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Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool-create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive

http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool?err=t2#at2

When you purchase Windows 7 from Microsoft Store, you have the option to download an ISO file or compressed files. The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.

Delphinus Notes-manage notes

http://tleilax.if.pw.edu.pl/~sala/DelphinusNotes/

Delphinus Notes is a freeware program designed to keep and manage notes. It contains simple notepad, calendar (with week schedule) and expenditure management module. All data can be encrypted and program can be protected by the password. Program can also show time in 3 time zones, and can indicate the time of sunrise and sunset at specified location. Notes can also be shown directly on the desktop wallpaper.

VistaSwitcher-alt-tab task switcher replacement

http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html

VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks with their names and preview snapshots and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch to a task, minimize, maximize, restore the main window or close the process

VidSplitter-Split large video files

http://www.geovid.com/VidSplitter/

Do you have large video files and want to split to small pieces in order to record them to several CD or DVD? VidSplitter is that you are loking for video splitting. VidSplitter is a complete Video spliiting tool that lets you to split large AVI, mpeg, WMV, ASF files into smaller video clips in various formats. it is very easy and quick.VidSplitter does not requires any technical experience and is very easy to use. thet's why any even newbie to video splitter can manage it. 

Ninja Log Out-Scheduled shutdown

http://suspiciousninja.com/

Ninja Log Out is a free simple utility that schedules Shutdown and/or Reboot windows based operating system base on time delay that you specify.

Scott's Gmail Alert

http://ga.graphicport.net/features.html

Monitor up to five Gmail accounts, four Calendars, and one RSS feed at a time. Unique slide up alerts, show up to five messages on screen at a time.  Audible sound alerts using either .wav or .mp3 file formats. Custom colors for each account, and for special email contacts. Proxy support, including authentication for corporate servers.  Send Email from your Gmail account without opening the browser. Scott's Gmail Alert also can handle email links from the browser.  Contact list is generated from received emails — Can be used to send quick emails, quicker.   Add Calendar events without having to load Google Calendar in the browser.  Customize the look and feel with many advanced options.  Import and export settings for easy backup. Scott's Gmail Alert is able to run off of a USB drive without needing to be installed.

DivX MKV on Windows7

http://labs.divx.com/mkvwin7preview

This technology preview introduces support for DivX Plus HD video in applications using the Microsoft Media Foundation, a new framework introduced in Windows 7. The package includes a native version of the DivX MKV Demux as well as shell extensions that provide thumbnail images and detailed file information for files with either ".divx" (DivX 6) or ".mkv" (DivX 7) extensions for an enhanced experience.

Klok-Personal Time Tracking

http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/features.html

The main screen shows a hierarchical list of all your clients, projects and/or tasks and a calendar view showing the current week. To track time spent on a particular client, project or task, simply drag that item from the tree and drop it on the calendar. This will create a one hour entry for that task at the location at which you dropped it. To change the start or end time, you can drag the "gripper" at the top and bottom of the entry. Hold down the "Shift" key to constrain it in 15 minute increments. To move the entire entry, just drag it to a new location. Again, the "Shift" key allows you to constrain the start time to 15 minute intervals. If you wish to remove an item from the calendar view or a task or project from the tree view on the left, just drag it to the trash can in the bottom left.

HWiNFO32-professional hardware information and diagnostic tools

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

HWiNFO32 are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.

