This information applies to: Dacris Benchmarks 4.9 Build 5001 or earlier. If you activate Dacris Benchmarks a second time, it will keep saying it's a trial version.

Cause: It is likely that no registry value is written.

A fix has been released that will solve this problem.

ClonyXXL Version 2.0.0.5 is a copyprotection detection scanner, wich can show what kind of protection is used on a disc. It will provide you with the right settings for CloneCD, so you can make a working copy of the disc.

Customizer XP is an integrated suite of programs that can help you to tweak your Windows. 2000/XP to its fullest potential performance or just keep it running like new. It offers a wide range possibility to customize and optimize your Windows program. Whether you want to tweak your Windows registry, cleanup your harddisk, or increase your multimedia and 3D games performance. Read more to get the file and read what's new.

Here's some free tools. HDCopy 2.102: you can make an identical copy of a hard drive onto another hard drive. If you buy a new hard drive and don't wish to change your Windows configuration in any way, you can use HDCopy to copy your old hard drive completely to the new one (hidden files as well). HDCleaner 2.310: clears the fixed disk and removes unnecessary file garbage from all available drives. The most important groups of files, about BAK, CHK, GID, ~ * *, TMP, are before-configured already and need to be only selected. After the selection of the desired drives HDCleaner starts scanning and searches the data . DFUeTweaker 1.0: DFUeTweaker helps you find OS specific information on how to optimize the Settings for Cable Modems or xDSL, which assumes some proficiency in customizing Windows. Nero DVD Speed 0.53 Beta: DVD Speed is a DVD-ROM benchmark which can test the most important features of a DVD-ROM drive. CoolMon 0.95 Beta: displays system information in a small configurable window. Most of the application's data is retrieved from the Windows performance counters; which are only available in Windows 2000 and XP.

iuVCR is a Windows 2000/XP intended video recording program. Have a TV tuner or a video capture card installed on your Windows 2000 or XP system? Now you can easily record your favorite TV programs and videos in *.AVI or *.WMV format. iuVCR has got a simple and plain interface, allows to capture video of any format, resolution and duration, can automatically start when scheduled and has a number of other useful features.

RivaTuner is one of the most powerful tweaking utilities for Nvidia display adapters running under Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of the Detonator drivers. All versions of the Detonator drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don?t affect anything, but there are some that are very useful. In general, they cannot give you big performance boost but they can improve image quality and solve some compatibility problems. RivaTuner will help you to change all undocumented registry entries. It supports all versions of Detonators drivers starting from Detonator 2.08 under Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE / Windows ME (Detonator 5.08 or higher under Windows 2000 / Windows XP). Click on Read More... to see what's new and a direct download link.

A graphical user interface for DVD to AVI conversion, that ties together MPEG2AVI, VirtualDub and AC3 Decode.

This program was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies. It can rebuild or strip the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file. There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.

SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds and temperatures in computers with a known monitoring chip. Its main feature is that it can control the speed of the fans according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption. Currently the only recognized (and useful) chips are WINBOND W83782D, which is found in ABIT BP6, and WINBOND W83627HF. If you've got any other motherboard with the same chip, this program is for you

Guru3d have released a new tweak tool called nVHardPage. Quotes from Guru:

Do you seek an easy way to en/disable overclocking options or vsync option in your detonator drivers without the burden of importing registry entries or the need to go in that registry yourself ? Basically CoolBits and more within your fingertips.

This program serves on enabling/disabling hidden features in nVidia control panel and tweaking nVidia Direct3D & OpenGL settings.

Supported OS: WinXP, Win2k, Win9x/Me - only CoolBits & Display orientation at the moment.

Supported Drivers: Detonators 21.81 and higher.

Entcity.com Asus PCProbe is a convenient utility to monitor the computer's vital components: fan rotations, voltages and temperatures.

Hot CPU Tester Pro is a system health and stability tester. It tests CPU, and virtually all parts of motherboard for errors/bugs and defective parts. It is a burn-in test with uniquely designed state of the art DefectTech engine. DefectTech is a technology developed by OpusWare Enterprise to diagnostic systems regarding its stability and in general computer's health. Hot CPU Tester is currently being used in many labs and governmental organizations around the world, as a reliable stability testing utility.

A new version of the Windows XP tweak and tuning utility Tweak XP has been released. Releasedate is 6 April, 2002
Read more for the changes and the download link.

The CPU RightMark (CPU RM) benchmark is meant for objective performance measurement of modern and future CPUs in various computational tasks such as computational modeling of physical processes and solving of 3D graphics problems. The emphasis is placed on testing under the load of a CPU-RAM link and FPU/SIMD units.

Freeware Easydivx is a all in one rippack or graphical user interface program for vStrip, MPEG2AVI, AC3DEC Normalize, VirtualDub and MicroDVD menu. It includes all required programs and works with:

Windows 98 / 98 SE,
Windows ME,
Windows 2000,
Windows NT,
Windows XP 32 bit (normal) FAT32/NTFS
Windows XP 64bit

A new ATI RefreshFix has been released and it's version 0.9.9.5 beta. Note that this tool only works for Windows 2000 and XP.

Guru3d have released a new tweak tool called nVHardPage. Quotes from Guru:

Do you seek an easy way to en/disable overclocking options or vsync option in your detonator drivers without the burden of importing registry entries or the need to go in that registry yourself ? Basically CoolBits and more within your fingertips.

This program serves on enabling/disabling hidden features in nVidia control panel and tweaking nVidia Direct3D & OpenGL settings.

Supported OS: WinXP, Win2k, Win9x/Me - only CoolBits & Display orientation at the moment.

Supported Drivers: Detonators 21.81 and higher.

AdAware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely. It is updated frequently.

Savagenews.com HyperSnap-DX 4 is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D, 3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games. HyperSnap-DX 4 can capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing software.

Fresh UI - your FREE Windows tweaking tool - just got better with the release of version 2.4. What's new: more Windows hidden settings in the Media Player, Network, Explorer, Recycle Bin, and My Network Places sections.