of most attacks is to destabilize the system then install malware onto the victim PC in order to execute a range of attacks such as identity and data theft.

The product is aimed for system administrators as well as desktop users to protect their systems and detects suspicious code executions in the stack or the heap portions of the memory.

Comodo Memory Firewall detects the following types of attack:

    * Detection of Buffer Overflows which occur in the STACK memory,
    * Detection of Buffer Overflows which occur in the HEAP memory,
    * Detection of ret2libc attacks,
    * Detection of corrupted/bad SEH Chains 

CrazyDesktopVideo-play video desktop background

http://www.crazypixels.com/freeware.htm

This video player plays the videos in the desktop background behind all programs. Make your desktop background to the video screen. See movies in the desktop background while you are working in the foreground. Load the videos from AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.!

At first you have to activate the Active Desktop!

The following program parameters are available:

    * video:videofilename (starts the player direct with a video)
    * mute (mutes the playback)
    * looped (plays in a loop)

Example:
CrazyDesktopVideo -video:c:\temp\music.avi -looped -mute
(starts the video c:\temp\music.avi without audio and in looped playback)

Opera@USB-portable opera

http://www.opera-usb.com/  

Opera@USB is the portable version of the popular Opera Browser. The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, integrated searches and advanced functions like Opera´s groundbreaking e-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse. 

System Protect-protect files from deletion

http://www.system-protect.com/

System Protect enables you to protect important programs, documents and files from accidental or unauthorized deletion. It automatically protects all Windows system files and allows you to specify a list of custom files and folders that you want to protect as well. The program will intercept any attempted deletion or modification and either prompt you for authorization or automatically deny the action (depending on your settings). You can also disable the protection mode temporarily, which is useful when you are installing new software or system updates. 

URLProtocolView-display all URL protocols

http://www.nirsoft.net/  

URLProtocolView is a simple, small and easy-to-use application that will display all URL protocols (for example: ftp:, telnet:, mailto:) that are currently installed on your system.For each URL protocol, the following information is displayed: The protocol name, the protocol description, the command-line that is executed when you type or click the URL, the product name, and the company name. This utility also allows you to easily enable/disable the URL protocols.
The main window of URLProtocolView displays all URL protocols installed on your system. You can easily disable a protocol by selecting it and pressing F8. To enable it back, press F7.
URLProtocolView doesn´t require any installation process or additional DLLs. Just copy the executable file (URLProtocolView.exe) to any folder you like, and run it.

AutoVer-realtime or versioning backup

http://beanland.net.au/AutoVer/

AutoVer is a configurable automatic or real time backup and personal versioning system. It can be used as a simple real time backup or as a more complex version control system. The beauty of this system is that once you set it up (which is extremely simple) it does everything. No remembering to backup or to check in or check out files. Every time you save a file it is copied to your backup folder or drive. You can include and exclude certain files and browse the backups with the Backup Explorer.
Great for backing up (or one way syncronising) your work or home documents to flash memory or saving every change you make to your source code or image files.