CCEnhancer - A Small Tool Which Adds Support For Over 500 New Programs Into CCleaner.

CCEnhancer is a small tool which adds support for over 500 new programs into the popular program CCleaner. The tool uses the winapp2.ini system built into CCleaner to easily add new rules and definitions for programs. The rules were sourced mainly from the Piriform Support Forum, with several sourced from other places around the internet.  The actual file containing the definitions is not included with the program, but is instead downloaded by the program. Simply press ‘Download Latest’ and the tool will automatically download the most recent version of the definitions. If CCEnhancer cannot locate the CCleaner.exe file you can open a dialog box and select the page yourself. License: Free. Compatibility: Microsoft Windows...

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CCleaner - A superior lightweight PC Cleaning Utility.

CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning 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. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! CCleaner Cleans the following: Internet Explorer Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, Autocomplete form history, index.dat files. Firefox Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, download history, form history. Google Chrome Temporary files, history, cookies, super cookies, download...

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Kludget Engine - Apple Mac OS Style Dashboard Widgets for Windows and Linux Desktop.

Kludgets, widgets, gadgets, applets or screenlets are shiny little applications that decorate the desktop. More just than eye-candy on the screen, they provide an enhanced user experience. Serving information such as news and weather, monitoring email, facebook or twitter updates, are just some of the functionalities than can change the way we experience the internet on our desktop. The Kludget Engine’s inspiration is the MacOS’s Dashboard widgets and is compatible in terms of technology and format. But the Kludgets Engine brings some of better features from Yahoo’s Widget Engine, Microsoft Gadget, and Google Desktop, and Opera Widgets. Features: MacOS Dashboard Widgets support. Opera Widgets support. Open Source (LGPL). Cross...

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Nyan Cat - An Awesome Progress Bar for Windows.

Replace the default Windows Explorer progress bars with a fun Nyan Cat bar. Nyan Cat Progress Bar is an application that displays the Nyan Cat over the top of progress bars in Windows. Since the Nyan Cat Progress Bar depends on the progress bar being a standard Windows progress bar (ie. not a custom-drawn one, or a non-native one), it won't work with every progress bar on your system, but it works with Windows Explorer for file copies. Nyan Cat Progress Bar also worked when deleting files and replaced the default system progress bar. License: Free. Compatibility: Windows 7...

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EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition - An ALL-IN-ONE Partition Solution and Disk Management Tool.

EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition is a ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management freeware. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low disk space problem on MBR and GUID partition table (GPT) disk. Features: Free partition manager for Windows 32 bit & 64 bit HOME USERS. No Adware and Toolbar. Safely free merge adjacent partitions into one without data loss. Upgrade system disk to a bigger one with one click. Extend system partition to maximize computer performance. Partition Manager utility for better hard disk management and computer performance maximization. Copy Wizard to copy partition or migrate entire hard disk to another without Windows system re-installation. Use...

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Smart Desktop - An Amazing Customization Utility that Puts Panels with Tabs on Windows Desktop.

Features: Smart Desktop is a useful tool that will enable you to change the appearance of your desktop. Smart Desktop comes with many useful functions that are designed to help you check the local weather, monitor system parameters, quickly access webpages and many more. Here are some key features of Smart Desktop: · Home Tab. · Video Tab. · Web links Tab. · Wallpaper Tab. · Monitoring Panel. · Application Panel. License: Free. Compatibility: Windows XP/Vista/7...

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STDU Explorer - Get Windows 8 Style Explorer with Ribbon UI in Window XP, Vista & 7.

STDU Explorer is a piece of software that offers you the opportunity to work with image files (support psd, bmp, png, gif, pcx, jpeg, wmf formats) and e-books in DjVu, PDF, FB2, JBIG2, XPS, DCX, WWF, PDB, CBR and CBZ formats. This application helps you quickly view and find books or image files.  STDU Explorer supports standard operations such as moving, copying, pasting, renamming, deleting, etc. But its possibilities are much wider: Extended representation of files list, with adjustable thumbnails size. Fast preview any page of multipage documents. Fast access to a tree of bookmarks in PDF, XPS, FB2 or DjVu files. License: Free. Compatibility: Microsoft...

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HWiNFO - A Powerful Hardware Information and Diagnostic Tool.

HWiNFO is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. These tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports. Features: Comprehensive hardware information. System health monitoring (Thermal, Voltage, Fan, Power). Table, Logfile, Graph, Tray, Gadget, LG LCD reporting. Basic benchmarks. Text, CSV, XML, HTML, MHTML report formats. Periodical...

