Freeware

Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is an optimized virtualization (virtual PC) solution that allows you to run more than one operating system on your PC at once. With the addition of new features such as live migration and ... expanded processor and memory support for host systems, Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 allows organizations to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server and is a good solution for organizations who are consolidating servers. http://www.microsoft.com Window Layout Manager Window Layout Manager is a program that allows the management of various layouts ... (view more)

Dark Adapted Dark Adapted controls the amount of red, green, and blue in your screen gamma so that you may preserve your dark adaptation while using your computer. Gamma fades can be scheduled, and run on Windows or Macintosh. Dark Adapted is being ... used by astronomers, planetarium operators, graphics professionals, medical professionals, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, and others worldwide to provide flexible, dynamic control over their monitor's screen color response. http://www.aquiladigital.us Disk Cryptor DiskCryptor, provided under GNU General Public License, is the only truly ... (view more)

DShutdown DShutdown is a stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many options. DShutdown can monitoring the PC to shutdown after a particular application terminates, for example. There are also ... options to shutdown a PC when Internet traffic reduces below a particular data-rate: useful to shutdown a PC when it has finished a large download. For full list of features, visit site. http://dimio.altervista.org Task Switch XP Task Switch XP is an Alt-Tab Replacement For Windows XP; it's an advanced task management utility that picks up where the ... (view more)

Double Driver Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably. Double Driver ... analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, date, provider, etc and offers you the chance to update to the latest version. All drivers that are found can easily be backed up the application and easily restored at a later point in one go http://www.boozet.org Unison Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and ... (view more)

Vista Services Optimizer By default, Windows Vista (out of the box) runs very slow on a new PC. To optimize Vista, you can disable unwanted Windows Vista services, reduce CPU usage and save system memory using Vista Services Optimizer. ... http://smartpcutilities.com Search Select Select text in a document or website and then search for it with favorite search engine using CTRL + SHIFT + C. No more having to copy the text, open a web browser, go to Google (or similar), paste text into search box, and hit enter. Just highlight and press a key combo. Easy! Switch search engines with a click of the ... (view more)

Text On 9 Type on your computer like you're texting from your phone using Text On 9. http://home.swipnet.se Live Edge LiveEdge is a radically simple approach to mouse gestures. The application makes use of the edges and corners of your screen and ... turns them into hot zones. For example: you can drag the cursor to the edge of your screen and type in a keyboard shortcut to launch a program. http://home.swipnet.se Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are provided solely from the developer and ... (view more)

Sysinternals Suite The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have now been rolled up into a single suite of tools, containing approximately 67 programs used for testing Windows. Note however that the suite does not contain non-troubleshooting ... Sysintenal jewels such as the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) Screen Saver or NotMyFault , a program that simulates crashing software drivers used for developers. http://technet.microsoft.com Super F4 SuperF4 kills the process of a foreground window when you press Ctrl+Alt+F4. It's a better alternative than merely pressing Alt+F4, because when you press the ... (view more)

Socket Sniff SocketSniff allows you to watch the Windows Sockets (WinSock) activity of selected processes (programs). For each created socket, the following information is displayed: socket handle, socket type, local and remote addresses, local and ... remote ports, total number of send or receive bytes, and more. You can also watch the content of each send or receive call, in ASCII mode or as Hex Dump. http://www.nirsoft.net Shadow Shadow is a powerful data encoder and decoder for anything stored on your hard disk drive. You can encode texts, pictures, movies, music, applications, and more. http ... (view more)

RarZilla RarZilla Free Unrar is an easy-to-use (for newbies) decompression tool for .RAR archive files. It supports spanned archives as well as the extraction of password protected files. http://www.philipp-winterberg.com Process Monitor Process ... Monitor is a Microsoft Technet recommended advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows your PC's file system, registry information, and process and thread activity. It allows users to 'keep tabs' on their system at all times. The program comes from sysinternals.com, but a brief introduction to the program is hosted on the Microsoft website. http ... (view more)

Quark Quark is a powerful security tool which will help you protect your computer from unauthorized access by denying any user interaction until the correct password has been provided. http://www.classic-software.ro Regshot Regshot is an open-source ... (GPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one -- which can be performed after doing system changes or installing a new software product, for example. http://sourceforge.net Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. ... (view more)