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7 Quick Fix – Windows 7 registry quick fixes

http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/2009/12/7-quick-fix.html

There are a lot of excellent Windows comprehensive repairing and fixing tools around the internet.
But there are times when you want just one quick fix for example when you are under a virus attack and you just want to enable the Task Manager or the Registry Editor so you can fight the virus back, or when some new installation changed your Windows 7 behavior and you want to restore it.
This is the right time to draw 7 Quick Fix with 21 common Windows 7 fixes, only 472kb, portable with no install just click and run, small and fast, a must have on every computer !
If the day will come and you will need it, you will not regret for this 472kb on your drive or USB drive.
7 Quick fix, like its successful predecessor "XP Quick Fix Plus" is a simple, fast and efficient click and fix tool.
Watch a demo on YouTube
Freeware by LeeLu Soft 2009

UserAssist utility – list applications executed on a Windows machine

http://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/userassist/

The UserAssist utility displays a table of programs executed on a Windows machine, complete with running count and last execution date and time. Windows Explorer maintains this information in the UserAssist registry entries. My program allows you to display and manipulate these entries.

I posted my program (source code and binaries) here. Download the ZIP file, you’ll have to extract UserAssist\UserAssist\bin\Release\UserAssist.exe to get my program. There is no setup, it’s just one executable. You’ll need the .NET Framework 2.0 runtime to run my program (download it only if you have a problem running my program, if you have an up-to-date version of Windows XP, the .NET 2.0 Framework will already be installed).

Device Doctor-check for driver updates

http://www.devicedoctor.com/

is a freeware Windows application that scans your computer hardware and checks to see if there are new driver updates available for your devices. It also locates drivers for "unidentified devices" in the Windows Device Manager

Boot Snooze-reboot and then go directly to standby or hibernation

http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages/software/boot-snooze.php

Description:  This simple app will:
   1. Give you a choice to reboot and go into standby or hibernation.
   2. It will then reboot your computer.
   3. After the reboot, a small dialog with a countdown timer will begin.
   4. After the timer is up, your computer will be put into the mode you chose.

Note: For hibernation to work, your computer must have "Enable hibernation" already checked under your Control Panel, Power Options, Hibernate tab.

Command line operation — REQUIRED parameters are:
           
mode=[reboot|suspend]     ('reboot' will reboot and then go to the hibernate/standby delay timer.  'suspend' will skip the reboot and go straight to the hibernate/standby delay timer)
method=[hibernate|standby]
bdelay=#     (where # is the number of minutes to delay BEFORE rebooting)
adelay=#     (where # is the number of minutes to delay AFTER rebooting)
           
e.g.:   c:\path\to\BootSnooze.exe mode=reboot method=hibernate bdelay=0 adelay=5           

System State Analyzer Tool-Determine what Changed on System

x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=140110

x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=140109

Note: System State Analyzer is included as a part of Server Logo Program Software Certification Tool software

System State Analyzer Tool compares two snapshots of a computer taken at different points in time. This allows you to determine what may have changed on a system, either due to a specific issue (i.e. after an application install) or even to compare the difference between two systems.

SystemExplore-Keep Your System Under Control

 http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/

• Detailed information about Tasks, Processes, Modules, Startups, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files.
• Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal or Jotti service.
• Easy search details about file/process via online databases.
• Launcher ("New Task…" dialog) with integrated AutoSearch and AutoCompletion.
• Action History for monitoring processes activities.
• Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time.
• System Snapshots for easy finding of system changes.
• System Report builds rich text report containing major informations about your System.
• Multilanguage and Plugins Support.
• Version 2.0 brings brand new user interface and Windows 7 support.
• **NEW** Security feature with online File Reviews. 

ShellMenuNew

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

ShellMenuNew is a small utility that displays the list of all menu items in the 'New' submenu of Windows Explorer. It allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items, so this 'New' submenu will display only the items that you need.

