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InfraRecorder Portable is a FREE CD/ DVD burning program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer like a normal program. This is the portable version of the popular InfraRecorder that can be installed on any USB flash drive, so you can do your disk burning on the go.
InfraRecorder Portable has all the same great features of InfraRecorder including the creation of custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and recording them to physical discs as well as disc images.
InfraRecorder offers a wide range of powerful features including:

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
• Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
• Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

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PCWIZARD 2008 is an advanced system information and benchmarking utility that can identify a large scale of system components, analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance and MP3 compression performance.PCWizard 2008 supports the latest technologies and standards and provides information on many components such as Main board, BIOS, Chipset, Cache memory, Processors, sound card, Direct X. It can also reveal passwords of Outlook, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Dialup, etc, Windows -Version, Product Key, Environment, Desktop, XP Themes, etc - Windows Uptime - Boot, Shutdown, Blue Screen, System Restore Points, etc, Resources -IRQ, DMA, E/S, Memory, etc and many more.
PC Wizard 2008 can also be run directly from removable support (CD/DVD, USB Key), but options are not saved. It can be distributed freely (ftp, archives, CD-ROMs ...).
Supports - 32-bit (x86-32) : Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, Me, NT SP4, 2000, XP Home/Professional, XP (SP1/SP2/SP3), 64-bit (x86-64, IA-64) : Windows XP/2003, Server 2003,Server 2003R2, Vista..
>>File size: 2.37Mb (Version 2008.1.85) License: Free
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One of the important tasks a computer user should do and what we are often forgetting is back up our important data. To avoid any unpleasant situation in the future we should have back up critical files in some other locations. There are many applications available for data back up; you can find some of them here / here / here / here or hereCarbonFolder is a small and extremely simple in use utility with which you can synchronize files between two folders on your computer or through the network. For instance, it lets you perform fast synchronization of files on your desktop PC and a notebook in the local network.
CarbonFolder is absolutely free and runs on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.[Via-Visualbeta]
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Easeus Partition Manager is comprehensive partition software, which not only provides with convenient user-interface simplifying your tasks but also enables you to configure and manage partitions of hard disk.
Easeus Partition Manager provides all types of basic and advanced functions such as Resize and Move partitions by using fee spaces, Create, Delete and Format partitions, Hide and Unhide partitions, support hard disk from 20 to 800GB and much more and it works perfectly with hardware RAID. Your data is completely protected during all operations.
Key Features:

• Support hardware RAID
• Resize and move partitions without losing data
• Create and delete partitions with simple step
• Label partitions - assigned to a partition for easier recognition
• Format partitions with a click
• View Disk/Partition property of each partition
• Hide and unhide partitions - protect important data from unauthorized or casual access
• Set an active partition - specify one partition to be the boot partition
• Preview the effects of partitioning a hard drive before implementing anything
• Change cluster size automatically and manually
• Support hard disks from 20GB to 800GB
• User-friendly interface

Easeus Partition Manager Personal Edition is FREE for home users only. Single license costs $99.95 (Server edition)
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I8kfanGUI is a graphical Windows application which shows you the internal temperatures and allows controlling the fan operation on the Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision notebook series. It's running under Windows 2000 and above operating system versions (Windows 2000/XP/Server2003/Vista).
The software has the following features –
Automatic temperature control – Automatically regulate the fans speed depending on the sensor temperatures. Basically, it allows you to define fan speeds which are to be used when the temperature of one or more sensor falls within four different temperature ranges.
Manual fan control - This section allows you to set the speed of up to two fans. You can set the speeds for both fans at the same time by enabling the check boxes for both fans.
Current system state - Here you can watch the current status of the sensors in your notebook. The values shown here correspond to the sensors that I8kfanGUI found on your system. You can enable and disable the sensor readings on the options window.
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If you have lost your Windows XP / Vista and Office product key, normally it is difficult to recover by just looking at your registry. WinGuggle is a small application that allows you to recover Windows XP/ Vista and Office Product Key. Also the application can set, change and backup your Original Equipment Manufacturer's Information (OEM) and logo. No Installation is needed, just unzip the archive and launch the application.
Features:

• Get Windows Vista and Office Product Key (CD Key)
• Change OEM Logo and Information Completely (Vista and XP)
• Change Performance Information and Tools OEM Logo (Vista Only)
• Manual and Automatic Backup of OEM Logo and Information Settings
• Reset to Default Restore's the Original Settings
• Your Anti-Virus will not give any alarm message

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Two Notes is a handy and easy to use desktop sticky notes and reminder program for home and office. The freeware consumes very little system resources and weighs only 263Kb.The freeware, Two Notes has user-friendly interface and works as a visual reminder on your computer. The notes stick to the desktop and doesn't prevent your working.
With Two Notes program you can change the color of your notes, font, size, signature, style and more. You can create your own note's templates too.
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1. HWMonitor - This is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors such as voltages, temperatures and fans speed.
The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE IT87 series, most Winbond ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.
Special hardware monitors such as abit uGuru and Gigabyte ODIN power supplies serie are supported too.
HWMonitor does not need to be installed. Just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just delete the files.
The program does not copy any file in any directory, neither writes in the registry.
Available for 64 bit / 32 bit Windows PC/ File size: 334Kb
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2. CPU-Z – This application gathers information on some of the main devices of your computer. Such as CPU, Main board, memory etc.
It shows you Name and number of CPU, Core stepping and process, Package, Core voltage, Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, Supported instructions sets, and Cache information.
Vendor, model and revision of main board, BIOS model and date, Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor, and Graphic interface.
Frequency and timings of memory, Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table and Windows and DirectX version.
CPU-Z also does not need to be installed. Just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe
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How can you gain access to a Windows computer if you forgot the administrator's password? Normally it is not possible without formatting and re-installing the operating system.
PCLoginNow is a useful and easy to use application in this situation. This free tool is able to reset local administrator and other accounts passwords without reinstall the system. This tool can also help maintain, change accounts policy setting and properties. You can easily upgrades a general account to administrator level, lock or unlock those accounts you don't need anymore, and moreover, all of these are done without booting your system.
The most powerful feature PCLoginNow have is to support Syskey. Even though the system registry is protected by Syskey, PCLoginNow can easily bypass this mechanism and reset the Windows passwords.
The download is an ISO file that needs to be burnt to a CD to make it a bootable CD. Just use any burning software to burn this image file. Before using this Live CD, ensure that your computer will boot from your CD drive (otherwise do it from the BIOS settings).
PC Login Now is made available as a freeware now and supports all Windows OS (Windows 2000/ XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008), and it can handle dual boot machines also.
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Laptop Alarm 2.0 beta is a free and small utility with which you can protect your laptop. For example, if you're in a cafe or at the office and have to go to the bathroom an instant, if someone tries to move or steal your laptop, it will emit a loud alarm.

Laptop Alarm 2.0 will emit a loud alarm on:
1. Disconnecting A/C Power
2. Disconnecting USB Mouse
3. Mouse Movement
4. Shutdown / Suspend your Laptop

Thus, with Laptop Alarm 2.0 beta may not allow even touch your laptop or move your site, without sounding the alarm. The new version eliminates the possibility of lowering the volume or leaves your laptop in mute, so that the alarm will always be audible. (Visualbeta)
File size: 350Kb / License: Free
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Trinity Rescue Kit is a FREE live CD (Linux distribution) ideal for repairing and rescuing your Windows computer (equally usable for Linux recovery issues also).
You can restore and back up passwords, remove viruses before it damaging your computer, recover lost partitions, recover deleted files, etc with Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) Live CD.
Important features of Trinity Rescue Kit:

• Easily reset windows passwords (backup and restore)
• 4 different virus scan products (ClamAV, AVG, F-Prot, BitDefender) integrated in a single uniform command line with online update capability
• Full NTFS write support through ntfs-3g
• Wide range of hardware support (kernel 2.6.19.2 and recent kudzu hwdata)
• Easy script to find all local file systems
• Recovery and un-deletion of files with utilities and procedures
• Recovery of lost partitions
• Evacuation of dying disks
• 2 root kit detection utilities