LAlarm-free laptop alarm security software

http://www.lalarm.com/en/LAlarm_Laptop_Alarm.htm

LAlarm is free laptop alarm security software. LAlarm sounds an alarm when a laptop is in danger of being stolen or losing data, and it can recover and destroy data if the laptop is stolen. LAlarm consists of five alarms and other security functions designed to protect laptops and sensitive data.      Highlights
    * Theft Alarm- It prevents laptop theft by sounding an alarm when a thief tries to steal a laptop.
    * Perimeter Alarm- It alerts when a laptop goes outside a perimeter. It helps prevent laptop misuse and keeps the laptop within a safe boundary.
    * Inattention Alarm- It sounds an alarm when the owner leaves the computer unattended in an unsafe area for a period of time. It helps prevent laptop theft.
    * Battery Alarm- It alarms when the battery is under stress in order to preserve the battery capacity and prolong the battery lifetime. It also alarms when the battery level is low to prevent data corruption due to sudden power loss.
    * Disk Alarm- It alarms when a hard disk drive needs a repair or replacement in order to prevent data loss and laptop failure.
    * Data Destruction- It protects sensitive data by destroying the data if the laptop is stolen.
    * Data Recovery- It can recover data from a stolen laptop.
    * Mobile Phone Alert- It sends an alert to a mobile phone via email or SMS.
    * Theft Response- you can tell your laptop what to do in advance if your laptop is in hands of a thief.
Prevent laptop theft. Laptop theft is common and a constant threat to laptop security. LAlarm emits a loud siren sound when a thief tries to steal a laptop. For example, you connect a laptop to a power outlet or fasten a laptop to a table by using a USB flash drive strap. An alarm will be triggered when the laptop is disconnected from the power outlet or removed from the table. LAlarm also warns the owner if the laptop is left unattended in an unsafe place for a period of time.
Protect sensitive data. LAlarm protects sensitive data on a laptop by permanently destroying the data if the laptop is stolen. The US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard (DOD 5220.22-M) is used to ensure that data is securely destroyed. Optionally the data can be emailed to the owner before the destruction. LAlarm can also be used in wiping out all sensitive data at the end of laptop life cycle.

Keep it safe within a perimeter. It is useful (especially for businesses) to keep a laptop within a safe perimeter. It sounds an alarm when the laptop is used outside the perimeter. It helps prevent laptop misuse and provides another layer of laptop security.

Prolong the battery lifetime. Batteries are an expensive part of a laptop. LAlarm helps preserve battery capacity and prolong the battery lifetime by alerting when the battery is under stress. So that you can maximize the lifetime of your battery and avoid unnecessary expenses on new battery purchase.

Prevent data corruption. LAlarm alerts when a possible sudden power loss is imminent. The user will then be able to save the data and shutdown the computer properly and/or switch to the AC power. LAlarm helps prevent data loss and data corruption due to a sudden power loss.

Prevent data loss. The HDD (hard disk drive) holds important data but is subject to frequent error and logical or physical damages due to various causes. If error or damage is detected at an early stage, it could be repaired before becoming a more serious problem and prevent serious data loss. LAlarm alerts the user of both physical and logical disk problems.

Prevent laptop failure. Hard disk drive problem is a common cause of laptop failure. But most users are not aware of such problems being developed and escalated until the HDD finally halts and the data becomes irrecoverable. LAlarm detects signs of HDD deterioration and recommends a HDD replacement, thereby, a laptop failure is prevented. As a result, a costly laptop repair expense is saved.

Alarm to mobile phone. You can get an alert to your mobile phone via email or SMS when an alarm goes off. You can also get an instant alert about the data destruction confirmation.

Vista Services Optimizer

http://www.smartpcutilities.com/servicesoptimizer.html

Tweak Windows services in an easy and safe way:

When you install Microsoft Windows for the first time, you will notice the low performance of your system. There are many reasons of performance problems in Windows, one of them that there are many of Windows services running in the background consuming CPU power and take up much space in the system memory (RAM) which we do not really need them at all. So I suggest to tweak Windows services by stopping and disabling unwanted services in order to save CPU power and system memory space.

Vista Services Optimizer is an open source Windows tweaking utility that can improve your Windows Vista and Windows 7 performance and security with a simple mouse click, by tweaking Windows services in an automatic and very safe way according to the way you use your computer and which software you use.

Vista Services Optimizer also enables you to tweak Windows services manually for advanced users who need more control over Windows services in an easy and safe way.

Vista Services Optimizer provides you with detailed information about certain Windows services and enables you to use Google, Yahoo and Blackviper.com to help you identify some of Windows services function.

Vista Services Optimizer is a safe tweaking utility which can optimize Windows performance and security without causing any harm to the system. If you face any problem after a services optimization process, you can with a single click, restore your system default settings using Smart Rescue Center.