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RainMeter - A Customizable Resource Meter for Windows.

Rainmeter displays customizable skins, like memory and battery power, RSS feeds and weather forecasts, right on your desktop. Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, and control your media player - all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking. Rainmeter is at once an application and a toolkit. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. License: Open Source. Compatibility: Windows XP/Vista/7. ...

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SMFixer - Windows Safe Mode Fixer.

Safe Mode is a special way for Windows to load when there is a system-critical problem that interferes with the normal operation of Windows. The purpose of Safe Mode is to allow you to troubleshoot Windows and try to determine what is causing it to not function correctly. Once you have corrected the problem, then you can reboot and Windows will load normally. Many viruses corrupt Windows Safe Mode in order to prevent you from removing them. If you cannot boot in safe mode then you are in a very critical situation; you cannot make any repairs and reinstalling the entire system is your only choice.Fortunately, we have the solution which will fix the corrupted Safe Mode and gives you back the full control over your computer and...

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ViGlance - Get Windows 7 like SuperBar in Windows XP.

Take back control of your task bar! ViGlance simplifies your windows taskbar by organising your programs so that there's clutter. The ultimate upgrade for your Taskbar!   Features:   Previews of Windows from your Task bar: Hovering the mouse pointer over an application's Taskbar icon produces a thumbnail window view known as a snapshot. But when you have multiple windows open in Vista, you see only one preview at a time. ViGlance makes this feature is elegant and more efficient. Hover the pointer on an icon, and thumbnails of the programs's windows glide into position above the windows task bar, so you can quickly find the window you're looking for.   Pin...

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SE-DesktopConstructor - A Nice Wallpaper Rotator that Shows a Calendar and Clock on your Desktop.

Completely customize you desktop using SE-DesktopConstructor: automatically change background image, add desktop clock or calendar, fade desktop with color gradients and more.     Features: Automatically change desktop background image every day, hour or even every minute. Change background color or color gradient to your taste. Place clock to your desktop. Configure your own clock using one of 20 presets. Create your own calendar for your desktop. Create colored areas for the icons on the desktop. Clear multilingual interface: English, Deutsch, Polish, Russian and Chinese. Use application from exernal USB or flash drive anywhere.   License: Free. Compatibility:...

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Dexpot - A Virtual Desktop Manager.

With Dexpot you may have separate virtual desktops for different applications. One desktop might feature applications for graphic design, for example, and another might feature your business applications. Switch between virtual desktops in order to keep track of your open windows. Using Dexpot, you'll considerably increase your workflow. Features: Tremendously increases your work efficiency. Fast set-up. Plenty of features. Yet easy to use. Stunning 3D transition effects. Only if you like them. Looks up to date, tidy and has a lovely design. Can be expanded with plugins. Results in small memory footprint. Supports stylish wallpaper clocks (*.wcz).   License: Free. Compatibility: Windows 2000/XP/2003 and Vista/2008/7...

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See Through Windows - Make the Current Window Transparent by the Press of a Hotkey.

Before  After Using See Through Windows Press a hotkey to make the current window transparent, allowing you to see through it! Press hotkeys to minimize/maximize the current window, or to send it to another monitor (like Windows 7, except also if you don't have Windows 7) License: Free. Compatibility: Win (All). ...

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Drive Space Indicator - A Windows XP Utility to Customize Drive Icons and Monitor Free Space in My Computer.

This program changes the icons in My Computer for the drives that are attached the computer. Each drive has a progress bar indicating how full the drive is.  The default Icon Theme is the Vista Theme. Courtsey of the Configuration GUI, update interval, drive trays, shortcut management, changing the Icon Theme, as well as many different options are available. License: Free. Requirements:  - Windows 2000 and above should work fine. Tested on XP. - Shell Hardware Detection service needs to be running. - WMI needs to be installed in order to detect hardware PNP Device IDs. Download Lin...

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ImgBurn - A Lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray Burning Application.

  Features: ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit! It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task: Read - Read a disc to an image file Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc Write - Write an image file to a disc Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats...

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7Stack - Create Stacks of Icons in Taskbar or Quick Launch Bar.

