Category: Utilities

BulkFileChanger

27 May, 2010 (14:24) | Utilities

BulkFileChanger is a small utility that allows you to create files list from multiple folders, and then make some action on them – Modify their created/modified/accessed time, change their file attribute (Read Only, Hidden, System), run an executable with these files as parameter, and copy/cut paste into Explorer.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bulk_file_changer.html

Tokbox.com

27 May, 2010 (14:20) | Internet, Productivity, Utilities

Video chat with up to 20 people for free.  Tokbox requires no download, only an internet connection and a webcam.
http://tokbox.com

Partition Wizard Home Edition

13 April, 2010 (12:18) | Utilities

Partition Wizard Home Edition is a free partition manager software designed by MT Solution Ltd. Our partition manager supports 32/64 bit Windows Operating System including Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Home users can perform complicated partition operations by using this powerful yet free partition manager to manage their hard disk. Functions include: Resizing partitions, [...]

Ultimate Windows Tweaker

6 April, 2010 (08:16) | Internet, Network, Portable, Utilities

For those of you that remember and loved the TweakUI utility from Microsoft, Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware tool that takes the concept of the old TweakUI and supercharges it for Windows Vista and 7. You can tweak hundreds of settings and variables—system tray icons, the menu pop-up speed, security [...]

OfficeIns

6 April, 2010 (07:59) | Portable, Productivity, Utilities

OfficeIns is a small, portable and free application designed to display all of the installed add-ins for Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Visio, and FrontPage. Once displayed, you have the ability enable/disable them and change how they start up.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/officeins.html

MailStore Home

6 April, 2010 (07:52) | Backup, Productivity, Utilities

MailStore Home enables you to backup all your email messages from multiple applications and accounts into one secure and persistent archive. Lightning-fast search, one-click backup, powerful export – all information from your email is at your fingertips anytime. Never lose important email again!
http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

Everything Search Engine

28 March, 2010 (08:21) | Productivity, Utilities

“Everything” is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows.  Small installation file.  Clean and simple user interface.  Quick file indexing.  Quick searching.  Minimal resource usage.  Share files with others easily.  Real-time updating.
http://www.voidtools.com

Paragon Backup & Recovery

5 March, 2010 (14:26) | Backup, Utilities

Take complete control of your PC’s safety. Based on solid commercial backup and recovery software from Paragon, the new Backup & Recovery 10.1 Free Edition will give you a rich set of features that you can trust.
Smart people backup; Backup & Recovery is smart backup.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express

The Biggest Library of Windows 7 Shortcuts

2 March, 2010 (15:04) | Multimedia, Network, Productivity, Utilities

For those of you who are not yet familiar with all the tools available in Windows 7 or you are the kind of person who has his desktop filled with useful shortcuts, we’ve created for you the biggest library of Windows 7 shortcuts. You’ve got almost everything you need and we are very willing to [...]

Live Linux USB Creator

1 March, 2010 (10:35) | Network, Productivity, Security, Utilities

LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
This software also offers an exclusive option of automatic virtualization to directly run Linux in Windows without any configuration nor installation.  Create bootable Live USB of Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Damn Small Linux, [...]

CrystalDiskInfo

15 February, 2010 (14:04) | Utilities

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

SoftPerfect Network Scanner

15 February, 2010 (14:01) | Network, Utilities

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including [...]

FixWin

15 February, 2010 (13:58) | Utilities

Looking for a fix to a simple problem in Windows Vista or Windows 7? FixWin offers one-click solutions to dozens of Windows problems. Run the program and look through its menu for a description of your woe. When you find it, click a button, and your problem should be fixed. I used it to restore [...]

Ninite Easy PC Setup

8 November, 2009 (20:11) | Utilities

1. Pick the apps you want.
2. Start your customized installer.
3. You’re done!
Ninite installs apps with default settings and says “no” to browser toolbars and other junk.
Ninite checks your PC’s language and 64-bit support to install the latest, best version of each app.
Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background 100% hands-free.
All Ninite does [...]

inSSIDer

14 October, 2009 (19:51) | Internet, Network, Security, Utilities

inSSIDer is an award-winning free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Because NetStumbler doesn’t work well with Vista and 64-bit XP, we built an open-source Wi-Fi network scanner designed for the current generation of Windows operating systems.
http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider

John’s Background Switcher

8 October, 2009 (13:54) | Utilities

John’s Background Switcher collects images from Web sites like Flickr, Picasa, and more–or pictures from your own folders–and displays them as desktop wallpaper at intervals that you define. You can even subscribe to image sites that use RSS feeds.
Though you can access only one image source at a time–you can’t, for example, set the program [...]