Disk2vhd -convert physical HD to VHD

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).

AC3Filter-high quality free audio decoder and processor filter

http://ac3filter.net/projects/ac3filter

AC3Filter is a high quality free audio decoder and processor filter. It allows media players to playback movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks. Also it can process any audio track, much of processing options allows to adjust the sound in almost any way. It is possible to upmix any audio source to 6 channels. Filter can do multi-channel and digital (SPDIF) output. It can encode any audio source to AC3 on-the-fly and send it over SPDIF to the receiver.

Add Bookmark Here-firefox extension

http://gorgias.de/mfe/

This extension adds an option to the bookmarks menu and/or the context menu for bookmark folders that enables you to add a bookmark to that folder. This feature is present in Opera where it is called "Add page here…" and I think it's a very convenient way to keep the bookmarks sorted.

Permit Cookies-Firefox Extension

http://gorgias.de/mfe/

Use the keyboard shortcut (Alt + C) or click on the statusbar button to set cookie permissions for the site you are viewing. The button displays the current permission level for every website.
Suggested usage: Disable cookies in Tools->Options->Privacy and only permit cookies from sites you trust.

ConnectionMonitor-Ping hosts at regular intervals
 
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=24

Pings hosts at regular intervals, to determing if your connection is working, and generate a log of the results.

Simple Invoice-create invoice

http://www.software-force.com/sforce/en/

Simple Invoice is for issuing invoice, credit note and receipt with SQL database support without any license restriction. Simple Invoicing Application includes invoice, credit note and receipt maintenance with cross currency settlement feature. You can further customize all memos layout using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 without changing any source code. This application is only for simple usage and without inventory supported.

My Timer-create countdown timers

http://www.tmsnetwork.org/blog/my-timer

My Timer is a small program that enables you to create countdown timers. My Timer runs on your system tray. When the countdown reaches 0, you can choose to:
– get notified with a message box
– get notified with MP3 audio
– shutdown/restart computer
– run application, open webpage or documents

More features coming soon! Feel free to post any comments and suggestions in My Timer forum.

NirLauncher package-Beta Version

http://blog.nirsoft.net/2009/10/04/beta-version-of-nirlauncher-package-is-available-to-download/

NirLauncher, with a package of more than 100 utilities of NirSoft, is available to download.

before you go to the download link, it's important that you read the following guidelines:

• For now, the download link of this utilities package is a little restrictive. I only allow to download it 5 times per day for each IP address. So please don't download this package with any 'download accelerator' software that open multiple connections. If you do so, the download might be failed and your IP address will be blocked from downloading this file for a few hours.
  Also, the download link won't work if you put it on  other Web sites.
  I'll try to gradually reduce these restrictions as long as it won't eat my server resources.
• Antivirus False Positives – This package contains more than 100 utilities, and if you have any Antivirus on your computer, there is a very high chance that it'll falsely detect one or more of these utilities as Virus/Trojan/Spyware/Malware or anything else.
  It's also possible that your Antivirus will simply delete some of the utilities or prevent you from running them without displaying any alert.
  In any case, please don't flood my email address with messages like "You have virus in your utilities package"   or "After I extract your files, some of them are deleted" or "I double-click xyz utility and nothing happens".  All complaints about false virus alerts, utilities that cannot be executed, and disappearing files should be sent to the Antivirus companies that cause these troubles.
  You are also welcomed to read my Blog post from a few months ago: Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers.
• You might find out that some of my utilities in this package are missing. For now, to avoid from including very old utilities, my scripts that build the NirLauncher package automatically take only utilities that have been updated in the last 1000 days.  Some of my very old utilities might still save the settings into the Registry, and I don't want to include them in NirLauncher package, because this package should be fully portable.
  Later, I'll gradually check my old utilities and some of them will be possibly upgraded to be included in future releases of NirLauncher package.
• Currently, the software groups (categories) in NirLauncher are not the best choice, I simply took them with automatic scripts from my main utilities page. I hope that I'll create better software groups in future versions.
• Start using NirLauncher:  In order to start using NirLauncher, simply create a new folder in your USB flash drive or in any other drive, and then extract all files of the package into the new folder.
  You should not extract the files into the root directory of your USB flash drive, because the package contains too much files.
  After you extracted the package, simply run the NirLauncher.exe executable.
• After running NirLauncher, here's some tips for using it:
  • You can use F7 and F8 keys to move to the next and previous software group.
  • When you select a single item, the 'Description' and 'Web Page URL'  become a link that you can click. Clicking the 'Description' opens the help file,  and clicking the 'Web Page URL' opens the right utility Web page. If you are not pleased from this feature, you can disable it from Options->Advanced Options (set all click options to none)
  • If you want to view a longer description of each utility that you select, check the 'Show Description Text' under the options menu. However, be aware that these description texts were taken from the pad files of my utilities, and they are not always updated to the latest features of each utility.
  • If you want to run a utility with command-line parameters, change the current directory, and so on, the 'Advanced Run' is the right option that you need.
  • There is also a generic 'Advanced Run' window that affects all utilities that you execute with the standard 'run' option: Options -> Default Run Settings. For example, if you open the 'Default Run Settings' window and select the 'Run in full screen mode' option, all console application that you run will be opened in full screen.
  • If you use the x64 version of Windows, and you click on a utility that have a separated x64 version, NirLauncher automatically run the x64 executable of the utility. The x64 executable filenames  in the package are in UtilityName-x64.exe format.