Features: In 7 and Vista, 7stacks uses Aero, making the stacks look like part of Windows itself. Browse subfolders within a stack, just like in OS X Snow Leopard. 3 different styles of stacks: Normal, Grid, and Menu Normal displays a stack of icons vertically, with a text description next to it. Grid displays a “squarish” grid of icons only; useful when displaying a large number of items like document folders. Menu displays a cascading menu of items, with a very small icon and a name next to it. Hover over subfolders to browse inside those folders. In Windows 7, create a new stack by right-clicking on any stack and selecting “Create New Stack” from the JumpList entry. In Menu mode, 7stacks doesn’t even need to be in a toolbar. You...

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CD Art Display - View The Current Song Cover in a Customizable Skin.

CD Art Display is a free desktop program that shows the current song cover in a customizable skin. It fully works with AlbumPlayer, Helium Music Manager, iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, foobar2000 (component required), MediaMonkey and partially supports qmp, MP3Toys and musikCube. Along with several skins ready to use, CD Art Display has a powerful Skin Editor with real time preview. Features: Skinnable. High quality graphics. PNG transparency support. Reads cover from players database, local folder or ID3v2 tag. Download cover from Amazon.com via built in tool. Cover as system tray icon. Read, search and submit Lyrics. Supports Hotkeys. License: Free. Compatibility: Windows 7, Vista or XP and Visual Basic runtime...

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aTube Catcher - Download, Search, Convert, Burn Videos and Music.

Features: Download videos from thousands of video sharing sites. You can export the multimedia content to your computer or your mobile device, IPAD, IPOD, PSP, GPS devices, MP4 Players, Cell Phone, Android devices, DVD, VCD, MP3, IPhone. Plenty of formats supported including 3GP, 3G2, AVI, XVID, MP4, MP3, MP2, WMA, WMV, GIF, FLAC, WAV, PSP, MPG, VOB, OGG, MOV, AVI. aTube Catcher also can burn in DVD/VCD your videos without use any other third party software. Among other features has a built-in Screen Recorder to capture what you see on your screen or just create video/audio presentations. License: Free. Compatibility: Win (All). Download Lin...

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Free Opener - Open Multiple File Types With Just One Software.

  Features: Open and edit DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, CSV files without installing Microsoft® Office. Watch video files including AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, MOV and MP4 formats.   Listen to any music or sound file: MP3, WMV, MID, WAV plus others! View, crop, re-size and print your image files: PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, ICO, RAW and more! Plus open 80+ other file types quickly and easily for free! License: Free. Compatibility: Win (All). Download Lin...

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Restrict Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete Operations in Windows

It will be an awkward situation when someone else uses your computer in your absence and steals your private data. So here I will discuss about different ways to prevent Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete Operations in Windows to restrict this situation 1. Preventing file copying by disabling access to optical drives and USB ports: Optical Drive: There is a program named CD/DVD Drive Locker using which you can disable or enable CD/DVD drive temporarily. USB ports: A. Disabling write access to USB ports: Open Windows registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies  Create a new DWORD, name it WriteProtect and put the value as 0. To allow write...

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Add Insert Option in CD/DVD Drive Context Menu in Windows

When we right click on CD/DVD drive we can see Eject option. But we can also add Insert option in CD/DVD drive context menu.   Here are the steps: 1. First download following zip file, extract it and copy the DLL file to "C:\Windows\System32" folder: Download Link. 2. Now run the .REG file present in the ZIP file and accept the confirmation. That's it. Now you will see the Insert option in CD/DVD drive context menu. You will not have to press the insert button at your CD/DVD drive each time to close it...

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Office Tab - Open Multiple Microsoft Office Documents As Tab

Features: All-in-one Setting Center Office Tab features a powerful Setting Center; you can configure all Office Tab settinigs. Such as: To Enable / Disable the tab separately, use the shortcuts or not, dispaly the tab bar to the top / below / left / right position, choose the tab style and customize the tab colors, all settings can be done in Office Tab Center. Useful Context Menu Right-click on a tab or tab bar to accesses the Tab/tab bar context menu. Office Tab also combines some common command items of Office, that let you access those items more quickly. Create New Document You can quickly create new document by double-clicking the left button in the blank space of the tab ba, or choose to use the "New" command item...

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NexusImage - A Simple Light Weight Portable Image Viewer

Features:   . NexusImage is a simple and light image viewer.  . You can see Exif Information of photos. . It is Portable. NexusImage.exe and NexusImage.ini files are all it needs. NexusImage doesn't use Windows Registry.  . You can add caption to images. License: Free. Compatibility: Windows XP or later required. Download Lin...

