Spybot - Search & Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover.
Mmm FREE v2.02 Released
Mmm FREE is a popular and unique utility that lets you customize your overcrowded windows context-menus. Remove menu-items you never use. Move rarely used functions out on a sub-menu. Just drag & drop the menu-items where you want them to go.
This version fixes a crash/reboot issue with some SiS graphic cards and also uses less memory/resources.
This version fixes a crash/reboot issue with some SiS graphic cards and also uses less memory/resources.
McAfee AntiSpyware 2.0 Beta
McAfee® AntiSpyware quickly detects then safely helps eliminate malicious applications - such as spyware, adware, keyloggers, remote-control programs, browser hijackers - hiding on your system before they can steal your identity, copy passwords or monitor browsing activity when you surf or shop. Erasing online roadblocks, McAfee AntiSpyware also foils adware programs that trigger annoying advertisements and sap system performance.
TCP Optimizer 2.0.1
The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. Just download and run, there is no installaion required.
Outpost Firewall Pro 2.7
Outpost Firewall Pro, provides a superior arsenal of defense against PC infiltration by denying unauthorized access by remote hackers and protecting against data theft, denial-of-service attacks, privacy violation, Trojan horses, spyware and more. Four major criteria define Outpost Firewall Pro: security, control, privacy and ease of use.
Real Alternative 1.39
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player.
K-Lite Codec Pack 2.48
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a free collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The very user-friendly installation is fully customizable, which means that you can install only those components that you want.
QuickTime Alternative 1.47
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
7-Zip 4.20
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
Everest Home 2.1 Final
EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.
VirtualDub 1.6.6 Experimental
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Nvidia FX Composer 1.7
This release of FX Composer includes several minor bug fixes and installer updates. It has also been updated to support the Microsoft DirectX SDK April 2005 Update, so you can start using the latest HLSL compiler and FX framework with FX Composer now.
NVPerfHUD 2.1
NVPerfHUD analyzes your graphics pipeline performance one stage at a time and displays real time statistics that can be used to diagnose performance bottlenecks in your Direct3D 9 application.
NVIDIA SDK 9.1
The NVIDIA SDK includes hundreds of code samples, effects, and libraries to help you take advantage of the latest in graphics technology. This release includes several new code samples, bug fixes and improved documentation:
nLite 1.0 beta 1 Released - Win XP Reduction Tool
Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package. Works for every version of Windows XP installation, tested with SP2 build 2180. To avoid confusion, this is for pre-installation, not like XPlite which is post installation customizer.
IsoBuster 1.8 (Build 1.8.0.4)
IsoBuster lets you explore a CD's File System while by-passing Windows. This way you get better Error handling and several retry-mechanisms to aid you in getting the data anyway (or at least partially). Starting with version 1.2, the program has some PRO features for which you must pay. The classic functions can still be used for free, though.
IsoBuster 1.8 (Build 1.8.0.4) - Changelog
IsoBuster 1.8 (Build 1.8.0.4) - Changelog
Asus PcProbe 2
Our bro's over at Station-Drivers send word that they've snagged Asus new PCProbe 2, which is a convenient utility to monitor the computer's vital components: fan rotation speeds, voltages and temperatures.
FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2005-05-27
FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.
Foobar2000 0.9 beta 4
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.
Lavasoft Ad-Aware v1.06 Released
Thanks to Jim over at MajorGeeks for the Heads UP! Ad-aware Standard Edition is THE award winning, free*, multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability.
Central Brain Identifier 7.4.0.4 R4
Central Brain Identifier 7.5.0.4 Build 0525 R4 is available for download! This release supports a new plugin called AdminControl. The plugin allows to remotely identify AMD processors.
BitTorrent v4.0.2
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed to transfer files. Users connect directly to send and receive portions of a file, while a central tracker coordinates the action of all peers and manages connections without knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed.
eDonkey2000 1.2
eDonkey is a File Sharing program. This means that it will give you the opportunity to share files you have on your computer with other users on the network, and you will in turn be able to download files of them.
eDonkey2000
eDonkey2000
ATITool v0.0.24
W1zzard has released a new version of his popular ATITool software. ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards. Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks.
ATITool v0.0.24
ATITool v0.0.24
BitTorrent v4.1.1 Beta with Trackerless support
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed to transfer files. Users connect directly to send and receive portions of a file, while a central tracker coordinates the action of all peers and manages connections without knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed.
DVD Region+CSS Free 5.88
DVD Region+CSS Free enables you to watch and copy any region code CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive! It fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and does not require any firmware modifications. It will work, even if you can not change the DVD drive's region anymore.
CWShredder 2.15
A small utility for removing CoolWebSearch (aka CoolWwwSearch, YouFindAll, White-Pages.ws and a dozen other names). Spybot S&D tends to forget essential parts of the hijack, so until it updates, you can just this to completely remove the hijack. Updated to remove the new variants once they come out.
DVDFab Platinum, Gold and Express 2.88
DVDFab lets you make perfect quality DVD movie backups the smart way! Backup your entire DVD - including menus, trailers, and special features - on one or multiple discs.
EVEREST Home Edition 2.00.335
EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.
