Just spotted this @ Bink's Windows XP:

Great script to make a multiboot win2k or single boot win2k / XP CD. This script slipstreams and true integrates hotfixes, remove duplicate files, compresses new files, makes an ISO and even burns it for you!

Why wait for my Boot CD guide ;-)

How fast are my disks really? Disk Bench tests your hard drive speed in a real life situation not in a benchmarking environment. All it does is copies a file from A to B, times the time it took, and deletes the file from B again.

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

RAM Idle Pro is a smart memory management program that will keep your computer running more efficiently, faster, and longer. RAM Idle works by freeing up physical RAM wasted by Windows and other applications. RAM Idle also includes a Cache and startup manager program that will give you more power to optimize your Windows. No matter how much RAM you have, RAM Idle will help keep your computer running more efficiently, faster, and longer.

DVD Region-Free is an unique, effective and easy-to-use DVD tweaking tool. It allows you to watch all region DVDs on any DVD drive( especially RPC2 ) even if it has been locked.

You don't need to flash any firmware which is dangerous or unavailable. DVD Region-Free also disables region check for popular software-based DVD players such as PowerDVD, WinDVD and CinePlayer. Other features include Region-Free for RCE DVDs, Macrovision-Free, Operation-Free and run self at DVD players startup automatically.

Latest version of the Vorbis decoder for Winamp 2. Build date: Oct 3 2002!

Shield your Internet-connected PC or network from hacker attacks with ZoneAlarm Pro, voted "Best Security Software" by PC World Magazine. ZoneAlarm Pro is compatible with Microsoft Windows® 98/Me/NT/2000 and XP.

Protects against worms, Trojans, spyware, and other malicious threats
Blocks unauthorized connections, pre-empting known and unknown attacks
Provides email protection against 46 suspect file types
Essential security tool for "always-on" broadband connections
Eliminates annoying ads and pop-ups

This was sent in by the nice peeps @ Beyond3d.com:

'SamX' in our forums has produced an Anisotropic filtering test which to test how Hardware implements Anisoptropic Filtering. The test and the source code is now available for download.

I'd like to see some results from a wide set of boards if possible, so if you could run the application with the default settings, but max anisotropic filtering for your board and send a screenshot of the results to compile a nice set of results!

HyperSnap-DX 5 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 5 can capture frames from many software DVD players and other video playing software.

This just in from Tim @ Majorgeeks.com. Freeware DrvImagerXP creates and restores drive images of FAT32 and NTFS partitions for the Windows2000/XP operating systems. It makes backups of your partitions, but does not copy file-by-file, it doesn't know anything about files!. It creates a mirror image (but not reversed) of a partition by copying the sector bytes on the partition. And it does this very fast! You can create images of different operating system setups and swap them out in just minutes!

This utility is provided for fine tuning your ASUS display card to make maximum stablility to your system.

Here's some Nero Plugins for your downloading pleasure.

NeroPlugin-FXMPG Encoder
NeroPlugin-mp3PRO Encoder
NeroPlugin-MPEG2SVCD v1.3
NeroPlugin-Nero ASPI Layer
NeroPlugin-Nero Mix v1.3.029
NeroPlugin-WMA Encoder

YahooPOPs! is an open-source initiative to provide free POP3 access to your Yahoo! Mail account. This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, Calypso, etc. to download email from Yahoo! accounts.

RightMark Audio Analyzer v4.1 has been released. The test suite performs various tests of electroacoustical performance of sound cards and other real-time audio devices. Testing is accomplished by playing the test signals and recording them after they pass through the testing chain. New features include:

Acoustics Testing mode ("swept sine" test of frequency response/THD, support of SAC files)
Several minor improvements on users' demands

Big Thanks to Geeknewz.com! Plextor Europe is proud to announce a new release of the PlexTools software. You can use PlexTools for instance to get more information on your drive, tweak its settings and besides that you can use it to play audio discs (with support for CD-Text) and of course you can use PlexTools to copy CD's or to make your own audio compilations with.

The tool helps with the TV ouput of Nvidia graphic cards. The main problem is the black borders around the picture on the TV screen. They are very annoying for most applications like e.G. DVD-playback. This tool helps getting rid of those bars...

Cool Beans System Info is a small but powerful program that monitors your computer's CPU, physical memory, and swap memory usage. Version 2 was rewritten from scratch, and adds network monitoring, a task manager, dual-processor support, and enhanced visual effects. Cool Beans System Info is freeware. Cool Beans System Info also supports the alpha blending transparent look.

This freeware 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 is also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.

This just in from the nice Peeps over @ Winbeta.org. Following on the heels of the 5.5.9.13 release yesterday, a new version, this time 5.5.9.14, is now out. This was officially released by Ahead Software Germany.

Again no change log is available yet, but this one is two times smaller than the leaked version from yesterday. (Missing extra components.)

XtraWarp is specifically designed to optimize your application tuning time in real-time. It is monitoring your all running processes and Optimize them for your specific needs (Media, Games, Graphics applications). More Frames in games, no stuck frames when playing movies and less waiting time in graphics applications and if you are doing benchmarks you will get more points. Click on Read More... to see what's new and a download link.