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Eight Start Page - Windows 8 like Start Page for Web Browsers

Features: HTML + CSS + jQuery start page for web browsers. Inspired by Windows 8 screenshots. Easy customizable - via WYSIWYG editor directly in browser.  For configuration instructions visit Developer's site. License: Free. Compatibility: Windows XP/Vista/7. Download Link...

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IObit Unlocker - Unlock and Delete Locked Files from Your System

Often when we try to delete a file or folder in Windows, we see annoying messages such as "Cannot delete file: Access is denied;" "Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program" "There has been a sharing violation;" "The source or destination file may be in use;" "The file is in use by another program or user;" "Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use;" or "Cannot read from the source file or disk." This is usually because the file or folder is in use by another program or user. IObit Unlocker is an ideal tool for such situations. It releases the file or folder that's in use by other programs and allows you to quickly remove or modify it. License: Free. Compatibility:...

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Cstitch - Convert Images to Cross Stitch Pattern

Features: Load images in various formats, including jpg, png, and gif. Choose from several options for selecting colors to be used in the pattern. Choose how large you want your final pattern to be (by choosing the size of squares to be imposed on your image. Edit your pattern (see the screenshot above) with tools including draw, change color, and fill region.  Save your project and restore for later editing. Save the final pattern as a pdf. License: Free. Compatibility: Win (All) Download Lin...

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X-Amp - MP3/CD Player, Sound Recorder and Music Management Tool

Features: . High quality playback of MP3s with any bitrate parameters (16-320 kbps); · Compatible play of PCM WAV-files (8/16bit); · Supports the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard; · Tracklisting visual control; · Loading and saving the text playlists in M3U format; · Record sound from the selected analog input device with adjusted level of the stream’s quality; · Indicate the level of signal during recording or playback for the left and the right audio channel separately; · Possibility to edit of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in MP3s; · Possibility for detection of model and version number of the software by which this current MP3 file has been compressed; · Graphic Equalizer; · Effects Processor and Spectrum Analyzer FFT, real-time Echo,...

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3DP Chip - Know About Your Device Drivers and Download Them

3DP Chip will enables you to enumerate devices and download the latest device drivers with few simple clicks. Problems with detecting your devices, finding device drivers to setup your system is worse than Blue screen of death. Everest and Aida32 doesn't provies you a device drivers and they are still heavy. You can use it just for enumerate the devices such as CPU, MOBO, Graphic Card, Sound Card and Ethernet Card. And you can download the latest device drivers through our web site. 3DP Chip uses a high-performance detection algorithm and have more than 22,000 integrated database. License: Free. Compatibility: Win (All). Download Lin...

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Mirro Player - A Light Weight Transparent Music Player on Your Desktop

Features:   A standalone application. No Runtime required.   Auto Playlist save. Open files with blue double music icon to the left of album art. License: Free. Compatibility: Windows XP/Vista/7. Download Lin...

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Digital Image Tool - Batch Process Images Quickly

Features: Batch Image Resize  Either scale or apply max width or height settings, images are never scewed or scaled over 100%. Batch Image Rotation Apply individual rotation or apply a particular rotation to all images. Batch Image Watermark Use built in or custom watermark using image of your choosing. Control watermark transparency as well as positioning, you can also tile as well. Use PNG's files which include their own transparency for best results. Batch Image Tagging Custom tag images with text in lower right corner with date, filename and or custome text, also you can control the transparency. Batch Image Rename Rename multiple image files with ease. Includes search and replace, suffix/prefix...

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eXtra Buttons - Extra Windows Buttons to Optimize Workspace

Features:   Convenience and functionality. It is very simple to get used to eXtra Buttons. There are so many useful functional features, that you won't even notice the change of the way you work with computer.   eXtra Buttons does not need special skills for use. Using buttons as simple as using standard buttons "Minimize", "Maximize" and "Close".   eXtra Buttons is completely built into system. You won't spot any look and feel difference with standard buttons while using eXtra Buttons. And because they are using native Windows' system functions, they will always appear according to your desktop theme.   eXtra Buttons...

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Interactive Calendar - A Great Looking Desktop Calendar and Planner

Interactive Calendar software is a powerful and great-looking desktop calendar and planner capable of bringing some order to your business and personal life. The calendar is completely interactive and extremely intuitive – double-clicking any of its cells will bring up a new task creation window or a task management window if there are any tasks already scheduled on that day. Each task has a number of key properties, including a start and an end date, can be marked as an all-day or completed event and supplied with a description. The built-in text editor used for editing task descriptions supports spell-checking and RTF formatting. This allows you to paste special characters, images, tables and links to local...

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