NetworkPasswordDecryptor

http://securityxploded.com/networkpassworddecryptor.php

NetworkPasswordDecryptor is the free tool to instantly recover the network passwords stored in the 'Credential Store' of Windows. Windows 'Credential Store' provides the framework for storing various network authentication based passwords in secure encrypted format. Not only Windows uses it to store network authentication passwords, but also other applications such as Outlook, Windows Live Messenger, Remote Destktop, Gmail Notifier etc uses it for storing their login passwords. These network passwords are saved only when the user has selected 'Remember Password' option during login time.
 
These network passwords are stored in encrypted format and even administrator cannot view these passwords. Also some type of passwords cannot be decrypted even by administrators as they require special privileges. In this context, NetworkPasswordDecryptor makes it easy to enumerate and decrypt all the stored network passwords from Credential Store. 

Liksoft Free Clear History

http://www.liksoft.com/

Liksoft Free Clear History is a free history cleaning tool for computer to protect your local & online privacy and provide you a safe & clean computer environment. Your computer tracks most activities you do while working on the computer or surfing the Internet. you may want to clear the saved data so the next person using your computer will never know your computer activity. This program can quickly clean history of your web browsing and computer use permanently. including clearing internet temporary files, clearing cookies, clearing IE address bar URL history, clearing IE auto-form history, clearing IE password history, clearing IE internet history items, clearing IE my favorite links, clearing system temporary folder, clearing recycle bin, clearing finding files history, clearing history of run command, clearing recent documents, etc.

Auto Kill Any Process

http://akmasolutions.blogspot.com/2010/01/auto-kill-any-process.html

Auto Kill Any Process or A.K.A.P for short, is a very useful utility, to kill Multiple-Sets of different processes at once, by simply launching the program. This can come in handy if you want to cleanup relevant processes, after working with any application, or if you want to clear a set of expendable processes before starting another RAM intensive application, in just a few seconds, instead of using the tedious task manager.

GodMode Creator for Windows 7 – Vista

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/godmode-creator-windows-7-vista-released

GodMode Creator for Windows 7 & Vista v 1.0.  GodMode Creator is a freeware utility which lets you create 38 “GodModes” in Windows 7 & Vista, 32-bit, with a click.

There is nothing magical about the GodMode. Windows has a set of certain folders which are identified by unique strings referred to as CLSID or Windows Class Identifiers. These folders can be accessed by using the CLSID identifier codes that Windows assigns to each individual folder in the Windows Registry. If you know the codes, you can launch these with ease.

In short, GodModes are nothing but developer shortcuts built into Windows 7 & Vista, that enable easy access to certain settings and information about the operating system.

Using GodMode Creator, you can create these shortcuts easily. Simply click on the desired button and it will create the Special Folder or “GodMode” shortcuts on your desktop.

Quick Restore Maker-1-click-create system restore point

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-a-system-restore-point-in-1-click-with-quick-restore-maker

Quick Restore Maker, a smart 1-click freeware app for creating a System Restore Point in Windows 7 & Vista.Normally, to create a system restore point, you have to, via the Control Panel, open the System Protection box and then open the System Restore utility (rstrui.exe) to create a restore point. quick Restore Maker allows you to create one in a single click. The restore point so generated is named as ‘QuickRestoreMaker Generated‘ point. simply download and extract the content on the zip file and place the program folder in your Program Files folder and  the shortcut of its exe file to your Start Menu. Now anytime you are trying out a new software or are tweaking your system, click on the icon to create a restore point first. 

Free PC Inventory

http://www.networkmosaic.com/network-inventory-software.html

Free PC Inventory is a freeware information tool that grabs details of everything about your computer, from the hardware components through to the installed software versions. It even offers up a list of processes that are running. It's the kind of tool that could be invaluable if you're trying to hunt down a driver or errant component replacement. Definitely one for the toolbox.Free PC Inventory does not require installation and can be used as a portable application. It can be run from a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM drive, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk. 

Unknown Devices – find Device Manger unknown devices

http://halfdone.com/ukd

Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.

By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards to figure out what they are.

