Utilities

http:/ / www.candylabs.com/ approcket/
AppRocket is a very natural way of accessing all types of files and information on your computer. Just type a few letters of what you are looking for and AppRocket finds it. It's fast, beautiful, and easy-to-use.

http:/ / www.sysinternals.com/ Utilities/ Autoruns.html
This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them.

http:/ / www.majorgeeks.com/ download.php?det=664
Bootvis.exe is a performance tracing and visualization tool that Microsoft designed to help PC system designers and software developers identify performance issues for boot/resume timing while developing new PC products or supporting software.

http:/ / www.ccleaner.com/
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and FREE! :)

http:/ / www.speedguide.net/ read_articles.php?id=1497
A patching program for removing or changing the limit imposed on connection attempts in SP2. The patcher has the ability to restore tcpip.sys back to the original... Still, you might want to back up tcpip.sys, use it at your own risk.

http:/ / www.faberbox.com/ fabertoys.asp
Faber Toys is a system utility, mainly developed for power users who want to know what's going on in their Personal Computer. It may also be used by programmers as a tool for tracking their applications.

http:/ / www.greatis.com/ appdata/ index.html
Lists of executables that are necessary, optional, useless and dangerous. Instructions on how to remove and/or disable.

http:/ / www.oxygen-inc.com/ premium/ InsaniSoft/ iEx.htm
iEx is a utility for Windows XP that displays a grid of thumbnails, each representing an open window on your computer. When you click on a thumbnail it brings the corresponding window to the front, so it can be very useful for people who like to have a lot of windows open at once.

http:/ / www.macecraft.com/ index.php?lg=en&id=products_pt&did=
jv16 PowerTools is basically the Tool to control your computer. Until now your computer might had been the one who is in charge, but with jv16 PowerTools you can take the control. The program contains all the tools needed for monitoring, cleaning and controlling the registry, the file system and your Local Area Network.

http:/ / www.konfabulator.com/
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.

http:/ / www.everythingisnt.com/ hosts.html
A hosts file tells your computer what numerical address (209.61.186.253) is associated with what URL (www.everythingisnt.com.) . This file is a very simple hack which takes ad server URLs and redirects them to non-existant numerical addresses. In other words we're fooling the internet. Its pretty simple and it works. Tens of thousands of people use it everyday with no problems.

http:/ / stevemiller.net/ puretext/
PureText only removes rich formatting from text. This includes the font face, font style (bold, italics, etc.), font color, paragraph styles (left/right/center aligned), margins, character spacing, bullets, subscript, superscript, tables, charts, pictures, embedded objects, etc. PureText is basically equivalent to opening Notepad, doing a PASTE, followed by a SELECT-ALL, and then a COPY. The benefit of PureText is performing all these actions with a single Hot-Key and having the result pasted into the current window automatically.

http:/ / www.ramdisk.tk/
A RAMDisk acts as a virtual drive on your system. It allows you to create directories, copy files to and from it, etc... The data however is not written onto a hard disk, but remains purely stored into a particular part of your RAM memory. Hard disks have mechanical parts that allow to seek to a particular position on the magnetic storage media and to read/write data. This make them relative lazy. A RAMDisk can read and write the same data to upon 30-60 times faster than a hard disk! However, the data stored in your RAM is "volatile" : it disappears when you cut off the power to the RAM memory, with other words, if you turn off your system.

http:/ / www.reallyslick.com/
These screensavers are freeware. Feel free to give them to anyone and everyone. Some of them demand a lot of performance from your CPU and graphics card, so I hope you have a fast computer. These savers use OpenGL for graphics and will perform poorly without OpenGL hardware acceleration. All modern PCs being sold have decent OpenGL support, but the high-end gaming PCs will work the best.

http:/ / www.macecraft.com/ index.php?lg=en&id=products_rs&did=
RegSupreme is the superior standalone, ultra fast and lightweight registry cleaner. With its brand new technology registry cleaning engine the RegSupreme represents a new generation of Windows registry cleaners. Of course, don't just believe us, try it yourself and we are sure you will be amazed by RegSupreme's speed and performance!

http:/ / www.mlin.net/ StartupCPL.shtml
Startup Control Panel is a nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts. It's simple to use and is very small and won't burden your system. A valuable tool for system administrators!

http:/ / www.windows-help.net/ windows98/ tweakui2000.shtml
Tweakui is a productivity tool for advanced users that adjusts some of the settings for the windows user interface. This version is compatible with Windows 95/98/2000/NT and Me.

http:/ / www.microsoft.com/ windowsxp/ downloads/ powertoys/ xppowertoys.mspx
TweakUI gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more. PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released to manufacturing. They add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. (Power Calculator, Alt-Tab Replacement, Open Command Window Here, Image Resizer, CD/HTML Slide Show Generator, Vitrual Desktop Manager, Taskbar Magnifier & Webcam Timeshot.)

http:/ / kickme.to/ XPAntiSpy
XP-AntiSpy is a little utility that lets you disable some built-in update and authentication 'features' in WindowsXP.