Bob Helmer

Booting Windows From A Usb Drive According to the author, "Microsoft denies that booting Windows off a USB drive works. To put a long story short, this is exactly what I do now. However, it took me significant time to figure out all the painful ... little problems, and I was not fully happy with the current official guide by Dietmar (no pun: he was the first to make anything public). I wanted an easy guide that allows creating a modified version of the Windows XP CD, for painless and transparent installation to as many systems as you want. This page is the result of my work. Have fun. http://www. ... (view more)

Bootable Live Windows CD Build a BartPE -- Bart Preinstalled Environment -- bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD: very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete ... Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any DOS bootdisk in no time. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ Google Talk We recommend this highly! Every ... (view more)

Imgburn ImgBurn carries on from where DVD Decrypter left off! ImgBurn can write most types of CD and DVD images and it supports all the latest writers (including booktype and bitsetting on many of the major ones -- i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, NEC, Plextor, ... Sony). You can even use ImgBurn to erase and format your rewritable media! ImgBurn will try its very best to burn your DVD-Video double layer images using the layer break you've specified in the IFO files, but it can also calculate the best place for you, to save you the trouble. Advanced functionality can be found in context menus that appear when ... (view more)

Remote Script Remote Script lets you execute commands and scripts on a remote machine. http://simply-ware.com/ Pdf Printer PDF Printer is a completely free program that allows you create PDFs by printing to a PDF document from any Microsoft Windows ... application. No ads. Supports Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista (both x64 and x86 platforms). http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php (view more)

Registry Repair Users gradually experience a degradation in their Windows performance. Much of it can be attributed to Windows Registry Errors. By using Free Window Registry Repair regularly and repairing your registry your system should not only be ... more stable but it will also help Windows run faster. For your convenience it automatically backs up any repairs made so that you always can restore Windows registry to the original state. NOTE: you should *always* use caution when modifying your registry manually. For a more automated and revised registry cleaner, we highly recommend you try the ... (view more)

Jap JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. Instead of connecting directly to a web server, users take a detour, connecting with encryption through several intermediaries, so-called Mixes. JAP uses a predetermined ... sequence for the mixes. Such a sequence of linked mixes is called a Mix Cascade. Users can choose between different mix cascades. Since many users use these intermediaries at the same time, the internet connection of any one single user is hidden among the connections of all the other users. No one, not anyone from outside, not any of the other users ... (view more)

Ie Cache List Lite IECacheList Lite displays the contents of Internet Explorer's index.dat files, including 'lost' and hidden content. http://exodusdev.com/ Why Reboot WhyReboot is a small (~60KB) Windows application that displays a list of pending ... file operations that will occur after rebooting your computer. http://exodusdev.com/ (view more)

Icolorfolder Customize the color of each Windows XP folder. Some cool features, mainly: skin selector, customization of the "generic" folder icon, ability to use any icon to customize a folder. Two new skins included in the package, Longhorn and ... Snow.E2. http://icolorfolder.sourceforge.net/ Active Virus Shield Advanced detection technology to help stop known and new viruses, spyware and other malware before they attack you. Always-on, automatically checks for updates every hour- providing real-time scanning and protection against virus threats. http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/ ... (view more)

Vista Readiness Test Is Your PC Vista Ready? TouchStone Software's new Vista Readiness test is safe, simple and fast. In just seconds you will be able to test your PC with this Vista Readiness tool. http://driveragent.com/vista/ Dataface Dataface is ... a flexible and intuitive User Interface which sits on top of MySQL (one of the world's leading Open-source database management systems) making it accessible to normal, every-day users. In practical terms, it automatically generates the appropriate forms, lists, and menus for a user to interact with the database without having to know any SQL ( ... (view more)

Systemometer Systemometer is a unique system monitoring tool that shows system activity and resources as a screen saver or a thumbnail window. It allows you to create different monitoring profiles out of the Windows performance counters available on ... your system or remote hosts. http://www.iftix.com/systemometer/ Faviconize Firefox extension adds a new FaviconizeTab option to the context menu of the tab. When it is clicked, The width of the tab becomes small up to the size of the favicon for the site. Beats text. It returns to the former size when "FaviconizeTab" is clicked again. https:// ... (view more)