Microsoft SyncToy

12 June, 2009 (10:23) | Backup, Utilities

SyncToy 2.1 is a free application that synchronizes files and folders between locations. Typical uses include sharing files, such as photos, with other computers and creating backup copies of files and folders.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C26EFA36-98E0-4EE9-A7C5-98D0592D8C52&displaylang=en

Easus Partition Manager

24 March, 2009 (11:29) | Utilities

Free for personal use and $31.96 for professional use, Easus Partition Manager is a great alternative to Symantecs “Partition Magic”. The main features of Easus Partition Manager are the ability to format, resize, delete, add, copy, set active and change drive letters. It can even be used as a Bart-PE plugin.
http://www.easeus-software.com

Dropbox.com

26 February, 2009 (18:45) | Favorites, Internet, Portable, Productivity, Utilities, Websites

Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder will automatically be synced and monitored for changes, and each time a change is saved, it backs up [...]

Seagate DiscWizard / Acronis True Image Home

1 December, 2008 (23:20) | Backup, Utilities

Seagate DiscWizard is an OEM version of Acronis True Image, a popular disk imaging, cloning and backup software utility for computers. The full version of Acronis True Image Home edition will cost its user a hefty $49.99 for puchasing, while Seagate DiscWizard is free of charge.
Seagate DiscWizard is essentially same piece of software which is an OEM version of [...]

Double Driver

28 October, 2008 (08:14) | Backup, Utilities

One of the most boring parts of reinstalling the operating system is having to find and install all drivers again. What if you don’t have the Driver CD that came with the computer or you have lost it or they are unavailable online? It can be quite difficult for example to find drivers for hardware [...]

Taskbar Shuffle

28 April, 2008 (10:26) | Utilities

Taskbar Shuffle is a simple, small, free utility that lets you drag and drop your Windows taskbar buttons to rearrange them.  Here’s a full feature list:
- Reorder your taskbar buttons by dragging and dropping them
- Reorder your tray icons in the same way
- Reorder tasks in a grouped button’s popup menu in the same way
- [...]

random.org

6 November, 2007 (11:40) | Internet, Utilities

RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. People use the numbers to run lotteries, draws and sweepstakes and for their games and gambling sites. Scientists use them for random sampling [...]

MagicDisc

28 September, 2007 (23:47) | Multimedia, Utilities

MagicDisc is a very helpful utility designed for creating and managing virtual CD drives and CD/DVD discs. For anyone who deals with CD-based programs – it is a MUST. MagicDisc allows you to use almost all CD/DVD image without burning them onto CD or DVD in order to easily access your favorite games, music, or software [...]

AutoIt

13 September, 2007 (14:01) | Productivity, Utilities

AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks (great for PC rollouts or home automation).
http://www.autoitscript.com

MusikCube

13 September, 2007 (11:33) | Multimedia, Utilities

This is what iTunes should be like. An easy to use, uncluttered, lightweight program, which will convert most people to it after seconds of use. The plugins that are available will make for an easy transition, like being able to grab ratings from iTunes or Windows Media Player and import them to MusikCube.
http://www.musikcube.com

AutoHotKey

14 August, 2007 (09:34) | Productivity, Utilities

This is the one of the most essential programs ever – if you know how to use it. With AutoHotkey, you can write scripts that automate keystrokes, which can save you a lot of time. You can make it automate annoying internship jobs, like copying and pasting a bunch of text from one place to [...]

PC Wizard

9 August, 2007 (09:57) | Utilities

PC WIZARD 2007 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It’s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. PC WIZARD 2007 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark [...]

CDBurnerXP

31 July, 2007 (09:44) | Utilities

CDBurnerXP is an easy to use CD/DVD burning software, that can write CD-R and CD-RW discs. The program can also write disks directly from an ISO image file, and save image as an ISO image file (*.iso). You can create data and audio CDs, and it supports Burn-Proof technology, multi-session disks, import of ISO images [...]