It is possible to boot TRK in three different ways: As a bootable CD which you can burn yourself from a downloadable ISO file.
From a USB stick installable from Windows or from the bootable TRK CD
From network over PXE, this requires some modifications on your local network.
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The Ear Test / Hearing Test program is designed to give you a quick test of your ear's capabilities to hear all frequencies of the audible spectrum, separately for each ear. You can measure with good accuracy up to which frequency you can hear and compare your result with those of your friends and family. The test result is drawn as a graphical chart.The upper frequency limit of the human ears is strongly dependent on a person's age. A child can usually hear frequencies of up to 20,000 Hz (oscillations per second), while for an old person it can be as low as 5,000 Hz and even lower. For a middle-aged person (40 years), a frequency of 14,000 Hz is an average value.
Some people can have gaps in their hearing spectrum, due to inner ear injuries - this can also be checked.
Due to the lack of calibration, this program cannot replace a medical hearing test. Please be careful when using it with headphones.
>>License: Free / File size: 249Kb
>>Requirements: Microsoft .Net 2
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Registry data is consistently being written to and removed during a normal windows operation. Whenever a user makes changes to a Control Panel settings, or File Associations, System Policies, or installed software, the changes are reflected and stored in the registry. Overtime all these data become fragmented. Fragmentation affects your computer’s overall performance.Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware utility for Windows that optimizes your registry by removing gaps, fragmented and wasted space in windows registry files. This tool improves the whole system performance and boot access to registry.
License: Free / File size: 1Mb
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MultiNetwork Manager is an application designed to alleviate many of the technical issues encountered when roaming between different network locations. This application is targeted for individuals, home and business users, who want to explore the benefits of easily, connect at new sites, store profiles to switch between location settings for network access and resource allocation
MultiNetwork Manager allows laptop users to easily connect to the Internet, corporate LANs, client networks, wireless networks, dial-up or mobile networks, etc. and ensures that your security settings are correct, firewalls are enabled, shares are disabled, Bluetooth adapter disabled or any other security measure needed.
The new MultiNetwork Manager 9 is fully Vista compatible. The functionality and user interface of MultiNetwork Manager 9 has been greatly enhanced to provide ease of use and powerful features for both less experienced and expert users.
Features includes:

• PC-to-PC connection wizards connect two or more computers directly using e.g. your WLan adapter
• Remote security policies automatically help protect your system when connected to unknown networks.
• Capture helps you create a profile by capturing the current network configuration and let's you connect on your own when returning a second time.
• TCP/IP and Proxy components let you specify specific connection information, e.g. an internal DNS when connected using a VPN.
• The WLAN connection wizard lists available networks and help you get connected.
• Location sensing will automatically
• detect a known network and apply the appropriate profile.
• Import/export helps you share profiles with friends and colleagues.
• The printer component easily installs e.g. a typical IP printer.
• File sharing wizard helps you easily share files between computers.

The software normally costs $29.95. To get a FREE license key just enter here and enter the promotion code MNM9FORFREE, name and a valid email address. After the registration
Download MNM9 from here.
After installation provide the License ID and key to activate the product. Your computer should be connected to internet as it requires verifying your Key and License ID.
OS: Windows 2000/XP/XP-Tablet/VISTA
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Hash refers to a small section of data used to verify the integrity and authenticity of downloaded files.
HashCalc offers a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations.
It is fast, free and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings..
Major Features:

• Supports well-known and documented hash and checksum algorithms: MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2( 256, 384, 512), RIPEMD-160, PANAMA, TIGER, ADLER32, CRC32.
• Support of a custom hash algorithm (MD4-based) used in eDonkey and eMule applications.
• Support of 3 input data formats: files, text strings and hex strings.
• Work with large size files. (Up to 15 GB).

• Drag-and-drop support.
• Calculates hash/checksum and HMAC for files of any type: music, audio, sound, video, image, icon, text, compression, etc.

