NVRT 2.1 Released

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NVRefreshTool is a utility used to fix the problem in Windows 2000/XP that sets your refresh rate to 60Hz when you play ANY game. This problem occurs whether or not you have a higher refresh rate set in your Display Properties of Windows.

RegionKiller v2.7.0.2

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RegionKiller 2 takes care of the proper functioning of your (Region Code free) DVD drive - from now on you'll be able to watch foreign DVDs on your home theater PC without being hassled by possibly non-working DVDs.

Leaktest 1.2

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Thanks to Tim @Majorgeeks for sending in this new Free tool. LeakTest is a safe and small (27k bytes), completely benign chameleon utility which can be used to simulate the presence and effect of Trojan horses, viruses, and adware/spyware running in your computer. It simply and quickly tells you whether it has been able to slip out past your firewall's outbound Trojan/Virus/Spyware protections and establish a standard TCP connection with our NanoProbe server.

NVIDIA Stereo Wrapper

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Just spotted this @ Guru3D.com

GiofX wrote a small 15 KB DLL patch under XP that enables Det 40.xx compatible with Stereodrivers for your 3D Goggles, it recalls the nvidia stereo config dialog, unfortunately the first screen does not save the settings but other config are ok! This wrapper should works very fine with XP Pro / Det 40.72 / Stereo 30.87

WinRAR 3.10 Beta 5

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WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of the RAR archiver - a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. Read more for the changelog and download link.

DVDXCopy v1.2.2 Released

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Now you can backup your favorite DVD movies with nothing more than a DVD burner and your home computer with DVDXCOPY software. Within minutes, using the easy One-Click technology, you can COPY and BURN your own DVD Movies using nothing more than the software, a DVD-ROM and any DVD Burner including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW.

ICQ Plus 3.5

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ICQ Plus allows you to change the appearance of ICQ. When installed, ICQ Plus integrates with ICQ by adding a menu item to the main menu. Choosing this menu item brings up a dialog which lets you configure ICQ's appearance in several ways. You can apply a predefined skin or create one yourself. ICQ Plus runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.

Free Benchmarking Tools

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Thanks to Tim @Majorgeeks.com for sending in these free tools. MetaBench 0.92 Beta 45 tests designed to benchmark high-end systems Science Mark 2.0 Beta 17112002 A suite of benchmarks that realistically stress system performance.

Hmonitor 4.1.2.1

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Savagenews.com reports that Hardware Sensors Monitor has been updated to version 4.1.2.1. This program is almost the same as MotherBoard Monitor but I prefer it because of the simplest interface.

IBM Tools

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Thanks to Tim @Majorgeeks for sending in these two freeware tools. IBM Drive Fitness Test 3.20: Quick, reliable method to test IBM SCSI and IDE hard disk drives. IBM Feature Tool 1.60: Control some of the features in the newer IBM hard drives

CD-R Media Code Identifier

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Thanks to TweakTown.com for sending in this great tool. This software was developed to read the ATIP from a CDR media using a CD recorder - right now there's no CDROM reader that can do this (most probably at least). The ATIP tells who has manufactured the disc and what dye type they used. (The ATIP doesn't tell the exact dye type - it just tells if the recording strategy to be used for this media is a "long strategy type" (e.g. Cyanine) or "short strategy type" (e.g. Phthalocyanine).

DVDXCopy v1.2.1 Released

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Now you can backup your favorite DVD movies with nothing more than a DVD burner and your home computer with DVDXCOPY software. Within minutes, using the easy One-Click technology, you can COPY and BURN your own DVD Movies using nothing more than the software, a DVD-ROM and any DVD Burner including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW.

VCool v1.8 Beta 10a

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This little utility will cool your Athlon/Duron processor on Via KT133 or KX133(A) (VT8363, VT8361, VT82C691/693A/694 or VT8371 +VT82C686x) chipsets during idle.

DVDXCopy v1.2 Released

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Now you can backup your favorite DVD movies with nothing more than a DVD burner and your home computer with DVDXCOPY software. Within minutes, using the easy One-Click technology, you can COPY and BURN your own DVD Movies using nothing more than the software, a DVD-ROM and any DVD Burner including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW.

PlexTools v1.17 Upgrade & CDR Info v1.17 & PX Info v1.17 Released

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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.

ATV2000 v2.0.17.0

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Freeware ATV2000 is new generation of TV viewing and capture application based on old ATV, but with reworked core. All is build around new control panel, witch provides tuning video and audio controls.

Zoom Player 3.0 Beta 2

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Zoom Player is a robust Media and DVD Front-End Player. It was designed to be simple at first glance while being remarkably dynamic and flexible when used to its full potential. 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.

EpoX Motherboard Utilities

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I took a look at the CD that came with my EpoX 8K9A2+ motherboard and saw two interesting programs. Magic Flash and USDM. I took a look around the EpoX site, the EpoX FTP, and Google, and the programs on my CD seem to be newer than any version I found.