Insomni-temporarily disable sleep mode

http://blogs.msdn.com/

Insomnia is a simple WPF application that calls the SetThreadExecutionState API to disable sleep mode for as long as it's running. (Note that the display can still power off during this time – it's just sleep for the computer that's blocked.) Closing the Insomnia window immediately restores whatever sleep mode was in effect before it was run. It couldn't be easier!

SASPlanet-viewing and downloading high-resolution satellite imagery

http://sasgis.com/sasplanet/

SASPlanet – program designed for viewing and downloading high-resolution satellite imagery and conventional maps submitted by such services as Google Maps, DigitalGlobe, Yahoo! Maps, VirtualEarth, Gurtam, OpenStreetMap, iPhone maps, etc., but in contrast to all these services, all downloaded your card will remain on your computer, and you will be able to view them, even without connecting to the internet. In addition to satellite-based maps can work with the political landscape, the combined maps, and map the Moon and Mars.

Downloading maps is implemented as the allocation of a certain area (probably not rectangular) and the movement on the map. The maps are frequently updated – the program will allow you to download only the new ones.

Microsoft Security Essentials-real-time protection against viruses and spyware

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. icrosoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple. icrosoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

abylon SELFCERT-create self-signed test certificates X.509 v3

http://www.abylonsoft.com/selfcert/index.htm

This Tool create self-signed test certificates (X.509 v3) for private use. It is very easy to create and you can encrypt your data with this certificate.
Features:
    * Generation of self-signed X.509 v3 test certificates
    * Automatic installation after the certificate generation
    * Fields: Owner, Emailadress, Country, City, Organisation and Department
    * Key size 512 until 4024 Bits
    * Runtime up to 9999 days (~ 27 years)

Gridy – snap windows to invisible desktop grid

http://sector-seven.net/software/gridy#more_info

Gridy adds an invisible grid to Windows, so that any window you move or resize is snapped to it.

Snapping is enabled with mouse drag or keyboard arrow keys.

In addition, you can apply these changes to any window or dialog:

• Make window semi-transparent
• Hide the window's Alt-Tab icon
• Set window to be Always on Top
• Resize to a predefined size of your choice
• Minimize all windows but the active one

Promptu Launcher-suggest text as you type

http://www.promptulauncher.com/

"Promptu lets you associate meaningful names with programs, folders,
files, URL's, etc, and access them almost instantly from your
keyboard. When you press the hotkey you associate with Promptu, such
as Ctrl + Q, Promptu opens a textbox next to the mouse. As you type,
Promptu suggests in a similar fashion to Visual Studio's Intellisense.
When you finish typing or what you want becomes highlighted, press
Enter and Promptu will launch it.