Freeware

Win Bubble In just two clicks, WinBubble will help you to easily and effectively customize and tweak your brand new Windows Vista operating system. Its features cover full customization options, enhanced security, and full optimization. ... http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/ Slide Mate Slide Mate is an on-screen annotation program meant to help the average user mark up their screen any time, any where, and on any application. http://slidemate.ypgsoft.com/ (view more)

Recent Files View Each time that you open a file its name is recorded by the operating system in the 'Recent' folder or the Registry. This utility displays the list of all recently opened files, and allows you to delete unwanted filename entries. ... You can also save the files list into text/html/xml file. http://nirsoft.net/utils/ Run Scanner RunScanner is a freeware Windows system utility which scans your system for all configured running programs and autostart locations. You can use Runscanner to detect autostart programs, spyware, adware, homepage hijackers, unverified drivers and other ... (view more)

Packet Trap PacketTrap free network management tools are comprehensive, effective and intuitive. IT organizations around the world rely on our network management tools every day, why shouldn't you? http://www.packettrap.com/download/ Moon Secure Av ... Moon Secure AV is an open source antivirus program currently using the 'clamav' engine. Due to fast response time and huge AV database, we are implementing another engine that is heuristic and will allow users to customize the engine on the fly. Built for Windows XP and Vista, it can scan portable and fixed drives and is able to detect viruses, ... (view more)

Easy Wifi Radar Easy WiFi Radar helps you find and connect to open wireless access points with a single mouse click. It's really just WiFi for Dummies. http://www.makayama.com/easywifiradar.html Smart Defrag The primary cause of slow or unstable PC ... performance is disk fragmentation. IObit SmartDefrag helps defrag your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market, free or not. Included is an "Install It and Forget It" feature that works automatically and quietly in the background on your computer. The ability to constantly keep your hard drive safe, error-free and running ... (view more)

Detecting Packet Injection A guide to observing packet spoofing by ISPs. Certain Internet service providers have begun to interfere with their users' communications by injecting forged or spoofed packets -- data that appears to come from the other ... end but was actually generated by an Internet service provider (ISP) in the middle. http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection Youtube To Mp3 Converter Lots and lots of music vids are on YouTube. Convert their audio tracks for your mp3 collection, though be sure not to violate any copyright rules! http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free- ... (view more)

Alpha Blended Mouse Cursors Replace your Windows cursors with something better: Blended Mouse Cursors! http://blog.tiensivu.com/ Perf Monitor PerfMonitor is a processor performance monitoring tool. It allows you to track the frequency of 4 events. ... PerfMonitor can be used to identify the performance bottlenecks of a system, or to monitor a program for cache-miss rate or mis-predicted branches. But, PerfMonitor can also be used as a hardware-level CPU comparison tool, comparing the key parameters of different CPUs running the same benchmark. http://www.cpuid.com/perfmonitor.php (view more)

Cfd Button Makes the common windows Open and Save dialog easier to use. http://dreamcycle.net/cfdbutton/ 100 Portable Apps For USB This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, like a USB thumb drive, PDA or iPod. You can use them at work, ... school, or any other place where you can plug in your device. Check them out, you can scroll-down for categories like office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. While there are more apps for Windows users, a Mac version for each essential tool is included. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/ (view more)

GETTING ORGANIZED EXPERIMENT Comprised of nine unique, creative, and productive programs, the Getting Organized Experiment is the result of a contest where participants were asked to craft software that helps people be more efficient with their ... time. Check out the rather interesting solution to that time-honored problem here. http://www.donationcoder.com/goe2007/ Open Windows Explorer Faster If Windows Explorer takes a really long time to open on your computer, you are most likely experiencing a well-known issue where Windows hangs while trying to search for network folders and printers ... (view more)

RETURNIL VIRTUAL SYSTEM PERSONAL EDITION Operate your system in a virtual environment in order to simulate actions done to a real PC. The Returnil Virtual System Personal Edition completely mirrors your actual computer setup and it can create a ... virtual storage disk within your PC where you can save documents, data, and files while using the System Protection feature. Provides a simple, effective, and smart way to prevent unwanted or malicious changes from being made to your supported Windows Operating System and the drive where Windows is installed. http://www.returnilvirtualsystem.com/ ... (view more)

Anti Freeze Anti Freeze offers a last recourse when you find your computer in a hung state. Because programs consume too much CPU or too much memory or too many programs have been started, your computer has can become unresponsive. The mouse might ... still move but no programs are responding and you cannot switch to other programs or even close them. You have even tried to start the Windows Task Manager and even that won't work because it does not get enough attention from the scheduler to respond to your mouse clicks and keyboard presses. Rather than press the restart button, you can press the ... (view more)