Program supports Win95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP and 2003 but not NT. It also attempts to support future OSes.
It runs fine from a CD or floppy. It's free for personal and (especially) business use. The program contains no adware, spyware, malware, popups, or whatever is the latest name for junk software. If you want to add it to a cd collection or magazine that is fine, just drop me an email.

Monitor Off Utility

http://www.dekisoft.com/mou.php

Now you can tell your monitor to immediately go into energy saving mode with the click of a button. Monitor Off Utility is a free program that allows you to take control of your monitors built-in energy saving features. You can setup your own custom keyboard shortcuts or setup a shortcut on your desktop or system tray. The utility supports multiple monitors and is very flexible. It even allows you to use a command line interface if you want to incorporate the utility into your own scripts.

Goodnight Timer-reduce volume then shutdown computer

http://www.immortalsoftware.com/goodnight.html

Like listening to music or audiobooks in bed? Then this is for you! Goodnight timer reduces the sound volume of your computer in a given amount of time and speed and then shuts down your computer.Features- Set shutdown time by timer or at a specific time- Volume reduction – choose between a linear and an exponetial profile, set reduction start time and duration. Start and end volumes can be freely choosen.- Restores your normal sound volume after next system start.Download
You can download Goodnight Timer ver 1.1 for Windows here:

Network Lights-keyboard lights for network traffic

http://www.itsamples.com/network-lights.html

Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface.

Network Lights lets you monitor network activity (upload/download) from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.

TimeComX-automate system tasks – restart

http://bitdreamers.com/products/timecomx

TimeComX is a small and resource-friendly automation program, that can put your computer into different states after specified time or by a lower deviation of network and processor usage activity.

WinFontsView

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

WinFontsView is a small utility that enumerates all fonts installed on your system, and displays them in one simple table. For each font, WinFontsView draws 5 samples of the font in different sizes, in order to allow you to easily find and choose the desired font that you need. WinFontsView also allows you to view the fonts as Bold, as Italic or with underline, as well as it allows you to export the fonts list into html file. If you need to find a font in non-English character set, WinFontsView also allows you to choose the right characters set of the fonts and to type the characters displayed in the sample text of each font. 

Unknown Devices – find Device Manger unknown devices

http://halfdone.com/ukd

Unknown Devices helps you find what those unknown devices in Device Manager really are.

By checking Device Manager for unknown devices and extracting information from it, this program attempts to figure out what the device is. You might not have to open your case or look up random numbers off of PCI cards to figure out what they are.

Program supports Win95, 98, 98se, Me, 2k, XP and 2003 but not NT. It also attempts to support future OSes.
It runs fine from a CD or floppy. It's free for personal and (especially) business use. The program contains no adware, spyware, malware, popups, or whatever is the latest name for junk software. If you want to add it to a cd collection or magazine that is fine, just drop me an email.

Speccy – system Information

http://www.piriform.com/speccy

SpeccySpeccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC. We're still bug fixing, but have just released a Public BETA version for you to download! What's in your computer?  If you're like most of us, you can probably name the processor (Intel or AMD, Celeron or Pentium), maybe how much RAM it has, and maybe how big the hard drive is.When you go to a computer store and see all the bright shiny PCs laid out next to each other, most will have tags or stickers indicating the:    * Processor brand and model    * Hard drive size and speed    * Amount of memory (RAM)
    * Graphics card
    * Operating system

Windows Live Essentials

http://download.live.com/

PureRa-System Purification Tool

http://raproducts.org/purera.html

PureRa is a simple tool that does a simple job: it removes files from your computer that other mainstream cleaning programs tend to oversee. Some of our targets can simply be removed to create some valuable space while others are removed in an attempt to repair certain problems because they will simply recreate themselves.

Ninite Easy PC Setup  and Custom Bulk Installer

http://ninite.com/

The easiest way to get apps.

   1. Pick the apps you want.
   2. Start your customized installer.
   3. You're done!

Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works
in the background 100% hands-free.

We install apps with default settings and
say "no" to browser toolbars and other junk.

All we do is install the latest versions of the apps
you choose. Not even Ninite is installed.

Want to see how it works? Read a step-by-step

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.