ImgBurn

1 July, 2007 (01:32) | Multimedia, Utilities

ImgBurn is great tool to create image files from discs and burn images to discs. It even supports HD DVD and Blu-ray. There is no need to use an high cost programs for images.
http://www.imgburn.com

Giveaway of the Day

5 June, 2007 (10:52) | Internet, Utilities, Websites

Well, that’s a convenient initiative allowing you to get the best commercial software titles – for free. Every day we offer licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise, for free! Yes, we are giving away software, and you can download it from our site, right now and right here and our goal is to give [...]

OmniFormat

8 March, 2007 (12:09) | Multimedia, Utilities

OmniFormat is a free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.
http://www.omniformat.com

SIW (System Information for Windows)

16 February, 2007 (11:34) | Portable, Utilities

SIW (System Information for Windows) performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings, detailed specs for:
- Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Licenses.
- Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, [...]

GParted

9 February, 2007 (15:42) | Utilities

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).
http://gparted.sourceforge.net

PDFCreator

17 January, 2007 (19:37) | Productivity, Utilities

Create PDF files from any Windows program.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

Housecall (Free online virus/spyware scan)

27 December, 2006 (14:28) | Security, Utilities, Websites

Trend Micro HouseCall is a FREE Web-based solution designed to scan your PC for a wide range of Internet security threats including viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware. It also detects system vulnerabilities and provides a link so you can easily download missing security patches. After each scan, HouseCall delivers a detailed report, which identifies security [...]

Rasterbator

11 December, 2006 (20:20) | Internet, Utilities, Websites

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator

The Linux Equivalent Project

7 December, 2006 (16:21) | Educational, Internet, Multimedia, Productivity, Utilities, Websites

Database of popular windows apps and their linux equivalent.
http://www.linuxeq.com/

zamzar.com

7 December, 2006 (16:01) | Multimedia, Utilities, Websites

Convert pretty much any format of anything to any other format. Online. Free. Without downloading anything.
http://www.zamzar.com

SysInternals

5 December, 2006 (00:38) | Utilities

Excellent collection of system utilities.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

The Portable Freeware Collection

29 November, 2006 (17:24) | Games, Internet, Portable, Security, Utilities, Websites

Tons of USB friendly applications.
http://www.portablefreeware.com

Baby FTP Server

29 November, 2006 (16:53) | Internet, Portable, Utilities

This Baby FTP server has only the most necessary features and is yet powerful enough to be a basis for a more complex server.
http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_ftp_server.html

Baby Web Server

29 November, 2006 (16:52) | Internet, Portable, Utilities

This program was build as an alternative for Microsoft’s IIS. The main goal was to design a simple web server with support for ASP. Setting up Baby ASP Web Server is very easy: copy the executable to a directory of your choice, set the directory of your webpages and it’s ready to run!
http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_web_server.html

Universal Extractor

23 November, 2006 (19:29) | Portable, Utilities

Universal Extractor allows you to extract files from many types of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, MSI, EXE created using various installer packages such as Wise and Inno Setup etc. It is great for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation [...]

Converber

22 November, 2006 (18:58) | Portable, Productivity, Utilities

Converber is a unit converter. It is a powerful software utility that will help make easy conversions between 924various units of measure in 31 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature.
http://www.xyntec.com/converber.htm

DBAN

22 November, 2006 (16:16) | Favorites, Security, Utilities

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (“DBAN”) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in [...]

PuTTY

21 November, 2006 (21:02) | Favorites, Portable, Utilities

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

Undelete Plus

21 November, 2006 (21:00) | Portable, Utilities

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down.
Undelete Plus works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives [...]

ISO Recorder

16 November, 2006 (20:05) | Utilities

ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of [...]

CKRename

15 November, 2006 (21:43) | Utilities

CKRename is a handy utility you can use to perform batch file renaming operations. It provides a three-pane interface: One to select a path, one to display the contents of the current path, and the last to show the effects of the renaming options you’ve chosen. You can eliminate file names, insert strings before or [...]