>>Similar Application - HashTab
>>License:Free / File size:458Kb (v.2.02)
>>OS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
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Ashampoo WinOptimizer is an easy-to-use suite of tools for maintaining and optimizing your computer. With different PC maintenance functions; WinOptimizer keeps your PC free of unnecessary garbage and optimize it for running smoothly.The fully Windows Vista compatible WinOptimizer has the following main functions:
1. System Benchmark - Tests the processor and memory performance of your computer.
2. Visual Styler - Enables you to replace system icons, apply transparency settings to Windows components and application windows.
3. Process Manager - lists all the processes active on your computer, displays information on the process details and allows you to kill programs manually if necessary.
5. Disk defragmenter - Fully compatible with Windows Vista in both the 32 and 64 bit versions, and is faster and more efficient.
6. Tweaking Tools - Offer over 450 Windows configuration options, including customization settings for Windows logon, the Control Panel, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, system appearance, system settings and more.
To get your serial code, leave ‘Get full version key’ checked during installation, or click Internet – ‘Get Full Version Key’ within the application and follow the instructions
Supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
File size: 8.8Mb / Download [via – Vnunet]
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Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, and small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.Core Temp (V 0.99) supported on all Intel Core and Core 2 based processors as well as the whole AMD's Athlon64 line of CPUs. For full list of supported CPUs, click here.
Its logging feature, allows a user to easily record the temperature of his processor(s) over any period of time, then the data can be easily transferred into an excel datasheet for easy graphing.
Core Temp works on Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista (32bit and 64bit). (Source)
License: Free / File size: 100Kb
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Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from Windows Add or Remove Programs control panel applet.
With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall an application. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer.
Even if you have a broken installation, Revo Uninstaller scans for an application's data on your hard disk drives and in the Windows registry and shows all found files, folders and registry keys so you can delete them.
With its unique "Hunter mode", Revo Uninstaller offers you some simple, easy to use, but effective and powerful approaches to manage (uninstall, stop, delete, disable from auto starting) and to get information about your installed and/or running programs.
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RegFromApp is a small utility for windows from Nirsoft, which monitors the Registry changes made by an application that you selected, and creates a standard RegEdit registration file (.reg) that contains all the Registry changes made by the application.
You can use the generated .reg file to import these changes with RegEdit when it's needed.
RegFromApp doesn't require any installation process or additional dll files. In order to start using it, simply run the RegFromApp.exe file.After running it, select the process that you want to inspect, and click Ok. After clicking Ok, each time that the selected process writes a value into the Registry, the main window of RegFromApp will display the written value in Windows .reg file format.
You can copy & paste the desired values to another Registry file, or alternatively, you can save the entire Registry changes into a .reg file by using the 'Save As' option.
This utility works on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista (32-bit only).
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PC mover is a migration utility that moves programs, files, and settings from your old PC to your new PC. Simply install PCmover on both your computers, old and new, and go. It works with almost any Windows operating system, from Windows 95 to Vista.
Features of PCmover include:

• Complete migration - Move all your files, settings, and programs from the old to the new PC
• Transfer from an Old Operating System to a Newer One -PCmover will transfer files, settings and programs from PCs with operating systems dating back from Windows 95 right up to Windows Vista.
• Perform Migrations in Advance - No need to wait for your new PC to arrive - you can store a copy of all your files, settings, and programs on a server, external hard drive, or even CDs or DVDs, and migrate them to the new PC or new hard drive at a later date.
• Transfer from a PC to a Mac running Windows OS -Intel-based Mac users running Apple Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop for Mac can use PCmover to transfer files, settings and applications from their old PC to their new Mac.
• Multiple Transfer Options -Choose from a parallel cable, Laplink USB 1.1, Laplink USB 2.0, Easy Transfer Cable, or for the fastest migrations, use a wired/wireless network to perform the migration. You can even use removeable media such as a CD-R or DVD-R.
• Easy to Use Wizard Interface - Clock through a simple wizard to set up the move - then relax while PCmover does the heavy lifting.
• Undo Feature - Reverse a migration at any time with PCmover's easy "undo" feature.

If you like this product here is how to get FREE license number and download link for PCmover3. Just enter here and register your name and email address to get a serial number and download link. Remember this offer ends on 31st July 2008. So hurry up
After installation run the product and enter your name, email address (given for registration) and the serial number you received to activate the product.
File size: 13.4 MB
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