System Mechanic is the easiest most comprehensive way to keep your PC running smooth and error free. Works with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, and XP!

15 Powerful utilities for your PC: Clear junk files from your PC, clean your Registry, speed up your Internet connection, ensure your privacy, fix broken shortcuts, find and remove duplicate files, and lots more.

Just got word from Tim@ Majorgeeks.com that he's got his hands on PowerStrip 3.18 Beta Build 283! PowerStrip 3.18 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls!

Fresh UI - your FREE Windows tweaking tool - just got better with the release of version 2.8. What's new in this version: more hidden settings in File System and Task Scheduler sections and reported bugs fixed.

Fresh UI is a fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings in Windows XP/2000/ NT/98/95/Me, this software covers the customizing and optimizing techniques that you'll be glad to know. Unlike any other similar utilities, this software is 100% free.

PowerStrip 3.16 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls!

From the author:

"This is the final release candidate. I expect a final version by the end of next week. Managed to squeeze in a few more user requests and a few fixes, check the list for all the goods."

Zoom Player is a robust media and DVD front-end player. Zoom Player works in two modes. A media mode which can play any file supported by DirectShow (any file which plays in MediaPlayer) and a DVD mode which uses pre-installed DirectShow DVD filters to play DVD content.

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

Just got word of a new freeware program from X-BIOS and it's called NullSoft instalation script editor version 1.0 alpha!

Guru3d have released a new version of the 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.

DUP-DVD is a powerful tool to convert a DVD movie to SVCD/VCD - easily, quickly, effortlessly. With DUP-DVD you can make a DVD backup to SVCD with just a click!

Majorgeeks.com this program can guide you in setting and adjusting the parameters and controls of your monitor. You can test and adjust the picture size and position, color convergence and purity, white balance, brightness and contrast, focus, interference, and high-voltage regulation.

XP Visual Tools brings fresh air in Windows programming style, using dynamic effects and powerful multimedia elements for a new user interface eXPerience. It?s not just another skinable program, it?s even more. XP Visual Tools brings you completely new interface with each new skin, new animations, music effects and total support for the visual features in Windows XP such as transparency, drop shadow and XP visual style (XP Themes). Finally a complete suite of Windows XP Desktop enhancement,
XP Visual Tools is loaded with all you need to tweak your Windows XP Desktop. Now you can do anything you want, from changing transparency level of XP Start Menu and XP Taskbar to easy swapping between different Windows XP LogonUI or Windows XP Wallpapers and applying Windows XP Skins (XP Themes) to old programs. Click on Read More... for more information and a download link

Just got word from Tim @Majorgeeks.com that he has got hold of a new version of FlashGet 1.3 Beta 2! FlashGet is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files. If you've ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow connection, or been cut off mid-way through a download - or just can't keep track of your ever-growing downloads - FlashGet is for you.

HardwareInfo32 is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards.

BlindWrite suite is a tool designed to perfectly reproduce most CD. RAW mode is needed to produce perfect backups of some protected CDs! DAO mode is even better. Almost all protected CD can be perfectly backed up using with DAO. Blindread / Blindwrite are perfect tools to produce backups in RAW and DAO mode.

A new version of GeForce Tweak Utility has just been released: 3.2 t33.

This utility allows you make a lot of modifications to the registry settings of any GeForce videocard. GeForce256 DDR, GeForce2/MX/Pro/Ultra, GeForce3, Quadro, Quadro2/Pro/MXR, Quadro DCC.

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.

Another day, another release of Powerstrip. Version 3.18 is also scheduled for release shortly, with better DVI support according to programmer Ashley Saldanha of Entech. The tool provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP.

This is the first universal BIOS editor for Radeon-based videocards. This program let you modify clock speeds and BIOS fonts for any videocard based on R100, RV100, RV200, R200 chips. Version 0.95 - was the first public release. Program accepts BIOS image file as input data and generates correct output BIOS image file as a result of processing.

WinDVD Tweaker is designed to allow users of the WinDVD playback software to enable some hidden settings and allow for maximum playback pleasure.

PowerStrip 3.16 provides advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest Radeon 8500DV and GeForce4 Ti4600. It is in fact the only program of its type to support multiple graphics cards from multiple chipset vendors, simultaneously, under every Windows operating system from Windows 95 to XP. A simple menu that pops up from the system tray provides access to some 500 controls over your display hardware, including sophisticated color correction tools, period level adjustments over screen geometry, and driver independent clock controls!