Magic Utilities 2005 version 3.50 is available
Magic Utilities is a cute program designed to make your computer clean and more stable.These utilities include Uninstller Plus,StartUp Organizer,Process Killer.Magic Utilities enables you to easily and safely uninstall programs;inspect and manage the programs that automatically start when your turn on or logon to your computer;lists and controls all currently running processes(system and hidden processes are also shown).With a cool and user-friendly interface makes it easy for
anyone to use Magic Utilities.
anyone to use Magic Utilities.
FreeEnc 0.44
FreeEnc is a free MPEG-2 encoder, which uses avcodec library to encode. This encoder takes AVISynth input(.avs) and outputs MPEG2 like QuEnc, but the main difference is that every parameter is tweakable, plus it comes with the optimized parameters of MencodeMe, which are known to produce great quality.
Folder View 2.1
I just found this program and I think it is great. I've needed a program like this for ages and I recommend it. Plus it is FREE TOO!!!
Folder View helps you get to any directory fast--no matter how deeply buried--by adding useful shortcuts to Windows Explorer. Instead of trudging through tedious folder trees, you can click an icon and breeze through a fly-out menu selection of folders such as My Documents or other recently accessed folders. File Open and Save dialog boxes display the most recently accessed folders along the middle edge, while another icon offers one-click access to key locations.
Folder View helps you get to any directory fast--no matter how deeply buried--by adding useful shortcuts to Windows Explorer. Instead of trudging through tedious folder trees, you can click an icon and breeze through a fly-out menu selection of folders such as My Documents or other recently accessed folders. File Open and Save dialog boxes display the most recently accessed folders along the middle edge, while another icon offers one-click access to key locations.
xpy 0.8.11
xpy is a small tool which disables the default threats of a Windows XP installation.
HWiNFO v4.9.6 Released
A new version of professional hardware information/diagnostics tool has been released.
The following changed have been made:
The following changed have been made:
SPAMfighter 3.5.9
SPAMfighter is Europe's leading Anti Spam Filter developer, providing Spam Protection for hundreds of thousands of home and corporate users on PC's and Servers.
Samurize 1.62
Are you an IT professional, an overclocker, a gamer, a desktop modder? If so, you've come to the right place. Samurize provides all the information you need about all your computers in one central location on your desktop. Skinnable and customizable, Samurize features a script plugin system which allows you to add the information you want, when you want it.
BitTorrent v4.0.1 with Trackerless support
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer protocol designed to transfer files. Users connect directly to send and receive portions of a file, while a central tracker coordinates the action of all peers and manages connections without knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed.
SpeedFan 4.24
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.
CCleaner 1.19.108
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool that removes unused and temporary files from your system, allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space.
Mmm FREE v2.0 Final released
This popular free utility is now out of beta. It lets you customize and trim your bloated windows context-menus. Remove menu-items you never use. Move rarely used items out on a sub-menu. Very easy to configure, just drag & drop the menu-items where you want them to go.
ATI Tray Tools v1.02.673
Ray Adams has release a new version of his popular ATI Tray Tools. ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that allows instant access to options and settings. The Tool is displayed in the Windows Tray and can easily be accessed by menu.
ATI Tray Tools v1.02.673
ATI Tray Tools v1.02.673
Real Alternative 1.38
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player.
Hardware Sensors Monitor 4.2.1.3
HMonitor 4.2.1.3 has been released! Here's what's new: nVidia nForce4 SMbus support, history plots for temperatures and fans, support for HP Pavilion ze4900 and Acer Ferrari 3000 notebooks, minor improvements, etc.
MultiRes 1.52
MultiRes is a small, free, 32-bit alternative to QuickRes, with refresh rate and multi-monitor support for up to nine display devices under Windows 9x/Me and Windows NT/2000/XP. This release of the award-winning utility includes improved scripting support for dynamic monitor arrays.
PowerStrip 3.60
PowerStrip 3.60 has been released, with improved profile support for multi-headed graphics cards. Year after year, it continues to be the only program of its type to provide driver-independent hardware support to multiple graphics cards from multiple vendors, under every OS from the original retail release of Windows 95 to the latest 64-bit Editions of Windows 2003 and XP.
DVDIdle and DVDIdle Pro 5.85
DVDIdle helps you to extend the lifetime of your DVD drive. By using the Smart Read-ahead Cache, DVDIdle saves DVD data which will be played soon onto the hard disk cache or RAM cache, and then feeds it to DVD player. This allows the DVD drive to rest. For example: a 6X-speed DVD drive will only work for 15 minutes when you are watching a 90 minutes DVD movie.
DVD Region+CSS Free 5.85
This innovative software enables you to watch and copy any region-coded/CSS-encrypted DVD movies on any DVD drive!
Everest Home 2.0 Final
EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.
ClockGen and uGuru
The first version of ClockGen for an Abit mainboard equipped with uGuru has been released. This first version concerns the AS8 and AS8-V models.
DVDFab Platinum, Gold and Express 2.85
DVDFab lets you make perfect quality DVD movie backups the smart way! Backup your entire DVD - including menus, trailers, and special features - on one or multiple discs.